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A house is not a project
It is the room a child will remember as their parents’ home. We design accordingly — for the long second life of a building, not its publication week.
The Studio
A practice that fits inside a long room
Orbiflex is twelve people working over two long oak tables on Robinson Road. We do not have a sales team, a showroom, or a Pinterest account. We have one studio and one principal designer who reads every drawing.
Founded by a draughtsman, not a brand
Orbiflex Studio Pte Ltd was registered in 2011 by Yuen Ren Kwok, who had spent the previous decade drawing for two of Singapore’s quieter residential firms. Across fourteen years the studio has held its size deliberately — twelve commissions a year is the most one designer can supervise without abdicating to a junior.
Our work begins on tracing paper, with a 2H pencil and a long conversation. Renderings come later, when they are useful. Most of our clients arrive through other clients; we do not take on every brief that reaches us, and we have never paid for a published feature.
What the studio offers
What we believe
Five quiet convictions, written down
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Less stuff, better stuff
We use fewer materials, on more surfaces. A residence we have finished will usually have three principal materials, used confidently, instead of nine, used nervously.
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A budget is a moral document
Variation orders erode trust faster than poor finishes. Our fixed-price commitment is not a marketing line; it is a discipline we re-test on every project.
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Slow is the only luxury that survives
A panelled wall takes three weeks to install correctly. A cast-stone counter takes seven. We protect those weeks against the calendar, every time.
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Designed is finished
An interior is not really finished until the curtains hang straight, the lights dim correctly and the painting is hung at the right height. We stay for that part.
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Twelve, never thirteen
We turn down more commissions than we accept. The cap exists because it is the only way the principal can remain on every project, every week.
The people
Twelve people, two cities
Most of our team has been with Orbiflex for more than seven years. The Singapore studio holds three lead designers, two project managers, two technologists, a stylist and an in-house draughtsman; the Melbourne office is a workshop and a senior designer.
- Principal designer
- Yuen Ren Kwok — fourteen years leading the studio
- Lead designers
- Charmaine Tay · Bernardo Aris · Mira Saadon
- Project managers
- Andre Soliman · Wee Min Lai
- Workshop
- Two long-standing partner workshops in Johor and Geelong
Quietly accepting briefs for late 2026
If you have read this far, we would probably enjoy speaking with you.
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