XR Systems
For: Design Foresight
XR Systems by MLL ATELIER envision ambient structures and threshold pavilions that seamlessly fuse the digital with the physical. Through poetic concept art and design, each space becomes a catalyst for innovation — shaping perception, emotion, and foresight. Created for design conceptualization, futurecasting, or immersive storytelling, these environments reframe what architecture can mean across realities.
Metal Drift
This Metal Drift XR-System sculpture is a dynamic paradox — solid yet in flux, still yet perpetually in motion through the shifting lens of the viewer. Composed of metallic strata and warm wood flooring, the open-walled form invites aerial and immersive traversal, turning each fly-through into a choreographed act of discovery. As users glide around, ascend, or enter its core, the sculpture reveals a new spatial logic: one where architecture behaves like a cinematic frame, and perspective becomes the primary engine of transformation.
Set within a gentle field of grass bordered by distant hills, the sculpture rises to a modest but commanding two-story height — anchored in the physical landscape but fully alive in its virtual presence. This is architecture as lens and labyrinth: a vessel that reframes the natural world through motion, and redefines stillness through the multiplicity of gaze. The XR experience transforms the act of looking into an unfolding choreography of space, time, and form.
Digital Canopy
The Digital Canopy XR-System pavilion is a collaged spatial construct that merges the digital and physical into a seamless experiential tapestry. Set within the urban fabric, its winged canopies extend like sentient limbs — drawing visitors inward beneath their layered, dynamic forms. As one traverses the gently undulating field of windswept grass, the boundary between material and immaterial dissolves: augmented overlays shimmer in response to presence, while spatialized sound and ambient data flows ripple through the air like a second weather. This is not merely architecture, but an interface — a living threshold between city and signal, between the human body and the intelligent systems that now co-shape our environments. At its core, the pavilion explores convergence — not by mimicking technology, but by embodying its logic through poetics of form, motion, and interaction. The structure’s collage-like assembly reflects the hybridity of the XR world: analog textures meet reactive surfaces, and physical paths unfold alongside virtual narratives. It is a place of pause and wonder, where nature’s rhythms are quietly infused with invisible digital tides, offering an ephemeral but grounding encounter with a future increasingly defined by coexistence between the tangible and the virtual.
Ribbon Nexus
The Ribbon Nexus XR-System pavilion emerges like a luminous organism — its glass canopy suspended by a flowing white ribbon-structure that arcs and bends through the air with choreographed grace. Anchored by a central core of concrete and crystalline glass, the pavilion is both shelter and sculpture, a future-world gesture that redefines how material, structure, and atmosphere converge. The ribbon is not only structural — it is symbolic: a spatial algorithm rendered physical, carrying the glass canopy as if it were a translucent waveform suspended in time. Beneath it, a light-colored concrete plane reflects the canopy’s undulations, amplifying its presence in subtle halos of light and motion.
Designed for the near-future city, this pavilion functions as both interface and sanctuary — a place where advanced materials meet human emotion. Augmented overlays ripple across the glass, changing with light, data, and presence. The pavilion becomes a site for recalibration: a quiet, adaptive space where technology disappears into poetics, and structure reveals a new mode of intelligence. It’s not just a building — it’s a prototype for how architecture might breathe, respond, and inspire in a world shaped by environmental awareness, digital synthesis, and the beauty of rhythm made spatial.
Light Interface
The Light Interface XR-System interior transforms a quiet architectural moment into an interface of light and perception. At its heart stands a sculptural screen—streamlined yet geometric—rising like a monolith from the center of the room. Framed by raw concrete and bathed in luminous white sunlight, the screen becomes an instrument of interplay: catching, refracting, and reshaping light into flowing bands that sweep through the space. As users move within the room or view it through immersive fly-throughs, the screen’s material shifts digitally—revealing overlays of data, memory, or ambient emotion that appear only at certain angles or times of day. This XR System doesn’t project onto the world—it reveals what is already latent within it: a choreography of silence, geometry, and radiance made perceivable through augmented vision.
Maria Lorena Lehman has received the above awards and has been seen in the following publications:
