Material Memories - My honours project involves setting steel treads into concrete, or ideally soapstone, that only become visible once the top layer of material has been eroded. These stone flags will be laid as paving in public or private places. The pattern of steel will be a stylised version of contour lines, relating to the geography of the area in which they are laid. As the flooring wears, it will also become a document of the most common routes used to traverse it.
Material Memories - My honours project involves setting metal treads into concrete, or ideally soapstone, that only become visible once the top layer of material has been eroded. These stone flags will be laid as paving in public or private places. The pattern of inlay will be a stylised version of contour lines, relating to the geographical origins of the materials used. As the flooring wears, it will also become a document of the most common routes used to traverse it.
Erosion Paving Stones - This is the final outcome of my honours year project. Copper inlays, set under the surface of the paving, only become visible once sufficient material has been worn away by pedestrian traffic.
Erosion Paving Stones - This is the final outcome of my honours year project. Copper inlays, set under the surface of the paving, only become visible once sufficient material has been worn away by pedestrian traffic.
Erosion Paving - Erosion Paving appears plain when laid. As it is walked on, the top surface wears away to reveal copper inlays. The inlay patterns are inpsired by the contour lines, from maps, of the area in which in paving is to be laid.
Development and research of the Erosion Paving project.
Development and research of the Erosion Paving project.
Erosion Paving was shown at New Designers, London, 2007.
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Erosion Paving