Space Popular is a research driven architecture, design, and media studio that explores the future of spatial experience through virtual reality, film, exhibitions, speculative writing, as well as buildings and objects.


Space Popular is directed by

Lara Lesmes & Fredrik Hellberg.


2022 - The Portal Galleries
Space Popular: The Portal Galleries is a historical study of the magical portal in mainstream media. The Portal Galleries archive is composed of over 900 portals found in fantasy and fiction books, films, graphic novels, and games.


2022 - The Global Home
A new Immersive film by SPACE POPULAR’S Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg exploring the future of virtual togetherness in the home


Enter the Metaverse. 
Cover designed by Space Popular for the Metaverse issue of Metropolis Magazine JAN/FEB 2022

https://www.dezeen.com/2021/11/08/space-popular-manifesto-dezeen-15/

Space Popular proposes a "civic infrastructure for virtual teleportation" to help people navigate the metaverse. 


https://www.dezeen.com/2021/11/08/space-popular-virtual-portal-sir-john-soanes-museum-exhibition/

Space Popular's upcoming exhbition at the Sir John Soane Museum in London explores the history and future of the magics and mechanics of virtual travel. Opens 29th of June 2022

2021 - Camera Balla

Space Populars film and virtual experience Camera Balla is a poem about the work of Italian Futurist Giacomo Balla and the future of representation. 

VIRTUAL SPACES

www.arquia2020.com
Arquia Proxima. 2020

Freestyle Online. 2020. LINK TO SPACE

https://hubs.mozilla.com/JjUpYrj/aa-earth-gallery
AA Earth Gallery. 2020. LINK TO SPACE


RECENT PROJECTS

2020 - Infinity Wellbeing
Infinity Wellbeing. 2020
Freestyle: Architectural Adventures in Mass Media. 2020



Brick Vault House - Valencia Spain 2019

2019 - Gate of Bright LightsGate of Bright Lights - Deoksugung, Seoul. 2019

2019 - The Venn Room
The Venn Room - Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2019

2019 - The Wardian Case
The Wardian Case - Palazzo Reale Milano 2019

2018 - Value in the Virtual
Value in the Virtual - ArkDes Stockholm Sweden - 2018 










                        Brick Vault House - Valencia Spain 2019

2016 - Skellefteå Culture Center

Livet på Bergs - Stockholm Sweden - 2015

2018 - The Timber Hearth
The Timber Hearth - 16th Venice Biennale - 2018


2016 - Skellefteå Culture Center

Träbågen, Skellefteå Culture Center - 2016


2017 - Hilma af Klint Museum

Temple for Hilma af Klint - Stockholm Sweden - 2016


2016 - Örebro Water Reservoir
Örebro Water Resevoir - 2016


2017 - A Glass Tower

A Glass Tower - 2017

2013 - House of fairytales
The House of Fairytales - Odense, Denmark - 2013


2020 - The Second Collection
The Second Collection - 2020

2015 - The First Collection
The First Collection - 2016


2019 - Gate of Bright Lights
Gate of Bright Lights - Deoksugung, Seoul. 2019

The Venn Room - Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2019

2018 - Value in the Virtual

Value in the Virtual - ArkDes Stockholm Sweden - 2018 
  
2019 - The Wardian Case

The Wardian Case - Palazzo Reale Milano 2019

2017 - The Glass Chain
The Glass Chain - Sto WerkStatt London UK - 2017

2018 - Hanging out with Home

How I Started Hanging out with Home - Magazin, Vienna Austria - 2018

INTERIORS 

2020 - Infinity Wellbeing
Infinity Wellbeing - Bangkok Thailand - 2020

2016 - Infinity Spa

Infinity Spa - Bangkok Thailand - 2016

2014 - MAK - Valencia
MAK Montessori - Valencia Spain - 2014