Dan McCurley

Modular Zen Garden

Tags
Making & Fabrication, Interaction & Experience Design

A less messy zen garden made of 3D printed blocks and organic shapes. Each block contains two patterns – straight lines and a corner – which allow for infinite combinations and patterns. I retrofitted the blocks to the wooden tray and learned a lot about 3D printer settings and tolerances.

Modeled in Cinema 4D and printed in PLA on the Bambu X1C.

A walnut tray filled with ridged 3D-printed tiles holding a blue stone, a black stone and a green textured stone, set on mulch in a garden bed
The empty tray of ridged tiles arranged in nested rectangles, with a black stone and yellow printed parts nearby
Top-down view of the zen garden: concentric ridged tiles with a small black stone, a green textured stone and a large blue stone in a row
Top-down view of the zen garden on a blue surface with a large blue stone, a green textured stone and a small black stone
Angled view of the zen garden showing the raised ridges of the tiles around the three stones