About the Project
Seed of Life is a large-scale sacred geometry steel sculpture designed, engineered and fabricated for a private residence in Mikhmoret, Israel. Five meters wide, the installation transforms the two-dimensional Seed of Life pattern into a precise three-dimensional architectural object made from curved and welded steel tube.
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The Seed of Life is created through the repetition and intersection of circles. On paper, the geometry appears effortless. At architectural scale, every curve, intersection and connection has to become a real piece of material with thickness, tolerances, welds and physical limitations.
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It took nearly a full year of development, testing, 3D modeling and redesign to find a fabrication method capable of translating the geometry accurately into steel.
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One of the main challenges was producing the structure from pre-bent two-inch steel pipes. Each curved pipe had to be divided into precisely calculated components and cut at the correct position and angle. Even a small error repeated through the pattern could gradually distort the entire five-meter geometry.
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Instead of treating every component as an individual measurement problem, I designed a universal hexagonal fabrication jig specifically for the project.
The jig became the geometric reference for the entire build.
Using only ten jigs, I could establish consistent reference points throughout the fabrication process, position the pre-bent pipes accurately and reproduce the complex intersections required by the geometry.
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The fabrication process became almost rhythmic:
place · align · cut · clamp · weld
A custom measuring system mounted directly onto the jig allowed each pipe to be cut in position using a circular saw, maintaining the relationship between the physical steel and the original digital geometry.
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I divided the installation into seven main structural sections: one central core and six surrounding frames. Each section could be fabricated independently while remaining part of the same geometric system. The completed sections were transported to the private residence in Mikhmoret, positioned on site and welded together into one continuous structure.
Once assembled, the fabrication logic disappears.
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The jigs, measurements, cuts, separate frames and hundreds of decisions made during construction dissolve into a single coherent geometry.
Finished in a crisp architectural white, the sculpture changes continuously with viewpoint, sunlight and shadow. From some positions, individual circles can be clearly read. From others, they overlap into a dense network of curved lines.
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The shadows create another version of the geometry on the surrounding surfaces, allowing the pattern to extend beyond the steel itself.
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For me, Seed of Life became an exploration of the relationship between sacred geometry, computational design and physical fabrication.
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The technical challenge was to resolve all of those constraints without allowing them to dominate the finished object.
In the end, the engineering becomes almost invisible.
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Only the geometry remains.
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Role
Concept Design · Structural Development · Fabrication System Design · Fabrication · Installation
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Overall Size
5 m wide