© 2022 Daisy Ziyan Zhang
SPINES
Sculpture; at MIT , 2019Acquired by MIT Museum as permanent collection
It’s a confusing object.
Originally evolved from a simple tetrahedron, this object is deliberately designed to present contrast readings from different angles, inviting the viewer to touch, rotate, and observe. It is a geometric exploration for a hyperbolic paraboloid composed with straight lines and discritized planar surfaces. The “spine” is an edge condition where the doubly curved surfaces collide into each other, investigated at three phases, each playing with different resolution to resolve the collision.
I. Surface
II. Discretization
III. Conceptual Detail of Joinery
Special thanks to instructor J Jih