A 3-axis hotwire CNC controlled by Xbox controller that enables people to sculpt styrofoam intuitively in a real-time flow. This work was presented at Expressive Sympossium 2019 : Link Video of people cutting the foam during the exhibition Surface is a sculpting instrument controlled […]
Author: freddietwhong
Hyundai Pavilion by Asif Khan, 2018
Hyundai Pavilion by Asif Khan Studio commissioned by Hyundai Motors Company for PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games 2018 introduced the darkest building on earth. As the world’s darkest building, the Hyundai Pavilion during the olympic game brought the automobile brand’s vision of future mobility to a […]
Computational sense and movements, 2017
This is a performance project that exhibits in real-time, a process of a man counterbalancing with the computer motions through drawing. The project uses gyrOsc attached to a custom-designed iPhone harness. By wearing this harness, the user’s interaction is no longer limited to the hands; […]
Boolean column, 2018
*Boolean is series of styrofoam sculpture cut with specially designed hot-wire cutting instrument that is controlled digitally by game controller. Split from single rectangular blocks, left side is the exact void of the right side and vice versa. This is neither additive nor subtractive way […]
A Bath of Mnemonic Vectors, 2016
A re-territorialised Japanese bathhouse in Hoxton translates the symmetries and asymmetries of shared memories into measurable architectural units. The project involves the author’s and his mother’s memories of one specific bathhouse in Korea, which are diagrammed, encoded and re-staged by masked actors, then digitally captured and algorithmically translated to […]
Reconstruction of the Grandfather’s house, 2016
This project explores a method of constructing an architectural space through bodily description. Relying on me and my cousin’s shared memory of my grandfather’s house, this project converts our choreograph of describing the house into an architectural space in a digital environment. Video of […]
Capoeira Performing Device, 2014
Architectural reinterpretation of Brazilian martial art ‘Capoeira’. This was the first project of my second year at Bartlett school of architecture. Inspired by the movement of the capoeira and the characteristic of it being rhythmical yet energetic continuously changing its shape and re-forming the circles. […]
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