Goodwood Festival of Speed 2008
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Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007
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Goodwood Festival of Speed 2006
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Goodwood Festival of Speed 2005
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2008
The sculpture, sponsored by Land Rover – was
again designed by sculptor Gerry Judah. The concept
encapsulated the ‘rugged face’ of the Land Rover brand.
In order to realise Judah’s concept, we had to
write specialist design software to help define its shape and form.
Once its intricate contours had been confirmed, slices were taken
through it in three global orthogonal planes. Taken at 1.5m
centres, the slices were then transformed into a wireframe
shape.
This highly complex form was then imported into further specialist
analysis programmes to calculate the sizes of the various
structural members (all components of the sculpture consist of
universal beams with the 1760 members connected by 821 joints). The
detailing of the structure was then carried out using X-Steel which
generated individual drawings for each element.
2007
The tallest of the designs to date, with a
maximum height of 38m, each of the sequence of gates was
manufactured in 914mm diameter tubular steel sections. Then 1.1km
of 24mm to 36mm diameter tension rods were utilised to suspend the
five Toyota Motor Sports cars, weighing from 600Kg to 1 tonnes in a
cascading display. A 3 dimensional criss cross pattern was
used for the rods which allowed the cars to be hung in the required
positional curvature.
2006
The sculpture was sponsored by Renault and
celebrated 100 years in motor sport. Costing £250,000, it was
fabricated by Littlehampton Welding utilising Corus Tube sections
and stands at 20 metres high, spans 32 metres and covers around
1,000 square metres. Although the circular steel tubing appears to
form a highly complex geometric shape, it was in fact achieved
using a very simple mathematical solution.
“The ‘pringle’ shaped effect is created by
four parabolic curves.
2005
This stunning kinetic sculpture finely
balances six Honda powered Formula 1 cars taken from the last fifty
years of racing. The six 40m long steel tubular arms utilised Corus
“Celsius Oval” range form 400x200 to 150x75 sections. The
differing weights of each of the F1 cars are counter balanced by
the rear portion of the arms. It was essential
that the sculpture was able to move even in windless conditions.To
achieve this rotary masses were positioned under each of the
cars