Paternoster Vents,Paternoster Square London,Heatherwick Studio,2002
Created by British Architectural firm Heatherwick Studio in 2002 at Paternoster Sq, next to St Paul’s Cathedral in London, the 36 foot high Paternoster Vents that is established upon a preexisting subterranean electricity substation conveys the job of cooling down the station. Within the client team’s requirement of minimize the scale of the cooling system, Heatherwick Studio designed the Paternoster Vents into two separated part based on tow existing holes to cut down the size of the project. The main element of the Paternoster Vents is cut, glass-bead-blasted stainless steel.
Heatherwick Studio is the one makes art responsible,useful and beautiful that can be told by their 2002 project Paternoster vents.The model Paternoster vents was the first object that I noticed after walking into the Heatherwick exhibition in Cooper Hewitt Museum because of it’s extraordinary shape and sophisticated composition. It was built upon the necessity of cooling system for the electricity substation located in a public exposure and sensitive place. Designer firstly experimented it with paperboard which was also used in exhibition model and then build it with glass-bead-blasted stainless steel. By using glass-bead-blasted stainless steel to create the ordered, angled vent shows the great power of how design can have turned life element at an new high that is something I feel admiring and graceful.
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