Resident ready Static companion
kari_mikumao Journal

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Building the permanent workshop

Why this site starts with durable structure, real project evidence, and a resident-ready atelier.

  • website
  • architecture
  • resident

This site starts as an archive before it becomes a spectacle.

The first release sets up bilingual publishing, project evidence, research notes, and a fairly restrained workshop environment. Every article here documents work that actually exists. Sections with nothing real to show stay empty instead of getting filled with placeholder copy.

That last part was tempting to skip. An empty section looks unfinished, and the easy fix is a paragraph of filler nobody will read. But filler is a promise you have not kept yet, and I would rather the empty space be honest.

The resident system deliberately starts with an abstract proxy. A future Miku model should arrive with attribution and permission intact, not as an anonymous downloaded asset.

So the architecture treats models and motions as credited packs. The navigation only knows semantic actions like “walk” or “arrive at the lab” - it does not know filenames, and it does not know individual models.