Portfolio - Selected Works

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The University of Hong Kong BA(Architectural Studies) Selected Works

CONTENTS

01. OCCUPY THE SLIVER Future Youth Housing In Mid-level, Hong Kong

02. VERTICAL VILLAGE Housing Tower Prototype - A High Density Community With A Low Density Lifestyle

03. URBAN NODE Urban Research Lab, Shanghai

04. POROSITY PLAY Urban Intervention In Jordan, Hong Kong

05. THE HINGE A New Door For Dule Temple, Tianjin

06. TO TEAR 07. BODY MAPPING 08. THE COLONNADE 09. ART WORKS

01. OCCUPY THE SLIVER HKU 2015, Spring Architecture Studio 5 - Final Project HKU 2015 Degree Show HKIA 2015 Young Architect Exhibition Location: Hong Kong Program: Youth Housing Instructor: Fai AU

To mediate between housing shortage and urban residual

To negotiate with urban topography and infrasturcture in a To use arch as a tectonic and spatial means of design.

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a dense context.

Mid-level, Hong kong

YOUTH HOUSING IN HONG KONG Hong Kong has been ranked No. 1 of “Most Unaffordable Housing� in the world for the fourth straight year. Today buying home is mere fantasy for most young people, even renting a place is too expensive. This project looked at youth housing in Hong Kong and tried to come up with a design solution.

As the Hong Kong government has been encourage youth hostel schemes in the city in the past years, there are some youth hostels that have been looked at as references. However there are no precedents of youth housing in Hong Kong. In this sense the studio is exploring a prototype for the young people in Hong Kong.

Instead of finding new lands in the remote area or renovating old industrial buildings, this project aims at exploring the possibility of injecting the youth housing program into the residual spaces of Mid-level at Central Hong Kong.

Mid-level is a presitigious location in Hong Kong where the most upper social class are packed. By occupying mid-level area with youth housing the project expect to enable the unconventional proximity between the luxurious private housing and affordable youth housing and explore the possibility of a new living mix among various social, cultural and age groups.

This project has two closely located sites both of which are urban residual spaces with very limited area and challenging context. Site 1 is a piece of triangular land crawling under the flyover which cuts the land into two pieces.

Site 2 is a long strip of green land on top of the retaining wall along Castle Road. In its close proximity is a synagogue which is a historical building and a high end Jewish housing estate.

Site Plan

LEXICON

THE ARCH

Stucture

Cantilever

Natural Light & Ventilation

Semi-outdoor Space

Arch Void

Visual Portal

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GEOMETRIC GENEALOGY

Public Ground

Extrusion From Site

Extrusion From Site

Visual Portal & Public Entrance

Cantilever Over Road

Roof Terrace

Flyover Tunnel

Final Massing

Setback, Ventilation , View

Tunnel

ARCH AS THE SPACIAL AND STRUCTURAL GENERATOR

e the structural and spacial potenin the geometry of arch that could a dynamic quality to the youth sing. My youth housing project is sioned as a sculpted subtraction m a simple geometry formed by the boundaries. The concept of “subtion as addition� is developed in a nolithic building with sculpted arch d to negotiated and reinforce the as well as bring in new spatial exence to the habitants inside.

both sites the ground is rendered public ground. For site 1 the buildis elevated above the flyover, cutoff the noise and traffic from the ic. The arch on site 2 creates a al portal for the synagogue and end the entrance to Castle road so the significance of the synagogue be acknowledged.

Final Massing

Plan 13/F

Plan Typical Floor

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Plan Typical Floor

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Plan 3/F Tectonic Model In Site

PUBLIC - ARCH SPACE / PRIVATE - DWELLING UNIT For both proposals, the upper part is carved out with an arch volume to form an inter-connected communal void, around which locate the proposed public programs and public gathering spaces. The arch directly reflects the publicness of the building.

The units in the two buildings are relatively small ranging from 13 to 25 sqm for single, couples and couples with newborns. In site 1 proposal, all units are pushed to the peripheral of the building to free up the internal void. In site 2 proposal, they are pushed to the south side for better daylight condition. The units are designed to be affordable in size and encourage people to activate the communal space formed by the void arch.

Site 2 - Roof Terrace View

Site 1 - Communal Void View

STRUCTURE COMPOSITION

Floor Slabs

Columns

Facade Core Shear Walls Core Facade - Handrails

Arch

Shear Wall - Facade

Floor Slabs

Columns

Transfer Plate

Shear Wall - Facade

Cores

Concrete Anchor

Detailed Models

INTEGRATED DESIGN As the project is envisioned as a sculpted monolithic object, the facade system is designed in such a way that can provide sufficient sunlight and enhance the monolithic appearance at the same time. It is a exoskeleton frame with thermal insulation on the outside.

It works as a passive solar wall that let the sun come in during winter but stop the summer sun at window sills due to the depth of the concrete structural envelop (400mm in depth for the upper part, 600 mm in depth for the lower part). A certain amount of the windows are openable to allow for natural ventilation.

a. Concrete Columns b. Insulated Concrete Exoskeleton c. Double Glazing Windows d. Glass Handrails e. Composite Timber Deck f. Vapor Barrier g. Reinforcing Steel Bars h. RC Transfer Plate i. HVAC Ducts j. Pipes k. Cast-in-situ Concrete Plate l. Suspended Acoustic Ceiling m. Cables And Wires n. Cast-in-situ Concrete Anchor o. Lift And Stair Core

02. VERTICAL VILLAGE HKU 2014, Fall Architecture Studio 4 Location: Non-site Program: Housing Tower Instructor: Yan GAO Team: Ying WANG, Yuge ZHU

To explore a low density lifestyle in a high density community.

To design a tower prototype that embraces the quality of village housing.

To invent an adaptive system that is flexible in composition to cater to diffrent needs.

A TOWER PROTOTYPE The studio is initiated with the interest in the quality of village houses, which can be described as coherent collection of highly differentiated individual houses in the manner of horizontal expansion. The challenge of this studio is to borrow the spatial and organizational merits from village housing and form a collective vertical housing proposal with a low density lifestyle.

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The key element in a traditional village that we fi food, and recreational space for the villagers. A soil - act spacially as portal, interface and comm these essence that comes with soil that we aim prototype design.

This is a project with no specific site which makes the introvert logic the driven force and priority of the design. A 16m x 16m square footprint is the start of the proposal. Within this frame, a high-rise tower prototype of 18 storey shall be proposed with a 3D layout rules of the basic unit that can produce spatial variations with standard elements.

Garden Distribution

Massing Study - Core Location, Garden With Soil

Massing Study - Core

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ind valuable is the SOIL. Soil provides plantation, And the gardens - which are usually covered with munal gathering space in a village community. It is to embrace and elaborate further in our housing

Garden As Communal Space

Garden With Soil Garden As Portal

Garden As Backyard Location, Garden With Soil, Horizontal Shift

Unit Type

Vertical Shift

3 Small + Public Program (50 +38+50) + 40 sqm 3 Small + Public Program (50 +50 +50) + 40 sqm 2 Small + Public Program (45+45) + 90 sqm 2 Middle (100+100) sqm 2 Middle (100+100) sqm 1 Middle + 1 Large (65+115) sqm 1 Middle + 1 Large (65+105) sqm 1 Middle + 1 Large (65+110) sqm METHODOLOGY

Within a conventional high-rise tower, the dwelling space is lifted up in the air thus losing the access to the to bring back an honest village lifestyle where the garden is not merely a balcony with hard paving and sc rather a substantial volume of soil, sufficient exposure to sunlight and adequate head height for various pla

The depth of the soil which is 0.75m leads to the tectonic vertical shift to allow for the soil and and to level w gardens are pushed and pulled in different directions to ensure enough room for tree growth and sufficie rain water.

There are primarily 3 types of units, small, middle and large, for different households. As the small units are always grouped with a public program to compensate.

Horizontal Shift

Garden Type Public Program GardenProgram Garden Public Public Program Public Garden Garden

Massing Model

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SENARIO 1 Senario 1

SENARIO 2 Senario 2

Small SMALL 33% 830 sqm

Small SMALL 35% 875 sqm

Middle MIDDLE 33% 830 sqm

Middle MIDDLE 50% 1250 sqm

Large LARGE 33% 830 sqm

Large LARGE 15% 375 sqm

35% 875SQM

33% 830SQM

50% 1250SQM

33% 830SQM

15% 375SQM

33% 830SQM

Public PUBLIC 1000 sqm

Public PUBLIC 1000 sqm 1000SQM

1000SQM

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Small SMALL 20% 500 sqm

20% 500SQM

Middle MIDDLE 40% 1000 sqm

40% 1000SQM

Large LARGE 40% 1000 sqm

40% 1000SQM

Public 1000 sqm

PUBLIC 1000SQM

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Structure Model

03. URBAN NODE HKU 2014, Spring Architecture Studio 3 Location: Shanghai, China Program: Institution Instructor: Yu Yang LIU, Steven Ying Nien CHEN

To design both for an institute and the loca

To interact with the locals and provide them

To respond and connect to the surroundin

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Regional Plan - Jiangqiao, Shanghai

URBAN RESEARCH LAB Architectural schools are in constant competition to attract the best students, professors and to be centres of innovation and research. Schools gain their reputations from the discourses that they are able to formulate and disseminate around the world. In order to compete globally, schools need to be refreshed and rebranded in order to maintain or reinvent their identities.

Often they try tactics outside of their base institution to set up educational outposts in other contexts.

This project is to design an architectural and urban research lab as an outpost for HKU Faculty of Architecture. It is not merely an extension of the design studio rather it is conceptualized as a place that could initiate innovation in architectural research as well as interaction with the local community. The total area for the outpost is approximately 2000sqm. In addition to that, a public program of 500m2 will also be incorporated into the research lab.

The site is in Jiangqiao, Shanghai. It is currently a parking lot next to a wet market. To its south is Suzhou Creek and to its west is the only bridge that goes across the river in the 5 km stretch along Suzhou Creek and separates the waterfront into two. The site is rather open yet there are still issues that need to be addressed through the design of the research lab, the biggest one of which is how to use the research lab to reconnect the waterfront, activate the green park and make itself more engaging with the local cummunity.

Massing Study

Two Volumes For Different Site Conditions

Public Interface

Open Deck For Public Circulation

Future - A Continuous Waterfront

GALLERY Gallery

HALL Hallway

PUBLIC DECK Open Deck

LIBRARY Library

LOBBY Lobby

MEDIA LABLab Media

AUDITORIUM

Auditorium

FABRICATION LAB Lab Fabrication

LIFT/ STAIRS CORE

Lift Core

STUDIO RAMP Studio Ramp

Department Office MEETING ROOM Meeting Room

DISCUSSION ROOM Discussion Room STUDIO Studio

DEPARTMENT OFFICE

URBAN NODE The site is surrounded by a bridge, a river, a wet market and a ware house. The proposal tries to reach out beyond the side boundary and reconnect the site and the green park across the bridge which is underutilized. In this way, the research lab merges into the waterfront and operate as a community node that invites people to travel through and walk around as part of their daily life.

Along the main public deck, various educational and recreational programs are incorporated into the circulation route. The circulation deck and pubulic programs intersect with the institutional spaces at some points which forms a node between the academic domain and community life.

Program Aggregation

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Plan +7m

Plan +11m

Plan +15m

View Of Gallery

View Of Studio

04. POROSITY PLAY HKU 2013, Fall Architecture Studio 2 Location: Hong Kong Program: Housing, Intervention Instructor: Joshua BOLCHOVER

To research and analyse the site from one cu

To propose an intervention that addresses an

To improve the living condition of a congested

uttting point in great depth.

nd eases the issue discovered during the research.

d neighborhood.

Site Intervention Plan

JORDAN, A HISTORY OF HONG KONG HOUSING REFORM

The frame encapsulates 8 large, almost identical residential blocks in Jordan, one of t oldest residential neighborhood in Hong Kong. The blocks were built after when Hong Kong building code was changed in 1956 to allow for more densely spaced blocks and increas heights of 10-20 stories. This was brought about due to Hong Kong’s housing crisis a increased number of immigrants from China after World War II. The blocks were develop privately and contain approximately 14,000 people in 3456 units. The Floor Area Ratio is ov 7, making this plot one of the densest areas in Hong Kong.

The studio starts with an intense engagement with the site, followed by a series of analyic drawings. Then it proceeds to an intervention of the site with relevance to my own theme a previous research.

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TRANSFORMAITON OF A SUBDIVIDED FLAT From door-to-door visit, an unexpected number of subdivided flats are discovered on site. Subdivided flats are flats that are remodled into smaller independent units which allow the owner to let the property to more individuals. The rise of subdivided flats is largely due to the rising housing shortage and land price in Hong Kong. To subdivide a flat, alternations on internal layout, building service provision and sometimes structural elements are required.

Commercial Units Subdivided Flats

Man Yiu Building

Man Fai Building

Senario Collage

A CONGESTED FUTURE Through site survey, subdivision within the block are mapped out. The conceptual collage shows the worst case scenario where the residential blocks are over burdened by the extra building service equipment required by the subdivided flats as they rapidly increase in number and sprawl within the blocks.

METHODOLOGY

Subtraction

Addtion

Structural Adaptation

SUBTRACTION TYPE

Study Model: Subtraction

Study Model: Subtraction

ADDTION TYPE

POROSE SUBDIVISION In the worst case scenario, the subdivided flats increase rapidly and eventually claim the site.

As one can imagine, the living condition in those remodeled units is not the best with the lack of natural sunlight and air ventilation. This intervention tries to tackle the problem by relocating all the subdivided flats on the periphery of the site where there is no obstruction and injecting free infrastructural space. The basic tectonic strategy is subtraction and addtion. The aim is to maintain the GFA while significantly increase the blocks’ porosity.

Programmes such as cafes, laundry space, gardens, etc can be incorporated into the open space which scatters over the building . Moreover, the new open space offers possibilties for informal inhabitation.

The intervention also prevents the subdivided units from interfering with other regular residential flats on the site and propose a subdivision system that can effectively sustain itself.

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05. THE HINGE HKU 2014, Spring Architectural History and Theory - Workshop Location: Tianjin, China Program: Door, Installation Instructor: Weijen WANG, Chad MCKEE Team: Jing CHANG, Nafeesa HAMZA, Rachel AU YEUNG

To design a door for one of oldest and

To inject a modern touch to an ancien

To fabricate and intall within a limited b

d most significant traditional Chinese architecture.

nt temple and bring together the old and new.

budget and timeframe.

ELEVATION - GATE OF DU LE SI

SECTION - GATE OF DU LE SI

DOOR FOR DU LE SI Du Le Si (Temple Of Solitary Joy) is a Buddhist temple in Ji County, Tianjin. Its oldest surviving buildings - the front gate and the central hall - date back to Liao Dynasty and are among the oldest surviving wooden structures in China.

STRUCTURE ANALYSIS - GATE OF DU LE SI

This project is to propose a new door for the ancient temple.

Challenge lies in that the temple is a class 1 historical building with numourous constraints on site.

The proposal has to be suitable, practical, functional and at the same time has a strong design expression. The project starts with intense surveying and analylzing of the temple in various architectural aspects and details. At the end of the project, the door is fabricated on site in 3 days and installed for public display and review.

INITIAL PROPOSAL

Back

Front

Plywood

Plywood Study Model - Hinge Details

Study Model

REVISED PROPOSAL

FINAL PROPOSAL

ON-SITE PROPOSAL

Due to concerns about weight

Altered for aesthetic suitability to temple

Altered for logistics, weight and means of installation

Plywood

Plywood Cardboard Veneer

Plywood Cardboard Veneer

Polycarbonate

Plywood Exposed Wood Frame Cardboard Veneer

Plywood Exposed Wood Frame Cardboard Veneer

CONSTRUCTION COST

Quan. Cost

3� Steel Hinges

22

325

24mm x 36mm x 2500mm Wood Stick

32

400

12mm x 2400mm x 1200mm Plywood Sheets

3

330

0.75mm Brown Cardboard

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110

Miscallaeneous (Screws, Drill Bits, Glues, etc)

70

Total Cost (RMB)

1235

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FOLDING SEQUENCE

panels are connected through hinges at multiple points thus allowing the door nd unfold in various ways to create multiple portals of entering the temple as ays to frame the central hall visually. The three layers of hinged panel/frame are with close relation to human body and means to frame the central pavilion. llest frames are designed to be pull out handles, and the middle panels are ght allowing only one man to enter at a time, while the largest panels, when fully reveals the central front Bian E (horizontal inscribed board) of Guan Yin Pavilion.

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HYBRID

The Transitive Verb List - Richard Serra

06. TO TEAR HKU 2012, Fall Introduction To Architectural Design Location: N/A Program: N/A Instructor: Mary Grace, Mei CHIU Language begins in vocabulary. To explore the notion of an architectural vocabulary, this project aims to translate the word tear (from the "Transitive Verb List" of Richard Serra) into a physical construct by means of brick arragements,drawings and models.

This project begins with a direct physical activity. Within a field of 2.4*2.4 meters, bricks are arranged in response to the word. For the second part of the project, a single arrangement from previous brick arrangement is chosen to explore the transformation within drawing 2D to 3D on a scale of 1:10 The third part leads to the development of an architectural proposition and understanding of the transformation from engraved drawings to the gravity of the model.

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PROJECTION

SOLID

SECTION

INTERPLAY

07. BODY MAPPING HKU 2012, Fall Design Workshop Location: Conghua, China Program: Installaion, Landcape Instructor: Mary Grace, Mei CHIU Team: Qian YANG, Hyun-ah KIM

This project provokes a confrontation between the space of the body and the material landscape.

Each team is required to capture one sequence of body movements in a series of photographic mappings and transfer the motions into a material brick structure within a 2.4*2.4 meter field with the aid of drawings and models. At the end of the project, the design is constructed in Changliu Village in Guangdong Province in three days.

Body Mapping

Model

Installation

08. THE COLONNADE PDP London Architects Hong Kong Studio Concept Design Location: Beijing, China Program: Show Gallery Team: David Hoggard, Robert Ware

09. ART WORKS Free-hand Expression Photography

Florence, Italy

St Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City

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The University of Hong Kong BA(Architectural Studies)