Speedos Sculpture

Due to recent changes in swimming competition rules, the LZR Racer Speedo was banned, leaving the brand with hundreds of the products they were unable to sell. Trust Chelsea Art Students however to make use of them. Here we have the first ever sculpture made entirley out of Speedos, featured in London's Architecture Week.

For this particular project, the students were challenged to address issues of sustainability, production and use of materials. Making the most of the swimsuit's high strength textile, the group were able to stretch the fabric to it's limit, connecting pieces together into webs of intelligent design.

Named 'The Pavillion' the final structure was designed using Rhino 3d and Grasshopper digital modeling programs and used 200 of the 600 swimsuits donated by Speedo.