Design: wood
I design things to support my work and others: exhibitions, architecture, furniture, hardware, and graphics. Making is a form of study—combining traditional techniques with new technologies to find low-cost, DIY methods that yield surprising qualities. I like artifacts that straddle boundaries: virtual/physical, analogue/digital, traditional/progressive.
About
I design things to support my work and others: exhibitions, architecture, furniture, hardware, and graphics. Making is a form of study—combining traditional techniques with new technologies to find low-cost, DIY methods that yield surprising qualities. I like artifacts that straddle boundaries: virtual/physical, analogue/digital, traditional/progressive.
Nicosia International Airport VE
A museum installation featuring a reconstructed 3D model of Nicosia International Airport's modern terminal based on LiDAR scans and archival documentation, housed in a custom-designed wooden console with touchscreen navigation and immersive projection. I developed the participatory virtual environment to test dissertation methodologies on interface-mediated, co-constructive 'virtual places' for heritage, featuring our WIP "propositional model" for focusing public knowledge towards architectural features, and a period landline phone interface for oral story contribution. I also designed and developed the companion website at velab.cloud/nic/en. Deployed in a public exhibition at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, the project captured over 3,200 play sessions and 300 oral story recordings, generating new qualitative data that enriches, expands, and challenges the site's limited documentation. See the development timeline for in-progress screenshots and photos.
Arcade Cabinet
An arcade cabinet designed for exhibiting contemporary art games. The concept's core innovation is a novel fabrication method I developed for creating a perfect, CRT-style curved lens to place over a modern flat-panel screen. The technique adapts the principles of liquid-mirror telescopes: first, liquid silicone is spun in a dish to form a perfect parabolic mold; then, epoxy is poured into the stationary mold to cast the lens. While this fabrication method is developed and ready, the project is currently shelved, awaiting grant funding to produce a full-scale prototype.
Staked Desk
A poplar standing desk built using the "baton" pattern from Christopher Schwarz's The Anarchist's Design Book. The project was an exercise in this craft philosophy, continuing my use of a simple and robust staked-leg joinery technique seen in two earlier projects. The result is a functional and heartfelt piece of workshop furniture, built around a joint that is close to my heart.
Love Bench
Revisiting a concept from the Archon Studio, the Love Bench was designed as playful, interlocking, multipurpose furniture. It solves three needs: a bench near the door for putting on shoes (with storage underneath), a sturdy weight-lifting bench that avoids the typically ugly aesthetic of exercise equipment, and extra guest seating when pulled apart into stools. The interlinked design provides 8 staked legs for support in its bench configuration, allowing it to take a significant load.
CNC Chair
A prototype chair based on the dimensions of an Eames LCW, fabricated from scrap plywood using a Shaper Origin handheld CNC. The design was modified to focus on joinery, angles, and tolerances suitable for CNC cutting and to accept a recycled foam cushion. An unproduced second pass on the design featured more rounded, friendly ergonomics; this iteration is visualized over photos of the original chair using my augmented reality app, Wikar. Justin McCallister is photographed sitting.
Staked Bench
A solid maple bench with a CNC milled and hand-refined form. This piece was a key deliverable for the Archon Studio, a funded competition where students design a house and matching furniture that embodies a particular concept of dwelling. This bench was designed for my house entry, '12 Miles a Year'. The staked furniture technique was later revisited for the 'Staked Desk' project, though it was not affiliated with the studio.