Baadal is the result of Rhizome's exploration of the meeting point between craft, computational design, and sustainable materials. Inspired by the shifting form of clouds, the installation was conceived through digital modelling and realised entirely by hand.
Each bamboo slat is individually hand-bent and bound with rattan before becoming part of the larger whole. While Baadal can exist as a singular sculptural light, it was designed as a modular system. Multiple forms can be composed into expansive cloudscapes, allowing installations to grow in scale while retaining the lightness and fluidity of a single cloud.
The work reflects Rhizome's belief that digital tools and craftsmanship are not opposing forces, but complementary ways of making—where computation defines the form, and the hand gives it material expression.