P O R T F O L I
CHING FUNG, ISAAC
University of Nottingham, Ningbo China
SELECTED WORKS 2016-2018 O
BORN > 11-01-1996 / HKSAR / CHINA (CN)
CONTACT > CN +86 130 3468 7360
E-MAIL > cfung.isaac@gmail.com
ADDRESS > 1/F No.18 Flat E / Tsang Lan Shue Village / Clearwater Bay Road / NT / HKSAR
EDUCATION
2014-2018 > University of Nottingham, Ningbo China / BEng (Hons) Architecture
2017(Jan-Apr) > University College of Dublin / Exchange Engineering & Architecture
AWARDS
2016-2017 > Head’s Scholarship (top 10% in Architecture)
2016-2017 > UNNC ABE Award for the Best Design Portfolio (Part One)
2016-2017 > Peer Mentoring Program Leader
2015-2016 > Head’s Scholarship (top 10% in Architecture)
2014-2015 > Provost’s Scholarship (top 1.5% in Architecture & Built Environment school)
PRACTICE
2017 -2018 > Architectural Assistant at EVA Architects / Chi Chi SO & Alan WANG / Projects >>>
> Star America Kindergarten, Shanghai
> RETTIG Office Building Renovation, Yangzhou
> Vestibule Addition Project, British International School Shanghai
> Cummins Beijing Yizhong office
> Cummins Chongching Office
Website Reference >>>
> https://www.evaarchitects.com/
2019 > Internship at VTN Architects / Vo Trong Nghia /
SKILLS
> AutoCAD / ArchiCAD / Rhino / Grasshopper (basic) / Sketchup / Revit / Enscape / Adobe Photoshop / Adobe InDesign / Adobe Illustrator / Adobe Premiere / Final Cut Pro
LANGUAGES
> English (Fluent)
> Chinese (Fluent in Writing) / Fluent in Mandarin / Native in Cantonese
> Italian (Beginner) / finished 1A
ABILITY / INTERESTS
> creative / communicative / reliable / flexible / diligent / motivated / cooperative
> Architecture / computer graphic / video editing / model making / travelling / Gaming / Guitar / Violin / Harmonic / Melodica / Flute
> Football / squash / cycling / ice skating / skateboard
S K Y
2m x 2m intervention
Autumn 2016 +
C A V E
3000 m² Artist in Residency in suburban context
Autumn 2016 +
S U N S H I N E
80 ppl Residency in urban context
Spring 2017 +
C I R C L E
40000 m² urban planning in urban context
Summer 2017 + I N N E R
Archive + Ashram in China urban context
Spring 2018 +
P R A C T I C E
Project involved in company
Summer 2017 / 18
+ S K Y
2m x 2m intervention
Autumn 2016
Tutor: Hiroyuki Shinohara
+ INTERVENTION
The site is a temporary park renovated from a collapsed mining ore. The project aims to sustainably redevelop the site into a suburbia art district that is able to hold art events such as triennial art festival. Thus, along the bottom cliff of the clapped ore, designated area are given to develop a art related intervention in order to support the development goal.
SKY is a ceramic kiln. Carving is being used to interpret as an architectural strategy to define its function. The carved out area is designed for ceramic artist to fire pots. The reason why a ceramic kiln is settled outside of a building is to create a daily routine for artist going around the art field which creates a interactive relationship between the field, the artist and also visitors.
+ C A V E
3000 m² Artist in Residency in suburban context
Autumn 2016
Tutor: Hiroyuki Shinohara
+ CONTINUATION
As continue development of the concept created in the previous intervention, an Artist in Residency is being designed. As per solving basic requirement for short term to long term residency of 9 ceramic artists, the impact of such design on both art district development and the surroundings are put into consideration.
The site is located in the Liangzhu Village, suburb of Hangzhou, China. On the edge of urban and rural, the project tends to use art and space to create a missing gate way for them to interact, urban / rural, local / tourist, human / nature.
The project provides a living space and a studio for ceramic artist, it also creates aa exhibition space and social gathering place for the public and for the locals.
Interaction with ICONIC ARCHITECTURE
Liangzhu Cultural Village is a village developed by Wanke Property CO. Ltd. The village poses out from other developing suburb by invited famous architects, Tadao Ando, David Chipperfield and Tshuhima Architects to design iconic building. With the promotion of Liangzhu Culture, the development of the village is targeted for the educated and wealthy group. The design of the project is to interact with those iconic architecture so the activities centre will shift to centre instead of staying on the north-east side
Massing Development
With respect to the iconic buildings especially the one right beside the site, the design should be bold and the massing of the building should withstand lightness with its weight. As per siting on the contour, the massing is then carved through to create a pathway. The front entrance should be more complex and attractive compare to the back entrance. Thus, the front elevation emphasise different quality of space by create a dynamic comparative of the left side and the right side
Section Development
The diagrammatic section shows the development of the design from initial, to conceptual, and to realisation stage. The first diagram shows the condition of the site, which sit between nature and high-rise residency. The inorganic gesture of putting organic boundary between rural and urban creates communication between the residency on the east and the art field on the west. Second diagram shows the diagrammatic spacial allocation between public and private space with integration of the carving concept. The gesture of carving the box conveys the idea of suburbia, a gateway between urban and suburb. The void represents the public area which generate a syndic height different, egress on the top is the residential area which is more private. The last diagram illustrates the development of the abstract space allocation by using simple cutting. A light well is also created to form a light difference between space.
+ Plan Development
With the start of an golden ratio rectangle, the space of first floor is allocated into three parts with the most public, circulation walkway exhibition area in the middle with studios and office on one side, cafe and common space on the other side. Cafe and office are put on the east side where visitors first encounter near the entrance. Then tension of space is created by angling the wall. Tension of horizontal circulation is then directed to the west end of the building to the entrance on the east. Height of specific places is then adjusted to meet the needs of function and typography.
+ ELEVATION development
+ S U N S H I N E
80 ppl Residency in urban context
Spring 2017
Tutor: Marcus Donagphy
+ LIVING
As share living style is a hot topic recently, not only price is being discussed on the table but also the quality, the flexibility and the sustainability of the society. The impact of share living housing building no longer only affects the residency when such building type has already been isolated from normal residency to form a new typology.
The site is located in Dublin, Ireland. The site is originally a glass factory at sea shore. With operating into 70 individual sites, the class creates a big puzzle that fill this empty slot. With its typography, the site creates a high risk in terms of flooding. Another problem the project is facing is how to deal with the relationship of the building around in such a compact area.
The project provides a living space for 80 people and forms a different typology. It also creates a public gathering space on the ground floor and structure space on the residential floors.
The moment when I noticed the site was fully packed with dense structure. The idea of an iconic, directional building comes into my mind as my site is almost at the centre of the whole building lots. To contrast from the inorganic cube, cylinder, polymer housing surrounding the place, an organic ideology, a tree, pops up.
The concept is to illustrate a sunshineful plaza and corridors where residents can interact with people in the plaza as sunshine is precious in Dublin. In addition. such organic move can make the place a landmark for people to gather, to date, and to wait for friends. Such tree shades environment helps users to enjoy the space.
The importance of the living spaces is also crucial. The idea is to let as much as possible sunlight go into the living place. Such aim is then achieved by detail illustration.
The conceptual section illustrates both the relationship between the site, the organicity, the weight and also the relationship between space, void and users
+ P R E research in urban context
Summer 2017
Tutor: Hiroyuki Shinohara
Urban Village is no longer a new terminology, but in fact, the phenomenal existence of such urban fabric only happened in the recent era. Urban Village, or Village in City, refers to the spatial urban-phenomenal existence of a rural village surrounded by newly developed urban land during top down development and transformation of a city (Zhou, 2014). The cause of the phenomenon can be categorised into two main reasons. The first reason is economical incentives, i.e. overspeed of development where development of fabric is unable to catch up with the economical development. The second reason is historical protection measure by the government (Zhou, 2014). The existence of such unique urban fabric has created several negative impact to the local government and also the development of the city. Low city image can be brought by non-hygienic environment, and economic barrier can be created by the constrain of land use for further development.
The research project tends to develop a sense of the space and the formations, reasons and trend of the urban village. Difference method is being used throughout the research. The research resulted as an inspiration for the masterplanning project afterwards.
+ C I R C L E
40000 m² urban planning in urban context
Summer 2017
Tutor: Hiroyuki Shinohara
ANTI URBANISATION
Urban Village is no longer a new terminology, but in fact, the phenomenal existence of such urban fabric only happened in the recent era. Urban Village, or Village in City, refers to the the spatial urban-phenomenal existence of a rural village surrounded by newly developed urban land during top down development and transformation of a city (Zhou, 2014). The cause of the phenomenon can be categorised into two main reasons. The first reason is economical incentives, i.e. overspeed development where development of fabric unable to catch up with the economical development. The second reason is historical protection measure by the government (Zhou, 2014). The existence of such unique urban fabric had created several negative impact to the local government and also the development of the city. Low city image can be brought by non-hygienic environment, and economic barrier can be created by the constrain of land use for further development.
As the site is located in the urban village, the URBAN PLANNING project aim to stand against the urbanisation that going to immerse and engulf the city’s origin, city’s culture by showing the strong manifesto of protest. The project created a megastructure, visually disconnecting the set from the urbanised surrounding, while introducing different interaction between people to weaken the solid separation.
Simple living elements of migrants life exposes their daily life from fragment, from a plastic bag to the precious toys for their kids, from rain boots for working under rain to photos of their kids they kept for ages. Those simple elements seem to be story teller, telling the common between migrants life in a sequential way.
Life of Drifting Migrant is documented with photography as medium. Their existence is crucially important as a gear of the city although they are being exploited, and being oppressed. Migrants provide extremely important service to the city but they minimised their expenses in order to maximise their savings. The living style, the robotic life of the migrant, are only being fulfilled with the minimum living standard. In Humanity level, they are drifting, lacking of identity, lacking of root. Similar to the site, their lives are almost invisible or being ignored from the outsiders. Their lives cannot be sublimed unless their human side, the soul factors are being fulfilled.
Perceptional Fragment of space are created in combination acceding to the inspiration from the site, and to the previous study on space, material, form, and shadow. Also, primitive emotions, Hope, Anger, Anxiety, Alone, Enthusiasm, Joy are being referenced. Personal perception of spaces are different from one and other. The inspirational drawings are trying to find elements, fragments or spacial description that generally describe the perception of space that want to create. It also acts as an introduction and definition of those perception of space
Abstract Ceremonial Journey is important according to the previous research on ashram. The collage drawing of the space was then created by following the abstract form of the ashram, a main journey and other supporting facilities. In order to maximise the symbolism meaning of the ceremonial perception, the functions are being completely isolated form the Journey. In other words, the journey only serves as the journey only. The drawing illustrated the journey on top, with curve element , and the supporting facilities underneath. This does not decrepit the for but only the program relationship.
ISOMETRIC REVEAL INNER SYSTEM / STRUCTURE / FUNCTIONS
