Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Cardboard banquet, Cambridge, UK by Studio 2, University of Cambridge + Rentaro Nishimura


Cardboard

First and third-year students from Tom Emerson (of practice 6a), Ingrid Schröder and Max Beckenbauer’s Studio 2 from the Department of Architecture at The University of Cambridge designed this cardboard structure for a banquet on the 23 October to celebrate the new terml11507861

After a workshop by paper product designer Rentaro Nishimura, third years set about designing the structure to house 80 people, while first years designed furniture.

Cardboard

Cardboard

The project, an introduction to a year-long unit based on ‘bricolage,’ encouraged the students to think about architecture and limitations - in this case the material capability and time.

Cardboard

Cardboard

Cardboard

Location Fellows Garden, Kings College, Cambridge
Cardboard supplier SCA Packaging
Workshop Rentaro Nishimura
Tutors Tom Emerson, Ingrid Schröder, Max Beckenbauer
Studio 2 Michael Anderson, Matthew Atkins, Benjamin Barfield-Marks, Luke Bushnell-Wye, Luke Clare,
Alice Colverd, Matteo Mastrandrea, Alexander Mclean,
Sophie Palmer, James Pockson, Katherine Spence, Amy Till,Josh Wedlake, Richard Worth, Shuchen Xiang

Cardboard

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