The Device of Perception is a cultural center located adjacent to Zarco Plaza in Mexico City in between the low rise colonial historic quarter and the high rise commercial development. The project exploits its own urban surroundings and serves as not only an exhibition space but a device of perception for the public to explore the city's unique history and cultural legacies. The perception is twofold in this project. One is the exterior plaza as the extension of the interior stage, the other is a spiral path with various scenery frames as the narrative to understand the city.

Yuting Zhang is the co-founder of Studio RE+N, as an urban designer and architect, practicing in China and the United States. She is a Harvard GSD graduate, a licensed architect, and a LEED-accredited professional. Her design aims at formulating architectural strategy from the urban environment and its ever-changing conditions, delivering a unique identity while respecting the existing urban fabric, historical and cultural context with sensitivity, and specifying distinct human experiences. She won several international awards in architecture and urban design and served as a guest critic in Boston University, Northeastern University and BAC.

As a licensed architect and urban designer, Yuting Zhang explores new ways to reinterpret ‘loci’ in her multi-disciplinary practice, her design aims at formulating spatial strategy from the urban environment and its ever-changing conditions, delivering unique identity while respecting the existing urban/rural fabric, historical and cultural context with sensitivity, and specifying distinct human experience.