Réseau de surfaces is a fundamental research on form.

It is oftenly said that designers give shape to ideas through projects. Pro-jecting, etymologically “throwing forward”, implies that ideas take precedence over form. By creating 16 abstract cardboard volumes I sought to shift this way of thinking.

This study that sets aside any consideration of functionality, context, or innovation. Abstraction allows me to focus on geometry and to explore fundamental questions in object design : how to connect a plane and a cylinder, a curved surface and a plane, two planes to each other, and so on…

These volumes are produced in the same way as in 3D surface modeling software such as Rhinoceros. Simple structures made from found materials make it possible to position points and edges in space, and a skin of kraft tape then forms the overall volume.

These latent, unassigned forms suggest potential uses and invite translations into other materials.

At this stage, these abstract volumes gave raise to a TABLE, a TABOURET and a small heavy object that I called POIDS.