beauty of our pain

“Beauty of Our Pain” is the installation composed of reconstructed fitness machines which would not have looked out of place in the Middle Ages. They represent fitness and the act of confession; the extraction of beauty through pain.

twisting concrete workshop

The workshop looks at experimenting with materials and design techniques. The work had two stages: first research on the potentials of the technique of casting double curvature surfaces in concrete. Second stage was to design and produce a piece using the…

urban toys for AAFAB

Urban Toys are furniture pieces made out of fibrocement. The form and function of each piece is customized in response to specific situations. They can exist as single units or combined together. Every individual piece is unique and they all…

playground

This Playground is part of the Playgrounds and Toys project by Art for the World, an NGO that invites artists to contribute their art around the world. This playground was proposed for the community affected by the…

impossible vehicle

Constructing solid and tangible that speaks about something transparent and fragile is the nature of these machines from them, the relationships between the body, material things and landscapes flow altering into a poetic enclosure.

bed machine

Bed Machine (aka sex machine) was constructed over the period of 14 months between 1991 and 1992 by piecing together debris of the city collected from the streets of London.

kawanishi urban phasing

twisting concrete (furniture) #2

A family of furniture was created at Hooke Park over two sessions in spring/summer 2009, exploring various forms of furniture with the applied notion of minimal surface. Design research includes alternative uses fiberglass -reinforced concrete (GRC), plaster-fabric open cast formworks using steel tubing to be integrated to the product.