Architectural Technology
Design Innovation
MLL ATELIER imagines the future of architecture and technology — merging cinematic storytelling with speculative design. These visionary concepts set a "North Star" through unbuilt worlds, innovations, and ideas, in ways that help audiences to see new possibility for our future. Whether for design innovation or sci-fi cinema this futuristic design approach blends poetics with precision to spark imagination, emotion, and bold new ways of thinking.
FilmSense
FilmSense is a design innovation project that disrupts how buildings evoke experience. This FilmSense museum architecture is designed to act like a camera that frames, moves, and filters the exterior world. Visitors to this museum become the film as they process what the building captures with their eyes, cognition, and memory. A window in this building is like a camera viewfinder that bridges the exterior with the interior in ways that are ever-changing. No longer does a window simply let in one view. Instead, it allows for a view to be set in motion, like a movie camera, as the building rotates and visitors navigate through the museum. For this reason, design emphasis is placed on the framed views that the architectural form creates, rather than on an architectural form that gets window views placed as an afterthought. Consequently, this innovative FilmSense design project rethinks human experience as an immersive real-world film ― evolving architectural moments from the ordinary into the unforgettable.
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EcoAction
Can a building be a catalyst that encourages green citizen behavior in a city? This very question is at the core of the Eco-Action architectural concept design. This residential building is situated as a beacon within the city, to nurture green behaviors which include walking, cycling, energy optimization, gardening, recycling, and new green idea innovation. In essence, the building rewards its occupants for achieving and sustaining a 75% or higher “growth-thrive state”. A beautiful and unique quality of the Eco-Action architectural design concept is its façade which displays a different color-set depending on what the current building growth-thrive state level is yielded by residents. The higher the growth-thrive state becomes, the more vibrant and dynamic the façade color displays.
The Eco-Action concept design project is a way to explore how to nurture green living. Together, building inhabitants engage as a team in green behaviors that not only create a beautiful urban beacon for residents to enjoy, but to also promote green living as an inspirational “seed” throughout the city. This is a building of performance – not only because of the urban event the façade colors and motion create, but also because the building helps residents and city citizens to enjoy benefits that make their green living actions that contribute towards a more sustainable future, beautifully tangible in the now.
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Healing Cradle
The Healing Cradle project pioneers a movement to change the way the world designs and builds architecture. Today, buildings are passive as they house function to help meet occupant need. Yet, the Healing Cradle pulls architectural evolution from passive design to interactive design to adaptive design. And when such adaptive environments are fused with multi-sensory design – architecture fosters function; which in turn serves to meet occupant need, but also goes beyond this to help occupants overcome challenges, and actualize their desired short-term and long-term goals. In essence, this Healing Cradle project unlocks the critical role environments have in helping people become the best version of themselves – in this case, by helping them to heal more quickly, with greater quality, and with optimized resilience. This demonstrates how in the future, environmental designers can transform built environments from merely functioning as vessels that contain functionality, into vehicles that nurture functionality by helping occupants to get from where they are to where they want to be.
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Maria Lorena Lehman has received the above awards and has been seen in the following publications:
