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Aéroville Shopping Center, Paris
Strategically placed at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle, the 84,000m² £355 Million Aeroville Shopping Center is the 3rd largest shopping center in France with over 200 stores, 30 restaurants and a cinema with over 15 viewing screens.
iMS Access Services Limited assisted with the architectural rigging of over 4000 leaf modules covering an envisaged area of 7 metres high and 10.5 metres wide. The sculpture depicts the foliage of a tree, omitting the trunk and branches, thus acting as a counterpoint to the traditional winter iconography when all that remains is the tree bark. Here however only the foliage remains, inviting the viewers to appreciate the uninterrupted beauty and intricacy of the leaves.
To create such a wonderful sculpture Troika have experimented on how to interlock the leaves themselves into modules. these modules would give the sculpture its natural appearance without the use of an external structure, or relying on countless cables which would effect the the aesthetic qualities.
Work was carried out via the use of MEWPs / scissor lifts and rope access for rigging.
iMS Access Services Limited assisted with the architectural rigging of over 4000 leaf modules covering an envisaged area of 7 metres high and 10.5 metres wide. The sculpture depicts the foliage of a tree, omitting the trunk and branches, thus acting as a counterpoint to the traditional winter iconography when all that remains is the tree bark. Here however only the foliage remains, inviting the viewers to appreciate the uninterrupted beauty and intricacy of the leaves.
To create such a wonderful sculpture Troika have experimented on how to interlock the leaves themselves into modules. these modules would give the sculpture its natural appearance without the use of an external structure, or relying on countless cables which would effect the the aesthetic qualities.
Work was carried out via the use of MEWPs / scissor lifts and rope access for rigging.
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