Temporal Architecture – Tuning Data, Message and Perception with Spatial Music System

Abstract This article explores the dominance of ocular-centric culture in art, design, and architecture, which often overshadows non-visual forms of participation. This bias extends its influence into sound and music, traditionally limiting audience interactivity and reinforcing a linear, static mindset. The widespread acceptance of this sensory bias, both by audiences and creators within the industry, […]

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Focal Lapse – the First Story About Deviations

Intro This is a story about deviations, errors, and recursions. In late 2018, when I was preparing my portfolio for master degree, I was thinking about a question – it’s a common thing when we consider issues in a perfect condition and introduce imperfections later as we move into physical world. Errors are always defined […]

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Acoustic Garden

RELATED LINK: Awards: Robert Bradford Newman Student Medal for Merit in Architectural Acoustics awarded by the Acoustical Society of America Previous experiment on spatial live set: GAP+ Architecture of Sound ■Acoustic Garden applies spatialized sound synthesis to the physical world with handheld AR. It’s an invisible virtual world, Listen, and discover our movement reshape the acoustic space Find the sound a […]

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Architecture – the “ART” of Drawing

Architecture education, architectural design, media, and digital fabrication—these domains, though part of a cohesive system, often appear disconnected from one another. The gap between architectural education and practical reality widens due to the constraints of traditional mediums and tools. While education claims to prepare future architects, students may spend decades achieving professional competence. The tools […]

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The Unknown Cities

2019 Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture 4 piece of generative 3D-printing, Resin Author: Yan Wu, Yu Chen, Yufan Xie, The project is series of 3d-printing based on fiction “9 City, Millions of Future” by Yan Wu. The fiction discribed a process of returning territory from city to nature, transitting the earth to a planet of […]

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GAP+

“GAP +” Architectures of Sound 2019 CAFA SoA A9 Studio Graduate Design, 1st Award 2019 China 8+ Joint Graduate Design “Kulangsu Project” 2020 Gensler Diversity Scholarship 2020 YTAA Asia (Young Talent Architect Award) Shortlisted Instructor: Yufang Zhou, Huanyu Wang, Wendong Wang, Zigeng Wang Designer: Yufan Xie This project explores the mixing mechanism of sonic space. […]

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Binary Tree Derivatives

This is a brief research project during my Bachelor graduate design. I worked on several derivatives of Binary Tree algorithm, which was implemented to generate grid system for my project “GAP+”(https://yufanxie.com/gap/).

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Self-organizing : System of Basic Behaviours

Self-organizing is a generative project I launched since 2017 September. The whole system is based on 4 basic behaviours – growth and death abstracted from DLA system, as well as repelling and attracting abstracted from Differential Growth. Behaviors are applied to particles according to density. It’s a hybrid system of basic behaviors, which produce diversified […]

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Differential Growth Research

Intro About in 2016, accidently by a workshop held in CAFA, Chritoph Klemmt presented his research on Cell Based Venation Systems and works from Andy Lomas and Deskriptiv, since then I was deeply attracted by generative form and beauty of self-organizing – in which Differential Growth – a typical algorithm took far-reaching impact on my […]

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Spatial Performance

Our first spatial live set by Ziqian and me, in June 2017. Dancer figures, glitching images and 3d objects are placed in 3d structure – foreground, background and random drones. As images and space were reconstructed around our routine, ritual, dance and percussions bring us to a new world The project utilize midi and osc […]

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Hello UVN!

Hello UVN! 2015/02.28 – this is the birth of UVN, and birthday of the author. UVN – 3 fundamental dimensions of visual coordinate system – our sight. UVN – UVAN – UFAN – YUFAN I’M MULTIDIMENSIONAL I’M MULTIDISCIPLINARY I’M MULTIIDENTITY I’M NOT DEFINED

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