the big install
I’ve been posting on the progress on the Fallen Star piece that Do ho Suh has designed for the Stuart Collection at UC San Diego. November 15 was the big day for it to get hoisted from the ground, where it was being built, to the rooftop, where it’ll spend the next many decades. Here are some pictures from before, during and after. Unfortunately life intruded and I was having to attend a meeting during the most dramatic part of the process, when the house first left the ground. But I at least got a few shots of the house dangling over its eventual perch.
The morning of the hoist: The exterior has just been complete, the clapboarding nailed, the chimney set.
The house and the big hydraulic crane that will launch it.
One of the film crews settles into place
The worksite with the extended crane
The audience
The house 80+ feet in the air, being lowered onto its finale perch
And we have contact…
A closer view of the landed house
And here’s a Youtube video of the big hoist from the Jacobs School of Engineering, the school that is housed in the structure that the house landed on:
And another from a different viewpoint, more dramatic than the first. The first two minutes are the best:
And for you total junkies, yet another vantage point. Once again the first part is the most dramatic.
The piece a couple mornings later, after the removal of the cranes…
There’s still more work to do before the grand unveiling, a TV and fireplace to install inside, a garden to plant outside. But this was definitely a big milestone. I’ll post more once I get up on the roof and have some closeup views.
December 03 2011 06:30 am | Categories: art • places | Tags: art installations • Do Ho Suh • Fallen Star • Stuart Collection • UCSD
ricki on 03 Dec 2011 at 12:43 pm #
Must have been a dynamite proposal that sold this concept. I can only imagine the emotions that would beset a person glancing up with no forewarning.
Country Mouse on 06 Dec 2011 at 7:08 am #
What fun!
maggie on 06 Dec 2011 at 5:18 pm #
A fantastic set of photos. Thanks for documenting it for those of us who can’t be there. I want to live in that house.
Janet/Plantaliscious on 07 Dec 2011 at 2:29 pm #
Fabulous, I love the imagination and commitment — and sense of fun — that has gone in to this project. I wish I could see it “in the flesh”, but your blog is the next best thing. Wonderful.