Justin Wan

Justin is a designer from Hong Kong who is currently pursuing his MArch study at MIT. With educational background at HKU and ETH Zürich, he completed his bachelor with first class honors and the Fosroc Prize for achieving the best performance in his final year curriculum. His professional experience includes working at world leading practices such as UNStudio and Snøhetta.

"Playing with architectural tools and technologies, exploring changes in variation and designing improbable scenarios for our world."

Whenever I look up to the clouds, I see an incarnation of abstraction, immense, amorphous and transient. On one hand, it is the architecture of the sky, formed by vapour and supported by air, encapsulating the delicate beauty of nature and detaching itself from the delineation congealed on Earth. On the other hand, it is the architecture of technology, constructed by data and sustained by virtuality, embodying the untold potential of machines and ascending our reality in every sense. The paronomasia of cloud has shaped my perspective to embrace provisionality and seek meaning within the mesophase, where we are no longer unscathed by the technological vertigo that interlaces our lives with complexity. I delve into the morphology of our world in myriad forms, not solely worships of innovation but social practices arose from the unique context of our changing environment, challenging modern essentialism and striving to evolve with time. Thinking beyond nephology, we demand more than a universal logic or an ethereal tenet, but a new consciousness, a capricious harmony diverges from the rich typology of situational, non-antagonist conflicts and synergies of our mixed realities, where change becomes the NEW CONSTANT.