Arctic Reef sits inside a broader “Future of Food” studio, imagining a digitally mediated ecology for cultivating and serving food in extreme, resource-scarce conditions. The work pairs an architectural proposition with a spatial interface — part tasting counter, part diagnostic instrument — so that a diner can read the engineered ecology behind a plate through touch, taste and an augmented overlay.
A printed blueprint of the dish doubles as the AR marker. Pointing a phone or tablet at it resolves the plate into its component systems — micro herbs, citrus spheres, crystalline sugar coral, blue cheese cubes, quinoa — each annotated in place, so the provenance of the meal becomes part of the meal.
[ Marker in situ — the blueprint pinned at the counter ]
[ Tasting counter — reading the dish through the tablet ]
[ Plated dish — the physical tasting study ]
[ Scanned model — the dish turning between render and mesh ]
[ Supply chain — farm, packaging, transit, restaurant ]
[ Exploded dish — the ingredient breakdown behind the plate ]
[ AR marker — the printed code that launches the overlay ]
[ Marker in use — the phone resolving the plate into the dish ]
[ In the app — the full readout on the plate, then annotation cards anchored to the dish and to the room ]