Hybrid Interior Post-Industrial Heritage Community Storytelling Rigid Flexibility

Flexible Rigidity Rigid Flexibility

A portfolio exploring the tension between structural rules and open-ended narrative in interior, spatial and hybrid media design. I work within fixed constraints while creating spaces that resist homogenisation.

When formulating the plan, I always ponder over the question of whether to be "flexible" or "rigid"? Flexible rigidity or rigid flexibility? Is design based on established rules or does it break away from conventions?

WANG YUCHEN / ANGEL

01 — About & Philosophy

Designing within rules,
yet breaking templates.

Education

B.A. Environmental Design
Hebei University–University of Central Lancashire School of Media, Communication and Creative Industries (HBU-UCLan)

I am a hybrid interior designer focused on post-industrial heritage, community memory and spatial storytelling. My work moves between physical interior structures, installation experiences and digital narrative systems.

Every project begins with the hard conditions: building fabric, site boundaries, regulations, material logic and spatial constraints. These are not obstacles to avoid — they are the rigid foundation that makes flexible intervention meaningful.

Core Tension: Rigidity × Flexibility

I treat the site, structure and rules as rigid, while introducing flexible memory, narrative, interaction and adaptive experience. The result is what I call rigid flexibility.

Rigid

Building fabric
Site boundaries
Heritage rules
Material logic

Flexible

Collective memory
Digital narrative
User experience
Breaking templates

Skills & Tools

AutoCAD SketchUp Enscape Arduino Interactive Installation Site Analysis Field Interview Hybrid Media Heritage Interpretation

Awards & Honours

2024 — 2026

Competitions, funded projects and university honours.

202513th NCDA (Future Designer) — National 3rd Prize · 1st participant
202513th NCDA — Provincial 2nd Prize · 1st participant
202517th National Advertising Art Competition — Provincial 2nd Prize · 1st participant
2025National 3D Digital Innovation Design Competition — Provincial 1st Prize · 1st participant
2026Provincial Innovation & Entrepreneurship Training Program “Intergenerational Coexistence Community” · 2nd participant
—HBU Research Project “Digital-Intelligent Environmental Design & Visualisation” · provincial-level completion · 2nd participant
2025.05Outstanding Youth League Cadre · Hebei University
2025.12Special-Class Scholarship · Hebei University
2025.12Outstanding Student Cadre · Hebei University
2025.12Merit Student · Hebei University
2025.12First-Class Scholarship · Hebei University
2024.12Outstanding Student Cadre · Hebei University

03 — Photo Wall

Fragments from site, model and mock-up.

Close-up evidence of the making: structure tests, 1:1 mock-ups, site walks and exhibition moments. Click any photo to open it full-screen.

WOW metal spring frame mock-up — 01WOW — spring frame

BULL atrium installation detail — 02BULL — atrium detail

Installation Journey narrative route test — 03Journey — route test

Fuzhulong village site survey — 04Fuzhulong — site survey

Post-industrial heritage interior fragment — 05Honours — heritage fragment

Physical model and material study — 06Model & material study

04 — Research Archive

Rigid constraints. Flexible imagination.

Concept Diagram — Rigid vs Flexible

This diagram frames every project: the fixed conditions provide structure, while narrative, memory and interaction generate flexible, non-template experience.

Rigid Foundation

Original building fabric
Site boundary & scale
Heritage protection rules
Material & structural logic

Flexible Intervention

Collective grassroots memory
Digital immersive storytelling
Adaptive user experience
Breaking homogenised templates

INTERSECTION → RIGID FLEXIBILITY

Flexible Rigidity Rigid Flexibility