Jo Fairfax Studio

Concept

The wind swirls around this site in Sheffield and I wanted to utilize this strong characteristic. Part of the brief was to make the building visible and distinctive from the road. I added two nine and half meter high stainless steel (local reference) cones on the upper tip of the building. I adorned each cone with small hand made stainless steel propellers. This meant that whatever direction the wind blew, one side of the cone would come alive with rotating propellers catching the ambient light.

Each propeller has a nylon bush at its centre so that the propellers rotate quietly on this place of learning.

I located colour changing LED spotlights at the base of both cones to create a completely different atmosphere at night.

I also designed the glasswork.