Lincoln School of Architecture Website

This new Lincoln School of Architecture website took me a few weeks to design, develop and coordinate. I would like to thank the contributors and colleagues involved in the content preparation and review processes.

Lincoln Cathedral

Underwater in Solomon Islands

Surprise, Unexpected Juxtaposition, Impossible World

Year 1 & 2 Spatial Design Studio - Unit 6: Interdisciplinary, BDes(Spatial) program.

Fold, Solid & Void, Multiplicity, Transformation

Year 1 Core Design Studio Unit 2 Group 3 students of BDes(Spatial) program.

Liberate

Liberate stands for Linkage, Inspiration, Broadening, Experimentation, Roleplay, Awareness, Teamwork, and Evaluation. Liberate provides a systemic and synergistic approach to enhance outcome of liberal studies and other subjects (visual arts, music, design and technology, computer, literature, social science) through a cross-disciplinary and bilingual collaboration platform for potential and creativity development in secondary schools. The beta version of this platform will be ready in early 2008.
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Virtual Campus

Developed by Year 2 students of BDes(Spatial) program using Google SketchUp and Google Earth as part of the Advanced Spatial Computing paper.

Amnesia

Early retirement of Amnesia (2001-2006), my colourful and interactive DHTML, Virtools Dev and Flash based website, due to maintenance issues. As a replacement of Amnesia, I have created this visual multimedia-based Arukikata. To make good use of the free storage provided by Google, I have moved the updated PDF documents and multimedia contents, low-resolution photos and videos to Page Creator, Picasa and YouTube respectively. High-resolution photos and videos are moved to Facebook.

Office (Multimedia Innovation Centre)

Farewell to my comfy office (2003-2006) at the Multimedia Innovation Centre, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

The Eighteenth Hell (Prototype)

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Developed by HD(MDT) students Chi Fan Leung, Lao Kwong Ian Lao, Wing Kin Lam, Chi San Lau and Hoi Ming Lee using 3dsmax and Virtools Dev as part of the Client Project paper.

China Toy - Chinese Culture (Prototype)

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Developed by MSc(MET) students Fat Keung Wong, Ka Wai Li and Wing Shan Cheung using Maya and Virtools Dev as part of the Master Final Project paper.

Libera-te – Liberal Studies (Prototype)

Developed by MSc(MET) students Hang Yi Chan and Shu Kei Wong using Flash as part of the Master Final Project paper. Winner of the 1st Place and Originality Awards, IT Courseware Competition, Hong Kong, 2005.

PhotoImplanter - Photography (Prototype)

Developed by MSc(MET) students Chui Fai Chan and Darwen Lai as part of the Edutainment Application paper.

Graffitism - Creativity (Prototype)

Developed by BA(ADE) students Ah Na Cheng, Pak Yan Heung, Wai Hung Wong and Ying Suen Yeung as part of the Technological Impacts on Art and Design Education paper.

Virtel - Virtual Hotel E-simulation

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Collaboration with the School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

Trance - Art & Culture

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Deployment of Networked Edutainment UniveRse ONline (NEURON) for Art and Cultural Subjects in Secondary Schools, Quality Education Fund, Education Commission, Hong Kong.

Manga - Profession-Related Language Training

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Collaboration with English Language Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

Seeds of Harmony - Music Creativity

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Edutainment Project on Music Creativity. Collaboration with Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.

Generic Module (NEURON)

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Funded by the Multimedia Innovation Centre, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. I have developed this module based on NEURON architecture for the teaching of Digital Media paper.

NEURON - Networked Edutainment Universe ONline

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Funded by the Multimedia Innovation Centre, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

Virtual Dimension - Real-time CG (Prototype)

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Developed by MSc student Kin Wah Lai using Virtools Dev as part of the Master Final Project paper.

Sound Island - Sound Design (Prototype)

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Developed by MSc student Fuk Tak Hung using Virtools Dev as part of the Master Final Project paper.

Nanjing Massacre - History (Prototype)

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Developed by HD(MDT) students Pan Lai, La Ching Tracy Lam, Po Ying Leung and Nga Man Emily Tam using Virtools Dev as part of the Client Project paper.

East & West - Ethnic Music (Prototype)

Developed by MSc(MET) students Kwok Keung Lam, Wai Lap Leung, Yue To Wong and Ho Yin Yiu using Virtools Dev as part of the Software and Hardware Development paper.

Deception Island after Penguin Island

- Down under the icy cold sea water is the tempting warmth of irresistible eruption of joy and laughter.
- Stunning contrast of the cold bluish white iceberg and the black sheltering lava rock and warm ash bed.

Penguin Island

- After 5 days of observing animal behaviour, there is nothing more intimate and intimidating, nesting with 24 Antarctic new comers, in a full house, under an up-side down zodiac, seeing all sort of human behaviour, waiting for radio message a mile away.
- One cannot simply lean next to others to get warmth in windy weather, but by sharing the heart beat and breathe that came over your head and mind.
- It’s always good to have a tenor, an architect, an aerobic instructor and as many chatterboxes as possible in every expedition.
- Beer belly is the best reserve and backup for any emergency situation.
- Filthy, mind-blown, back to the cabin all there is a restless mind.
- In an expedition, it is difficult to tell whether an emergency situation is a dream-come-true or a déjà-vu.

South Georgia, Salisbury Plain, Future Bay

- Nothing in my life is so mind-blowing than seeing ice powdering into the blue sea from a 2.2 km iceberg.
- The vanity of an Antarctic expedition diminishes as the gradual dissolution of iceberg into the summer sea, all that is left is a mind failing to account for the natural beauty.
- It must have been prearranged, to see the beauty of 4 seasons.

Quadrangle

Home (Kumamoto City, Japan)

Farewell to my party home in Japan after five-and-a-half year study in Japan for my MEng and PhD study at the Kumamoto University, Kyushu, Japan. My study was supported by the Japanese Monbugakusho Scholarship (1995-2001).

Interactive Landscape Planning System

As part of my PhD study in Japan (1998-2001) supported by the Japanese Monbugakusho Scholarship, I have developed a series of interactive applications. These applications enable users from different walk of life to participate in the design process and create alternatives in a distributed environment. This gives roads to an autonomous process in environmental design. Details of these applications and relevant journal and conference publications are included in previous posts.

Interactive Rendering System for Animated Assessment

Based on DirectX and animation technology, I have developed a multimedia-based Interactive Rendering System for Animated Assessment. Simulation of moving architecture and transiting landscape are possible.

Interactive Rendering System for Cost Planning

Based on DirectX and database technology, I have developed an Interactive Rendering System for Cost Conscious Collaborative Design. Initial and life cycle cost can be estimated.

Interactive Rendering System for Collaborative Design

Based on DirectX and game technology, I have developed a VR-based Interactive Rendering System for Collaborative Design.

Interactive Colour Planning System

Based on half-tone technology, I have developed a two-dimensional graphics-based Interactive Colour Planning System. Cost-effective real-time colour simulation with materialistic solidity is possible.

Interactive Townscape Assessment System

Based on Dynamic HTML, I have developed a uni-dimensional text-based Interactive Townscape Assessment System for psychometric analysis. Tools for Analytic Hierarchical Process, Magnitude Estimation, Semantic Differential and Colour Semantic Differential are developed.

Snow (View from Home)

My first winter in Kumamoto City as a research student in Japanese Architecture. I was so excited to see snow in Kumamoto as the last snow was recorded quite some years ago.