The Winners!
RENDER CHALLENGE 3
First Prize Winners
Lee Cheng Wei
China
Hello, my name is Lee Cheng-Wei. I pursued my bachelors of Architecture in Shih Chien University Department of Architecture. I’m a founder of visual studio create high-end CGI images for architects, interior designer and construction company. To create visual arts and ideas of designing architecture are always my passion and aspiration.
What is your design philosophy?
What is the imaginary of architectures? Rethink the idea as a dream landscape, blending memories of the past with visions for the future.
Can you briefly explain your understanding of the topic and the source of ideas?
Renders are an essential tool to communicate a vision. I believe it is a crucial part of convincing a vision. Through renders, we can blend memories through the past with visions for the future. Turning the image into a communicative tool are essential tools for providing good stories.
When and how you were first introduced to architecture?
I chose to pursue architecture after my first year studying physics at university, I find delight in the idea of exploring new possibilities through creating. Architecture is now my desire and things that I am fond of.
What does architecture mean to you?
In my opinion, architecture is exploring new possibilities, and creating new adventures. Ideas of architecture come from every life experience.
Lens of life
A fictional view of a floating apartment that indicates the issues of today, social distancing has manifested a new definition of living. Connections between people have been reduced to the virtual. We are floating into the lens of our homes and struggles amidst a pandemic and survival of the everyday. Isolation, connection, and indefinite future. The isolation has shifted the paradigm of living. Quarantines and lockdowns physically limit people to the confines of their homes. Isolation has led to a lifestyle imbalance. The imagined lifestyle is a simulacrum of already built simulacra precariously floating without limited. We are isolated in our own homes, humans will feel the need to connect through our digital connection. As our reality becomes more physically unconnected, while our virtual city strengthens in connectivity between our crowded virtual city and our reality.
Second Prize Winners
Sicheng Liu
Third Prize Winners
Ka Chung Lo
HongKong
Hello, my name is Ka Chung Lo, you can call me Jasper, I am recently graduated from The University of Melbourne with master’s degree. Now I am working as architectural assistant in an architectural firm at Hong Kong. My father is an interior designer, always bring me to his office so I love modelling and imagination since childhood.
What is your design philosophy?
Because I designed many topics about not just human but non-human, which nurture my philosophy, is that always thinking in different perspective about the possible users within my design. The priority in my design not just represent in human but can be non-human even object.
Can you briefly explain your understanding of the topic and the source of ideas?
I guess one render challenge means it must be a strong, powerful, and stimulated, although having the text support but the image must be stand up as a separate element. The idea of this render is from my thesis last year, which is educating the possible future to people. As a future, it must be romantic, but also achievable to let people believe it, that’s how this render composite together.
When and how you were first introduced to architecture?
After finished my diploma, I was going to choose interior design for my bachelor’s degree. Before final decision, I went to an architecture graduate exhibition, I triggered by those beautiful models and drawings instead of any theory. In that moment I was thinking, I can do more from interior, which is the whole architecture itself, to attract more audience. That’s the first time I was introduced to architecture, not by any person or masterpiece, but just a showcase of young dreams.
What does architecture mean to you?
A way that I can really showing what my interest and talented on, after working at design firm it is also a study and practice through my whole life because of the responsibility it can carry.
Special mention
Honorable mention
Xinyu Li
Zhiqiang Wu
Filipe Alvarez & Santiago Bonilla
Xinyu Li
Zhiqiang Wu
Filipe Alvarez & Santiago Bonilla
