MY SELF

My current research interests include:

• Interior architecture: spatial design & renovation project, psychology of building end-users' & professional practice.
• Building evaluation: Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) & Post-Conservation Evaluation (PCE).
• Built heritage conservation: Interior preservation & adaptive reuse of historic museum.
• Minimalism philosophy & practice: Spatial organisation, design simplification & physical decluttering process.

Designing interior spaces has been my hobby and passion for years. I have been always inspired by beautiful objects and subjects :) Since my younger years, I have always been a meticulous and an OCD person when it comes to organising my stuff and anything that involved the neatness of my immediate environment. Aesthetically pleasing spaces truly energise and make me lively. This propensity has brought me a sense of self-actualisation that designing and achieving beauty is my 'Ikigai' (something that I should pursue in life) - be it practicing or teaching others. As a practising designer, I labelled my self as 'an anomalous aesthete'. Whilst as an academic, I carry the vision of 'shaping future anomalous aesthete'. I believe that a great designer must not be greedy person in the sense of chasing for more projects, rather, it is about quality over quantity delivery. In this regard, I am very selective when it comes to saying yes to any project that demands my involvement. At the end of the day, designing for others is always about marrying deliberate understanding on clients' needs and desires with our personal touch and ensuring unique service plus fostering close relationship with clients rather than profit-making agenda.