At this year’s Coachella Music Festival, you will see a giant origami crane at the entrance standing by to receive you. Dubbed as Ascension, the crane is made from modular aluminum tubes and Textilene – a mesh fabric. Standing 45 feet tall with an all-engulfing 150-foot wingspan, the huge crane features multi-colored LED lighting that gets nourishment from two adjacent photovoltaic stations. The photovoltaic systems double as a canopy and benches.
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Created by LA-based Crimson Collective, the bird (doesn't it look like one?) weighs 35,000 pounds and all of the installation’s parts fit into a single shipping container. Well, let me tell you that Ascension is just a character part of what Crimson has done elsewhere.
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Via: Archpaper
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