Starslide

Starslide

Starslide is an artwork by Liliane Lijn, commissioned by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity for the Evelina Childrens Hospital in London…

“The difficulty in making a work of art that is at the same time a functional children’s slide, is in creating both without compromising either. My concept of sculpture is that no part of it should be unnecessary. I wanted to design a slide that both in concept and form would be an integral part of the sculpture.”

“Inside the cone, the access ramp is similar to the spiral inside a seashell. I have used light to accentuate the inner spiral but also to illuminate with a magical glow the way up to the mouth of the slide.”

Starslide

The making of says …

“It was a great challenge to conceive of a sculpture that was also a helter-skelter. To mould a spiral slide into a cone was an extremely complex technical problem. This was solved in a masterful and economic way by Peter Walde of Westward Mouldings Ltd. Once I had agreed a 10:1 scale fibreglas model, Peter cast the slide in 24 sections.”

Starslide

Posted on May 5th 2008 under Playgrounds
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