A tall, abstract wooden sculpture made of stacked modular rectangular blocks with circular cut-outs stands outdoors. Pink smoke surrounds the sustainable timber construction as sunlight shines through, casting shadows on the ground.

A man in a blue shirt and brown boots climbs a tall timber construction made of stacked spruce plywood boxes with circular cut-outs, outdoors on a sunny day with brick buildings in the background.

A tall sculpture made of large, modular plywood blocks stacked in an abstract, geometric shape stands outdoors on a rooftop, enveloped in a soft haze with buildings visible in the background.

A group of large, light plywood boxes is stacked in an abstract arrangement on a rooftop, with orange smoke billowing behind them and buildings visible in the background under a clear sky.

Two people assemble modular plywood blocks with cut-out holes on a rooftop, framed by brick buildings in the background on a sunny day.

Vyner Zine

On a small industrial street in East London, strange things are happening up at roof level.

A plume of pink smoke appears above the warehouse building occupied by U-Build and Studio Bark and when it clears, a strange wooden creature can be seen rearing its head above the parapet.

These are not the deranged dreams of a drunken Hackney reveller, but are behind the scenes pictures from a photoshoot with portrait photographer Vincent Dolman. He is capturing snapshots of the inhabitants of Vyner Street for a special zine, launched at the Victory Pub on Vyner aimed at bringing the community together.

The amorphous series of sculptures in the photographs were designed and assembled by U-Build and existed on the rooftop for one day only, before being deconstructed and reused in a subsequent project.

The sculpture is created from the 600 x 300 x 300mm ‘stage boxes’ which have almost limitless configurations. The smoke is a nod to these boxes’ colourful history, used as crowdfunded modular protest architecture by various activist organisations.