Zi Studio
Zi Studio
Zi Studio is an archive of multi-disciplinary exploration and experimentation by Zijun Zhao(赵梓俊).
Zi Studio explores the shifting relationships between space, objects, and people, tracing how they are formed, disrupted, and reimagined through everyday practices.
Zi Studio understands making as thinking, and design as questioning. Working across furniture, zines, photography, and installations, projects unfold through making, placing, using, and revisiting objects within everyday spaces.
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Ming Hoop
Category: Sculpture, Crafts
Measures: 20 × 12 × 12 in
Mediums: Burmese rosewood，Golden nanmu
Year: 2024This work grew out of my study of traditional Ming-style furniture making. While learning panel construction techniques used in tabletops to control wood movement, as well as circular joinery found in round-back chairs and drum stools, I became aware of a recurring structural rhythm. As a hooper, the circular logic of these joints immediately resonated with the form of a basketball hoop. The backboard is constructed through layered panel joinery, nested together and held in tension with curved joints to form the hoop. For me, making is not only a means of production but a way of thinking. Daily work with chisels, saws, and planes shapes how ideas emerge, allowing form to grow through the act of making itself.
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