Well it's a good start to 2013 we have confirmation from the City of London that our proposal for the Chelsea Fringe has been approved and the Church have also given us the go ahead.
Which is fantastic as it's now becoming a reality after 9 months of preparation including meetings, site visits, proposals, and numerous conversations. The real work can now commence !!!!!
There are a few final details to sort out but this means we can begin seriously working on the design construction.
Just before Christmas we visited the SCIN Gallery in Old Street www.scin.co.uk to search through the materials library in the hope of finding something that would work not only aesthetically but also needs to be weatherproofed and fire resistant, whilst still maintaining an element of fluidity and weightlessness.
Here are a few examples we short listed
Which is fantastic as it's now becoming a reality after 9 months of preparation including meetings, site visits, proposals, and numerous conversations. The real work can now commence !!!!!
There are a few final details to sort out but this means we can begin seriously working on the design construction.
Just before Christmas we visited the SCIN Gallery in Old Street www.scin.co.uk to search through the materials library in the hope of finding something that would work not only aesthetically but also needs to be weatherproofed and fire resistant, whilst still maintaining an element of fluidity and weightlessness.
Here are a few examples we short listed
They are light weight, transparent have a similar quality of silk but can used for large scale work particularly architectural projects. It's all sounding perfect, There are specific fabrics that can be used for exterior projects and this is what we are in the process of try to investigate as the supplier is in Switzerland. Otherwise we could look at weatherproofing a cotton based fabric but the strength wouldn't be there in the same way as something that is metallised.
Here are a few initial sketches Sasha has been working for the final installation.....
I'm sure there will be many new renditions of this idea once we begin working on 1-1 scale material tests. It's always at this stage you immediately begin to understand where the strengths and weaknesses are within the design.