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A designer and a sculptor deploy an arsenal of digital and industrial tools to produce ContraFuerte.
Philadelphia sculptor Miguel Horn’s latest work might not look particularly technological, but it is the product of a sophisticated design and manufacturing process that many landscape architects can recognize. ContraFuerte is a new permanent outdoor installation to be unveiled this fall. “It’s a monument to collective action,†says Horn.
The installation contains a strong element of discovery. Located in a downtown alleyway just across 12th Street from Reading Terminal Market, the sculpture depicts two sets of male and female figures, entwined and leaning against a small bridge as if, with superhuman strength, they were holding the suspension bridge over the roadway. To run and set up the job – which weighs 11,000 pounds and includes over 5,000 tightly-linked aluminum parts – Horn turned to the capabilities of design software and invited longtime friend Chris Landau, ASLA affiliate, to a design technologist with a newly created eponymous company, collaborate. (Following…)
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