PhD Candidate Red Dot Award
Winner — 2025

62% of children under six show fear, crying, or resistance during standard nebulizer treatment, and clinical adherence stays below 50% as a result. Sessions run about 15 minutes — roughly three times a toddler's natural attention span — while caregivers have no way to read Bluetooth telemetry (oxygen concentration, breath strength) in real time.

Breezy reframes the clinical protocol as a four-phase logic — the doctor's prescription feeds a sensory-mapping engine that converts clinical targets into physical thresholds. Interchangeable magnetic modules — a windmill, a sailboat, a star — let a child choose and physically attach their own accessory, building autonomy into a routine that used to require restraint. A soft-silicone tactile LED matrix replaces the clinical control panel with a warm, non-medical surface that lights up in sequence to show progress as the child blows.

The iOS companion app mirrors the child's effort in real time — a windmill spins and a character's cheeks puff as they exhale — while oxygen concentration, breath strength, and session progress render as high-contrast data cards a caregiver can read at a glance. A weekly recovery view turns completed sessions into a visible streak.

Built for a dual-user interface: SF Pro Rounded across a three-tone warm palette (#EB706B, #FE926B, #FFC854), with a fixed type scale — 36pt bold titles down to 14pt data labels and 11pt captions — so the screen stays legible to a toddler and precise enough for a caregiver checking vitals mid-session. The tab architecture was scoped to accommodate future tele-health integrations.

Early sketches worked through the hose's flexible range and mask geometry alongside competing concepts for the breathing indicator — a radial dial, a wave pattern, a full dot matrix — before settling on the diamond-grid tactile surface that shipped.

2025 Red Dot Design Award — Winner. Validated cross-platform UI components and system architecture with AI-assisted rapid prototyping in Figma prior to engineering handoff.

The Flora Transit reimagines the train station as an emotional anchor rather than a purely functional threshold. A pink greenhouse-like structure, layered with planting and soft circulation, creates a dedicated sanctuary for reunions, farewells, and quiet anticipation.

The research board maps the emotional weight of station waiting and departure, combining depression-related data, passenger movement, and site observations to identify where a softer spatial program could intervene.

Form and program studies translate public activities into architectural modules. The exploded axonometric clarifies how structure, greenhouse envelope, planting, and social programs stack into a compact station-side installation.

The storytelling board develops the project language from sketches to architectural volumes, showing how emotional cues, biophilic elements, and station infrastructure are translated into a coherent spatial narrative.

Light House frames a sailor club as a social and cultural threshold. The proposal uses muted materiality, controlled light, and narrative rooms to make maritime life legible to visitors while preserving a quiet, reflective atmosphere.

The axonometric view clarifies the project's spatial hierarchy: public gathering areas, reflective rooms, and circulation paths are layered as a readable architectural system rather than a single isolated object.

The meditation room translates the project theme into an interior condition, using enclosure, scale, and light to create a slow emotional transition from maritime hardship to public empathy.

The exhibition hall turns archival and experiential material into a staged route. Visitors move through a sequence of views and gathering points, allowing the cultural narrative to unfold spatially.

The project treats the former granary as a communal living room. Material samples, large-scale models, suspended panels, and sand-table islands work together to connect agricultural history with contemporary public experience.

The second board develops the exhibition as a choreographed route, balancing documentation, tactile material evidence, and changing spatial density so visitors can read the site through movement.

The cover establishes the collection's core visual language: racing velocity becomes a dramatic atmosphere around the card, using spotlighting, motion trails, and driver presence to turn speed into collectible identity.

The autograph card places the signature as the emotional anchor while preserving the speed narrative through aerodynamic smoke, racing livery colors, and clear scarcity information.

The workflow board documents how sketching, prompt iteration, layout refinement, and final compositing can be organized into a repeatable production pipeline for collectible variants.

The token board turns the collection into a system: color, typography, rarity labels, image treatments, and motion motifs become reusable rules rather than one-off poster effects.

The market board frames the opportunity around Formula 1 collectibles in China, connecting fan behavior, scarcity, visual spectacle, and brand culture to a concrete product direction.

The final board positions speed as a visual fashion system, showing how racing culture can move from track performance into collectible graphics, fan identity, and lifestyle expression.