ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO
2018 - 2020
CONTENT
01 Walled
02 Others
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ERIKA CHOW [CHOW SAU-TING]
FROM
Hong Kong
Erikachow1120@gmail.com
PORTFOLIO
SAWMILL, EXHIBIT & STUDIO FAN LING
OTHER WORKS
SKETCH, DRAWING, MODEL, ETC.
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02 Walled
to celebrate the chaotic village context, to encourage spatial exploration
University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), collaboration with SHAPE (Hong Kong Campus) BS (Hons) in Architectural Studies, Time: Year 3, 2020 Type: Woodern Sawmill, Exhibit Studio Location: Fanling, New Territories
SITE ANALYSIS URBAN L AYOUT FANLING I Fanling / Fan Leng (
) is located in the New Territories East of Hong Kong, ver y close to Mainland China. According to the above mapping, the urban development is focus on internal development and balanced, with factor y areas on one side and residential areas on the other side. In histor y, it was one of the earlier settlements for the walledvillagers. The walled-village is a special living place and style in traditional chinese culture. The villagers all from the same family, they have a same blood, same surname, live and farm together. Until to 1950s, a Chinese Civil War broke out and a large number of people fled from the mainland to Fanling. At that time, Hong Kong’s economy was transformed from agriculture to industr y that required a lot of manpower. The civil war brought a huge of foregin population and craftsmanship, and built many factories which led to the demand for housing. After that, in the 90s, Hong Kong completely abandoned agriculture, resulting in a large number of vacant land in Fanling. In addition, Hong Kong had already transformed its financial and tourism industries at that time. In order to make the New Territories more convenient, Fanling began to develop. At the same time, due to insufficient land in the early development of Kowloon and Hong Kong Island, a large number of housing projects are still under way in Fanling until now. Therefore, the residential development has witnessed changes in Fanling.
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SITE ANALYSIS BUILDING TYPE FANLING I
Fanling Wan (since 1573) • walled-village • Peng clan’s ( ) settlement location
Lung Yeuk Tau (~800 year) • walled-village • combined by 6 villages • one of the settlement point of TANG clan (
)
THE PAST WALL-VILLAGE IN FANLING
RESIDENTIAL SCALE (FROM PAST TO NOW) Walled-Village 1570s
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small scale 1 house serve for 1 family 2 to 3 storeys
Tong Lau 1950s
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medium scale 1 floor serve for 2-4 houses below 10 storeys
SITE ANALYSIS RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT FANLING I
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RESIDENTIAL GRID (FROM PAST TO NOW) Housing 1990s
Walled-Village 1570s
mega 1 floor serve for ≥ 10 houses over 25 storeys
Traditionally, the farmers living in walled-village were the earlier residents of Fanling. They all come from the same family, the same surname, and are related by blood. And the WALL is protection. A village has 2 different grids, the regular grid but not align and the irregular grid. After the research, at start, the residents of the village made a living from agriculture. But with economic transformation and development, the farming is declining, the farmland/ cultivated land converted to residential land use. The irregular grid is an evidence to proof it.
Tong Lau 1950s
Housing 1990s
In the early 1950s, the mainland civil war broke out and Fanling was close to the mainland border. Therefore, a large number of people from the mainland came to Fanling, which caused a large housing demand.
Nowadays, buildings are getting bigger and bigger, taller and taller. A building can provide for life needs, such as a market, librar y, swimming pool, transportation, etc. But the living space has become ver y small.
Tong Lau is a common building in this period, the ground floor is usually a shop, 1 floor can ser ve for 2-4 houses.
And the grid became boring.
conversion
DESIGN CONCEPT WALLED- VI L L AGE FANLING I CONCEPT STATAMENT
After the site inspection, it was decided to use the walled-village( ) as the concept of this design. The village has a histor y of hundreds of years and still preser ve some features of traditional Chinese housing. The most interesting part of village is their grids, with vernacular elements, which proves its development stor y.
“TO CELEBRATE THE CHAOTIC VILLAGE CONTEXT OF FANLING TO ENCOURAGE SPATIAL EXPLORATION”
The features of 2 grids, • The regular grid (old grid) is constructed at the beginning for living. • The irregular grid (new grid) is farmland in past. Besides, in this semester, I read an article about the House Series by Peter Eisenman who is a famous architect in paper architecture, his axonometric drawing provided the new view in architecture and created the interesting space. Therefore, I tried his method to explore the new VIEW of a walled-village.
REGULAR GRID
REGULAR + IRREGULAR GRID
AXONOMETRIC BUILDING
PICK WALL & SLAB
WITH GRID
Split Out > Mergence > Projection
IRREGULAR GRID
After drawing the picture, I made a concept model that was too fragmented. But, viewing on the section side, it is automatically divided into different spatial conditions (or scales) to fit to the sawmill, exhibition and studio spaces. Then, all the different spaces are linked up by a main corridor/circulation.
DESIGN CONCEPT WAL L E D- VILL AGE FANLING I “To Celebrate the Chaotic Village Context of Fanling to Encourage Spatial Exploration”
BUILDING ZONING FANLING I Sectional Prespective and Spatial Relationship
BUILDING L AYOUT PL AN FANLING I Master Layout Plan (G/F Plan)
BUILDING L AYO U T PL AN FANLING I Second Floor Plan (2/F Plan) and West-south Perspective
BUILDING L AYOUT PL A N FANLING I Second Half Floor Plan (2.5/F) and North-east Perspective
BUILDING L AYOUT PL AN FANLING I
Third Floor Plan (3/F) with Perspective from the view of the footbridge
BUILDING ELEVATIONS & SECTION FANLING I Section Cut from Front Elevation
BUILDING ELEVATIONS & SECTION FANLING I Section Cut from Back Elevation
FACA DE DESIGN MATERIAL APPLICATION FANLING I Front Elevation with Material
Based on the conceptual model and drawings, the building should half in solid and half in void. Therefore, the translucent material has become a key point in the facade design. Therefore, the transparent roller shutter, curtain wall and glass block were applied to represent the void; the fair-faced concrete indicates solidity and structural fuction. The roller shutter design was inspired from a Japanese Architect, Shigeru Ban, who has always used the roller shutter as the facade design in his architectural works. Reducing the boundar y between outdoor and indoor, and can be used for security purposes when necessar y.
MODEL MAKING WALLED FANLING I Paper Model
02 Others
other architectural works, sketchs, drawings, models, etc.
University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), collaboration with SHAPE (Hong Kong Campus) BS (Hons) in Architectural Studies, Time: 2018 - 2020
SKE TCHING
Time: Year 2, 2020 Type: Montage Location: Shek Kip Mei and Kowloon Tong
FROM DRAWING TO MODEL
Time: Year 3, 2020 Type: Design Study, from drawing to model