Tubus turns a piece of old office infrastructure, the pneumatic tube, into a sculpture. Built from working tubing, it sits in a central atrium as a dialogue between an analogue delivery system and the way people communicate now.
The form follows the flow of the tubes themselves — Form follows Flow. Parametric curves and a sense of spatial fluidity turn the run of tubing into what reads as a single brushstroke in three dimensions, drawing on organic architecture and fluid form.
The design pushes a normally rigid technology into an expressive shape without giving up its function. Parametric modelling let us keep the underlying structure simple while making the form itself the feature; suspended above the reception in transparent material, it holds your eye as you walk in.
