Spencer Dock Bridge - Dublin
[C]space DRL10 Pavilion
Alan Dempsey - NEX Architecture


Based in London at the centre of an international network of the world’s leading design consultants and specialists, Nex is a new breed of multi-disciplinary design office that focuses on the intersection between architecture, infrastructure and urban design, and pursues innovation both in its design processes and in the environments it creates. As a small office we often work in a collaborative team and the presentation will focus on two projects that have been recently completed.

Spencer Dock Bridge - Dublin

This project is an in-situ and precast concrete structure that contains a landscape of vehicle, light rail, and generous pedestrian traffic. The edges of the structure curl down to reveal a space for pedestrians to pause and enjoy the views of the canal and the new linear park on either bank away from the immediate vicinity of the road. The presentation will discuss how constraint based modelling in Rhino was used to develop and manage the seamless geometry and manufacture the double curved formwork.

The project was commissioned as Future Systems; completed as Amanda Levete Architects.

[C]space DRL10 Pavilion

Designed and delivered in collaboration with Alvin Huang, Rieder and the AADRL, this project was the winning competition entry for a temporary pavilion to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Design Research Lab at the AA. The pavilion is a network lattice structure of thin fibre reinforced concrete panels and steel plate. Over 850 unique flat concrete elements are connected to produce a coherent curved form that merges floor, walls roof and furniture. The presentation will show how Rhino was used to constrain and parameterise a free-form model during successive iterations, and subsequently manage the generation of all fabrication and assembly information.