Rob Bell is a San Francisco-based artist, designer, and professional software engineer who started a company called Zomadic. It is a design/build company focussing on CNC technology’s creative use. In other words, it is a long time goal for Bell to combine his skills as a programmer with his desire to create concrete objects. So in 2001, he started to take lessons and create his first geometric works, followed by other non-rectilinear geometric designs. Built in 2013 in Nevada, the Zonohedral Cathedral is one of Bell’s Zomadic structures.
The Zonohedral Cathedral or the Zomphalo is actually a sacred altar for bees.
The cathedral consists of three “spiralohedral” chambers each of which includes 3-D printed organic, hive-like structures as a source of light. One can also see real bees preserved in amber jewels surrounding the honeycomb panels.
