This web project results from the exploration in the overlapping fields of architecture design, digital media practice, user experience design, and immersive web experience. It allows audiences to discover design features interactively and responsively within a website presentation format for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. Users can navigate in the virtual environment in terms of both macro and micro observation level. It suggests the possible format of future NFT architectural products following the Web 3.0 and Metaverse tides.
The studio will design a new Garden Factory for emerging fashion houses Duran Lantink and Collina Strada to produce small batch upcycled collections under the umbrella of Prada Group S.p.A.
Topic 01. Architectural Types — (Fashion) House & Factory
Topic 02. Motion Space — Runways IRL, AR, VR
Topic 03. Interfaces — Physical/Digital Cameras, Rigs
Topic 04. Phygital Material Creation
Topic 05. Upcycling — New Forms of Luxury
Topic 06. Production Landscapes
After a careful study of Duran Lantink's approach to upcycling, we summarized the process into 7 stages. Duran Lantink starts design thinking from the very first step and he goes through multiple iterations. His workflow is nonlinear and circular.
Although Duran Lantink indicates an upscaling of his small handicraft workflow, we find the current factory typology insufficient for covering all the designers' activities.
The ordinary factory is largely mechanical, automated and unfriendly to human. Spaces are more general as it values production over thinking.
A direct scaling up would not work, because the two show different images. Space need to be redefined.
Project Designer: Qihang Fan, Kangxin Wu
Project Instructor: Peter Testa
Web Developer: Qihang Fan
Web Development Instructor: Anthony Tran
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