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Stepping Stones Museum for Children

USA provided engineering development, fabrication, and installation services for a large portion of the museum’s Waterscape exhibits. Our scope of work included a review of water systems and plumbing design from water supply to water return. Fabrication techniques were widely varied, and included fiberglass, plastic lumber, stainless steel, and retrofitted off-the shelf pumps and water toys, to create a long-lasting and easy to maintain water-proof environment. A large umbrella with a translucent shade is central to the gallery’s design; water flows from the top of the umbrella into the main water canal.

HANDS-ON WATERSCAPE

Visitors enter this gallery under a giant umbrella that protects them from an overhead artificial rainstorm. The Pools and Cascades Exhibit is a stream bed with vortex, fog machine and other activities to engage visitors in water play and experimentation.

Exhibit Development Team:
Client: Stepping Stones Museum for Children
Design: Jeff Kennedy Associates
Engineering & Fabrication: USA
General Contractor: Design Craftsmen Inc.

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