Mosaic dots are installed throughout the site.  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.

Thornton Creek Water Quality Channel

Northgate Neighborhood        Seattle  WA

Pavement Dots - about 600 throughout the site

© Benson Shaw 2005

A project of the Seattle Public Utility

and the Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs

SURGE  Public Art for the Thornton Creek Water Quality Channel

PDF files available for download and view.  Not for construction

Page updated:

18 October 2009

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Dots are precast in rubber molds.  Glass chips are placed in the voids, then grout is floated over the chips to fill the voids

Pavement Dots

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

Dot arrangement and art overlay on SvR Designs site map.

Cut the perimeter and make 3 smaller cuts in a star pattern.  This makes the breakout easier.

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

Break the chunks out with hammer and cold chisel.  1/2” cuts are usually deep enough to accommodate the disks and some setting grout.

We set the disks into the holes with non shrink grout.  A dot can be walked on about 5 minutes after setting.  I keep the skateboarders off for a couple hours.  We can install about 50 per day, but it requires good weather

They glint in the sun.