BeeGraphy Computational Design Awards '26

This challenge invites designers to explore parametric decor objects as sculptural yet stable elements within a refined interior context. The brief is set in a Manhattan penthouse on West 57th Street, New York - where minimalism, scale, and visual balance are central -the brief focuses on designing a decor artifact intended for display on a floating shelf.

Rather than creating a single fixed sculpture, participants are asked to develop a parametric decor system that maintains visual equilibrium and compositional clarity as proportions, scale, and form change. The emphasis is on controlled variation, stability, and balance, ensuring each configuration feels intentional and shelf-appropriate.

 

Algorithmic hyperbolic surface grid in colour-shift finish - Hyperbolic Surface Grid by LYLELONDON

 

Your Task

Design one parametric decor artifact intended for display on a shelf, where changes in proportion and form are governed by clear parametric logic. The system should maintain visual balance and perceived stability, control mass distribution, and generate multiple composed variations from a single underlying system - ensuring each outcome feels intentional, shelf-appropriate, and visually resolved.

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The decor artifact must remain visually stable and shelf-appropriate across all variations, with a height of 250–450 mm and a maximum footprint of 200 × 200 mm.

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What We’re Looking For?

We are looking for calm, grounded decor systems that demonstrate visual stability and compositional clarity across variations. Submissions should preserve a strong sculptural identity while adapting gracefully to changes in proportion, maintaining balance without introducing visual noise. The object should feel intentional and refined in every configuration, showing how parametric control can support stability, identity, and shelf-appropriate design across different interior contexts.

Design Criteria

Submissions will be evaluated based on:

• Strong sense of balance and compositional clarity

• One coherent parametric system demonstrated through variation

• Geometry suitable for fabrication as a decor object

• Clean and readable parameter organization

• Use of BeeGraphy to control, preview, and evaluate balance across variations

 

Examples to Inspire

Fluid sculptural form defined by rhythmic fins and continuous motion - Becoming by KEN KELLEHER

Layered parametric vase exploring light and form - Kaleidoscope Vase by Studio HAV

 

Precision-controlled arc geometry defining sculptural form - WING SCULPTURE

 

These are references - not limits.

 

What to avoid?

• Forms that become unstable when scaled
   
• Overly complex geometry that disrupts visual balance