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.
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.
Product · Art · Research · Video Animation
2026
Solleria - Authenticated Singular Designer Clutches
A collection of one-of-one, digitally authenticated designer clutches with unique surfaces and collectible design.
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.
XR / Spatial · App · Product · Research
2025–present
Reality Overlap XR APP
Persistent AR/XR platform for spatial collaboration in real architectural environments — spatial anchors, wayfinding, place-based memory, and a web-based spatial data analysis tool with AI-interpreted heatmaps.
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.
XR / Spatial · Product · Research · App
2023–present
METAKIŞLA APP - Immersive Learning
A 3D immersive building game that turns the joy of building into a hands-on education in how the world is made.
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 · Interior · Research · Video Animation
2021
The Living O’Pod
A minimal, decentralized, and connected housing concept that nurtures the habitant's soul, mind, and resilience for social, environmental, and technological challenges.
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.
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.
Architecture · Research
c. 2015–2017
Experimental Tower Studies
Algorithmic form-finding studies for high-rise typologies during GAD's computational design research period.
Product · Research · Architecture
c. 2016
Milano Marble Fair Stand
Fair stand design for a marble exhibition in Milan, with GAD Architecture.
Architecture · Research
2016
Waffle Structure — WAF Future Vision
Biomimicry-driven study of future architectural space: a flexible structure that unfolds and adapts to boundary conditions — light, view, landscape, climate. Presented as WAF Future Vision 2016; 25,000 m² mixed-use study for Berlin.
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.
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.