The missing link

So how did we come to go from a large steel structure to these street hoops? Mike has already outlined some of our eventful Monday meeting with the guys from Studio AR, but this really all came about from some sketches we'd put together. (My post last week about them being key was right!) These sketches are shown below and are what made us realise that the structure was really two parts - a vertical support and a mechanism for holding the hoop and board. If we substitued building a vertical support for using existing vertical supports, eg lampposts or even trees, then all we would need is a neat bit of structural design to attach the board to these.

Simple, playful, innovative and meaningful.