Peter Xu

TheXuSpace is a personal practice spanning three disciplines that all come from the same instinct: interior architecture, photography, and visual/audio work built around techno.

In interior design, that means an MS in Interior Architecture and a focus on adaptive reuse — proactively solving design challenges through environmental-centric, sustainable methods rather than treating sustainability as decoration. In photography, it's RoamWithPete: a practice in composition and perspective, twice an AGORA Top 10 Finalist, that feeds directly back into the design work. In visual and audio, it's an attempt to bring the feeling of DJing techno sets to people who weren't in the room — live sets paired with visuals that actually react to the music in real time, not a video loop pretending to.

"Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge." — Bjarke Ingels