Happy New Year to all our Friends and Colleagues - Wherever you are...
(Translated mainly through Google Translate)
(Translated mainly through Google Translate)
Monday, December 31, 2012
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Jaakko ja Maailmanvalloittajat in Qatar - Featured Designs...
Included below are a few links for blog entries about some of the pieces featured in the Jaakko ja Maailmanvalloittajat TV program...
The Book-Corner Seat...
The Cu3o Cabinet...
The Stackable Bowl Interrupted...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Jaakko ja Maailmanvalloittajat in Qatar...
A TV program about me (and my family's) life and work here in Qatar will be shown on Finnish TV this Saturday evening...
The program will be on Yle Areena, on Saturday December 22, at 18.15 local (Finnish) time... The program is mainly in Finnish...
Please take a moment to amuse yourselves with how awkward I seem in front of the camera...
Please take a moment to amuse yourselves with how awkward I seem in front of the camera...
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Berry-Bowl - An 'Old School' Design...
A few 'old-school' images I came across whilst skimming through one of my hard-drives, of a project I did during my school days, at the AA, completed in 1997... These photos, even though somewhat grainy and over-contrasted, nevetheless capture quite well the subtle richness of the bowls' colors and translucencies as well as their inherent tactile qualities that, in their bulbous curves, encourage one to touch and interact with the design...
The design's original mold was made out of a short, log-like, segment of birch, brought by my father (with bark and all) from Vilnius to London in a duffel bag (to the custom officers surprise). This I shaped (using a lathe) at the school wood-workshop into a 1:1 replica of the bowl. This, in turn, was sent back to a glass factory in Lithuania where, according to the somewhat rudimentary pictorial instructions included below (as I don't speak Lithuanian and none of the personnel at the factory seemed to understand English) the bowl was fabricated... After a bit of toing & froing (a number of prototypes...) the bowl reached a form I could be content with...
It had its first showing at a small exhibition conducted by a, somewhat ad-hoc, group of fellow AA students called N.A.I.L. (Nordic Architects in London), where we displayed some of our smaller scale design works (this included an early rendition of the Cu3o Cabinet)... Good times...
I still have a few samples left of the bowl, perhaps I'll re-photograph them and include a future blog entry with a tad more 'professional' images of the design...
The design's original mold was made out of a short, log-like, segment of birch, brought by my father (with bark and all) from Vilnius to London in a duffel bag (to the custom officers surprise). This I shaped (using a lathe) at the school wood-workshop into a 1:1 replica of the bowl. This, in turn, was sent back to a glass factory in Lithuania where, according to the somewhat rudimentary pictorial instructions included below (as I don't speak Lithuanian and none of the personnel at the factory seemed to understand English) the bowl was fabricated... After a bit of toing & froing (a number of prototypes...) the bowl reached a form I could be content with...
It had its first showing at a small exhibition conducted by a, somewhat ad-hoc, group of fellow AA students called N.A.I.L. (Nordic Architects in London), where we displayed some of our smaller scale design works (this included an early rendition of the Cu3o Cabinet)... Good times...
I still have a few samples left of the bowl, perhaps I'll re-photograph them and include a future blog entry with a tad more 'professional' images of the design...
A light blue rendition of the bowl...
A blue, gradually transcending to clear glass, version of the bowl...
The bowl with blueberries...
Above & Below: Some of the images sent to the glass factory in Lithuania to explain the process for making the bowl (based on the provided birch wood mold)...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
VCUQ Stairwell, Education City, Doha...
Whilst certainly not intentional, the main stairwell here in the new wing of VCUQ is, nevertheless, interesting due to the structural conundrums that take place below, in the soffit of the stairwell...
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
FDM Fabrication Bases - Without Builds...
Following on from the previous post, a few images of FDM build trays after the build objects have been removed, leaving only the tray, and the residual bits of support material...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
FDM Fabrication Bases - With Builds...
'Straight out of the oven', there's an inherent thrill in seeing ones conceptions materialized... In the case of making something through FDM, this sensation is further enhanced by the subtly gridded tray onto which such builds are fabricated, that are neatly framed into perpendicular compositions, regardless of how free-flowingly exuberant or rigidly geometric the designs are...
A follow up post will show a set of trays without the builds, containing/ retaining only the patterns of the support material...
Heavy hipped writing desk model...
Bowls Interrupted tray/ cover...
Cats-cradle cabinet 1:10 model...
Table base model...
Bowls Interrupted (Sushi) tray/ cover...
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Dutch Pavilion - Venice Biennale, Giardini...
A few images from this year's Dutch contribution for the Venice Architectural Biennale, which concludes in a few days time...
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