tsang aron wai chun. [PORTFOLIO]
SELECTED WORKS 2011 - 2015
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Master of Architecture [Distinction]/ University of Hong Kong/ 2011 - 2013 Bachelor of Arts (Architectural Studies) [First Class Honors]/ University of Hong Kong/ 2007 - 2010
academic work 01
PLAY_GROUND Honorable Mention International Architectural Thesis Awards 2013 Published on Dialogue Recorder: HKU Architecture Papers Vol.2 2013 Honorable Mention Gurroo Innovative Minds Competition 2012
[PROJECT INFORMATION] 2012 MArch I University of Hong Kong Tutor: Jason Carlow [PROJECT OVERVIEW] Taking a very challenging yet excitingly interesting, Dharavi, for this design project, it is easy yet difficult at the same time. Easy in a way that numerous issues are available and obvious to deal with, such so pollution, tight living space, poor hygiene etc. However, difficult in another hand since the fabric is extremely delicate. A slight wrong touch could result in a domino destruction in the complicated yet homeostatic balance of the huge community system as a whole. My project deals with spatialization of the roof top layer, which is in fact currently being used for various functions by the dwellers. A new spatial structure would be deployed above the fabric, providing them basic infrastructural advancements. The structure, provided their 5x5m grid, anticipate the dwellers below to construct and add their own components to serve their needs. These personal add-ons fill in the middle gap (roof layer before) as a multi-functional mass, on the other hand, in a way benefit the whole community by knitting a new free public ground on top.
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tsang aron wai chun. academic work
All in all, it is a structure that allows people to play with unprecedented ways, generating unpredictable ground.
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academic work 02
HERE AFTER Grand Prize D3 Unbuilt Visions Competition 2013 2013 Honorable Mention eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2014 2014 Certificate of Excellence Perspective Awards 2013 - Architecture (Student) 2013 Silver Award of Merit SARA NY Design Awards 2014 2013 [PROJECT INFORMATION] 2013 MArch II University of Hong Kong Advisor: Eric Schuldenfrei [PROJECT OVERVIEW] The project involves a soon-to-be exhausted copper mine, Ruashi mine, in Lubumbashi, D.R.Congo. By the time 2020, the mine would be left as an huge urban void next surrounded by the rapidly expanding city. Embracing the ‘left-over’, e.g. the mine, waste soil and sulfuric acid from acid mine drainage, from the former copper production, I see it as an oppurtunity in creation and continuation. By first implementing a machine that re-utilizes the waste soil as a neu- tralization agent to the sulfuric acid, while at the same time through erosion generating unique raw building blocks that would be used to construct new public spaces onsite. As the machine operates, starting from the South end, the remained structures from the former neutralization process would be reconfigured as an university campus.
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tsang aron wai chun. academic work
Throughout the process, it embraces its own ‘left-over’ from various ‘former’ processes, the ‘left-overs’ that are embedded, imprinted with memories and narratives - an architecture that anticipates, responds to and records time flow.
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academic work 03
HOLLOWNESS Published on ‘The Architecture Asia 2011’ 2012
[PROJECT INFORMATION] 2011 MArch I University of Hong Kong Tutor: Jonathan Solomon [PROJECT OVERVIEW] Critique at the precedent study, the Canton Tower, its singular dominating iconic object, the enclosed ground condition and weak skin-core relationship, trying to propose a new vertical organization in structural and architectural possibilities.
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tsang aron wai chun. academic work
The ground would now be punctuated by pilotis from the tower structure, but opening up a hollow space in the middle like a public arena. The pilotis not only act as the structure, but also as a node generating, diverting flows of people and, in some extent, scripting their activities.
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competition work 04
SEEDS OF MEMORY Shortlisted Lung Tsun Stone Bridge Remnants Design Ideas Competition 2014
[PROJECT INFORMATION] 2013 Lung Tsun Stone Bridge Competition Collaboration with Carol Lau [PROJECT OVERVIEW] Hong Kong with only around 150 years of history, Lung Tsun Stone Bridge no doubt marks an important significance. Not only it is a landmark in the historical perspective, but, more importantly, also an crucial linkage between the old Kowloon Wall City and the future Kai Tak Development geographically. This is a site of history and contemporary growth together in one place.
- An architecture that embraces and animate history, while bridging the continuity to the future.
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tsang aron wai chun. competition work
Passive observation by passer-by is the last thing we wish to happen. We hope that through constructing an ever-changing structure on the site could respond to these archeological remains and encourage public engagement with them
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THE ROOTS Competition Entry Liget Budapest Ethnography Museum Competition 2014
[PROJECT INFORMATION] 2014 Liget Budapest Ethnography Museum Competition Collaboration with Carol Lau, Kenton Lam, John Tso [PROJECT OVERVIEW] This Museum of Ethnology, namely ‘The Roots’, would be more than merely a display of collection of mankind’s creativity and the pursue of beauty in form of artefacts, it would be a journey for people to experience thousand years of human civilisation and understand that we have always been, and still are, a part of the nature. Mankind may be categorised into various genre, e.g. skin colour, origins, language etc. Yet we believe though we may all begin from different origins and culture, we would sooner or later return to the same root - the Nature.
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tsang aron wai chun. competition work
Our vision is through the Museum as a vehicle to tell the stories of different mankind histories of civilisation coupled with a carefully planned dramatic spatial experience sequence to shed a light on the visitors in hoping that they would be enlightened and comprehend this simple, yet often neglected, truth of our mankind existence.
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professional work 06
M+ MUSEUM
Herzog & de Meuron, TFP Farrells, Ove ARUP & Partners HK
[PROJECT INFORMATION] 2013 - 2018 Architect: Herzog & de Meuron, TFP Farrells, Ove ARUP & Partners HK Location: Hong Kong [PROJECT OVERVIEW]
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Herzog & de Meuron, TFP Farrells, Ove ARUP & Partners HK
tsang aron wai chun. professional work
Following an international competition, the celebrated Swiss architecture firm of Herzog & de Meuron, working with Hong Kong-based TFP Farrells and Ove Arup & Partners HK, has been selected to design the M+ building. Scheduled for completion in 2018, the approximately 60,000 square-metre scheme will create an iconic presence for M+, and Hong Kong, on the museum’s site overlooking Victoria Harbour.
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professional work 07
THE FISHING BRIDGE
[PROJECT INFORMATION] 2014 Design Proposal for Zeng Chu-An Village, Xiamen Collaborated with Alison Chan June Yee [PROJECT OVERVIEW] An urban design workshop collborated with Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Chung Shan University and Xiamen University. The workshop was conducted by Xiamen government in a bid to improve the condition of Zeng Chu-An village, one of the most famous art and cultural district developed from a previous fishing village. The design proposal involved a bridge linking the village entrance to the seaside across a 6-lane road. The bridge was inspired by the former fishing village and the wooden structural frame typology of a traditional fishing boat.
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The Fishing Bridge is currently under construction and expected to be completed for public usage in February 2015.
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film 08
TIME - SLOT
[PROJECT INFORMATION] 2012 Genre: Sci-Fi Drama Length: 45mins Collaboration with Archilles [PROJECT OVERVIEW] A film production, in which I took part as the director, collaborated among our graduating class during our final year. The setting was a dystopiac future of a absolute controlled tyrannic society, as metaphor of our repeatedly reproducting current day, if not major sectors of architectural development, society. It is a fictional story that how a normal worker in this world relaize its aspiration of life through various discourses and happenings from the surroundings and collegues.
Teaser Link: http://vimeo.com/76061590
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All scenes were shot around our studio, in which we reconstruct the whole alternative world as a montage. The locations were picked that aimed to arouse our memories of our everyday routine working day and night in the studio.
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tsang aron wai chun. [PORTFOLIO]
SELECTED WORKS 2011 - 2015 academic/
competition/
professional/
film/
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