At the temporary pavilion in London’s Olympia we meet woodworker and designer Rio Kobayashi, along with structural engineer Steve Webb, to discuss their collaborative project. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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I'm Maile Evans.
As part of the London Design Festival currently underway, many temporary structures are popping up across the city.
Off the shelf is one pavilion amongst this number located in Olympia, a sway frame is fashioned from stone and timber.
It's also the biggest installation to date from the woodworker and designer Ryo Kobayashi.
The maker created this structure in collaboration with the multidisciplinary practice Webb Yates engineers.
Monocle's design editor Nick Moniz caught up with Ryo Kobayashi as well as the structural engineer Steve Webb to find out more.
Rio began by sharing the starting point.
This pavilion.
This pavilion.
The concept is recreating my childhood home that where I grew up in the middle of the countryside in Japan, which was built by parents and by, you know, my mom is Austrian and my dad is Japanese.
So it's kind of like entire house was like mixture of, like, Japanese and European.
It was made out of wood and, like, plaster was made out of, like, limestone and stuff.
Tell us a little bit about the design.
It's almost like a pavilion of shelving.
Yeah, the shelving structure.
We also actually came up with Steve with the shelving things, which was also, like, ideal for me.
My parents traveled around the world when they were younger and then collected during the journey.
And they had lots of multicultural pieces and objects at home.