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Developing and proving tools for living and making livings.
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Fabrication, development & testing Client: studioButcher for Steve Hayes, East Brunswick, Victoria
‘Brick001’ steel module explores the evolution of a flexible furnitecture, including light and table sub-chassis configurations.
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Furniture Shelving HB Range: HustwaiteButcher, East Brunswick, Victoria. 2016
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M-arc Home office Prototype: studioButcher. 2012
Developed to maximise flexibility in office layouts while retaining a sculptural quality. The entire system is based upon a singular module and fixing components to take add-ons like tables, lighting and curtain screens. Introducing the innovative ‘M-arc’ office with a difference. Configure the system in a linear format by simply topping and tailing or snake through the office as required. This speculative design was created in Maya 3D, and subsequently went on to receive 2nd place in the ‘skyOffice’ international design competition.
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Destoner Coffee bean cleaner
Client: Padre Coffee, East Brunswick, Victoria and Noosaville, Queensland
As the coffee culture booms in Australia, more and more roasters are taking the inhouse route to differentiation. Roasting coffee beans in house is an art in itself, and one aspect of the procedure is the ‘destoning’ process - removing foreign matter such as stones, nails and an assortment of weird stuff prior to packaging. Padre’s Marinus Jensen approached Snatch & Knackers workshop with a seemingly simple request... ‘Can you build a destoner?’
‘Ofcourse we can!’ The following months saw our constitution alter as we entered the realm of fluid dynamics. Destoners work by pulling the beans up a tube at a force which is just enough to maintain the draw yet not so much to allow the fine particulates, stones and metal particles to drop to out at the base. Fine tuning akin to tuning a musical instrument! Dynamic and functional.
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Destoner Coffee bean cleaner Fabrication and testing
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Vacuum sleeve Assembly Top plate
Vacuum damper Assembly
Top plate gasket
Cyclone
Cyclone Rim Plate
Vacuum Inlet ‘U’-Bend Assembly
Window Sill
Vacuum Pipe
Window Stubs
Leg Top
Window Gasket Window Frame - Inner
Switch Mount Plate
Window - Acrylic Hopper Assembly
Window Frame - Outer
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Leg Extension Assembly
Window Frame Fasteners
Venturi damper
Venturi Assembly
Castor Plate Castor
Outlet Shute Assembly
Outlet Shute Elbow
Slide Damper Assembly
Switch Plate & Switch
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Cyclone Assembly Isometric - PC001/002
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Niche Signage
Client: St Urban restaurant and bar, Swan St, Richmond, Victoria
Saint Urban bar and restaurant, designed by Rabindra Naidoo, required an innovative signage construction solution. The ‘niche’ concept needed to be strong enough to carry the hand sculpted statue of Saint Urban (Dawn Robinson), yet light enough to minimise load on the ageing facade. Lasercut sheet steel provided the simple, elegant solution. Installation was reduced to an easy lift by two operators on a scissor lift. Done!
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Stott Mobile work station
Client: Christie Stott, East Brunswick, Victoria
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Fitout Window schedule Client: Padre Coffee, Noosa, Queensland
Window frames to delineate space in good time and budget.
These steel window frames were developed with the client to match the style of frames to those in the Melbourne head office. Concealed welds and careful attention to finish. Built as seven separate panels. Roger! The frames were shipped up to Noosa, fitted before powder coating then installed and glazed. From 50mm x 25mm steel RHS and steel bar glazing beads all around. Top fixing tabs to match the overhead rafters.
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Outdoor Pendant Lighting Proposition: StudioButcher. 2014
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We had some left-over asteroid components (see ACMI story) lying about along with a few bags of leveling cement. Naturally the opportunity to combine these ingredients was too much to resist. Match that with a commission from a local retailer to complement their recent concrete inspired shop fitout with a pair of concrete pendants - and we end up with a whole new lighting genre. These are not wimpy iterations. The bold strong lines and heavy duty fixtures draw the eye up and down the illuminated chain, providing a platform for display and more.
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iBeam Warehouse furniture Proposition: studioButcher. 2001
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Dexxe Sconce Prototype: studioButcher. 2012
Designed to complement the rampant cafe scene around Melbourne, Dexxe takes the customer seriously, and itself a little less. Components are available in a range of materials, finishes and configurations.
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Powerplant Reed bed generator development Prototype: studioButcher. 2014
‘Power Plant’ is an innovative new ‘generator’ developed by studioButcher in Melbourne, Victoria. This exciting new product is available as an off-the-shelf installation or as freely available plans for anyone wishing to grow their own power plant. The design is powered by plants and their interaction with wind. The plant grows in a planter pot which is designed to rock in the breeze - and the subsequent movement is harnessed as a form of power. The power plants can be arranged in any configuration - as a single plant or as an array of many plants, such as a series of 10 plants working together. The resultant array of pots acts as a wind farm grown from appropriate selected plant seedlings or cuttings. In addition, the installation acts as a place for peaceful meditation and contemplation.
restricted by any particular technology, and can be chosen (and modified) by the owner dependent upon their needs, location, environment and available resources. Integral to the power plants is a simple engineering and implementation methodology which is enhanced by user interaction. This allows for experimentation and reengineering by an open and participatory community. The first of these types has been developed within a raised garden bed. It’s a simple foundation for the Power Plant - an apple crate
The power type is not
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system of horticulture well suited to medium and high density urban environments. studioButcher rents boxes at the Pop-Up Patch to complement a city apartment lifestyle
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Star Voyager Exhibition display modules Prototype: Black Panda & studioButcher. 2014
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Fabrication Art installation Client: Rabindra Naidoo. 2007
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This time machine doesn’t look like those depicted in ‘Back to the Future’. More an old woolen jumper one might pull out on a cold winter’s day.
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Time machine Lean design Proposition: Generative design methodology Lean - an adjective for ‘spare; economical.’ The process of lean design within this context then refers to reduction of waste, and ultimately more economical than a design which is not considered ‘lean’. There are any number of methodologies in going about this process from concept to production - this is an outline on my interpretations of ‘lean design’ methods. The two graphs below compare the investment over time of lean (b) and not so lean (a) design methods. On comparing the two methods, the graph below (C) illustrates an investment strategy in blue which reduces risk while increasing appropriate outcomes which have a fail-safe mechanism built in.
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View from outside the four dimensional space/time continuum, a close-up of the interlocking time lines, and the balloon model demonstrating a more typical monolithic approach.
The first two images below show the prototype of the time machine, and an earlier model (balloons) demonstrating a more disparate project model. Visualize a straight line floating in space. That line spans an infinite range of user experiences at an instant in time. As time ticks second by second, so the line span becomes an extrusion, as is represented in this model by a length of paper - off the roll.
project to fold three times at predetermined distances and in pre-arranged directions to result in an origami crane, for example. Highly predictable, just as long as the folds occur in the correct positions. When one replaces the paper spans over time with a unit of ‘user experience’ we then find that to end up with a final outcome which looks like a crane we must predict the future folds with exact precision.
The simplest user experience is one where the extrusion is straight and flat, like a flat sheet of paper, representing a smooth and predictable topography. The model displays ‘direction folds’, where the most simple redirection fold is one where the folds are controlled and straight - think a folded paper napkin. These folds are the type of re-directions one might predict when designing a new product.
The knitted time machine is not a entirely predictable topography, but it does display regular cycles - or periods. Importantly, each knit is dependant on the prior knit, and displays a necessary range of cycle times. These can be equated to days and years. A knitted topography which has 365 knots in one row then 365 in the next equates to the passing of years, but importantly each knit is dependent upon the interconnectedness of the prior year. This is called a
From this, one might plan a
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of the sphere, and entirely predictable experience model. The cycles are disparate, with each balloon representing one full event cycle. These events rarely interactand only at predetermined points in the topography.
redundancy loop - where the experience of the present is influenced by the past, and in this model the proximity of interactions relates proportionately to influence. Compare this knit model to the balloon model, where the rubber surface of the balloon represents the user experience. There are no folds. The whole experience is seamless, and requires no critical direction changes other than the constant curve
One can apply these two models for two different experiences, one is predictable but displays a pleasing cool modernism. The other appears less predictable at certain scales, but on stepping back displays a clear knit pattern. Which is more representative of user experience? The knit is intuitively a better model for dynamical systems for a number of reasons, most obviously that the folding occur within certain bounds yet at the same time no one fold is the same. The knitted paper model was constructed by knitting a roll of old facsimile paper onto two large timber needles. In
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this case a knit one, pearl one cycle was chosen. Different environments and the accompanying interactions can be represented by specific knit styles.
You’re feeling more sceptical or stressed about this whole model thing and are about to shut the whole thing down. That’s a seriously sharp experience fold! Dammit!
To place yourself into the model take a moment to look straight ahead - that’s the way forward. As you do so, take in your periphery vision in both directions. This represents the extent of the ‘experience span’ for the moment. You have just travelled inside the time machine! It’s been a smooth ride so far - pretty planar in fact. Next thing you find yourself deciding whether to continue with this exercise - you’ve just experineced your first fold. If it was an easy decision it was probably more of a smooth undulation.
Now, tell yourself you’ll read on for 7 more seconds then shut down. You’ve just set your first predictive fold in the model, which is coming up fast unless something else takes your eye and throws a fold in there before you get to your planned fold - the phone rings! Ultimately the scale of folding is as relevant at all levels of magnification. It’s a matter of deciding what metrics are important in the representation of past and future.
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Facade Flexible screening Proposition: Generative design methodology
Engaging with artefacts ‘BigMaille’ chain maille screens demonstrate a monolithic construction methodology within a flexible architecture.
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Prism Subframe
Client: ‘Sacred Prism’ Temple of the Healing Arts / Experimental Performance Triad Architect: Harry Evans
...thanking you both infinitely for your work with ‘The Sacred Prism.’ Brody Kokkinos
Commissioned to interpret and build the subframe of a 5m high pyramid structure which was then transported in components for it’s first outing at the Strawberry Fields music festival on the River Murray in December 2015. The steel work was CAD modeled prior to fabrication to establish details for laser
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cutting and assembly. Not without a few heart tremors, the structure was put up by the team of builders on site for the frst time without a hitch ‘to the millimeter.’ Detailed to align with itself and the cladding, the frame was engineered to support acrobatics hanging from the capstone.
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