Brief’s A & B
Brief’s A & B represent the early investigations into nature and structure, with early developments into single surface structures. These understandings will be carried through as a story is developed through discoveries […]
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Unit Trip – Turin
This year’s unit trip saw us head out to Turin, Italy. While the trip focussed on capturing the magnificent works by Nervi, Mollino, Piano and Trucco’s Fiat Factory, the city itself […]
Monument to the Third International
The second of my structural investigations focussed on Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International. Inspired by Paris’s Eiffel Tower and Athanasius Kircher’s seventeenth-century representation of the Tower of Babel, Tatlin […]
Single Surface Structures
The design studio leaders, Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu have spent a number of years testing and exploring the possibilities of a structural technique they have coined ‘Shell Lace’. Deconstructing […]
Paul Thorpe 