LMNL Studio x Windy Chien

It has been a dream to realize my work at architectural scale. My friends at LMNL Studio made that possible by recreating my domed art car as a 30-foot biennale pavilion in VR. Using this successful pre-visualization as a prototype, I’m ready to build the pavilion in real life—Windy Chien

LMNL Studio x Windy Chien recreated two rope sculptures in a virtual gallery setting to visualize them at a grand scale. After collaborating to build a physical art car for the SF MOMA’s iconic 2022 Soap Box Derby, the team re-imagined the knotted dome of the car as a 30-foot pavilion in a courtyard by the sea.

An enchanting virtual experience that captures the essence of tactile materiality, it’s also a powerful prototyping tool to validate how to physically build complex architectures at scale. We believe it’s proof that anyone with a big vision for the built environment tomorrow should be working in these immersive technologies today.