Olive

How did you go about starting such an ambitious project?

Brian Mastriano: The first question I asked myself was how could I push my own limits of manufacturing and what's possible on a CNC and combining that with Grasshopper and 3d printing and woodworking. I came out to a solution that combines the three of them and pushes my limits, and really the limits of the CNC, of what could be possible.

Olive changed a lot through the process, how did you land on the final design?

BM: Through iterations and talking with people, I found out that it was the shape of my project that was the most intriguing, so I wanted to highlight that the most, and I scaled it up and changed the material from an easily printable plastic to a CNC wood, which was a lot more visually stimulating upon first glance.

How would you like to further develop Olive?

BM: I'd love to streamline the manufacturing process, make it seem a lot more cohesive, and produced in larger batches. As well as experiment with different materials, different finishes, and see different ways that you could stretch the shape.