Adrian.Lok
Architecture
PORTFOLIO
Interactive Pavilion DIT Grangegorman Campus Dublin 7
architecture graduate
curriculum vitae
Educ at i on
Adrian Lok Graduate (2.1) Dublin School of Architecture (DIT)
P r ofile
Dublin School of Architecture (DIT) Bachlor of Architecture Dublin, Ireland
2013 - 2018
Sligo College of Further Education Interior Design FETAC level 5 Sligo , Ireland
2012 - 2013
St Columba’s College Irish Leaving Cert Stranorlar, Co. Donegal Ireland
2010 - 2012
My name is Adrian (Hou) Lok. I was born in Macau, moved to Ireland to complete my education, and have recently graduated from DIT. I am a responsible and hard working individual who has a strong creative mind, I believe I am capable of overcoming challenges no matter as an individual, or as a team.
Work Expe ri e nc e Carew Kelly Architects Architect Assistant
2017 Summer
Developing design concepts, producing drawings (Archicad), digital modelling model making.
C onta ct adrianlok66@gmail.com
Email Moblie
0873694925
Address
28 Sringvale Edmondstown Rd Rathfarnham Dublin 16
Michael Kelly Architect Architect Assistant Worked on various projects mainly focused on producing construction drawings AutoCAD
Profe ssi onal Ski l l s
Personal Skills
creativity
TEAM WORK Ps Ai
COMMUNICATION
HOBBIES Id
2016 Summer
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Limitation of Threshold Fifth Year Project 2017
Urban Playground Fifth Year Project 2018
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Other Selected Works Studio and Competition 2013 -18
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Interactive Pavilion Forth Year Project 2016
Work Experience 2016 - 2017
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ACADEMI D U B L I N
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Limitation of Threshold
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Sport Installation St. Ann’s Park Dublin
If thresholds are defined by the edges of the programs that surrounded it, where does the boundary lay? In my opinion, fluidity is one of the key that leads to a successful threshold space. So what if the threshold space become so fluid that it become so boundaryless that it is seemingly or mentally imperceptible?
Interactive Pavilion
Forth Year Studio Project
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Experimental Project Fifth Year 2017-18 Dublin School of Architecture
This is the core question that I want to experiment. Can threshold become so fluid that it become invisible? In this experiment, I would like to make the boundary between the program and the threshold very ambiguity. In this project, I am researching the limits of combining the threshold and the programs within. And by creating a more memorable experience in the threshold space, I hope to make the in-between spaces as equally meaningful as the program itself.
In order to make the inbetween space to be involved in part of the program themselves, I decide to remove any physical partition that separates the program from the threshold. In other words, there are no wall, doors or even roof throughout the design. The space was defined just by the columns. Thus all the activity happens in between the column structure. This is an idea inspired by the natrual relationship between the clearings and the forest of the site.
Forth Year Studio Project
Interactive Pavilion
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College Studio Project Third Year 2015-16 Dublin School of Architecture
Galway Art Centre
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Art exhibition space and Camber Music Hall Galway Ireland
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Internal Render showing the gallery space
The brief for this project was to design an Art Centre in an infill site within Galway city centre.
Galway Art Centre
Third Year College Project
The brief was to include an camber music hall and two gallery exhibition space(Temporary and Permanent) for paintings and sculptures.
My initial idea was to have a tribal height open plan exhibition space with a circular drum shaped auditorium that serve as a music hall, as well as the central circulation for the gallery. As the result of core of the design. But as the design porgress, the circular shaped auditorium casuse many issue including the cirulation and the leftover spacecreated by the “drum�.
The auditorium become so dominate that it overshadows the gallery and other spaces. So it eventually evolved into a rectangular form. This project turn out to be very challenging for me as I was too engaged into the form itself. But I felt I gained a precious lesson as an architecture student.
Galway Art Centre
Image Above : Site plan showing the design and the context of Galway city
Third Year College Project
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Third Year College Project
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STRUCTURE MODEL OF THE AUDITORIUM
Third Year College Project
Galway Art Centre
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First floor plan with context Exploded Axiomatric of the Art centre
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The structure model on the previous page shows the reinforcement for the concrete and the pre-cast concrete columns for the auditorium. The structure is a hybrid of mass concrete and cast in-situ concrete system.
Galway Art Centre
Third Year College Project
In order to satisfy the requirement for the brief, the auditorium had to accommodate 250 seats and the circulation within. But due to the fact that the auditorium is the central piece of the scheme, every changes I make to the form would require adjustment of the entire plan. The different plans that are shown on the left is part of a very long process of the changes and adjustments that I attempt to provide more space for the gallery and circulation.
Third Year College Project
Galway Art Centre
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Thesis Studio Project Fifth Year 2017-18 Dublin School of Architecture
Urban Playground
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Community Sport Hub + Train Station Tara Street
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Tara Station
Fifth Year Thesis Project
The final project was a Community Sport Centre for Dublin City located on Tata Street. The project includes redevelopment of the Tara Train Station. In the final stage of the thesis we were all assigned into individual Units which formed subthemes under the year’s theme of Utilitas. Distribution formed one of the Units. The Unit’s main focus was investigating the relationship between the railways with the urban context. The connection between how the railway distributes people and goods into the city was part of the Unit.
The site locates on Tara Street along George Quay, overlooked by Custom House. The area has been long neglected and many of the surroundings buildings had been abandoned.
Apart from the lifeless atmosphere of the existing urban fabric, some of the local businesses came up with a few interesting ideas to integrate with the existing urban fabric.
However, the lifeless of the district is not only cased by the lack of development but also by the lifeless nature of the office jobs. Although there are a large number of the population working in the high-rise commercial office and administration buildings, the daily linear routine of the office workers have not benefit to inject actives into the lifeless neighbourhood.
For example, the O’Reilly Bar inhabits three of the five 170 years old candlelit arches that support the existing train track and platform. Consequently, this becomes a very exciting urban moment, and an important element of my design approach. Throughout the project, the design attitude embraced the interesting urban contrast of the current active train station and the proposed architecture intervention that explored the potential of this urban setting.
Fifth Year Thesis Project
Tara Station
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Tara Station
Fifth Year Thesis Project
The final project is carried out by the ideas and experiments from the first semester. Throughout the design process, different arrangement of programs and massing have been tested and refined in order to achieve the maximum potential of the inbetween space. Fluidity In the very early stage on the project, it was already established that the ground floor of the building have to be an open and penetrable arrangement. Without introducing any doors and barricades, it creates a sense that the ground floor of the building is part of the extension of the urban street.
Connection with Activity
The grand staircase can be seen as a mini manifesto of the entire project. Just like the core concept of the project, it creates a sense of “in-betweeness�; a type of space that can offer a collective experience, a common sensation that can create new forms of social life. Furthermore, this staircase design creates a centralized stage that puts social interactions on display. It offers a collective experience thus fuel other forms of social life in other spaces.
Connection with Activity
The other moment of activity on display is the sport programs within the building. The sport programs are designed to be stacked on top of one and other. Taking advantage of the various heights required by different types of sports, the highly intensify stack of sport programs created this dramatic moment. A moment of intensive action all packed up on a single wall, a wall of sport on display. This wall of sport can be observed throw-out the building. It is visible from the train platform, the urban park or even on the Tara Street elevation. The scale and the density of this wall can act as propaganda, like a sign telling the city its function and existence. But more importantly, it provides activity. Something for the general public to observe, or even start a conversation, a type of social interaction created through a collective experience.
Fifth Year Thesis Project
Tara Station
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Tara Station
Internal Render of the proposed scheme
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Grangegorman Masterplan Forth Year 2016-17 Dublin School of Architecture
Interactive Pavilion
Collaboration Project with Michal Nitychoruk
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Sport Complex -Grangegorman Campus Grangegorman Dublin
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Image Above : Internal render of the Swimming Pool
Interactive Pavilion
Forth Year Studio Project
The most important elements of sport is the interaction with others. The ethos of our project is to elevate the interaction not only with the students, but also the located community.
The project name Interactive Pavilion suggests that we like to express and enhance the interaction through a pavilion type of building form. Sports activity requires a large volume of space, but we felt that a mega size sport arena is not appropriate scale to encourage that kind of interaction.
So we decided to split the sport complex into three different types of pavilions in order to allow easy and direct access for the audience. The three pavilions would then be connected by a underground muilti-use changing room which only the athletes can access. Such design allows the sportsman and athletes can communicate and interacts without disruption. It achieves a parallel universe for both parties to enjoy the most direct experience of sport.
Interactive Pavilion
Image Above : One of the first sketches showing the sports complex being spilt into different programs
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Render Showing the threshold space for the Athletes to interact Plan of the final scheme The section was taken through the multi-sport pavilion
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One of the biggest challenge of this project which we wanted to achieve was to design in a way in which people can wander around the buildings and observe athletes practicing sports without interrupting them and making them feel watched.
Internal Render of the Tunnel
To create the most wonderful and enjoyable walk through the site, we decided to split the complex into three main buildings and place them on different levels. Mixture of soft and hard surfaces fills in the spaces between buildings and creates diversity and unique atmosphere to each of them.
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1 Playground
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8 Healthy Restaurant
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4 Olympic Size Swimming Pool
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Interactive Pavilion
Ground Floor Plan 1:200
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OTHER SELEC VA R I O U S
W O R K S
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Master Plan Competition Fifth Year 2016-17 Dublin School of Architecture
Campus 24-7
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Grangegorman Master Plan Competition Fifth Year 2017 Before
Proposed Sport Complex
Connection Routes Playground Areas
The Sport complex was never fully resolved in the Grangegorman master plan. The original proposal of having a underground multi-sport would require a very unrealistic budget. The second option that was proposed by the development agency was to place the sport complex on the opposite side of the campus, which would separate the close link with the pitches. So our initial idea was to relocate the sport complex with the main square and the sport fields. The concept was to create a permeable and direct contact between sport actives and public. We also proposed that rather concentration all the student accommodation in one area which would let a lot of the campus under used at night-time, we suggested that we spilt all the accommodations around the campus, to create a truly functional 24-7 campus.
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Proposed Sport Complex Proposed Housing Unit
Diagram showing connection between the routes and the main square
Selection of Works
Master Plan Competition
Connection Routes
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Studio Apartment
2 Bedroom Apartment
6 Bedroom Apartment
Selection of Works
Campus for 24h7
Master Plan Competition
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Exh i b i t i o n
Collaboration Project with Jessy Brown
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Activation of Carlow Forth Year 2016
This project was part of an exercise of the Visual Communication Module.
Selection of Works
Play Risk and Public Realm
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Play Risk and the Public Realm Forth Year 2016-17 Dublin School of Architecture
The aim of the module was to investigate and find possible solutions to generate activities in the neglecting Carlow town area.
The idea was to place some pop-up installations that the member of the public can interact thus generate activities in these areas.
By carrying deep investigation and analysing closely the activity and movement of the public in Carlow town, we selected a few key infill sites that could be ideal for generating activities.
The installations can be some large wooden structures or some shelter for local business to integrate into.
Selection of Works
Play Risk and Public Realm
Te c t o n i c B e n c h
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Visual Communication Module Forth Year 2016-17 Dublin School of Architecture
Details of Dublin - Publication
Rattan Bridge, Dublin 1
a - 5mm Stainless Steel Frame, b - 5mm Toughened Frozen Glass, c - 5mm Stainless Steel Outer Frame, d - Timber Planks, e -Stainless Steel Angel, f - 400x 400mm Granite Base Stone,
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Selection of Works
Tectonic Bench
This project was part of an exercise of the Visual Communication Module.
The aim of the module by the end of the semester was to produce interesting architectural detains within the Dublin city area.
The thougened glass backed timber seats was part of the Dublin City Council’s “European-style book market” campaign in 2003/2004 on the Rattan Bridge.
Each student was task to find and draw up a detail of their interest. By the end of the module, it would then lead to a formal publication.
The council also reconstructed the bridge deck with granite pavings for the footpaths and ordered several prefabricated kiosks from Spain. The entire campaign was aim to create “a contemporary version of an inhabited bridge; such as the Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
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Selection of Works
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Tectonic Bench
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Various Models
Studio Projects 2016 - 2018
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Selection of Works
Master Plan Competition
1:20 Cast Structure Model of Roof Detail
1:500 Site Model of Proposed Sport Complex
Selection of Works
Master Plan Competition 34
WORK EXP
2016 / 201
PERIENCE
17 SUMMER
Work Experience 06
Carew Kelly Architects Grafton Street Co. Dublin
During the period working in the firm, I was given the responsibility to work independently on a clients house extension.
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Architect’s Assistant Summer 2017
The task includes producing render for communicating with the client, furthermore producing detailing drawings for tender package
After completing this project, I was give a task with developing a concept housing design with the architect. In the later stage of the project, I was task to produce renders, plans and the overall site strategy in order for the architect can communicate with the developer.
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Michael Kelly Architects 45 Lower Baggot Street
Turkey House This is one of the projects that I worked on during the internship in Michael Kelly Architect. The project was based in Tinode, Blessington, Co. Wicklow. It was a renovation of an exsiting building. The project involves inserting two lanterns to introduce natrual light into the living room area.
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Architect’s Assistant Summer 2016
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Thank You For Your Consideration ! Adrian Lok adrianlok66@gmail.com
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RHINO MODEL OF THE ÖSTERREICHISCHE POSTSPARKASSE BUILDING