2020 Fairy Tale Competition Entry, in collaboration with Rebecca Li
The prompt for Blank Space Project’s Fairy Tale 2020 Competition revolved around ‘The role of architecture in a fiction of the future’ . To me, the prompt felt very similar to 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale’s ‘How will we live together?’.
Together with my mentor and friend Rebecca Li, we explored the concept of architecture as a mental typology. We wanted to demonstrate how our minds are constructed with conversation with an unknown object. Our narrative below, is a matrix of three conversations in three scenarios, but blurred into one. We didn’t want to define how many characters there are, but rather allow the readers to flicker between texts in their own order…
*Edit: 2021 -After revisiting these illustrations and my own illustrations - I completely forgot that I was inspired by Israeli Photographer Ronan Goldman’s We Were Meant For Each Other
Reaching Equilibrium
Narrative and Illustrations by Kimberley Hui and Rebecca Li
About Rebecca Li
Registered Architect
As a qualified architect with 5 years of professional work experience from design driven firms, and an art lover, Rebecca delivers a unique combination of creative talent and techincal expertise.
She has worked on architectural projects across multiple disciplines including public art gallery, multi-residential, and mixeduse. With a solid understanding of practical aspects of concept to construction stage, she provides design solution with consideration of quality (art + function), practicality (demand + market) and constructability (budget + technology). The work experience has allowed Rebecca to practice professional communication skills to coordinate both internally and externally. Her teaching experience at RMIT in 2019 has also provided her with a great chance to continue exploring her passion in art and architecture.