Anselm Cheung Selected Architectural Works

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Anselm Cheung Yin Ngai Selected Architectural Works from 2013 to 2017

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10 Ching Lin Terrace Year-out professional practice

Site Hong Kong Year 2013-2015 Status Built

10 Ching Lin Terrace �蓎臺 Year-out professional practice

The former campus of Hon Wah Middle School was to be transformed into a residence for HKU graduate students. The alteration work has just commenced when I was tasked to manage the project. We directed and coordinated with multiple parties involved in the construction process, including the statutory authorities, the client, the consultants, the quantity surveyor and the contractor.

Credits: Urbanage International Limited

Above Main entrance and mezzanine remodelled. Existing window frames are reused as a decorative motif

Careful design decisions on window frame design and facade finishes were made to preserve the overall look and feel of the exisitng campus from the 1960s, and to reinvigorate the place as an educational and cultural hub in the neighborhood.

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Translating the design intention into reality requires painstaking coordination between all parties and stakeholders.

WL-17, YELLOW EXTERIOR PAIN (matching to the existing wall paint

WL-02, GREY EXTERIOR PAINTIN

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WL-02, WHITE EXTERIOR PAINT

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Refurbished faรงade from the 70s

Site Inspection and coordination

Existing window frames as motifs

Fine-tuning of the layout was necessary as a result of on-site coordination. Material palette was selected meticulously to retain the original look and feel of the secondary school campus.

Through this construction process, I have gained hands-on experience in handling detail design, and project management.

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Palace of Gastronomic Objects M.Arch Thesis

Site Hong Kong Year 2017 Status Unbuilt: Thesis

Palace of Gastronomic Objects Objecthood in Cantonese cuisine

The ‘Palace of Gastronomic Objects’ questions the intimate relationship between humans and food as it is mediated by architecture in Cantonese restaurants. The practice of dim sum traditionally requires a constellation of objects and a range of processes to produce the freshest dim sum from raw ingredients. Borrowing Bruno Latour’s understanding of hybridity of objects, the Palace of Gastronomic Objects sets out to draw attention to the hybridity of dim sum through spatial curation and sensuality of spatial design. In the Palace, guests are invited to re-examine the nature of siu mai as an organic, independent entity.

There is no ideal form of dim sum, because in different scales and class of restaurants, the same type of dim sum, from its production and presentation to its consumption, as well as from the interior architecture to the urbanism of the restaurant could be dramatically different. The image of siu mai is destabilized when the reality of processes behind is revealed. Through the double function of Palace as an eatery and education, it is hoped that questions on relationships between human and non-human objects can be triggered.

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Dim sum recorded include rice roll, siu mai, pork barbeque bun and etc.. Morphology of dim sum were studied, and were categorized into typology of roll, wrap, and bun. The same dim sum type but of different make were also recorded. For example, the section of siu mai bought in tea house, versus that bought in a tuck shop is radically different in terms of complexity and form.

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The constellation of objects beginning from dim sum to the utensils, from the interior of the restaurant to the façade of the restaurant is choreographed in a short video clip, displaying the sensuality of the practice of ‘yum cha’ (tea-drinking), and the perpetually repeating practice of dim sum found in Hong Kong.

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Palace of Gastronomic Objects M.Arch Thesis

Pinch a piece of dough

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Roll the dough flat from another side

Put 15g filling at the center of siu mai wrapping

Place the wrapping at the ring between thumb and index finger

Shape the skin using hand or stick

Adjust shape of siu mai by rotating it in the ring

Adjusting the shape by pushing from below

Place crab roe or fresh crab roe on top

Adjust shape of side

Siu mai is prepared for steaming

Steam for 15 min. Serve hot.

Above Siu mai making procedure

Eating, as well as making dim sum, is a rich sensual experience. The birth of dim sum is an exquisite intimacy between human and food ingredients. For instance, the appearance of siu mai is crafted by turning the skin of dough within the ring formed by the thumb and the index finger. The shape of siu mai is an imprint of the negative space of the hand of the dim sum chef.

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Palace of Gastronomic Objects M.Arch Thesis

Above Column of Steam

The Palace of Gastronomic Objects is curated as an eatery and educational space on the subject of dim sum.

Initimate relationships between human and non-human objects (food) is exposed through a sensual total experience.

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Palace of Gastronomic Objects M.Arch Thesis

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Above 1:200 model of the Palace of Gastronomic Objects, table and cutlery proposed in the Palace Above Siu mai wrapping is displayed Below Plan and guided route of the Palace of Gastronomic Objects

By unmaking siu mai, a type of Cantonese dim sum, guests are confronted with more and more objects as they witness the process of siu mai making in reverse.

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a Skylight: 8mm + 8mm laminate safety glass b 60/60/16/8mm steel profile beam c 16mm twin-wall polycarbonate sheet d Plastic sheeting e Cement-base water proofing f Aluminium removable housing g Fan motor h Fan wheel i Cast iron support frame j Fibre glass moulding k Exhaust duct l Motorized damper m Water boiler n Carpet o Screeding

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Birch wood tables and seating

Above Section of the Column of Steam Below Section of the Palace of Gastronomic Objects

The Column of Steam mediates a dialogue between dim sum and architecture, highlighting the intangible hot steam gushing upwards during the process of dim sum preparation.

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Reinventing Beijing Courtyards Design Competition

Site Beijing, China Year 2016 Status Unbuilt: Competition

Reinventing Beijing Courtyards Transformable courtyard

Selected Competition Entry by 北京華盈金融投資發展有限公司 Collaboration with Li Xu, Juan Rodriguez Martin, Luo Lei Miao The project is a regeneration of a core area in Xicheng area, which is the last part of untouched hutong fabric in Beijing city. With the vision to regenerate the Baitasi area without sacrificing the precious Hutong life style, the design invigorates an existing courtyard house by removing adhoc structures, and custom-fitting the courtyard with mobile utility units for flexible reconfiguration of the courtyard, which would assist creative work of the artist-in-residence.

Above Site axonometric of Baitasi area

The Baitasi area is to be embedded with courtyard houses remodelled into artist studio and gallery, as well as community centre, youth hostel, and community library.

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Reinventing Beijing Courtyards Design Competition

Above Detail of flexible modules in the courtyard

Exploded axonometric of artist residence

Prior to beginning to design, I carried out an extensive survey of the area and looked into existing condition of the courtyard houses in the area. I participated with the conceptual design, and production of models and drawings.

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Surface Morphology M.Arch Project

Site Hong Kong Year 2015 Status Unbuilt

Surface Morphology

Experimenting with single surface morphology in highrise Inspired by emerging building technologies that allow a single surface to perform as wall, floor and ceiling at the same time, the project explores the possibility translating morphing surfaces into a highrise in Hong Kong. Series of experiments were carried out by digital modelling and making copper wire models. Sited in Peel Street, Central, the final product, which is a tower, proposes a futuristic structural solution to allow a crisscross of an array of programs.

Advisor: Christian J. Lange Credits: Sonia Ho

Above Copper wire double tube model

Study on continuous single surface were done be producing a series of copper wire frame model.

Surfaces such as paraboloid and torus structure were explored.

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Surface Morphology M.Arch Project

Above Experiments with describing a mixed-use tower using only one continuous surface Below Proposed mixed-use tower

A mixed-use tower with voronoidal cells and skeletal framework were proposed. The multi-directional circulation pathway enabled by the skeleton encourages social encouters within the tower.

Tower arrangement that allow a continous vertical landscape challenges traditional concept of building elements such as floor, wall, and ceiling.

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Regenerating Tradition M.Arch Project

Site Beijing, China Year 2016 Status Unbuilt

Regenerating Tradition

A community library designed around the trees Exhibited at a Collateral Event at 2016 Venice Biennale Fuchengmen (阜成門) is known for its Baitasi (白塔寺) enmeshed in a dense hutong urban fabric on the 2nd ring road in Beijing. The studio was to mediate the exploding population within the heart of Beijing city with the low-rise historical city fabric through developing a a set of intervention ranging from urban scale to architectural scale. The notion of architectural conservation is pitched against an increasingly pressing demand for quality living space and generating profit.

Advisor: Xu Tiantian

Above Tree walk in designed along tree-lined alleyways connecting social and cultural spots around Baitasi

We seek for an alternative development that balances the demand for developement, at the same time cultivates local culture and preserves historical streetscape. A tree-walk was proposed to connect cultural spaces along alleyways lined with lush trees across the landscape of Fuchengmen.

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Regenerating Tradition M.Arch Project

Above Proposed Community library is to be transformed from dilapidated courtyard house. It is designed around

trees which are often gathering spots of the community.

While Beijing City ambitiously promote its urban redevelopment, we believe her people deserve a diversity of urban spaces that allow them to retrace the historical roots of Beijing culture, while satisfying their daily necessities.

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Networked City M.Arch Project

Site Hong Kong Year 2016 Status Unbuilt

Networked City

Convergence of Infrastructure, data and people Sited in Admiralty, the hybrid tower of offices and serviced apartment are inserted with a range of shared programs. Network of infrastructure, data, and people while can be regarded as distinct systems, they are meshed together in our contemporary urban environment. The project is to make these hidden systems apparent in our city.

Advisor: Holger Kehne

Above Site Plan of Admiralty Harbour Front (Next to Tamar Government Complex)

Through visually exposing proposed data centre and MTR station, the project visualises the supporting structure of informational and infrastructural connections in the city that are otherwise ignored in our daily life.

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Networked City M.Arch Project

Form finding by multi-objective optimization

Facade patter generated by multi-objective optimization

Solar condition on Summer Solstice

A calculated mix of shared programs are strategically distributed to encourage social encouters within the building. Data, infrastructure, and people are literally converged. Making use of multi-objective optimization algorithms, the building form and facade pattern were optimized for best solar performance.

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House Me Tender Undergraduate project

Site Chongqing, China Year 2013 Status Unbuilt

House Me Tender

Merging high-density housing with rural landscape In China’s quest to be a world power, the city of Chongqing – an industrial and shipping giant – is a key player and a model for many more eager cities. In recent years, the city of 28 million population has seen astonishing development. The urban core - home to a quarter of the people - has sprawled outwards with thickets of new apartment blocks along with throngs of skyscrapers at the fringe of the city, which has long been a place where households improvise inventive uses of land.

Advisor: Olivier Otevaere

Above 1:50 partial model of the residential complex

No two cities are the same. The concept of a model city, after all, means that individual characteristics are rejected. This project explores the duality of city development and takes a new look into the plurality of a city that is running fast. Rapid urbanisation poses the risk of killing the city’s individuality and turns its cultural richness into a homogeneous, inorganic mass of sameness.

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House Me Tender Undergraduate project

Above Models, conceptual diagram, and a drawing of section

The project takes the organization of circle packing to systematically subtract volumes from an extrusion. Residential units are arragned around the lightwells to allow sufficient natural light and ventilation. In addition, the roof surface and ground surface are activated as public gardens and access routes.

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Trappist Monastery Visitor Centre Renovation proposal

Site Hong Kong Year 2015 Status Conceptual design

Trappist Monastery Visitor Centre Renovation proposal

The Trappist Monastery, located in the remote ranges of Lantau Island, is a unique place of spiritual life in Hong Kong. The existing visitor centre, which provides accommodation and meal for visitors, has been operating for over 40 years. Now, some parts of the building are worn out and left idled. We, as a team of volunteers, proposed a renovation plan to improve its function as a site of pilgrimage.

Collaborate Volunteer Work with Martin Fung and Paul Mok

Above View of the visitor centre while approaching it on foot, the only possible means of transport.

I participated as the coordinator for preliminary works including site survey and communication with the users and monks, as well as the designer of the exterior facade and interior layout.

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Trappist Monastery Visitor Centre Renovation proposal

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Lower floor plan

Above Comparison of proposed and existing facade, proposed layout plans, and proposed longitudinal elevation

A lattice facade was proposed to mitigate the lack of privacy of bedrooms, while allowing an open view towards the landscape of the Lantau and the sea.

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Rethinking Small House Policy Research

Site Hong Kong Year 2016 Status Research

Rethinking Small House Policy A case study of Ping Shan 屏山

The Small House policy (丁屋政策) was introduced in 1972 to ‘allow an indigenous villager to apply for permission to erect for himself during his lifetime a small house on a suitable site within his own village’. The original intention was to regulate the building of village houses so that they are constructed to a higher health standard. Today, however, with limited provision of land for village houses, and rising number of application for new houses, not every application for Small Houses can be smoothly processed. There is an urgency to seek for a resolution to this clearly unsustainable policy. It is important to question to what extent is the 1972 temporary policy still relevant to today’s socio-economic circumstance in Hong Kong.

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Alternative History Architectural history

Site Berlin, Germany Year 2013 Status Architectural history study

Alternative History

Alteration of an apartment building by Aldo Rossi The assignment invites reimagination for an alternative purpose of the column at the corner of the apartment complex. Since the physical separation by the erection of the Berlin Wall (1961), families were split, and East Berliners were cut off from their jobs in the West. The Wall has exerted irreversible effect to the urban development. The site, an apartment building at SĂźdliche Friedrichstadt (1981), is only a block away from the border that separated the city during the Cold War era.

A lighthouse extending above from the column was proposed as a remote connection between the East and the West of the divided city.

Above Imagined beacon above the huge circular column

A beacon sitting on the top of the structure illuminates the neighborhood at night. The lighthouse is proposed as an icon to the separated family members in the Eastern Berlin, spiritually signifying the presence of the West beyond the wall.

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Brion Cemetery Photography

Site San Vito d’Altivole, Italy Year 2016 Status Photography

Brion Cemetery

Carlos Scarpa’s last works (1978) A choreographed journey through frames, hallways, portals, gardens, and finally into the chapel, evokes thoughts of eternity.

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Monument to Sandro Pertini Photography

Site Milan, Italy Year 2016 Status Photography

Monument to Sandro Pertini A little square designed by Aldo Rossi (1990)

A memorial to the seventh President of the Italy, and a place to rest and mingle under the shade of mulberry trees and the marble walls of the collective monument on a summer’s day.

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Index

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10 Ching Lin Terrace Adaptative reuse

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2015

Year-out professional practice

2017

Architectural Thesis

Palace of Gastronomic Objects Objecthood in Cantonese cuisine

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2016

Design Competition

Reinvneting Beijing Courtyards Transformable courtyard

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2015

M.Arch Project

Surface Morphology Experimenting with single surface morphology in highrise

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2016

M.Arch Project

Regenerating Tradition A community library designed around the trees

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2016

M.Arch Project

Networked City Convergence of infrastructure, data and people

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2013

Undergrad Project

House Me Tender Merging high-density housing with rural landscape

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2015

Renovation proposal

Trappist Monastery Visitor Centre

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2017

Research

Rethinking Small House Policy

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2013

History study

Alternative History Alteration of an apartment building by Aldo Rossi

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2016

Photography

Brion Cemetery

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2016

Photography

Monument to Sandro Pertini

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2017 Produced in Hong Kong