Within the booming era of technological advancements, the DATA FORTRESS project seeks to investigate the tangible interaction of intangible bits under the
architectural and urbanscape thinking. The investigation of the project sets an image of how could the future smart city response to the information and the threat of
unwanted data.

 

The project is embedded in the context of using mixed mediums to create a tangibly immersive spatial experience. The media allowing the audience to experiment the human to computer interaction within the architectural realm, it is extending the experience of how the physical and digital presences fuse and taking the spatial investigation into an amalgam environment.

 

The initiative and inspirations of the DATA FORTRESS are guided by 'Radical Atoms' international research led by Hiroshi Ishii and his MIT Tangible Media Group. The research looked into the 'Tangible Data' that vision "to seamlessly couple the dual world of bits and atoms by giving dynamic form to digital information and computation."1. This aspiration is used to generate future physical-digital interactions, where all the invisible information can be perceived and manipulated visibly to enhance the human sensations.