Star-Dome
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Built
for Stardough's Cafe in Blue Lake, CA
I
started building this copper and steel structure in November 2009 and finished
it three months later, in January 2010.
It was an epic project! I
had never built anything like it before.
Metal is not my traditional medium. But I proposed it to Dana and Toni (the owners of the cafe)
and they said yes.
I
gave Dana and Toni two options:
Copper panels with steel legs, or steel panels with copper legs. They chose the former.
The
five legs and five arches of the dome are 1 ¼ inch thinwall steel
electrical tubing (EMT). The ribs
are ½ inch EMT.
The
edges of the copper panels are riveted to aluminum angle strips, which are
screwed to the steel legs.
The
copper is cut into 9-inch-wide strips, and there is a one-inch overlap between
the strips.
Copyright
2015 Andrew Maxwell