Over the years we dreamt of making the sculptures from a range of materials, to create a cone draped figure whose interior provides shelter and warmth, sculptured heads at the apex provide individuality and act like a chimney for a built in wood stove, or their head dresses ornamented with solar devices to provide power. Sited in clusters or singly, their organic forms would look at home in different environments, urban or rural, especially through the use of sympathetic materials and possibly some decoration, such as mosaic on concrete, or earth ochres painted on cob.
Smaller versions could provide showers and loos. Exciting new developments in 3D printing mean these forms could even be 3D printed to provide housing. They could be designed to capture water into tanks built underneath and the walls themselves could be formed of materials that would support plants. It could be such forms would be safer in hurricanes and floods too. The heads or abstract sculptures for the apex of cone homes could provide work for other sculptors too - having made one it would be 3D scanned and then printed.
The 3D printed Kindred Cones were made with a lot of assistance from Seth Fright at the Innovation Hub in The Main Place - Coleford Library. One large Lattice Cone was kindly printed by Jacob Bockenhauer @ www.solidprint3d.co.uk. Please scroll down for images.
