Melvin Khng Tian Wei
Currently Melvin is into using tree forks for furniture design and has in his collection unique pieces of furniture crafted using tree forks. Moving forward, he aspires to expand his research on ‘Typologies in Nature’ to impact a larger community.

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THESIS Natural Organic Toys
Growing up with nature at a young age has evoked Melvin’s curiosity towards the way nature works. His thesis focuses mainly on ‘Natural Organic Toys’ made from tree forks to enhance creativity in children.
Areca Curved Facade
Working with natural fibres, the inspiration comes from the palm trees, making use of the leaves as a fabric. The Sheath of palm trees are used. Going through the process of sun drying, bleaching and attening. The ottoman, pedestal and coffee table drew their inspiration from the seed, trunk and leaves of the palm tree.

In collaboration with Kvadrat, Singapore
Belina 5.0
Belina 5.0 is a dressing table for both male and female users, young or old. Nature produces efficient ready-mades found in trees; its intrinsic materials and inherent form structures give solutions which once gleaned and in-sighted, are confluent with functional and mass-produced contemporary ready-mades. This presents a valuable key to sustainable design initiatives: that conceptual design processes, with lesser mental effort, can efficiently counter excess investments of production energies, translated as repeatable programs to produce highly meaningful objects.
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