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Feature Project: Tension Membrane Structure Kapoor Sculpture, Kaipara Harbour, NZ
This eighty five metre long tensioned fabric sculpture is one of the world’s most extreme fabric structures. Supported at each end by elliptical steel rings, twenty seven metres across, this structure is tensioned with fifteen tonnes of prestress, increasing to forty tonnes under severe wind conditions. The unique cable pockets that provide the ribs of the sculpture were designed to minimize fabric stress and laboratory tested to prove their behaviour. The use of light weight, high strength Kevlar cables enabled the installation and erection of this unique structure to be completed in four days.