Creative Interpretations
Rooted in an architectural approach, we adopt an inventive lens and collaborate keenly with fellow creatives to craft creative interventions. With projects ranging from creative direction, gallery and activity curation, exhibition design, to artist collaborations.
Through establishing a deep grasp and understanding of both content and context, we curate compelling narratives through design, to achieve highly expressive, informative and tangible experiences. Skilfully confounding storytelling through the articulation of space, the use of multimedia, and interactive experiences.
Creative Interpretations Projects
Exhibition Design, Gallery Design, Artist Collaboration, Creative Direction, Master planning, Architectural Service, Interpretative Planning, and Activity Curation
Entrance facade for S.E.A. Focus 2023 “a world, anew” exhibition that celebrates the context of presenting emerging Southeast Asia art at the Port.
Featuring in the ‘Light To Night’ light festival to commemorate Singapore’s Bicentennial, the Memory Conduit is intended as a channel of collective memory. Sited at the entrance of the City Hall building, the Conduit faces the landmark Padang, a key urban space that is central to Singapore’s historical narrative.
Pathfinder is a series of temporary pavilions set within the lush gardens atop Fort Canning Hill, designed as part of the Singapore Bicentennial 2019. The pavilions invite visitors to explore 700 years of Singapore’s history through a spatial experience that combine artefacts, maps, flora and written word.
Sonic Womb is a responsive, immersive installation comprising of an inhabitable suspended tensile womb structure and soundscape, which explores the process of human gestation.
China, Lit! is a contemporary, interpretive art exhibition that reimagines China as a key destination for today’s travellers. A first for Changi Airport, we have daringly reimagined the spirit of travel exhibitions in the airport.
The Sustainable Singapore Gallery narrates Singapore’s transformation into a liveable, green city in a garden in anticipating and addressing future threats.
The design of the Singapore Pavilion at ITB Asia embodies and celebrates Singapore Tourism Board’s new branding “Passion Made Possible” through a compelling crystalline spatial experience.
A different world and a microcosm of a nation that is continually striving to be self-reliant in spite of its size.
Singapore: Inside Out Sydney is a three-day experiential showcase that recognises Singapore’s top creative talents from a spectrum of disciplines and serves as a platform for multi-disciplinary and cross-national collaborations between Singapore and Australia.
The theme for 2017’s edition, “Light and Nature”, invited artists to pick apart the curious relationship of light with nature and the city.
i Light Marina Bay is Asia’s leading sustainable light art festival. Helmed by the Urban Redevelopment Authority and held around Singapore’s renowned Marina Bay, Zarch Collaboratives assumed creative directorship for the 2016 edition, curating a list of artwork from local artists and artists across the globe to showcase in the heart of Singapore.
A travelling showcase of Singapore’s contemporary creative talents, Singapore: Inside Out travelled to Beijing, London, New York and back to Singapore in 2015 as a celebration of Singapore’s Golden Jubilee.
Zarch Collaboratives’ participation in the Expo entails the conceptualisation and construction of the pavilion following a narrative, as well as the curation of the programme throughout the duration.
This artwork was the result of a conversation between an architect and an inter-disciplinary artist about the history and heritage of The Substation. Working with Grace Tan the temporary new addition commissioned for the occasion of the Future Proof exhibition was conceived as well shrouding the physicality of the Substation.
The Singapore Maritime Gallery was intended to remind visitors of the intimate and intrinsic connections between Singapore the island-state and the Maritime world. Divided into ten zones, the emphasis was placed on building a hands-on environment where the visitor would be introduced to the maritime industry.
Gazetted under the Preservation Order, the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall, as an architectural entity, reflects the lifestyle and characteristics in an epoch of uprising.
The stage set for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games 2010 was sited at the Marina Bay floating platform. Drawing upon the Marina Bay skyline as a rich backdrop, the stage was composed of three layers – the floating necklace of containers, the main stage and the lake of water.