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Showspace Exhibition
Showspace Exhibition
We completed a unique spatial environment for the Ports 1961 SS18 show using simple curved walls. These walls became devices for suggesting movement and to provide a central focus within the space; a direct reference to the houses of Toyo Ito in Japan where walls are used not to demarcate space but to influence processes and rituals. In a similar manner, the walls were introduced as a way of generating a sense of flow and use.
The walls acted as experiential nodes during the show, directing the models and engaging the guests with the performance. The walls were constructed from simple, cheap plasterboard panels, steamed and scored to create the elegant curved edges that would reflect light off the resin floors. The simple placement of these curved surfaces was an investigation into the relationship of performance and space.
The studio worked with a brilliant fabricator who helped to develop the intricate details and method of manufacture to ensure seamless joints across all walls throughout the space.
Title: Showspace Exhibition
Location: London
Year: 2018
Client: Ports 1961
Type: Cultural
Status: Completed
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Installation, Venice Biennale
Installation, Venice Biennale
Member of the commissioning team for the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 with Niall McLaughlin Architects. A 6-month period of research into the role of architecture in dementia, culminating in the production of an installation in Venice as a large projection of a drawing showing the life of a building occupied by carers and patients of a respite centre. Delicate brass stands held the projectors while a sea of speakers created the immersive experience as if being present inside the drawing.
Title: Installation Venice Biennale
Location: London
Year: 2016
Type: Cultural
Status: Completed
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Horizon at Tate Modern
Horizon at Tate Modern
We were asked to collaborate again with the fashion designer Ports 1961 at London Fashion Week in February 2018 for a AW18 show at Tate Modern, London. Designed around the raw spaces of the Tanks, the proposal emphasised the clean raw image of the interior of the cavernous space.
As a simple yet powerful intervention, the proposed lighting installations were a reaction to the qualities of the site and the attempt to generate an atmosphere of sunrise. The project, ‘Horizon’, sought to introduce the evocative glow of early morning light, realised by the introduction of large spherical lights that helped to create drama and frame the large concrete volume. The lighting was designed to interact with the increase in number of visitors, getting brighter as the space was occupied as an awakening daylight.
Title: Horizon at Tate Modern
Location: London
Year: 2018
Client: Ports 1961
Type: Cultural
Status: Completed
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Concéntrico
Concéntrico
The project starts with the act of placing a column in a space to help rationalise and give a new order to the square, as a way of acknowledging the qualities while trying to transform the use of the public realm. This project is a continuation of EBBA’s fascination in the ideas and use of rudimentary architectural elements and our interest in creating simple yet purposeful interventions that explore proportion, form and public space.
The city of Logroño, known for its historic buildings and reputable churches, is part of the trail on the ‘Camino de Santiago’, a pilgrimage route leading from the French border across the north of Spain. A city made up of streets and patios helps to create a sense of urban rooms at different scales, all lined with colonnades that are carried by columns which both define and provide unique edge conditions. This intervention takes the idea of the column as a device, and the understanding of it being integral to the way the spaces in this city are formed, as a starting point.
Responding to quite a complicated site this project gives the square a new order through a very simple intervention. The placement of a single column can help to demarcate and create an enclosure, as well as anchor and make new space around it. This project proposed to transform the square by adding columns by way of offering new configurations that could be re-arranged. The project suggests a playful way of activating the space that could allow the various local festivities to happen within the sea of columns. As a simple gesture, the columns were designed to be reorganised, to create new rooms within this urban room, while at night they transformed into light beacons to give the square a new life and a totally different experience in the city.
Title: Concéntrico
Location: Logroño
Year: 2019
Client: Concéntrico Festival
Type: Cultural
Status: Completed