by Will Cottrell | Jun 25, 2025 | Bamboo Models, Context
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow This piece evokes the melancholic beauty of dissolution. A collapsing architectural form—its bamboo slats slumped and peeling—suggests a structure no longer able to hold itself together. One flank appears to unravel into wave-like...
by Will Cottrell | Jun 25, 2025 | Bamboo Models
Anger – Restrained Materials: Bamboo slats, string, flock wallpaper These sculptural maquette evoke the sensation of anger held in tension. Here, anger is not cathartic but creates an architectural structure built from the act of suppression. Bundles of bamboo...
by Will Cottrell | Jun 25, 2025 | Bamboo Models
Ego as Flag Materials: Bamboo slats, string, flock wallpaper This sculptural maquette explores the idea of identity as performance — the ways in which we project our beliefs, ideals, and personas into the world. The curved bamboo slats form arcs reminiscent of banners...
by Will Cottrell | May 27, 2025 | Writing
By Will Cottrell Fruito lunged and plunged. Sweat glistened on his quaking buttocks. He thrust and shoved; he dominated and towered: I’m the god, he told himself, impressed by the bamboo bed’s heavy shaking. I’m the god, it’s me… I...
by Will Cottrell | May 2, 2025 | Bamboo Blog
Straight lines that form a curve? The hyperbolic paraboloid—famously echoed in the shape of a Pringle—is a doubly curved surface, simultaneously concave and convex. Imagine a saddle or the twist of a torso. This deceptively complex form is actually made entirely from...
