“The Mailroom”
About
DESCRIBPTION:
The Mailroom is an experiential installation that reimagines the ethereal space of traditional Chinese mailrooms where information, objects, relationships, stories,and emotions converge, intertwine, and eventually disappear, presented in collaboration with Yale-China Association.
In this project, I worked as an associate paint charge with my colleagues to hand-paint hundreds of props, including mailboxes and light bulbs. Then I collected their textures as materials and created a 1:1 replica of a 3D model, which can be used in VR.
AREA:
Interaction Design, Experimental Design
GROUP WORK:
Prototyping, Painting, Handmade, Setting up, Rendering, 3D Visualization
Hundreds of uniquely shaped wooden boxes, light bulbs, walls, and decorations were all personally created by us.
Making Process
Actual Experience
Watch the video to see how our final experience turned out!
We Organized extensive texture collection for experiential installation, developed 3D models with precise UV mapping. Then we constructed and optimized a 1:1 scale mailroom scene in Unreal Engine for accurate material representation.
3D Visualization
Transport in VR
Door Portal