DESIGN the found stone game
voici les papillons
good neighbor
three little pigs
granite garden
canvas [house*]
RESEARCH spaces in progress
valle d’aosta stone
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SPACES IN PROGRESS
Funded by RISD Professional Development Fund
In Partnership with Arkio
Exhibited in RISD’s BEB Gallery, October 2025
RISD | Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
Research Faculty: Danniely Staback Rodriguez
Role: Research Assistant
Can a union between traditional building techniques and extended reality technologies enhance collaboration between designers and develop a complex feedback loop between physical and digital?
After familiarizing ourselves with the software from the XR platform Arkio, we built a series of physical constructions, designed digitally and projected in space with VR headsets. Immediate challenges of aligning our projections in real space arose. Our solution was 5’ x 5’ square taped on the floor with a cross in one corner: a fixed point of reference. Tools like passthrough, section, and layering in Arkio became essential to our physical workflow.
These small constructions culminated in a final experiment. We defined scattered plywood frames as our “found” physical conditions. We 3D scanned the frames and used them to iterate digitally, and “sketched” ideas three-dimensionally in XR space. The final wall built from angled foam and wood bricks was a product of iterative feedback between digital and physical.
The year of experimentation resulted in a toolkit of best-practices, tested in a collective construction and exhibition in RISD’s BEB Gallery.
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