Artist | 藝術家

Aki Ro (Yahui LYU) is an artist based in Tokyo, Japan. He received training in architectural arts and structural design at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China and the Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan. In 2025, he earned his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Information Studies from the University of Tokyo, where he developed a method of three-dimensional forming using tensile forces, and pursued extensive research and applications in digital design, fabrication, and interdisciplinary creation. His work centers on the making of “form,” encompassing architectural design, art installations, product design, and painting.

Aki was born into a Christian family in China and believes that the world is an integrated whole, carefully created by the Creator whose power transcends human capability. For Aki, three-dimensional form-making is the medium through which he explores the beauty inherent in this act of creation.

Aki Ro（呂亞輝）是一位旅居日本東京的藝術家。他先後在中國中央美術學院與日本東京藝術大學接受建築藝術與結構設計的訓練，並於2025年在東京大學取得學際情報學博士學位，研究以張拉力進行立體造型的方法，並在數位設計與製造、跨領域設計方面展開深入的探索與實踐。他的創作以「形狀」的生成為主軸，涵蓋建築設計、藝術裝置、產品設計與繪畫等領域。

Aki Ro 出身於中國的基督信仰家庭，深信世界乃是一位超越人類能力的造物主所精心創造的整體。對他而言，立體造型藝術正是他探索此一創造之中「美」的媒介。

Exhibition | 展覽

Yasuaki Kakehi Laboratory, The University of Tokyo (Yahui Lyu, Yasuaki Kakehi),
HOSOO, ZOZO NEXT. “TensionWeave <Blossom>“, LVMH Métiers d’Art-La Main,
30 Sep 2024 – 11 Oct 2024. https://www.lvmh.com/news-lvmh/lvmh-metiers-dartunveils-
ambient-weaving-ii-by-hosoo

Yahui Lyu, Rei Sakura, Yasuaki Kakehi
”TensionMod Mechanical Metamaterial Series“,
xlab Showcase 2024 / Well-tangledー混淆と調和, https://xlab.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/showcase2024/
The University of Tokyo, 9-11 March 2024.

xlab (Lyu contributes to form-making and structural design), HOSOO, ZOZO NEXT：”Ambient Weaving II-Woven Pillars“, https://www.hosoogallery.jp/en/exhibitions/ambient-weaving2/
HOSOO GALLERY, 27 October 2023-17 March 2024.

Tomomi Nitta, Yahui Lyu, Yasuaki Kakehi:
“Fluidic Painting“,
Garden Exhibition, Ars Electronica Festival, 2023.

xlab(Lyu contributes to form-making and structural design), HOSOO, ZOZONEXT:
“Ambient Weaving Collection”,
Have a Nice TOKYO!, 2023.

xlab(Lyu contributes to form-making and structural design), HOSOO, ZOZO NEXT：
”Woven Prototypes 001-Woven Pillars“,
The University of Tokyo, 2023.

Yahui Lyu, Yasuaki Kakehi:
“TensionMod”,
Ways of Uninventing, xlab Showcase, The University of Tokyo, 2023.

Yahui Lyu, Hao Su, Chang Lu
“銀茶会の茶席-華美”,
Mitsukoshi department, Ginza, Tokyo, 2018.

Yahui Lyu
“祈り空間ー乾漆技法を用いた構造物の設計”,
(Christian Praying SpaceーStructure design in using the technique of Japanese lacquer)
Tokyo University of Fine Arts Ueno Campus, Tokyo, January 28 – February 3, 2019.

Conference | 學會

Papers：

Yahui Lyu, Taiga Urata, Alessandro Garzanti, Ziyuan Jiang, Carlos Garcia, Fernandez, and Yasuaki Kakehi.
TensionFab: Fabrication of Room-scale Surface Structures From the Tension-Active Form of Planar Modules.
In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641958

Rei Sakura, Changyo Han, Yahui Lyu, Keisuke Watanabe, Ryosuke Yamamura, and Yasuaki Kakehi.
LattiSense: A 3D-Printable Resistive Deformation Sensor with Lattice Structures.
In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623263.3623361

呂 亜輝，浦田 泰河，アレッサンドロ・ガルザンティ, 筧 康明:
“TensionMod: 張力により変形可能な平面モジュールとその組み合わせによる造形の提案”,
4DFF (Conference on 4D and Functional Fabrication 2022), OP-03, (2022.10)

新田 友美，呂 亜輝，筧 康明:
“プリントオブジェクトの着彩過程を用いる動的絵画技法の提案”,
4DFF (Conference on 4D and Functional Fabrication 2022), OP-13, (2022.10)

Demo Presentation：

Yahui Lyu, Junwei Ao, and Yasuaki Kakehi. 2024. Designing Mechanical 3D Metamaterials with Tension-Active Modules. In ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF Adjunct ’24), July 7–10, 2024, Aarhus, Denmark. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3665662.3673261

Poster Presentation：

呂 亜輝，佐倉 玲，江 子淵，敖 俊偉，永田 莉紗，筧 康明:
“平面モジュールとその組み合わせによる柔らかさを持つ立体造形”,
深奥質感 第7回領域班会議, C01-3 実体の質感情報を引き出すフィジカルメディアの設計と表現実践, (2024.3.13-15)

呂 亜輝，筧 康明:
“平面モジュールとその組み合わせによる柔らかさを持つ立体造形”,
深奥質感 第6回領域班会議, C01-3 実体の質感情報を引き出すフィジカルメディアの設計と表現実践, (2023.9.27-29)

呂 亜輝，浦田 泰河，筧 康明:
“張力により変形可能な平面モジュールとその組み合わせによる立体造形”,
深奥質感 第5回領域班会議, C01-3 実体の質感情報を引き出すフィジカルメディアの設計と表現実践, (2023.3.13-15)