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Price & Myers Exhibition
'Geometrics- Elements of Form, Structure, Materials, and Manufacture' An exhibition showing the work of Structural Engineer, Price & Myers' Geometrics group.
'Geometrics; Elements of Form Structure Materials and Manufacture' offers a fascinating insight into the realisation of four unusual projects. The Exhibition demonstrates how principles of geometry, engineering, materials and manufacturing methods have been used to go from simple base components to intricate and apparently complex three-dimensional forms.
The large handmade models by A Models include: a bridge inspired by woven baskets, whose form has been engineered using trimmed hyperbolic paraboloids; a building made up of over 10,000 individually cut plywood parts; a stainless steel bridge whose stressed skin is perforated with thousands of holes whose size varies according to the stress levels; and a new staircase made out of a new high strength concrete that can be cast to incredibly slender proportions. This staircase will be installed in The Building Centre in 2009.
The exhibition, sited on the first floor of the historic German Gymnasium at Kings Cross, will be contained in a geometric trefoil. Set beneath the fantastic laminated timber beams of the Gym that date from 1865, the structural element of the exhibit is made of three twisting transluscent walls reminiscent of a bi-plane wing. The design forms an integral part of the exhibition and embodies the themes of the show in its design and construction. The surface of the trefoil will offer information both on the four projects, and aspects of the featured architects work in Argent’s nearby Kings Cross development.
Exhibition info:
6th July – 20th July 2008
9am-7pm weekdays
11am – 5pm weekends
Free Entry
Venue info:
The German Gymnasium
(opposite domestic entrance to St. Pancras International)
Pancras Road
London NW1 2TB
Nearest Tube:
King's Cross St. Pancras