Timber Wave was about taking the V&A out onto the street and celebrating the London Design Festival residency at the Museum.
The V&A Cromwell Road entrance is vast, multilayered and very ornamental. The form responded to this with a single dynamic gesture in timber; the use of wood as a structural material is well documented at the V&A. Lamination techniques more usually used in furniture making were applied at a vast scale to create a structure that echoed the grand proportions of the Museum’s magnificent arched entrance.
Repetition of motif is very much part of the decorative and didactic tradition of the V&A and this structure was born from that. Three-dimensional and asymmetric in form, it created its own balance and was visible from long views as you approached the Museum from along Cromwell Road.
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