Natural Hazards and Disaster Management

Han Ming Michael Koo is an Architecture Enthusiast and graduate Architect from Perth (Australia) who has shown a great interest in the area of architecture speculation with radical challenged context. He is currently a Sessional Academic in Curtin University, Perth Western Australia where he continues to engage students to further engage in this idea of scouring new habitable terrains. He is a Senior Associate of the GDS Program (Global . Design . Studio). The GDS team shares the vision of creating avenue to respond to complex challenges in built environments worldwide by interrelating intelligence across creative industries, practice and academia. He believes that the role of contemporary architecture is to mediate in global multi-disciplinary field. His thesis research commences by speculating on the degradation of the world’s environment that ultimately challenged our perspective on future habitation and used the country of Japan as the platform of research conversation to illustrate the intervention of architecture field in context that is prone to natural disaster and rising sea level. The thesis research formulates an extracted collection of knowledge and expertise in the realm of underwater living condition to reflect on architecture design thinking of interconnecting various form information into a visual presentation to demonstrate the outcome.