Price: $22,500
plus freight
Description:
This structure is a hybrid between a stand-alone open-air arbor and a
solid-roofed gazebo, whence its hybrid name: gaze-arbor. It's an 8-sided
structure with a sloping roof like a gazebo but it also admits light
through its canopy like an arbor. The entire structure is
maintenance-free.
Instead of the gazebo's familiar cupola atop the center, this structure
has a slightly billowed, octagonal skylight. The canopy's roofing is
composed of trapezoidal segments like a gazebo's solid sloping roof, but
admits filtered light through rigid 1/4-inch-thick color-printed
water-tight acrylic plastic panels.
The hybrid portion is the canopy and it lives up to the "gaze"
component of its name. Both the skylight and the sloping panels project
colored patterns. This color comes from a Mylar print applied to the
underside. The whole interior canopy projects a pleasant ambience of very
deep rich colors that was only remotely possible before with a printed
nylon umbrella, but never 18ft across and never with such complex
patterns.
The entire canopy framework is fabricated from solid white polyethylene
plastic. Even the posts are 6x6 solid-plastic timbers.
For night-time use, 8 recessed low-voltage 50-watt halogen spot-lights
have been placed around the canopy's base at the cusps of the facia, but
on the eave's under-side, and projected downward. Each light has a swivel
base allowing it to be directed toward the lattice screen or the passage
way, or anywhere in-between.
Now one can have everything wrapped into one: the bright day-time color
of an umbrella, the filtered lighting of an arbor and the shelter and
structural permanence of a gazebo. Plus functional or accent night-time
lighting. Then add to all this a structure that is maintenance free!
Technical Notes:
All the acrylic plastic panels and structural members have been UV
protected by standard doping of the plastic in the manufacturing process.
These color patterns, made possible only with the
aid of a computer, were created by the most accomplished and talented
fractal artists in the USA. The ones shown here are some of the most
extraordinary and beautiful fractal patterns developed to date.
The color is affixed to the clear-plastic panels by
laminating a thin clear, color-impregnated polyvinyl sheet to the
underside of each panel.
The panels are resilient enough to not crack when struck with flying
golf-balls and other light-weight projectiles.
This structure is not heavy relative to its size and therefore can be
mounted atop an existing concrete patio. Special galvanized brackets are
bolted into the patio and then hidden from view by the post-base covers.
Although the structure is totally prefabricated and straight-forward to
assemble, it must be erected on-site by an authorized MR. DECK
state-licensed contractor.
Specifications:
Spacing between posts: Along the perimeter -- alternating 3 ft and 10
ft. Across to the opposite side -- 16 ft.
Heights: From ground to underside of canopy base -- 7 ft. To top
of canopy 11 ft.
Canopy dimensions: Corner to corner -- 20 ft.
Side to side -- 18ft.
Panel dimensions: Trapezoid height -- 7 ft.
Base -- 7 ft. Top -- 2 ft.
Central skylight: Octagon side to side -- 4 ft.
Facia dimensions: Lengths --6ft and 10ft.
Height including 3 inch beveled trim -- 11 inches.
Lattice between posts: Flush interlocking 2x2's
with 5x5 openings.
