In 2015, Hong Kong suddenly lost ~90% of its existing coral populations due to undetermined causes. As a response, a team of marine biologists and architects from the University of Hong kong have developed a series of 3D - clay printed artificial coral reef tiles that were deployed in Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park to aid new coral growth over the coming years.
I was the computational designer in the team, and led the fabrication, design and installation of our artificial reef tiles, coming up with the algorithmic strategy and the fabrication of the tile given requirements from the marine biologists of the team.
The project eventually turned into the startup Archireef, where I worked as the second employee as a production manager in Abu Dhabi and our work was featured on CNN, Bloomberg, FastCompany and other major news channels.
