Everyone loves the London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, but we love even more its store that was recently redesigned. Let’s take a look at the final result of this work by the London-based firm, Friend and Company.
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To build the new shop of the museum, the firm focus itself in “robotic craft”. Yes, robots were used to manufacture the components of the new pavilions, which form the new shop.
The main goal was to use the store as a tribute to the V&A’s first retail space, which functioned as a showcase for contemporary crafts from 1863 onward.
In the construction process was used a variety of digital fabrication techniques, including 3D-printed ceramics, laser cutting, CNC routing and water-jet cutting.
“The shop design was inspired by our fascination with digital craft processes and is now as much a showcase of latest building technologies as it is a new space to display new designers’ work and additions to the shop collection,” said architect Adrian Friend.
“We are fascinated with how architecture is made and through our work try to take control of the socio-economic tools of production to push the envelope of possibilities through owning, influencing and ultimately showcasing in the final design the industrial processes of manufacturing.”
Creating “a concept of lanes and street facades”, Friend design the shop as a pair of pavilions. The advantage of it is that creates clear routes through the space as well as extra wall space for displaying products.
All the material were created by robotics systems as the tiles, which were 3D-printed by a robotic arm. “By design, all materials have been digitally manufactured, either laser cut, CNC routed or 3D printed, before painstaking application of a custom hand finish so as to radiate more than one colour depending on how they are viewed, to create a shimmer effect,” said the V&A.
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