The brief was to create a recreational installation within the gasholder for the local community. We took the idea of the moving triangles and shifting surface to the facade and created the idea of a changing climbing wall.
The idea was to have 3 distinct levels. Beginner (At the bottom), Intermediate (In the middle) and Expert (At the top). Each level would increase in difficulty to climb and the surface would change every day by means of pushing and pulling the facade to create new challenges for the climbers. At the very top was a platform which would have fantastic views across the city of London, this was resered for those with the skills to climb all the way to the top!
There were access points from the inside to the outside of the wall so if you wanted to stop halfway you could, and if you wanted to only tackle the expert section you were free to do so. The wall itself was made up of triangles which were connected so as to allow some movement when certain plates were pulled or pushed form the inside by machine. (You can see this from the little vignettes i drew on the side of the presentations)
I really enjoyed the idea of this project, the teamwork was both exciting and frustrating yet in the end despite some bumps in the road we managed a good idea for a small installation and for what was the first design project of the year, pretty decent presentation as well. Looking back a year on from this i would love to tackle this project again and go at it from different angles and try some different presentational techniques, but at this moment i don't have the time available for such a thing. Here are 2 of presentation panels we used (these were accompanied by a variety of hand made models to display the idea of the climbing wall)
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