industry exhibition - Room 2

Rubber Chest

This speculative work was designed to be completely disassembled into small components. The timber frame is held in place using dry joinery and is covered with a skin made of hand made rubber ropes from recycled tyre inner tubes. The rubber skin is achieved by wrapping individual loops of rope around the timber frame and held in tension with a simple knot. A shelf made from processed timber waste with small V shaped feet sits inside V shaped grooves in the frame, testing the strength and compression of the material. The legs are made from processed and pressed Tasmanian oak dyed with eucalyptus.    

Dust Cabinet

This speculative work tests the possibilities of moulding the processed timber pulp into shapes that contain some form of joinery. The pressed pulp panels and the timber sections, that make the corners of this box, have a small overlapping lip where a rubber strip is threaded through both materials tensioning them in place creating a single panel. The timber corners have a housed lap joint for easy disassembly.

The base is made from octagonal timber rods lashed together with rubber strips.

 Dust  and Dust doughnuts

Timber pulp samples dyed using natural materials.