Granular Refinement



Granular Refinement
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Exploring the Domino Sugar refinery across past, present, and imagined futures, from the refinement of sugar to the refinement of data. Using a red/grey/blue stereoscopic approach designed for 3D glasses, red marks the historic sugar refinery, grey the current office space, and blue a speculative data center. The overlapping channels allow for examination of the temporal layers simultaneously, revealing the texture and material decay. Here, the 3D glasses are both a lens and a conceptual device, making visible the hidden relationships between labor and urban decay.
Exploring the Domino Sugar refinery across past, present, and imagined futures, from the refinement of sugar to the refinement of data. Using a red/grey/blue stereoscopic approach designed for 3D glasses, red marks the historic sugar refinery, grey the current office space, and blue a speculative data center. The overlapping channels allow for examination of the temporal layers simultaneously, revealing the texture and material decay. Here, the 3D glasses are both a lens and a conceptual device, making visible the hidden relationships between labor and urban decay.
Site:
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Typology:
Spectulative Analysis
Spectulative Analysis
Spectulative Analysis
Partnered with:
N/A
N/A
N/A
School:
Columbia University GSAPP
Columbia University GSAPP
Columbia University GSAPP
Professor(s):
Amelyn Ng, Didier Lucceus, Louis Fisher + Alex Ching-Chen Liu
Amelyn Ng, Didier Lucceus, Louis Fisher + Alex Ching-Chen Liu
Amelyn Ng, Didier Lucceus, Louis Fisher + Alex Ching-Chen Liu
Semester:
Fall 2025
Fall 2025
Fall 2025



































