Tangram Room (2024) – Marble Resin and Tangram Reinterpretation

The bathroom surfaces of the Tangram Room are constructed in marble resin, a composite material consisting of quartz and pigmented resins, produced by mold casting. Quartz, one of the most abundant minerals in nature, provides structural density and chromatic depth.

The specific color composition of the marble resin was developed exclusively for the Byblos Art Hotel by Stone Italiana, following detailed directions from Beatriz Millar.

From the marble resin slabs, geometric elements were cut and assembled into Tangram configurations. The Tangram is a traditional Chinese dissection puzzle made up of seven flat shapes—known as tan—that together form a square. In its classical structure, the seven tan consist of two large right triangles, one medium right triangle, two small triangles, one square, and one parallelogram.

Within the Tangram Room, however, the number of elements does not consistently adhere to the canonical seven. The installation represents a reinterpretation rather than a replication: a free variation on the Tangram principle, adapting the geometric logic to spatial design.