Baguashan Mountain Buddha – Restoration Project
INFORMATION
Project ：Baguashan Mountain Buddha – Restoration Project
Location：Taiwan
Description：Cultural landmarks often feature curves, arches, and irregular geometries that make safe access extremely challenging. For the Eight Trigram Mountains Buddha Restoration Project, Sucoot engineered a customized Ring Lock Scaffolding System configured with various lengths of horizontals, diagonals, and suspended brackets to form secure working platforms that closely followed the statue’s complex concave and convex contours — all without touching the surface.
The tailored system allowed restoration crews to work safely and efficiently around the intricate structure, ensuring both worker protection and full preservation of the historic monument.
Challenges
01
Complex concave and convex surface geometry made scaffold placement difficult.
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No physical contact with the structure was permitted during restoration.
Sucoot's Solutions
01
Designed a non-contact Ring Lock Scaffolding System using adjustable horizontals, diagonals, and brackets.
02
Enabled precise access around irregular surfaces while ensuring safety, stability, and protection of the monument.
Engineering Data
| Year of Construction |
2022 |
| Description |
Changhua Mt. Bagua’s Great Buddha is seated cross-legged above a lotus-shaped base that measures 16 meters in diameter and 4 meters in height. The entire statue is made of reinforced concrete. The Great Buddha is approx. 22 meters in height (including the lotus-shaped base) and the base is roughly 694 square meters in area. It has been 61 years since its completion. The Buddha's body has many cracks and damages and needs to be repaired. In order to overcome the uneven structure of the Buddha body, Sucoot’s facade scaffolding is adopted in this restoration project. Its features are easy assembly and disassembly with high safety and good stability. Also, it can be designed according to the shape change. |
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