Curved the wrong way? finished pics

[Crazyraceguy]

I have built hundreds of reception desks, nurse stations, cashier stands, etc over the last 20 years. Simple straight wall to wall, various angles and curves, free-standing or attached to the building in some way, but in all that time, only 3 or 4 with the radius being concave to the "outside".
This one is fairly long, at around 24 feet, with a large radius. It's probably enough of a curve to be self supporting, but the architect specified these metal posts. It was a bit of a challenge to work them into the field joints, as that is not general practice. It does keep the installers from having to lift the pieces over an existing post though.
It is always annoying to put all of this work into something that will ultimately be ugly. It gets covered with a woodgrained laminate horizontally. This means end to end grain joints every 6 feet...yuk
Then, it gets the other ugly thing of a counter top of the same color/pattern.

 

[Packard]

Psychologically, it subtly directs those approaching to move towards the center-most area of the arc.  It also feels embracing and welcoming. 

I’ve seen a few over the years, and I hope the effect was intentional.  If it is, it can be used to guide people to the center.  If that is not what was intended, then perhaps this is an effort to look different and (possibly/probably) a less-then-excellent idea. 

I am reminded of the “new” Verizon logo introduced a few years back.  When I first read it, I thought, “From this design people are going to want to pronounce this ‘very-zone’”.

If the letter “I” were in boldface red type (instead of the ‘v’) and if the red check mark were over the “I”, then it might have promoted the correct pronunciation.  But, still it was a mistake that they spent millions of dollars promoting. 

Verizon recently revised that logo for that very reason.

The recently revised version, does not suggest any specific pronunciation.

Both versions are shown below.

So, one can only hope that effect of the convex is intentional and serves some purpose. 

 

[Crazyraceguy]

I can check the architectural drawings tomorrow. Sometimes shapes like this follow a soffit above, but that is usually noted and laser-templated, because framing/drywalling like that is never perfect.
This may just follow the shape of the room? The drawing does say that it sits on top of a concrete riser, but not how well it fits that shape. I'm going to guess that it's pretty close on the concave side and larger behind. This thing is fairly short, (sitting height on the inside) which is too low for people to walk up to on the customer side. If the riser is 6"-8" high, that fixes it. Just a guess though, the section views of the drawing don't show that detail, it's just a note in the plan view.

 

[Crazyraceguy]

More pics. Finished, except for the top. That's tomorrow's job, part of it anyway.

 

[peacefulandpatriotically]

looking forward to seeing photos of this when completed, very nice work.  How is the veneer attached?

 

[Crazyraceguy]

[member=79298]peacefullyandpatriotically[/member] it is actually not veneer. It's plastic laminate (HPL)
It took a total of (3) 5' x 12' sheets and one 4' x 8' sheet, with very little scrap.
It is completely done and broken back down. I took a couple of pics of the top, but not while it was in place. I test-fitted it upside down, but it was never back on again. I didn't post them though because the camera didn't do so well with the gloss. They look blown-out or way too dark.
I'll try to get some pics after it gets installed, but that will probably be 2-3 weeks.

 

[peacefulandpatriotically]

looks great, looking forward to the photos.