ANDREW'S ORGANIC SCULPTURE

We said we'd show you the reception desk when we had a bit of time...well here it is.

This was one of the design drawings. The brown coloured bits are wood. More importantly they are beams from the hall of the old demolished infants school. They are 'glulam' beams made of smaller pieces of wood glued together in layers (laminated), this means you can make big beams from small pieces of wood, clever or what!

Andrew made this little model to show us how it would look. It's all FAB and curvy, we all really liked it and he's going to make a seat to go in the atrium. Andrew made the new seats that you can see around the Peace Gardens, how cool is that!!! The reception is going to be an open counter like in an hotel and we'll be able to see Denise, Shelagh and Lesley and they'll be able to keep an eye on all the comings and goings. It's meant to be nice and open and welcoming with no pokey little hatch, we hope they like it!Here it actually is...not a model but the real thing being made in Andrew's workshop. The beams have all been cut up into shorter lengths and stood on end and are being joined together before they are cut to all the yummy curvy shapes you can run your hands round and along. He says it's going to be be limewashed and look a bit like a big piece of driftwood. We can't wait to see it. Andrew is also doing the school gates and some other things in a space at the front of the school.