Oğuz Emre Bal
Artist · Architect · Researcher · Founder
Understanding reality by altering it through different perspectives.
App · Research
2026–present
DocViz APP
Visualize & understand any document with AI — uploads become interactive visual maps of structure and relationships: Classic, Node Map, Mind Map, and Text views, powered by local Ollama models.
Architecture · Interior
Canyon Shopping Center Concept
A shopping center concept design with fluidity elements especially insipred by slices and smoothed canyons and caves.
App · Product · Research
2026 — in development
Solar Dial APP
The relationship operating system for people who refuse to let the people they love drift away — contacts orbit you, drifting outward as time passes, making relationship decay visible before it becomes permanent loss.
App · Research
2025–present
Brainie APP
Personal knowledge graph powered by AI — organize information into separate 'brainies', visualize connections in a customizable 3D graph, and let AI extract keywords and process content.
Research · App · Product
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Trackie APP
A tool that turns any text into an interactive map of its structure, meaning, and connections.
Architecture · Video Animation
2024
Abu Dhabi Villa - Concept & Animation
Architecture, 3D Modeling, and Animation project for a villa in Abu Dhabi.
Video Animation
2024
Diffusion of Emotions
A graphic design project exploring the concept of emotional diffusion.
Product · Video Animation
2024
RTA LABS Animation
Product Design, 3D Modeling, Animation for a project by Oğuz Emre Bal.
Video Animation
2024
un10.design logo animation
A dynamic logo animation showcasing the brand's identity.
Art · XR / Spatial · App · Research · Video Animation
2022–ongoing
Meta Materials // Droplets
An avant-garde digital art project exploring materiality in virtual spaces and questioning the nature of reality.
Architecture · Video Animation · App
2021
The Living O'Pod - Concept, 360 Degrees & Animation
A futuristic concept for a living pod with immersive 360-degree animation. https://uniodesignstudio.com/external/tour3/
Research · App · Art · Video Animation
2021
Trouble Market APP aka dertedin
Speculative design installation imagining personal anxieties as tokenized, tradeable financial instruments — exposing the logic of financializing human distress.
Architecture
2020
Kelowna Children's Museum & Family Learning Complex
Museum, children's museum, and family learning complex with interiors in Kelowna, BC — 110,000 m² construction on a 162,000 m² site. Designed with Eti Kastoryano.
Architecture · Interior
2020
Manly Cove Beach Club
Commercial beach club with restaurant, bar, and interiors at Manly Cove, Sydney — 1,000 m². Designed with Eti Kastoryano.
Architecture · Interior
2020
Zayed City Residence
Residential project with interiors in Zayed City, Abu Dhabi — 1,200 m² construction on a 3,000 m² site. Designed with Eti Kastoryano.
Product · Video Animation
2019
BALO Smart Case
A product design concept and animation for a smart case, showcasing innovative features and user experience.
Architecture · Interior
Omzibar — Desert, Wadi & Sea Sanctuary
A regenerative coastal desert destination in Oman shaped by desert adventure, productive ecology, wadi wellness, culture, and hospitality-led luxury.
Research
2019–present
Architectural Design of Multi-Cognitive Reality Generated in Virtual Environment
Ph.D. research at ITU investigating how multi-cognitive realities are generated and designed in virtual environments — the theoretical spine of the entire practice.
Art · App · Product · Research · Video Animation
2019
Specularism APP✦
An interactive data sculpture that explores the mutable nature of reality within the contemporary digital landscape.
Art
ongoing
X-Scapes
Animation series exploring consciousness-spaces for experiences that resist recording: dreams, memory, and imagination as time-space constructs.
Art · XR / Spatial · Video Animation · App
2017–2018
İçlek — AR & VR: Wormholes APP✦
26 hand-made 3D-printed sculptures + AR app + VR environment. A semi-open structure where any boundary between inner and outer worlds is inherently permeable — a wormhole between urban and cosmic scales. bang. Prix Art Innovation Prize 2017.
Product · Interior
ŞekerBank Sculture Lightings
A commercial bank lobby with various types of lighting design inspired by the bank logo
Product
Lunar Watch Project
A lunar watch project.
Art · Research · Product · XR / Spatial · Video Animation
2014–2017
Space Hackers APP✦
Participatory platform inviting citizens to identify and 'hack' inaccessible urban spaces — mapping them as sites of latent potential and proposing collaborative interventions.
Product
Wireframe Faucet Design
A faucet minimal faucet design that hide s how the water flows from inside.
Video Animation · Product
MapiArt
Magnetic Pixel Art - Magnetic Sliced colored pieces to create images in the surfaces.
Research
2013–2015
Instant Space Design by the Experience of Movement
M.Sc. thesis at ITU: designing instant space through the experience of movement — where the practice's body-space-cognition thread began.
Web · Architecture · Interior · Video Animation
Likör Sosyal Experience Museum
An adaptive reuse project at old Mecidiyeköy Liquor Factory as a Social and Cultural Center.
Product
2011
Crank - Modular Lightening
A modular lighting design concept.
Interior
Outdoor Action
An experimental Outdoor Store, inspired by canyons and river beds. The rocks are stylized to reflect the canyon inspiration and used as a sale module. In the walls it is aimed to create a canyon feeling by using artificial rock texture.
Architecture · Interior
TU-ARC Trakya Universitesi Campus Concept
The dialog between old and new is always controversial. In this project we are stacking spaces with fluidity each other in 3d space and relation with old enclosure.
Architecture · Video Animation · Interior
Tibidabo Twin House
A Luxury Twin House Design that seamlessly blends natural materials with modern architecture.