Kai-hong Anthony Chu HKU BA(AS) 13 GSD M.Arch I 19 Selected work 2013-2019
Prototype of a Monument
Gastronomical Objects Reciprocity between bodies and forms
Capybara
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2019 GSD Thesis instr. Andrew Holder “Etiquette is the term applied to correct behavior in social life, and refer to the manner of actions and the expression of a proper social spirit through the medium of establish forms and ceremonies.� Our inner self manifest to the outside world through a predetermined set of filters of the time that shape how we see and were seen. These rules of engagement became more and more relevant as our private life are surrendered to pop media. This thesis proposes a framework for the Self to re-engage the discipline of architectural form and provide an alternative to anthropocentric design. Gastronomical objects are reciprocals of ourselves. Like a bone marrow scoop reciprocating the hollow shell of femur, these objects form non-overlapping, yet tight interfaces between the subjects, entangle in a turmoil of dance and embrace. They are armatures to our limbs and bodies, reciprocals to our internals and ideas. The phenomenological effect of physiognomy can help us introduce a different yet familiar set of languages to negotiate architecture of our time. The three sets of ceramics vessels informs the engagement method by formal and indexial reciprocation. This allowing each of them to be fully embraced and interfaced, while at the same time forming relationships with one another, through tight stacking and adjacency.
Slip casting formwork & pattern
Gastronomical Objects Reciprocity between forms 2019 GSD Thesis instr. Andrew Holder With our bodies we have developed an intuition for touch and sensation. As we fully grip onto a door handle, the configuration of our hands conform to the rigid body, but the rigid body were also informed by the arrangement of soft tissue around our skeletal structure. This mutual exchange of grip makes space for the intimacy between forms, a full reciprocity that is agreed and consensual. Reciprocation, to the extend of social norm and geometric relationship, is not an eventuality but a show of gesture. Gesture of which grew from a tight interface. It is “an experience of contact between a minimum of two surfaces that at least initially must be thought of as outside or as beginning before language and culture... Kissing is not a collaboration between two that aims to make one unified thing; it is the intimate friction between two mediums that produces twoness reciprocity without identity.”* These object interface with their counterpart and the subject at various poses and manners. The contact surface could be described as a mixture of smooth tangent and inconvenient bumping. From the inorganic, cloth like crushed can to ergonomic shoe tree, the subjects are 3D scanned and digitally sculpted. The four ‘totems’ signified the reconciliation between bodies and the potential of intimacy between organic/organic and organic/inorganic. * Kissing Architecture, Sylvia Lavin
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Gastronomical Objects Anthropo-Tangential Architecture 2019 GSD Thesis instr. Andrew Holder The density of urban spaces is relieved by the clearance between buildings and streets, a ‘personal space’ with a supposing purpose of maintaining the sanity of the city. The kissing of two forms brings ‘the surprise of the difference of another mouth that is like yours but not yours.’ The pristine office space is contaminated by filth of the market, conditioned air mixed with murky fluid; conflicts activate spaces, like protesters at the square. The rare occasion of unification sublimate in atmosphere of euphoria. Architecture has long proposed a anthropocentric model; The body is abstracted into the harmonics of numbers. The metaphysical was achieve through abstraction of the physical. This approach is neither anthropocentric or anthropomorphic. It runs along the edge of the objectivity and on the interface between forms, tangential to our senses and perception. The blend of the ‘inescapable iconography’ of urban skyscraper and affordance of assemblies. Like Agostino Carracci’s Toilette of Venus, it diverge from the Classical and directly address the bestial and vernacular.
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Two Things Two tower forms lean against each other as cavity weaves the internal spaces together. Eccentricity is stabilized by a poking column, stretching and dragging the skin as the forms lazily lean. Two elevator cores (labeled below, A & B) penetrate the two towers, where vein of mechanical fluid and occupant transverse its length. A structure cage forms the facade of the building, with griddles of shading growing out from the structure, clothing the facade in flaps of shadows.
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Insulated Window Section Modeled after an aluminum-extrusion window detail, the component and the assembly of component is reinterpreted as nipping and suckling action, as the bodies inflate and press against each other, while rain water drips and condense on it smooth outline. Rubber gasket are held in place at the apex of a pinch, as they absorb and cup the cold extrusion.
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2017Odradek Hong Kong Young Designer Competition Entry by Odradek
PROJECT STATEMENT
The □W9 pavilion is conceived as a temporary amphitheatre with static and dynamic elements that blur the lines between The □W9 pavilion conceived as a temporary with static and architectural objects isand human subjects and betweenamphitheatre artistic dynamic elements that blur the lines between architectural objects and performers and spectators. The pavilion is a flexible civic space human subjects and between artistic performers and spectators. The pavilion that performs as a stage, workshop, or even playground. is a flexible civic space that performs as a stage, workshop, or even playground. Born into the lush greenery of the nursery garden, □ (square), W (double-u) and 9 (nine) are three rooms nestled side-by-side in Born intoofthe greenery of the nursery □ by(square), W (double-u) mounds softlush landscape and lawn. Each of thegarden, characters, and 9 (nine) are three rooms nestled side-by-side in mounds of soft landscape virtue of their geometric layout, provides a semi-enclosed room and lawn. Each of the characters, by virtue of their geometric layout, that is partially unveiled to enable flexibility in circulation and provides a semi-enclosed room that is partially unveiled to enable flexibility in stage configuration for drama, dance and music performances. circulation and stage configuration for drama, dance and music performances. The three characters are draped with a layer of cloth-like structure. Drapery, rather than obscuring the rooms, has amplified The three expression characters draped a layer of cloth-like the bodily ofare □, W, and 9 with through the tension and structure. Drapery, relief of drapery, as wellthe as the ability to amplified suck, sprawl, rather than obscuring rooms, has thenestle, bodily expression of □, W, suckle9 and snuggle. the same time, the crests and troughs of as the ability to suck, and through theAttension and relief of drapery, as well the clothnestle, formedsuckle a roofscape that opensAtup possibilities of athe crests and troughs sprawl, and snuggle. the same time, dynamic stage setting foraperformance of the cloth formed roofscapearts. that opens up possibilities of a dynamic stage setting for performance arts. Apart from hosting performances, the Members appears of Team to Odradek Kai-hong Anthonywhen Chu, it playfully emanates pavilion have include become a performer Yin Ngai Anselm and Chau Chuen Tim Yeung. bubbles throughCheung its orifices periodically throughout the day. The pavilion has come to life. The □W9 pavilion is more than just an architectural object. Anticipating the blossoming of the West Kowloon Cultural District, □W9 pavilion, as a temporary structure, is a harbinger to propel the ambitious Cultural District into maturation. With the breadth of artistic and cultural activities it enables, the pavilion sets out to cross-pollinate across different fields of arts and cultural production and appreciation, and ultimately elevates the unique arts and culture of the city into the international cultural scene.
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Making Of 2014 Self-initiated Research Carbon Fiber Fabrication
Composite materials lies in the forth front of material science. Materials like fiberglass and carbon fiber are becoming more common in building materials. The production of high quality composite parts is a complex and highly calibrated process. This designed objects is part of a research into fabrication processes such as foam core form-work, vacuum bagging and polishing technique. Made from 2K tween-weave carbon fiber fabric and room-temperature cured, this monocoque lamp prototype is completed in-house in a personal workshop.
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Hybrid Formation
2016 GSD Electives Interdisciplinary Design instr. Volkan Alkanoglu
This prototype draws inspiration from the rich curves and spline of automotive design. While expressive, the body panel of a super car also follows the straight requirement for aerodynamic and structural rigidity. Similar to the fabrication of an airplane, the techniques of the aviation and automobile industry is applied to the fabrication of these prototypes. Manufactured out of extremely lightweight, aluminum panels, the installations will consist of unique and custom CNC cut components. These individual components assemble like a large 3-dimensional puzzle, forming an elegant, soft and dynamic volume. This is a group project completed with Timo Tsui.
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Water Conveyor 2018 GSD Research 3D printed ceramic water buffer supr. Nathan King
This project uses a design intervention within the realm of architectural ceramics as a vehicle to increase the potential for moisture management through building surfaces. Our goal is to develop a tile whose geometry facilitates the preferential movement of moisture from one side to the other. This movement would build upon the natural moisture buffering capabilities of low-fired ceramics. The tiles themselves borrow elements from bio-inspired surface topographies that encourage water condensation, which constitue the source side where moisture is collected, as well as from the general principles of heat sink design whcih form the sink side where moisture is released. This configuration creates tile body that move moisture from source to sink preferably.
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Straight
Villius
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Gyroid
High stability with isotropic structure
These complex geometries were only realizable via ceramic 3D printing. The gyroscopic sink design create large surface area for evaporation as well as a stable structure during drying and firing process. The end product is a parametric tile design that can be retrofitted onto interior walls and ceiling.
These tiles could be retrofitted onto existing window bays or ceiling. The unit could be anchored with a metal substrate on the back and expose to sun like and external environment for moisture movement.
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GeoStud 2017 GSD Research(Ongoing) Curve Stud supr. Cameron Wu
An ongoing research in partner with Autodesk BUILD Space to create curving studs with flat materials and existing stud folding machine. The Howick stud folding machine can quickly fold and bend metal ‘C’ stud on the same plane. By pre-cutting a folding pattern onto the strip metal before passing it into the machine, more complicated manurer such as twisting and varying curvature can be achieved. An algorithm is created that takes the rectified curve of the geometry and fit the stud with a high vitality to the original geometry. The algorithm works on both ruled and free-form surfaces and will always produce a fold/cut pattern as a straight flat strip, making it extremely efficient on material use compare to other method of generating complex 3D structure.
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2017 GSD Research(Ongoing) Large scale 3D printing supr. Cameron Wu
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Tool path from Simplified3D: Sporadic hot end movement and non-print moves lead to oozing and inconsistent texture.
Custom tool path: Smooth finishing and sharp corner with shorter print time.
The surfboard provide a simple geometry for large scale production 3D printing. Conventional slicer tool path creates non-printing travels and sporadic moves. This algorithm creates a snaking path that coils back on itself. This eliminates all non-print move and generally improve print quality, reliability and speed. A custom C# grasshopper component convert polyline into Gcode.. Speed and print width is modify in the grasshopper script to provide variating parameter. Additional functionality is added for large scale print. Speed could be reduced as z height increases. “Turning Threshold� parameter control print speed at sharp corner and significantly improving corners sharpness when printing with large diameter nozzle.
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Bamboo Pavilion 2018 Shigeru Ban Architect Gradient Descent Optimization for Reciprocal Frame
The reciprocal frame structure was constructed in collaboration by Ban Laboratory at Keio University, Japan and Tonji University, China. A computational model was created to better understand the behavior of this structure before construction. For easy of on site construction, all frame members are constraint to a fix length and thickness, which lead to a skewed mapping of quad mesh on a spherical surface. A custom dynamic relaxation algorithm written in c# and GHA was created to find the optimal engagement length or member deformation. This proven to be a more stable and computationally easier appraoch to collision simulation(Kangaroo). Project Team: Harano Yasunori(SBA), Jun Fujisaki(SBA), Anthony Chu(SBA) Underlying Geo.
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Optimized: Engagement length adjusted and comfort to local curvature
Beaver
2019 SPACE10 Research Residency GH Plugin for Tool Path Generation and Real-Time Machine Control
6-axis spherical parallel mechanims(SPM) end effector
The residency proposes an open source approach to create easy-to-program and affordable robotics. While high volume commercial productions have access to industrial processes and machineries, fabrication spaces are highly limited by the capacity of stationary tools and CNC machines. Lack in funding and trained professionals often translate to constraints in design typologies. Developed with existing CNC platforms, this proposal for a 3D-printer-base robots bring 6-axis machining capability into a compact form factor, at the same time largely reduce the cost traditionally associated with robotic system. It could overcome the current shortcoming of 3-axis machining that prevent the production of complex geometry in a distributed network of fabrication spaces. 15 and growing number of component allow user to convert native Rhino geometry into Gcode. A connection component queue and send command to the printer in real-time, enabling the use of this 3D-printer-base robot with other sensor and image process for higher level robotic processes.
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File Management
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Weather Prove 2010 HKU Fall Studio instr. Chad McKee
The project start with an exercise on body mapping. The right upper portion of the body was mapped using an triangulation system, and the motion of the arm at the conducting action is recorded onto drawing. A wire frame is wielded to represent the movement bounded within the volume of the movement. The final piece is exhibited at the Detour 2014, HK.
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Luna Palace 2013 Double(O) Model making for Pavilion Design
The pavilion is designed for traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong. The tilting of the columns align with the position of the moon at the day of the festival. The pavilion will be built in traditional bamboo. The 1:50 model is fully handcrafted, with brass tubes of various thickness silver soldered together, to express the light weight bamboo frame structure of the original design.
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Machine 2015 ESKYIU Madison Group
Sensory Machine is a desire for a nature driven, highly intelligent domestic environment where pure clean air, cooling elements, digital systems integrate with natural systems. The artwork is handmade and digitally created using tools to optimize the use of materials and made in-house by ESKYIU. This project was commissioned by Madison Group, where international designers are invited to create bespoke models that capture their vision of the future of home living.
WKCD Pavilion 2014 ESKYIU West Kowloon Cultural District Pavilion Competition
An international competition was held to create the Art Pavilion, prologue to the M+ Museum by Herzog & de Meuron in West Kowloon Cultural District. The proposal was a collaboration between ESKYIU and LEAD. A simple flexible gallery space is encased in a transformable skin. The proposal was awarded commendation entry in the competition.
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The surface of these resin cubes are precision milled into optical contour to focus exact messages and graphics on a surface. Inspire by similar research, This method is capable of reproducing single characters, cursive words and even grey scale images. Light rays are maps onto target images to obtain a surface normal map. The normal map is then translate to the mill surface to refract light accordingly.
PlayCube 2018 Self-initiated Research Image and text projection through lens surface
Ephemera 2015 ESKYIU Swire Property Group lounge
This Art Installation and lounge is designed by ESKYIU, commissioned by Swire Properties for Art Basel Hong Kong 2015. It takes the formal gesture of the arcade as a starting point, with the structurally interlaced archways providing a place for the public to gather. Designed as a set of spatial relationships, fixed perspectival views are precisely aligned to create the underlying geometry for the vibrant and transitory space. The interplay
of the movement and activity of the spectator is further enhanced by an interactive component that exists in a constant state of fluctuation. Acting as an abstracted contemporary arcade, Ephemera provides multiple ways of inhabiting the space, oscillating between clarity and complexity as the spectator moves in, around, and through the piece.
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The Ommpa Loompa Club and the Architecture of Misfortune
2016 GSD Spring Studio Workers’ Club for the Chocolate Factory instr. Grace La
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been one of the most popular children literatures of all time. The book has been republished many times with different style of illustration, and adapted into major movie titles. However by reading other Roald Dahl’s stories, one can see the different tones of narrative for a more sinister storyline. In its supposing simplicity, children book give rise to various readings that may or may not oblige to an honorable intent, or, the author may or may not have inserted such intention at all.
This studio project explore the potential of representing a grounded architectural project in the means of children literature and how by such means gives new reading to the architecture itself. In this particular case, reading Charlie as a subtext for the appalling case of labor and civil condition of the current generation. By the seemingly innocent facade of the narratives, the images contrarily convey grave messages of disparity and negligence of the majority.
II Dinning Hall Looking at the empty room, Charlie ask, “Mr Wonka, do you prefer eating alone?” “Oh do I! Food taste much better this way,” “Beside I don’t like the smell of rat around me.” Charlie hears the rumbling again. This time, the sound is also coming from underneath his feet.
Children illustration, compare to typical architectural representation, has a great potential for polemic; it is an establish typology strongly associated with virtuous ideals, which effect is strength or deconstructed by incongruous narratives. This kind of architectural representation could be explicit in it story telling. The architecture of re-appropriation ask not for a solution that will bring an end to misfortune. Instead, with humor and self- deprecating sarcasm, we readjust ourselves to the statue quo. The humor in Charlie open up dialog, in a socially acceptable manner, on the problem and the anxieties of being human.
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I The Secret Workers The building is penetrated by a constant rumbling sound, something like footsteps. “Mr Wonka, Do you hear the sound coming from the walls?” Ask Charlie. “What sound?” Said Mr. Wonka, “Oh, must the chewing gum I gave you, it sometimes gives people illusion!”
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Doha Tower
Fitness
2017 GSD Fall Studio Hotel Tower instr. Maryann Thompson
Black Box
The challenge of building a tower is match by its weather and cultural identity. With only a brief urban history, Doha skyscrapers take the iconography from a mix of relic collected from India, Iran, Egypt, Syria, etc. This proposal reconciles the need for a climatic strategy and a critical respond to the rapid urbanization of the city.
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The use of parametric and computational tools enforce a technocratic, comprehensive project that accommodate our need for the “function” of architecture; Solar capture and structural optimization result in the tapered tower form. On one hand, architecture as a result of logical investigation and decision.
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“Comment peut-on être Persan?” [Ozell, John, trans.
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Lettres Persanes. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. London: J. Tonson, 1721.]
Structural system: concrete shell|hung frame
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Topological optimization
The main structure of the tower is a C-shape concrete shell with hollow life cores. It transfer all vertical load on the perimeter of the floor plan with floor frame hang from the shell structure with cables. Placement of elevator core correspond to the optimization result. A series of precast concrete diaphragm braced the c-shape concrete shell. It also act as a thermal mass; insulated on the south face and open up on the north face for softer light. 04
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“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand.” Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
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Monument 2017 GSD Fall Studio Monument dedicated to Kalief Browder instr. Emanuel Christ & Christoph Gantenbein
The life of Kalief Browder ended on June 6, 2013. Torment in the infamous Ricker Island prison had proved to be too much for any 22-year-old to bear and after 2 years of fighting for his justice, he took his own life in his home in Bronx New York. The case of Kalief Browder is one of many that reveals the problems of the criminal justice system in the States; one that disproportionally undermines the underprivileged and people of color. Kalief is not just an isolated case, and this monument will become a testimony to the legacy of his strive.
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Separated by the Anacostia River; On one side stands one of the poorest and most racially divided neighborhood in DC; On the other the Correctional Service Complex and the Central Detention Facility. Despite of all the love we have for our great cities, they are still recovering from the racial covenant and a bigoted real estate sales practice that keep us divide, which effect remains visible these days. This monument takes on the forms of a bridge. A symbol of connection and reconciliation, but also a viewing plane of the drudgery we had overcome. It nests itself among the other statues and memorial in the network of avenues that was first visioned by L’Enfant two centuries ago. From the opposite side of the river, it stands unreachable and distant. Like this society we are living in, the gaps between different groups has never been larger. This monument is only a pillar of change, and hopefully one day, it will bring the two sides of the River together.
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Library on Emerald Necklace 2016 GSD Spring Studio Rare Book Library instr. Grace La
Located at the heart of Boston, the Emerald Necklace provide the lush backdrop for the reading rooms of this rare book library. The experience of walking through the library is a narrated path through the landscape. This journey is designed as a circuitry that define the intermediary spaces. The circuitry is interpret 2D and 3D diagram that codify the organization of interior spaces. A variety of material for model making brings opportunity to misread and re-imagine mechanical elements.
Three rows of book stack slip underneath an existing ridge on site, lines longitudinally along the length of the library, while they push against the creek that flow through the park. Landscape of the ridge becomes part of the roof. A series of interior open spaces lines the water front. Light is limited by trees surrounding the creek while the roof split into three steps of thin strip to regulate insolation.
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Concentric Formation
Dome as Hidden Room
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The Hidden Room signifies an ambiguous and open reading of space and partition. The concentric domes create layers of in-between spaces. The thickness of the shell is lined with circulation path, creating an extra layer of complexity. This layering of structure challenges the conventional distinction of inside/outside/in-between as one unconsciously move through different portions of the domes.
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Kai-hong Anthony Chu
Education 2015-2019
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
2010-2013
University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Architecture
Master
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of Art (Architectural Studies)
Honors, Awards and Achievements 2019
Space10 Residency Program
2015
Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme
2013
Perspective Award 2013
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American Institute of Architects Hong Kong Chapter Citation
2013
Kenchikushinjin - Asian Contest of Architectural Rookie’s Award
2013
Chiap Hua Cheng’s Foundation Scholarship
A 3-month research residency program to develop open-source, affordable 6-axis robots and firmware with real-time control.
Recipient
Recipient - Student/Architecture - Trophy - Project Little Dream*
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China Region Shortlisted
Recipient
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University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Architecture First Class Honor & Dean’s Honor 2012
Perspective 40 under 40
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*Award was shared with members of Project Little Dream; James Charles Mak, Francis Wong, Nelson Huen and Alison Cheng for collective effort in constructing village schools and promoting education in rural Cambodia.
Experience
Software
2019
SPACE10
Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, C#, Vray, T-spline/Maya, Fusion360, Mastercam, Adobe Suite, Unity, Unreal
2018
Shigeru Ban Architects Architectural Intern - 3months Working directly with senior associates on 3D modeling and visualization. Developing optimization algorithm for reciprocal frame structure. Participation in humanitarian effort for West Japan disaster relief.
Research Resident- 3months Develop software and program for CNC machine control. Hardware prototyping for 6-axis tool attachments.
2016
LADG Architectural Intern - 2 months Conceptual designs on restaurant and residential projects. Facilitate fabrication with parametric modeling and structural simulation.
2013 - 2015
ESKYIU Architectural Designer - 15 month Construction coordination for residential interior projects. Interaction design and fabrication coordination for Art Basel VIP Lounge. Production of drawings and diagram for competition entry. Design and fabrication for sculpture and installation.
2009 - 2014
Project Little Dream Research and Development Officer - 5 years
2017 - 2018
2014 - 2017
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Research of Cambodian architectural context Design and produce construction document for 2 village school projects Plan, schedule, budget and supervise construction on-site
Harvard University, Graduate School of Architecture
Technical Assistant at GSD Fabrication Laboratory Teaching/Research Assistant for Cameron Wu & George Legendre, Preston Scott Cohen, Iman Fayyad.
University of Hong Kong, Department of Architecture
Teaching Assistant & Research Assistant for Olivier Ottevaere - 6 month Teaching Assistant for Career Discovery Program - 2 month
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Concept design/schematic design/design development Advance 3D modeling and visualization Advance parametric modeling RhinoCommon API and plug-in development(C, C#, .NET) Structural simulation and optimization(Karamba, Millipede) Environmental analysis and optimization(Diva, Ladybug) Robotics and fabrication(Robostudio, Machina, Firefly, Beaver) Game and virtual experience development(Unreal, Unity) Hardware development and prototyping(Fusion360) Composite materials fabrication
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Proficient in English, Mandarin and Cantonese Basic Japanese