Shirley @ W.K.S. Design Studio
Born with a strange concept of the world...
House on Nam Khan River
A lot of my friends and co-workers thought that I am a strange girl when they first met me. They always ask me why would I think of something in a very different way, see things in a different concept, my answer is I was born with a strange brain. Back when I still lived in Hong Kong, at the age of 5, I am curious of everything around me. I wear my mom's lip stick, wear my daddy's boot, press all the buttons on the record player, wonder if there will be little people inside the TV, and most of my time, I wonder why my grandmother's house was built over a river. (Sounds like the famous " Falling Water by Frank Lloyd Wright) That's right, my grandmother's house is where I love to hang around when I was a child. This triggered my brain to start having strange thoughts. Around the age of 10, I wonder why walls can be smooth and rocks are rough. I wonder why the sky is blue, the leaf is green, why do airplane fly, and why can I see with my eyes. Strange thoughts filled my mind, and action follows. I peeked inside the TV, pull out buttons on the record player, crack a piece of concrete wall to observe and paint all over the place, and I fold origami planes with my Barbie dolls sitting on them and throw them down the street hoping it will fly. The only thing that still puzzled me is how can my grandmother's house sit over a river with out falling? I start trying to built on the river with no knowledge of supports for houses, I use twigs and leafs, rocks and mud, nothing works. The question is hidden behind my mind after I came to Canada, and now I found the answer. Ever since I started the journey of designing, my strange brain found it's perfect match.
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3D Visualization
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爸媽給我一個奇怪的腦袋...
我最愛的卡通 Totoro
很多初次認識我的朋友都經常問我同一個問題﹐ [為甚麼你想事情的方式都很奇怪﹐跟一般人有很大的差距﹖ 就連看東西吸取的靈感也奇怪得很。]這是一個我常常聽到的評語﹐而我的回答便是﹕[爸媽給我一個奇怪的腦袋﹗] 五歲的我﹐還是住在香港的時候﹐ 對任何事物好奇得不得了。拿媽媽的唇膏來塗自己的臉﹐穿著爸爸的靴子﹐把唱碟機上的按鈕都按一次是我慣常的跳皮嗜好。但除了這些頑皮事﹐ 在那個時候﹐ 我的小腦袋便已經載滿了很多問題。我會想電視機裡面是不是有小人在裡面做戲﹐還是那些小人有變小的功能﹖ 我在幼稚園的課堂上﹐ 老師叫我坐下來的時候﹐我不停在圍繞位置走圈﹐想著是不是我不停下來這個圈是沒完的﹖ (這叫infinity無盡的道理)而我想得最多的是我祖母的房子﹐ 六歲前﹐ 我跟奶奶住在一起﹐ 而我們住的家是建在一條河上面﹐ 從前面看來水是穿過屋子下面過的。沒錯﹐ 這就是讓我花上一天大部份時間的地方。
十歲的我便開始對更多事情好奇﹐ 我會想為甚麼有些牆壁那麼滑﹐石頭卻那麼粗﹖ 我會想把刀子放大的話其實刀鋒是不是一片平面﹖ 我奇怪為甚麼天空是藍色﹐葉子是綠色﹖為甚麼飛機比鳥兒硬那麼多怎能飛得起﹖ 而當年婆婆住山腰﹐奶奶住山腳﹐上山總要繞十多個圈才到﹐ 我會很好奇該是有比繞圈更快的方法吧﹗ 就是問題一大堆﹐堆出來的推動力攢出了奇怪的試驗。我試過把電視機從牆那邊推出來在風口位置看看裡面是否有人﹐ 我拿爸爸的工具把人家的牆打破一塊來看看為甚麼這塊牆是滑的﹖ 我又常試過拿放大鏡把刀鋒放大來看﹐真的看到小小的片面﹐(其實是刀子鈍了的原故)我經常把樹枝﹐花﹐石頭甚麼甚麼的磨成碎看看是甚麼顏色﹐ 又把娃娃放在紙飛機上試飛。最跳皮的﹐是我終於找到了最快下山的方法﹐ 我從婆婆的屋子的屋頂一直跳人家的屋頂跳到奶奶的屋頂去﹐ 但後來的問題出現了﹐我怎麼下去地面呢﹖ 可是種種的問題也不是最讓我苦惱的問題﹐ 經常讓我百思不得其解的還是那個問題﹐為甚麼奶奶的房子建在一條河上而不被河水沖走﹖ 這條問題一直跟著我來了加拿大﹐ 很多時候經常做夢我也會夢到那房子。而這個問題的答案在我開始了設計的旅程後﹐便解答了。而我的奇怪腦袋也找到了這一生的另一半﹐ 一個靈感上的伴侶﹐ 腦袋與設計一直相愛...
十歲的我便開始對更多事情好奇﹐ 我會想為甚麼有些牆壁那麼滑﹐石頭卻那麼粗﹖ 我會想把刀子放大的話其實刀鋒是不是一片平面﹖ 我奇怪為甚麼天空是藍色﹐葉子是綠色﹖為甚麼飛機比鳥兒硬那麼多怎能飛得起﹖ 而當年婆婆住山腰﹐奶奶住山腳﹐上山總要繞十多個圈才到﹐ 我會很好奇該是有比繞圈更快的方法吧﹗ 就是問題一大堆﹐堆出來的推動力攢出了奇怪的試驗。我試過把電視機從牆那邊推出來在風口位置看看裡面是否有人﹐ 我拿爸爸的工具把人家的牆打破一塊來看看為甚麼這塊牆是滑的﹖ 我又常試過拿放大鏡把刀鋒放大來看﹐真的看到小小的片面﹐(其實是刀子鈍了的原故)我經常把樹枝﹐花﹐石頭甚麼甚麼的磨成碎看看是甚麼顏色﹐ 又把娃娃放在紙飛機上試飛。最跳皮的﹐是我終於找到了最快下山的方法﹐ 我從婆婆的屋子的屋頂一直跳人家的屋頂跳到奶奶的屋頂去﹐ 但後來的問題出現了﹐我怎麼下去地面呢﹖ 可是種種的問題也不是最讓我苦惱的問題﹐ 經常讓我百思不得其解的還是那個問題﹐為甚麼奶奶的房子建在一條河上而不被河水沖走﹖ 這條問題一直跟著我來了加拿大﹐ 很多時候經常做夢我也會夢到那房子。而這個問題的答案在我開始了設計的旅程後﹐便解答了。而我的奇怪腦袋也找到了這一生的另一半﹐ 一個靈感上的伴侶﹐ 腦袋與設計一直相愛...
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