Granary Square Benches / Ian McChesney

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以前我们还曾介绍过他创作的滴下来的大椅子Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness （已有三条评论）。

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伊恩·麦克切斯尼的新作已在伦敦新圣马丁Granary广场上揭晓，作品是8个巨大的长凳，分对安排在四组喷泉边上。每个花岗岩凳子长八米，宽1.2米，重约4吨。

Ian McChesney has completed a set of eight giant benches for Granary Square.  The square, adjacent to the new St Martins complex, is one of London’s newest public spaces, and one of the largest of its kind in Europe. The benches are arranged in a formal arrangement of facing pairs around four existing fountain pools. Carved in granite each is 8m long by 1.2m deep and weighs around 4 tonnes.

如此巨大而整体的石凳就是艺术品，其采用了历史悠久，以银色外观和高强度闻名的康沃尔灰色​​花岗岩（从康沃尔郡的悬崖峭壁和沼泽所采），该花岗岩也常见于英国泰晤士河堤岸，伦敦塔桥。近年来的景观佳作戴安娜王妃纪念喷泉（已有19条评论）也使用到了该材料。

The benches are carved in Cornubian coarse biotite granite from an area near the De Lank River in St Breward in Cornwall.  The material is renowned for its silver grey appearance and strength. Cornish Grey Granite has been used throughout the last century on projects such as the Thames Embankment 1864-74; Tower Bridge 1887-89 and more recently the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain.

设计师把广泛运用于上世纪重要基础设施的花岗岩运用在这个项目上是希望创造出永痕的作品。长凳天然，光滑，曲线优美而舒适。精雕细作，耐心打磨，让着坚硬的材料以平滑优美的形式呈现，给人们带来温馨舒适的放松时刻。长凳设计过程中与Tim Lucas of Price and Myers进行了合作，主要目的是加固长凳的结构，紧密连接组成长凳凳面的五块大石头，让其十分牢固，成为一个整体，从而避免这8米长的巨凳坍塌。

整个项目在车间中耗时800个小时。

‘My relationship with Cornish Granite was formed over many hours walking on the cliffs and moors of Cornwall, it has been used extensively throughout the last century on a range of major infrastructure projects. It felt like an appropriate material to use for the benches which, I wanted to be long lasting and permanent features in Kings Cross for years to come.’  Said Ian McChesney

 ‘The aesthetic of the benches borrows from the eroded quality of naturally occurring granite boulders resulting in smooth, curvaceous and comfortable forms, I’d been looking a lot at granite rock forms in the landscape and the way that they had been slowly carved and polished by the elements over millions of years.  I wanted to borrow something from this aesthetic. While granite is a very hard material, carving it to smooth curvaceous forms can still make it a comfortable and inviting material on which to sit and relax’.  Said Ian McChesney

The benches were designed in collaboration with Tim Lucas of Price and Myers.  The main challenge was to create sufficient reinforcement in the bench seats to prevent them collapsing in the centre. Each bench is manufactured from five individually machined blocks connected together with a combination of adhesive and five tension bars tightened to forces of 11 to 13 tonnes each. This tensioning means that the granite is always acting in compression allowing each bench to withstand high pedestrian loads.

The benches were manufactured by S. McConnell and Sons using state of the art computer controlled saws and routers. In total the project absorbed over 800 hours of machining time at their workshop near Newry. The benches were delivered on four pantechnicon trucks and lifted into position using a 40 tonne street crane.

In addition to this project Ian McChesney designed ‘Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness’ a sculpture in the Angel Building and most recently ‘The Tree House’ , a private dwelling in Sydenham.

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