Douglas Yueming Lai

Reconnect Your Sense to The City

NoBound is an innovative augmented reality digital platform designed to enhance the underground travel experience. It empowers tourists to reconnect their senses to the city and expand their perspective beyond the confines of the underground space. Traditionally, travelling underground has meant disconnection and isolation. However, with NoBound, tourists can utilize their favourite mobile apps without an internet connection to locate themselves, enjoy the cityscape above ground, and uncover the stories behind the city.

NoBound provides an exceptional experience for passengers to enjoy city views, discover intriguing narratives, and navigate effortlessly while utilizing the connectionless underground service.

• The Sightseeing mode offers a wealth of information about famous landmarks, parks, and nearby shops and restaurants. It creates a playful experience for tourists, allowing them to immerse themselves in urban architecture and gain a sense of their position within the city.
• The Navigation modes ensure that tourists can travel efficiently and joyfully throughout the tube station, from finding the correct entrance to knowing exactly where the doors will be located.

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In Collaboration with:

Lijun Chu, Shike Zhang, Yihan Bian

Unlock The Sensory Pleasure Stored in Your Fingertips

Focusing on the feeling of touch, this conceptual controller design aims to create a distinctive and immersive sensory experience, both physically and emotionally. By incorporating brush bristles as input buttons, it expands the tactile dimension for gamers, enhancing focus and heightening gaming pleasure.

This gamepad delves into the context of an immersive gaming experience through the sense of touch, not just visual and auditory. Featuring smooth soft nylon bristles, it provides continuous pressure and vibration stimulation to the fingertips, amplifying the overall sensation.

This project started from a factory visit at Braun Brush, a notable brush-making company in the United States, that fosters the artistic aspects of brush innovation. Looking at the different types of bristles, the feelings it brings has shown the potential to shape sensory interaction. Additionally, the concept draws inspiration from the comfort and pressure-relieving effects observed when people engage with therapeutic brushes through touching, sweeping, and pushing actions.

In Collaboration with:

Braun Brush

Relocation for Recreation

Why Relocata?

In New York City, urban construction is a constant presence, with the city in a perpetual state of repair. Over 40% of existing scaffolding construction has been marked as overdue which causes the long-standing problem that influences the city image and pedestrian experience. The key reasons for this situation are high repair expenses and lack of storage space. To face these challenges, a pop-up public recreation project has been introduced to rethink the future urban construction and potentially solve the long-standing problem

How is it designed? 

Relocata is a conversation to the scaffolding future, which is why it’s designed as a key shape to open the space for a better construction environment in New York City. The main structure is comprised of three distinct sections: the central stage, the Experimental area, and the exhibition area. Each part functions independently while maintaining a seamless connection, resulting in a space that is inclusive and accessible to all city dwellers. Its complex structure duplicates the nosy and annoying scaffolding environment, but more importantly, it provides a dedicated space for pedestrians to engage, relax, and experiment freely.