Gallery Rocket project - design, fabrication and Installation

The BWC fabrication shop has been a busy place these last few months. This recent project for the Autodesk Gallery at 1 Market in SF was completed by our design and fabrication team and installed last month by our installation team. It looks striking and draws people in as the first display they see in the Gallery.

Working with the core gallery group at Autodesk, we created the layout, flow and piece placements for this prominent gallery installation. This is the first installation seen as one enters the gallery. To meet the demands of this high profile foundation piece, we provided comprehensive detail drawings to the client of the displays from every angle and of every detail as well as 3D walk throughs and visualization.

After several months of design and fabrication decisions with the client, the final display was ready for fabrication. A clean aesthetic and eye catching focus on the main engine piece, with clear details around the smaller complimentary parts. Mean while in the fabrication shop, we worked on the smaller pieces….

Lifting the main engine display into the air with this curved stainless steel arm, the 3D printed piece filled with interactive LEDs is the strong anchor point for the Gallery. The clean welding job and brushed stainless keeps the attention on the engine 3D print and off the support hardware.

While we worked with the Gallery team to finalize the layout and details for the display, our production shop worked on assembling these imperfectly shaped 3D print parts into seamless unit that would read as a full 3D printed piece. Our craftsmen worked many days on these fine detail working the pieces by hand to smooth out the rough surface and aline the seams.

The onsite installation team packed, unpacked and installed the piece.

At the production shop our design team created and manipulated the code to finalize the lighting to the clients specifications.

You can see the full project page here.