(De)constructing Singularity: The Fabrication of Synthetic Duration examines how spatial intelligence, machine vision, and advanced fabrication converge to dissolve the boundary between perception and production. This research framework positions duration not as temporal flow but as synthetic material—something manufactured through the interplay of biological cognition, artificial intelligence, and physical making. Across projects spanning computational design, cinematic theory, robotic manufacturing, and responsive environments, 1e-43 investigates how architecture might encode experience as its primary structural logic. The work asks whether emerging technologies enable us to construct spaces that exist not as fixed forms but as temporal artifacts—architectures that materialize only through continuous acts of inhabitation, observation, and algorithmic negotiation. By interrogating the singularity where human perception meets machine intelligence, this research explores fabrication as both technical process and ontological condition.
(De)constructing Singularity
Writing2025AcademicSpatial Intelligence, Temporal Intelligence, Full Dimensional Film
When machines perceive space and humans navigate time, whose singularity are we constructing—and can duration itself become material?
Ray Zhang, computational designer and creative technologist. I work across spatial AI, robotic fabrication and programmable material systems. Most of what matters about a design is the part we can only describe: how it is perceived, how it feels to stand in. My research makes that part structured, measured and operable. I build the tools as well as the work they make.
Open to consultation, commissions and collaboration.Based in Cambridge, MALondon, UK
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