Niko Dellic

Liminal 3D: Thresholds to Extended Reality

The proliferation of the smartphone has expanded the potential of augmented reality (AR), shifting how we experience and design for the physical realm. This thesis proposes an architectural workflow where digital media structures the identity of space, entailing new architectural tectonics as a hybrid of binary and physical matter. Architecture has the potential to change its identity by reflexively “updating” its virtual counterpart in a perpetual state of becoming. It can be sophisticated, popular, or even a meme. AR presents a new format of master-building, as the architect commits to routinely crafting a digital identity wherein “construction” and “drawing” become one.

Advisor: John Shnier