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Strategic Ecosystems

Reworking ecosystems of infrastructural, social, political and environmental factors that shape the built environment.


NDC2.0 | Proposed new cluster of start-ups anchoring a circular economy ecosystem NDC2.0 | Permeability analysis of buildings along a cultural stretch NDC2.0 | Network of cultural amenities in Bras Basah.Bugis District NDC2.0 | Connecting cultural, religious and institutional nodes to amplify a district's character

What social structures are embedded in urban morphology?


Social Strata | Recreating the consumer experience of strata malls Letters to the Mayor | Curating and writing letters to the Mayor of Seoul and Pyongyang Letters to the Mayor | Exchanging discussions on inter-Korea urban development with mayor of Seoul NK Apartment | Recreating a prototypical apartment as a cultural microcosm NK Apartment | Positioning the apartment as a unit of the wider city Social Strata | Imitative infrastructures in an exhibition layout


How might intersecting urban systems be strategically designed into a city's unique fabric?



Xiamen Airport Island | Developing an ecological mosaic of dense urban functions Xiamen Airport Island | Designing an extroverted and diverse perimeter ring Xiamen Airport Island | Creating strategic clusters serving the industrial potentials of the province and wider region Xiamen Airport Island | Designing new cultural corridors to augment liveability amidst industrial competitiveness


What units of a city can be amplified and integrated into a productive network?



NDC2.0 | Exposing an existing rich landscape of design firms NDC2.0 | Discovering new sites as production and processing hubs of emerging design ecosystems NDC2.0 | Programming complementary systems to redefine an existing productive landscape Productive Pyongyang | Identifying productive cultural nodes distributed across the city