INTERFACING
RESEARCH
LABORATORY
About
Interfacing Research Laboratory explores industrial production as a contemporary form of folk craft, integrating advanced technologies and methodological practice across disciplines and scales.

Central to IRL’s ethos is the acceptance of entropy as a synthetic bridging interface for research, design, and production.

Working with AI and spatial computing technologies, alongside both human-centered and ecological design processes, IRL searches for deeply adaptive and responsive design for both human needs and environmental feedback.

IRL emphasises and commits to the importance of maintaining human involvement in Earth system processes, ensuring that the resulting creations—whether in the form of buildings, tools, products, software, events or stories—embody essentialism, utility, and awareness of peripheral dynamics as well as beauty and place.
Contact
326 Netil Corner
89-115 Mare Street
London
E8 4RU
For all business enquiries please contact:
contact@interfacingresearchlaboratory.com
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Exploring alternative ways to organise life
Through form, industrial folk production, and eco-minded sustainability.
website: irl-architecture.com
contact: office@irl-architecture.com
IRL Object
website: irl-object.com
contact: info@irl-object.com
Exploring learning–through–PLAY
& folk production.
website: irl-play.com
contact: info@irl-play.com
Index
Produce
IRL PLAY; Present
Kin
IRL PLAY; Present
World Builders
IRL PLAY; Present
Our Home
IRL PLAY; Present
Saucy Uncle
IRL Object; Present
Melts
IRL Object; 2023
Argyle Place
IRL Architecture; 2023
Simulation, Innovation and Web3 Futures at the Carlyle & Co. FARFETCH Hybrid Salon event, Hong Kong
Interfacing Research Laboratory; 2023
Reframing the relationship between the priorities of e-commerce platforms and their logistical world-building as a means to challenge the role of FARFETCH marketers as negotiators of complex planetary scale processes.
NERVOUSystems
Interfacing Research Laboratory; 2023
NERVOUSystems is an inter–archive of writing and observations exploring but not limited to: architecture, world-systems analysis, organisational schemas (planning and negotiation), technology, and the stories we tell (or don’t tell) within our contemporary information/organised environments.
AASensorium
Interfacing Research Laboratory; 2022-2023
A think-tank hosted by the technical department at the Architectural Association, London. IRL began an investigation into the complex systems dynamics of simulation and sensitivity in relation to intelligence and consciousness in the architecture of design.
Proximity
Interfacing Research Laboratory; 2022 - Present
A system for researchers to archive, analyse, share and gather around intelligence.
Pivoting the Pearl
Interfacing Research Laboratory; 2022
A proposal to re-articulate the Plume of the Pearl River Delta as a transformative model to pivot stakeholder engagement towards ecological investment.
Gathering– In the Shadows of Progress
Interfacing Research Laboratory; 2022
A proposal to re-frame and engage with innovation models that have reformatted the UK, focusing engagement towards intrinsic intelligence embedded within the UK's forgotten logistical circuity through localised observation nodes.
Choke Points– The Warm War
Interfacing Research Laboratory; 2021
Our contemporary world-system mirrors an intricate mosaic, interweaving extractive elements and data conflicts, reminiscent of historical patterns from the Cold War.
Interfacing Research - Archive Moshing
IRL Object; 2022
"Archive Moshing" is inspired by data moshing, a technique that intentionally distorts or manipulates video data by purposefully corrupting the compression of file formats, resulting in visually striking and often unexpected artistic effects.
Virtual Rooms
IRL Object; 2021
An exploration into spatialising online communications.
Argyle Place
IRL Architecture; 2021
Leveraging Friction in Planning Policy: Catalyzing Diverse Engagement and Programmatic Negotiation in Hong Kong.
A 1:1 Model In A Room
IRL Architecture; 2020
An exhibition exploring the power of material ecology, alternative histories of enclosure, form and practice.
Hemlock Wine Bar
IRL Architecture; 2020
A natural wine bar built into an unused ground floor car parking lot in Seoul.
A 1:1 Model In A Room
IRL Architecture; 2020
A Brewery Within A Hill
IRL Architecture; 2019
A reforestation and landscaping project taking into account everyday materials, ecology, adaptive reuse of building elements, and introduction of a new brewery for the client.
Aviators Place
IRL Architecture; 2019
An instance embedded within Athens exemplifies the adaptation of existing urban and financial frameworks to challenge prevailing notions of ownership within globally interconnected cities.
Corporate Gardens
IRL Architecture; 2019
A proposal for Cricursa to assemble a walled garden for Glasstec Dusseldorf 2020.
In Common Parlance
IRL Architecture; 2019
A reimagining and consideration for the maintenance and infrastructural improvement for Parliament Square, London– both keeping its lawn and allowing political demonstration.
Temporary Shelter For Aa X Amnesty International Pavilion
IRL Architecture; 2019
A proposal to reconsider the AA x Amnesty brief to use explore the use of Mycelium as organically produced insulation for emergency shelters.
The Switch: An Ecological Marketplace
IRL Architecture; 2019
A condensing of logistical space and marketplace to prevent another fulfilment centre for produce.
Interface Research: Dinner for 1.5
IRL Object; 2018
An installation and environment designed as an interface to dine with your digital twin.