Clacton College
The Brief from Eastern Arts “Coast “ project at Bishop Park College (now Clacton Academy) involved a series of workshops with the schools 7th year students to help design artworks to be integrated into their new school building within a new build Education Complex. The projects scope embraced a suspended atrium piece, floor covering designs, an LED light embedded corridor, blockwork patterned and textured wall designs and an external artwork.
Looking to the beach for inspiration, these workshops led the students through a series of design processes starting with photography, continuing with scale model making, design deconstruction and development through to proposals. The artists’ role was to interpret and then oversee the incorporation of the resulting pieces into the building.
The images show three of the five artworks. The Gridshell a suspended sculpture a contemporary take on early wood bending techniques, the Blockwork Spiral Wall (designed in partnership with Ella Chapman Design) whereby sea eddy patterns were created from student designs and developed for use on the wall using the schools construction as a building palate, and one of the five the Floor Patterns using laser cut vynal that were designed with “people flow” in mind. Not shown is a digital interactive LED light wall,
This work comprises two gridshells the form of which refers to boat building, patterns on the beach, the bright colours painted on the beach huts and the subtle colours of the grass, dunes water and sky. The two parts differ as one is made of narrow and unpainted wood, the other of a broad timber, brightly painted. They are interconnected to make a demi egg /oval structure through which the light shines.
Made from green sustainable ash or oak the sculpture uses the natural bending properties of the material to create the resulting organic form. These gridshells combine technology with sustainability to create a sophisticated yet natural self supporting structure that relies on the interaction of all the components working together to create the shape. It is a three dimensional network.
Looking to the beach for inspiration, these workshops led the students through a series of design processes starting with photography, continuing with scale model making, design deconstruction and development through to proposals. The artists’ role was to interpret and then oversee the incorporation of the resulting pieces into the building.
The images show three of the five artworks. The Gridshell a suspended sculpture a contemporary take on early wood bending techniques, the Blockwork Spiral Wall (designed in partnership with Ella Chapman Design) whereby sea eddy patterns were created from student designs and developed for use on the wall using the schools construction as a building palate, and one of the five the Floor Patterns using laser cut vynal that were designed with “people flow” in mind. Not shown is a digital interactive LED light wall,
This work comprises two gridshells the form of which refers to boat building, patterns on the beach, the bright colours painted on the beach huts and the subtle colours of the grass, dunes water and sky. The two parts differ as one is made of narrow and unpainted wood, the other of a broad timber, brightly painted. They are interconnected to make a demi egg /oval structure through which the light shines.
Made from green sustainable ash or oak the sculpture uses the natural bending properties of the material to create the resulting organic form. These gridshells combine technology with sustainability to create a sophisticated yet natural self supporting structure that relies on the interaction of all the components working together to create the shape. It is a three dimensional network.