touch + sight

"From touch there is a striving to touch, not just touch, and from this developed what could be sight. When sight came, the first movement of sight was the realization of beauty."

beijing national aquatics center
water cube

an inspiration of soap bubbles filling a space; this bubble-wrap exterior may be the reverse of touch + sight, but sight + touch. the sight of this exterior formulates the feel of bubbles, water, cells, and life. the experience is even more real once you enter the aquatic center and feel the touch of water.

joy 

"you cannot make a building unless you are joyously engaged."

school of art, design and media at nanyang technological university in singapore. 

5 story facility sweeps down in a fluid, organic form to blend with the natural green landscape. 

these images portray the natural light in the day vs. artificial light at night. the glass facade provides natural light to pour into the interior during the day, while the curved slots of light at night allows one to look towards the interior while outside.