Architecture Portfolio 2017-2023

Creative ProjectThe Canyon Baths

The project investigates the potential of incorporating a bathhouse in a canyon in Hong Kong. It hopes to provide a destination for hikers to gather and interact with the natural landscape. The idea is to use artificial structures to make the originally hostile environment habitable. This allows visitors to experience the canyon in a new way. The project also focuses on the use of paper in architectural models.

Site: Pineapple Mountatin, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong Catagory: public bathhouse

Studio ProjectInside-out

This project is about adding a High-tech structure to an existing Post-modernist housing project. The project 'Inside-out' explores the potential of merging two contrasting architectural styles together to create unique apartment spaces and building facades.

Site: Oscar Tusquets Block in Nexus World, Fukuoka-Kashii, Japan Catagory: 30% addition to an existing mid-rise housing Semester: year 4 (2020), Fall semester Studio instructor: Anderson Lee

ReferenceThe Dialog of the 1960s

Postmodernism started at around the 1960s. At a similar time period, there was another group of people advocating for an opposite concept. That group of people advocated for the high-tech style. This project is a dialog between the two contrasting groups in the 60s.

Studio ProjectHome on a Ramp

This project is an investigation of a new type of housing. In typical housing towers, the circulation through a housing tower is usually vertical. Yet, in townhouses, residents drive horizontally and park their cars under their houses. ‘Home on a Ramp’ is an integration of the two housing types. A ramp wraps around the facade, creating pocket spaces for parking next to the apartments. It is also a study of the relationships between speed, facade, and scale. The South facade facing the road with fast-moving cars looks significantly larger than that of the North facade, which is facing roads with slower pedestrians and cyclists.

Site: a brownfield site in Yuen Long, Hong Kong Catagory: mid-rise housing Semester: year 4 (2021), Spring semester Studio instructor: Anderson Lee

Reference‘Learning from Las Vegas’

The idea of studying the relationship between speed and facade stems from the book ‘Learning from Las Vegas’ (1972) by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. it was discussed that facades next to highways in Las Vegas were big and bold to attract the attention of drivers traveling at high speed. After studying the facades facing Tai Tong Road, similar results were found. The idea is then extended to the housing design.

1 Plan of 3/F and Oblique Elevation of the Final Scheme

1 Plans of 0/F, 1/F, 7/F, and Roof

2 Unit Plans Showing the Number of Steps from the Car to the Apartment

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Elevation of the Buildings next to the Highway

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Elevation of the Buildings next to the Road with Slow-moving Cars

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Elevation of the Facades next to the Pedestrian Route

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Site Plan Mapped with the Different Modes of Circulation

Studio ProjectThe Front/Back Stage

This project explores the use of shifting floor slabs to make front & back stage conditions according to the programme. The shifting floor slabs could work with a mechanism used in traction elevators. Having a major weight and a counter weight balancing and shifting. When there are more people on one side, the floor will fall. The more dramatic the difference of mass, the more dramatic the shifting is. Hence, the crowd can actively choose their floor heights. The question being explored is how a changing plan and section can allow different front and back stage relationships to occur. How the premanent structures could allow the temporary floor slabs and partitions to shift and flow.

Site: Matthaikirchplatz, Berlin, Germany Catagory: Mediatheque Semester: year 3 (2020), Spring semester

Studio instructor: Thomas Tsang

Studio ProjectCold Beach

This project explores the potential of combining MEP services with structural elements. The main structure of this public sauna is constructed with identical modular elements. Inside the modular elements are the heat exchangers that regulate the indoor temperature and air quality.

Site: Denmark Catagory: Public Sauna Semester: year 3 (2019), Fall semester Studio instructor: Beisi Jia

Elective Project

3D Clay Printing

This elective project studies the potential of 3D-printed bricks that can perform a 3D interlocking mechanism. Different types of clay are mixed together to form three distinct brick colours. The distinct colours help distinguish the three main brick types. This project involves multiple machines and technologies including a robotic arm, a largescale clay extruder, a clay mixer, and a 3D scanner.

Semester: year 4 (2021), Spring semester Elective instructor: Christian Lange Groupmates: Brian Chan and Cheryl Lee

Competition ProjectPier_ArcAdiA

HKIA nominated Hong Kong Region project

This project is an experimentation for the post-coronavirus era public space. The project utilises an A-frame device with multiple features to combat the spread of the virus.

Site: Instagram Pier, Hong Kong

Catagory: public space enhancement

Year: 2020

Groupmate: Gilbert Chiu

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Oblique Drawing of the Pier in the Morning and Afternoon Showing the Change of Use

2 Collage of the A-frame Devices Being Used in the Site

Creative Project

Werewolf Ranchu

This project imagines Ranchu goldfish as characters in the boardgame 'The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow'. The project is an ongoing and selfmotivated project. Costumes are extensions of our bodies, which are also the tool we use to express personalities and preferences. The project hopes to expand from the design of costumes to the individual houses and the village as a whole. This project is an imagination of an abstract game turning into costumes and spaces.

Year: 2022