IvanVoo

The lab

Process, offcuts, and things
that aren't finished yet.

No case-study framing here — just the plastics, material tests and sketches that happen alongside the finished work. Most of this never becomes a project. It's the part that decides what the projects can be.

  • Material process photograph from the Shio fabrication sequence.
  • Material process photograph from the Shio fabrication sequence.
  • Material process photograph from the Shio fabrication sequence.
  • CAD and hand exploration — bench joint iterations
    CAD and hand exploration — bench joint iterations
  • Material process photograph from the Shio fabrication sequence.
  • Material process photograph from the Shio fabrication sequence.
  • Material process photograph from the Shio fabrication sequence.
  • Pressed sheet — crushed shell suspended in recycled HDPE
    Pressed sheet — crushed shell suspended in recycled HDPE
  • Material process photograph from the Shio fabrication sequence.
  • Material process photograph from the Shio fabrication sequence.
  • Material process photograph from the Shio fabrication sequence.

The lab is where the oyster-shell composite stopped being an idea and started being a material with opinions — about heat, about warping, about how much shell it would take before it stopped holding together.

See where it ended up