Between Clay and Code
I was trained to shape clay. Now I shape light, data, space.
Hello! I'm Zhuyuan Liu — an architectural designer, digital creator, and sculptor with a passion for blending artistic expression and emerging technologies. I began in the physical: carving stone, modeling forms, understanding how shadows fall on skin. Then I turned to architecture — the expanded field — where material meets speculation, and function folds into fiction.
My work moves fluidly between physical and digital realms. With a foundation in visual storytelling and CGI, I'm open to experimenting with new tools like XR and AI to push the boundaries of what design can be.
This site was partly made by AI, fully directed by me. Like any tool, it listens when you know what you want. Like any sculpture, it responds to the hand.
I believe the future belongs to hybrid minds — open to beauty, alert to change, resistant to repetition.
I don't make for well-worn paths.
I make for those who pause.
Who think.
Then ask: what else is possible?
