In collaboration with Professor Marescaux, a specialist in minimally invasive surgery and founder of the Institut de recherche contre les cancers de l'appareil digestif (IRCAD), he imagined "an exploratory journey to the heart of the object". In other words, a monolithic bench with a thin skin and a volume dotted with a multitude of ribs and bridges to ensure its rigidity. Thanks to an endoscopic camera, we are able to get to the heart of the internal structure of this visually economical bench, which turns out to be far more complex than its outer shell would suggest.
Patrick Jouin was inspired by the efficiency of nature and its ability to generate simple forms such as the curvature of a bone or the stalk of an ear of wheat.
