⬤ Olivia HeungComputer Graphics and Art Direction
Based in Berlin and Honolulu
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⬤ Expo Circular
with Certain Measures

Reuse
Geometry
Space
Art Direction
 Expo Circular is a video intallation commisioned for the German Pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020. Steel members of the pavilion are digitally disassembled and reconstructed into new canopies for future use. Discrete parts of the construction were modeled and simulated in Unity to flock between different design iterations while an interface showcased material being recalculated for re-use.

Through a close looking at a building’s constituent parts, the project considers the temporal nature of expos as an opportunity to rethink impermanent venues as not single-use spectacles but rather a parade of permutations that go on indefinitely.




⯎ Video commissioned for the German Pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020, Dubai , UAE
2021



The film showcases a database of components for a pavilion that continuously rebuilds itself using the same steel members. The goal was to envision Expo buildings as ever-evolving permutations—different versions emerging from a single set of materials.  


Design for GUI that summarizes pavilion data and its individual members by their unique I-D and properties.
FRAME 01 - The German Pavilion is uploaded to a database
FRAME 02 - The pavilion disassembles and its parts are registered to a database.
FRAME 03 - Instructions for a new pavilion are detected
FRAME 04 -  The UI organizes the steel members required for the new pavilion.
FRAME 05 - Frame work for the new pavilion is drawn.
FRAME 06 - The steel members find their place and a new pavilion emerges.


CREDITS


⯎Client: facts&fiction GmbH ⯎Certain Measures Team: Tobias Nolte, Andrew Witt, James Yamada, Olivia Heung
⯎Role: UI Design, Spatial Design, Art Direction/Storyboard ⯎Sound Design: Simon Epstein/Signal Sound