Our Year 6 pupils made a brilliant foray into our archiBOX design project this half term, with their interpretation of the works of some fascinating and renowned designers. As the project name ‘archiBOX’ suggests, the concept stems from working with high-quality two-dimensional designs as a platform to create an architectural piece of work that could influence our environment. 

Choosing one of the designers that the GCSE Design Technology exam board nominate as ‘people they need to know about’, the girls selected and studied their subject from a range of architects, products designers and fashion icons such as Yinka Ilori, David Adjaye, Zaha Hadid, Harry Beck and Vivienne Westwood.    

The initial output was a research page of a variety of images that they then sliced up and distributed around a page. The intervening gaps were filled in with shapes and patterns in the style of that designer – colours, styles, materials and text. The next step in the process was to copy the design onto the net of a 120mm cube, which was folded into an ‘archiBOX’. We were so impressed with the work that the girls put in, their attention to detail, and the fact that every cube was so unique.  

In the big impact finale of the project, you can see in the gallery below how their 2D nets became a wonderful 3D collective work of art; as Year 6 were then able to assemble their cubes into a three-dimensional architectural proposal for a city of the future.