Thesis
Advisor: Aki Ishida

This thesis explores the circulation of digital media as a condition that is rapidly changing the way we perceive people, cultures, and environments. As the accessibility and combinations of images are increasingly integrated into the built environment, we may find ourselves lost in the flux of virtual platforms. The act of design now exists between the unstable flows of informatics and the anchored frameworks shared by humans.

In questioning how these new realities are conveyed, an interactive space for the presentation of emerging media is superimposed with a laboratory for its production. A rigid framework is permeated by flows of information and depicts the lived experience of the city as ephemeral and fluctuating. The exploration aims to capture architecture as an instrument for communication; as the media form through which we encounter a collective network.

An ecology of views and formats constructs a tangled operation that unfolds particular modes of traversing the city. The space display an endless panorama; all either expanding or receding; melting or condensing. Both a mirror and an audience at once, this hyperconnected system is an accumulation of information and material; it is technological and human; virtual and real.