Concept design for Miu Miu’s SS2010 Fashion Show in Paris 2009.  The concept of kitsch is revealed through the juxtaposition of colour, objects and techniques.  Architectural elements are illuminated in neon colour, faux wallpaper patterns are projected and chairs are arranged in an unexpected sinuous configuration transforming a Baroque interior into a kitsch fashion playground.

To transform the venue into a kitsch environment, a mix of different elements and techniques were deployed: electric colour projection highlighting architectural elements, graphic projection of kitsch imagery and the unusual arrangement of carpets and chairs (seating plan, above right).  Corresponding colour scheme is also proposed to reinforce the concept and delineate the different interior spaces.

Photo courtesy of AMO and Miu Miu.

The delivery and coordination of all 3D related projects for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games by working with the designated value in kind service provider.  Projects included the production of a comprehensive digital model of the Olympic Park where various key digital contents were extracted for design, planning and marketing purposes. The coordination required liaising with architects, corporate sponsors, structural engineers, landscape designers, local planners and model makers to accurately reflect the projected impression of the park during summer 2012.

Photo courtesy of LOCOG.

Twisting Concrete is a two-part research and installation project sponsored by Maeda Concrete Incorporated.  Using digital fabrication techniques to test and design innovative ways to utilise concrete in architecture.  Specific techniques were developed for casting the concrete with double curvature. 

Continuing from the success of the twisting concrete installation, a proposal was submited to the AAFAB Design Competition to install a concrete sculpture on an urban scale using the previous tested techniques.

RIBA concept competition for art space of the future.  Shortlisted entry uses art as a tool for rehabilitation and the corresponding art spaces mediates the prisoners with the public.

Collaboration with Peter Hudson on “Being Undetectable”, 2016

It is an attempt to use design to engage with philosophy; to create an interaction with the concept of existence. It aims to allow a willing participant to be totally transplanted from the reality that they were in before and to engage onlookers in questioning the existence of the occupant. It should provide an immersive experience for the occupant and a thought provocation for the viewer.

Photography - Richard Seymour

Driftwood is the 2009 AA Summer Pavilion - designed and built as a collective project by twelve Part I students over one academic term.  It aims to explore the sculptural qualities of architecture with a focus on digital scripting and fabrication techniques.

Architecture for the post fordist society.  The idea of an undifferentiated use of space contained by an infrastructural common forms a city within a city.  

Concept adapted for the UNITE Future Room Competition.

Timfoil is the runner up entry to the 2009 AA Summer Pavilion.  It aims to investigate the idea of second nature and artifice in a contemporary context while focusing on digital fabrication in the production process.

"In our contemporary society, what can we claim to be entirely natural, without interference from man or the machine?  Similar to the idea of second nature,  what we consider to be natural was at one point foreign;  it becomes second nature with time or practice as it evolves to be an acquired trait that seems innate.  

This pavilion speaks precisly to the relationship between nature and artifice. The transformation from nature to artifice, not as a linear path but rather a continuous cycle.  Organized in a trefoil geometry, this continuous form represents the symbiotic relationship where the pavilion is the in between space of nature and its surrounding built environment."

A columbarium for 1600 inhabitants.  Contemplation of the welfare state for the post fordist worker.  Comparison drawn between a transforium and the columbarium as a mean to discuss the role of architecture in the city.  Is it a means to an end or an end in itself?