p o r t f o l i o Alex Wai Yin Yuen BAAS
HKU
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The Whirling Atrium
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The Whirling Void Housing in Extreme Climate \ U6 Final Year Project ; Tutor : Olivier Ottrevaere \ Site | Harbin, China Situated in the heart of heart of Harbin, project acts as a connecting node of human activities. It converges the once isolatd underground shopping arcade with the vibrant urban contexts and a web of workplaces, storefronts and residences. 01 Monumentality Project is developed upon a diminution process of evaluating voids, taking into account of the design considerations of surrounding site condition and solar analysis. 02 Void as Insulation Emerging from the ground, three whirled columns of voids gradually progress up and intertwine in central body of the form, then redefines itself as it spurt up in another three streams of negative space.
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The Greater Harbin Plan 1900- 2015
partial wall model [ mdf & plaster] , scale 1:50
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process development
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03 Changing Void The atrium was deployed to
“create a grandeur of space, almost a resort, in the centre of the city.� - John Portman
The changing void massing, scale 1: 500
30/F Typical Floor Plan [with cross orientation units] (top left) 15/F Serviced Apartment Floor Plan (bottom right) Unit Plan (bottom left)
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04 Structural Arches The eight curved walls, featured with a gradual widening slits, are constructed through cast in situ. Fictional adaptations within the two walls are performed from top to bottom. Two systems of arches buttress each other, transferring vertical loads at minimal points. The walls also provide hollow core to accommodate elevators and refuse chambers, as well as supporting horizontal slabs such as the corridors and living units.
Detail, [ from top to bottom]
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Structural Wall Transformation
Detail, [ from bottom to top]
East- North Section, scale 1:100
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Slide & Seek Playscape library \ U5 Exchange in IE University ; Tutor: Lina Toro \ Site | Városliget park, Budapest, Hungrary
01 The Red influence As a former marching square of the Red Soviet Army , the park was wreathed with a bald military concrete ground. The fate of the park was for decades determined by considerations related to mass events.
02 Elements of Architecture
“Architect was trained to put things together, not to take them apart.” - Rem Koolhaas the Canopy [axonometric drawing]
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detail zoom [wood], scale 1:100
front view model [wood], scale 1:100
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03 Amusement Aligning with Budapest Zoo, Budapest Amusement Park, Vajdahunyad Castle and the SzĂŠchenyi thermal bath, the idea of play is gathered in the openess of the capital of Hungary, where is covered by trees. The pavillion extends the canopy of tres, imitating a natural shelter.
site plan with steps , scale 1:100
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“you see a portal, where there is an ocean of knowedge”
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04 The moment of Velocity The moment of human velocity is controlled heavily by the
arrangement of
elements in architecture. Ups and downs
allows a change of speed in human body movement, becoming a centre of reward and pleasure for children.
East-West Section , scale 1:200
East-West Section , scale 1:100
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A mirrored ocean Architecture Studio Outpost for HKU \ U4 2nd Year ; Tutor : Christiane Lange \ Site | Kennedy Town Praya, Saiwan, HK Island
01 Reclamation Hong Kong Island is expanding longitidianally in development, meanwhile reclaiming more land from the harbour latitudinally.
cinematic collage ; [sketch] spring 2014
02 Typhoon Party
a resident
A typhoon creates a event where strangers in the town meet. The water, splashes begin to embrace the mankind in Kennedy Town.
“At the high point of our intimacy, we were just 0.01cm from each other. I knew nothing about her . �
a group of wave chaser a fishing man
a reporter
a drunkard
a hawker
a shop owner
- Chungking Express [1994]
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Edge the coasline; pocket the splashes
Hybrid drawing illustrating the reclaimed land, 1968-1990
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“Light is on at dusk, when the sky and the sea become the same tranquil blue�
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03 Hovering Architecture Studio Toring away the soil under reclaimmation and replaced with a floating concrete plate, the continuous curve of the swimming shed hovered along two long strips of architecture studios, approaching the sea in a tender behaviour.
“Layers of man-made architecture protrudes out into the sea, embracing the wave and the splashes�
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Project Little Dream
For us and them. How we work E du c at ion Archite c ture He a lt hc are
The stor y b e g an in a foreig n l and, w he re st range rs met and b e c ame f r iends The Jour ne y shap e d us, C ambraci ng t he faces t hat d r ive us to d ay.
East facade of the compost toilet
Project Description Chompol Village Compost Toilet Location Tramkok District, Takeo Date of Completion Dec 2016 Beneficiaries Ros Mao’s family Project leaders Andrea Chan Alex Yuen Team Francis Wong Lam Long Tat Ophenia Wong Site Area 15m2 Facilities 1 toilet 1 wetland 1 compost storage tank Material
brick & ventilation block elevation (east, north,west &south)
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chimney
vegetation
fermentation
01 Compost Toilet | Source Separation
wetland
In farming countries like Cambodia, domestic ( human and animal) excreta has been reconsidered for sustainable farming. The container for excretion needs to be feremented in order to fit the contemporary need of compost farming.
Chimney entrance Ros Mao’s vegetation
west - east section
PVC drainag pipe Cast Insitu beam
Wall (“tenten” bricks)
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WASH Campaign 02 WASH | Beneficiaries of 255 families WASH provides holistic health development for Cambodian children. The hand wash basin is a trial to establish daily washing habits for school kids before and after class. 03 Wetland | Greywater The wetland that comes with the basin also serves as an area for filtering pollutants before greywater draining back into the ground
Under a concrete ring..
Project Description Thnouh School Sanitation Complex Location Date of Completion Beneficiaries Project leaders Team
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Thnouh School July 2015 175 (aged 5-15) Francis Wong Alex Yuen Andrea Chan Jayla Lai
Site Area
80m2
Facilities
1 hand wash basin 1 well 1 water tank 1 wetland
Material
concrete & brick
Pick a larger concrete ring for the water tank
Split into three
for the hand wash basin
Water tank [d: 600]
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120 split concrete ring x 3
Wetland [7000 x 5000]
[d: 400]
metal blade for ceramic mass production 03 Ceramic filter | A hydrologic In winter 2013, we conducted a prototyping program to take on the challenge. A series of prototype purifiers were produced by artisans in Oudoug Rossey Village, Kampong Chnang
bidepal Pot parabolic
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Chandigarh Unbuilt A Knowledge Common
\ A Competition ( 2015 ) ; Top 50 receipent \
“ May the common people of Chandigarh rise again from the warm sun and soothing breeze; from an open and civic society. ”
site| Chandigarh, in btween Haryana and Punjab, India “ Knowledge of the People,
by the People, for the People”
Between the steep slopes of the Himalayas and vastness of the Great Indian desert, there lies a fertile plain irrigated by Sutlej of Indus and Yamuna of Ganga. Cultivated since the ancient culture of Harappans and blessed by the Hindu goddess of power, there rises the City Beautiful. For more than half a century, she lived under the shadow of a modern giant, oppressed, restrained-locked in time , by fables of a by-gone era.
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01 A Lightweight Brise Solieu The new brise-soleil mediates between human and nature; inside and outside, private and public. The modernist artefact is reinterpreted into a lightweight structure made of timber poles and hands of Punjahi cottom cloth allows a roofscape that is monumental yet ephemeral. The formal presence of the brise soleil in the Commons is a functional result of its performative requirement.
The evolution of the fenestration in the proposed knowledge commons, from Le corbusier to present
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An Occasional Pleasure \ A Heritage Conservation Campaign ( 2016 ) \
Site | State Theatre, North Point, Hong Kong
“ There is something formal and ceremonious about going to the theatre. It is an occasion, and event. It imples more careful attire . � - The social function of the cinema (1930)
01 Modern Movement Modern movement once swung across Asia from the 1950s. Hong Kong architecture is pragmatic, dogmatic and efficient, not like palatial as Beijing or nationalized as Nanjing. It shows the status of the capital need, housing demand for immigrants and a low-key living lifestyles after the war.
02 Structural Art Parabolic reinforced concrete truss suspends the ceiling to allow a column-free auditorium
03 A Volumetric Island Theatres locate at the corner of the road, folllowed by a curved facade expressively showing an iconic sightline. 27
“Hong Kong’s faded State Theatre back in the spotlight with vote to give it historic status”, MingPao Daily 09/ 2016
Me (middle), with my colleagues inspecting on the condition of the parabolic trussed roof
Spent days and nights recontructing the architectural grandeur of the theatre in animation www.facebook.com/WalkInHongKong/videos/1258927607498884/
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The series explores specific structural principles at 1 to 1 scale, which are further architecturally tested as speculative towers for urban living at 1 to100 scale. At 1 to 1, an empirical approach is adopted for the making of columns. Concrete as process rather than just concrete as material sets the main methodology for the design-research. Trial & error experiments, closely related to the properties of material (liquid to solid formation), seek to put forward new techniques of formwork design and construction procedures that are more sustainable.
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Tower
New Orders \ Ways of Making ; Making of Ways (2015) \ Column 7: Flaring and Sieving
Design: Olivier Ottevaere, Elsa Caetano Project team : Jason Chong (project manager), Anthony Chu , Alex Wai Yin Yuen , Chen Beining
Structural rationalists
Design analysis, informed by the work of the early ‘structural rationalists’ ( E. Torroja, F. Candela, P.L. Nervi, H. Isler, R. Maillard, E. Dieste, et al. ), considers the transformation of structural languages in an attempt to revive an architecture for vertical living - point-block . While these structural mavericks took reinforced concrete to the limit of what the new material could do both structurally and spatially, their pioneering work responded, for the most part, to lower building scales and to singular programs (i.e. civic, cultural, religious); all but Housing.
“Grandeur , Hong Kong” ,
- portfolio Alex Wai Yin Yuen