Plywood layers create illusions of density for Byplace installation at London Design Festival
Designer Giles Miller worked with fabricator Aldworth James & Bond to create this plywood installation, which varies in density and transparency, depending on the viewing angle.
Titled Byplace, the installation provides a central meeting place for South East Makers Club, a London Design Festival showcase made up of several exhibitions and events, all produced by creatives from the capital's southeast.
Designer Giles Miller and Aldworth James & Bond ? who are both based in Deptford ? decided to team up on the structure, having wanted to work together on a collaborative project for months.
Situated at the peak of Deptford Market Yard's historic train carriage ramp, the installation features a series of screens made out of interlocking strips of birch plywood. The strips were all created using a CNC cutting machine, and each one comprises small circles connected along a central axis.
Timber strips on the top half of the screens are rotated 90 degrees, creating the illusion that one half is more dense than the other.
Miller told Dezeen the installation builds on his studio's interest in how materials can be composed to create different visual effects. Previous projects include a light-reflecting sculpture made from pennies and a shingle-covered pavilion.
He hopes Byplace will offer visitors a "variety of spacial experiences".
"We're trying to play around with the visual opacity of the structure itself," he explained. "From one perspective...
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