inter/section was developed as part of High Performance: Evolution and Innovation in Canadian Design  – an exhibition curated by Greg Bellerby and designed by Campos Leckie Studio and Oliver Neumann. The exhibition featured innovative design products from the fields of sports and recreation. On display at the Charles H. Scott Gallery in Vancouver January 20 – March 7, 2010,  High Performance: Evolution and Innovationin Canadian Design was part of Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.

 

inter/section was designed by Campos Leckie Studio and Oliver Neumann in collaboration with UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The Design and Computation Group at the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design provided assistance in the development of the design.

 

Consistent with the exhibition theme of Canadian innovation in design, inter/section demonstrated the potential of contemporary wood fabrication technologies to generate formal variation from standardized wood construction materials within the constraints of material efficiency, ease of assembly/disassembly, and adaptive reuse.

 

The form of inter/section structured the relationship between the viewer, the exhibition objects, and associated graphic information while specific sections responded to the particular placement and spatial dimensions of each of the objects. 

 

All components in the assembly were joined through interlocking friction connections without the use of fasteners or adhesives.The installation was created using 172 sheets of plywood that were cut using a3-axis CNC router. The 288 vertical planes were paired and cut from 144 sheet of plywood. The remaining 28 sheets were used for interlocking horizontal pieces that governed the plan configuration of the installation. 

 

Developed to be reconfigured, inter/section employed a standardized placement of interlocking connection slots on the vertical sections.  These created a system with a high degree of flexibility that allowed the overall reconfiguration of the installation while maintaining the specificity inherent in the vertical sections. The entire assembly can be packaged to fit within a volume of 4’ x 8’ x 7’.

 

Project Team

Javier Campos, Mike Fugeta, Michael Leckie, Oliver Neumann

 

Digital Fabrication

UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture - Oliver Neumann, Patrick Danielson, Jonathan Griffiths, Samuel Ostrow, and Nick Scott