“Our goal was to make the thinnest surface possible and to make a vault, which you would expect to be heavy, into a light and porous surface,” Iwamoto explains. The material of choice: paperwood. Since this was the first time IwamotoScott used the material on such a large scale, they worked with a structural engineer to make the piece, made up of modules with curved edges that nest together, self-supporting. Photo 2 of 12 in Cut it Out: The Work of Lisa Iwamoto by Joanne Furio

Cut it Out: The Work of Lisa Iwamoto

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“Our goal was to make the thinnest surface possible and to make a vault, which you would expect to be heavy, into a light and porous surface,” Iwamoto explains. The material of choice: paperwood. Since this was the first time IwamotoScott used the material on such a large scale, they worked with a structural engineer to make the piece, made up of modules with curved edges that nest together, self-supporting.