Located in the lobby of the Flatiron Hotel in New York City, this gallery makerspace fulfills the requirements for a Construction Document studio whilst exploring the idea of shadow as materiality. Initial research was directed towards handcrafting villages in Indonesia, contrasting ancient means of analog production to that of modern day mass fabrication. Here, "wayang kulit" puppets are punctured into water buffalo rawhide to produce characters for a theatric performance of ancient storytelling. Now, digital means of TV and entertainment take over in the form of LED screens and intelligence. But both modes still require a light source, an image caster, and a plane for that image to take place on, with that image both being, and becoming, the material for the space.

Can shadow be a material?

How can independent forms of the shadow-casting process be manipulated to user experience based on the colliding forces of analog and digital worlds?