Project – Umbrella shade – Summerhill School, Birmingham
Product – Maxima Umbrella
Requirement – Balance. Ying and Yang. There are many great forces in the world that require a delicate, sympathetic measure to keep them in check. How much ketchup is too much ketchup? And at what point do old socks become more hole than sock? These are valid questions.
But in design, the balance is between form and function, the essential nature of connecting a structure to both its purpose but also its space.