EDITH FUNG BSc Architectural Design Welsh School of Architecture Cardiff University
Work Experience Aberrant Architecture, London, UK, 2010 Joseph Y K Leung & Associates, Hong Kong, 2007 Achievements Mantownhuman Architecture & Design Winter School, 2010 Opengap ‘CAPTURE’ Architecture Photography Competition, Finalists, 2011 Travel and Cultural Experience Duke of Edinburgh Gold Medal, 2008 Malvern in the Gambia Expedition, 2007 Career Discovery in Architecture, Summer Course in Hong Kong University, 2006
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Education Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK BSc Architectural Studies, 2011
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EDITH FUNG
RESUME
CONTENTS Ghosts in Memory - Trieste and its Amnesia (2011 3rd Year) Respect for Genius Loci under De Stijl Environment - Urban Project in Brecon (2010 3rd Year) Music and Architecture: A Study of Journey Through Japanese Music (2010 2nd Year) Theatre School (2010 2nd Year) Sustainable Housing (2009 2nd Year)
GHOSTS IN MEMORY: TRIESTE AND ITS AMNESIA (2011) Project Brief To propose a museum that exhibits the transport development history, a institutional building for UNESCO conservation work, and a seamen’s quarter, within a site of an existing power station in Porto Vecchio, an abandoned industrial warehouses area in Trieste.
GHOSTS IN MEMORY: TRIESTE AND ITS AMNESIA
Normal Memory
Memories Recalled
Memories Recalled
normal memory
Birth
Today
Years
Anterograde Amnesia
Memories Recalled
Birth 3000 - 2000BC Carni (IndoEuropean Tribe)
Time of Trauma
Years
Today
First train 1857 Primo of Trieste 1869 Steam train held in limbo French troops 1787 1805 1809 177BC Roman Republic of Venice Under Duke of (Vienna-Trieste Austrian without a terminus 1956 (Napolean Wars) Republic 1369 - 1372 Austria 1382 Southern Railway) Italian Invasion 1918 Treaty of Rapallo 1920 Commercial port and Castle of San Giusto Porto Vecchio Fascist and Naxist Regime 1943 shipbuilding center 1836 1470 - 1630 1863 - 1909 Trieste split into two zones 1947 ‘Austrian Riviera’ ‘Kunstenland’ 1813 Zone A under American and 20th Century under Austrian British government, later Italy Years of Bloom Empire 1954 Free Port Artists: James Joyce, 4 November 1954, Piazza Unità d'Italia Zone B under Yugoslavia Italo Svero, Umberto Saba
Design Approach
Birth
Years
Trauma
Today
Miramare Castle
Exploring and analysing Trieste identity and historical background, by drawing parallels between Trieste and a victim who has anterograde amnesia, the mechanism of hippocampus in the brain determines the massing of the buildings by which their performances represent and their relationship. Victory Lighthouse
Republic of Venice
1764
1819
1909
Porto Vecchio
Railway Station Piazza Unita d’Italia
Narodni Dom Borsa Castello di San Giusto Hospital Cattinara
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Museum protects the long term memory remained (Dead ship and train drawing); Seamen’s quarter holds new doses of short term memory PROTECTION and UNESCO depot acts as consolidation from short term to forming long term memory. They arranged to wrap around a ‘centreplace’ where people and events are accumulated to form a new collective Transmittion of Grouped Fragments of memory. Proposing in terms of Ruskin’s idea of ‘Architecture of ProtecEncoded Information tion and Position’ enhances the connection between memory and time. Physcial Body = Existing Old Fabric Very Solid Protection
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PROTECTION
Half Positional Movement of Information
PROTECTION
POSITION
Transmittion of Grouped Fragments of Encoded Information Physcial Body = Existing Old Fabric Very Solid Protection
Physical Body = Various Forms Arranged to Create Protection That Allow Flow Through
Museum Protecting Dead Ship (Past)
POSITION
Bay Protecting Ships (Present)
PROTECTION
Phy ran Allo
Journey The aim is to try to change a person’s perceptual experience by going through a series of specially designed scenes in order to create alternative to cognitive mapping, from a more controlled navigation to a flexible one. Victims (local people and visitors) are taken by a train carriage from the heart of the city to the site, and the journey starts. They first pass through the deadly atmosphere by the emptied warehouses of Porto Vecchio. They pass through the cor-ten bridge, marking the gate of the area of the new memory system.
They look at the 1:1 steam train drawing with mirrors reflecting continuity, and glass refracting movement of existing trains on the bridge outside. They view the macroscale ship from microscale frames, being invisible and visible by movement. Then they have a choice to the living seamen’s lives passing over the dead ship. In the end they are directed to the centreplace where gathers different people on the site.
Relationship between the museum and the centreplace
RESPECT FOR GENIUS LOCI UNDER DE STIJL ENVIRONMENT URBAN PROJECT IN BRECON (2010) Project Brief Urban proposal of 30 percent residential on a site along the riverside next to Christ College from high density (Site A) to low density (Site B), with a suitable program to connect the two sites.
sociology
mostly aged 40-60 more female than malemostly long lived 10+years low population density problem of aging
choose to stay here because of environment close neightbourhood attached to home higher education is not common
missing young generation population due to low employment people leave town for job oppotunities
social land use
slow growth of urbanism shown from housing typologies of different historical styles in the same street (Geogian, Jacobean) lack of public space
dominance of countryside, national park surrounded and sheltered by hills, at junction of three rivers quiet and slow
more pub business than shops agricultural famlands immediately on border of town
losing infrastructure no major industry visitors in National Park encourage tourism low employment
work bounded within town, not a lot transport links across borders
mainly primary (agriculture) and tertiary (retail, tourism) low wages lack of professional opportunity high retirement rate
socio-economy
distribution of employment and prduction
economy
standard of living
classes
economic land use
population distribution
material potential
demography
labour force
Urban Analysis on Present Cultural Landscape (Patrick Geddes)
Design Approach Genius Loci, meaning how landscape and settlement depend on each other to create the spirit of place, has been the focus of urban analysis. Castle, river and hill, are the heart of the town development. From ‘Place-Work-Folk’ analysis (Patrick Geddes) on how man and nature relationship has affected on different aspects, urban morphology, local tradition and aesthetic values that form the identity and strength of thie place are preserved in my proposal along with the 3 elements. The difference to create from the existing conditions of the town is to improve the social values which is main problem drawn from the anlaysis, in the direction of the program and typology.
Site A
1. Craft institute - xyloglyphy and textiles (with shopfronts, exhibition spaces, student housing on top) 2. Live/work units for local craftsmen (with galleries) 3. Library 4. Photography studio 5. Open workshops 6. Flood wall leading to site B
Site B
7. Mixed cultural market 8. Restaurant and tearoom (integrating with orchards) 9. Communal space (holding outdoor events and festivals) 10. Visitors hostel 11. Campsite 12. Garden for planting food
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The whole site is a craft institute that looks into traditional art and exploits new perspective; in hope to bridge the gap between old and young people, and between brecon and the outside cities, by regenerating local economy and promoting tourism.
People experience the journey of the site in a form of narratives, from learning, displaying, exploring, experimenting, to idea exchange, sharing, reflection and making stances. Gallery spaces and shopfronts are on the ground floor spilling out liveliness; institutional spaces and accommodations are on the upper floors. Students and local craftsmen learn from each other and demonstrate to the visitors, who are the stimulation for moving on to new interventions, from the extract of the tradition.
student accomodation
outdoor sculpture gallery
craftsman residence riverside gallery
craft institution gallery and shops
workspace shopfronts
On SIte A people experience the journey of the site in a form of narratives, from learning, displaying, exploring, experimenting, to idea exchange, sharing, reflection and making stances. The blocks for students and local craftsmen are arranged in conversation and to create a narrow streetfront. Gallery spaces and shopfronts are on the ground floor spilling out liveliness; institutional spaces and accommodations are on the upper floors. They learn from each other and demonstrate to the visitors, who are the stimulation for moving on to new interventions, from extracting the essence of tradition. On Site B there are market stalls which sells local and international products, communal ground and restaurants where people gather and interact, exchanging ideas. External Environment: Manmade (Site A)
Typology Exploring De Stijl movement offers the goal to achieve harmony, by balance between manmade and nature, old and new, individual and universal etc. The tectonic language of De Stijl creates a 3D spatial character, which stimulates art making, allows more conversation within, frames views of nature as part of the display together with man’s work of art, echoes with the rhythm of river flow by its play on vertical levels.
of place and nature relationship
Rverside colonnade
Timber Wall 24mm timber strips 24mm battens 24mm counterbattens/ ventilated cavity black windproof paper OSB 150mm rockwool insulation vapour barrier 50mm vertical battens (space for service) 12mm wood-cement particle board
Market Hall
text
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Concrete Wall 80mm fairface concrete, smooth formwork 150m rockwool insulation vapour proof 60mm Gypsum board
mixture of international and local goods
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Orchards and Gardens
idea exchange
Shopfronts lear
Viewing tower
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Restaurant and Tea Room
unification reflection
Student Housing Plan
making stances Communal Space
Riverside gallery for traditional crafts
Exhibition for students’ work
holding outdoor events, fairs and festivals
vertical levels framing and views landscaping
Housing Layout 1:100 1:25 Detail
MUSIC AND ARCHITECTURE: A STUDY OF JOURNEY THROUGH JAPANESE MUSIC (2010) Project Brief and Design Harmonic proportions defines the building form. The Hub is an open plan with a courtyard, open for multi-purpose use. The melody as the roof and skylighting guides the circulation flow through the series of rooms, experiencing the sense of sequences of clear rhythms created by strong beats of the columns and solid walls and void. Inside a room the sense of being in the whole is strong as the rooms are interconnected and the whole is the multiple of each room.
Entrance
Reflection Through this vertical studio, I produced the design merely based on the analysis of the specific tsugaru-jamisen music and the personal interpretation of the sensation it gives, not focusing on imitating a similar style to Japanese architecture. However the similarities of the form and space of my design prove the strong connection between music and architecture. After completing the project, I researched on traditional Japanese architecture and its characteristics. In terms of form, it is highly ordered series of relationships in space and time. The structure is simple and direct, conveying the meaning of support and non-support. Each element has a sense of value beyond itself, of spiritual emmanating from the material and the universal reflected in the particular. The space is small, for human scale events in architecture and realisation of need to progressively relate these to greater whole. The appearance of rhythmic progressions creates a sense of movement and by the tensioned relationships of defining forms. Reference: Norman F Carver, JR., ‘Form and Space of Japanese Architecture’
THEATRE SCHOOL (2010) Project Brief and Design My aim for the project is to knit back the community and cultural spirit of aberdare and generate more social activities in the street through theatre school for young people. I focused on the streets and public spaces in the site in relation to the theatre, how they affect the building form and organisation, how the building determines their characteristics, what the street and the building are offering for each other, the tensions on the wall they create as Robert Venturi said. Therefore my design has an emphasis on making a journey of an audience into the theatre.
Section showing Figure Ground Relationship
In order to gain public engagement and draw people into this gathering place for interaction to take place, I thought of arousing a person’s curiosity, along with luminosity at night time, which drives about motion of people. Street performance or rehearsal is a prelude to catch the public’s attention. Then the journey begins with a exploratory passage way, along with the displacement of forms to encourage movement, and leads to an exciting courtyard centre with activities occuring from all directions. Upon this the person goes to the auditorium for formal performances. This is symbolised by the rigid and regular form of the auditorium, accomodating events to take place within, sitting on against the organic ground, reacting to variability and spontaneous activities from the street.
SUSTAINABLE HOUSING (2009) Project Brief Butetown, due to the coal-trading history is a uniquely multicultural community of mixed variety of race. Organisations have been putting affort on preserving such character of the town by holding events, promotions and educations. Housing in the area of different characteristics indicating a sense of individual identity, therefore it is reasonable to follow this route and be innovative in designing housing and in sustainable approach. My design aims for a compromise between cultural heritage and building in a new way for the future.
Site Elevation
Being sustainable in three aspects - social, economical and environmental, this housing tries it best to offer an harmonic neighborliness atmosphere to encourage interaction of people. The grey water reed beds run along the housing and form a ring of connection. Three groups of L-shaped housing forming spatious external spaces give a sense of caring in a neighbourhood, identity and ownership.
pitched roof for solar panels Roof Construction Welsh Slate Tile Battens, 24x48 Counter Battens, 45x50 Secondary Waterproofing Ventilated Cavity Thermal Insulation, Rockwool Thermal Insulation, Rockwool Vapour Barrier Battens, 24x48 Plasterboard
3.5mm 24mm 45mm 22mm 60mm 140mm 40mm
electric louvres for ventilation
“subtraction� - a cut into space to allow more daylight for living room
24mm 12.5mm
maximised opening on the south facade for natural light reception
Timber Floor Construction Walnut Floorboards Impact Sound Insulation Counter Floor Joists, 120x200 Sound Insulation Battens Wood Cement Particleboard
24mm 40mm 20mm 200mm 50mm 24mm 15mm
Wall Construction Plaster Concrete Block, 440x100x215 Thermal Insulation, Rockwool Cavity (Construction Tolerance) Brick, 215x102.5x65 Concrete Floor Construction Rubber Tile Screed with Underfloor Heating Separating plastic layer Rigid Insulation Reinforced Concrete Slab
15mm 80mm 1mm 100mm 200mm
rubber floor tiles to store heat
Foundation Parquet Flooring Screed with Underfloor Heating Separating plastic layer Rigid Insulation DPM Hardcore
15mm 80mm 1mm 100mm 200mm
15mm 100mm 150mm 20mm 102.5mm
openable windows for natural ventilation
concrete of a high thermal mass to increase natural heating
recycled-glass paving greywater reed beds along the loggia
Rainwater collected and grey water treatment underground for recycling
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