Haw Par Villa is a 8.5 ha conservation heritage park in Singapore built in the 1930s. Over the years, visitorship to the park fell steadily due to changing tastes and general neglect. The brief was to use lighting to enliven the stories for the new generation and make them relevant again. As the lighting design and main implementation consultant, Illuminating Asia transformed over 20 heritage artefacts through artful lighting, and made the park welcoming. It's a culmination of electrical engineering, story-telling, lighting design, and problem-solving.

Through my years of experience, I come to believe that it is connecting people to their living spaces emotionally and physically with our lighting works. My practice builds on our ability to control and manipulate lighting in any given space, evoking people’s senses, enhancing the architectural and landscape environments, and enable creative technology applications. This demands a deep understanding of materials, nature, people, arts, science, engineering, technology, pragmatism, and how all of the above are interconnected through a vision of the future. Then, we can craft a unique design concept for each client. Passionate lighting designers challenge themselves and give solutions that go beyond the requirements. It may be a bespoke lighting fixture, or a unique ambience for a particular environment. Lighting design has moved beyond general illumination. It is now all about deepening the people’s engagement with a space. It may be a mixture of creative projection mapping to visually appealing effects created by a strong know-how in lighting hardware to software. All of which comes together to achieve the most optimal and complete lighting design proposal and end results. As we go about our lighting works, and training the next generation of lighting designers, the above ethos are what I hold dear to. Ultimately, I believe all good lighting solutions should seek to impact lives positively. With that, I hope for a chance to work with you in creating a better living environment.

The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore. It champions the development of Singapore's tourism sector, one of the country's key service sectors and economic pillars, and undertakes the marketing and promotion of Singapore as a tourism destination. The STB is the custodian and funder for all new and maintenance projects for Haw Par Villa.