Category: Climbing
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GRIP Climbing Biel
GRIP climbing is a new gym in Biel, Switzerland. I was commissioned to design all walls in close cooperation with the owners. This job is what started my search for an efficient algorithm that allows quick adaption of planes and edges on a climbing wall design. Bouldering walls 235 m² Indoor rope climbing walls 480…
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Cheeta volumes
In addition to a rework of the entire line of volumes I got to complement Laurent Laporte’s newly designed crack system. And the famous balls or “tranches d’oranges” needed to be resized for better fit when stacked. All volumes got a fresh number. Sizes and angles were exported into a huge Excel sheet. For better…
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Cheeta Wood Boomerangs
The masters were hand shaped by Laurent Laporte and I got to do the scans with my Artec Eva. The result of a scan is usually a dense mesh consisting of a lot of tiny triangles. In order to provide clean surfaces for CNC machining these holds out of solid beech, the meshes were remeshed…
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Meiringen Boulder World Cup Wall
In 2017 I got the chance to develop and design a modular competition wall for the Meiringen Boulder World Cup and the National Training Center of the Swiss Alpine Club. The simple design offers maximum freedom for the setters, allowing the placement of big features and volumes. The sectors of the wall are large enough…
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So iLL flatpack volumes
We’ve been talking about flatpack volumes five years prior but now it was time to get some prototypes made. Many methods were tested and So iLL decided to go with very simplistic volumes with 90° edges only. Read more…
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Flathold brush
Three brush handles for Flathold. Small and medium are currently available in white and mint green.
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So iLL Boost hangboard
After redesigning both the Blister board and Jason Kehl’s Iron Palm hangboard, I got to design the Boost hangboard by myself. The first production run was done in wood, later on a PU version was added.