Creation

REFLEXIONS

Paris - France, 2023

A monumental glass work in the Palais-Royal garden in Paris from September 15 to November 15, 2023. With its 8 tons of glass and 6,000 metres of intertwined prisms, it is a real technical feat that Atelier Barrois has built the first glass scaffolding of this scale in the world.

For assembly, the chosen approach involved crafting small stainless-steel stars with tiny nodes that combine mechanical fastening and adhesive methods to secure and hold the glass bars together. This glass scaffolding is designed to withstand winds of more than 100 km/hour.

Reflexions website (in French) >>

Photo credit : Sergio Grazia

Technique

Bars of extra white glass cut into prisms and laminated.

Key Figures