Category: EXPERIENCE
Singapore Prototypologies
We would like to announce the publication of our latest studio retrospective: ‘Singapore Prototypologies.’ Reviewing two semesters of students work from the MediaxDesign lab’s masters of architecture studio, the book explores the uniqueness of Singaporean urbanization and the challenges and opportunities of designing for the creative economy. https://morphogenesis16.wordpress.com Image credits: MxD
Studio Launch: Xixinan Rural Return
This year’s studio develops the architectural implications of the Rural Return: a movement combining reverse migration of China’s urbanized villagers back to their ancestral homes and the renewed interest of China’s urban elite in rural history and lifestyle. The studio takes place in Xixinan village, a historic rural village near the Huangshan Mountains in Anhui (…)
Remix
An on-going research that explores the potential of algebraic recombination of learned high-dimensional vector representations for generative design. A series of interfaces were developed to investigate these latent design spaces. In progress. keywords: Dimensionality Reduction, Computer Vision, Combinatorics, Voxel, Java design research: Immanuel Koh creative-coding: Immanuel Koh video 1 video 2 Image credits: Immanuel Koh
Singapore Studio 02
This Spring 2017 we are holding our second Singapore Studio and asking our students to propose innovation prototypologies- architectures that cater to the creative class. Our site, as in the previous semester, is the innovation district of Changi Business Park, anchored by the new Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Designing for innovation requires (…)
Lecture: Frven Lim, Singapore
Guest lecture by the distinguished Singaporean architect Frven Lim on October 24. Frven presented some of his recent work in Singapore, and reviewed current student projects. In a sort of crash-course on Singaporean urbanism. Frven introduced us to the architectural implications of the equatorial climate, as well as crucial planning and juridical constraints on urban (…)
Trends & Networks
This project explores the dynamics of a design-domain specific and tool-based social network (i.e. Grasshopper3D), which is characterized by a highly technical and task-driven perspective. It demonstrates that the increasingly interwoven relationship between designers and their digital tools can be quantitatively analyzed as a graph-based dataset in gaining insights on the changing landscape of architectural (…)