A surreal and synaesthetic addition to the gastronomic and social experience at the dining table. Neural Palate Kueh is a reinterpretation of traditional Singaporean kuehs (bite-sized snack or dessert foods) as local architecture in the form of 3D-printed kuehs. Traditional kuehs are edible cultural artefacts and material records of ritual, memory and geometry, not unlike buildings. Hence, the project is a playful fusion of nostalgic food heritage and familiar built environment, mediated by artificial intelligence, to discover a new architectural language – part food, part built form, but completely Singaporean.
Other prizes The project has won the Golden Pin Concept Design 2025, European Product Design Award 2025, WAFX Prize at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) 2025, and exhibited at the Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025.
