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Transfigured Cities

AI Technology, Design, Experimental Work, 2025

Transfigured Cities

AI Technology
Design
Experimental Work
2025
Model Size : 700 * 500 * 500 (mm)
                     27.5 * 20 * 20 (inch)


TouchDesigner, AI, Adobe Creative, Python, Unreal Engine, Blender, Rhino, Figma, AR

City in Three Acts : Aesthetic, Media, Machine

Conception, Aesthetic Structures
Conception is the initial vision that shapes the aesthetic structures of a city, guiding how urban spaces are perceived and experienced through their visual and sensory elements.

Representation, Urban Landscape
Representation transforms these aesthetic structures into a tangible urban landscape, where images, media, and societal influences define the way we interact with and understand the city.

Construction, Artificial Intelligence
Construction, supported by artificial intelligence, allows for the dynamic redesign and reimagination of urban landscapes, enabling cities to evolve and adapt to new cultural and technological influences.

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Synthetic Spectacle: Collaging Urban Experience Through AI

This project, grounded in Guy Debord’s theory of the spectacle, uses AI to digitally overlay Seoul’s urban imagery onto Los Angeles. It visualizes how media and consumer culture distort urban experience, transforming cities into branded, image-driven spectacles detached from direct reality.

Recording video of downtown Los Angeles
AI generated video
3D Gaussian Splatting

Superimposed DTLA

DTLA is re-written as a collage of cultures. Using AI compositing, and 3D Gaussian Splatting, I superimpose visual signatures of Seoul, Tokyo, and Europe onto LA’s streets. The result is a walkable spectacle that reveals how media images construct what we call “the city.”

KOREA onto DTLA
JAPAN onto DTLA
EUROPE onto DTLA

Transfigured Cities

I produced a film by scanning sites in Los Angeles with 3D Gaussian Splats and reconfiguring them through AI-driven transformations based on cultural prompts, experimentally constructing imagined cities infused with aesthetic politics, and further expanded the audience’s experience through augmented reality, enabling immersive interaction while revisiting Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle within the framework of contemporary urban aesthetics.

AR Technology with AI 3D Gaussian Splats

Hybrid Façade Model

By superimposing façades from diverse cultures onto an existing building in Downtown Los Angeles, the work creates a hybrid and multilayered urban form rather than a singular identity. Through this process, the work reframes urban architecture not as a mere replication of reality, but as an experimental reconstruction shaped by cultural fragments.

Hybrid Façade model — portrait view 01
Hybrid Façade model — portrait view 02
Hybrid Façade model — landscape view 01
Hybrid Façade model — landscape view 02