Ed Carpenter: Aloft, 2015
©Ed Carpenter

WICHITA DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER NATIONAL AIRPORT

Aloft

“Aloft” evokes feelings of ascent and descent, and sensations of the allure of flight. It makes an enormous aerial gesture in the space, springing from points along the architectural grid of the building, interacting with light from the skylight, and enveloping travelers on the escalators and balcony, as it soars from one end of the building to the other like an enormous abstract wing. “Aloft” is composed of a 360 foot long main cable and sixty-five transverse cables supporting alternating panels of laminated glass and cellular polycarbonate.

Posted 14 July 2015

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Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport
Client: Wichita Airport Authority
Wichita, KS
Date: April 2015
Dimensions: 64’ x 360’ x 25’
Materials: Laminated safety glass, stainless steel cables and hardware, cellular polycarbonate.
            Art Consultant: Sonia Greteman, Greteman Group
            Computer modeling & working drawings: Curtis Pittman
            Project administration: Arleen Daugherty
            Architect: HNTB Architecture Inc.
            Engineering: KPFF, Portland OR, & Dudley Williams & Associates, Wichita KS
            General Contractor: Key/Walbridge
            Plastic panel fabricator: Multi-Craft Plastic, Portland, OR
            Lighting design: Lightworks, Inc., Weston MO
            Cables and hardware: West Coast Wire Rope, Portland, OR
            Glass fabrication: Hanns Haefker, and Glass Strategies, Portland OR
            Tension System Rangling: Eagle Environmental Services, LLC, Wichita KS
            Photos: Ed Carpenter, Ann Thorvik

Ed Carpenter: Aloft, 2015 ©Ed Carpenter

Ed Carpenter is an artist specializing in large-scale public installations ranging from architectural sculpture to infrastructure design.

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Ed Carpenter: Aloft, 2015
©Ed Carpenter