• Designposts_Faye
  • Designposts_Faye
  • Designposts_Faye
  • Designposts_Faye
  • Designposts_Faye

 

A cluster of four habitat homes (two bird boxes, a bat box and a bug box) are designed with interlocking dovetail joints and keys in a series of repeating configurations, that are fixed around four main structural posts. The final tree-like structure encompasses a total of 48 boxes, which are ready to be dismantled from the Designpost at the end of LDF and go out into the community of Walthamstow as fully functional pieces. Pieces have been cut on the CNC and then finished and assembled by hand. Taking inspiration from the ideals and works of the Arts and Crafts movement and Morris himself, joinery details and CNC-making processes are exposed as expressive parts of the design and construction. Decorative leaf motifs abstracted from a Morris wallpaper design are repeated throughout the habitat homes, either carved into pieces while being cut on the CNC machine or block-printed on with garden-furniture paint. Other than the paint, the wood has been left in raw state to allow the pieces to weather into their natural environments after LDF.