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/20240912/ _ work [urban data mining]
tag: [work] [phygital] [digi]
classification: 2024 Digerati Emergent Media Festival
location: Daniels & Fisher Clocktower Denver Colorado US

team: Jack Wasielewski & Tyler Lehmann

Urban Data Mining is a projection-mapping public art project that digitally reconstructs Denver’s historic Daniels & Fisher Tower as a tagged dataset of 76,484 components. By framing deconstruction as design, the project proposes an urban mining database that reimagines heritage preservation and architectural upcycling...
/20240427/ _ work [urban encounter] tag: [work] [phygital] [digi]
classification: Nanshan Digital Public Art Program
location: Overseas Chinese Town Shenzhen China

collaborator: Haotian Zhang & Tianying Li

Shenzhen’s architecture reflects cultural convergence. Architectural fragments are processed with artificial intelligence to form a site-specific house for the “Shenzhen” typographic installation...
/20240112/ _ work [timeslicer] tag: [work] [automavision] [phygital] [digi]
classification: autostereoscopic 3D LED display
location: Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu China

collaborator: FlintArt

TimeSlicer digitally reconstructs a local temple at the moment of its disappearance, documenting both the architecture and the temporary systems that shape its construction and removal. Presented on an autostereoscopic 3D LED screen, the work slices through time and structure to preserve the memory of a vanishing urban site...
/20230815/ _ work [i see the green light] tag: [work] [automavision] [phygital] [phys]
classification: Nero Chenxuan He Solo Exhibition
location: Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art Chongqing China
curator: Jingbo Huang

This installation reimagines scaffolding as a human–machine collaborative system within a custom gaming interface, functioning as a drawing machine for nonlinear co-design. Digital cameras and shadowless projections establish visual feedback loops, where continuous calibration transforms projection instability into an evolving spatial dialogue between human and machine...
/20221031/ _ work [garden of phygitality] tag: [work] [phygital] [digi]
classification: autostereoscopic 3D LED display
location: Harajuku Tokyo Japan

team: Ellwood Chen & Austin Lightle

The LED displays use optical illusion to create depth, often attempting to dissolve the screen into its surroundings. The garden, instead highlights the tension between physical presence and digital mediation, treating the screen as an active site of phygital interaction...
/20221011/ _ work [bimbo disaster] tag: [work] [phygital] [digi]
classification: TUNICA Magazine Issue No.8 “Reloaded”
collaborator: TUNICA Magazine & Kate Biel



Commissioned by TUNICA Magazine in collaboration with photographer Kate Biel, this project constructs digital environments using 3D-scanned objects as spatial nests for the model. The series reflects on contemporary bimbo culture while foregrounding phygital knitwear materials, simulated strand by strand according to real-world knitting processes...

/20220901/ _ work [concealed]
tag: [work] [phygital] [digi]
classification: 12th International Fiberart Biennale
location: Yunnan Provicnal Museum Yunnan China
collaborator: Fanglu Lin

team: Yibo Yuan

This installation develops new phygital fabrication techniques to disassemble and reconfigure materials typically governed by standardized fabrication workflows. The project questions material conformity and reveals alternative behaviors embedded within industrial systems...
/20220525/ _ work [force fit]
tag: [work] [automavision] [phygital] [digi]
classification: Capri 22 international workshop
location: Capri Italy
organizer: Aaron Betsky & Francesco Delogu

Force Fit is a landscape-based game that allows participants to construct a speculative Capri by placing pre-made modules that gradually accumulate into structures and objects. Each module incorporates narrow roads, sharp turns, stone walls, roofs, and residential façades, reflecting existing spatial conditions while revealing the logics that assemble Capri’s landscape...
/20220427/ _ metarial lab [stir the pot]
tag: [work] [phygital] [digi]
classification: 2022 Virginia Tech Award
location: Blacksburg Virginia USA
team: Yixuan Cai

weight: 97,071 kb

Objects from John Hejduk’s Victims are digitally inflated beyond their rigid origins, reinterpreting architectural figures through exaggeration and material misbehavior...
/20220111/ _ work [bleu]
tag: [work] [phygital] [digi]
classification: Adidas 3a storefront
location: HKRI Taikoo Hui Shanghai China & Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu China
collaborator: Fanglu Lin
team: Yibo Yuan, Yifan Zhang

Commissioned for the 2022 SS release of Adidas Originals Blue, this storefront installation frames the photoshoot as a work in progress, combining Bai tie-dye craft with digital animation to explore phygital material exchange...
/20211224/ _ work [abuja bodega]
tag: [work] [phygital] [digi]
classification: digital storefront
team: Yu Cheng Huang, Austin Lightle, Yifan Zhang, Haodong Zhang, Zhipeng Zhang

Commissioned by Kevin Jones, former NFL player, for the digital launch of Abuja Bodega, this project explores the storefront as a phygital interface connecting branding, spatial narrative, and virtual commerce. It functions as both architectural space and media surface, translating fashion identity into an immersive experience...
/20211128/ _ metarial lab [daitioi]
tag: [metariallab] [phygital] [digi]
classification: metarial experiment
team: Yixuan Cai
weight: 159,309 kb

It is a piece of steak. It is disassembled according to a digital template and then reassembled. It is served on a Chinese porcelain plate with a single clove of fried garlic and fresh rosemary, accompanied by a Pantone color card for reference. The surface is textured with marble and cloth. It grows like a plant. It is a piece of steak...
/20210929/ _ work [swiss sausage]tag: [work] [phygital] [digi]
classification: Basel Pavillon 2022
location: Basel Switzerland
collaborator: Kaiho Yu

The proposal transforms recycled materials into aggregated synthetic fragments. Using abandoned building components from the Basel region, the pavilion explores new material behaviors through experimental workflows, operating as a playful structure that promotes a circular strategy for local recyclables...
/20201117/ _ work [thisisamountain]tag: [work] [automavision] [phygital] [digi] [phys]
classification: 2020 SCI-Arc Graduate Thesis
advisor: Peter Testa & Devyn Weiser
cultural agent: Marrikka Trotter


An external system generates an opaque, unpredictable filmic environment shaped by unforeseen camera conditions, while cultural background and lived experience allow poetic interpretation as cameras reveal spatial structures through perception rather than intention...
/20191007/ _ work [home essentials]tag: [work] [phygital] [digi]
classification: Home Competitaion 2019
team: Haocheng Dai, Yue Di, Laure Michelon
status: honorable mention


This project rejects ideological approaches to domestic architecture, instead engaging subconscious, lifestyle-driven processes to generate form beyond functional or political frameworks...