“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
Thus Dan Spake on Disassembling Detroit
ResearchPaviljon Otok Obonjan
Education, Future of Design, ProjectsAnd 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.
Young Engineers Conference 2016
Education, EngineeringNot content with having some free time we joined some of the big-shots of the engineering world at the inaugural IStructE Young Engineers Conference. The fantastic event aimed to inspire young engineers to take up the challenges of the future. We helped out setting a concept design challenge, getting teams to design a helical ramp. More photos can be found on the flickr site here. We’ll try and upload some more information soon.
Photos courtesy of Stop Talking Photography and Institution of Structural Engineers
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Open sesame
Education, Future of DesignThe 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.
3D jigsaw assembled!
Education, Future of DesignIt 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.
‘Grown up laser cutting’ complete
Education, Future of Design, ProjectsThank 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.
1:20 gerbil pavilion unveiled!
Education, Future of Design, ProjectsThanks 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.
Future of Design – Progress update
Education, Future of DesignSomeone has been having too much fun on their weekends… We’ve started putting together a few physical models to test out the future of design pavilion concept both at 1:1 and at a smaller scale. More updates soon.
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