showing strains Bamboo and fabric. December 2025

We had a blast exploring geometry at the AAG workshop these last two days, building many flexible structures with intricate topologies and surprising transformability from simple flexible ribbon elements. Thanks to @alisonmartin57.bsky.social , Seiichi Suzuki, Yuanpeng Liu, Hong-Bin Yang.

Understanding geometry through model making

Joint initiative -Centro De Giorgi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa), Università di Pisa and SISSA (Trieste) revisiting 2 centuries of research in mathematics, mechanics, engineering and biophysics on concepts of shape in biology and engineering. indico.sns.it/event/122/

MOFs Dresden, 2022. Building networks with Omar Yaghi.

At the 2022 #MOFs conference with this year’s #chemistry #Nobel prize winner - Omar Yaghi. Many congratulations!! It was a wonderful experience and a great inspiration to talk to him about this work.

entangled weaving pattern workout

3D weaving like a #gyroid

Digital Craft Lab California College of the Arts / Berkeley Architecture - Zoom presentation “Bamboo Tectonics” Thursday, September 11 at 12:30 PST Organised by Dr. Negar Kalantar 🙏

Join us at AAG this November in Boston for a workshop on elastic gridshells! Together with @alisonmartin57.bsky.social, Seiichi Suzuki, and Yuanpeng Liu, we will study new typologies of gridshells composed of discrete, reusable elements. More info on the workshop: www.aag2025.com/workshop-2

‘Beyond Continuity. Designing elastic gridshells with discrete reusable elements. Advances in Architectural Geometry 2025. At Massachusetts Institute of Technology 16 - 19 November. With Seiichi Suzuki and @markpauly.bsky.social

Space filling tiling with right-angled hexagons. #gyroid puzzle progress

Puzzling hard in a heatwave

Patchwork of non-stretch fabric pieces. Embroidered organza on bamboo frame

Off to Bridges, Eindhoven. www.bridgesmathart.org/b2025/bridge...

Our most recent BamX installation was featured on Swiss TV: www.rts.ch/play/tv/12h4... Info: bamx.epfl.ch BamX Saugettes is a pioneering urban greening initiative commissioned by the City of Lausanne to introduce vegetation into the dense, concrete-dominated environment of Place de Saugettes.

Helices interwoven within 3D network of pentagons

Gyroid puzzle pieces - 60° angle saddle ‘squares’ with 4 edge colours.

taking deep breaths in Sardegna

Duomo di Siena. Floor, starry ceiling and frescoes

Led by @markpauly.bsky.social Bigger, better BamX structure!!Place des Saugettes Gare de Lausanne.

Partitioning space #minimal #surface #studies

‘If our paths should cross’ Private commission, 2025. #bamboo and fabric.

Hyperbolic surfaces - basket maker’s take. Planar Enneper’s dihedral symmetry D3 #minimalsurfaces 3-fold #symmetry

Planar Enneper surface - a dressmaker’s take. Outer circumference of fabric -150cm. Inner circumference - 225cm.

meditation time - splitting bamboo #opinel

put a kink in it

spiral spring thing

Experimenting soft tiling in 3D

working it out in paper #gyroid pattern practice

Flat pack / pop-up #bamboo for Origami Bridging Art and Science universal.origami.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/events/origa...

A short teaser of our upcoming book preprint #Gestaltungsmetrik with art historian Horst Bredekamp wherein we attempt to define #holonomy in art, to imagine pot. underlying metric spaces. Thank you so much for the collab. on ribbon-based geodesics @alisonmartin57.bsky.social !

en route for matters-of-activity.de @palmalab.bsky.social

Cone wrapping #geodesics

torus turns

lattice of revolution #torus

Surface mechanisms #kinematics

space partition

2020, Fivizzano.

geometria con la pizza 🍕

Curved paper #gyroid test

gyroid purists should look away now #cutandpaste #curved #paper #version #gyroid #geometry

Curved paper - tailoring paper patches / patchwork

weaving negative curvature

Studies for illustrations of work by @palmalab.bsky.social

Work with Geometry Computing Lab. EPFL.