Timber Wave

Amanda Levete & ARUP
This project is about taking the V&A out onto the street and celebrates the London Design Festival residency at the museum.

The Cromwell Road entrance is vast, multilayered and very ornamental. We have responded to this with a single dynamic gesture that exploits wood as a material. The use of wood as a structural material is well documented at the V&A. We have taken lamination techniques more usually used in furniture making and applied them at a different scale to create a structure some three-storeys high so that when you see the piece from certain vantage points it reflects the grand proportions of the arch.

Repetition of motif is very much part of the didactic tradition of the V&A and this structure is born from that tradition. The timber entrance is three-dimensional and asymmetric in form and each timber piece is precisely calibrated for optimal structural performance. It creates its own balance and will be visible from long views as you approach the museum from along Cromwell Road.

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Timber Wave

Amanda Levete & ARUP
This project is about taking the V&A out onto the street and celebrates the London Design Festival residency at the museum.

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