Buildinga Zome.
A personal experiment in translating geometry into a physical place—and in making something with no brief beyond curiosity.
This is not a client project, a product launch, or a line item on my résumé. It is something I wanted to understand by building.
From geometry to place
What interested me was the translation: a geometric idea becoming a collection of physical decisions, and then becoming a place you can step inside.
The finished form feels both deliberate and a little surprising. Repetition creates the rhythm, while every piece depends on the neighboring pieces around it.
Systems, in a different register
Most of my work lives in software, knowledge, and operations. Building the Zome exercised the same instinct in a physical register. A piece cannot be treated in isolation; small choices propagate, sequence matters, and the whole becomes coherent only when the relationships are right.
Room for work that needs no pitch
There is a particular satisfaction in making something that does not need to become a company, prove a market, or earn a line on a roadmap. It can be useful in another way: by sharpening attention, inviting curiosity, and making an ordinary corner of the garden feel newly considered.
Field Notes is where those projects belong—the things I make, study, or follow because they keep me awake to the world beyond my work.
Inside the Zome
Where the geometry becomes a room.
From inside, the repeating structure is no longer an exterior pattern. It becomes the room itself—holding light, openings, plants, and the ordinary rituals that make a space feel inhabited.
Field notes
Curiosity, made tangible.
Personal experiments sit alongside my professional work here, because both begin with the same impulse: look closely, understand the system, and make the idea real.