Yellowood – Finger Plaza0
September 12, 2012 by MartinB. | 6:31 pm
“Our goal of making a public park free for everyone to use is finally finished. It took us more than 1 year of hard work from project to finished plaza, it was not a easy road and evolved a lot of dedication and suet to make it.
We went to several meetings with the City Hall in order to get there help in the construction, but in the end they refused to help. We had to came up with a plan to make it on our own, without being destroyed during the construction and afterwords. It had to be super resistant. We decided to make the plaza in small blocks in another location, where we could work with time and precision and after bring it to the final location, ready to use.
The building process for me was truly like an huge sculpture with several creative stages. Maturing the layout was hard because of it´s size, 8m long… after we were confident with layout we started to shape metal sheets in order to poor concrete inside and to guaranty that the corner of every stair and curb will last a long time without breaking and wearing out. All this details were a constant problem that we had to came up with creative solutions, but this was our challenge and what kept us motivated.
The concrete is super smooth and gives a realistic flow to the plaza, there are spots for every type of fingerboarder and it is super fun to ride. We had the sponsorship of 500€ from a contest online, but just by looking at the pictures you can see the cost escalated easily to near 5 times the budget.
We wanted to make something with quality and credibility, something legit that represented the Fingerboard culture. This was a huge investment for us and is the biggest community project in our country, the Ystore Terrace is a success with daily people and a clean fingerboard vibe, the plaza will be located outside the shop.
This will bring more people to start fingerboarding and to progress, with a place where they can meet whenever they want for free.
The official opening will be next Saturday together with Yellowood´s 5º anniversary.
Everyone is welcome to visit this unique fingerboard sculpture.”
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