Portfolio Architecture
Elpis Laipan Wong CUHK BSSc Architectural Studies
curriculum vitae
Elpis Laipan Wong CUHK BSSc Architectural Studies 406 King Lam House, Hong Lam Court, Siu Lek Yuen, Shatin, Hong Kong (+852)66285458 wongelpis@gmail.com DOB: 30th August 1993
Profile
Efficient, Organized, Fast learner, Meticulous
Education 2012-2015
BSSc Architectural Studies The Chinese University of Hong Kong Major GPA: 3.5 m First class honour m Dean’s List 2014/2015 m U6 Studio exhibition panel award m College Head’s List 2013/2014 m Shun Yat Chor Prize, Outstanding academic results 2013/2014 m U5 Studio exhibition panel award m Exchange programme in University of Applied Science, Stuttgart, Germany m U3 Studio exhibition panel award m The Chinese University of Hong Kong Sports Scholarship
2010-2012
Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination True Light Middle School of Hong Kong 1A (Chemistry) and 2Bs (Additional Mathematics, Physics) m Best Academic Work 1st Place (Year) m Scholarship for Outstanding Performance in HKCEE & F.6
2005-2010
Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination True Light Middle School of Hong Kong 2As 4Bs m Best Academic Work 1st Place (Year) m Distinguished Conduct Award (Year) m Merit Award under Green teen (head)
Personal Language
Interests
English- Proficient Traditional Chinese- Proficient Mandarin Chinese- Intermediate German- Basic Acrylic painting, hand drawing, photography, synchronized swimming, cycling, travel, flute, viola
Work Experience
Other Awards
2016 Apr - Jun
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Research Asistant Thermal Response of building facade in Hong Kong
2012-2015
Hong Kong Amateur Swimming Association- Coach of Synchronized Swimming m Outstanding Coach Award in year 2013
2016 Mar
Hibinosekkei + Youji no shiro Internship http://hibinosekkei.com
2005-2012
2015Aug2016Feb
DLN Architects & Engineers (hk) Ltd. Year out placement
Hong Kong Synchronized Swimming National Squad Team Member Awarded in different international competitions in Asian countries including: Tai Wan, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Macau, China, Hong Kong
2015 Aug
Conerstone Concilium Inc. San Franisco, USA
2013-Present
Project Little Dream Ltd. Hong Kong & Cambodia Architectural Officer (Voluntary Part time) zsupervising overseas operation to promote education in Cambodia by school-construction service trips www.littledream.org m m m m m
2012-2013
Popular Choice Award (Self-initiated Projects) A+ Architizer Awards Special Mention (Student Projects) A+ Architizer Awards Hong Kong Chapter Citation American Institute of Architects Best of Best Trophy A&D Trophy Awards = Perspective Global Trophy in Architecture (Student Category) A&D Trophy Awards = Perspec tive Global
Wu Zi Qiao- Bridge to China Charitable Foundation Hong Kong & China Core Member in CUHK 50th anniversary bridge zdesign and build footbridges and village facilities in remote and poor villages in the Mainland with green concepts www.bridgetochina.org.hk
(Major awards from 2008 to 2012 onwards) m Asia Swimming Federation, Combination in The 8th Asian Swimming Championships in Foshan m Asia Swimming Federation, Team Free Routine of The 8th Asian Swimming Championships in Foshan m HK Amateur Swimming Association, Certificate of appreciation m China Swimming Association, Free Combination in The China Junior Synchronised Swimming Open 2009 m Asia Swimming Federation, Solo in The 6th AASF Asian Age Group Championships 2009 in Japan m Asia Swimming Federation, Free Combination in The 6th AASF Asian Age Group Championships 2009 in Japan m China Swimming Association, Combo in 8th Open and Junior Synchronized Swimming Championship m Taiwan Swimming Association, Team in 1st Taiwan Open Synchronized Competition
2009
Holder of Silver & Bronze Award of The Award for Young People (HKAYP)
Reference Wayne H. Perry Chairman and Chief Executive Cornerstone 44 Montgomery Street, Suite 3360 San Francisco, CA 94104, USA wperry@cornerstoneconcilium.com 415-705-7800 B 415-705-7801 F Jiangxiang, Zhu CUHK BArch, MArch, PhD(SEU) Associate Professor Email: zhujx@cuhk.edu.hk; Tel: +852 39436590
Table of Content Community
01 Project Little Dream
Academic
02 Ocean of Books
Community Architecture - Construction of schools in Rural Cambodia Library in Ma Wan Chung, Hong Kong
03 Yuen Long Farming Village
Residence in Yuen Long, housing design as collective living
04 The Mobile Cooking School
Local food x Education, in Pai Tou Village, Shatin
05 UD Rural Toilet 1:1 scheme built project
Research Project
06 Bamboo Pavilion
light weight, bending active, bamboo shell structures for Hong Kong, using live physics engines
07 Green Line
light weight, bending active, bamboo shell structures for Hong Kong, using live physics engines
PROJECT LITTLE DREAM 2013 - Present (Ongoing) Community Construction Architectural Officer
Project Little Dream (PLD) is a student registered charity, started by 15 college students that share the same dream: to promote education in the rural Cambodia. Since its establishment in 2009, 3 schools were completed and they are current providing education for over 500 students in the underprivileged part of the country. I joined PLD in 2013. I commited myself to the organization as an Architectural Officer, involving in the design, planning, coordination and the construction of the Thnouh Village School, as well maintaining the operating schools in Prey Run, Thun Mun, Kh’na Rong. Every year during winter and summer break, my team and I fly to Cambodia to supervise and carry our design of the schools or have site visits and maintainance.In winter, together we also bring with us 60 volunteers from Hong Kong who would asist in the construction. We design, build and run school in rural Cambodia. Three school has been completed since the establishment of PLD. The Prey Run Village School (2010), Kh’na Rong Village School (2011) and Thun Mun Village School (2012), as well subsequently supporting facilities.
The Architectural Team Education. Architecture. Medical. The architecture we build is nothing without a well conducted education program or the well being of the children and villagers. Cross disciplinary work is cruetial in PLD. We work closely with the education team and medical team, who are also university students in the education and medical program. The architecture division is a small team of 5-7 architectural students. We work closely in the design of the school through small built project and design briefs. We take responsibility of the design, planning and construction of school, producing our own technical drawings and models as for a proper constructed project in local Cambodia, translating the vision of PLD into reality. 2014 Popular Choice Award Self-initiated Projects Architizer A+ Awards Special Mension Student Projects Architizer A+ Awards 2013 Best of the Best Award Perspective Awards
Villagers, craftsmen, carpenters and workers joined hands with us, and were willing to go beyond their usual practice.
The Thon Mun Village School by far is our most successful project. It is currently providing English education to over 130 children in the underpriviledged village. This project also brought PLD some of our most important awards and recognition such as the ones listed. The success of the Thun Mun School is a result of continuous effort we committed for the past 4 tears. 2 other schools and sanitation facilities have been built to serve different rural community and we have carried on the effort in this latest one. Thnouh Village School has been completed in April 2015 in full satisfaction.
Perspective Awards 2013
Economic Journal on 2 May
Me sanding and preparing fins for school facade shown on Perspective
Works in Project Little Dream
“Same Same but Different exhibition” in HKU
“Pace” reception in Common Ground, Central
“Same Same but Different exhibition” in CUHK
PLD in radio “dbc”
PLD in HKIA Seminar
PLD x Holly Brown in CUHK
Thnouh Village School Children PLAY Children in the rural area are inventive and fillef with curiosity. We spend a lot of time researching on themes around children. They are the primary driver of the design concept of the school. The play of level and geometry response to curiosity and advaenture. Beside the main school building, we have also done a few smaller projects like playground and landscape.
Children playing with our construction materials every day.
A simple playscape made from blocks of different height.
Earth-cast platform, made for concrete testing in summer trip 2013, as a common resting place.
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Two Year Plan The forth project we are embarking on this 2 years is by far the most ambitious project of PLD. One hour drive from the city center of Takeo, is Thnouh Village, a humble village with 600 household. Built on a 160 sqm site, we proposed a two-story school complex with two classrooms, a kindergarten, a library and washroom, for 150 children and 4 staff members. The construction begun in Dec 2013 and is completed by early 2015. As a staff member of Architecture Division, I design, plan and construct the school with my team, 5-7 architectural students.
Thnouh Village School Under One Roof One single roof will shelter the space as one unity. The Thnouh School will be more than just a place to learn. We wanted it to become a hub of the community where villages would also gather for their daily activities and major event.
Everytime we go back, all we wish to see is the kids we played with still go to school.
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Construction of the school till August 2015
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Ocean Of Books
Library in Ma Wan Chung, Hong Kong 2015 Spring YR 3 Design Studio U6 Individual Instructor: Minjung Miang
While Yat Tung Estate has habitants like most of Hong Kong citizens, working in office or studying in school days and nights, Ma Wan Chung fishing village has a very different living style. It is once very important in this site and giving its value. Though there are only a few villagers left habiting there, they worth our respect in terms of their relationship to the nature, daily routine and living condition. The library therefore rethinks the relationship between people and the water body,nature through a library, as well aiming to achieve a proper relationship between the old fishing village and Yat Tung citizens through the library. This project challenges library-visiting as a social, nature and knowledge reconnection.
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STORY “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.” ― C.S. Lewis “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.” ― C.S. Lewis HABIT “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird CULTURE “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury READ “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” ― Francis Bacon “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” ― Carl Sagan DARK “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.” ― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides “Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.” ― George R.R. Martin “A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.” ― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew COMTEMPLATE “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.” ― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.” ― Ezra Pound AMUSE “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” ― Voltaire “We read to know we're not alone.” ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands SEQUENCE “Think before you speak. Read before you think.” ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader COMFORT “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.” LIBRARY “That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.” ― Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance, Or, the Alderman's Bargain BOOK “What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!” ― Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters Of Thomas Babington Macaulay
Ocean | Library City | Nature Fishing Village | Yat Tung Estate “We were enchanted by the place - the quietness, the lack of cars, the space for people and pets,” said another resident Kenny Li Wai-hung . 陳: 以前在棚屋是如何生活的? 男: 在爺爺年代的時候,假如小船壞了 或舊了,不能出海,便將小船用木架架 起,然後給小朋友在那讀書 直至爸爸 和我那個年代,政府便允許的們搭建 棚屋 Yat Tung is a newer development, it provides supermarkets, services, and a number of eating outlets. Tung Chung Town Centre features a variety of shops, restaurants, a cinema and entertainment facilities centred on the Citygate development; as well as transportation to Kowloon or Hong Kong Island. Fu Tung Shopping Centre, Yat Tung Shopping Centre, and Citygate are the three shopping centers in Tung Chung thus far. Tung Chung is a mere 12 minutes from Tsing Yi and Kwai Tsing, where a much wider variety of shopping options are available.
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Urban Strategy With respect to the existing fabric, estate buildings and fishing village, break down of gigantic masses and further stripped along the wateredge. Providing visual and physical access towards waterfront from the city, as well penetration from one end to the other through the journey across the strips in aid of the addition light available into each space, the experience of library.
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Yuen Long Farming Village Residence in Yuen Long 2014 Autumn YR 3 Design Studio U5 Individual Instructor: TC Yuet
Being an agricultural and fishery centre with a very fertile land in the old days, Yuen Long has faced dramatic changes after the Hong Kong government started to develop new towns in the New Territories after 1970s. Urban development of Yuen Long has proceeded in full swing, leaving closely no trace and respect of its origin, lot of arable farmland in Hong Kong has rapidly disappeared to make way for urban development. Relationship between people and the land has also been greatly changed. By rethinking the relationship between human and nature, as well identity of the site, the scheme aims to provide juxtaposition of indoor and outdoor spaces. Without clear boundaries, it adds further ambiguity between nature and urban, and offers myriad opportunities for living with nature even in a relatively urban setting. It allows myriad opportunities for living with nature even in a relatively urban setting.
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“The recent trend does seem to show a revival of homegrown rice,” said Lam Chiuying, adjunct professor of the Department of Geography and Resource Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. There are people who remember that the long-grain rice grown in Yuen Long was famous about four or five decades ago. They say Yuen Long rice could even be exported and consumed by overseas Chinese, and that only the riches could afford the rice grown here now. “The Yuen Long rice was longer. I had it when I was younger and it did taste different - the texture and the flavor,” recalled professor Lam.
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圓塱 | a well developed extensive lowland along a river or lake and surrounded by hills
In the 1960s and 1970s, mountain water was intercepted and used for drinking water as urbanization began accelerating. Irrigation of farmland was affected, says Professor Lam. The older generation of farmers migrated overseas. The younger ones abandoned the countryside to find jobs in urban areas, leading to dramatic decrease of workforce on farmland.
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Collective | Value Not only a farm in the city, but rootly a farm for the people, in harmony.
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Collective encourages positive relationships to be formed between its inhabitants, establishing a communal and neighborly atmosphere.
Balconies and small cultivation spaces enrich the landscape. Colouring the village to be a lively one.
Defined Module With variation and multications, therefore, allowing the dwelling to develop iteratively.
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The module sets ground rules for the organization of interiors, while providing flexibility for several possible typologies, as essential element in village housing. Each room directly respond to the wished of the residents and the dynamic mutant capacity transform the neighbourhood into a moving platform. Balconies and small cultivation spaces enrich the landscape. Colouring the village to be a lively one.
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Spacescape As if a casual and natural manner back into the home farmland.
Like any other natural village, it offers myriad opportunities for living with nature and close relationship with neighbours even in a relatively urban setting. Encourages positive relationships to be formed between its inhabitants through farming practise, establishing a communal and neighbourly atmosphere. Materials makes reference to the traditional village house in Hong Kong, at the same time, use of locally available materials in Yuen Long.
Possible Unit Typology With variation and multications, therefore, allowing the dwelling to develop iteratively.
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With a space, creating harmony between neighbors, balancing work and leisure, allowing every joyful moments to happen within, shared by all collecively. Life is simple.
The Mobile Cooking School
Local food x Education in Pai Tou Village, Shatin 2013 Autumn YR 2 Design Studio U3 Individual Instructor: Johnny Wong This unit designs a cooking school, teaching students both globally and locally the delicacies of Hong Kong cuisine. The project will be phased to expand local knowledge of Hong Kong and its culinary delight’s. Researching the operation of a local food: Mobile Softee in Hong Kong, the value of education, public engagement and also local food has been rethink.
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Allowing every possibility for every single exciting moment to happen, the school provides ground for passionated chefs who are willing to share their sweetest cooking experience in a dai-pai-dong like environment. The school serves for the live and work of ordinary people. It refines the once uncomfortable edge of the site and acts as the mediator between the pedestrians and transportation. To teach the whole of cooking, the school is as a glucostte pier lying on the edge. It is a rudimentary collections of food stalls divided in mainly 6 themes along the edge such that it teaches from raw food choosing to food waste treatment: market, playground, stage, gathering area, tutorial kitchen, greenline.
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SITE ISSUES + LOCAL ISSUES > MOBILE COOKINGSCHOOL
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DESTINATION For The 2 Extreme Of Urban Life
SITE STRATEGIES 01 Creating Intermined Space For Flexibility And Diversity Of Activities Over Time village houses Shatin MTR New Town Plaza bus stop 1:600 Temple
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Three blind departments finally act on hijacked Sha Tin land Government bodies agree to stop playing pass the buck on state-owned New
Territories site used illegally by hawkers and as a car park
Three government departments have finally pledged to tackle the illegal activity on a piece of official land - after ignoring its misuse for 30 years. The Lands, Transport, and Home Affairs departments are all responsible for the site in the New Territories in different ways. However, none has moved to stop the land being illegally used as a car park and hawking area. Residents living by the site have even put up drying racks there to hang out their clothes. Spokesmen from the departments told the Post yesterday that they are already liaising on possible temporary and long-term use of the land. Sha Tin District Councillor Cheng Cho-kwong has been aware of the problem of unlawful occupation for years. "The residents living there have no right to occupy the land," he said. SCMP
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03 Due With Site Problemetric Issue, Show Respect To Both Locals And Society
02 Reconstructing The Vehicle And Pedestrian Network For Comfortness Of Both Parties
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UD Rural Toilet prototype design
2013 Spring YR 1 Building Technology Group Instructor: Jiangxiang, Zhu
Plan Mockup scale: 1:1 Supply Information Material: Plywood Size: 2.4 x 1.2 x 0.025m Material specification: Grade 01 Material supplier: Wing Cheong Construction Material Supplier Co. Standard Unit Cost: 18 HK$ per m2 Logistic cost: 130 HK$ Logistic top-up per material unit: 13 HK$ per unit Erection Information Construction Period: 05/02-06/02 Labour time Material Preperation: 11 hrs Assembly: 1 hr Other Features Dismount ability Mechanical Property Adaptability to various uses
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Bamboo Pavilion Light Weight Bamboo Structure- form testing 2014 Fall YR 3 Topological Studies in Computer Design - The Man-Machine: Digital Bamboo / real-time physics Group of 4 Instructor: Kristof Crolla
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Bamboo Pavilion Local Research Project
2014 - 2015 Led by Professor Kristof Crolla As part of a large research project on digital design tools for bamboo architecture, the light-weight bending-active bamboo shell structure is designed in the digital workshop. The 1:30 and 1:4 models are fully handcrafted with students from bamboo scaffolding school. The bamboo pavilion is built in traditional bamboo outside Zero Carbon Building in June 2015 and currently shortlisted as Architizer Award finalist.
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The Green Line
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The Green Line We inhabit a city submerged in noises, entrenched in lifeless confinements and suffocating smog. We sense an unceasing yet incomprehensible suppression, a feeling that we are out of place everywhere we go. We are stuck in this bustling constancy. We have a burning urge to purge. Until, we are surrounded by nature once again. We could finally purge the uneasiness and smoothen the edges. We dazzle in the sight of a labyrinth of greeneries. We are rejuvenated from the gentle touch of breeze. Architecture was once defined to provide “a small sheltering space that separate us from the natural environment”. Yet the scale of our development has altered nature so much that all its former glory has reduced to a rare sight. Ironically, while nature could sustain itself and us, the artificial environment we tried to perfect over the course of human history cannot live off its own.
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To be in touch with nature is the only way we can feel at home. It is encoded in our genes. We evolve from a natural environment instead of an artificial shelter. It is only natural that we need a life that reconnects with nature, that enables us to keep in touch with our inner serenity timely. It is therefore, no longer possible “to draw a line between natural environment and man’s artificial environment in our concept of architecture” to provide a “livable” enclosure. The concept of a green line is set and based on the balance between ruthless development and the active preservation of nature in the architectural project. It is an exploration of attitude and sustainability. It is a thresholds that redefines our human need to expand and sustain, a constant fluctuation between rationality and intuition. This imaginary line is drawn and could be architecturally defined in construction materials. To illustrate this theme of struggle, the project explores the Green Line through continuous modelling and fabrication of material.
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