I’m an architectural designer and artist with a Chinese and Portuguese background. I studied at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and currently work at Foster + Partners.
My work uses speculative drawing, filmmaking, and narrative world-building to explore alternative futures of architecture and human living, ones that confront tragedy, conflict, and fragile ecologies. I’m interested in architecture that not only performs technically but also carries emotional weight and conceptual depth.
I’m critical of the mainstream techno-solutionist narrative in architecture. While sustainability and optimisation are necessary, they often reduce architecture to performance metrics and overlook the human, political, and ecological realities shaping our world. For me, the issue is not sustainability itself, but the belief that it can be solved purely through technology. Architecture must also engage with contradiction, instability, and cultural trauma.
Much architectural representation still depicts a fiction of stability: clean spaces, harmonious cities, and happy occupants. But the world is shaped by migration, labour, environmental collapse, and conflict. My work tries to acknowledge and spatialise these conditions. Projects such as my response to the Morecambe Bay cockling tragedy, or the Wandering Earth-inspired project at Beckton Alps in London, explore how architecture might operate when systems are already under stress or breaking down.
I see a strong link between tragedy and long-term sustainability. Architecture that cannot coexist with failure and conflict often becomes fragile, destined for replacement rather than endurance.
At the same time, I’m interested in reopening architectural imagination. Today, much of the discipline is risk-controlled and market-driven. My work reintroduces speculation, but not as naïve optimism, rather as a negotiation with gravity, collapse, and the uncertain conditions of the future.