Now in its fifth year, our award-winning Winter Windows is a collaboration between a group of local school-aged children and architects and model makers from Squire & Partners. For 2021 we worked with Reay Primary School, with previous installations created with WeRise in 2020, Lansdowne School in 2019, Hill Mead Primary in 2018, and Stockwell Primary in 2017.
Now in its fifth year, our award-winning Winter Windows is a collaboration between a group of local school-aged children and architects and model makers from Squire & Partners. For 2021 we worked with Reay Primary School, with previous installations created with WeRise in 2020, Lansdowne School in 2019, Hill Mead Primary in 2018, and Stockwell Primary in 2017.
Over the course of two workshops run by the practice, students were challenged to create and draw interactive shapes associated with ‘Dreamland’ – the theme of the 2021 Brixton Winter Festival run by the local Business Improvement District. The final designs include a jellyfish, a vampire, an eye-shaped dream catcher and an explosion of colour.
Occupying an entire glazing panel along the street, each bespoke 3D light was made by the practice’s modelshop team by weaving 360 LED Neon Flex through a wire mesh frame comprised of three planes. This transformed the students’ sketches into physical light installations, exactly as drawn.
The series of eight 3D bespoke illuminations was launched in the windows of The Department Store at a ceremony on Thursday 4 November to mark the first day of Diwali – known as the festival of lights – in the presence of the students and their teachers, families and friends.
Team Squire & Partners modelshop team, Reay Primary School
