Glass II
Glass II is the architectural-scale premiere of molten glass 3D printing — three 10-foot, self-supporting glass columns, exhibited at Triennale Milano during Milan Design Week 2017 and reinstalled at the Museum of Modern Art in 2020 as part of Neri Oxman: Material Ecology. Six point lights inside each column travel its length, turning the space into a kaleidoscopic display of light and shadow — the projected patterns formed through physical computation between light source and glass geometry.
An expanded team of glassmakers, computational designers, machine builders, and architects redesigned the printing platform — G3DP2 — bringing scale and repeatability to the process. Each column was printed as fifteen unique components with continually morphing cross-sections along its length, accounting for the continuous gradient of self-loading stress, then bound by a steel tension rod and compression plates so that each column acts as a monolithic glass form.
Printed on G3DP2 — the redesigned MIT platform that brought scale and repeatability: digitally integrated thermal control, four-axis motion, architectural components.