About NESTA
NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, the UK’s leading independent expert on how innovation can solve some of the country’s biggest social and economic challenges.
Initial concept sketch
The Atlas Project explores the possibilities of rationalising complex surface geometries in a manner that resolves a number of the challenges associated with translating sculptural computer generated forms to constructible fundamentals.
Whilst being facilitated by modern technology, all of these pieces represent a timeless cornerstone in art, design and innovation - where the mind is able to assimilate a resolved mental image from primitive visual cues.
Atlas Sculptural Screen
The Atlas Sculptural Screen is a scaled up fragment of the Atlas Chair. It serves to visually unite the individual pieces on display and shares their conceptual lineage.
Atlas Chair
Atlas Table Detail
Torus Sculpture The Torus Sculpture was created as a piece that would be conceptually relevant to the deterministic ambitions of NESTA. Concepts frequently exist only as arbitrary notions and, by their nature, never exist as tangible artefacts. Data, research and insight allow us to assimilate and construct a mental picture. The torus does not exist as a unified whole but we are able to make the cognitive leap to assemble the elements that describe the geometry. The sculpture is symbolic of our capability to access complex theories. The piece could be reduced to a formulaic expression or a long list of binary instructions with relation to a polar grid.
Atlas Chair Detail
