About

AIM Lab works at the intersection of engineering and craft. The same structures we model, simulate, and test are also objects: they fold, deploy, and reconfigure with a physical logic that is as much visual as it is mechanical.

This side of the studio collects that visual record: prototypes, fabrication experiments, deployment sequences, and the materials themselves. Where the research pages explain how and why our structures behave as they do, the gallery is about how they look and move.

Making is not an afterthought to the science. Many of our results began as objects that misbehaved in the hands before they were understood on paper, and working alongside artists and craftspeople, most recently the weaver Alison Martin, keeps that conversation going in both directions. The pieces shown here are made slowly, by hand, from precisely computed parts, and each one taught us something the equations had not.