Artist | 藝術家

Aki Ro (Yahui LYU) is a form-making artist whose practice explores the use of tension as a generative force for creating three-dimensional structures that metaphorically engage with social and spiritual dimensions. He received formal training in architectural art and structural design at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China and later at Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan.

In 2025, he obtained his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. His doctoral research developed a three-dimensional form-making methodology known as Tension-Active Forming within the fields of digital fabrication and human–computer interaction. This method employs tensile forces to drive the transformation of planar materials into deformable three-dimensional structures.

Through this approach, Lyu seeks to visualize the presence of otherwise invisible physical forces, and to further investigate the underlying driving principles embedded in natural environments and human society. His research has been presented at international academic conferences including CHI, CAADRIA, and SCF, and his works have been exhibited at venues such as LVMH Métiers d’Art – La Main, Ars Electronica Festival, Have a Nice TOKYO!, HOSOO GALLERY, and The National Art Center, Tokyo.

Aki Ro（呂亞輝）是一位造型藝術家，致力於運用張拉力作為生成動力，創作隱喻社會性與精神性的立體造型作品。他先後於中國中央美術學院及日本東京藝術大學接受建築藝術與結構設計方面的專業訓練。

2025 年，呂於東京大學大學院學際情報學府取得博士學位。其博士研究在數位製造與人機互動的領域中，開拓了名為 Tension-Active Forming 的立體造型手法。此手法透過張拉力驅動平面材料的變形，生成具備可變形特性的三維結構。

透過此造型方法，藝術家將原本不可視的「物理力」轉化為可感知的形態表現，並進一步探究潛藏於自然環境與人類社會背後的驅動原理與結構性因素。其研究成果曾發表於 CHI、CAADRIA、SCF 等國際學術會議，作品亦曾於 LVMH Métiers d’Art – La Main、Ars Electronica Festival、Have a Nice TOKYO!、HOSOO GALLERY、東京國立新美術館等地展出。

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)