Asylum Models & Effects

SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL BEAMS

Once the aluminium framework had been assembled, I was involved with bringing the frames up to a decent quality ready for art working, using a flexible filler and sanding each segment, as well as inserting the laser cut blades once the LED strips had been mounted onto the top of the lower lip. I was also involved in constructing the large frames required for safe secure handling and shipping.

E.ON X GORILLAZ

Props for a film presenting the new E.ON Kong Solar Studios

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For the film we brought in hundreds of toys and stripped them down, cleaned the, masked them up for spraying and then set them up for automation. I was involved primarily with the large Maneki-neko (Beckoning Cat), this involved painting, hollowing and finishing, as well as helping with the arm mechanism.

MEC Installation

MEC Installation for offices in Soutbank

For one of the three installations Asylum made for MEC Offices, I was involved cleaning several hundred copper tubes and sorting them to create an organic ripple effect when combined with an LED back plate.

Coach 'Rexy'

A 9ft and 12ft segmented dinosaur

The dinosaurs were made from a mixture of PALite and Aerolam panels clad around a steel skeleton. I was involved in cleaning each segment, which were cut by CNC routers, and then cleaned and filed to get them to slot together.

Coach Mickey Mouse

The individual pieces of the Mickey Mouse are made from CNC router cut PALight segments that I had to clean, sand and fill to get a high quality finish but then also connected to other pieces before being attached to the main body. other larger segments had to be filed back to get the sharper nooks and crannies of the figure that the CNC router couldn't manage due to tool width.

Roche Lungs

Stylized model lungs for a medical convention

Making the aioli took a number of hours heating and warping acrylic tubing before splitting them down the middle and gluing acrylic spheres to the narrow end. The tubes had to be dusted with talc powder to get a nice light effect  and an assembly method involving only 2 people had to be coordinated to keep costs down in packing and installation in a medical convention in Lyons, France.

Amazon Clock Wall

Large LED copper pipe wall display for Amazon's new office building near Liverpool Street station.

For this display piece I built over 150 light tubes using an LED strips inside acrylic tubes. The LEDs are mounted to an aluminium strip, This was then mounted inside the acrylic tube with tracing paper wrapped around them to diffuse the light. I used laser cut disks to keep the strips in place and facing the desired direction. These light tubes were all soldered to lengths of cable and then mounted and fixed into predetermined gaps in the outsourced copper frame. The cables were fed through the frame to a junction point and then directed down the wall to the control box beneath the project, which was concealed from the public.