“Golem”is an architectural project designed by a team from Bartlett School of architecture. It is a pneumatic walking shelter inspired by Theo Jansen’s mechanism designed for walking movements, the project began with investigation into morphological design of kinetic structures, named after the artificial creature created by magic from Jewish mythology Golem.

 

 

There were three postgraduate students from Bartlett in the team:  Sean Jing, Juncheng Chen and Lydia Zhou, I also took part in. I felt it is quite interesting to have an experience of building a structure by architectural method, and the idea I saw from their work was kind of related to my central concept about space as well. I joined the part of designing the structure to make it more stable and effective, and also took part in the process of constructing the big structure. I didn’t know well of the technical skills of the electric part, but I also been there to saw the electrical system working on the project, found out the problem and tried to find a way to make the structure better.