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Projects related to architecture and interior design, curated from both academic and professional work.
Here, the focus is on space as experience. How form, material, and light shape emotion, movement, and memory. The approach on each project is as a study of presence.
A performative study of material and storytelling that reimagines how audiences and actors move, feel, and perceive space. The Theatre is narrated through a play, “The Tales of Two Blossoming Souls”—which follows two characters through their moment of MEETING, SHIFTING and FLEETING.
Unfolding the emotion through shifting material qualities: wood, fabric, brass, and light. Each embodying transition and memory.
AI and human intuition coalesce as design partners, unravelling biases in storytelling and transforming intangible narratives into tactile encounters. Extending beyond the stage, subtle material traces linger through secondary spaces, inviting fleeting exchanges between audience, actor, and matter.
“A theatre that breathes, moves, and remembers.”
RCA
SuperMATTER
MA Thesis
2023
Presented at Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) and Universal Design Studio
Currently displayed at The NEX Wandsworth by the RCA SuperSATELLITE
This project responds to the complexities of climate change; not through solutions, but through spatial narrative. Set in the heart of Sydney’s CBD, the design uses architecture as a medium to open dialogue around the emotional and ideological spectrum people hold toward the climate crisis.
This work explores how architecture can gently navigate complexity, using form and atmosphere to invite and welcome a conversation, rather than demand resolution.
USYD
BDES2026
Architecture Studio
2020
Featured in the End of Semester Presentation of Selected Works
Situated at the cliffside of Gap Park, Watsons Bay Peninsula, the project offer an architectural gesture that is as much about healing as it is about performance.
Paying homage to Shakespearean stagecraft, “Heaven and Hell”, the theatre blurs boundaries between seen and unseen; an invitation into a liminal experience, suspended between land and sea.
Asphodel is birthed as a spatial narrative that seeks to reframe a place long associated with solitude into one of collective reflection and shared presence, enlivening the landscape through light, movement, and gathering.
USYD
BDES3026
Architecture Studio
2021
Final undergraduate project
This project marked our earliest exploration into parametric design using Grasshopper, developed as part of a proposal to redefine the experience of the 50 Carrington Street lobby. The brief called for a bold reimagining of the lobby’s atmosphere, which is responded by four distinct conceptual approaches, each focusing on a different spatial or visual emphasis.
Rooted in Parametricist thinking, the design aimed to demonstrate how algorithmic design can both enhance user experience and streamline design workflows. Each concept was inspired by either real-world architectural precedents or previous academic research, and began with hand-drawn sketches to define core geometries; later translated into responsive parametric systems using Grasshopper to refine form and detail.
M.A.R.S. Marcellino Sain Architects
Professional Practice
2022
Part of a larger rollout including showroom, service centres, and back-of-house spaces, the BYD Megastore focuses on delivering a digitally-enhanced customer experience. The design for the showroom is driven by linearity through lighting to guide spatial flow, highlight key zones, and immerse visitors in a futuristic showroom.
Emphasis on linearity was done to align with BYD’s brand ethos of innovation and clean technology.
M.A.R.S. Marcellino Sain Architects
Professional Practice
2023
Settled on the waterfront edge of Cabarita Park, this collaborative project focuses on producing an environmental and site-based design proposal.
The key design process includes principle exploration of the technical structure and construction.
USYD
BDES2013
Architecture Technologies
2020
Partner:
Angela Xu