-Intention- 
by Will Buchanan from Oakland, CA

Artist description from iBurn:

Intention is an immersive and interactive tensegrity structure that treads the intersections of art, engineering, and science. The sculpture disrupts the horizon as a form of jumbled symmetry, six struts held together purely in tension and compression, seemingly weaving through thin air.

From the human body down through the cellular level, we are tensegrities ourselves. The form of the structure is inspired by Donald Ingber’s research on eukaryotic cell construction and biomechanics. A complex network of tensioned filaments connect the struts, with a nucleus suspended inside that is the mathematical DNA of the tensegrity. At night it comes alive as a structural data visualization and beacon.

Intention explores the fundamental building blocks of our bodies by allowing the participant to immerse themselves within the responsive architecture of a nucleated tensegrity structure.