TiundaSchool

Oscillating between expression and constraint and advancing technological innovation while also utilising traditional craftsmanship, Alvarez's sculptural forms challenge our perception of weight and gravity and appear both of this world and utterly separate from it.

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Anton Alvarez, himself a former student at Tiunda, was invited to ornament the entrances of the school and its preschool. What came of it was a ten metre high clay press, built to produce sixteen concrete pillars.

With mechanical, electronic and software engineering I helped Anton construct and animate the machine that pressed them: a custom control board, four drives in a cabinet, and a handheld radio remote to run the press from the ground.