Industrial Design and Engineering
Occasionally we have the opportunity to be involved in some more unusual projects that fall slightly outside of the typical scope of our main work, yet are no less interesting to develop.
Project 62, Carbon Staircase concept design and engineering, 2012.
The brief was for a carbon staircase within an old townhouse to showcase some of the materials used by the client within their leading yacht rigging company.
Having reviewed a number of different options, the final design consisted of a Warren Truss style of structure fabricated from uni-directional carbon rigging elements combined with stainless steel and carbon trusses, and structural Perspex stair treads.
The minimalistic result gives a real feeling of floating, and is quite unlike any other stairs we have seen elsewhere…
Project 110, Blue Planet Balance Surfer, 2014.
Working closely via virtual collaboration between the beaches of NZ and Hawaii we developed the production designs in a short time.
The brief was to turn the clients working sketches and prototypes for a novel balance board concept into a finished production piece.