CELLULAR
CELLULAR explores how complex structures can emerge from a simple set of rules.
Inspired by the efficiency of biological systems, the project uses computational design to develop a family of cellular forms in which structure, material and surface become a single continuous geometry.
Scope
Computational Design / Additive Manufacturing
Project
YL-EX / 001
Year
2026
FORM THROUGH PROCESS
What if the process could discover the form?
Rather than beginning with a predetermined object, CELLULAR begins with relationships—between mass and void, compression and openness, repetition and variation.
Geometry is generated, evaluated and refined through iteration. As material is removed, interconnected ribs and openings emerge, creating structures that appear organic while remaining governed by an underlying system.
DIGITAL MODEL
The selected geometry is translated into a continuous three-dimensional structure and refined at
multiple scales
.
Large openings establish the overall architecture. Smaller transitions resolve intersections, distribute material and define the character of the surface.
What appears irregular at first reveals an ordered internal logic.
SCALE + VARIATION
One system. Many outcomes.
Changing a small number of parameters allows the same underlying design language to become compact, elongated, twisted, dense or open.
This makes CELLULAR less a single object than a method for generating objects.
The system can respond to different dimensions, loads, materials and applications without losing its identity.
APPLICATION
From object to system.
The same cellular logic can move beyond a singular study into furniture, architectural components, structural systems, product enclosures and other applications where material distribution, weight and form can be considered together.
Scale changes.
The rules remain.
