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Apollo (Hydra, Greece)

VR Spatial Design, Digital Sculpture & Color Development

Sun sculpture in the Apollo installation, Hydra, Greece
 

For Jeff Koons’s Apollo installation on Hydra, I brought together full-scale VR planning, digital sculpture and color development to resolve the work before fabrication.

Color development

Led color development for Apollo and designed color and pattern maps for the walls and floor, using VR to review the palette across the installation.

Apollo Figure — Color Development & Contextual Integration Color development and surface refinement informed by spatial lighting, sightlines

Apollo Figure — Color Development & Contextual Integration

Color development and surface refinement informed by spatial lighting, sightlines, and viewer approach modeled in VR

VR planning

Led a 1:1 virtual environment to test scale, sightlines, lighting and installation constraints.

VR Spatial Pre-Development 1:1 virtual build used to design, test, and refine the full installation layout prior to fabrication and on-site

VR Spatial Pre-Development

1:1 virtual build used to design, test, and refine the full installation layout prior to fabrication and on-site assembly

Digital sculpture

Sculpted the Wind Spinner and developed supporting elements for fabrication and installation.

Wind Spinner — Digital Sculpture & Fabrication Digitally designed and engineered for fabrication, balancing motion, scale, and structural co

Wind Spinner — Digital Sculpture & Fabrication

Digitally designed and engineered for fabrication, balancing motion, scale, and structural constraints

Bouquet of Tulips (Paris)

Project Lead, Color Development & International Fabrication

Bouquet of Tulips sculpture, Paris

Project lead for 3D model refinement and color development on Jeff Koons’s Bouquet of Tulips in Paris, connecting digital review with international fabrication.

Bouquet of Tulips, Paris — sculpture detail
Bouquet of Tulips · Paris

3D model refinement

Refined high-resolution scan data into optimized meshes for efficient design iteration.

Spatial layout

Built a flexible digital layout system to reposition the balloon forms while preserving scale and proportion.

Color development

Developed color maps and fabrication references to carry the approved digital palette into the finished sculpture.

Corks Couple

Digital pre-production & color development

Corks Couple displayed in a street-facing window
Installation view
Corks Couple — sculpture view
Sculpture view

BMW M850i xDrive Gran Coupé

Surface graphics mapping & digital pre-production

BMW M850i xDrive Gran Coupé — surface graphics mapping