Best Foot Forward in Akimbo

The Best Foot Forward installation at the Stantec Window Gallery was posted up online on the Akimbo website.  Nice to see the installation in perspective with the rest of the former McGregor Sock Factory! We genuinely appreciate the help and support of not only the [R]ed[U]x Lab team that put it all together, but also the great hosts, Stantec, especially Karen and her team.

A Glimpse of Best Foot Forward

Here are a few images of the final preparations and completed assembly of the Best Foot Forward project installed at the Stantec Window Gallery.  Once again, it is great to see how the [R]ed[U]x Lab team was able to bring a virtual idea to built reality in such a brief period.

Mocking Up the Leg Components

The first, second, and third year students on the [R]ed[U]x Lab Stantec Gallery team are shown here putting in the extra hours to ensure that the patterning, configuration, and assembly of the argyle leg components are all properly set before the big build at the Stantec office.

Almost There...

The Stantec Window Gallery should be complete very shortly.

Cramped Quarters During the Install

The leg and foot components require a bit of strategic maneuvering in order to ensure that the Stantec Gallery space is kept clean after the red paint job.  Here are two team members precariously setting up the profiles for the leg array to get in.

 

Putting It Together...

Here are some photos of [R]ed[U]x Lab's Stantec Gallery Team on site assembling and fitting the project into the modest display alcove fronting on Spadina Avenue.

The Leg Assembly

Despite studio deadlines and general fatigue from a typical architecture curriculum, [R]ed[U]x Lab's Stantec Gallery has been toiling away.  With the first, second, and third years on this team, the project has been a productive collaboration and exchange among students in the Department of Architectural Science.

Once again the atrium of the Architectural Science Department serves as a staging area for the mock-up  of a [R]ed[U]x Lab project.  More time lapses and imagery will follow soon enough with the build in the next day!

Working onsite for the Stantec Gallery Installation

Here are a few photos of Naveed's work onsite preparing the backdrop for the Stantec Gallery installation. This will be one of the few times [R]ed[U]x Lab will explicitly use colours - let's hope the design decision pays off!

 

Meanwhile back at the Ryerson Architectural Science homestead, the laser cutting continues with Ali...

The priming and prepping continues...

The Stantec Gallery team has been very busy and given the fine balance of deadlines (most notably in what has been rumoured to be a rough second year studio), it would seem that the students have been able to get things assembled in a fairly decent rate. 

Here we have a few of the students priming the material including sorting out the contoured profiles and painting the internal structure to blend in with the laser cut cardboard.