small projects

autopsy table

steel and concrete.

As part of the design for the
greyroom, a project office for a
construction company, the client
requested for a large table he
described would be intended for
client and project meetings,
and something he grandly
called project postmortems.

Postmortems.

An idea developed for a table
for hardcore postmortems, one
with the icy demeanour and hard
austerity of a clinical slab for
cold dissections. One with the
lightness and float of a wafer -
and made entirely of concrete.
The autopsy table was designed
to a length of twelve feet, a
width of five, and a thickness of
forty-five millimeters. Its frame
was welded with the grace of a
railroad steelworker, and its
support found resolution in a
hidden crossbrace of steel rods.