We hope you've had a wonderful Christmas! To usher in the new year, we hacked an IKEA lamp and designed an elegant lampshade with a custom lithophane of the Jewel Changi Airport to remind everyone to come visit Singapore once this pandemic is over!
About a week ago, an issue with a particular covered walkway appeared all over our news feed. Because covered walkways are such an essential part of the built environment here in Singapore, especially during the rainy season, we decided to create an automated script to make life for designers a little easier! Source Article: [...]
Goethe said, “Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music”. Putting his theory to the test, we chose some parameters from a 30 second clip of Astronomia, a song by Vicetone & Tony Igy, to drive the formation of a cave-like structure. We then studied the space at human scale in Virtual Reality to see [...]
We did a visibility study of the Skeld map from Among us, and here is the result! Let us know if you would like to see other architectural studies of maps and place from games, movies, or TV shows! Mapping visibility through isovist volumes is important in Architectural design, especially when considering optimal views and [...]
Happy Deepavali! We created a three-dimensional Rangoli you can experience in VR! Rangoli is an art form in which patterns are created on the ground using materials such as coloured rice, coloured sand, quartz powder or flower petals. In our own little way, we tried to keep the festive spirit alive during this COVID-19 period [...]
We created a Rhino Grasshopper script which gave us tactile control over our massing via a MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) controller and this is the method an architect/electronic music producer approached using it! The controller enabled me to inject more personality into the massing process in the same way I would design sound. Controllers [...]
Introduction Computational Thinking does not necessitate the use of computers. It is a problem-solving method that is being taught in schools to breakdown complex problems into solvable steps. To investigate, we tested our computational thinking capabilities by digitally recreating the design of a frame and string model, first in SketchUp and then in Dynamo Revit [...]
We are proud to announce that ID Architects has won the SME Digital Leap 2019 award by UOB for Medium SME section. ID Architects has been awarding for harnessing best practices in digitalisation capabilities and packaging these capabilities as Digit-Alpha solution set, in lieu of sharing these best practices back to the Built Sector in [...]
On June 28, Singapore Ministry of Defence organised a ground-breaking ceremony of Safti City, a new smart military facility that simulates urban landscape of the Lion City for an accurate training ground to counter potential national threats. We are extremely honoured to have the chance to bring the Minister of Defence Dr. Ng Eng Hen [...]
ARCHIDEX 2019 was held on 3 July to 6 July Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. It is South East Asia’s most successful annual industry trade event for the architecture, interior design and building fraternity. We are honoured to have been invited to the exhibition to set up a VR booth and showcase our BIMatrix VR software [...]
