Searching for inspiration, I decided to finish a few books I had begun several weeks ago. One of them, "Future Wood", written by international designers, manufacturers and researchers, examines wood technologies, Composite materials, parametric design, automated fabrication technologies, custom manufacturing and advanced assembly methods. This became quite inspirational, not only because I discovered several of the authors were once University of Michigan professors of Architecture and one still is, but also because the projects were so very well outline and developed. With this in mind, I began to think of particular technologies I'd like to work with and what material I find fascinating, as a result I developed a new design for one of the pieces in my series.

I have not yet finished a rendering as the the evolution of this design is developed through research based findings. To further this research I have scheduled an appointment with a local glass artist at Barron Glassworks to discuss the feasibility of this project since it requires either kiln cast glass or cast acrylic.