>A030 A Device for a Drawing Room
The commission of what we might consider a device, or piece of episodic architecture, which enforces and makes special the Drawing Room in which it sits.
This significant piece of architectural furniture addresses strategic requirements for additional storage and entertainment needs, whilst better calibrating for character after the inherently destructive act of building by others.
Inline with our ongoing pursuit into making-to-think and thinking-to-make, the entire piece was designed for automated fabrication, then initially constructed and decorated at our architecture workshop in Canterbury, before being transported to site.
The piece aims to acknowledge historical devices, hints to its commissioning patrons, and displays a vector wood grain made physical — the digital as a physical ‘layer’ of sorts over an expressed and underlying ‘true’ grain — celebrating the craft, both in and of, drawing for automated outputs.
