NICOLA CHAN
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12. CV
Shelf Life: How to Treat an Eggy, 2025
Bridge Project by Do Ho Suh, 2024-2025
Chinglish Guardian Lion, 2024
Inverted Monument – Plaza by Do Ho Suh, 2022, 2024
Various Ceramicware 2022-2025
Every Nook and Cranny, 2019
Garment as Architecture, 2019
Study Model I, 2019
Casting a Space, 2018-2019 
Drafting a Space, 2018
Ford Homes, 2017-2018
Software Version v.5.1, 2016


© Nicola Chan     
Nicola Chi-Hay Chan (b. 1994 in London) is a multidisciplinary artist, architectural designer, and maker. Her work seeks to blur the boundaries between art and architecture, investigating rituals and cultural norms through speculative narratives. She works through tactile, intuitive analogue processes in dialogue with the digital tools of her architectural background. She is also committed to widening access to art and the spaces that govern it, mentoring with Arts Emergency and co-founding Jack Draw Me Like, a community life-drawing club in Hackney. Alongside her own practice, she has taught at The Bartlett School of Architecture and been a guest critic at Oxford Brookes School of Architecture. She currently works at Do Ho Suh Studio as Architecture and Research Lead.
To purchase work or discussion a commission or collaboration
nicolachchan@gmail.com
@nicola._chan 
12.Software Version v.5.1

Produced in collaboration with Pui Quan Choi and Nikolas Kourtis
2016

Digital render
Software Version v.5.1 received an honourable mention in Blank Space’s Fairytales Competition 2016. The project imagines Instagram in its physical manifestation – the original logo is used as the basis for the factory’s blueprint. Every process within the app is translated back into an analogue process; taking the image, processing the film, archiving and so forth.

1/11    Software Version v.5.1 – Filter factory, 2016, digital render
2/11    Software Version v.5.1 – Darkrooms, 2016, digital render
3/11    Software Version v.5.1 – Sectional view, 2016, digital render
4/11    Software Version v.5.1 – Archives, 2016, digital render
5/11    Software Version v.5.1 – Valencia, 2016, digital render
6/11    Software Version v.5.1 – Gotham, 2016, digital render
7/11    Software Version v.5.1 – Toaster, 2016, digital render
8/11    Software Version v.5.1 – Earlybird, 2016, digital render
9/11    Software Version v.5.1 – Rise, 2016, digital render
10/11    Software Version v.5.1 – Poprocket, 2016, digital render
11/11    Software Version v.5.1 – Inkwell, 2016, digital render