Digital Iteration - Bundling process

Morphology - Shells of Sydney Opera House

“Architecture is frozen music” ~ Johann Wolfgang
The composition of music is used as the underlying concept for the model.
The note of music is the primary parameter, with the direct relationship to a particular chosen song literally. The notes are then translated into corresponding frequencies in order to obtain a set of executable parameter. Secondary parameters, such as beats of the music, point of the beats, duration of each note and arb level would be necessary to determine the form of the shell in 3 dimensional space. Laws are used to govern the undulation of the openings beneath the shells.

The Lodge on the Lake: Prime Minister's Residence

The concept is strongly driven by axial development of Walter Burley Griffin's Canberra Plan. The design took its initial point of departure from the geometry of the context around Lake Burley Griffin. Two axes meet at the site, one from Parliament and the other from Civic, in which dissects the site into formalised spatial distribution. A balanced form resulted from the formal gesture reminds of the democratic politics, performing as private residence(private wing)on one side and public function (formal wing) on the opposite.

The site articulation gained particular functional significance as sensitive response in terms of spatial massing, to both climate and visual/view.

The PM's residence faces north for optimum climate quality with extensive enjoyment of the lake. View sharing is a critical component in governing the positions of various functions within the building.

A symmetrical overall massing layout is juxtaposed with climatically governed parametric roofs and walls, which aims to benchmark the environmentally sustainable design within the contemporary architecture context. This resulted in a series of different facade expression along different orientation.

Signature

A signature transformed into a three dimensional sculpture.

Signature is a personalised representation in 2d media. This projects investigates transformation of 2d signature into a 3d sculpture, with different thicknesses in areas representing different weigh of strokes.

Limited Edition Swiss Knife Victorinox: Horoscope

This project is part of a graphic design competition for the celebration of Victorinox.  The concept of the design creates a series of personalizable graphic art to complement the universal function of the Swiss knife.  Horoscope is a representation of oneself in terms of personal belief, attitude and character. The target market of this design is predominantly females.  The graphic art on the Swiss knife allows for feminine expression and individualization of character of the owner.

Concept Watch: BREIL Ori

'Ori' means folding, derived from origami. the watch accentuates the usage of stainless steel through folding technique to achieve perfection. The watch's face is formed by tessellation of folded planes that continues into the strap, therefore creating a coherent visual harmony. This achieves an effect as if the watch is made of a single sheet of stainless steel, forming a complete and seamless timepiece. Tthe main idea reflects a common folding technique which usually used on paper, onto stainless steel brings out the irony character of material usage. This idea focuses on stainless steel capability to achieve distinctive folding edges that displays precision in terms of technology, as well as brings out the character of the wearer to be firm and confident. On the watch’s face, the tessellations which are created parametrically impose strong sense of accuracy in displaying time through sharp directional edges and corners. The strap continues on the folding technique, from static tessellation (watch’s face) to dynamic tessellation on the strap (as the strap’s common nature to flex). Due to the unique and continuous tessellations, the watch displays different impression of reflections under different lighting conditions.

Project Sydney Opera House I : Morphology – Biomimicry

Designed by huan miao khoo, this project experiments the fundamental concrete shell structures of sydney opera house, extracting the structural forces and reinterpreting those elements through biomimicry methodology. 

 

The project aims to reinterpret the lightness of the shell structure, by extracting the structural force paths.  the retro digitization of the Sydney Opera House invokes the simplicity of the geometry’s surface against the complexity of the forces distributions.  The state-of-the-art building is organically portrayed through dynamism generated through a process defined by rules and parameters elicited from the building’s original design concepts.  Interrogation into the geometry of the concrete shells and application of biomimicry methodology provides opportunity of reinterpretation with different materials, therefore of similar forms but different expressions with an interesting outcome.

 Night time lighting

 Daytime shadow 

 Interior - opera halls with undulating structural surfaces