Waterlily
A cube carved into the geometry of Victoria amazonica. A form study about where the rigid ends and the organic begins.
- my part
- Designer
- when
- March 2020
- context
- Nirma University, Bachelor of Design, course Elements of Form and Spaces - 3D
- status
- Archived
A form study for the Nirma course Elements of Form and Spaces - 3D, in March 2020. Start from a cube. Study how a giant water lily floats, how its sepals and petals are ordered, how load spreads across the pad. Then subtract material until the cube starts to behave like the plant without losing its origin.
I sketched the lily opening over three days, drew its form in two dimensions to study balance, rhythm and harmony, and explored the cube in thermocol models before settling on a final form. The final form is balanced on three points, with three sepals around smaller cuboids that stand for the anther, all derived from a cube. I photographed it beside real lilies.
It is early work from a course, and the constraint was the course’s: derive the form from a cube.
