Our eminent panel of judges, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that this Clerkenwell Design Week should be graced with a twin staircase/bridge combo. This may be a little more challenging to realise than we’re used to!
Well, no rest for the wicked…
Erica has worked her magic from this years endeavours, and the fledgling flight of the first episode of the enormously anticipate documentary is up on AKT II’s vimeo
“Stellar architectural work and the ability to bring out the best in people”
He’s been rambling on for years, but it turns out Steve is officially a bit special
He’s been hailed as a RIBA Journal Rising Star
And as if by magic, the Future of Design pavilion has been reborn on an island in Croatia. Armed with only this instruction manual Tobias from Hylemo has turned a lonely pile of ply into a majestic structure once more (and taken some nice photos, too).
Hopefully the Future of Design pavilion will now lead a long and happy life roaming free in the Adriatic. Not in the actual wet bit of the Adriatic, preferably.
The Future of Design Pavilion was unveiled this morning for the opening of Clerkenwell Design Week. The full story of the fantastic work the participating GCSE students put into the project, and how it made it from concept to construction can be see in our publication here, at http://tiny.cc/FutureOfDesign2016. Below is a timelapse showing how easy it was to build!
Special thanks to Annabel and Erica for their work on producing the book, and Erica’s timelapse.
It only took 13 hours, an average of 16 hands and 31 coffees to transform a pile of varnished CNC cut plywood into an enormous set of wonky shelves!
Many thanks to everyone who helped out, it was excellent fun. IKEA here we come.
Thank you to Wup Doodle Ltd for the CNC magic (and photos).
13 days left to turn 3 tonnes of stacked ply in Suffolk into a swooping assembly in Clerkenwell.
Thanks to Steve, Lucy, and their family of nimble-fingered helpers we’ve built a scale mock-up of the pavilion, and Rich who’s taken some pretty darn atmospheric photos of it.
While pretty, this wasn’t all fun and games: lasercutting and assembling a 1:20 model using the same cutting pattern that we plan to use for the CNC routing and 1:1 build allowed us to do a spot of troubleshooting in advance of assembly.
SCALE RULE 