Works
Project Gates & Railings
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Date 2007
The architect’s vision for Northumbria’s new City Campus East was to create a fusion between formality and structure of processes - the spatial side for the School of Design’s new building and the structured side for the School of Law and Newcastle Business School’s building.
The commsioned gates & railings complimented this vison, with the idea of motion and the transfer of people becoming the work’s focus. Studies into the ebb and flow of a river, creating movement with dynamic and often contorted patterns formed links with the buildings aesthetic, consisting of convex and concave exterior mesh frames. This translated into a repetitive pattern, which could be used for both the gates and railings.
© DAVID J. IRWIN 2009