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Sitooteries 1 and 2
- Designer - The Heatherwick Studio
- Location - Belsay Castle and Essex
- Project Value - £70,000
Sitooterie 1 - Belsay Castle
Part of a limited competition for teams to design ‘a place to sit out’.
Sitooterie 2 - Essex
Sitooterie 2 was born when a private client wanted his own ‘Sitooterie’ on his estate in Essex.
The structure is a cube punctured by over 5000 long thin windows that project from all its surfaces and lift it off the ground. The cube, which measures 2.4 x 2.4 metres, is precision-machined from 15mm a nodised aluminium and the windows are 18mm square-section aluminium tubes glazed with transparent orange acrylic.
As the long thin windows all point at the exact centre of the cube, it only takes a single light source, located at this central point, to send light through every tube, causing the windows to glow orange. A small number of them also project into the cube to form seating.
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