Space Popular is exploring how virtual reality and mass production are set to disrupt architecture. Founders Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg talk Dezeen through six of their experiments.
Lesmes and Hellberg founded Space Popular in Bangkok in 2013. Now based in London, they work on a diverse range of projects, including exhibitions and installations, as well as architecture, interiors and furniture.
Several of their projects explore the idea that VR is going to revolutionise architecture in the near future, as people increasingly spend time inside virtual buildings and augmented spaces.

"This technological ability for you to be in many places simultaneously impacts the kind of buildings that you want to see, the buildings you want to build and the type of environments you want to have," said Hellberg. "You look at social VR platforms and 90 per cent of them include some kind of enclosure, even though you could just be on some plane" added Lesmes. "It highlights the role that architecture plays in structuring behaviour."
Hardware and software of architecture
The duo apply the same kind of systems-based thinking used in VR to their architectural projects. They believe that standardisation and mass production can facilitate new forms of craftsmanship.
"We're interested in the software of architecture, the effect it has on culture, but we also really enjoy projects that dealing with hardware issues, like fabrication techniques," said ...