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Studio 1.2 - Digital Craft, Pre-Fab, Awe & Wonder
Project details
Programme
Year
1
Tutors
Dave Edwards,
Tara Clinton,
Melis van den Berg,
Tony Le,
Daniel Linham and
Wang Fung Chan
In Studio 1.2 we explore both the design process and the experience of a materialised project. Whilst the archetype of the big top might come to mind with the Circus Coming to Town, it is the place and space of light, spectacle, colour, wonder, exuberance and delight that we are seeking. Studio 1.2 is in its fourth cycle, this time to take on the challenge of creating the “The Greatest Show”. Exploring how an integrated design approach can facilitate a showcase of innovative hybrids including new-uses of materials to create wonder and surprise. We explore structures such as tensegrity that appear to defy gravity and deliberately challenge structural conventions. We explore the illusion, the anamorphic, digital or virtual projections to create hybrid spatial assemblies and propose a space that aims to provoke a heightened emotional response akin to the most mysterious of all lights in nature that of the Aurore Borealis.
01
Chill Bill - Auroray
Auroray
The Auroray pavilion is a catenary structure comprised of mirror and dichroic panels, giving rise to light and colour effects. It is an optimised compression structure with a series of interlocking catenary arches.
Extracts from Final Group Presentation – Team Gleam
Extracts from Final Group Presentation – Team Gleam
Auroray Showreel 1
Auroray Showreel 1
Taking its name from the Aurora Borealis and “rays” of sun, the pavilion offers a light and colour performance during the day, which is maximised when the sun is at its highest altitude. Surrounding mirrors blend it into the landscape.
Auroray Showreel 2
Auroray Showreel 2
The experience offered is immersive, ephemeral and individual, which is emphasised using mirrored panels and small pathways in the pavilion.
Auroray Showreel 3
Auroray Showreel 3
Showreel showing group pavilion work and additional personal project work.
02
Gleam - The Contortum
The Contortum
The Contortum is a beast that is fleshed out by bamboo sticks, metal joints and an over-reaching membrane. Visitors brave enough to enter the entrails of the beast bring it alive by interacting with it.
The Contortum Showreel 1
The Contortum Showreel 1
Visitors are encouraged to move the members of the pavilion and discover the extent to which they can control and deform the monster.
The Contortum Showreel 2
The Contortum Showreel 2
Fighting with a beast does not come without its struggles - the visitors might need to crawl, jump and pay attention to moving members. Being inside the beast means being squeezed between twisting and bending bones and ribs.
The Contortum Showreel 3
The Contortum Showreel 3
Showreel showing group pavilion work and additional personal project work.
03
The Flying Monkeys - Tensepeze
The Tensepeze
The Tensepeze was a project designed by the Flying Monkeys that came about through the contemplation of the experiences evoked by the circus. It gets its name from the combination of tensegrity and trapeze.
The Tensepeze Circus Performance
The Tensepeze Circus Performance
Tensepeze consists of a tensegrity pillar structure with attached netted swings and connected humanoid tensegrity figures.
Flying Monkeys Showreel 1
Flying Monkeys Showreel 1
The main goal was to create a performing structure. The pavilion bounces, deforms and twists under the weight of those brave enough to climb it, recreating the feelings of fear, playfulness and skill associated with the trapeze.
Flying Monkeys Showreel 2
Flying Monkeys Showreel 2
The act of a person climbing, swinging, or pulling activates a performance between the person and the structure.
Flying Monkeys Showreel 3
Flying Monkeys Showreel 3
“The Tensepeze is the magician, and the participant is the magician’s assistant; one cannot perform without the other”.
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Summer Show 2021
23 July – 07 August 2021
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