KMAK DESIGN

04/05/2013

The Mak Residence A “renovator’s dream”, that’s what the agent described the house……is quite true since architects always live in a budget, especially coming to designing their own residence. Lucky we have taken the BEFORE photo so we can feel good AFTER :)

01/11/2012

LolliClock is now on exhibition in Workshopped 2012!


Opening Night:
8 Hill Street Surry Hills NSW | 31 Oct 2012

Hill Street Design Precinct Sydney:
31 Oct - 9 Nov 2012


http://www.workshopped.com.au/default.asp?section_id=19

30/10/2012

Client:
Indigo Invest

Architect:
Cullenfeng

Architecture Team:
Jon Cullen
Keith Mak

30/10/2012

LolliClock’s design is based on re-thinking about the idea of time-telling, that time or nature should be flowing, while the mark or indicator should stay constant. Similar to the nature of the tiding waves moving on a mark, or the moving sun casting shadows on a sundial, LolliClock seeks to reconstruct time-reading and express time in its truthful way.

In the search for reducing the design into its elemental form, the conventional clock hands are then combined into a single support, and time is now marked by the rotating clock face against a constant indicator. This appears to be the solution to tell time in the most essential and user-friendly way. While the clock hands are eliminated, LolliClock enjoys a clean face where time is simply read against the support/indicator, in a graphical and animated way where the flow of time is observed by its movement.


The clock body is fabricated from prototyping machines against a digital 3D model to ensure accuracy and precise geometry, which is extremely important for the perfect round shape with the impressed graphics on the curve, and to achieve a tolerance measured in micrometre for the mechanism connection.

On the finishes, the surfaces are honed, brushed and polished to achieve the exact amount of sheen and reflection in a pristine condition.

Forming the core component of the mechanism is a Takane high torque movement imported from USA, to ensure all-time reliable power to the clock.

The support is made in stainless steel to overcome the issue with stability and material strength for the elegantly bent and cantilevering indicator/support integration in minimal thickness.


LolliClock seeks to inspire the ideal of contemporary living, addressing vibrancy in lifestyle, elegance in design, and cleanness and quality in living environment – amongst those colourful books on a feature wall, on the backdrop of a meeting table, on a display shelf of a retail shop, hanging amongst artworks in a gallery or restaurant. LolliClock is the original series released by the architecturally inspired KMAK DESIGN, which sees LolliClock as another iconic product for home/commercial furniture of the era.

30/10/2012

30/10/2012

Resonating Continuity: Syntax of the Bays | Healing Garden

The project seeks to re-enchant the fading maritime and working harbour uses which Sydney has traditionally been built around, to maintain the Bays Precinct as a collection of working bays with innovative uses relevant to the 21st century. The Working Bays focuses on the last chance to address the value of marginal landscapes, which are fundamental to resilient cities, to the redevelopment of industrial harbour foreshore, as opposed to the thin landscape of spectacle and commerce in the current Barangaroo debate.

Syntax of the Bays enables the continuity of the notion of “working” in derelict yet familiar landscape of a post-industrial site, both in terms of functions and memories. It reveals the continuity of activities and experience between discontinuous events. The arrangement and ordering pattern of these built up layers, surfaces, flows, vectors, projections define the syntax of the bays, where the hidden intention or uses across time is once again in continuity enabled by syntactic design.

Five moves are inserted in the Working Bays: alternative energy and recycling for sustainable production, old urban new rural in the form of urban farm, healing garden for dwellers, linkage and distribution system to connect the flows, and terrain vague as a result of the site as flexible and temporary field.

In close scrutiny, the healing garden heals the urban fabric across syntaxes, the urban production by providing crops for self-consumption and sale, the community by improving neighbourhood quality, the socio-economics by relieving the increasing urban density and providing products for market exchange. The urban farm is a harvesting garden for the dwelling pods, the dwelling pods are in turn gardens for the container architecture, and the exploded programs are gardens to the dwellers.

30/10/2012

Adapting to sea-level rise in Lake Macquarie

The project explores architectural solutions in accommodating the changing relationship between landform, water and settlement, to maintain the connectivity and resilience of the social and urban fabric of Swansea, Lake Macquarie, in spite of the on-going concern with sea-level rise and the associated inundation, energy and housing availability.

The project reflects on the ability of the current urban configuration to interact with nearby urban centres and to connect with diverse sites and programs, from that develops solutions that are adaptable over time, having the capacity to transform and celebrate the changing relationship between land and water, maintain community integrity and return biodiversity.

30/10/2012

Client:
Ordos Government at DongSheng District

Architect:
KMAK DESIGN and PSEC Project Services in joint venture