MArch Architectural Portfolio by adabellepoonlw

PORTFOLIO Selected Works 2017 - 2021

Gratitude and thanks must be given to all professors, tutors and seniors who by all means educated me in the past 6 years

CONTENT RESUME THESIS 01. THE GLITGH Urban Set Design| Hong Kong | 2021 Spring 02. COMPASSION Device Design| Hong Kong | 2020 fall

OTHER WORKS 09. Selected works at Practice Rocco Design Architects Ltd | DOMAT | CUHK CDO

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THESIS 06-13 Urban Set Design| Hong Kong | 2021 Spring 14-17w Device Design| Hong Kong | 2020 fall

OTHER WORKS 58-59

Poon Long Wun Adabelle Flat 08, 15/F, Block 17, Heng Fa Chuen, Chai Wan, Hong Kong Phone number: (+852) 9266 8798 Email: adabellepoonlw@gmail.com

EDUCATION GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, AUSTRIA

2020 Feb

2020 Jul

2019 Sep 2014 Sep

Present 2018 May

ST. PAUL’S CONVENT SCHOOL, HONG KONG

2008 Sep

2014 Jul

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION International English Language Testing System

2018 Dec

Present

2010 Aug

Present

2010 May

Present

2019 Nov

2020 Feb

2018 Jun

2019 Jul

2017 Jun

2018 May

2016 Jun

2016 Aug

2013 Aug

• Postgraduate Exchange programme for Architecture Studio Course

THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, HONG KONG • Bachelor of Social Science (Architectural Studies) Programme • Bachelor of Social Science (Architectural Studies) Programme

• 9.0, 8.0, 6.5, 8.0 (8.0)

Putonghua Proficiency Test • Grade 3, Level A*

Badminton Umpire at Hong Kong Badminton Association • Umpire experience for HK Inter-school Badminton Competition for 4 years

WORKING EXPERIENCE Part-time Architectural Designer at Orient Occident Atelier • Helped with Projects in DongGuan, ShiJiaZhuang and Cambodia

Architectural Trainee at Rocco Design Architects Ltd.

• Helped with East Kowloon Cultural Centre and Qian Hai Exchange Square projects (Supervised by Mr. Herbert Hung)

Summer Intern and Part-time for Campus development Office, CUHK

• Helped with architectural and design projects (Headed by Mr. S.M. Fung, supervised by Mr. Thomas Yuen)

Jing Mei Industrial Corporates

• Graphic Design and marketing promotion Intern

T&G Associates Limited at Manchester UK • Worked as architectural Intern for 2 weeks; had a glimpse of drafting, modelling and on-site works in UK

Haagendaz Sales Champion

• Assisted customers and manager for pleasant dining experience in Haagendaz Ice-cream Store

2013 Aug 2013 May

LANGUAGE Cantonese English Mandarin German

SOFTWARE AutoCAD Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Rhino

OTHER EXPOSURE Augmenting Craftsmanship with Mixed Reality: AR-driven Analogue Modelling • ACADIA Conference presentation and paper publication

Teaching Assistant for CUHK Architectural School Course • Assisted Prof. Essy Baniassad for Undergraduate Course

Urban Meal Mine Competition

• Unfuse competition to propose sustainable farming for megacities

HongKong> TOMORROW Competition, CUHK SOA • Hong Kong Startup Housing: a mini architectural competition

Architectual Studio in Taichung

• Ongoing exchange studio throughout semester, understood opportunities and constrains of designing remotely

Mentor for 2016 University Summer Youth Programme, UNESCO

• Guided secondary school students in knowledge of Architecture, model making and drawings

Marketing Secretary in Architectural Society, CUHK SOA

• Contacted and facilitated various events and promotions in administrative and financial issues

Set Designer, Shaw College Drama Society

• Designed and managed the construction of stage set for shaw drama production within limited time

Member of Global Citizen Programme, AIESEC

Grasshopper Premiere Pro Revit ArchiCAD Sketchup

Raspberry Pi Python Aftereffects Blender Arduino

2020 Oct -

2019 Dec

2017 Sept

2017 Dec

2016 May

2016 Jul

2016 Jan

2016 Dec

2019 Sep 2018 Nov 2017 Sept

2015 Sept

2015 Dec

2014 Dec

2015 Nov

2018 Sept

2019 Sep

2016 Sept

2016 Dec

2017 Apr

2017 Jun

• Provided local and remote support for exchange students on exchange programmes through AIESEC

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Home Modification Programme, DOMAT • Visited low-incomed families in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong and helped facelifting their interiors

United College Social Participation Programme

• Visited and understood the situation of ethnic minoroties in Hong Kong

Student Helper in Hong Kong Morden Architecture Research

Female 15 / 02 / 1996 INTERESTS Drawing, Photography, Drama, Movies Badminton, Climbing Music, Drumming,

• Record and research on Hong Kong Housing Estates led by Prof. Gu Da Qing

THE GLITCH( 2021) THESIS PROJECT

Body Architecture|Hong Kong Master Studio | 2021 Summer Collaborator : Angel Chan Studio Tutor : Tatjana Crossley BEST PROJECT FOR BODY ARCHITECTURE STUDIO

THE PLOT The strange and unknown in the experience of anonymous city life is the characteristic of modern age. As an urbanite, we experience mundane moments of everyday life. We go through ‘non-places’ aimlessly with no intention to get familiar with the surroundings, only observing other people and daily life in a detached, subjective, isolated way. We perform our daily routine as if the modern city is a stage, yet unaware of the relationship between the small elements in the built environment and our psyche. Given that the social interactions and situations are largely an externality out of our control, we would like to challenge how people should use or behave around different elements of architecture to look for improvements in the mental well-being, through the eyes of the essential ‘others‘. By this intention we also develop a critical attitude towards the repetition, speed, desensitization and anonymity of contemporary life and architecture in the city.

THE LENS As an extended representation, instead of presenting a set of defining attitudes as ‘doctrine‘ of treating the built elements, we are producing a stop-motion animation to depict the concept through how glitches in the daily routine can affect an ordinary person. The filmic frame also shows the observer-participant dialectic by subjective perspective from the point of view of a voyeur - any mundane member of the city, including even the audience of the movie.

BEHIND THE SCENES The production and process of the film involves both design decision and philosophical discussion. Instead of degitally renders, almost every space and object, material and texture are physically built. This brings design and space making back to a very primitive form. The project went as far as creating a specific set of ‘construction drawings’ to instruct what materials should be used for each model. On the other hand, the dialogue between cinematic lens and the movie sets discusses the experience and design of architectre. The sets are designed for shooting, blind spots thus exists. This reflects the first person experience of architectural spaces - fragments after fragments of spaces, unlike what we visualize in plans. The details and finishes of chosen daily spaces also possesses characters that are embedded in our memory through countless perceptions to give the identity of a certain typology. Using puppets may resemble a “dolly house”, but at the same time holding a body and manuveuring with it through stop motion shooting exemplifies ‘body architecture’.

COMPASSION THESIS PROJECT

Body Architecture|Hong Kong Master Studio | 2021 FALL Studio Tutor : Tatjana Crossley Prior to producing the movie, the first semester took a different approach in investigating the mundane. This is a device made for measuring impatience at a bus stop. The design incorporates ergonomics, electronic apparatus, biosensor and material innovation.

SITE & WORKFLOW Site inspiration is taken in three levels, urban, rural and natural. Different scales of time are incorporated in the interpretation. For the urban, I recorded my narration of the moode in a day. From the nature, I recorded the sky and its colors across a week. For the rural, I tracked the history of Peng Chau throught the years. The stablished workflow for the device is also linear, and transform biological to digital and spatial data, but the expectation is in real time.

NATURAL ENCOUNTERS PROGRAMME : FOG COLLECTING HOUSING

Multi-Functional|Villa Maria del Truinfo, PERU Master Studio | 2020 Summer Collaborator : Sophie May, Nika Vojvoda Studio Tutor : Klaus K. Loenhart, Biljana Nikolic, Christoph Solstreif-Pirker BEST PROJECT FOR STUDIO

CONCEPT This project beings water to the shanty area of Villa Maria Del Turinfo through a hybrid of vernacular fog catching techniques and social housings. It starts with techical analysis of the mountains. Inspired by both the environmental analysis and social unjust, we propose a project featuring multi-function walls which collect, filtrate and store fog water, for household, communual and plantation use.

SYSTEMS The wall actually brings together the exterior green wall and all the interior water tanks. The system is all connected and starts when fog touches the net. All of the water collected first goes through a filtration tank like the one in the circle. Water will be purified and stored. The excess will be distributed initially within the same floor level, to the two planters on the exterior green wall. It works the same at every level with slight difference in the location and size of tanks.

SPACES The houses are designed for family in siizes of 2-5 maambers. We deliberately opened up the ground floor for public programmes like workshop, laundry or communual kitchen. The furniture and sptial design of each floor is related to the function of the walls. The flexibility of brickwork allows dynamic layouts. Both the exterior and interior part of the walls are covered in greenery for climatic, aesthetic, consumption and purifying purpose.

AUGMENTING CRAFTSMANSHIP ACADIA PUBLICATION : AR-DRIVEN ANALOGUE MODELLING Paper, Retooling |CUHK School of Architecture Elective | 2020 Winter Collaborator : Jacky Fong, Gillian Ngan, Alvin Ho Instructor : Kristof Crolla PRESENTED IN ACADIA CONFERENCE

RESEARCH AIM This research discusses the development of new computation-driven methods that combine Augmented Reality (AR) visualization using Microsoft’s HoloLens©, photogrammetry, and scripting to increase accuracy, precision, and overall skill in the creation of analogue sculptures from digital source files. In doing so, it positions itself in a Post-Digital context aimed at humanizing digital technologies through interplay between digital and analogue cultural and material systems by using alternative notational systems in implementation methods. Sculpting is a labour-intensive process that relies extensively on highly skilled craftsmen. Throughout history, devices have been developed to support this trade and increase production and facilitate replication. For example, American sculptor Henry Dexter’s 1842 “Apparatus for Sculptors” guided the sculpting of uncarved marble by measuring same distances from a finished marble product. Such appliances enable non-specialist craftsmen to participate in the process and gave craftsmen increased control over their work. The goal of this research is to advance this concept by further reducing the required labour and production time, diversify the types of guidance systems, and remove the need of having an original analogue sculpture in place as a starting point. By connecting digital 3D technology with analogue fabrication through mixed-reality holographic overlays using Microsoft’s HoloLens©, the craft of sculpture production is augmented, providing greater agency and opportunity.

WORKFLOW The whole process is governed by two scripts. The first script is to generate a colour spectrum overlaid on the scanned clay by measuring the distance between itself and the target sculpture to get the amount of clay to be removed. After several cuts, photogrammetry has to be carried out to scan the changed clay and re-measure the distance between itself and the target. After several 3D scans, the colour spectrum cannot reflect the degree of cutting accurately as the distance difference between different mesh surfaces of the clay and the target is not as large as the beginning. As a result, the second script draws lines from the target to the clay surfaces and according to the distance shown, sticks can be inserted to drill a hole and the accurate amount of clay can be removed away by carving until the hole is vanished.

DISCRETE COLUMNS PROGRAMME : PUBLIC INSTALLATION

Fabrication and Assembly|Tai Kwun, Hong Kong Master Studio | 2020 Winter Studio Tutor : Adam Fingrut

EXPERIENTIAL FOOD ARCADIA Urban Meal Mine

Food Park |Nine Elms Competition Entry |2018 Fall Collaborator: VERENA LEUNG, SHARON SO SHORTLISTED IN COMEPTITION

Re-introducing the food cycle Food has been taken for granted ever since its production industry matured, and the experiential food arcadia aims to reintroduce and educate public in nine elms district of food safety and scarcity. The park is multi-layered; it has an anchor spine with administritive blocks and residential flats for farmers and their operative activities. Units are scattered around the whole plan. The food production processes of various food are broken down into little machines that engages the public to play or interact. Other than objects-like machines, there are also boxy units that provides a cheap temporary shelters for farmers, to provide an incentive for them to move from the rural to the city. The units are flexble and can be prefabricated to be applied to other big cities around the world. The various types of landscapes are segregated by street axis. It is also linked with the swewge system in a way that every landscape zone has two sewege stations. The swewge system is in the middle of the site aligned partly to the spine.

SUBMERGING Public Architecture

Community Swimming Pool |Shau Kei Wan U6 Studio |2018 Spring Studio Tutor : Simon Hsu

VISUAL RELATIONSHIP

PROGRAMMATIC DISTRIBUTION

NOLI MAP WITH COASTLINE STUDY

ROOF DESIGN: Structural framing (6m) Skylight style Site relationsip

PLAZA: Free flow Green and Shade Hidden scenery

GROUND: Volume stuck between Pushed up ground plane Void on ground Sandwiched and puch

CONCEPT This project seeks to open up the two sides of Shau Kei Wan. The duality does not create conflict, but is rather an opportunity to enrich Shau Kei Wan district. The programme of this project is a pool building and it can call for people’s participation. By identifying main site features from the old and new, I have developed the project into a half above ground and half undergound building. It in one hand welcomes residents from a seaside promenade, and arouse pedestrains attention from a subway that is almost the only clear way to access the site from Shau Kei Wan.

THE JOURNEY

PUBLIC JORNEY The series of renderings aim to visualize the journeys and discoveries for both the general public and swimmers. For swimmers, they take on a calm and slow journey to reach different pools progressively. As for the public, they are absorbed and attracted to different activities by swimmers through their interaction with the architecture

COHERENCE Place making and Contextual response Residential|Taichung U5 Studio | 2017 Fall Studio Tutor : Patrick Hwang

CONTEXT My concept is to restore the balance between public and private in the site. In myopinion, the public and private in site B are having a bad relationship. From the cityscape, it can be seen that buildings are outstandingly tall, being very distant from the ground. Also, from streetscape, the pedestrian walkway are seriously sabotaged bythe extention of private territory. Moreover, the designed open spaces are not utilized by the public. Therefore, I would like to design a place for both the publicand private to live together in harmony.

Maximizing Daylight

Porosity for Ventilation

Green and View

Raised Semi-public space

Covered private walkway

Public space and facilities

SITE RESPONSE I responded to the problem of site using massing strategy, programme arrangement,plan, unit and facade design. Some gestures done are offseting from boundary,height determination, partitions and openings. My building in turn provides agood daylight and ventilation, programmatic and spatial arrangements, and the important connection and communication between public and private

ARTICULATED RYTHMN Proportion and scale is designed to give a vibrant and cynamic tectonics. The grid and zoning develops from a unit of balcony. The public, semi-private and private spaces are clearly zoned for all flats: singlebed, double-bed, triple-bed and triple-bed duplex. Every two units share a lift core, with the exception of 7 single bed units per tower, to provide an optimum service efficiency and quality for views. The ground plan follows structure of the unit towers and creates double height or unit spaces for residence’s use. The outdoor space is highly covered with either canopy or vegetation. The ground furniture echos the scale of the residential units, and ultimately make the ground more habitable.

Study

GYM

Cafe

Retail

Children Playground

Retail

Dog Park

Retail

Club for residents

Convenient store

PROCESS

EAST KOWLOON CULTURAL CENTER I work as an architectural trainee in Rocco Design Architects for this project. I am lucky enough to be able to join the project when the building is being built. As this is an institutional project, I get to understand details of really specific aspects. For example, I join the site coordination of building services with contractor, design facade and louvre fins and draw the details out. Also, I get to design a little gutter for a freeform canopy, and have my very first built object, that is a bus stop drop off. It is a precious chance for me to learn more from the built project.

ORIGINAL PEFORATION

SSP HOME MODIFICATION

CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, CUHK

I join the programme organized by the SoCA and DOMAT as a volunteer. Sham Shui Po is a district full of social minorities, and our aim is to help the needies to organize their homes, and provide them with durable and space-saving furnitures. Every case lasts for 3-4 weeks. I first paied a visit to the cage home for the families, then build my design upon the measurements taken, and lastly present the design to the client families. Simple quotation drawings are then made for ordering.

I worked as a student helper in the office during my final year study. I took part in different face lifting projects for old facilities in my campus. I helped out in presentational drawings for designs like the renvation of an unused podium space which was actually well featured, and tested out options for materials in the interior renovation of a library. It was a meaningful experience for a student like me to contribute to the campus through this means,