Shaobo Liu
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A Dialogue Between Line and Arc: A Study in Structural Harmony
Individual Project
Timeline: 4/2/2025 - 5/22/2025
Scale: 48” x 20” x 18” inches/ 1219 x 508 x 457 mm
Material: Maple, Bendy Ply, Purple heart, Black Walnut
This project began with nothing more than a piece of cardboard and a halved paper tube—materials I arranged and rearranged until form began to speak. It was part of a class called Full Scale, where we were challenged to design through making. Instead of sketching first, I learned by pushing physical boundaries, feeling balance, tension, and proportion directly with my hands. From those early gestures emerged a coffee table—a study in contrast and cohesion between a single arc and a clean structural line. It’s a piece born not from a screen, but from spatial intuition and tactile play.