Creative design and fabrication company Nicholas Alexander have worked in collaboration with designer Alexander Mulligan to create a site specific installation at J+A Cafe.
J+A Cafe’s courtyard area would have once been a busy thoroughfare for animals en-route to Smithfield market and we very quickly decided to use this as a focus for our ideas. Our response to this old area of London and the history behind its ancient drovers has been to design an architectural structure that illustrates the narrative, movement and energy which would have existed and continues to exist within this space. From a set of overlapping forms we rationalised the design through a series of digital routes, creating parametric models using Rhino and Grasshopper before using our in-house CNC resources to fabricate and assemble the components.
