Isabella is an architectural designer, maker and creative coder, trained as an architect in Singapore and London. She is fascinated with the intimacy between body and space, works in the intersection of design and interactive technology, and builds installations that engage the body in new ways.
She is part of awe.curation, a platform that aims to build a community of artists, architects and design studios whose works are relevant to the intersection of art, media and technology.
2018 Masters of Architecture at the Bartlett, University College of London (UCL). MArch Design for Performance and Interaction
2015 Bachelors of Arts in Architecture (Hons) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Cumulative Average Point: 4.34
2013 Architecture Exchange Programme at ETH Zurich, Adam Caruso’s Metropolis studio
2010 GCE A-Levels 6 Distinctions at Anglo-Chinese Junior College (ACJC)
2008 GCE O-Levels 8 Distinctions at St. Margarets’ Secondary School
2017 Modular Unit Singapore Design Interaction Intern
2016 General Assembly Singapore Web Development Immersive course
2011 SPARK Architects Singapore Architectural Design Intern
2013 Empower Shack ETH Zurich Summer School by the Brillembourg & Klumpner Chair of Architecture and Urban Design. Design-and-Build a replicable shack prototype
2013 Transmaterial II at the Monash Art Design & Architecture (MADA). Design-and-Build material workshop on digital behavioural simulations
[UPCOMING] 14 Oct to 4 Nov 2019.
Here There Exhibition Ichni. Today Art Museum, Beijing
2018 Bartlett Fifteen Show Film exhibition for Ichni. The Bartlett, UCL, London, United Kingdom
2018 Graduate Project Faire Live installation of Ichni. The Bartlett, UCL, London, United Kingdom
2015 NUS Architecture End of Year Exhibition (CityEx) Wall Campus Project. URA Building, Singapore
2015 SG50 : Rethinking Our City For Singapore’s Next 50 Years The Collab-oratory Project. URA Building, Singapore
2013 NUS Architecture End of Year Exhibition (CityEx) Panopticon Project. URA Building, Singapore
2011 Lorong 24A Shophouse Exhibition Cafe/Speakeasy Project
2016 Bee Breeder’s London Internet Museum Honourable Mention
2015 Vertical Cities Asia Competition Honourable Mention
2012 Dean’s List Year 1 Semester 2
English First Language
Mandarin Fluent
2D AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign
3D Rhino, Sketchup
Code Javascript, HTML, CSS, Ruby on Rails, JQuery, NodeJS, ExpressJS, EmberJS
Interaction Arduino, Processing, Max/Msp, Unity3D, Machine Learning (Wekinator), openFrameworks
Video Premiere, After Effects
Making Metal Welding, Wood Work, 3D Printing, Laser Cut