Beyond-Disciplines :: ZM
Long Term Projects
BeingAliveLanguage

BeingAliveLanguage

2022 – now

A grasshopper plugin for drawing diagrams about living systems.

IG-Mesh

IG-Mesh

2021 – now

A grasshopper plugin for low-level and advanced mesh processing.

Stress Line Applications

Stress Line Applications

2019 – now

A collection of research that utilize structural stress lines.

Completed Projects
Robotic Clay Sculpting

Robotic Clay Sculpting

2019 – 2021

Stylised and artist-directed clay sculpting using robot arms.

KinetiX

KinetiX

2018 – 2019

Auxetic-inspired material design for shape transformation.

Marnas

Marnas

2017

A Journey through Space, Time, and Ideas.

FrameForm

FrameForm

2017 – 2019

Design and optimization for robotically constructed rebar structures.

Anachronistic Library

Anachronistic Library

2014

A set of conceptural library as an anachronistic response to...

Singing Cave, 2014

Singing Cave, 2014

2014

A roof over Lechmere station, for now and future.

Phantom Sphere

Phantom Sphere

2013

The space becomes divided but not divided, united but not united, expected and unexpected, through the sphere’s making sense out of nonsense.

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