Interviews with LiChun Chang

My major is in Architecture. The structure design and computation design were my main interests when I studied in the university. I also like to participate the construction works. Besides those practical courses, I like to discover ideas in urbanism and art works.

It's a way to express myself. In the design work, I can talk to many different clients, who have many different approaches for their demands. It's interesting to listen to stories.

I was advised to study architecture and design in the beginning. However, I found my interests in this subject.

I do interior design and architecture design. I hope I can design chairs, table, or sofa later.

Keep open minded and listen, learn. Be confident.

Good designer can produce a lot of works for demands. Greater designer thinks more than just produces more.

The ideas of looking after users. Think about how users will appreciate and live with it.

Good design expresses the imagination and art. The imagination and art are the extension of living experience and thinking. It's a way to tell someone yourself in the different forms. For those reasons, it has a good value to invest.

Design a house for my family.

no, just be open minded and realize the design project steadily.

Zaha hadid, Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Kerry Hill, OMA

Zaha hadid's architecture works. It represents the techniques of architecture and interior design skills of computation knowledge.

Urban Twilight Residential House. I had chances to create and realize its very fine details.

Keep travelling and see the good projects in real world, not just google search images.

Design is to create problems and resolve problems in a deliberate process. Design is my professionalism.

Good Clients and good construction contractors.

Give me more projects and more time to think.

I am not a design master yet.

A family house.

Not sure. At least be a responsible designer.

Expecting a design who can listen to them and understand what they want. Then Designer bring their ideas to another higher level of thinking.

Design is organized in order. Design tells stories. It makes society happier and good living experience. It might also open a new way of socializing in community.

A family house. I am looking forward to realize this project in reality. The client has strong feelings about trying new shapes to redefine family house.

Urban Twilight Residential House. I saw what I want in the design, and clients have not problems.

More technology improvements to liberate designers' imagination.

Not sure.

3 months.

Site observation.

Be confident and calm.

It is mutual.

It helps to eliminate the constrains and provide more imagination.

CAD, 3D software

it's a spatial expression, representing the definition surface.

I am a Architect. I grow up in a construction contractor family. The family background made me rethink what should be built. I like to draw. So I draw many things for leisure purpose. Therefore, as a Architect, I can draw with my imagination and realize my drawings.

We are all architecture education background. We think design and craftsmanship are both interesting. We enjoy about finding new materials or new details for spatial characters.

It's thinking and realizing with imagination.

Interior and Architecture.

It's difficult for me to pick one.

Baku Flame towers, in Baku city when I started working in London. It's a great opportunity for participating the design as a team member.

Metal, Marble

When I overlook the ocean in a mountain lookout cafe in North East Taiwan in the morning time, I feel relaxed and creative.

What tenants will see, touch and use; the living experience of being in the space.

Being Calm and concentrated

Feel delighted and relieved from high pressure.

Thoughtful ideas and quality of project delivery

Overall images and expression of design. And also the philosophy.

Be bravery to try and learn how to accept if it is failed. Then correct the mistakes. It's a positive attitude to influence people around you and the society.

In the future, the design itself will be thrived extensively by internet images. It will be a good opportunity for good designers to grow their original design ideas with honest. On the other hand, many people will copy your ideas. So it's time to learn how to use new technology to overcome some challenges in the design phase and construction phase.

In Ex-Chiesa di San Francesco, Como Italy. I hope I can have another chance to be there.

The surrounding of project site, the imagination of living. Travelling is a good feed for creativity.

Neat and clean design style. However, I also like to see a little complexity of design. A little contradictory makes some excitements.

I live in Taipei City. It's very international and convenient city. The culture itself is mixed. It blends Chinese culture, Japanese culture primarily and slightly American and European Culture. It's a good cultural background for me to think out of box and accept new ideas. It's a place of art, foods, and democracy. It's pluralism. However, in the way the designer has to be calm and think what's the original design and distinguish the useful information to avoid the plagiarism.

Calm and encouraging.

Be patient and listening. Then be confident of your choice.

I like to wake up early and drive in the morning.Then, a cup of coffee for half hours to refresh the mind while checking the schedule. When I start office job, I like to be calm. When I am in the construction site, I like to be aggressive. Mostly, I work very long hours even overnight. The design job takes 90 percent of my day.

Ability of Analyzing. Ability for structuring random ideas into a communicable logic.

Autocad, Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, Revit

Pay attention to the schedule, and don't leave today's job to be resolved the day after.

Is it expensive?

Architect and Project designer in UK

Corporate Owners, International IT Company, Dental Clinic, Residential.

Interior and Architecture. It requires a lot of collaboration.

Mostly, I develop design by myself.