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Echo Nexus forces critical dialogue on data surveillance, using architecture to illustrate technology’s power over privacy, control, and identity—essential conversations for navigating our hyper-connected digital age.

Echo Nexus

Echo Nexus is a pavilion designed for Osaka Expo 2025, merging architecture and data privacy into an interactive journey. It features a responsive oculus and adaptive frames that react to visitors' emotional states, manipulating light levels to symbolize data-driven control and surveillance. Visitors navigate through labyrinths and reflection pods, confronting their digital footprints and the pervasive influence of data systems. Integrating dynamic, responsive architectural elements with digital data interactions, the pavilion provokes critical reflection on technological influence, privacy, and the complex balance between human agency and surveillance in a digitally-driven society.

The pavilion, centrally located within the Forest of Tranquility, blends pivotal discourse on data privacy with ecological harmony. Maximizing natural light and seasonal adaptability, it encourages immersive reflection on technology's societal impact.

The pavilion, centrally located within the Forest of Tranquility, blends pivotal discourse on data privacy with ecological harmony. Maximizing natural light and seasonal adaptability, it encourages immersive reflection on technology's societal impact.

The pavilion's two rotating shells follow the sun’s path, optimizing light and creating immersive spaces. Marking the exit with light, they guide visitors on a reflective journey, emphasizing architecture's harmony with nature.

The pavilion's two rotating shells follow the sun’s path, optimizing light and creating immersive spaces. Marking the exit with light, they guide visitors on a reflective journey, emphasizing architecture's harmony with nature.

The pavilion's frames, composed of triangular timber blocks with hydraulic connections, offer smooth, adaptive movement, enabling flexible configurations that respond dynamically to environmental and design requirements, creating ever-changing spaces.

The pavilion's frames, composed of triangular timber blocks with hydraulic connections, offer smooth, adaptive movement, enabling flexible configurations that respond dynamically to environmental and design requirements, creating ever-changing spaces.

The frames react to visitors' emotions, with the oculus closing under stress to dim light and opening with positivity. This dynamic system demonstrates how data-driven spaces shape human experience.

The frames react to visitors' emotions, with the oculus closing under stress to dim light and opening with positivity. This dynamic system demonstrates how data-driven spaces shape human experience.

The mesh, with cables of varying sizes, allows rain and air to penetrate, exposing visitors to natural elements and creating a sense of continuous visibility, symbolizing constant surveillance and exposure.

The mesh, with cables of varying sizes, allows rain and air to penetrate, exposing visitors to natural elements and creating a sense of continuous visibility, symbolizing constant surveillance and exposure.