A beautiful piece of publishing by Maddie Symons, covering all the great work by the student designers and the team of architects and engineers from Grimshaw and sbp to get [re]fractal built last year. We can’t wait to see one of the limited hard copy print run versions!
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Guastavino a go-go!
Education{Re}Fractal
Education, Pavilion ProjectA colourful day’s work! We’re so proud of the design and construction team from Grimshaw Architects and sbp, with the help of students from the Fred de Matteis Engineering department at Hofstra University
How does anyone have the Nervi these days?
EducationThe Grimshaw Foundation x Scale Rule video series continues apace!
Finally someone actually explains something
EducationWe have been asking Annabel to spell it out for years, but with the help from Sammi, Holli, Mae and the Grimshaw Foundation team she can finally share her wisdom with the world. PHEW.
USA! USA! USA
Education, Pavilion ProjectWe are super excited to have watched a team of NYC-based architects and engineers run a great set of concept design workshops with two dozen high-schoolers at Hofstra University this weekend for ‘Building the Next Engineers’. It is great to be able to try out our favo(u)rite hands-on design-build workshop format in a different engineering environment, and even better to do it with such great high school participants, university helpers, and glorious site visit weather.
We had eight great teams with fantastic work, but we also have a winning design to take forward through design development and construction in the fall(autumn). Let’s go!
HEX DOMES!
EducationCOP26 has been and gone, but the Anthropobscene pavilion project continues to thrive! With the Grimshaw Foundation and Urban Learners, Scale Rule were excited to help develop a workshop making cardboard small-scale Anthropobscene domes. Who would have suspected that these are hexagons and pentagons, eh?
Some lovely photos from Urban Learners’ Venetia and Anastasia here – and we hear open source workshop information may be available for use soon, too!
The Anthropobscene transmogrified!
Education, Pavilion ProjectWe at Scale Rule were delighted to see Anthropobscene – Next Generation Design 2020 pavilion take a further step from it’s digital reveal into the real world at COP26 in Glasgow.
Grimshaw Architects (big respect to Mr Andy Watts, in particular), Price and Myers and Sir Robert McAlpine helped deliver the original design by the students at Harris Boys’ Academy East Dulwich expertly, and there is a very nice and informative press-release about it all here.
I couldn’t think of a better concept behind a pavilion at COP26 than one which was so overtly symbolizing the irreversible changes to the planet caused by humans. Ripping apart a big timber representation of the earth with imaginary clawing hands is about as overt as you can really get (beyond torching the pavilion while it is still full of people, or similar…)
The People looking at things
Education, Pavilion ProjectAfter a breakneck speed design development and construction process, everyone was delighted to see the People’s Pavilion up and in action at Here East! We were just delighted to be a small piece of the process with Beyond the Box Consultants and the rest of the team, and very happy to see the completed structure being inspected by the People, and used as a stage.
The Anthropobscene is here (digitally)!
Education, Next Generation Design
The domed structure represents a deconstructed planet; formed, fractured and reconfigured from geometric timber segments. When approaching the pavilion a complete dome is visible, but as viewing angles adjust and shift the viewer uncovers a configuration of concave plate modules pulled apart. The dome fragments are positioned to frame views out to its surroundings and enable movement through the pavilion itself.
The pavilion celebrates sustainability through its modular production methods, recycled materials and future re‐use; whilst encouraging people to rest and socialise within its bounds with a series of modular seats reflecting the structure of the dome.
In an uncanny mirror of the world we live in the tragic results of our real and obscene anthropocene brought us a highly contagious lethal pandemic, which made the traditional physical construction of a Next Generation Design pavilion challenging this year.
However, do not fear! In collaboration with the wonderful XR developers at Grimshaw the pavilion was created as both a virtual and augmented reality composition which can be explored online. The pavilion can be experienced anywhere using the instagram filter to drop it into your surroundings and move around as if in real life.
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