Cutting
The first edge establishes every later error. Kerf, heat and grain direction are accounted for before the tool starts.
Djuppe
Metal, given intent
Engineered by force. Finished by instinct.
Objects, structures and sculptural experiments fabricated in metal.
01 / Selected works
Built to resist certainty.
Structures, instruments, furniture, and singular objects. Each begins as a practical question and ends when the material carries its own authority.
Bronze bearing assembly and machined fastener
Narrow study / movement
Weight of Air
A slow instrument moved by pressure changes too small to notice. The mechanics remain exposed, but nothing moves without a reason.
W–029 · 2025
Copenhagen, DK
Bronze and stainless, tuned until the movement almost disappears.
Exposed site / sound
Quinta Mira Rio
A stage angled off the river so the sunset falls behind it, in the crowd's line of sight.
ObjectW–042
Year2026
LocationMonte da Caparica, PT
StatusIn use
A blued steel mechanism in a pool of cool light
Mechanical object / slow cycle
The Quiet Machine
A machine that performs one precise movement with no useful outcome. Backlash, vibration and sound were reduced until the remaining action felt inevitable.
W–007 · 2023
Lisbon, PT
Blued steel turning slowly toward no particular purpose.
02 / Material intelligence
Metal remembers every decision.
Folding
Metal resists, then remembers. Bend allowance is calculated; springback is learned from the actual sheet.
Welding
A joint is also a heat event. Sequence controls distortion, penetration, colour and what must remain visible.
Grinding
Removal is irreversible. The hand follows the plane without erasing the evidence that gives it scale.
Heating
Temperature becomes both tool and finish: correcting a radius, releasing stress, writing colour into stainless steel.
Joining
Bolts, pins, welds and interference fits are chosen for assembly, transport, repair and the life of the object.
Balancing
Weight is moved through a structure until effort disappears. Apparent impossibility depends on precise force paths.
Finishing
A surface is not cosmetic. It determines touch, reflection, weathering, maintenance and how the form occupies light.
03 / Process
Form is the last decision.
The workshop does not move cleanly from idea to object. It measures, pushes, discovers the weak assumption, and returns with better information.
- 01Constraint
- 02Drawing
- 03Force
- 04Fabrication
- 05Failure
- 06Revision
- 07Form
DjuppeWorkshop / Lisbon
04 / Djuppe
The hand knows what the drawing cannot.
Djuppe works between engineering, industrial design, metal fabrication and contemporary sculpture. Each object starts with a load, a tolerance or a stubborn piece of material.
The workshop is a place for full-scale thinking: cut, tack, test, fail, revise. The finished work keeps evidence of that negotiation—heat at an edge, a seam held under tension, weight made unexpectedly quiet.
05 / Fields of practice
Workshop range.
From first load path to final surface. The scale changes; the requirement for structural honesty does not.
Sculptural fabrication
Steel, stainless, aluminium and mixed metals
Structural prototyping
Full-scale proof before assumption
Custom metal objects
Singular forms, made for a particular place
Furniture / functional sculpture
Load-bearing objects with a second life
Installation engineering
Anchoring, transport, assembly and site logic
Kinetic / mechanical systems
Movement with visible consequence
One-off commissions
Direct development from sketch to object
Design development
Drawing, modelling, mock-up and refinement
Technical problem solving
The useful work before fabrication begins
06 / Start a conversation