Heatherwick Is God

Aiming to bring a little bit of the genius of Heatherwick into your lives! (I don't claim any responsibility or ownership for the images or text shown unless otherwise stated.)

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Hussein Chalayan and Thomas Heatherwick: interview

I needn’t have worried about them getting on; within minutes of meeting, their similarities were spookily obvious. And, most refreshingly, in industries so often driven by egos, Heatherwick and Chalayan have a shared humility.

A great dialogue between two design heavy weights.

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Big fan of the Heatherwick! Hes a close family friend! :) Nice to see appreciation, haha.

YES, he is incredible we must spread the love. Very jealous of your close ties to him! I've been rubbish at posting recently because I have exams, but I'm going to try and get on top of it again soon!  

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Says UK designer Thomas Heatherwick, hailed as modern-day Leonardo da Vinci, in an exclusive chat with Mirror by Dhamini Ratnam

What would make one of the most celebrated designers in the world - the man responsible for the visual and engineering splendour of the 2012 London Olympics flame...

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The Rolling Bridge by Thomas Heatherwick Studios, London (via)

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Oh Mr Heatherwick

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Awwwww we LOVE him! 

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Barnards Farm Sitoorie

The National Malus (crab-apple) Collection commissioned the studio to design a permanent pavilion to sit within their grounds.

The structure is a cube, 2.4m in each dimension, punctured by over 5000, 18mm square hollow aluminium staves that act as miniature windows with tiny glazed ends, The staves form the structure and texture of the building and suspend the cube 1m above the ground.

The cube was precision-machined, by an aerospace company, from 15mm anodised aluminium and bonded together using special high-strength adhesive. The aluminium staves are arranged radially, the origin point being the centre of the cube. A single light source located at this central point emits light at night through every tube, causing the windows to glow. Seating is created by elements that extend into the cube to support a machined aluminium surface.

The name “Sitooterie” is a Scottish term for a small building to literally “sit oot” in.

(Words and Images from www.heatherwick.com)

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Heatherwick encouraging me to just get on with some drawing…

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Thomas Heatherwick, Spunchair Rocking Chair

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Day 19

Bus all the way to Paddington to see Thomas Heatherwick’s Rolling Bridge but found out that only rolled up once a week. It’s a beautiful area called Little Venice. I’ll visit again. 

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Lovely little video about the making of Heatherwick's glass and rolling bridges. 

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Bleigiessen - The Wellcome Trust

The Wellcome Trust, a biomedical research charity, commissioned the studio to design a sculpture for the atrium of its new headquarters. The site for the sculpture was within an eight-storey high atrium space above a pool of water. Although a huge space, the sculpture was commissioned after the building was complete, meaning it had to fit through a standard sized front door.

The vertiginous quality of this space, coupled with the presence of water, suggested the idea of exploring ways of capturing the dynamic shapes of falling liquids. Following extensive experimentation, pouring molten metal into water was found to create extraordinary and complex forms in a fraction of a second. No two experiments produced the same result. Over four hundred of these were produced before a five centimetre piece was created and selected as it was felt it would work well with the building and is the basis of the final thirty metre project.

This original piece was digitised and exactly replicated using 142,000 glass spheres suspended on 27,000 high tensile steel wires; 15 tonnes of glass and just under a million metres of wire. The spheres, made in Poland in a spectacle lens factory, were the result of a collaboration with Flux Glass, their shifting colour and brightness coming from a layer of dichroic film set between the two hemispherical lenses that make up each sphere.

In 2006 Bleigiessen was awarded a Lovells Art and Work Award, and can be viewed on the last Friday of every month at 2pm.

(words and images from www.heatherwick.com)

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UK Pavilion, Shanghai Expo 2010 Thomas Heatherwick

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B of the Bang. 

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A Little Hampton Adventure on Flickr.

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Materials House

The Science Museum in London commissioned the studio to design a Materials House, an exhibit to show “everything that anything can be made of” for the Challenge of Materials gallery.

Instead of prioritising any one material to make the House from, and then exhibiting small samples of all the other materials within it, the studio chose to make the House itself from all of the materials.

Six metre high pieces of each material are bonded together into a single element of many strata, weighing approximately four tonnes. The edge of every layer is visible around the object, and each material shows its surface at one point as a protruding piece. The geometric pattern becomes increasingly complex as the layers accumulate.

The finished object is an assembly of 213 materials, each material needing its own cutting and bonding technique, all together in over 2000 individually shaped pieces sourced from more than eighty suppliers and sponsors.

The Materials House was completed in 1999 and has remained a centrepiece of the gallery.

(words and images from www.heatherwick.com)