Turning sound into sculpture
Resembling a 70’s shag carpet, the crimson wall visually captures the essence of noise; a discordant fuzz of acoustic energy, both deliberate and entirely unintentional. Evolving from a sharpie sketch, the feature took many forms throughout the concept and design phase. The main challenge being creating a seamless, three-dimensional, wall applicated sculpture out of 1220 mm x 2440 mm Cube™ panels.
With cardboard and scissors in hand, the design team made small scale models of the wall—figuring out how to cut and assemble the panels in such a way that the entire wall was covered seamlessly, and rhythm of the pattern appeared irregular. Once they had figured it out—through continual development and feedback from Warren and Mahoney—the small scale models were transformed into larger sample models made from Cube; assembled and presented in the Warren and Mahoney offices to give the architects a true feel for how they would look in the space.
Similar to a tear-off flyer, each panel was cut into thin strips, leaving a 75 mm boarder along the top and bottom. To create pattern irregularity, the strips were cut in half at different lengths, so when pulled apart one panel would become two fringed panels—achieving the randomised shag pile look without any off-cuts. As the dimensions and arrangement of the panels had been planned down to the millimetre to achieve a seamless look, the pod framing needed to meet exact measurements.
