Prototyping Architecture explores the importance of prototypes in the delivery of high quality contemporary construction – performative architecture that is inventive, purposeful and beautiful. Focusing on architecture that is informed by aspiration, knowledge and material culture. The exhibition places a particular emphasis on research and experimentation showing how trial assemblies can inform architecture, with work by architects, engineers and artists. In post-digital design practice the prototype remains a vital means of design development. Setting out material futures and impending systems, with the potential for technology transfer from other industries. It highlights the role of low carbon architecture and offsite manufacturing in maximising the effective use of materials and resources, whilst delivering environments that facilitate human well-being.
Prototyping Architecture • Nottingham • London • Cambridge
Prototyping Architecture Exhibtion Press Release, Prototyping Architecture Publications
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- Loblolly House Prototype by Kieran Timberlake in the foyer of Waterloo Architecture at the Prototyping Architecture Exhibition [Image Kimberley Adamek]
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- Loblolly House Prototype by Kieran Timberlake in the foyer of Waterloo Architecture at the Prototyping Architecture Exhibition [Image Kimberley Adamek]
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- Prototyping Architecture Exhibition in the Cambridge Galleries at Waterloo Architecture. Showing Zoid Stool by Yves Ebothner [Image Kimberley Adamek]
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- Prototyping Architecture Exhibition in the Cambridge Galleries at Waterloo Architecture. Lit by Plumen light bulbs [Image Kimberley Adamek]
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- Protocell Mesh by Philip Beesley, assembled by MARS [Image Kimberley Adamek]
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- Digital Grotesque 3D print by Michael Hansmeyer [Image Kimberley Adamek]
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- Pre pattern timber prototype and stainless steel cast prototype of the integrated cast detail in the Thames Water Tower, by Brookes Stacey Randall Furdsen [Image Kimberley Adamek]
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- Additive Manufactured Violin, by Joel Segal and EOS GmbH [Image Kimberley Adamek]
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- Protocell Mesh by Philip Beesley, assembled by MARS [Image Kimberley Adamek]
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- A fragment from An Atlas of Fabrication – Bones by Barkow Leibinger. Made from stock tubes of stainless steel, which have been 3D cut whilst Revolving.
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- Schock Isokorb: Structural Thermal Breaks
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- Three Zoid aluminium stools – finished in silver, champagne and gold anodising, with the leather and ply prototype used in the design development.
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- The Stressed Out Table is designed to reduce a generic form to its minimal essential structure. By sixteen*(makers)
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- The Timber Wave was installed at the entrance of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, for the London Design Festival 2011. Made from Curved and Laminated American Red Oak by Cowley Timberworks.
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- Designed and made by MARS during the Fabric Formwork Workshop of ACADIA 2013. The formwork was lined in parts with Lace, which has transferred into the concrete.