The portfolio of
CHAN KWUN KIT
CHAN KWUN KIT
CONTENTS 01
The Modular Market/ Year II Studio , Fall Semester
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The Wedge House/ Year I Studio
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The Fifth Room/ Year II Studio , Fall Semester
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The Mason’s Place / Year II Studio , Spring Semester
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Muller House/ Cinematic Drawing
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Photography . Editorial Design . Print Design/ Other Works
PERSONAL INFORMATION
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Address: Flat F, 37/F, Block 9, Island Harbourview, 11 Hoi Fai Road E-mail Address: kkchan.wyk@gmail.com Tel: +852 66077165 Date of Birth: 27/02/1996 Status: Hong Kong Permanent Resident
Current: Greener’s Sound- Chorist (2014-) Starr Hall, HKUSU- Resident (2014-)
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor of Architecture (Year III) The University of Hong Kong (2014-) Secondary School Wah Yan College, Kowloon (2008-2014) Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Chinese (5**), English (5*), Maths (5*), L. S. (4), Physics (5), Chemistry (5), Economics (5) SKILLS Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Lightroom Autodesk AutoCad Rhinocero Sketchup
Proficiency
Past: Students Association, WYK- Executive Member (2011-2012) School Magazine- Editor-in-Chief (2010-2011) 20th Hong Kong Union of Young Leaders (2010) Rotary Club- Member (2010-2012) INTERESTS Singing Photography
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THE MODULAR MARKET YEAR III STUDIO // AUTUMN 2016 The project aims to give a new proposal for the type of wet market, which was once prevalent in Shanghai. The design is developed based on three parameters of structure, program and circulation, the prototypes, the site context and the program requirements of intergrating two new programs with an existing wet market.
BRIEF In this studio, students have to rebuild or replace an existing wet market in order to add two additional programs of communal dining and delivery centre to it.
Three parameters of structure, program and circulation are given as the starting point for the site analysis and precedence study.Then, a prototype is designed based on students’reading of the precedence and the parameters.
After that, students develop their designs base on the prototypes, the site context and the program requirements.
Car Parking
SITE LOCATION
The existing market is situated at the junction of Xiangde Road and Hingkou-gang creek. It is distanced from the historic commercial centre of Hongkou district and dominated by residential program. The market is distinctively located with low-rise residential compounds on its west while newly developed residential towers on its east across the river.
Riverside
Storage & parking
Shops along the street
Market entrance
Motorcycle parking
Bridge
The Modular Market/ Year III Studio , Fall Semester
SITE CONDITION The intersection of the road and the creek makes this site highly contextual in terms of typography. Height difference has been already exploited by bicycle parking and storage space. Howeverm the current condition for the external spaces surround the market is still far from realising its full potentials, such as insufficient use of space and pedestrian accesibility.
SECTIONS Sections are drawn to record activities and datum lines in the site.
STRUCTURE The structure of the existing market was investigated. Column grid system is used for the market program to give greater flexibility in spatial arrangement.
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The Modular Market/ Year III Studio , Fall Semester
PRECEDENCE CONTEXT The Therme Vals is an extension of a hotel. Peter Zumthor wanted to create a bath in nature. Therefore, he designed a monolithic architecture carving out and extending from a hill for a wide scenery view without blocking the view from the hotel. PROGRAM The dimension of each modules of roof structures are tailor-made for different types of bathrooms. Private programs take place inside the cell unit while public programs take place under the roof. STRUCTURE The monolithic architecture is formed by different modules of roof structures. PRIVATE
PUBLIC
PRIVATE
CIRCULATION Modules are orientated to form directionality for circulation outside the cells. The gaps in-between modules direct light in and guide circulation.
CONTEXT Shapes
PROGRAM STRUCTURE Defines the dimensions of Orientation guides
CIRCULATION
PROTOTYPE
CONCEPT MODEL
CONTEXT
Responding to the site typography with different datum line and neighborhood activities, modules with different heights are stacked up form a dynamic roofscape.
PROGRAM
The dimensions of roof and column span in each module are tailor-made for wet market, communal dining and delivery center respectively.
STRUCTURE
Learning from the existing market and the Therme vals, cantilever module structures are designed and arranged in column grid system.
CIRCULATION Choices of module types and orientation of modules create different circulation for different programs.
The Modular Market/ Year III Studio , Fall Semester
HEIGHT AND PROGRAM CONSIDERATION VARIATION 1
45 degree grid
The Modular Market/ Year III Studio , Fall Semester
The diagonal grid forms inefficient triangular space. Also, some types are similar and can be streamlined.
VARIATION 2
Orthogonal grid
The Modular Market/ Year III Studio , Fall Semester
STRUCTURE CONSIDERATION Types of two-way slab
Flat slab Flat slab with drop panels Slab with beams Waffle slab Considering the loads on the cantilever, two-way slab is considered prior to one-way slab as it can carry heavier loads. Waffle slab is chosen for further development as it can fit in modules with different grids with proportional dimensions.
CATELOGUE OF MODULES
ISOMETRIC VIEW
PLAN VIEW
TYPE A
PLAN VIEW PLAN COLUMN SPAN: VIEW 2M (W), 4M (L)
2150 2000
UNIT SIZE: 8SQM RANGE OF CEILING HEIGHT: 2.4M-3.6M SUGGESTED PROGRAMS: MARKET STALL FOOD STALL
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TYPE A2
150 150 2000 2000
TYPE B
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COLUMN SPAN: 4M (W), 4M 4450 (L)4450 UNIT SIZE: 16SQM SUGGESTED PROGRAMS: MARKET STALL FOOD STALL DINING HALL TOILET
4450
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TYPE B
4450
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UNIT SIZE: 16SQM
OMETRIC VIEW
SUGGESTED PROGRAMS: MARKET STALL FOOD STALL DINING HALL TOILET
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2150
TYPE B
PLAN VIEW 4450
TYPE C
2150
COLUMN SPAN: 4M (W), 4M (L)
4300
2150
UNIT SIZE: 32SQM
2000
2.8M-3.6M SUGGESTED PROGRAMS: DINING HALL TYPEOFFICE A1 TOILET
TYPE C1
2150
4300
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4450
2000
TYPE C2
2150
TYPE A2
TYPE D
2150
COLUMN SPAN: 4M (W), 4M (L)
4300
UNIT SIZE: 256SQM 6750
SUGGESTED PROGRAMS: PARKING STORAGE
4450
4300
2150
TYPE D
TYPE B
4450
The Modular Market/ Year III Studio , Fall Semester
MASSING STUDY
Wet market
Communal dining
Delivery centre
VARIATION 1: INTERLOCKING PROGRAM
VARIATION 2: STACKINGING PROGRAM
1:500
Variation 1 was chosen to develop further as interlocking can enhance the inter-relationship among programs, which is consistent to the concept modularity of the prototype.
SPATIAL MODEL STUDY
1:50
1:100
The Modular Market/ Year III Studio , Fall Semester
GROUND PLAN STUDY
SITE STRATEGIES
EXISTING
Pressing volume down to free scenery view for residential program EXISTING
3m 0m
MARKET
RESIDENCE
Introducing a new entrance at the bridge level to seperate vehicle & pedestrian flows and activating the riverside
VARIATION 1
VARIATION 2
VARIATION 3
Market Dining Delivery Toilet
VARIATION 4
VARIATION 6
VARIATION 5
The Modular Market/ Year III Studio , Fall Semester
1:200 SECTION
The project challenges the typical market complex where programs are segregated by floors. It is believe that a feeling of public space can be created through shuffling different programs beacuse spectators and spectacles can become interchangeable in the buildings. It is believed that users would be attracted
by people engaging in other programs. For example, a man who is choosing vegetables would go to the food court after seeing people enjoying their meal. The prototype of roof modules creates a flexible and open hybrid of wet market, cummunal
dining and delivery centre. Furnitures can be plugged-in according to program needs or seasonal changes, giveing mobility to the sellers. Also, the variating ceiling heights are based on the consideration of light, program needs and the datum lines of the site.
1:200 Plan
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The Modular Market/ Year III Studio , Fall Semester
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The Modular Market/ Year III Studio , Fall Semester
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THE WEDGE HOUSE YEAR I STUDIO // SPRING 2015
This project is a spatial exploration on a new house in a hypothetical Chinese village site.
The project is a house for 8 people, sharing the roof with the community as a public space
The Wedge House/ Year I Studio
Front
Back
Left
Right
Top
Perspective 1:50 Plaster Mass Model
REQUIREMENTS
SITE
CONCEPT
MAX. 8M TALL 30’
MAX.2M CANTILEVER
ABOVE THE ROOF: PUBLIC & OUTDOOR
GRANDPARENTS + PARENTS WITH 1 CHILD + PARENTS WITH 1 CHILD 8 PEOPLE BELOW THE ROOF: PRIVATE & INDOOR
The negative space (slashed area) is extended to the top of the house via the roof. By introducing a public area to the house, it is hoped to foster the communication in the neighbourhood.
The Wedge House/ Year I Studio
FORM FINDING
Extract volume from the building area
Cut by 30 degrees
Using "a cut" as a driving tool can create dynamic between the outdoor and the indoor and extend the ground while giving up living space
Figure Ground Plan
The Wedge House/ Year I Studio
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1:50 Section
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B1: Bedroom 1 B2: Bedroom 2 B3: Bedroom 3 Ba: Bathroom
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THE FIFTH ROOM YEAR II STUDIO // SPRING 2015 This project is about translating the subject of a moving object on a drawing table into a room.
ABSTRACTION
Object: Rubric’s Cube Subject: Overlap
Every motion of an object can be interpreted as overlapping itself at different positions over different points of time.
This project is about overlapping 4 identical cubes to each other, forming an intersection- the fifth room
If different frames in time are put into the same instant, an overlapping space comprises a union, differences and an intersection forms.
The Fifth Room/ Year II Studio , Fall Semester
ANALYSIS
MAX. 8M TALL 30’
FORM FINDING
Intersection can create an unpredicted inner room from the outer rooms, which can be interpreted as separated units.
Interlocking can give complexity to the inner room
Overlapped diagonal intersection without rotation can form dynamic inner room without inhabitable space The Fifth Room/ Year II Studio , Fall Semester
The potentia intersecting repetitive for intersecting intersecting
was seen.
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Four cubes intersect in1/4 1/4 1/2 a way that the centre (in1/4 yellow) is shared by all the cubes. 3/4
1/2
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3/4
1/4 1/4
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All the overlapping parts would be excavated to form a space (black & yellow).
1:50 MASS MODEL
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TOP 5 VIEW
TOP VIEW
FRONT VIEW
FRONT 3/4 VIEW
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Each cube moves 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 vertically to form different variations.
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INTERSECTION OF NO.1-6 INTERSECTION OF NO. 0 COMMON INTERSECTION OF NO. 0 AND NO.1-6
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he 5 room
cubes overlap each other to form an intersection,
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Four cube intersects in a way that the centre is shared by them all together. In the investigation, each cub all together. thedrawing investigation, cube moves OnInthe board, each movements of a 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 vertically to form different variation. 2m component in different time were recorded. The same form with different orientation seems to be overlapping.
Four cube intersects in a way that the centre is shared by them all together. In the investigation, each cube moves 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 vertically to form different variation.
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The potential of forming a space by intersecting repetitive forms was seen.
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The Fifth Room/ Year II Studio , Fall Semester INTERSECTION OF NO.1-6 INTERSECTION OF NO. 0 COMMON INTERSECTION
2.4 m
1:20 Sectional Model
The Fifth Room is the excavated intersection of four cubic rooms. The room is scaled as a furniture (each cube is 2.4m3), such that inhabitants can enter the Fifth Room, which is
an enclosed space with unexpected complexity and dynamics, through any of the four cubic rooms.
The Fifth Room/ Year II Studio , Fall Semester
It is a place where a floor becomes a chair, a ceiling or a wall from various positions.
The floor levels are relative and spatiality is perceived differently according to one’s position. In the fifth room inhabitants discover various functionalities instead of being prescribed.
The Fifth Room/ Year II Studio , Fall Semester
The Fifth Room/ Year II Studio , Fall Semester
Plan Section 8 Section 7 Section 6 Section 5 Section 4 Section 3 Section 2 Section 1
Section 3
Section 4
Section 1
Section 2
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Section 6
Positive space in outer rooms Positive space in the Fifth Room
Exploded Axonometr ic View of Plans
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The Fifth Room/ Year II Studio , Fall Semester
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BANGKOK MASQUE YEAR II STUDIO // SPRING 2015 The studio project is about landing a myth from the Lancaster/ Hanover Masque by John Hejduk on a site in Chinatown, Bangkok.
1 MYTH
The use of three (three passage ways) and simple vault shape prove the masonic nature of Hejduk.
PRECEDENT STUDY
The inspiration of the project comes from the Mason’s Place from the Lancaster/ Hanover Masque by John Hejduk. Through reading related literatures and making models in different scale, I can further interpret the subject and object of the myth of the Mason.
Masonic architectures are often raw and ordinary in shape but with hidden codes and symbol.
The Steps of Freemasonry
MASON noun 1. A person who builds using stone, or works with stone 2. A Freemasona man belonging to a secret society whose members help each other and communicate using secret signs
OBJECT
SUBJECT
Mason’s Place
The Mason
Constructed fundamentally out of masonry.
From the Ancient Order of Masons. Poe’s Description. The Mason is in charge of masonry construction built within the Farm. Behind his shop is the brick and stone yard. The Death House is his major work.
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe Referring to the subject, the Mason that Edgar Allan Poe described is Freemason.
The Wedge House/ Year I Studio
2 DISSECTION
MASQUE MODEL
This series of models are the dissection reports of the same form based on Hejduk’s drawings and descriptions.
SKIN-AND-BONE
THRESHOLD
DUAL
MASONRY
TRANSIT
BLOCKS
SCALE 1:50
SCALE 1:50
SCALE 1:25
SCALE 1:25
Different methods of anatomy are used to reveal the masque such as removing the skin or cutting the mass. The project starts by zooming in so as to understanding the tectonics more and ends by zooming out so as to condense the subject. Mutations made throughout the process are based on the use of stone, the character of Freemasonry and also ideas from previous models. Principles are driven from the process like doctors making theories based on dissection.
SCALE 1:10
SCALE 1:50
ARCH
SCALE 1:10
SECTION
SNOOP
SCALE 1:25
SCALE 1:5
PASSAGE SCALE 1:50
Berlin Masque by John Hejduk
The Power of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames
Series of objects are mapped together, showing the collective idea without losing individual characters.
The film shows the relative scale of the Universe according to an order of magnitude based on a factor of ten.
3 SPLITING CAVITY MINIATURE UTOPIA IN A VALISE
The valise is considered as the site for the narrative of the Mason. The valise condenses the two directions of the masque models, which are the method of slicing and stacking.
The valise is considered as the site for the narrative of the Mason. The valise condenses the two directions of the masque models, which are Valise Curved Wall the method of slicing and stacking. Scale 1:1
Dimension: 390 x 295 x 85 mm
Brick Column Scale 1:5
1-2 Formation
Scale 1:10
A mass is splits into two curve wall, forming two acoustic wall.
The Arch
Scale 1:10
A brick wall splits into an arch and a floor, holding by the brick column.
Curved Wall
Brick Column
Curvy Cut
Echoing the description of the subject, the bricks are used to hold the models.
Scale 1:10
The Arch
The Mason’s Place
Positive and Negative
Conceptual Model
Scale 1:10
OBJECT
SUBJECT
Masonry
Cell division
The models reinforce my observation of Hejduk’s drawing on Mason’s Place, in which a vault is the negative of an arch. Vault symbolizes continuity while arch symbolizes connection. The arches and vaults in the valise synchronise each other to give a sense of duality.
In the valise, each model splits in different ways.
As the masonry floats, we the viewers start searching for the point of gravity. Yet, some may fail. At that instant, the mass of stone retains but the heaviness vanishes.
Scale 1:5
Scale 1:100
Zig-zaged cut Curvy cut.
Formation
Positive and negative. Box in a Valise by Marcel Duchamp A portable miniature where ideas are condensed within a box
The Wedge House/ Year I Studio
4 CONNECTION SITE
The next step is to land the Mason’s Place on Chinatown, Bangkok. I searched for a site that have discrete spatial qualities for my narrative to connect them.
The chosen site is at a corner of the Thanon Lalantan, which is the only public passage of an empty lot behind the street. Clusters of shop-houses separate the empty lot from the street like a wall. The site faces three different spaces: a street, an empty lot and an alley.
Sketches on vault’s qualities
Shop-houses cluster Empty lot Building location Alley
A figure-ground representation of the site where the ground is further fragmented into four.
OBJECT
SUBJECT
Empty Lot
Void
Hiding from the street, many empty lots become the private outdoor space for the owners of the shop-houses. One can only enter the space from the back door of shop-houses.
Large negative space is formed by clusters of shop-houses like a plaza.
Nolli Map by Giambattista Nolli The figure-ground representation of Rome, where built space is shaded in dark poche.
1:50 (top) & 1:100 (bottom) site models revealing different extent of details
5 CONCEPT
The Steps of Freemasonry
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
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It is a painting showing the hierarchy of the Freemasonry society, which inspired me for the duality of a bridge and a tunnel.
Three structures are joined with three separated spaces
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Empty Lot
3
Carved out for access to the empty lot
Roof connecting three spaces
1:100 study model inverses the solid & void of Hejduk’s Mason’s Place
1:100 models studying the direction of tube penetration & degree of arc
Three blocks are joined with two rooms- tunnel & bridge
Bridge Tunnel Empty Lot
Customer Empty Lot
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DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
Empty lot is inaccessible to customers
House / Owner Shop / Customer Empty Lot
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5 FORM
6 Visual connection with the alley
Bridge Shop Empty Lot
Concept diagrams for circulation
Roof Gallery Space Empty Lot
1:100 concept model
The Wedge House/ Year I Studio
5 FORM
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
1:50 sectional model
5 PROGRAM
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
Roof
G/F
Sketchessections to articulate the trigger moments within the space
Process drawingplans to be responsive to the movements of cars and the site
Roof
1/F
Process drawingsection x to articulate the circulation
G/F
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Process drawingplans to articulate the circulation
section x
The Mason’s Place / Year II Studio , Spring Semester
7 THE MASON’S PLACE SHOP-HOUSE
OBJECT
SUBJECT
Mason’s place
The Mason
The Mason’s place critiques the directional and deep space created by extrusion in Thai shop-houses.
As a Freemason, the Mason seldom express his emotions to others, so as his gallery. The expressive side of the sculpture gallery by is hidden in the urban fabric.
A gallery without any separated rooms. The orientation of arches determine the function of space and how space is shared or separated but not slabs and columns. All zones are visually connected through ten thresholds.
He will curse people who do not visit his gallery but parking their cars in the empty lot.
Facing the street
Facing the alley
Facing the shop-house cluster
1:20 model
Facing the empty lot
The Mason’s Place / Year II Studio , Spring Semester
Workshop Zone
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Lookout Zone
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Section B
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Permanent Exhibition Hall
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Roof Plan
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Temporary Exhibition Hall
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Ground Floor Plan A 0
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Section C
1:20 model- section B (Front)
1:20 model- section B’ (Front)
1:20 model- section B (Back)
1:20 model - section C
The Mason’s Place / Year II Studio , Spring Semester
7 DETAIL
SHOP-HOUSE
OBJECT
SUBJECT
Threshold
Zoom out
All windows and doors are tapered the alter the strength of light entering each zone.
In each zone, the next threshold is larger than the previous one. The vision of visitors keeps zooming out until the Lookout Zone.
Temporary Exhibition Hall Threshold from the ceiling gives spotlight to exhibits
Lookout Zone Threshold to view the graffiti on the brick walls at the alley
The Mason’s Place / Year II Studio , Spring Semester
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CINEMATIC DRAWING VILLA MULLER // SPRING 2015 THE PRYER CHUN HUNG, AU CHAN KWUN KIT, CHAN PUI LUN, HO
The main location of our story was situated at the salon of Villa Muller, where the notion of viewing and being viewed like a theatre box was clearly shown. A paper was chosen a pryer since it symbolises purity, which synchronises with Adolf Loos’ claim on “ornament is crime”. The pryer travelled through the complex interior from the minimalist exterior and also revealing the “raumplan” inside the house.
Paper Flies in 00:03
Furniture Grows 00:32
Paper Covers the Scene 00:46
Paper Flies 00:06
Paper Returns 00:43
Ornaments Wiped Out 00:50
Paper Flies Out 00:10
Paper Moves Forward 00:45
Outlines Remain 00:54
Muller House/ Cinematic Drawing
Quadrilateral Vibration 00:58
Finish Building 01:56
Black Out 02:07
Quadrilateral Vibration 01:11
Zoom in 02:06
Floor Building 02:11
Flipping 01:29
Keep Zooming in 02:07
The Circulation 02:29
Floor Hierarchy 02:21
Partition Keeps Growing 02:43
Transformation 02:58
Walls Keep Growing 02:36
Material Plan 02:45
Paper Flies in 03:02
Partitions Grow 02:39
Alternate View of The Salon 02:46
Paper Lands 03:05
Muller House/ Cinematic Drawing
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OTHER WORKS Editorial design, photography and print design
Poster Design/ Other Works
My Final Year Project was the graduation yearbook, comprised 224 pages and 3 months to finish. Dark tone of colours were mainly featured to so our feeling of leaving our alma mater. The title of the book contains two words which have the same pronunciation but totally different meaning. The first part of the title means “once stayed“, which symbolises the past. Therefore, I decided to have embossing instead of typing out the word directly. The second part of the title means “high-rise building“, which symbolises bright future. Online Version: http://www.calameo.com/read/003672168e32ad27d525a http://www.calameo.com/read/0036721680273124a3100
Editorial Design/ Other Works
My first project was the school magazine, The Shield Volume 60. It comprised 308 pages and took 6 months to finish. I tried to merge Chinese characters with English characters in Swiss Typography style. The book was divided into several sections, each featuring one family of similar colours. The use of vivid colours and the contrast between huge bold title and light characters in the contents showed the energetic side of san serif. Online version: http://www.calameo.com/read/003672168f441fb7ce3ea http://www.calameo.com/read/00367216853c14b1fcf85
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Editorial Design/ Other Works
Poster Design/ Other Works
Photography/ Other Works
Photography/ Other Works
Photography/ Other Works