Winners
CreateSmart Young Design Talent Award 2018
Joe Jun Liao
Environmental Design | User eXperience Architect

 

Co-founder & CEO, Space is Ltd.

Joe Jun Liao, a hybrid architectural designer and urban technologist, is co-founder and CEO of Space is Ltd.; Since 2016, he has been iteratively exploring and experimenting with the intersection of design and technology to deliver elevating experiences, starting with Project SLEEEP. With 3 locations in Hong Kong and 1 in Japan as of the end of 2022, SLEEEP is a minimalist capsule hotel utilizing IoT technologies and positive psychology to enhance user’s sleep quality in an affordable setting.

In the spirit of working with off-grid energy, Jun has also embarked into an experimental mobility experience featuring a fusion between camping cars and Japanese tea houses, titled Project FUUUN.

What is most unusual to Jun’s design is the infrastructure that underlies these experiences. Over the years, Jun has led Space is Ltd. to develop its bespoke digital infrastructure featuring real-time databases, booking process automation, personalized IoT environment, location-based AR and story-based travel guide. With this system - EXP.OS - Space is Ltd. is evolving into a gamified travel company with a mission to dissolve borders between genders, languages, religions and nations.

Jun is a persistent learner and doer, inventor for 3 patents, recipient of multiple international awards, a husband and a father.

Once a week, Jun also adopts an Artist persona, known as Jun Rivers, with whom he embraces personal expressions through poetry, short essays, generative arts and sculptures.

Overseas Undertaking
Contact
Works