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Junke Zhao

All Projects

Explore all of my work, from tiny objects cradled in your palm to the grand scale of a city unfolding beneath your gaze.

Research Projects

Transformable Furniture
Paper in Progress

Beyond Furniture: A Taxonomy and Personalized Design Platform of Transformable Furniture Made with Digital Fabrication Technologies for Domestic Usage

Junke Zhao, Te-Yen Wu, Liang He

A comprehensive taxonomy and query platform that maps transformation mechanisms to user needs across diverse demographics, based on an analysis of 150+ papers from the HCI, architecture, and design fields.

CoFAB
Master's Thesis, 2025

CoFAB: An Integrated Human-AI Collaboration Prototyping and Fabrication System for Designers in Early Design Stages

Junke Zhao (Advisor: Joshua Bard)

An integrated human-AI collaboration system that supports designers in prototyping and digital fabrication during the early stages of the design process.

Design Projects

Kinetic Shades

2024

Kinetic Shades

Exploring the spatial experience resulting from user interaction with building facade design through an adaptively sensing curtain wall system enabled by digital fabrication and physical computing.

Interactive Systems Digital Fabrication
Type Better on the Wrist

2024

Type Better on the Wrist

Developing a touch keyboard prototype for small devices/smartwatches through rapid prototyping and user testing, significantly improving input speed and accuracy.

User-Interface Design Accessibility
Jewelry Automata

2024

Jewelry Automata

Exploring generative design methods for personal accessories and jewelry based on cellular automata algorithms.

Generative Design
Track Your Commute

2023

Track Your Commute

An interactive widget that visualizes your daily commute by combining real-time weather and bus schedule data.

Physical Computing IoT
Ambient Infohub

2023

Ambient InfoHub

Using sensors and interactive interfaces to transform the historic Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall into a building-scale information hub that is perceptible, interactive, and experiential.

Spatial Computing Tangible Interaction
The Weaving Cloud

2022

The Weaving Cloud

Prefabricated 3D printed architectural design explores breaking through the size limitations of 3D printing equipment by using a method of layered printing and structural reinforcement.

Digital Fabrication
Living As You Want

2022

Living As You Want

A user-participatory apartment design platform built to help users customize room layouts, interior styles, and community environments, as well as assist designers in planning architectural and community designs.

User-Participatory Design Generative Design
Cybertale

2022

Cybertale

Exploring the 3D printing of flexible materials as a fabrication method for fashion design.

Digital Fabrication

Other Fun Stuff

ThunderBolt112

ThunderBolt112

A Python game paying tribute to classic arcade games.

DIY Desktop Robotic Arm

DIY Desktop Robotic Arm

A servo-driven desktop robotic arm built to carry out simple interactions and fabrication tasks.

Furniture Design of Postmodernism

Furniture Design of Postmodernism

Furniture design inspired by Kandinsky's paintings.

Project Metropolis

Project Metropolis

eVolo 2021 — exploring sustainability and material reuse in urban renewal.

Invisible City

Invisible City

A sequence of VR simulation levels designed to help individuals with sensory integration disorders acclimate to everyday urban environments.

Build a Pavilion

Build a Pavilion

From design and material selection to hands-on construction, building a full-size wooden pavilion.