Portfolio
A r c h i t e c t u r e
Nam Wu
Portfolio Nam Wu 2022
Young Architect Award HKIA2022 Shortlisted
Play the City
Shortlisted Entry for Young Architect Award HKIA 2022
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A Museum of Communal Experiment Revitalization of Bishop Hill Underground Cistern Entry for Young Architect Award HKIA2021
A Museum of Communal Experiment
Entry for Young Architect Award HKIA 2021
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Master Layout Plan 1:500
A Room for Tide Entry for Design Competition of Hong Kong Observatory Tide Gauge Station at Tai Po Kau HKIA, ArchSD, CEDD, HKO 2021
Pat Sin Leng Site Ma On Shan
Bicycle track between Tai Po and Shatin
Site Plan 1: 5000
A Room for Tide
Entry for Hexadventure Design Competition
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A Picturesqure Journey Entry for Hexadventure Design Competition: ArchSD, AFCD 2021 Team : Nam Wu, Owen Lam
A Picturesqure Journey
Entry for Hexadventure Design Competition
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A Cultural Centre in New Territories East -a Place for Dialogue-
Design: May 2019 - Current Construction: est. 2022 Ronald Lu & Partners (HK) Ltd. Team : Peter Yam, Justin Cheng, Kenneth Ip, Nam Wu, Owen Lam, Jasmine Chan, Carol Ng
Project Brief
A strong request for the long-term need for a new purpose built cultural facility in the North District.
Given the expotential growth of the local arts and cultural scene, as well as the increased demand for performance venues by small and medium-sized arts groups, the existing provision of performing arts venues in New Territories East (NTE) region has been grossly inadequate. With the steady population growth, the demand for performance venues in NTE region will be even greater in the coming decade. The New Territories East Cultural Centre (NTECC) comprises large-scaled auditorium, medium-scaled theatres, multi-purpose studio, the experimental-typed incubators, rehearsal rooms and the 1st purpose built children theatre in Hong Kong. Fanling (粉嶺) in the New Territories East, is originally named as Fan Pik Leng (粉壁 嶺). The history of settlements in Fanling can be traced back to Song dynasty (1120 to 1280). Wall villages such as Fanling Wai and Lung Yerk Tau were built in that period. The enclosing walls and corner watch towers of Kun Lung Wai, Lung Yeuk Tau is a declared monument of Hong Kong. The Site, covering an area of about 17,740m2, is located in Area 11 at Fanling, abutting San Wan Road and Sha Tau Kok Road. The Site is connecting to Fanling MTR station via the existing footbridge from its south and is surrounded by Government complex towards the northern west. The Former Fanling Magistracy (Grade 3 Historic Building) is situated in its east. While the Fanling Fire Station and Ambulance Depot are just on the opposite side of Sha Tau Kok Road. With the prime location of the proposed Site ready to serve patrons from districts along the MTR East Rail line and across the border, the NTECC may render its favourable for facilitating cultural exchange activities with the Mainland China, both in terms of audience and performing artists. The project had passed through Stage 2 - Schematic Design in Dec 2019 and is now developing under Stage 3 - Detail Design.
Project Summary
Location
Area 11 in Fanling, abutting San Wan Road and Sha Tau Kok Road - Lung Yuek Tau
Site Area
17,740m2 approx.
User
Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD)
Usage
G/IC - Cultural Centre
No. of Storeys
7 Storeys (5 storeys above ground + 2 storeys basement)
Proposed Height of Building
Max. Approx. 40m
Total Gross Floor Area (GFA)
Approx. 45,000 m2
Total Net of Floor Area (NOFA)
Approx. 14,400 m2
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Planning, Background
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A Cultural Centre in NTE
Site Background and Surroundings
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Progressive Population Growth in Fanling
Elevated Pedestrian Realm
For ms Par t of G over nment C omplex Hub
Revitalisation of Fanling Magistracy
Historical Hamlets Define Unique Identity
With the neighbours of public housing estate - Cheung Wah Estate, and private residential developments along the southeast side, there will be a future residential development by Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS) that is proposed next to the Site at the northern end, which will be connected to our site at 1/F deck level.
In close proximity to Fanling MTR Station, the Site occupies a prominent location connecting with the adjoining neighbours via an existing footbridge and future linkbridge to the nearby developments and to the Fanling town centre
The Site is located next to the Government complex - North District Government Offices with Fanling Law Courts Building, and Fanling Family Medicine Centre. Other recreational facilities, including Fanling Recreation Ground, Fanling Swimming Pool
The Former Fanling Magistracy began operations since 1961 and ceased in 2002. As a designated Grade 3 Historic Building by Antiquities Advisory Board (AAB) in 2010, it has been recently revitalised as an institute for youth services. It is situated at the east of the Site bounded by Jockey Club Road.
The Tsz Tak Study Hall (思德書室) at Fanling Nam Wai (粉嶺南圍), about 5-minutes walk from the Site, was built in 1846 and provided education for children in the old days. Whereas the Fanling Chung Wai (粉 嶺中圍) is recognisable with its distinctive pond and features such as cannons and watchtowers.
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Site connectivity
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Incubator 2
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Major Facilities
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T1| a large scale Auditorium with minimum two-level of 1400 seats, to serve as a traditional proscenium-type theatre with a full rear-stage, a full side-stage, and a fly tower. T2| a medium scale Theatre of 700 seats, to serve as an experimental-type flexible theatre.
Incubator 1
T3| a Multi-purpose Studio of about 180 seats, to serve as a conventional black-box theatre. T4| a Children Theatre, to be designated as the 1st purpose built children theatre in Hong Kong. 5| two Incubators, associated rehearsal facilities for Theatre 1 |T1| and Theatre 2 |T2| respectively which duplicates the stages of the two theatres for 1:1 productions. 6| two Rehearsal rooms. 7| foyer with box office / enquiry / cloakroom spaces / exhibition space suitable for audience building performance, and provision of public art works display at suitable indoor and outdoor locations. 8| Provision of open space with landscaped areas, including area for outdoor performances and gathering suitable for arts promotion activities.
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Massing and Spatial Planning
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THE PLAZA I A CENTRE OF ACTIVITIES
THE ALLEYWAY I A JOURNEY OF EXPLORATION
Spaces in-between the building blocks form different zones for public activities.
Passing throughPlaza different activities zones, the alleyway gives public a Event motivation to explore the Plaza journey with curiosity
Entrance
Arrival Plaza
Performance Plaza
Children Theatre Garden
Scattered | Cluster The mass of building is broekn down and become a cluster of scattered pieces, by reducing the scale it builds closer relation with the pedestrians.
The Plazas | A centre of activities Space in-between the mass are being generated and being assigned to public function of different nature, the adoption of the space are starting to integrate itself with the public. Not only it is an amenity of the cultural centre, it is also a netrual public space, a park and a space to be adopted by the public in the city.
THE TRANSFORMATION
The Alleyway | A journey of exploration Passing through different activities zones the alleyway gives public a glace of the cultural events, it dissolve the formal performance and art activities into one’s daily journey, and ultimately to reduce the distance bewtween cultural events and the public.
Embracing from Inside-Out
Incubator 2
When various performance venues join together, NTECC becomes the designated cultural (village) hub for Fanling. Each venue within a cluster will have its unique form, shape, and technical relationship in between.
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Well thought-out on positioning of all performance venues, NTECC emerges its blocking in a cluster scale, and defines its identity as a cultural landmark in Fanling.
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The spatial opportunities in between individual arts programme also create various platforms for promotion of cultural arts and encourage for daily interactions / causal performances, to further enrich the entire cultural community complex. Green platforms are broken down into several levels to further reduce the building bulk and minimize the visual impact to the neighbourhoods.
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Massing and Spatial Planning
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The Public Realm Being part of the community’s pedestrian system, the project aimmed to blur the boundary betwenn inside and outside of the building and become a “gallery of performing art”. There are pocket spaces created at the deck for people to gather around, for leisure, busking or informal performance that provide opportunity for public art. the the interior foyer space should become a climaxt of the “gallery” the acitivity inside the cultural center should be clearly visible from of pedestrian deck, becoming an extension of it, and in reverse to extend its activity and ambience outside, into the community.
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The Public Realm
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A Cultural Centre in NTE
Facade Study: The Trasition of brick
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Facade of Traisition of Brick Floor Line
Being inspried by the surround environment, “Brick” is identified as an element to be expressed on the facade. Brick is a desirable element also because of its scale and its composition. It is an effective pattern to further break down the scale of the building. In this study, trasition of transparency by the element of brick has been tested.
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Facade Study: The Trasition of brick
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Facade of Light Cultural Event, festival and entertainment are always linked with light, the light fostered the atmosphere and ambience of the space. This study aimmed to play with the transparency of the facade to make a dialogue between the space inside and outside the cultural center: 1. Brick-like openings to be created at the side stages of theatre, such that the light generated from the openings depends and connects with the performance inside; 2. Translucent facade to bring the activity inside the building out to the society.
A Cultural Centre in NTE
Facade Study: Follow the Light
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A Cultural Centre in NTE
Facade Study: Follow the Light
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A Cultural Centre in NTE
Facade Study: Detail Study for “Brick Scheme”
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A Cultural Centre in NTE
Final Scheme in Detail Design Stage
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The Arrival Landing As part of the major pedestrian routes for the neighbourhood, the podium deck at 1/F links up the existing footbridge from Fanling MTR station and the surrounding residential housing via the proposed linkbridge and re-provision of existing bicycle track / ramp.
THE ARRIVAL PLAZA (view from footbridge) A Cultural Centre in NTE
Grand Plaza and Facade Screen
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The Main Street
A Connecting Deck, provides opportunities for a daily alfresco dining at restaurant, or a flea market during weekends by adding a few small bike-food-trucks. While the side-stage block of T1 also forms a back-drop for street performances. Culture becomes part of the daily life for residents of the district.
A Cultural Centre in NTE
The Main Street
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The Ground Plazza The Ground plaza is surrounded by a grand steps, the ground floor entrance to the main building and the Children Theatre; Provided with the lawn and existing Tree, the ground plaza is a good location for events and leisure.
A Cultural Centre in NTE
The Ground Plazza
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The Main Foyer and Entrance The main facade of foyer and the entrance is a transparent curtain wall, the glass wall integrates the interior with the exterior, making the foyer beomce an extension of the pedestrian deck. Aimming to bring the events, activities out, merging the cultural events into the society
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The Main Foyer and Entrance
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There is a trasition in the facade design: playing with the trasparency of the facade, while empahsising the human scale of the “particles” on the facade: 1. Floating Bricks - the brick screen not only controling the sight from the public to the admin office of the building, it also hint the arriving visitor for the brcik element; 2. The Protruding Brick Facade - The backgrond of the floating brick here becomes solid bricks; 3. The Screen - when approching to main entrance, the transparency of facade is being raised again, the brick in gone at the screen but leaving a “void-brick” which keeps the sense of pattern and scale; 4. Entrance Glass Box - The main facade and entrance of foyer is fully transparent, where the foyer activity, people lining up for cultural events, advertisement would be cleaerly visible from of podium, aimmed to be an extension of the elevated street
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Traisition of facade design
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A Cultural Centre in NTE
The interlocking mass
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Brick Masonry Type 1 Brick walls in rod-system are mixed with Normal surface and feature pattern A or B; 1B Type 1/ Type
Brick Facing Tile Type 1b The Brick Wall with Flat surface BRICK MASONRY 300 / BRICK FACING TILE only would be constucted by 125 The Brick Masonry facade is constructured by panelised tile cks, dry-fixed system. The approx. 300 (w) x 70 (h)facing x 125 (d) 100 me bricks are penetraded and fixed by steel rods. Where 70 ion the panel comes in a maximum size of about 3000 x 3000. The fixing system enable panelisation and on the other expressing the traidtional material touch.
Besides the Facade Type 1 built with full-size bricks, a simplifed version with facing tile made of the same material would be used at high level and location without special feature of the brick wall.
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The brcik facade was designed with patterns that respects the traiditional composition, and it was further evolved with Protruded and Penetrated varietion.
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texture, Feature pattern such as angled protruding Beside a flat bricks would that gives traditional brick andsurface hollowofpattern givethe extra accent to texture, Feature pattern such as angled protruding the facade. The feature pattern are enabled by the rod brick and hollow would give extra accentspecial to systems, with pattern different assemble and some the piece, facade.various The feature pattern are enabled by the rod pattern of brick wall can be achieved. systems, with different assemble and some special piece, various pattern of brick wall can be achieved. Architectural Design 2.0 Architectural Design 2.0
Typical Section and panel joint detail Typical Section and panel joint detail Detail Design (Workstage 3) for New Territories East Cultural Centre in Area 11, Fanling Consultancy Agreement No. 9AG 107 Detail Design (Workstage 3) for New Territories East Cultural Centre in Area 11, Fanling Facade Detail: Panelised brick facade detail p. 33107 A Cultural Centre in NTE Consultancy Agreement No. 9AG
Major arrival landing at the podium plaza with bicycle track integrated
THE ARRIVAL PLAZA (view from ramp) A Cultural Centre in NTE
Main Arrival Landing
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Grand Step as informal leisure space; Children Theatre at ground (pre-stage 3) being adopted to exhibtion which integrated with the plaza
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To Main Ground Plaza
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1/F ENTRANCE FOYER Looking back from the foyer towards the feature tree, the foyer is washed in natural lighting during the day. The design allows visual connection between the various floors of the building to act as spectator spaces for foyer performances.
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Detail Design (Workstage 3) for New Territories East Cultural Centre in Area 11, Fanling Consultancy Agreement No. 9AG 107
1/F ENTRANCE FOYER
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Food Hall at Terminal 1 Hong Kong International Airport T1 FOOD COURT REVAMP AND ENHANCEMENTS AT THE HKIA Ronald Lu and Partners
A Food Hall at Terminal 1 Hong Kong International Airport -The Lion RockDesign: November 2016 Construction: May 2018 - Dec 2020 Ronald Lu & Partners (HK) Ltd. Team : Peter Yam, Vicent Kwan, Janet Lo, Nam Wu, Sarah Ng, Pak Leung, Jeff Tse
The project is about to revamp the existing food court at the airside of Terminal 1, Hong Kong international Airport (the ‘HKIA’). The architecture of the HKIA is a very powerful design. Under its roof ceiling that directly connects the mile-long terminal, from the bus drop-off till the boarding gate, different function laid over different levels of floor are united and tided together, the pedestrians, circulations are clearly displayed in the architecture which echo with its function as a transportation terminal perfectly. However the existing food court was only one of the element that pops up in the circulation hub, serving the catering need that lack of providing a distinguished experience. After two decade of the completion of the terminal, the status of an airport move from a pure transportation terminal to place that provide entertainment. The food court revamp project aimed to renew and re-brand the existing Food Court at Terminal 1, HKIA to create a premium image with an appealing ambiance with iconic and unique experience adding to the world class image of the HKIA. The design defined the Food Hall with “Food Street“ zone and “Seating Zones”. A feature trellis was added to link up the food kiosks, the separated food kiosks were united as a whole of a Food Street, it formed a smaller layer added inbetween the roof ceiling and floor, on one hand, it created
a character for the kiosks and on the other it bridged the scale between the passenger and the tall roof ceiling. The seating zone remained open to the roof, so that passengers can enjoy the vase environment in the Terminal, the ambiance was created by the spatial defining element of screens and tree features at the seatings. To coherent with the concept of the airport, the design of Seating Zones emphasized the character of different types of traveler, they are defined into different subsidiary zones to suit the habit of different type of travelers: 1. Family Cluster Zone 2. Light Beverage Zone 3. Multi-Cuisines Food Festival The project scope included to renovate the dinning area which provides about 1,200 seats, adding 1 New Served Restaurant, 2 Snack Kiosk and renewing the existing Food Serving Kiosks, and 2 Toilet compartments. The project had been completed in Jan 2020 and re-opened to the public.
Food court before revamp
Food Hall at Terminal 1 Hong Kong International Airport
multi-cultural culinary experience
The existing food court was directly laid under the roof ceiling, where the space is not defined from the terminal building, and the food kiosks was also not distinguished from the rest of retail shops. It is appreciated that the passenger can enjoy the vast space under the continuous roof ceiling, however the experience at the Food Hall have not been shaped.
iconic landmark
A feature trellis is added to the each side of the two food street, the form of trellis is inspired by the mountain form of Lion Rock in Hong Kong, the mountain was a symbol of Hong Kong Spirit to a generation and it is suitable for being used to create a iconic and eye-catching element to emphasis the premium image of the Food Hall. As described, the Food Hall revamp design mainly included the Food Street and Seating Zones, the Light Beverages Zone is located at the outer Iconic Trellis edge of the Food Hall, which is closest to the immigration gate and the main passenger circulation. A grab & go snack kiosk is planned at the two light beverage zone, it is designed for passengers that is in a hurry for just want to have light refreshment.
vibrant food street ambience
Demonstration Kitchen at served restaurant
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TH E AUTH E NT IC HONG KONG DINING EXPERIENCE
At the middle of the Food Hall it is the Multi-Cuisines Food Festival zone, with the escalator to the main street to the boarding gate, this is another busiest zone in the food hall. And also being benefit by at the center of the two side of food street, passengers can easily oversee all of the choices, a premium served restaurant is also located at this zone, this is most vibrant area in the food hall.
In-between the two zones it is the Family Cluster, all clusters are surrounded by the bench seatings with a gradually changing screen, at the center of the clusters, a feature tree lamp pole are designed at the round table in the Vibrant Food Street ambiance middle, it provide a focus to the cluster, these elements defined the space of cluster out from the vase space under the roof.
Cluster Seating, with Tree-Feature lamp as focus of cluster
A Food Hall at T1HKIA
Light Beverages Zone
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T1 FOOD COURT REVAMP AND ENHANCEMENTS AT THE HKIA Ronald Lu and Partners
A Food Hall at T1HKIA
Overall Layout Plan
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A Food Hall at T1HKIA
Bar Table, Stool seats, Grab & Go Kiosk
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A Food Hall at T1HKIA
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A Place of Transience -Momento in lifeUniversity Island Young Architects Competitions June 2016 Team MOE : Jacky Lee Kin Wai, Kenton Lam Cheuk Yiu, Nam Wu
This is a competition project called for ideas on designing a University Island on the Poveglia Island in the Venice Lagoon area. University is a very important place for one’s growth, not only for the knowledge they receive, the life experience, the people they met in university forms a part of core for many people, it always contribute to the rest of their life.
Momento in Life In answering the quest of both education and university life, memories is the solution proposed by this project. Taking the advantage of the site, the school was designed to be a place that strongly integrated into the nature, the landscape of the island is shaped to invite the lagoon
water to flows in and out from time to time. Circulations, Buildings and Communal space are placed strategically to amplify the influence of the Tide, the nature and usage of the space would be affected by the tide through day and nights....Sun light would be reflected into classrooms, minor circulations would be blocked, some communal space would be flooded and some place would only be accessible when there is high tide.....etc.
Transience is the only truth for this place, so as the life
here, so as the knowledge. The ever-changing environment would stimulate the students’ sensation, all the unexpected moments and the happenings at this place would be unforgettable, every moment would be seared into the student’s mind.
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The original building cluster concentrated in the south west corner of the island and left a vast amount of empty ground for the development of the new university on the east and north side of the island. The canals divide the island into three parts: Octagon, South island and North Island.
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The university embrace the natural environment by dissolving the south and north landscape into the lagoon. The lagoon water is invading into the original hard landscape which create an interactive relationship between the original island, university building and the lagoon. The tide would cover the landscape, semi-outdoor space and even the indoor area.
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The water from lagoon was intentionally brought into the site and flood the place according to the tidal change result from moon phase, several level was designed as shown. It would be flooding some portion of communal space and shortcut paths, directing the user to find alternatives.
A Place of Transience
General Layout, Axonometric of Classroom and Dormitory Types, Diagram for programmes, Mechanism for Flooding and Landscaping
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‘ Every year, the school choose a low tide date for the first day of new semester, as there would be less circulation being flooded and reduce the confusion of new comers. Whenever I look the the picture of my school, I will recall where did the sea had come up to.’
‘ I passed thorugh a courtyard surrounded by old brick walls before I enter the administration building, it was an indoor space, the roof of this space collapsed before the university was built, the nature took back its existence.’
‘ A comprehensive event space is formed in the center of the island, it is surrounded by student club houses, restaurant and bars, the lake only exist when there is high tide, and sometimes boat market would drive in to sell foods and drinks. ’
A Place of Transience
Rendering at Water Bus, Ruin Courtyard and Evnet Space
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‘ In the years afer my graduation, whenever I was trying to recall the knowledge I got from the school, the scene of the sunset afternoon with shiny water reflection would come out first, and the knowledge would be coming out along with those lights and shadows. ‘
A Place of Transience
Rendering at Classroom
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‘ After so many years, the moments happened in this place never faded out, such as buying lunch from the boat market coming into the canal only in high tide, climbing on the roof for parties when other place was flooded, only able to be on time to class when shortcut appeared in low-tide. In this island, you can’t always keep the same habit, at first it sounded to be troublesome, but once you actually lived there, you would feel the live of this place, the ever-changing, transient and unexpected moment would keep stimulate your mind that reinforced your memory, these memory would keep shines until the end of my life.’
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A Place of Transience
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A City of Scenes - After Building MArch Programme - Thesis The University of Hong Kong Spring Semester 2012-2013 Supervisor : Dr. Jia B.S.
Architecture as Stages Architecture is a stage to host scenes of life, every action and need of the user modifies the building and reveals itself, providing observers a glance of the scenes inside. A city is composed by architectures, the scenarios created by the citizens are projected to the city through architecture. This project aims to review the relation between city, architecture, and the living scenes of people.
A City of Scenes
Introduction
p. 56
Hyper-Dense Cities In the past decades, population had rapidly migrated into and concentrated in the big cities. As the scales of the cities rapidly grow, the lack of space had become an issue, that the cities have no choice but to be built higher and denser. This would be continuing and a reverse is unforeseeable. Among the big cities, Hong Kong is chosen as a precedent to be studied. Hong Kong is a hyper-dense city, for its political status and topographical feature, the urban zone is extremely limited. The average building height is over 40/F, i.e. the population inside is comparable to that of a town.
Zoned environment
A typical Hong Kong building consists of 3-5 floors of podium shopping mall with towers of typical layout above. To achieve high efficiency, places of similar use grouped: flat sticks to flat, and so are the shops and recreational spaces.
Point-to-point travel
With elevators, one can skip all the space along the journey but to reach directly the floor one is exactly heading for. These approaches are efficient for the big city, however, they have concealed the scenes and moments in the city. A City of Scenes
Introduction
p. 57
Communication through Building Walking in the city, we are always able to observe a lot of additions and alterations being made to the building facade. which carry a lot of meaning. A laundry stick on the facade is just a stick, but depending on the user, it performs a function, and a “scenario” is built around the stick.
The activity adds another meaning on the object, and the scenario adds another layer to the architecture.
When someone from the street sees the stick, it triggers their imagination of someone had been using it to do laundry, giving them a glance of the residents’ life scene. The architecture became a means of conversations. However during the process city development, more parts of building is being controlled by central management and restricted the elements owned by the dwellers, and their creation and expression of life scenes were limited, and became distant from the citizens.
Communication on facade These are a few examples of the building facade, the original single-surface facade is being divided into multiple layers and adding alternative uses. E.g. At the left, a unit is adding a bill board and air conditioning. The original windows are also replaced, the action and choices of the dweller provided information of the inside, showing moments of their life scene and their profile via the building skin.
1.2 Communication A City of Scenes through Building
Mechanism of Communication of Building
p. 58
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building’s original composition restricts its dweller’s autonomy on how they adapt to it - to modify and alter the house to fit to their own life scenes. Along the evolution of the city, buildings become bigger and more compact. Facility and building elements, e.g. corridor, facade, are being shared by many people, making dwellers own less part of the building, and have less autonomy to modify the building.
Proposed Response The dwellers now can only re-arrange a bit of the division of the house and the devices, their living scenario is limited and restricted by the unit. Individuals are fitting themselves into the unit rather than the building fitting to their life scenes.
With the limitation set up by the systematically built environment, the individual thoughts on life is eliminated from architecture.
The intention of response towards this phenomenon is to create a system that dweller can make their own choice and reflect themselves with their house.
The building is purely a host of different scenes like a city.
All in a main structure, there is no boundary within the building, different uses can equally spread in the structure.
A City of Scenes
Axonometric Diagram of Alternative Collage
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The design intention tries to break the dependency and Lower Level Lower Plan Level Plan Level Lower Plan Level Plan sequence of hierarchy. By breaking down the unitLower into components, each component contains all four elements of the hierarchy. The hierarchy is revoked and the 4 elements are re-arranged into a parallel relationship. Lower Level Lower Plan Level Plan
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The volume of the house is defined by the moving Frames. The frames slide and combine to create different shells and divisions, it also defines the remaining Environments. Lower Lower Level Plan Level Plan
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The components are going to have the ability to extend itself to another frame, and have different combination. The combination is also defining the rest of its environment. It would then be filled in with devices to have its function defined.
A City of Scenes
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Collective Scene : Cluster Zooming
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out from the unit scale, each unit is contributing to the communal space, the roof of the units are adjoining each other to form a communal belt.
The communal cluster sets out the context for the design of individual units, at the same time, the design of the unit redefines the collective context.
The shaping of each unit by individual dwellers does not only reflect their own preference and life scenes. The architectural form, location of space frame of individual units collectively shape the communal belt.
The space of building cluster changes from time to time, creating unpredictable and unexpected moments. It affect the habits of the dwellers, and is being affected by the habits of the dwellers, forming a new mutual relationship among dwellers and buildings: the new urban ecology.
Over different stages of life, individual dwellers can modify their flat to adapt their needs. Mechanism of Communal Belt (right) The modifications from the individuals would shape the communal belt as well, it sometimes form a little plaza, break the circulation or bring one to dead-end, unexpected moments are collectively created by the dwellers. A City of Scenes
Concept Diagram of Unit Changes over Time; Concept Diagram of Mechanism of Communal Belt
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The building is never completed, there is always people moving in and out. The units and so as the building is continuously modifying, it forms a collective scenario in the building.
A City of Scenes
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placing infrastructures in the building, eg. Stairs, Park, Elevators, Foot Bridge, a stress would be generated to attract different uses to happen in the locations. While composing the typical “framing unit” and infrastructures together, there would be left over spaces, to be intentionally kept blank to allow unexpected moments to happen. The modification of units would be an on-going process to meet the users’ need in different stage of life. Users would be joining in and moving out from time to time, changing the building itself.
An ecology of street had been formed in the building, different types of living scenes come together and are being mixed.
A privately operated table tennis court is formed.
Inside the building there is a city. The building is big, in terms of the size and scale of the building structure. At the same time, the building is small, as it had been broken down into small scenes.
The totality of a building is no longer important, the boundary of building itself do not carry meaning anymore. It dissolves into the city and become part of it. A flat is just rent out and awaiting to be transformed to fit its new owner.
A large residential unit joining two flats. An internal courtyrad is formed at the corner of the house.
A kindergarten is formed by connecting 6 adjoining unit.
An office was originally elected in the opposite building, by setting up a pedestrian footbridge, the office further expanded
A multi-level park is formed, this space had become the gathering and event space of the dwellers,.
A left-over space is formed for dweller to rest
The units closer to the elevators are usually becoming commercial use for its higher exposure.
A vacant flat had been transformed to a temporary food kiosk.
A City of Scenes
The upper level of this flat is separately rent out for shop and therefore the entire house is packed into the lower level. Plan of Cluster
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This kindergarten occupies 6 adjoining units, the linear alignment of these units without being affected by any infrastructure. A good connected class room space had been created on the lower level and a continous playground on the upper level is formed. The playground and classrooms are integrated to form a landscape for the children inside the building.
Perspective of internal street and kindergarten
Some units are further subdivided by lower and upper levels. The upper portion are directly connect to the communal blet, some of them are rented to be shops and the lower level becomes a more affordable housing. By mixing different type of units, the internal corridor of the building cluster is forming a street ecology, with different type of scenes being mixed. A City of Scenes
Perspective of internal street and kindergarten
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Collective Scene : City In the city scale, it was explored how the system can spread The boundary of building is gone, the surface of
freely into any corner of the city, no matter alteration of old buildings, or completely new constructions.
The final aim of the thesis is to break the boundary created by the building blocks, to return the buildings to the city, and ultimately to bring the life scenes and collective creations back to the city.
building is no longer a divider between people and the city. It had become an narrative of the city, each sentence composed by different people, telling the style and story of the city.
A City of Scenes
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Thesis After-word The
thesis originated from a problem observed : Buildings are being designed as appealing objects, the focus is on the building itself so much, that overrides the user’s own preference and life scenes. The city is filled by monolithic mega-buildings that loses the capability to facilitate the life and stories behind the building skins.
At the end, there would be no more building or city.
By recreating and redefining the relationship between dweller and building, the image of city is no longer that of “building objects”, but the “life of citizens”.
A City of Scenes
Perspective of Internal City
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GUEST SUITE STUDIO COMMON SPACE STUDIO DISPLAY STUDIO WORSKHOP
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MASTER SUITE MASTER STUDY ROOMS SHARED KITCHEN
- Master Suite - Master Study Room
Middle Level - Shared Kitchen - Shared Living Room - Garden
BED ROOMS MASTER’S DINNING ROOM MASTER’S LIVING ROOMS SHARED KITCHEN
- One Bed Room - Bath Room - Double Bed Suite
A House of Terraces -Rooms along a Garden-
Lower to Middle Level - Guest Suite - Backyard - Studio Meeting Room - Studio Display - Studio Office
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MASTER SUITE MASTER STUDY ROOMS SHARED KITCHEN
Re-representation: November 2015 Origin at :
The project is to design a house for an Architect Family, consist of a Studio Office sector, a Dwelling sector and a Guest House Sector. The site was located at a steep hillside of Hong Kong Island, it was a lot at an existing concrete terrance, accessible by a long stair connecting the driveway at above and below.
BA (AS) the University of Hong Kong Spring Semester 2007-2008
The Design of this house concerns how the three different sector interlocking each other, providing appropriate distance and yet merging each other.
Supervisor : Mr. Johnathan D. Solomon
To compose a continuous yet sorted spatial experience, the
volumes of rooms of different function are extracted and placed on a wrapped circulation path. All the volumes were placed on a stepped path, forming a landscape of the rooms and its roof, providing a gentle transition of space.
BED ROOMS MASTER’S DINNING ROOM MASTER’S LIVING ROOMS SHARED KITCHEN
An artificial landscape is formed by the floor and roof of the rooms, it provide a smooth transition between the use and filtered the users gently as one move along the path. The wrapped landscape act at the same time to separate and connect the different usage and the users in the house.
functions were being created afterwards. Which forms the Moments that would not likely be seen in the similar type of building. This build up a close relationship of the users from these different groups.
The functions of different sector in this house belongs to different nature, they were first arranged in a linear relationship, they are then being twisted and wrapped to fit in the site, certain intersecting points between different
Rooms A House along of Terraces a Garden
Axonometric Layout | Section of Daily Scenes
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A House of Terraces
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A House of Terraces
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A House of Terraces
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the Boundaries -City of Negatives-
Venice is a city of negatives. The public life, which is the utmost vitality of the city, is attributed by the activities happening on the lanes, streets, squares and campos - the ‘negativities’ of the city.
Summer Workshop - W.A.V.E. 2012 Università IUAV di Venezia Team with : Tsang Aron Wai Chun, Stefano Nuzzo, Elisa Drusian Supervisor : Elena Konstantinidou Tutor : Michail Georgiou, Theresa Kwok, Stefano Tornieri
We wish to extend this motto of Venice into our site. In referencing 4 different campos of different characters in Venice, we try to compose the site as a series of campos, in which each is bounded by different shapes, scales and programmes, that are linked up by the users’ routes - the public and the artists. These two groups of users have different pre-scripted routes in navigating the area. The public descends into the
below ground of the 1st gasometer area and slowly move across the site in programmatic speed increment, reaching the climax and the seaside plaza. The artists, who are living in the housing block in the site, enter in another private entrance. The two groups of users intersect at various conjunctions along the paths. These junctions are the locations for the campos to situate. Based on the immediate programs, ground patterns, sizes and shapes, the campos would develop into different characters, contributing to the variety of the area.
The Boundaries
Nolli Plan of Site, Master Plan
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The Boundaries
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The Project reuses the ruins structure remained in the site. The two signature gasometer are transformed into Artists’ Living Block and Library, while the left over space at the center would become auditorium and Entrance Plaza. Studios and Workshops are located in the altered existing building and formed a gallery to showcase the front line of Art Creation.
The Boundaries
Plan and Axonometric Drawing of Artists’ Living Block and Library
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Dwelling : Gaming -Quantum of Dwelling-
MArch Programme The University of Hong Kong Fall Semester 2011-2012 Supervisor : Ms. Eunice Seng
Introduction Quantum of Dwelling In a multi-unit building, the boundaries of the flats are usually drawn firmly, however the actual ‘Field’ occupied by a flat is defined in a finer scale, the activities of dweller would invades to the ‘Void’ of functions, define them and own them. The studies shows a few cases found in typical Hong Kong housings. By the ‘Artifacts’ applied by the dweller, the undefined space received its meaning.
The application of Artifacts is always temporary, strictly speaking - they are against regulations, the activities at these space pop up suddenly and disappear. It is a hide-and-seek, a quantum created by dweller’s living.
Response A extension wall system is proposed for the project, by operating the frames of this devices, a series of functions can be achieved, the frames of the devise is designed to fit the scale and proportion for certain activities. This device would be placed at the external facade of a existing building, with an additional external passage at added on the external facade, the devices would extend the dwellers’ flats outside to a communal walkway network.
A Daily Scene The device will spread through the building blocks in the site, the extensions create a common space for the dwellers, that give chance of encounter, sometimes they can operate the device together to achieve a common function, sometime people may even occupy space outside another’s house. The devices could not be opened permanently, whenever the device is in used, it open up that flat, it is intentionally to force the dweller to keep on operating the device, this is generating a momentum in the community, there won’t be two second that the ‘scenery’ of this building show exactly the same thing. Every activity just show up and disappear in the following moment. The dweller is going to operate the device like a game e.g. who occupy the most space, who wind some extra space from the
unused corner of next door, who open their device longest.....etc.
And this is the momentum of life to be presented.
These space will be united in a building scale, starting to dissolve the boundary between flats and buildings, the entire walkway is
a showcase of dweller’s life.
The Boundaries
Axonometric Drawing of Time-line Tracing of four units
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Theatre s along Streets -A bookmark in the old town-
Transportation used to drive the development of a place, so do Hong Kong, the extension of rail network plays an important role in expanding the urban area in the past decades. In recent years, rather than developing new rural area, the development of the city was more focused on redevelopment of some traditional district in Hong Kong Island, as these zone give instant high value of land and properties for its locations. By providing railway service, the development of those old district was bursted up, however the mode of development is quite different. In those new developed remote area, the railway used to form a Hub, by advantage of shortening traveling time, residential and commercial development used to be built right above the railway station, forming a massive multi-usage complex, the expansion of that town would start from that hub. However, the recent redevelopment of old town is totally another story.
MArch Programme The University of Hong Kong Fall Semester 2012-2013 Supervisor : Mr. Holger Kehne
The development of the old towns are mature and therefore the new railway station have to stay away from the town center in order to find a space for all the associated building structures. Where there is also no space for it to be planned as a massive hub as same as those in new district.
The tension and stress of pedestrian generated by the station, could not be withheld, it dissolve quickly to the old town’s existing fabric and vanished.
This project is looking at one of the new railway station, Sai Ying pun station in west Hong Kong Island, one of the earliest settlement in Hong Kong. The site is climbing from the water front, through lots of steep slopes extending to the mid level. Being a characteristic of old developed district, the average age of the resident is high, ease of vertical pedestrian transport is an issue of this district. The project here proposing a network of escalators in the project, all connected to different levels of street, to define its infrastructural role. By that, the building could act as an extension of street. By providing a easy travel solution to the public, the station can retain the stress generated by itself, and it even gain more power to drag people in. The infrastructure role provide the project a potential to insert a scenery into the public daily life through the stress generated by this building. In between the fast travel escalators in the project, a series of primary programme of theaters, secondary programme of cafes, studios, galleries and associated plaza as extensional space would be added in.
By acting as a hub of traveling and culture, the stress of project would create a new driving force for the redevelopment of the district.
Main levels of existing fabric is selected for further integration into the project.
Forming the mass of the project, in this stage, it is divided into two pieces, to create multi anchor points.
Fast travel system of escalators are provided for traveling solution in the steep slopes, the building’s first identity of infrastructure is confirmed. Also forming the backbone of the building for further planning.
Theaters are placed and attached to the fast travel system.
Buffer lobby of the theaters are planned on roofs of another theater, the buffer zone is also working as extensional space for the secondary program.
Local travel system (within the building) is formed by linking up the buffer zone/public space.
Secondary program is placed according to the arrangement of the local system and buffering zone, the buffering zone would be the extensional space for the secondary program.
Then the local travel system is enhanced by providing better linkage to the secondary program mass. Joining into the fast travel system to become a completed net work.
The vertical relationship of the masses are generated by the fast travel and local travel system, with the aid of the secondary program, forming a series of public street along it.
Building envelope is added to define the public space as exterior or interior.
Each item is being defined by the other one, forming the hierarchy of the space. Theatres along Streets
Axonometric Diagram of Generation of Building Frameworks and Vertical Relationships
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(Top Left) The Buffering-Lobby of the theater is only to be occupied by the theater users in limited period, for the rest of the time the spaces can be occupied by the pedestrians and the secondary programmes
(Top Right) The Building would integrated into the existing fabric of the old town, by attraction of station and the provision of travel system.
The project would become an extension of the streets, , it generate stronger force to drag public in, the theaters put here would be a part of the street and be inserted into the society by influence of the project.
Theatres along Streets
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A Solid of Shadow - Light Sculpture MArch Programme Elective Course The University of Hong Kong Spring Semester 2011-2012 Supervisor : Mr. Gao yan
The Light Sculpture This project was designed under Rhino Scripting in creating “lighting Sculpture”. This light sculpture rather than focus on “light”, is focus on “shadow”. Shadow was always a result of light, showing a projection of the object it belongs, it provide you a distortion of the original object in relation to the direction, the intensity of the light source.
A Solid of Shadow
Mechanism of Generating of Sculpture
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