Concept

There are materials in this world that do not merely reflect light or sound but seem to remember them—materials encoded with a logic akin to the laws that govern all living things. Glass, in its molten state, hovers between liquid and solid, its geometry mutable—a body without final form. It is not merely shaped; it becomes. It stretches, warps, blossoms, branches. In its slow choreography of cooling, we glimpse not a fixed artifact, but a quiet alchemy still in motion. My glass works are experiments in material agency and conceptual provocations—objects that inhabit the fold of meaning and matter. Each one proposes an alternative architectural logic, where buildings might branch like vascular systems, accrete like coral, or metamorphose like blooming gardens. This is more than material practice—it is a cosmology. A vision of animate urbanism, where structures are no longer static monuments but dynamic organisms: interconnected, intelligent, and perpetually transforming. In the City of Glass Balloons, form is breath, not boundary. Architecture becomes rhythm, atmosphere, and floating species—a climate tuned to consciousness. It listens, levitates, and evolves.

 

Material Research

Our research explores glass’s paradoxical nature through asymmetrical vessels shaped by a custom corseting system—tensile cables arranged in a diagrid that guide molten glass’s growth. This dynamic interplay of precise constraints and material unpredictability creates forms both designed and discovered. By treating glass as an active collaborator, we shift from control to dialogue, enabling emergent morphologies that reflect a hybrid authorship between maker and material, revealing glass’s inner agency.