Spatial Code Lab

At the exhibition from October 20, 2017 to March 18, 2018

The project »Spatial Code Lab« by the architect and designer Kristof Gavrielides seeks to tap into a current area of research into novel technologies and spatial theories in a compact and accessible way, with the lab serving the purpose of exploring spatial code. This project is being presented to a broader public for the first time as part of the »Open Codes« exhibition.

The lab enables digital information and physical materiality to be recorded and synthesized, researching the new material and spatial forms that emerge from this as well as the associated design and manufacturing processes.

The »Spatial Code Lab« is composed of two areas that can be used in alternation. First, there is the sensory area where people and objects are recorded three-dimensionally so that this data can be used in real time through virtual reality applications. Second, the lab has a specially constructed robotic unit in the form of a gripper arm with a variety of toolheads developed specifically for it, which enable it to convert the acquired data and design ideas into physical materiality in additive and subtractive processes.