Coptos Gateway, Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, Massachusetts

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Challenge:

Collaborate with museum conservationists to design structural and seismic supports for large stone artifacts (from second century BC Egypt) that have to be kept aesthetically transparent.

Solution:

CBI created an inverted pendulum structure which allowed each of the two ton Coptos Gate stones to be suspended from a transportable overhead structure sized to support gravity and pendulum loads. This minimalist approach caused the least amount of physical damage to material while protecting it between moves, this being a traveling exhibit. The structure columns were designed to telescope 3’ to meet display height constraints imposed by various venues.

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