QRCity
This artwork reimagines the QR code as a three-dimensional city,
where information takes the form of towering architecture.
A sculptural QR landscape unfolds as a dense metropolis, turning digital code into urban structure.
The piece transforms a functional digital pattern into a skyline, inviting viewers to see data as architecture.
The first step was generating the QR code.
Once the code was created, every single square (module) within it was mapped and assigned its own height in millimeters. Each square effectively became a tiny vertical column.
By translating the flat QR pattern into varying heights, the code transformed into a three-dimensional landscape. Seen from the side, the structure resembles the silhouette of a dense city skyline rushing toward you as you drive down a highway. The squares were then grouped according to their height values, creating a layered topography derived entirely from the geometry of the QR itself.
Next, each square was turned into a 3D block, raised to its specific height and saved as its own 3D file, creating a full set of buildable pieces.
Shooting nighttime traffic with a drone from 210 meters gave me an accurate sense of the final viewing angle and perspective a person will have when looking at the artwork.
Finally, I combined the edited video artwork from DaVinci Resolve with the new structure of my QR City—now transformed into an inverted QR where black and white have been switched.