Fabrication – K-Thengono Design Studio

November 6 2022

The Collective Arc

vinthengono Fabrication architecture, collaboration, exhibition, fabrication

The Collective Arc | Jakarta, IND

Collaborated with a local team of passionate craftsmen,

The Collective Arc celebrates the today’s process & material technology’s development that exhibits the extent of timber’s capability as structural integrity, and the innovation of weaving techniques as part of Indonesia’s proudly inherited form of arts. Through 3 simple architectural gestures of extruding, lifting and puncturing, the installation is able to juxtaposed a seminar and a publication highlight program.

The act of lifting creates a program separation between both, while naturally create amphitheatre seating stairs for seminar sessions. In addition, a cantilevered box is inserted at the volume to add differentiation between seminar speaker platform from audience, while accentuates the form of the installation as a whole.

Type

Installation

Area

75 m²

Status

Completed

Location

Jakarta, IND

Year

2022

March 26 2017

Flock

vinthengono Fabrication

Flock | Nebraska, Omaha

Flock explores an alternative post-tensioned system. To support a free-standing timber wall using no adhesives, no fasteners, and relatively simple fabrication techniques.

By utilizing the advanced geometric controls afforded by parametric software and standard production of repeated components, the project achieves formal complexity via simple means.

The form transitions from a 10‘-0” x 10’-0” square at the base to a 7’-0” diameter circle at the top with an opening on one side for entrance. It comprises a bolted steel base from a 4” wide-flange steel beam, stacked short lengths of 2×6 lumber, and a welded steel tension ring at the top. Cables anchored to the steel base extend through holes in the lumber and are tensioned with fittings above the top ring.

The installation is freestanding and does not require attachment or bracing to the existing walls or floor.

Project completed by Min|Day – Kelvin Thengono involved as Junior Architect

Photographed by Colin Conces

Type

Installation

Area

20 m²

Status

Completed

Location

Omaha, Nebraska

Year

2017

Award

2017 AIA Nebraska Merit Award for Interior Architecture

March 26 2016

Lightweight Structure

vinthengono Fabrication

LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURE | Bissagos Island, Guinea-Bissau

The project is to devise strategies for bringing simple structures to remote areas of the world for humanitarian purposes.

The central focus has been on creating school classrooms, but the concept of lightweight easily-deployed structures is equally applicable to other building types, such as clinics, community centers, and disaster-relief efforts.

The specific design criteria came from a non-profit foundation based in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, whose primary purpose is to help bring educational opportunities to a remote region of islands off the west coast of Africa–the Bijagos Archipelago. The islands have a unique culture and environment, and many areas are protected as a UNESCO biosphere reserve because of the largely undisturbed and fragile ecosystem.

Type

Temporary Structure

Area

20 m²

Status

Completed

Location

Bijagos Islands, Guinea-Bissau

Year

2016