Narrative Weaving Machine Part 1 Project 2025 Ke Yan Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University | China The “Narrative Weaving Machine” is a speculative and semi-mechanical architecture set in the Pearl River Delta, designed to reveal how spatial structures participate in shaping contemporary ideologies of efficiency, consumerism, and control. Inspired by Matteo Ricci’s “Memory Palace,” the design assembles a series of symbolic prototypes—including “Deconstruction Machine”, “Narrative Weaving Machines”, “Fake Weaving Machine”, “Swing Projector”, "Efficiency Transit Tower", and the “Desire Materialization Printer” simultaneously as a sanctuary and ideological apparatus.More than a built environment, this system performs. It enacts rituals of mechanical obedience, simulates participation, and materializes desires into icons, mimicking how real urban spaces are increasingly governed by spectacle and efficiency. Each structure operates like a machine: transmitting, transforming, and encoding narratives into ideology and spatial experience. And as users of the system, we are compelled to accept the ideological input it delivers, along with its structural obedience, systemic oppression, and the demand for self-sacrifice in exchange for overall efficiency. This is not a blueprint for construction, but a critical design fiction grounded in architectural logic. It speculates on how architecture might make visible the hidden operations of power, and in doing so, imagines new ways of reading, resisting, and reprogramming the spaces we inhabit. Tutor(s)