Project Details
Year
2025
Location
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Category
Academic
Type
Master's Studio
Role
Co-Designer
Collaborators
Juan Carlos Duarte, Kadambari Chavhan
Scale/Area
Speculative Food Ecology + Spatial Interface
Tools Used
Design Narrative
A speculative studio project set within a broader 'Future of Food' investigation, imagining Arctic Reef as a digitally-mediated ecology for cultivating and distributing food in extreme, resource-scarce environments. The project pairs architectural form with a designed spatial interface — part tasting counter, part diagnostic instrument — that lets people engage directly with the engineered ecology through touch, taste, and augmented data readouts. Blueprint studies and interface diagrams work alongside physical prototypes to ask how architecture might frame a fundamentally different relationship between people, technology, and what they eat.
Project Gallery
[ Spatial interface prototype — tablet-based interaction with the engineered ecology ]
[ Cultivated food output, presented as a tasting study ]
[ Speculative render of the Arctic Reef spatial condition ]
[ Blueprint diagram of the digital ecology and spatial interface system ]
[ Close-up interaction study — hands, device, and interface ]