Climbable structure tackles housing and climate crises
Waugh Thistleton Architects is designing a 9m tall pavilion for the V&A鈥檚 new Sackler courtyard beside Exhibition Road.
The project, MultiPly, will arrive on site like a piece of flat-pack furniture and be built in less than a week using a flexible system made of 17 modules of American tulipwood cross-laminated timber with digitally fabricated joints.
The maze-like spaces will allow visitors to explore a series of stairs, corridors and open spaces.
鈥淭he structure will lead people on a merry dance up and down staircases and across bridges exploring space and light,鈥� said Andrew Waugh, co-founder of Waugh Thistleton.
鈥淭he main ambition of this project is to publicly debate how environmental challenges can be addressed through innovative, affordable construction.
鈥淲e are at a crisis point in terms of both housing and CO2 emissions and we believe that building in a versatile, sustainable material such as tulipwood is an important way of addressing these issues.鈥�
MultiPly will be one of the London Design Festival鈥檚 landmark projects and will open on September 15. It will be disassembled at the end of the festival and rebuilt in a new location.
The engineer is Arup.
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