Mosaic dots are installed throughout the site walkways and stairs.  Fabrication started in June, 2009 with first installation in August.   The dots are metaphors for water or water droplets.  At west end of site, the dots are all blue and are arranged in ranks to show arrival of water at the site, as if constrained by all those underground pipes.  At mid site, near the sediment pond, dots are blue and orange.  The dots here are placed to tell the story of sediments settling out of the water.  Orange indicates pollution.  At northeast, outflow end of site, the dots are blue and green in a serpentine arrangement.  Here the dots represent dynamic habitat enhancement from slow, clean water.

Dots are precast in rubber molds.  Glass chips are placed in the molds, then covered with grout.

Jaeger made more than 600 of them in several color combinations.

Perimeter and interior cuts at 1/2” to 3/4” depth make easy breakout with hammer & cold chisel.

Installation requires a core saw, water, vac and crew of two.

We set the disks with non-shrink grout, 50 to 70 per day.  Walkable after about 10 minutes.  Skateboardable after a couple hours.  They glint in the sun & shimmer in the rain.                            June, 2010

600 Pavement Dots

in walkways and stairs throughout the site

SURGE

Thornton Creek Water Quality Channel

© Benson Shaw 2010

A project of the Seattle Public Utility

and the Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs

Page updated:

29 January, 2014

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