Water exhibit specialist Tom Lindsay arrived from the West Coast to help install the interactive water components that he designed and fabricated – which meant working with water engineers to drill through the floor to the basement, which houses the new water filtration and mechanical systems.
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| Tom and Chris (exhibit designer & fabricator) work on the vortex tank in the toddler area. |
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| Robin (exhibits director) and Chris (exhibit designer & fabricator) survey the tanks and components. |
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| A core from the floor – check out all of the layers, which meant some serious drilling! |
Crew member Robin installed the “wind wall” – a panel of silvery objects that shift and shimmer like the surface of water in response to currents of air. They’re fishing lures, actually – nearly 2,000 of them!
The team created some walls to subdivide the environment into its various components…
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| Chris created the frame for a divider that will contain one of the activities in the toddler play area. |
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| Crew member Zach worked on the wall that will separate the ice play table from the tank area. |
After welding together an intricate ice table and stools, Chris smoothed them out before sending them off to be powder coated – they'll be a lovely purplish blue next time we see them.
Robin and Valerie (graphic designer) made some final decisions about images of water play that will occupy two walls of the exhibit, then hung paper prototypes in the space to determine size and layout of the images and artful lines of water poetry.
Much more to come!
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