kǒu
口
A space with which we are born, a space that senses itself, a space of constant becoming.
conceived with Elsa Despoix and Ella Jonuzi
TUNNEL
A cinematic dictionary revealing how language and moving images reflect today's world.
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The Substance
A cinematic dictionary
with Hao Liu
eye
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Everything Everywhere All At Once
a cinematic dictionary
with Hao Liu
Milano Idrofilica
installation + performance + film
located in Dropcity, Milan, Italy
using polyvinyl alcohol fabric, metal cables, string, stones from site, screws & metal eyelets
designed, constructed and dissolved with Hellen Boje and Hao Sean Liu
A diaphanous tunnel spans across two portals in the vaults below Milan Central Station, serving as a threshold, a passageway, spatial connector and divider. The tensile structure made of water-soluble fabric gradually dissolves as water is sprayed on the surface. As apertures open up, the previously concealed space behind is revealed and made accessible.
A tribute to Milan’s historic and contemporary relationship with water
Interwoven
residential architecture
located in Brunswick, VIC, Australia
Inspired by the diversity, indeterminacy and entanglement of mycelia while interrogating the possibilities of compact living and co-housing, Interwoven addresses the pressing issues of housing affordability, climate change and urban sprawl in Melbourne.
- Diversity: Through tenure-blind design combined with numerous typologies that support a variety of living arrangements, Interwoven embraces the precarity of contemporary housing conditions and the rise of solo-dwellers as an inspiration for diversity within a thriving and resilient co-housing community.
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Indeterminacy: Moveable internal partitions and un-programmed slack spaces allow for the expansion and contraction of living zones, which facilitates an indeterminate architecture that can adapt to short-term and long-term changes.
- Entanglement: The project further promotes an architecture entangled with vegetation through transluscent, multi-layered building envelopes inspired by Japanese shoji screens. These operable polycarbonate layers create intermediate buffer spaces between the public and the private, the inside and the outside, which can be occupied by humans, plants and fungi.