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London, United Kingdom
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
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$0 - 10K
London design studio Wedge has transformed digital data into architecture with Recurrence, a modular façade created from 3D-printed quartz sand for The Black Shop in King’s Cross. Installed during the London Design Festival 2025, the project blurs the boundary between digital image and physical surface.
Using binder jet printing, Wedge converted LiDAR scans of the storefront — capturing light, movement, and incidental urban noise — into a tangible structure. Instead of cleaning the data, the team retained scanning artefacts such as drift, glare, and occlusion, treating them as part of the design language. A custom algorithm processed the point-cloud data, thickening stable areas and eroding unstable ones until error became structured.
The result is a façade that shifts as you move around it — oscillating between clarity and blur, shadow and reflection. It acts as a living interface between data and street life, translating the way machines see into an architectural experience.
“As sensors learn to see with us, design may no longer centre on the human eye,” says Peiyan Zou, designer and Director of wedge. “Post-human vision, shaped by phones, headsets and LiDAR, is transforming how we perceive and create.”
Each façade component is printed in recyclable quartz silica sand, designed for disassembly, re-crushing, and re-printing. Pixels become grains; resolution becomes texture. The system allows the façade to be remade as its urban context changes, forming a circular workflow of data, volume, and matter.
“We want architecture to behave like a city — something that can be repaired, reshaped and reused,” adds designer and co-founder Lei Zhang. “Digital fabrication isn’t only about precision; it’s about enabling materials to adapt with social and technological change.”
Using binder jet printing, Wedge converted LiDAR scans of the storefront — capturing light, movement, and incidental urban noise — into a tangible structure. Instead of cleaning the data, the team retained scanning artefacts such as drift, glare, and occlusion, treating them as part of the design language. A custom algorithm processed the point-cloud data, thickening stable areas and eroding unstable ones until error became structured.
The result is a façade that shifts as you move around it — oscillating between clarity and blur, shadow and reflection. It acts as a living interface between data and street life, translating the way machines see into an architectural experience.
“As sensors learn to see with us, design may no longer centre on the human eye,” says Peiyan Zou, designer and Director of wedge. “Post-human vision, shaped by phones, headsets and LiDAR, is transforming how we perceive and create.”
Each façade component is printed in recyclable quartz silica sand, designed for disassembly, re-crushing, and re-printing. Pixels become grains; resolution becomes texture. The system allows the façade to be remade as its urban context changes, forming a circular workflow of data, volume, and matter.
“We want architecture to behave like a city — something that can be repaired, reshaped and reused,” adds designer and co-founder Lei Zhang. “Digital fabrication isn’t only about precision; it’s about enabling materials to adapt with social and technological change.”
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