JUN HUANG

Digital art · Design · Research

Panoramic profile of the folded procedural city landscape
FROM DATA TO TERRAINDENSITYGENERATION

PROJECT / 2026

Foldscape.

A procedural urban landscape shaped by density, accumulation, and spatial pressure.

Foldscape is a speculative urban visualization project that transforms OpenStreetMap building data into folded architectural landscapes. Building height and spatial density drive procedural deformation, causing urban forms to stretch, twist, and accumulate. The project treats density as a spatial force and explores how urban data can generate emergent spatial forms.

TYPE
Data Visualization | Personal Project
ROLE
3D Artist | Technical Director
SCOPE
Procedural Design | Data Visualization | Lookdev
01

Chongqing

CHINA

29.56° N, 106.55° E

Chongqing reinterpreted as a folded procedural urban landscape
Chongqing street network and urban layout from OpenStreetMap
© OpenStreetMap contributors

Layered | Mountainous Fabric

Irregular urban density shaped by steep terrain, layered roads, and hillside development.

02

New York

USA

40.71° N, 74.01° W

New York reinterpreted as a folded procedural urban landscape
New York street network and urban layout from OpenStreetMap
© OpenStreetMap contributors

Gridded | Vertical Fabric

Orthogonal blocks and concentrated vertical growth shaped by a rigid street grid and regular parcels.

Urban Pressure as Form

DATA / FORM

Foldscape interprets urban density as a force acting on architecture. Buildings bend, stretch, and accumulate until the skyline becomes a compressed terrain. The resulting landscapes are not simulations of real urban conditions, but speculative forms generated through procedural rules.

OpenStreetMap view of Chongqing's streets and river bends
OPENSTREETMAP / SOURCE DATA
Extracted Chongqing street network from OpenStreetMap
CHONGQING / STREET NETWORK

System

03
  1. 01

    OSM building extraction

    Extract building footprints from OpenStreetMap as the starting geometry.

  2. 02

    street network extraction

    Extract the street network to define the urban layout.

  3. 03

    height-based analysis

    Use building height and spatial density to guide deformation.

  4. 04

    spatial scattering

    Distribute points across the footprints to prepare the generated forms.

  5. 05

    volumetric trail generation

    Generate vertical trails through the volume to build the spatial structure.

  6. 06

    procedural folding and vertical stretching

    Fold and stretch the generated forms into the final urban landscape.

Building data extracted from OpenStreetMap
01 / OSM building extraction
Extracted street network defining the urban field
02 / street network extraction
Color-coded building footprints in the procedural system
03 / height-based analysis
Scattered elements distributed across the building footprints
04 / spatial scattering
Vertical trails generating folded architectural volumes
05 / volumetric trail generation
Final rendered procedural landscape of Chongqing
06 / procedural folding and vertical stretching
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