Prism Loo

Back to the basics - to design a low-cost toilet module for villages in Cambodia. Based on a hexagonal module so that the units can share walls to reduce costs further.

Chairs

Came across these stacks of run-of-the-mill plastic chairs. Only on closer observation I realised how beautiful and economical the shape of the chair is - and how it is actually a single deformed surface that creates volume with its curves and folds. Then I also realised how the repetition and stacking of the shape creates beautiful textural forms.

Also made me think about how so many things are over-designed and tortured into form when sometimes the most amazing things are made when you just leave them the way they should be.

Rain and other Olfactory Nostalgias

Hulking Desert Rig

Split Lamp

A single surface

A split

A twist

A light

DBS Workshop @ *SCAPE

An entry for a competition to do a DBS bank branch in the youth mall *SCAPE. Did this entry with Colin - my perpetual competition buddy. Really happy with the product! The idea was to create 2 distinct spaces: a 24-hour Interface zone with ATMs, digital screens, media wall, and a transformable Vortex zone with a dramatic infomedia sculpture, and a typical banking area that turns into a cool classroom area for financial masterclasses.

Mute

A constellation of cameras lights twinkle and a thousand lenses swivel and bulge
Pointed at me - the compound eye of an enormous dead fly.
I know this is the crucial moment to speak.
The final certain footstep
on the lip of the chasm before the leap.

I open my mouth, beaming.
And my smile soon collapses;
When I realise what I am:
mute.

Frozen Music

I just found pics of this lamp thing that I did for an exercise in year 2. I think we were given 3 hours or so to conceptualize and make a lamp in response to a piece of music written for NUS' Centennial celebrations.

I think my approach was to not think too much about the music/concept and just make something NICE out of the plastic sheets we were given. Haha. And the bullshitting and post-rationalization came after that. And thinking about it some more, that seems to be my approach to a LOT of other projects.

Whack now, think later.

Air

A few months ago I took part in the CDL Sculpture Competition ... and this was my entry.
The idea is to create a sculpture that inspired by the ground itself - half-earth and half-metal.
The name can be read in 2 ways: the English "Air" or the Malay "A-Ir" which means water.