Tubular Studies
An investigation into how a continuous metal line can define space without closing it.
A line that makes a room.
A room divider need not behave like a wall. In Tubular Studies, a slender metal structure marks a boundary through repetition and bends. The eye can continue through it, allowing the object to establish a place within a larger room without closing that room off.
Drawing in space
The tubular line gives the divider its outline and internal rhythm. Changes in direction create a sequence of open intervals, with the arrangement read differently as the viewer moves around it.
Alternative studies explore this relationship between continuity and variation. The object is defined as much by the space between its members as by the metal itself.
An object with architectural scale
The investigation sits alongside related studies for modular shelving and floor lighting. Each asks how a limited construction language might take on a different role within an interior.
For the divider, the role is spatial: to suggest an edge, introduce a rhythm and leave the larger room perceptible. Its lightness is first a quality of the visual composition.
Design study / Concept visualisations.