Written by Matteo de Bellis, a student at the Royal College of Art
Another day of hard work at Kingcombe!
The first team (Jan, Arsenily, Finbar, Kenneth) stayed in the workshop at Hooke Park to prefabricate the handrail for the walkway. The second team (Alex, Ryan, Daria and Matteo) spent the day at Kingcombe preparing the joists to be laid down and fixed.
Team number one proceeds at full speed and manages to cut all the pieces to be fitted in the construction, furthermore it designs and fabricates the additional climbing structure that will fill the gaps between the framed structure of the Phase 1.
The second group receives the help of Valerie, former teacher that volunteered to help digging the final holes for the posts that connect the walkway to the entrance through a ramp. Even if the radio doesn’t work, the group is given the rhythm by Russian-Ukranian songs and Shakespeare’s pentameters, acknowledging the fact that A Winters’ Tale would be a perfect play to be enacted on last year platform. The joists are laid in position and fixed with screws and bolts, and a final decision about the assemblage between the handrail and the double external row of joists is made.
At the end of the day the first results start to emerge and a beautifully solid joist structure now appears at the eye, surrounded by the lush richness of insects and flowers of the Kingcombe Centre.