DUCK & WAFFLE EDINBURGH
Set in the heart of Edinburgh's acclaimed St James Quarter, Duck and Waffle sought to craft a unique dining experience, immersing patrons in an environment of intrigue and sensory delight.
Some Design Ltd worked along with and at Windsor Workshop (http://ww-ltd.org/) to create some unique canopies that now cover a Private Dining Room (PDR2), 2x direct facing Live cooking chief to client dining seat of 2 different sizes and the Bar.
As well as supporting the final client to define the final shape, look and method of prod + instal, we went through the whole process from designing to producing through tools + jigs for the panels and structure till handling the finish & instal.
Private Dining room / feathered panels
This PDR2 is divided here as 2 sub-assemblies that are the Canopy and the Supporting Structure .
( 21 ) The feathered front panels are cast in Grp in silicone molds, themselves held in some jigs.
( 22 ) The canopy ply structure is divided in modules for falicitating the production & instal.
( 23 ) The Inner canopy is made of complexe formed plaster & bendy plasterboards.
( 24 ) A copper finish edge on the inner contour, focusses the soft spread of the light from a LED strip onto the plaster canopy & ceiling ( 25 ).
VISULAS / DETAILS
work in progress
Dining bar canopies / feathered panels
Three canopies of two different sizes cover the chefs cooking for the clients seating in front of them.Within are included lighting and extraction.
( 1 ) The canopies are divided in panels.
The outside surface is made of feathers referencing the ducks.
One of the many interresting process that we went through in this project was the way to define these feather patterns with the combined curved complex surfaces.
I used SolidWorks to define the right size and shapes to suit the specified space defined by the client, while ZBrush was used to extrude the various feathers on the 3D imported from SolidWorks with a set of bespoke feather brushes.
The final 3D including the feather patterns was split into sections prior to SLS 3D printing.
The most intricate part was to generate the sharp size of the panel using the 3D prints while ensuring the junction between the feather patterns imbricated.
Sicone molds were created over the master panels. Various jigs were CADed up & built to help all the differents phases.
( 2 ) Wooden shelves & steel angle brackets were molded on the Grp panels to help the final assembly.
( 3 ) An adjustable ring was designed with circular slots to fit the final canopy.
WORK IN PROGRESS
BAR CANOPY
The Bar canopy was made of copper finish and also include a strip of LEDs spreading the light against its inner surfaces.
Again here, the canopy was divided in modules made of molded Grp panels fixed on their bulkheads/structures.
( 11 & 12 ) In order to get along with the sequence of positive/negative parts in order to obtain the final mold, several tools had to be designed amongst which some plastering tools.
Cold chrome surface were applied for the finish.
( 13 & 14 ) Commonly in this project, the CNCed bulkheads are matching the inner panel surfaces which also help maintaining the intricate shapes.
(15) A sub-structure that includes the LED lighting supports the canopy and is used to suspend the whole assembly.
Various JIGs were used along the processes.
