Spatial Reconstruction
Architectural Design, Architectural Theory, 2021
Architectural Design, Architectural Theory, 2021
Architectural Design
Architectural Theory
2021
Size : 2000 * 1800 * 1600 (mm)
78.7 * 70.8 * 63 (inch)
Rhino, Grasshopper, Adobe Creative, AutoCAD
This prototype visualizes how decentralized spatial structures emerge through layered interactions. The model uses circuit boards, LEDs, and 3D-printed modules to mimic the behavior of a blockchain-based spatial system. Individual nodes communicate and evolve organically, representing consensus-driven architecture.
The spatial form continuously shifts in response to user input, symbolizing the collapse of static hierarchy in favor of fluidity. It suggests a new urban logic where the boundaries between digital data and physical matter dissolve.
This project interprets blockchain as spatial blocks and transactional events, proposing a decentralized urban system formed through trust, consensus, and individual freedom beyond central control.
NFT’s uniqueness and scarcity redefine spatial identity and value. Interacting color boxes and shadows visualize mutual influence and layered events, reconstructing the city through individual experiences.
"Pologies" combines typology and topology to explore new architectural language. By overlapping floor plans and sections—two fundamental modes of architectural representation—this part breaks away from rigid zoning, proposing a decentralized spatial structure. The work visualizes how void and solid interact, resulting in unique, individualized spaces that reflect social diversity and user-driven organization.
Block-Chain technology will bring a new look to the city structure. The existing central structure, the Top-down method, will change to the decentralized Bottom-up method of the consensus process, and the space will continue to be newly reorganized by the phenomenon of consensus, forming diverse relationship.
This model is an experimental attempt to construct a new form of “information-city” by integrating the structure of digital networks with the physical fabric of the urban environment. The work merges four core concepts—Blockchain, NFT, Pologies, and Event Visualization—into a single spatial system, reinterpreting how we perceive and organize the city.
At its foundation, the mechanical plate symbolizes the physical infrastructure of the city, while the layered circuits and organic structures reflect the decentralized and interconnected logic of blockchain technology. In this system, “Blocks” represent spatial units and “Transactions” denote events. Their interactions manifest as spatial consensus phenomena, visually reconstructed through a network of machine-like yet fluid compositions—suggesting a city no longer built from solid masses but from dynamic, data-driven systems.
The central RGB-emitting light tubes symbolize real-time data flow and trust protocols in blockchain networks. The colorful cubes distributed across the structure represent NFTs—emphasizing their core values of scarcity and uniqueness. In this context, NFT-based urban units are no longer defined by ownership alone but by personalized, experience-driven micro-spaces that challenge the homogenized logic of mass production.
Emerging from this framework is the concept of Pologies—a coined term combining typology and topology. Pologies rejects rigid spatial hierarchies by allowing architectural plans and sections to overlap, fragment, and reconfigure. The porous, lattice-like white columns and fluid morphologies throughout the model express this concept physically, forming a decentralized, multivalent spatial structure. Each unit retains its individuality while operating as part of a connected whole—an architectural organism shaped by consensus and event-based interactions.
The rigid, gridded buildings at the periphery of the model reflect traditional centralized urban systems. In contrast, the flowing organic structures and chromatic lighting that burst through them point to a future city defined by decentralization, personalization, and multiplicity. The interplay of light and shadow projected onto surrounding surfaces symbolizes the layered entanglement of physical and digital space, static architecture and dynamic data, collective logic and individual agency.
Ultimately, this work is not just a model but a redefinition of urban architecture as a mutable and networked entity. The integration of blockchain's trust mechanisms, NFT’s individuality, and Pologies’ spatial pluralism results in a new paradigm—a city constructed through interaction, not imposition. It proposes an architecture where space is no longer fixed but reorganized constantly by flows, relationships, and decentralized consensus.
Who holds the authority to imagine the city today? This work proposes that space can now be reshaped through data, users, and networks. If the form of the city is no longer designed by architects but generated and dissolved through decentralized systems, then what should architecture design—space, relationships, or flows?
