Category: Climbing
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Uni Bern Outdoor Boulder
The city of Bern recently built a new swimming hall in Neufeld and the universities old outdoor boulder basically lost its place. It was lifted to a temporary location by helicopter. The plywood really suffered from the rain and eventually the decision was made to replace the boulder. I was commissioned with the design of…
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O’Bloc Extension
O’Bloc climbing gym in Ostermundigen, Switzerland, just a few minutes outside the Swiss capital Bern, has been planning a huge extension, adding roughly 2500 m² of climbing surface to their existing gym. I’m really happy I was chosen for the design of the walls. It’s been a very interesting project with many different wall sectors…
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Bern 2023 Logo Boulder
For this years Climbing World Championship 2023 in Bern I was asked to design a playstructure / mini boulder which looks exactly like their logo. The boulder is designed and built in compliance with EN 1176, the European norm for Playground equipment so it can be set up in public space. Built as three independent…
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BASPO Boulder
Three years ago I got the chance to design a unique boulder wall for the Swiss Federal Institute of Sport (BASPO) in Magglingen, Switzerland. The wall features a top out section and a large vertical part for teaching belaying and rope technique. The boulder wall is located is located in the lower ground level of…
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Elys Extension
The new wall profiles include a concave and convex curved wall, a few different slabs and a big roof. The animations above rely on the WebVR WordPress plugin which might not work at its full potential in all browsers.
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Camp5 KL East paneling
Under the brand called Camp5, my friends own five climbing gyms in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Soon they’ll open another huge gym with a total of 1340 m² of climbing surface. The walls were designed by co-owner Patrick Andrey. I got to do the paneling which consists of placing panels on the planes of the walls…
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So iLL Split Palm hangboard
The Split Palm hangboard idea came after modeling the Meagan Martin split hangboard tiles. It is basically an Iron Palm split in halves and some grips added. Jason Kehl modeled a concept in Sketchup and provided some dimensions for my refinement in Rhino. The spherical parts are modeled as surfaces. SubD modeling was used for…
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So iLL Iron Palm hangboard
Jason Kehl’s signature hangboard got a redesign. My task was to blend the individual parts into one object in the correct size. While most of the adaptions were straight forward, the pinches needed some more attention. In the end, Jason shaped one side in foam and air-mailed the master part so I could scan it.…
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So iLL Meagan Martin training tiles
So iLL asked me to design training tiles for their athlete Meagan Martin who’s part of the USA World Cup team and a Ninja Warrior. We agreed on the tile design early on. I wanted to try something a little different this time. Instead of grips shaped like oblong holes subtracted from a main body,…
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So iLL Rise hangboard
A hangboard made of wood is fabricated in a subtractive process and cutting away more material takes more time and thus raises the pricetag. Casting a plastic hangboard is the opposite. Thicker grips and rungs require more resin. The goal is simple, design a hangboard with as little material as possible. The Rise hangboard was…