This project departs from conventional architectural materials to test an unlikely candidate: factory-produced aluminum profiles. Used in industrial shelving and temporary frameworks, these extrusions carry precision, lightness, and adaptability. Here, they are elevated from background infrastructure to primary material. Their modularity and recyclability transform them into a kit-of-parts system, assembled into a media kiosk first shown at the World AI Conference, Shanghai, 2024.

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The kiosk is both object and prototype: standard components, ready-to-use, designed to be endlessly disassembled and reconfigured. Aluminum—usually associated with permanence and cost—is recast as sustainable through reuse and reconfiguration. The project shifts emphasis from extraction to reuse, from form to system, repositioning metal within ecological construction.

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It doubles as an immersive environment. Digital screens animate the structure, while reflective acrylic amplifies its spatial effects, producing an immersive field rather than a static display. At its core, the project argues for prefabrication as a generative architectural strategy. The system’s modular logic enables anyone to build, manipulate, and invent their own versions. Flexibility, reuse, and efficiency replace authorship as central values. The work treats material not as neutral, but as active—capable of shaping new modes of architectural space-making.

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