cambridge MASSACHUSETTS & los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

qi SU & jili HUANG: [re]BLUR 2.0 could be interpreted in two different ways.

Theoretically, it is an initiative to help people to identify and differentiate their physical presents from their digital lives. It is a device with which people could discover the occupancy of the cybernetic part in their mind. It is also an incubator that bring up the opportunities of encountering and contingency.
Formally, it is a labyrinth built up with hundreds of the “water stalactites.” It is a container within which there are vague boundary between illusion and reality. It is also an experiment field where the refraction of lights is manipulated following the design of the continuous transparent surface.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

ROBOT WORKSHOP COMPETITION
Honorable Mention — $100

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:

anirudh DHAWAN & jili HUANG:The building is a dynamic form embedded and responding to its context by slowly revolving as it moves social gathering spaces to workshop, classroom, and administrative spaces. The heavy duty work involving the utilization of 6-7 axis Kuka robots is maintained in an internal vortex which acts as the controlling spine of the envelope form. The 3d printing and robotics workshops for territorial and responsive robots which involve less bulk tooling are given space above the ground floor.

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