Rift is one of two installations created for the
Line – Plane – Space: The Studio of Architectonic Thinking exhibition.
Check the other interactive installation too: Morphogenesis
This exhibition showcases compositions created by second-year architecture students as they delve into fundamental spatial studies. After an invitation to give an inspirational presentation, I shared my work and concepts focused on spatial and formal exploration. This led to the opportunity to create an installation inspired by both the students’ efforts and the course itself.
The Installation
Rift takes its inspiration from one of the earliest exercises, where students used just two lines to cut through a plane and develop basic planar compositions. My approach translates these basic tools into a generative setup, building on transformations — rotation and translation — to create procedural compositions. A generative composition resulting from the intersection and transformation of two lines on a plane. The lines’ intersections and the elevation of surfaces are algorithmically generated based on repetitive patterns.
Adding light and sound brought the installation to its final stage. The work is presented as a video loop in a portrait-oriented layout, with views from multiple angles — side, top, and 3D — to evoke a design software environment along with a display of the procedural logic’s node tree. This format highlights the algorithmic nature of the process, illustrating how fundamental compositional ideas can take shape through code-driven transformations.