The earliest museums originated from collectors' preservation of precious items, with these private spaces serving not only as places to store objects but also as shelters for the collectors' souls and expressions of their personal memories. Custom House Leith, as a witness to local history, is closely connected with many historical events and figures. This connection sparked an intriguing idea: what if we view the interior spaces being renovated as a shelter for the building's own soul and a palace of its memories? In my project, I explore various ways to preserve and visualise the building's memories using digital technology, aiming to uncover the potential of this technology in creating a truly multidimensional and complex space.

 

Interior Textures

I dispersed the scanned point cloud in two different forms, rendered it into flat images, and then brought them back into Custom House. Through this approach, I aim to convey that the surfaces of different objects within the space are interwoven, including ourselves within that space. We need a new perspective to understand this relationship.

Interior Texture
Interior Texture
The boundaries of furniture and its entanglement with interior space.
Ghosts of the Interior

I generated time-based growing curves from the point cloud and used noise nodes to influence their movement trajectories. The resulting furniture, after growth, transforms into beautiful, ethereal forms that blend seamlessly with the interior, blurring the boundaries between the two.

Bringing into the Physical

By materializing the spirit forms edited in 3D software, and then utilizing digital fabrication techniques, we have the opportunity to bring these abstract and 'virtual' edits back into the real world. This approach helps us to reconsider the symbiotic relationship between the digital and the physical.

Abstract Glazed Sculpture
Abstract Glazed Sculpture
Bringing into the Digital

By importing the point cloud into digital media software like TouchDesigner, I created a new space that coexists with the Custom House, which is fascinating, almost like a parallel world. In this virtual environment, I have the freedom to edit everything and express my ideas. By assigning different noise parameters to the furniture and the walls, I aim to convey the relative relationship and tension between the two.

Evanescent
Evanescent
Combining Digital and Physical

Using tools like 3D printing and projection, we can bring everything we have done back to the original Custom House. I believe interior design is not merely about materials and arrangement, and the future of interior design should embrace multidimensional thinking.

Physical-Digital Integration
Physical-Digital Integration
Reproducing Interior Definition

Through the various practices showcased above, I have deconstructed a diverse, multi-layered concept of interiors. You might be wondering what kind of space I aim to create and how this ties into the museum's design. I must refer again to the image I completed in Reading Interior. I believe that a museum suitable for Custom House should fully integrate digital and physical methods to present spatial stories across different times and dimensions.

Overlap
Overlap
Final Interior Concept Image
Final Interior Concept Image
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