People / Elliot Woolard
My name is Elliot Woolard, I am a British designer based in East London working erratically between different projects, mediums, scales and materials. Growing up in Manchester I moved to London to persue a career in architecture. Having graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture with first class honours, I now work as an architectural assistant whilst practice designing bits on the side. Working primarily from my room and laptop I have been trying to form my own design practice within the economic and spatial confines of different small London flats.
Zero Waste Benches
Having graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture, I’d lost access to its cheap materials and the workshop space, so to produce new furniture for my flat on a tight budget, outsourced CNC cutting became the only option. Being a cheapskate, I wanted to nest the elements as tightly as possible to get the most out of one sheet, and I ended up with an almost zero-waste cutting pattern. Delivery costs were too high, so I used public transport instead – the form was iterated so the flat-packed pieces would fit within the height of an overground carriage. I borrowed a hand trolley from work, collected the pieces from Walthamstow, and hauled them home to Whitechapel. My boss lent me a leftover can of yacht varnish and an old roller, so I varnished everything in the garden at home. Now I have 3 new benches for our garden used all the time.