Kapoor Sculpture, Kaipara Harbour, NZ
Location: Kaipara Harbour, Rodney, NZ
Architect/Artist: Anish Kapoor
Structural Concept and Design: COMPUSOFT ENGINEERING
Fabric Design and Patterning: COMPUSOFT ENGINEERING
Structural Steel and Foundation Design: Structure Design
Fabric Contractor: Structurflex
Type of Fabric: Ferrari 1302
This award winning 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 longitudinally with fifteen tonnes of prestress. 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 aramid fibre cables enabled the installation and erection of this unique structure to be completed in four days.