2025
2025
Tesserae - Model
A physical narrative of flow, connection and ecological form.
Model
Model
Second Year
Second Year
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Know More
Built from plaster, copper and intention, the Tesserae model captures how water moves, gathers and reshapes the site. It makes visible the project’s core idea: that infrastructure can be ecological, interactive, and designed with care.
Solid form drawn from fragments — a landscape held in plaster and intention.
The model begins with a base of hand-poured plaster casts, carefully composed to reflect the ground’s topography and water logic. These casts offer both clarity and structure - a smooth, tactile surface on which the systems of the site can unfold. As with the landscape it represents, the base is not just support, but story: sculpted to frame interaction, pause, and flow.
Joining the Flow
Joining the Flow
Plumbing becomes poetry - copper lines and threaded paths connect the terrain.
A network of customised plumbing components threads through the model, tied together with welded copper piping that gleams across the surface like a drawn line. These elements - once ordinary, now reimagined - visualise the movement and control of water across the site. They trace the system’s logic with elegance, making water's journey visible, legible and continuous.
Design in Translation
Design in Translation
From sketch to system - the imagined becomes formed.
Inspired by Robert Bray’s philosophy of water-led design, a bespoke 3D-printed guttering system is embedded into the model, transforming conceptual drawings into physical infrastructure. The sculptural components are scaled, placed, and articulated to show how design can capture the rhythm of rain and response. These features, both functional and symbolic, carry the imprint of speculative ecology and purposeful play.
Etching Meaning
Etching Meaning
Lines of explanation, carved into clarity.
Delicate laser-cut and etched panels are embedded into the model’s surface, offering annotations that reveal the project’s layered systems — from planting patterns to hydrological infrastructure. These additions do not just inform, they complete the model: allowing the eye to wander, read, and return. The result is an object both crafted and communicative, holding in its fragments the total logic of Tesserae.
A distilled version of the landscape, the Tesserae model shows water made legible — flowing through printed gutters, surface channels, and sculpted ground. It reflects how a fragmented site can be reassembled into a system of movement, memory, and ecological play.
This model culminates all these elements into a cohesive mosaic, revealing how infrastructure, planting, and human interaction combine to form a living, layered whole.
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(TEB® — 02)
©2024
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©2024
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(TEB® — 02)
©2024
2025
Tesserae - Model
A physical narrative of flow, connection and ecological form.
Model
Second Year
Know More
Built from plaster, copper and intention, the Tesserae model captures how water moves, gathers and reshapes the site. It makes visible the project’s core idea: that infrastructure can be ecological, interactive, and designed with care.
Solid form drawn from fragments — a landscape held in plaster and intention.
The model begins with a base of hand-poured plaster casts, carefully composed to reflect the ground’s topography and water logic. These casts offer both clarity and structure - a smooth, tactile surface on which the systems of the site can unfold. As with the landscape it represents, the base is not just support, but story: sculpted to frame interaction, pause, and flow.
Joining the Flow
Plumbing becomes poetry - copper lines and threaded paths connect the terrain.
A network of customised plumbing components threads through the model, tied together with welded copper piping that gleams across the surface like a drawn line. These elements - once ordinary, now reimagined - visualise the movement and control of water across the site. They trace the system’s logic with elegance, making water's journey visible, legible and continuous.
Design in Translation
From sketch to system - the imagined becomes formed.
Inspired by Robert Bray’s philosophy of water-led design, a bespoke 3D-printed guttering system is embedded into the model, transforming conceptual drawings into physical infrastructure. The sculptural components are scaled, placed, and articulated to show how design can capture the rhythm of rain and response. These features, both functional and symbolic, carry the imprint of speculative ecology and purposeful play.
Etching Meaning
Lines of explanation, carved into clarity.
Delicate laser-cut and etched panels are embedded into the model’s surface, offering annotations that reveal the project’s layered systems — from planting patterns to hydrological infrastructure. These additions do not just inform, they complete the model: allowing the eye to wander, read, and return. The result is an object both crafted and communicative, holding in its fragments the total logic of Tesserae.
A distilled version of the landscape, the Tesserae model shows water made legible — flowing through printed gutters, surface channels, and sculpted ground. It reflects how a fragmented site can be reassembled into a system of movement, memory, and ecological play.
This model culminates all these elements into a cohesive mosaic, revealing how infrastructure, planting, and human interaction combine to form a living, layered whole.
More Works
(TEB® — 02)
©2024
2025
Tesserae - Model
A physical narrative of flow, connection and ecological form.
Model
Second Year
Know More
Built from plaster, copper and intention, the Tesserae model captures how water moves, gathers and reshapes the site. It makes visible the project’s core idea: that infrastructure can be ecological, interactive, and designed with care.
Solid form drawn from fragments — a landscape held in plaster and intention.
The model begins with a base of hand-poured plaster casts, carefully composed to reflect the ground’s topography and water logic. These casts offer both clarity and structure - a smooth, tactile surface on which the systems of the site can unfold. As with the landscape it represents, the base is not just support, but story: sculpted to frame interaction, pause, and flow.
Joining the Flow
Plumbing becomes poetry - copper lines and threaded paths connect the terrain.
A network of customised plumbing components threads through the model, tied together with welded copper piping that gleams across the surface like a drawn line. These elements - once ordinary, now reimagined - visualise the movement and control of water across the site. They trace the system’s logic with elegance, making water's journey visible, legible and continuous.
Design in Translation
From sketch to system - the imagined becomes formed.
Inspired by Robert Bray’s philosophy of water-led design, a bespoke 3D-printed guttering system is embedded into the model, transforming conceptual drawings into physical infrastructure. The sculptural components are scaled, placed, and articulated to show how design can capture the rhythm of rain and response. These features, both functional and symbolic, carry the imprint of speculative ecology and purposeful play.
Etching Meaning
Lines of explanation, carved into clarity.
Delicate laser-cut and etched panels are embedded into the model’s surface, offering annotations that reveal the project’s layered systems — from planting patterns to hydrological infrastructure. These additions do not just inform, they complete the model: allowing the eye to wander, read, and return. The result is an object both crafted and communicative, holding in its fragments the total logic of Tesserae.
A distilled version of the landscape, the Tesserae model shows water made legible — flowing through printed gutters, surface channels, and sculpted ground. It reflects how a fragmented site can be reassembled into a system of movement, memory, and ecological play.
This model culminates all these elements into a cohesive mosaic, revealing how infrastructure, planting, and human interaction combine to form a living, layered whole.
More Works
©2024