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Index Cybertecture ............................................................................... p.1 Our Story ...................................................................................... p.3 Philosophy ................................................................................... p.5 What is Cybertecture? ................................................................p.6 Architecture and Planning ..................................................... p.67 Modular Integrated Construction ....................................... p.159 Smart City Planning .................................................................. p.177 Interior Design ............................................................................p.193 Entertainment & Cinema Design ......................................... p.239 Design and Build ........................................................................p.259 Technology & Industrial Design ........................................... p.279 Art and Sculpture ..................................................................... p.289 Cybertecture Academy ............................................................p.305

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Cybertecture Cybertecture aims to change the world by providing world acclaimed leading edge design in architecture, interior design, master planning, consulting, technology & industrial design, artwork production and design & build services for private, corporate and institutional clients around the world. Completed projects of wide range of types and complexity are located internationally including Hong Kong, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Moscow, Mumbai, New Delhi, Abidjan and Beijing. By adopting an innovation approach in all projects we undertake whether architecture, interior design, design & build, art sculpture, technology & industrial design or consulting, Our design teams are fully utilizes BIM, VR, AR and 3D Printing with which we aim to bring design originality and X-Factor. James Law Cybertecture is a Registered Architecture Practice of Royal Institute of Architects and Hong Kong Institute of Architects.

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Our Story James Law, was born in Hong Kong to a humble lower class family. At age of 7 years old, James was inspired by the movie “The Fountainhead” to become an architect. Being the first person in his family to afford tertiary education, James was accepted into the Bartlett School of Architecture in London where he was mentored by Peter Cook, and apprenticed under Itsuko Hasegawa in Tokyo. In 2001 James created his own startup with no funding, Cybertecture, focused on designing and building innovative ambitious projects that push the boundaries of architecture and technology to alleviate suffering for all. James has started the Cybertecture Academy to nurture a new generation of designers from a young age, and Cybertecture for Humanity Foundation to alleviate suffering in the world through design. James was recognised by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, and by the HKSAR Government as a Justice of the Peace for his efforts to improve the world through design. James’ dreams are to house 1 billion people who are homeless; to build Cybertecture projects in every country in the world; and to construct cities in space that can be a new home for humankind.

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Philosophy Cybertecture is the design of all things for a more intelligent world through new pieces of architecture, interior space, artwork, technology, and strategy. We see humanity undergoing a new renaissance of rapid change on this planet, so we believe that every project we design, and build should contribute to a sustainable and better world for all people. We believe our work can alleviate suffering for all segments of society. We work only on projects we feel we can add value, and that the project will have a positive impact for the world through designing into them an X-Factor of creativity, original thinking and technology.

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What is Cybertecture? by James Law

The world needs a new design paradigm that reflects on the conditions of our time and the challenges that we face on this planet. The human condition has come under rapid and major change over the last 100 years, both good and bad, and with such systemic changes comes the new challenges of the 21st Century. The good has come from a burgeoning population showing continuous growth that replenishes our human resources quickly. The post war baby booms fuelled by strong economic growth has seen nations rise in wealth and standards of living. The productivity of society has also risen in the last 200 years, catalysed by the introduction of machines into industry hailing the arrival of the Industrial Revolution. Human beings can procreate and produce at a rate never yet seen in Civilisation. Such productivity eventually gave rise to the clustering of people to live in ever growing centres of production, eventually these became the cities, and the dawn of urbanisation had arrived. With better incomes, stronger demand and accumulation of wealth, cities became the epicentre of human activity, where opportunities and proximity to activities made them the focus of the development of human centric construction and design. To power and operate cities, humans built vast infrastructures to deliver water, electricity, gas, telecommunications, cars, trains within and connecting cities. These are very much the arteries through which modern life is sustained. Our food, our water and our products and our ideas flow through this vast and complex matrix of networks. Added to this is the Internet, the human created network of information and interactions able to deliver, P.6

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share, interact and potentially to link every human on the planet in a civilisation wide connected maze in the virtual world. It is almost as if a parallel and ephemeral realm co-exists within our cities that both binds and mirrors our daily tangible lives with one that is increasing also existing in the cyber world. All these developments can be categorised as major progress in our human civilisation. Within this construct human mortality has decreased, standards of living have increased and prosperity has grown. The system seems to be perfect, yet it is not. Today, in parallel with these successes has come new major challenges arising from this imperfect system. The outcome of over two centuries of industrial revolution and the latter technology revolution has also borne challenges threatening our existence. The continuous and increasing use of fossil fuel in industry and transportation with its resulting emission of CO2 and other gases into the atmosphere has resulted in global warming that triggers major changes to our environment. Global warming has scientifically been proven to have affected our climate through its increase in warming resulting in new weather patterns that are alien to our past. Vast and extraordinary storms now appear in parts of the world that did not have regular occurrences of them in the past. Melting of the polar ice caps is seen as a threat through rising sea water levels and extinction of animal species. Snow on the key mountain ranges around the world is melting and not replenishing, creating an ever smaller supply of fresh water for people to drink. These are just a few of the major negative impacts that are increasingly prevalent in our world. Success is often countered by the side effects of success, and if human development is to be seen in this light, it can be said P.8

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that the 21st Century is advent of humanityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side effects to its progress. Population rise is seen as the core side effect. With over 6.5 billion people on the planet, the challenge is to be able to feed, house, keep healthy and provide employment for all. However, the planet has finite resources; to achieve this will not be always possible. The challenge is further exasperated by the uneven distribution of resources on the planet, with wealthier nations dominating resources and poorer nations struggling to have enough to provide basics. Child mortality still has great disparity between rich and poor nations. This problem of uneven distribution which touches on food, water, health, education and human rights, will continue and continue to get worse. The universal truth is that the world continues to be in flux. The complexes forces at play will continue to give opportunities and challenges to humanity. One can say that the situation is like a computer where the hardware is the planet and the software is humanity, and how compatible they are will result in how well the world operates. The hardware is hard to change and is finite. The software is hard to change as it is about people. So how can we make things better in this relationship? If one looks at human creativity and how we have designed and structured our societies, Architecture has always been a fundamental element in how we have crafted society. The nature of buildings, their role, their place, their impact, their symbolism has been the framework upon which we have organised our lives in our cities. Every building is akin to a microchip on an urban circuit board. They play their role to regulate, organise, protect and define for the people inside their lives within the context of a greater and more complex population. P.20

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Therefore if architecture continues to have a role in regulating human life, then one can interpret Architecture as the BUS (the BUS system that communicates information between functional elements inside the computer, therefore allowing its software to interact with its hardware). Architecture becomes the interface between what humanity needs, and what the world can provide. Architecture is therefore a technology that regulates, responds, and interacts between the world and people. Architecture is therefore a Technology, and in doing so, has an intrinsic role in how we mould the life, events, happenings and lives within the building. This technology will be composed of space, structure, materials, graphics made out of the traditional materials known in construction, but also out the of the new ideas, thoughts, constructs and paradigms that have become available in this modern age such as new formats of space, new strategies to planning, new smart materials, new interactive devices, new multimedia, and all connected and powered by the intelligence of the data from the Internet. This architecture will be designed in new ways too, taking on more digital premises to its formulation, but also become more multidisciplinary in its makeup. This architecture is no longer a building in the traditional sense, but a device that brings together the power of hardware and software in a synergy that brings about impact beyond traditional architecture to its users. This new architecture is called Cybertecture.

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With Cybertecture, the notions of architecture as a building, as a space, as a piece of art are fused together as a technology that brings about change. Within a building designed as Cybertecture, the notion of space goes beyond the traditional spaces of three dimensions, but reaches into the parallel realm of cyberspace, in doing so empowering the user to experience a new lifestyle through technology. The Pad building in Dubai, is just such a building, having had its architecture super charged with the notion of technological living, so that the structure itself is inspired like an Apple iPod that is able to digitally enhance residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives. Apartments react to residents needs, moods and events. Space changes its colour with mood, art appears to your liking on screens, views from the window change to real time locations around the world, and mirrors in the bathroom actively monitor residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; health. In such architecture, the building is no longer playing a latent role as structure you live in, but an active partner in life as it uses technology to enhance and augment your daily lifestyle in a positive way. Architecture empowered by technology makes super buildings. Just like a man being able to fly, he becomes Superman. The impact of technology on architecture cannot be underestimated. Whilst The Pad is a building, it has super charged spaces that are intelligent enough to augment your life. Technology is the adrenaline that has this effect. Even the notion of space is impacted one technology becomes injected. Distance and time can even be compressed. The Hyperloop project as coined by Elon Musk is super charged transportation architecture that literally compresses time and space because of its potential to travel as speeds faster than aircraft, linking cities and continents in a way that disrupts conventional notions of distance and commuting. The way people live in this impactful architecture P.24

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of the near future will fundamentally change the way we live in cities, districts and countries. Architecture essentially is a human centric activity. Shelter was needed for human to live safely and comfortable. In the modern age, the need for shelter has become ubiquitous and normal, yet buildings are becoming more and more high performing in their formulation. The typical glass office building which may often be seen to be boring, inhuman and work centric. Yet the amount of time people now spend on work as a proportion of their life is extraordinarily high. It is important for architecture to respond to this by creating workable and livable office building that brings a balance of life to the corporate lifestyles. The Capital building in Mumbai is a vast office building at the heart of Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finance district, yet it has a designed focused on the entire building being a technology that brings work life balance to its users. On each office floor it has the ability to access vast stepped sky gardens that act as refuge from the desk and computer to provide sunlight, fresh air and an alternative mindset. Yet the technology for balance is not only in the providing of public space, the lower quarter of the building is programmed with cafes, restaurants, shops, gyms, and other utilities, that provide an instant alternative space for office workers who can work over a coffee, have a business lunch, buy their groceries and even find some time for some exercise in the gym. Even the car parking is automated as one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest automatic underground car parking allows drivers to leave their cars in one of the six automated garages, and have their cars parked automatically. The building is therefore a technology that brings about a new work life balance through solving some of the traditional unhealthy aspects of offices, whilst augmenting through a human centric approach using appropriate and P.26

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innovative building planning, technologies and programs. As the world continues to grow, so has the corporation that drives the global economy. Huge corporations are building campuses and office complexes that house thousands of staff at a time. The building inside the commercial district of cities may no longer be a smaller stand alone structure, but a new conglomeration of structures into one. The architecture must melt multiple corporations together, share common spaces, and find a balance in their needs in a pseudo mini city approach. In the One BKC building in Mumbai, four major corporations share the same structure; including Facebook, Reliance Industries, Amazon, and Merrill Lynch/Bank of America. Each have their own circulations and floor plates and needs, yet are merged together in a giant three million square foot building that is a three dimensional puzzle of interlocking building blocks. By designing the building as a mini city, all the corporates have their own neighbourhoods, yet is serviced in an efficient manner with common spaces such as sky gardens, lobbies and an internal street that deliver visitors to the doors of each corporation directly, whilst a giant underground automated car park also serves to provide a technologically convenient way to park and retrieve cars for over 3,000 workers who uses this building. This architecture serves as a technology to bring efficient and well planned sharing of resources and spaces with this giant structure so that all partiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; needs are met. It can be said that nature is the most pervasive and massive technology around us. It binds the planet together and operates its ecosystem, which constantly changes in a dynamic system. Nature has become at odds with humanity as the human race consumes more than the planet can provide for, and as such it often reacts violently to our effects. Architecture, manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own P.28

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man-made nature, must therefore find a role in modulating the relationship between what is man-made and what is nature-made. Architecture has to understand nature in order for it to be in symbiosis with it. At the Cybertecture Egg Building, the entire architecture is driven by a human understanding of nature. The building form is an egg shape that allows for the maximum volume, floor plate space with the minimum amount of surface area of facade on the site. This efficiency of planning is altogether natural, for we see in nature the efficiency of growth that always yields the most optimism for its own existence. There is no extra. The building is also tilted at a specific angle, allowing the nose of the egg to point towards the key path of the sun on the site. In doing so, the building exposes the least amount of surface to the sun, lowering the amount of heat gained from solar heating significantly. The result is an architecture that seems so natural with its surroundings, for its planning, form and orientation has been driven by nature itself. To execute this structure, the need to use the latest second order analysis of structure and the resultant human engineered diagrid that supports the structure results in a design that merges the efforts of man and nature in a shared technological approach. The moment a caveman discovered the sheltering effects of a cave, was when architecture was discovered as technology that could provide the need refuge from the environment for humans to live in all conditions. Today, architecture continues to provide this shelter in a vast spectrum of climatic conditions, from the deserts of the equator to the cold of the poles. Architecture has further to exceed in this role to provide shelter to one which is able to modulate and control the environment it provides. Vast air conditioned sky slopes can be part of a shopping mall complex in the Middle East, where outdoor temperatures can be P.30

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extremely hot, but cold enough indoors for people to ski. This biospheric aspect of architecture is at the heart of the Snob Club Building in Moscow where a climatically controlled dome space can be an indoor man made beach for surfing in the height of the Russian winter, whilst a wintery ice rink in the height of the Russian summer, all in the same building. In this case the architecture is a technology for creating the needed environment for man in any external environment. For an architecture grounded in the real world, it is inextricably linked to the site upon it is built on. Its location is its environment. However, architecture as Cybertecture is now also a portal into cyberspace, making any architecture be able to be part of another virtual world through technology for the users inside. The VR Pavilion project is a circular virtual reality pavilion located inside a park. However, the view that one sees from the pavilion is not a park, but a virtually created digital landscape of a future vision of the same park, showing futuristic buildings, cars and people. It is as if the pavilion is some kind time machine able to take humans into a space that is neither fixed in space nor time. This ability for architecture not just as a shelter but a portal is incredibly powerful in unleashing the potentials of time and place, which was once fixed for traditional architecture. The fabric of architecture is also a technology in itself. The act of transforming material into structure and envelopes of space able to create shelter is a technological act. New materials are explored in all manner of projects with new iterations of concrete, steel or glass. And beyond this, the nature of the building itself is explored in projects like the Taiwan Museum, where the architecture is a composite of lightweight concrete ball bearings able to be sculptured and moulded in three dimensions into P.32

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spaces which are neither orthogonal nor organic, but instead an outcome of conglomeration and cohesion. Perhaps in the future, such buildings can be built in all manners of forms and sizes out of individual pixelated ball bearings anywhere for any function. If nature is the most sophisticated technology that architecture interfaces with every day, then architecture can conceivably become nature, as they interact in such close intertwined ways. Buildings need to live and breathe almost like plants so as to deliver the nurturing and save environment for its inhabitants. The Leaf project takes this symbiosis as the basis of its architecture in which the canopy of the building is conceived as a giant man made leaf able to give shelter, cool the internal spaces with a green roof, collect water, allow the building to breath, and produce energy for the running of the building through photovoltaic panels. Much akin to a real plant leaf that does a similar job but on a more micro level, the photosynthesis in the plant leaf is mimicked by the photovoltaic leaf roof of the architecture. Architecture is generally a heavy object, strong and unmovable. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s permanence often grounded by the weight of its materials such as concrete and steel. However, in an age of new materials, the question is why architecture must be so heavy and immovable? Giant structures which are heavy use excessively large amounts of material and therefore energy to build. The weight itself creates limits to spans and volumes of spaces. If a building becomes a lightweight technology, it would suffer less the limitations that gravity induces on it. The Mumbai Convention Centre, itself a very large circular building with a large convention hall, embraces its prowess to be a large span structure by being designed as a circular light weight structure. The skin of the P.34

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building is also the structure of the building, being an air inflated bubble structure able to span the entire width of the building which conventionally would not be able to done with such easy and economy of materials. The performance of buildings inflated by air can in many ways be a significantly more elegant and economic way to build. The modern construction industry continues to lag behind other industries in their adoption of mechanisation of production. The Industrial Revolution bought the paradigm of robotic mass production lines to the benefit of the masses by making it possible to create en masse ever greater quality and affordable goods. However, buildings have mainly continued to be objects of bespoke production and built by hand and machines on site. Architecture has fostered this with its self referential identity as a piece of art or design, unique to place and circumstance. However, this thinking is becoming outdated in a world connected by technology and short on resources. The first connection refers to the possibilities for software to create the functions of a building whilst its hardware remains neutral, whilst, the second connection refers to a referential design based on place, which rightly or wrongly locks a building into a uniform and bespoke approach. The fact is that the world, being short on resources and under high demand for housing and buildings must be cleverer as a technology that is able to produce at scale, affordably to more people, and at a quality that brings dignity to everyone. Modularisation in the form of modular architecture is not new, yet it has made a comeback in the current era of rapid urbanisation. Its application as technology to deliver better and more affordable buildings especially to target public housing P.36

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has become increasingly important. With modularisation creating a new generation of modular integrated construction will be a new family of architecture that can solve problems in ways that traditional architecture could not. The OPod concrete tube house is an example of such a modularised architecture. Inspired by the act of repurposing available concrete water pipes large enough for people to inhabit, the OPod is a modular house that is able to be made in the factory from existing concrete moulds, fitted out with low cost furnishings, resulting in a livable house that is significantly cheaper and faster to build than conventional buildings. OPods can also be stacked up to create buildings on several levels with multiple units, ideal for creating affordable housing. And since they are movable and reusable as they are not drilled into the ground like conventional buildings, they can be set up on grounds previously unused or deemed unbuildable with conventional architecture. OPods served to activate wasted land and provide housing quickly and cheaply for the homeless and those struggling to find affordable accommodation. Modular integrated construction also allows the possibilities of buildings in materials other than the stereotypical concrete, steel, wood or glass. The AlPod modular house is made almost entirely out of aluminium, and in doing so it is light, portable, high quality and recyclable. Similar to a car or aircraft, the production line making AlPod will be like any assembly line you find in car or aerospace factories, where well designed, pre-machined parts will be assembled together by machines and robots, bringing speed, precision, order and quality to the process. The result will be an architecture crafted like a smart phone, yet large enough to live in. With less involvement of the artisan movement to the creation of such architecture, it can be P.38

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just as beautiful and intriguing as any architecture, through prior design, followed by a sleek and wonderfully advanced production process. Both the OPod and AlPod are the single pixels to the potentially larger canvas of advantages that modular integrated construction can bring to bear on the built environment of our cities. As single units, they are small living spaces. However, when stacked and conglomerates, they become the building blocks to new high rise architectures that are able to be changed, modulated and updated over time. Architecture has thus been upgraded from its previous permanent identity where buildings rarely nor easily can change their functions. But buildings which are made out of units designed to be mounted, remounted and interchanged allow the building to have upgrades to its spaces. The AlPod tower using AlPod units is able to become a bookcase like architecture, where the books being the pods attached can be taken off the shelves, repositioned, or even exchanged with other buildings. The result of having enough buildings such as these become the fabric of a city means that the flexibility for a city to be upgrade or change in response to social, economic and political needs is greater. Districts previously in need for rezoning can now possible reduce the need for wasteful and harmful demolition of old outdated structures, but instead could be upgraded by the introduction of new pods to modular buildings. The pods can bring new functions to a building transforming it from residential to commercial or vice versa; making a commercial building into a hospital, or even be a mixed use in the true sense where every pod has different functions in the same building. If a truly smart city is one that is intelligent, then the intelligent P.40

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must be grounded on the ability to be flexible, and the analogy of the computer being flexible, comes from its core strategy of having hardware able to be flexible enough to install different software in order to keep the computer remain useful, productive, relevant and up to date. Until now our cities have not been able to do this. Urbanisation in the 20th Century has reached an epic level now at the dawn of the 21st Century. With over half of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population living in cities, they are getting larger with an increasing pressure to get denser and provide the needs of urbanites that live and work in these dense epicentres. Cities have not reacted particularly well to this surge. Most cities are planned to grown organically due to historical legacies, and even the new cities of the developing world are hybrids between conceptual frameworks to city planning and what actually is needed to solve peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s problems living in a city. Human beings enjoy proximity to each other, and that is why cities are their preferred places to live and work. Being together gives greater interactions, giving more opportunities to communicate, have relationships, trade and be entrepreneurs. However being in close proximity also means greater pressures on space, and the results have been larger infrastructure of taller and bigger buildings to accommodate the burgeoning numbers of commercial and residential units needed. Cities are every frowning, but they are not sustainable by any means. They consume, waste, pollute and fracture social structures in the most unsustainable ways. The question one must ask whether we need to relook at the fundamentals of how a city should be designed, built, organised in order to break this cycle of unsustainability. This is P.42

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an extremely complex question and challenge, and on all levels of scale and complexity, there are issues that are very much part of cities that make them both work and not work. However, it is interesting to be conceiving disruptive design concepts for cities that question their planning. Imagine if a city is not organised around private plots of landed bounded by streets, but instead these private plots are amalgamated, freeing up larger tracks of land for public use. Both strategies will yield very different feelings to how a city can be lived in. The sprawling format of cities, which is the general format to most cities, consumes greater tracks of land, creates extremes in values of land, resulting in social tensions, as well as massive inefficiencies for transportation which we can see in traffic jams, massive energy and water infrastructures that are wasteful in transmission. The Technosphere is designed as a new age city that tries to solve these issues by using a fundamentally different approach to how a city can be designed, built and operated. Subverting the notion of plots of land, the Technosphere is designed as a single mega structure that contained all spaces of a city without roads. At this hyper density, commuting is done foot with the support of escalators, travelators and personal transportation devices like electric mopeds. Time is saved. By bringing the whole city into one structure, the Technosphere can save up to 50% energy, water and air consumption, and use 40% less construction material to build as it essentially has fused all buildings into one compared to conventional cities. The Technosphere can also be interpreted as a massive urban machine designed to optimise the operations of a city. With P.44

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such efficiencies to free up space outside, spare resources of water, air and energy, this new kind of city may be a way to make urban living more sustainable. This radical approach may seem far fetch, yet, in light of the massive urbanisation underway around the world, and an ever increasing global urban population, it is a fact that the conventional approach to cities cannot continue forever. New formats must be considered. Radical and disruptive visions take time to be tested and adopted. However we cannot wait for these breakthroughs as cities become more polluted, complexed and mired in problems. In the short term, understanding more intricately the workings of a city will be essential to how we can better micro manage them. Making cities smarter to diagnosed their health will allow citizens to modulate their life in the city in a more efficient and informed manner. Akin to inserting diagnostic technology into a system to understand any complex processâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fluctuations, efficiencies, performance and productivity, the Cybertecture Smart Lamp Post and Smart Environmental Lamp Post projects are like â&#x20AC;&#x153;thermometersâ&#x20AC;? monitoring the health of the city. Each pole is essentially a myriad of sensors capable to getting data about the city ranging from people counting to hazard prediction, temperature fluctuations to bio-hazard warnings. They continuously gather this information, and are shared open source onto the internet for citizens to scrutinise or use to develop third party application services to the public. Such technology may bring a level of intelligence to our decision P.46

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making in the cities, however, they do not yet fundamentally address the macro and complex issues of what a city truly needs to be in the 21st Century in order to deliver equality and a balanced healthy ecosystem for people to live. The interior space of architecture is the heart of any project for it is the encapsulating interface the architecture has with the user. Whilst the interior spaces are determined in form, volume, configuration and juxtaposition by the structure of the building, in itself, it has potential to tell an important story about the function, meaning and brand of the space. For retail projects, our approach is always to balance the customer experience with the story of the brand. When designed well, any retail experience should feel friendly and seamless, exciting and enriching. The Dickson CyberExpress project is one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first bricks and clicks shopping malls encompassing online and offline shopping in the same space. By using a series of iconic imagery to represent different zones of shopping, the customer seemingly is browsing through a real world version of webpages. The Electronic Arts Experience project surrounds the game player with a virtual reality dome with robots to play games against, whilst nestled behind is the coolest games store in Hong Kong. The IOT store for HKT is another example of bringing technology to lifestyle. Creating a series of warm and inviting zones, technology products are placed as art objects that is very much part of a conceptual home, and can be interacted within the store. It is as if you can experience how to live with the latest technology in an intimate way. For institutional projects, our approach is to give the customer the most innovative, user friendly and interactive experience P.48

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possible. Ultimately it is to upgrade the previous existing notions of what an institution is in this day and age of technology. Our Cyberport Post Office project reduces the amount of counters with appropriate touch screen technologies for customers to get their service. Our Jockey Club Betting Centres stimulates the excitement of being live at the horse races, and surround the customer with useful live information to inform them on their decisions for bets. Our visitor centres for universities are quiet and distinguished spaces, which are elegant and simply, yet through the right technologies allow the visitors to understand the depth and breadth of academic life and accomplishments by the institutions. For residential projects, our approach is always to be client centric. A home is for people to live in comfortably and not an expression of the designerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal design style. With each client we learn to understand them as people, personalities, families with habits and idiosyncrasies. From there, it is always a collaborative approach to design, hand in hand, to co-create something personal and uniquely right for them. For clients who are brave and experimental, we work with them to push the boundaries of the meaning of home. The Cybertecture Home is one of the first projects in the world to make a home out of both physical and cyber space merged as one. The experience of the home is both real and virtual, with virtual reality projects expanding the physical rooms beyond their physical dimensions. Spaces in this home can reach through the internet to other spaces, linking them, in an experiential form of dislocated reality. The home with Cybertecture become less confined by physical space, but is a portal into the parallel and dimensionless realm of cyber space. Cinemas and Entertainment spaces are the happiest spaces on P.50

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Earth. They are the cathedrals of fun and entertainment, where people go to find joy and relief from the daily grind of life. Their designs only bound by imagination, creating unworldly spaces that take people away from the realities that they know to a new reality for them to explore. It is just the same as movies, which for their duration, absorb us in to an alternative universe. Similarly, our cinema and entertainment projects are exciting portals into alternative worlds. Each has their stories. Some are time tunnels, others are cyberspaces. One project in particular, the AMC Pacific Place Cinema is an enchanted forest created out of wood through which people explore to arrive at their cinema house. The forest is designed to destress the visitor from their life in the busy city of Hong Kong, with soft warm wooden leaves above head that diffuses lift through them in a most natural of ways. Inside this enchanted forest are the hidden treasures of the bar, the concessions, and the bathrooms, all delicately designed to be comfortable and welcoming. The bridge between design and construction has always been a difficult one to traverse. Essentially to design something that is complicated and sophisticated, the risk of having it not constructed in exactly the way it was designed has always been a barrier to achieving optimum in the result. Therefore on certain projects it is important to take the role of both the designer and the constructor. These design and build projects are mainly focused on the projects which essentially needs close coordination and be achieved in a short amount of time. The opportunity for the designer to closely coordinate with suppliers, the contractors, the fabricators, and the client in the intimate way that is beyond the traditional ways of designer and contractor relationship allows for a more complex and detailed end result. Whilst this P.52

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may still seem to be new in the construction industry we can already see that this way of working is the fundamental methodology behind the creation of technology. Smart phones cannot be designed by one party and then manufactured by another if the smart phone is to be seamlessly well integrated between hardware and software. It involves all parties to be working hand-in-hand. Sophisticated projects like the ICC Show Suite involved the coordinated design of interiors, model making, audio visuals, multimedia and robotic systems to work seamlessly together to create a total experimental space for visitors. At a touch of a button, the project comes alive with doors automatically opening, rooms lighting up, models elevated and illuminated, a digital avatar appears to lead the visitor on a journey through the spaces suspended from a moving monitor on a track in the ceiling. This project is a total technology integrated experience that cannot be designed and built separately. Likewise the CLP SmartHub project is a total immersion experience with panoramic projection rooms that immerses visitors in a dream experience told by a 270 degree video. Here, the seamless integration of space, audio visual, multimedia and the content of the film itself must be coordinated as one enterprise for such a project to work smoothly as one. If Cybertecture is defined by the notion that Architecture is Technology, then Technology is also Architecture. Designing buildings that are smart will also involve designing some of the technology that empowers the smartness. The devices, surfaces, materials, systems of the smartness may not always be available in the market place, and as such may have to be invented, pieced P.54

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together and built by us for our projects. For The Pad building in Dubai, the strategy of the architecture was that the building became a technological device to live in. Many elements of the building will be augmented with technology to make them interact with the residents. One major element is the Cybertecture Mirrors in each bathroom which are in fact hi tech mirror surfaces that not only reflect the person, but also monitor their health using sensors, show augmented reality information in the reflection and ultimately serve as a portal into a digital space of applications to help with living in the building. As no such product was available in the market place, we designed, developed, produced and marketed this Cybertecture Mirror as a wholly in-house developed product driven by the needs of The Pad. From choosing the right kind of glass, to developing the hardware, to making the software, to designing the user interface, programming the backend systems etc, this task was as large as designing the building itself. Yet this is just one of a number of technologies we developed for our projects in house. Others range from innovative furniture that can transform their configuration like a three dimensional jigsaw puzzle such as the Cybertecture Jigsaw, to furniture that users sensors and algorithms to guess your emotions such as the Cybertecture Love Seat. In one case, the technology is the intricate articulation of geometry. In the second case, the technology is the sensory mathematics. Whilst technology is often the perceived as digital, mechanical and outright â&#x20AC;&#x153;technologicalâ&#x20AC;?, we believe that one of the most powerful intuitive technologies is Art. It is evident that art impacts on people in a deep intuitive way, communicating issues, evoking P.56

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emotions and enlightens that spirit. It is perhaps the most powerful of the man made technologies, and in art we find that we can achieve effects with Cybertecture that cannot easily be done by simply the architectural repertoire of spaces and structures, nor the functional repertoire of services and content of technology alone. In several of our projects, art has played a significant role in augmenting the overall breadth and depth of experiences. We have created giant sculptures such as the Energy Man that sits at the front of our tower at 6 Wilmer Street to symbolise the energy of the people living and working in the building and in the neighbourhood district as a whole. The art and the architecture play in unison, articulating the spirit of joy and energy we wanted to achieve for the building. Lifting the spirit, reminding us about our past, creating a social effect is also an interesting impact stemming from public art. The Giant Robot, a cute whimsical oversized replica of a toy robot sitting on the lawns of a new public park in Hong Kong revitalised from an old industrial neighbourhood serves to remind the public about the history of manufacturing in Hong Kong including making toys. In itself, it is a fun and curious figure that brings giggles to the faces of children playing on it, and a smile from the older generation for they are reminded of yesteryear by it. The spirit of art and our interest in creativity of art also spans into the movies. Our collaboration with world renowned Wong Kar Wai includes designing the futuristic story and scenes of his movie 2046. Set in the premise of an abstract notional future where robots have relationships with people and help them P.58

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travel at light speeds on a train like the Hyperloop to a place they dream of, is an allegory for the yearning and regrets we all have in our journey of life. As such our designs in this movie helped to articulate this in a dreamy Cybertecture world that is fantastical and philosophical. If Cybertecture is a technology that empowers and is embodied in all our projects, then as a technology we must nurture its growth, renewal, updating and development. The current generations of our designers think in the moment of now, yet we must prepare and nurture the next generation of designers to think into the future and be ready to take on the challenges to create for future times. That is why we also run academy to train young children in the design of Cybertecture. The Cybertecture Academy is an experiential learning course that inspires children into the realms of design, innovation, creativity and technology through real time learning in our studios, our partnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offices, visits to amazing architecture and spaces, and interacting with real challenges to find solutions. We have partnered with incredible institutions such as Google, Microsoft, Uber, CLP, MTRC and many more that have shared their knowledge and insights to our students of the academy. Over the years, the academy has nurtured hundreds of young children, helped them to activate their passions, and we have seen them progress into university with the advantage of early exposure to Cybertecture.

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So what is Cybertecture? Cybertecture is all the above and more. It is a journey of discovery, creativity and impact through design, creativity, innovation to solve problems around us, to alleviate suffering, and to create a lasting positive, practical, sustainable impact on the planet. Cybertecture is a belief that in creativity, we as a humanity have the skill, knowledge and technology to solve problems. In the finiteness of each life we live, and we are fortunate to find our talents, and if we become grateful for the life we live on this planet, then in each thing we make, we are and can be making a better world. This is Cybertecture.

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The Pad Dubai

The Pad is a 26 storey tall residential building located in Business Bay, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Padâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s architecture is inspired by the Apple iPod, and scales up the form of an iPod to a building scale. Winning out from a competition against Foster & Partners, and Zaha Hadid Architects, the building has been designed to be a new type of architecture which takes on board the technological advances available currently to allow inhabitants to programs their own software for their building. Inside the building, the interiors have a range of technologies including biometric locks, mood lighting, voice control and mirrors that can monitor your health. The Pad is the first example of a Cybertecture building that uses architecture and technology to give a wide range of living possibilities for the inhabitants.

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The Capital Mumbai

Mumbai commercial building of 20 floors and 1.5 million sq.ft of space is designed for multinational companies including Deutsch Bank containing offices, restaurants and lobbies. The Capital is designed with iconic egg shaped structure, sculptural curtain wall, sky lobby, sky terraces and automated robotic car parking for 1500 cars. The building is LEED Gold rated and India Green Building Gold rated.

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Hyperloop Design and development for the architecture of the Hyperloop coined by Elon Musk - an electromagnetically propelled transportation system inside a vacuum tube able to allow high speed travel that has the potential to connect cities, districts, countries and continents in a revolutionary way.

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One BKC Mumbai

Mumbai commercial building of 20 floors and 2.0 million sq.ft of space is designed for multinational companies currently including Bank of America - Merrill Lynch, Facebook, Amazon containing offices, restaurants and lobbies, is designed with sky terraces, solar shaded curtain wall, automated robotic car parking for 1500 cars and covered drop off lobbies. The building is LEED Gold rated and India Green Building Gold rated.

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Cybertecture Egg Mumbai

Mumbai central business district green commercial building designed as a sustainable green office with iconic architecture, parametrically designed shape to minimize solar gain and high efficiency floor plates with innovative column-less steel diagrid shell structure.

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6 Wilmer Street Hong Kong

Hong Kong Island smart office building of 28 floors containing 150 micro â&#x20AC;&#x153;workpodâ&#x20AC;? office units each equipped with own bathroom and pantries. Building facade as LED features and art is introduced to all public areas curated and custom made by architect.

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Aquaria Grande Mumbai

Mumbai pair of premium residential high rises of 48 floors featuring 288 apartments. Towers are designed in 3 leaf configurations allowing for continuous views from all rooms of apartments, and a apartment planning that promotes natural cross ventilation. Podium features a landscape deck and clubhouse with residential car parking and transport interchange.

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Snob Club Moscow

A 250,000 square feet entertainment building in Moscow City comprising of an innovative multipurpose dome space equipped with animatronic stage technology that can be operated for sports, concerts, parties and theatrical shows. Wrapped around the dome on multi levels are activity spaces including gyms, spas, restaurants and retail.

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Delhi Airport Express Terminal New Delhi

Delhi Airport Express Terminal is a 0.5 million sq.ft integrated railway development comprising of railway station terminal with car parking, retail, commercial and hotel facilities on top in a single building.

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CLP SmartEnergy Hong Kong

A 8,000 square feet five storey building as the flagship store designed and built for an electric utility company containing unique individual themed floors that demonstrate Smart City, Smart Energy, Smart Cooking, Smart Home with hands on demonstrations and experience of products and services available to the Hong Kong public. The design utilizes warm terracotta tiling on the outside and cyber themed symbolic hexagon geometries inside with modular aluminium paneling to create an energized and futuristic retail building and space.

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Noahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ark Hong Kong

A 150,000 sq.ft Noahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ark thematic entertainment and education building contain hotel, museum and restaurant inside a seaside landscape park with animal sculptures and playgrounds. Completed and now in operation for visitors to stay and have an educational and entertaining experience about the story of Noah.

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Bandra Ohm Mumbai

Mumbai ultra luxury 38 floor 150 units apartment building with unique swimming pools on balconies and glass clubhouse overlooking India ocean featuring robotic opening glass roof.

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Vasukamal Mumbai

Mumbai urban redevelopment residential building featuring triplex and duplex apartments with green balconies and roof top swimming pool.

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Jenga Tower Hong Kong

Hong Kong Central districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new age residential high rise. The Jenga Tower is a 32 storey skyscraper comprising of 128 nano apartments ranging from 200 sq.ft studio apartments to 800 square feet duplex apartments. Based on a central core concrete superstructure for most of the building, up to 25% of units are pods prefabricated off site and hung onto the building. This is done to minimise construction time, allow for customisation off site, and flexibility to adapt the building in the future by replacing the pods. The juxtaposition of building forms and pods creates the opportunity to have terraces and balconies unique to each unit of the tower.

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Elements Mumbai

Residential development of seven connected mid rise towers connected by contiguous skygarden is designed to provide wide panoramic views of the Mumbai Juhu District as well as creation of inner courtyard garden with landscaping to be shared by residents as an oasis from city life.

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Kai Tak Future Festival Hong Kong

Located on the old runway of Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong, the Future Festival is masterplanned and designed to be a destination for the public to visit pavilions dedicated to the topics of culture, technology, arts, entertainment in the future. Featuring thematic pavilions and art installations, the main pavilion is designed to the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest bamboo structure creating a multipurpose circular stadium able to cater for sports, theatre and drone racing.

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Matrix Tower New York

The Matrix Tower is a New York residential condominium tower designed with modular hexagonal residential prefabricated units attached to a vertical core structure. The outcome is a tower that has a organically inspired configuration, with unique views and spaces for each and every duplex apartment in the tower, creating unique and one of a kind properties overlooking the Manhattan cityscape.

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The Cascade Larnaca

A Mediterranean residential complex of apartments designed to provide terraces to all residents by a design that creates an architectural cascade that dissolved indoor and outdoor lifestyles into one.

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Pavilion of Togetherness Hong Kong

A citizen architecture for a pavilion that brings solidarity and togetherness for the citizens of Hong Kong in response to social strive and disharmony of 2019. The pavilion is built with over 6 million bamboo sticks tied together in a large circle. Hong Kong as a population of about 6 million people and each citizen can attach their bamboo themselves to build the architecture together. In the centre will be an open space designed to be kept empty yet open to everyone to use to voice their concerns and ideas for the future of Hong Kong.

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Central Monetary Authority Financial Academy Riyadh

A 500,000 sq.ft complex designed to house financial academy and facilities of government under a climate control bubble skin of glass, ETFE and openable louvers that allows for an organically shaped building to have its own micro climate generated from the cooling effect of a free flowing natural wadi in the basement of the building.

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Parinee I Mumbai

Mumbai hi-tech office tower featuring sky gardens, multimedia facades, roof top museum space and innovative asymmetrical structure.

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Skygardens Abu Dhabi

Arabian Sea facing green residential building of 32 floors with 380 units featuring combination of apartments and duplexes with skygardens offering green living with panoramic sea views.

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DU Headquarters Abu Dhabi

A 500,000 sq.ft modern office building with retail podium and office block that contain green skygardens and multimedia facade for DU telecomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headquarters.

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O-Tower Dubai

A 50 story circular tower created to give panoramic views of the Dubai desert, is designed to be a steel diagrid tube structure that allows for flexible floor plates that can allow tenants to partition their apartments individually. The steel structure is infilled with sun shading and PV panels to augment sustainability performance as well as a large wind sale at the top of the building allows for energy to be generated from upper level winds on the tower.

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The Crescent Dubai

A 1200 unit residential development designed with two crescent shaped towers and 7 luxury beach front villas face the Arabian Sea with direct connection to the beach. A large clubhouse in the centre of the project is a ETFE air inflated columnless recreation space with indoor swimming pool, gymnasium and running track.

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VR Pavilion Chengdu

VR Pavilion is a 3,000 square feet 20 meter diameter circular virtual reality experience space. A loop space elevated above the ground has mechanical blinds that close to create a circular screen on which a virtual landscape is projected within from which people experience a 360 degree virtual world.

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The Wave Dubai

Dubai Waterfront beach front 9 storeys luxury residential building The Wave has 120 apartment units ranging from studio, 1, 2, 3 bedrooms all designed to have an ocean and beach view. Design is inspired from an elegant fish shape on a narrow site that allows the slender sides of the building to have sea facing glazed balconies from all rooms.

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Taiwan Museum Competition Taipei

Competition entry for the Taiwan Museum in Taipei is a design that explores a new fabric of architecture. The museum building is conceived as an amalgamation of 15,000 ceramic spheres able to be glued to each other to create a composite structure that allows spaces inside the building to be created without the use of floor slabs and columns/beams. The ceramic spheres also allows the facade to be breathable, allowing air to penetrate into the building, as well as diffusing light through reflection on each spherical surface. The notion of a new kind of architecture created out of pixels of ceramic spheres subverts conventional understanding of a building, to create an amorphous architecture for new generation of art and cultural spaces.

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JK House Mumbai

A single residency high rise tower designed with helicopter landing pad, banquet hall, sky villa for parents, residence for children, party pod and car museum in a vertical stacked building.

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Worli Tower Mumbai

A 50 storey tall elegant high rise residential tower with single luxury penthouses per floor with panoramic views of the ocean creates a vertical architectural sculpture on the Mumbai seafront.

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Indra Tower Mumbai

An 80 storey tall ultra modern residential tower with luxury apartment facing the sea. The building has a unique structural shape inspired by the visionary image of a giant raindrop about to touch the ground created in a composite concrete and steel superstructure to give open and flexible spaces in the tower.

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The Leaf

Hong Kong Hong Kong based green building used for sustainability and green research has a design derived from biomimickery of a leaf, where the building is created as a giant green vegetated leaf that provides shading, envelop, energy, water recycling and cooling.

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Mumbai Convention Centre Mumbai

Mumbai convention centre features a single dome spanned 300,000 sq. ft. plenary halls with ancillary services and spaces within circular building that features an air inflated ETFE building envelope.

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Palm Jumeriah Edges

Dubai

Triple glazed towers designed in the shape of Arabic boat sails that contain two apartment towers and a hotel tower directly linked to the beach and located on the Palm Jumeriah in Dubai.

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Music City Taipei

Competition entry for Taipei Music City comprising of outdoor music arena, music centre, indoor concert halls, music mall, restaurants, museum and parkland. Our design straddles a major road with a bridge linking a music mountain building to a large outdoor concert venue. Together the buildings create a new music themed destination in the city.

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DU Telecommunication Tower Abu Dhabi

A 38 storey tall iconic tower and podium with retail mega store for UAE telecommunication company DU and 350,000 sq. ft of commercial offices in a building form designed to mimic the hinge mechanisms of foldable smart phones.

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Mega Wave Hotel & Resort Dubai

A 1000 room beach side hotel and resort complex designed to accommodate 5 star hotel and serviced apartments is designed to maximise oceans views from hotel wings, on an elevated shopping and dining podium.

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Tower of India Mumbai

Tower of India is a one kilometer tall mixed used super tower comprising of residential apartments, hotels, offices, urban farms, sky park, museums, shopping mall and concert halls. Situated in the Wadala District of Mumbai, the design was invited by the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) to achieve the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tallest tower in India and also as a new vertical urban district without the need for sprawling road networks. The tower is engineered with a spiraling paddy field landscape that increases the green vegetation of the site by ten times and act as a wetland recycling ecosystem for the tower, as well as the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest wind farm on a building to supplement its electricity needs.

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SunCity Macau

An integrated casino, hotel, office development of a million square feet located on Taipa Island in Macau is designed out of a revitalisation of the New Century Hotel building, integrated with floating iconic glass bubbles, new casino halls and grand arrival driveway. A 200m tall commercial office tower is designed to be a second phase addition to the overall complex.

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New Town Plaza Entertainment Building Hong Kong

Hong Kong integrated entertainment building comprising of cinema, shopping mall and food court within a steel structure, is an extension to New Town Plaza, Hong Kongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest shopping mall. Spanning 3 basements, 2 shopping levels, 1 food and beverage level, and 2 suspended IMAX cinema boxes above the building, the public spaces are enveloped with a large glass atrium to create a welcoming and flexible shopping mall.

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Guggenheim Museum Competition Helsinki

Competition entry for the proposed Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki is a poetic architecture design inspired by the upturned hulls of Viking ships to create a shelter for the museum spaces and programme. The building is proposed to be recycled timber at a low cost with a large mega structure wooden frame inside the museum for artists to react to when creating and placing artwork. The space is designed to be entirely outdoor under the roof, allowing for the Finnish weather to be part of the art experience.

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Taiwan Tower Competition Taipei

Competition entry for the proposed Taiwan Tower in Taipei, the design is inspired by the traditional Taiwanese rope knot, which is tied for good luck, leading to a tower form that terminates as a knotted skypark that is created out of looped skywalk that seems to intertwine in the air. The tower is designed to be a strong visual icon for Taipei city, and an extension to the public space into the sky as an observation deck and park.

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Museum of Water Doha

Located in Qatar capital city Doha, the Museum of Water is public museum dedicated to the topic of water resource, conservation and innovation in the Middle East Region. The design of the architecture is inspired by the molecular structure of water where the molecules of hydrogen and oxygen form the spatial structures within the building to organise exhibition and public spaces.

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Hong Kong Science Park Phase 3 Hong Kong

A 30,000 sq.ft building design for science and technology companies as part of 3rd phase of Hong Kong Science & Technology Park, Hong Kong featuring innovative ocular facade to control lighting into laboratories.

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Shuffle Tower Dubai

A mixed used project containing apartments stacked on top of office tower, on top of retail podium next to beach in an innovative architectural composition shuffling between three architectural forms.

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