Plastic Pavilion @ Botanical Heights

Architecture Students’ Plastic Pavilion

Washington Uni students helped design this pavilion as part of the $20m Botanical Heights project, in Missouri, USA.  The pavilion was assembled using 3,000 thermo-formed plastic panels, 1,500 steel plates, 4,000 fasteners and 8,000 washers.

Flowers for Flowers

Finished Piece

Having been asked to redesign a functional object in an innovative manner, I felt it the perfect opportunity to install some irony and wit into my work.  I decided to construct a vase, that’s usually FOR flowers, OUT of flowers.  Sourcing around 8 bouquets of yellow, paper roses, usually used for flower arrangements, and clipping them away from the leaves, I used yellow and green coloured glue to stick them together systematically.  Not 100% functional, as it obviously can’t hold water, my vase still has its purposes, like holding other artificial flowers, and candles too.

Inside the vase

Knots & Feathers

Gucci Macramé Dress S/S’11

Finished Piece

For this assignment, after alot of deliberation, and flicking through issues of Vogue, I decided on two key trends of 2011/2012 to focus on, the modern craft extravaganza, and feathery features.  Inspired mainly by a Gucci beach dress of the S/S ’11 collection, which was completely constructed out of macramé, and, a pair of Dior S/S ’11 feather sandals, I put together my designs and ended up with a macramé corset and feather trousers.  The corset was brutal.  Macramé is cool to look at, granted, but though it’s pretty to look at, one forgets it’s basically knitting, with your hands!  The feather trousers have a cotton gabardine base and the feather trim was sewn on systematically.  Another key element of inspiration, Kurt Geiger’s feather trim boots, which perfectly match my trousers!

Dior Sandals S/S’11

Kurt Geiger Boots