Eurban is a UK-based architectural practice at the cutting edge of timber construction who exclusively use cross-laminated timber (CLT) to create sustainable, high-performance buildings. Eurban wanted to celebrate their 10th year anniversary by putting on a show featuring 10 of their most innovative builds at a scale of 1 to 1.

Two books titled Work and Built were produced to coincide with the exhibition. Work catalogued each build with technical drawings, black and white imagery and essays. The layout was inspired by building from the ground up. Text flowed around images and the content was always anchored to the bottom of the grid. Built was a visual diary, featuring full colour images of construction and timber. However, in contrast to Work, the content was anchored to the top of the grid, except for black and white images which were anchored to the bottom.

A 1cm thick spruce board was screenprinted with a technical breakdown of it’s properties as well as the specifications of cross laminated technology – then sandwiched and shrink wrapped between the two books.

The brief for the show set by Eurban’s team was clear. They wanted a straight forward, clean and functional design that did not detract the audience from what was being exhibited. The walls and plinths were painted black, allowing the imagery and 1 to 1 replica models to have as much precedence as possible. Typography was used to set a clean baseline across the exhibition space.