"We are Closed" is a 9 months thesis design project at Pratt Institute. This pages showcase various films, animations, VR of the project. To view the full thesis, please CLICK HERE.
Office by day, speakeasy
nightclub at night
New York
"The way to control people is not with pain, but with pleasure." -Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World"
In a dystopian totalitarian future, this project exploits visibility and temporality to liberate freedom of expression. Corporations surveil and impact every aspect of people’s lives.
This project occupies sites of symbolic corporate power in NYC. The program veils and exposes: a speakeasy (a space of free speech) veiled by a club at night exists as an office of tomorrow during the day.
VIRTUAL REALITY ANIMATION
Click above link / or scan the QR code to enter the VR view. To scan: simply open the camera feature on your phone, it automatically detects the code. Prepare a set of headphone and VR phone headset, follow instruction and get into the deep speakeasy space!
ANIMATION: An Audiovisual syntax room (conceptual light/sound study)
A 3D QRcode.model: concept study on physical/virtual connectivity.
Animation: day & night contrast.
Click HERE to view full thesis book on more diagrams, process, research, sketches and models.
"We are Closed" is a 9 months thesis design project at Pratt Institute. This pages showcase various films, animations, VR of the project. To view the full thesis, please CLICK HERE.
"The way to control people is not with pain, but with pleasure." -Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World"
Office by day, speakeasy nightclub at night
New York
In a dystopian totalitarian future, this project exploits visibility and temporality to liberate freedom of expression. Corporations surveil and impact every aspect of people’s lives.
This project occupies sites of symbolic corporate power in NYC. The program veils and exposes: a speakeasy (a space of free speech) veiled by a club at night exists as an office of tomorrow during the day.
VIRTUAL REALITY ANIMATION
Click above link / or scan the QR code to enter the VR view. Prepare a set of headphone and VR phone headset, follow instruction and get into the deep speakeasy space!
ANIMATION: An Audiovisual syntax room (conceptual light/sound study)
A 3D QRcode.model: concept study on physical/virtual connectivity.
Animation: day & night contrast.
Click HERE to view full thesis book on more diagrams, process, research, sketches and models.