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Central (and anywhere), Hong Kong Public Space Adaptation Strategy 2016, MArch 2 Semester 1-2 (Thesis) Patrick Hwang

P E O PLE- GOV ER NED TR AN S F O R MER

T H E R E T U R N O F S PAT I AL AU TO NOMY TO T HE P U BLIC S PAC E LINGER ERS Best Studio Award (Commendation) 2016, School of Architecture CUHK

The thesis is an adaptable public space strategy to reform how we use the cityscape, aiming to return the autonomy and authority of spatial usage to the disadvantaged public space lingerers, in this thesis the Filipino Domestic Helpers (FDWs) in Hong Kong. The FDWs are skilled in constructing a spot for enjoying their weekly day off. Every Sunday they gather or buy materials they can obtain, and shift their living into the public. Their flexible use of space is a culture of living that we should respect. The extent that they can alter space now is restrictive technically and limiting further possibilities and the uplift of atmospheric quality. We as architects should enable the FDWs further in their autonomous use of public space through design, through designing our cityscape with their needs in mind.

The Transformer is a methodology for public space adaptation: with a designed system of construction, adjustments are made site specifically. They create new anchors in the community by attaching itself to existing structure that already are Filipino colonized to further enable and extend the existing public space. The temporary but recurring nature of FDW activities suggests the design to be temporarily operating but permanent on site. Similar to an umbrella, the Transformers add value to public space by possessing lightness, retractibility, providing shelter from sun and rain and an atmospheric space, as well as functionally equipped with light and audio. Through different methods of adaptation, we are providing our acknowledgement to their freedom of using the city. -- To build for them, is a recognition to them.

Field Study of FDWs at Central Every Sunday, they take from home or buy from dealers the materials they can obtain to construct a spot for enjoying their weekly day off. They celebrate indigenous festivals, they casually dance and sing, they pray in groups, they shift their living into the public. What is happening on the street is incredibly rich and diverse through different vernacular setups at different spatial conditions, but this is not a phenomenon that is always welcomed by Hong Kongers. As FDWs are still treated with a lower social status, their spreading out all over the financial heart are sometimes regarded as a disturbance to social order and cleanliness. The best thing to provide is our acknowledgement to their freedom of usage of the city, not simply opening up a free space, but designing our cityscape with their needs in mind. Case 01

Case 02

Case 03

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Room unitsâ&#x20AC;? are formed between a railing and an MTR exit. With a piece of water resistant cloth, an umbrella and a paper box they construct the flooring and ceiling of their own little unit of privacy on the roadside. Users often exit by climbing through the railings to not disturb their neighbors.

People territorize space under a large shelter offered by a sky bridge. Starting from a dispersed random pattern, they divide the ground with paper boxes according to their expected user group size, until the entire sheltered space is filled up. At this point when all the groups get connected, conversation starts to occur between each small groups, and territory transforms as users come and go.

A natural stage setting is obtained by utilizing the surrounding objects and a widened road due to a drop off. Audiences gather in a circular form, and more involved audiences tend to sit at the front.

CASE 02: HENG SENG BANK PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE CASE 03:PEDESTRIAN UNDER BRIDGE COVERED AREA, CASECOVERED 04: HSBC PLAZA CASE 05:CASE CHATER GARDEN CASE 06:CASE CHATER ROAD PEDESTRIAN STREET CASE 02:CASE HENG 02: CASE SENG HENG 02: BANK SENG HENG PEDESTRIAN BANK SENG PEDESTRIAN BANK BRIDGE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE BRIDGE CASE 04: HSBC CASE PLAZA 04:CASE HSBC 05:CASE CHATER GARDEN CASE 01: CASE CENTRAL 01:CASE CENTRAL 01: MARKET CASE CENTRAL 01: MARKET CASE GREEN CENTRAL 01: MARKET OASIS GREEN CASE CENTRAL 01: MARKET OASIS GREEN CENTRAL MARKET OASIS GREENMARKET GREEN OASIS OASIS CASE GREEN 02: OASIS HENG SENG BANK PEDESTRIAN CASE 02: HENG BRIDGE SENG BANK CASE 03: CASE UNDER BRIDGE 03: CASE BRIDGE UNDER 03: CASEBRIDGE UNDER COVERED 03: CASE UNDER BRIDGE COVERED 03: AREA, BRIDGE COVERED UNDER AREA, COVERED BRIDGE AREA, AREA, CASE 04: AREA, HSBC CASE PLAZA 04: HSBC PLAZA 04: PLAZA HSBC PLAZA 05:CASE CHATER GARDEN 05: CASECHATER 05: CASE CHATER GARDEN 05: GARDEN CHATER GARDEN 06:CASE CHATER 06:CASE CHATER ROAD 06: CASE PEDESTRIAN CHATER ROAD 06: CASE PEDESTRIAN CHATER ROAD 06: PEDESTRIAN ROAD CHATER STREET PEDESTRIAN ROAD STREET PEDESTRIAN STREET STREETSTREET CASE 01: CENTRAL MARKET CASE 02: HANG SENG HQ PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE CASE 03: WORLD WIDE HOUSE UNDERBRIDGE CASE 04: HSBC PLAZA CASE 05: CHATER GARDEN CASE 06:STREET CHATER ROAD PEDESTRIAN OUTSIDEOUTSIDE WORLD WIDE HOUSE OUTSIDE WORLD OUTSIDE WORLD WIDE OUTSIDE HOUSE WORLD WIDE HOUSE OUTSIDE WORLD WIDE HOUSE WIDE WORLD HOUSE WIDE HOUSE

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Precedent of the Umbrella

To obtain a better understanding of the construction of the umbrella, a visit to the umbrella repairing master was carried out on 29 March 2016. Mr. Yau, the owner of the umbrella selling and repairing shop, happily shared his knowledge on the mechanism of umbrella operation, introduced his special tools for umbrella making and repairing, as well as the operation of his shop. Instead of obtaining new components for repairing his customerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s umbrellas, he recycles the components from the old umbrellas he has collected throughout the decades, well categorized in his stock, and choose the suitable component for the umbrella to be repaired. He selflessly offered a number of broken umbrellas upon my request, so that I was able to test out the possibility of incorporating umbrella components in the design.

C O M PAC T U M B R E L L A

Adaptation Methodology 01

On top of the sections in green in the drawing, which altogether forms the community of FDWs in Central, another layer of scenarios created by the Transformers applied according to different strategies are introduced to form new anchors within the existing community. On the next page are four design strategies that serves as suggestions to how the Transformers can adapt to particular sites, directed towards or not limited to a certain function.

SCENARIO A

SCENARIO B

SCENARIO C

SCENARIO D

ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE: Under bridge FUNCTION: Linear Sheltered Avenue

ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE: Metro Exit FUNCTION: Performance Stage

ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE: Building Exterior Wall FUNCTION: Queuing Shelter / Theatre

ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE: Under bridge, Roadside FUNCTION: Shelter / Barrier

Site Specific Demonstration The site chosen to demonstrate the methodology is at the end of the Chater Road pedestrian street under the connection bridge that links the Alexandra House and the Chater House, which is part of the Central elevated network. The structure is designed to be transformed with ease by the people: Normally parked above the sidewalk in retracted state when vehicles run on the road, and slid outwards above the center of the road and expanded by pulling the structure outwards by man-force. This particular site is chosen for its possibility in demonstrating the interchange between functions of a vehicle road/pedestrian street, as well as the diversity of activities that can potentially and currently be accommodated due to its spaciousness and the cultivated spatial occupying habits of FDWs.

Site Plan - showing the expanded and retracted mode of the Transformer modules.

01 RETRACTED MODE

E X PA N D E D M O D E

Look how beautiful they are! I am the Champion! I can’t believe!

Why is there a pageant show on the street?

The Miss Kalinga 2016 is... Candidate No.5!

Supot! Supot! Supot! Bag! Bag! Bag!

My feet are aching! Let’s sit down!

I have prepared ube halaya today!

Glory to God, Glory to God, Glory to God in the hi-ighest, Love on Earth, Peace on Earth, Peace to people of good will...

Did I step on you? Araiku! (Ouch!)

I wish I can dress like them!

Here is where they play on their holiday!

Lord, have mercy, Lord have mer-er-ercy...

Why are they sitting on the street?

SECTION

Specification 01

The transformer is hung from the frame attached to the bridge and allowed to move by an arching rail, rope and wheel system so that the holding rings will be able to slide along and afterwards anchored to the plinths on the ground like a boat to the pier. When released, the structure will collapse due to spring force from the rail and elastic threads. The design of the ring is important to this structure as it holds the arms, roof fabric and threads together. The upper ring is larger to let some sunlight penetrate through, while the lower ring is an LED lighting element and is attached with a speaker to provide audio output. Arms are designed to be light but strong at points of stress: the hinge where the two arms intersect.

Component specification 1:15

Model 1:2 M AT E R I A L S P E C I F I C AT I O N

COMPONENT

M AT E R I A L

W E I G H T ( k g / m 2)

TOTA L W E I G H T ( k g )

F A B R I C S H E LT E R

N Y L O N TA F F E TA

0.065

4.30

CONNECTION RING

ALUMINIUM BENTED SHEET (1.6mmTH)

4.48

8.94

C O N N E C T I O N B O LT

P L A S T I C P O LY M E R C O M P O S I T E

1.16

0.016

CONNECTION WIRE

METAL WIRE (2.5mmÃ&#x2DC;)

7.84

0.089

ARM

ALUMINIUM FRAME (1.6mmTH), PLASTIC

4.48, 1.16

54.83

THREAD

ELASTIC ROPE (COLOUR THREAD WRAPPED)

3.67

8.82

LED LIGHTING STRIP

2 0 M M ( W ) 4 0 0 0 K ( N AT U R A L W H I T E )

2.7

0.044

SPEAKER

~15

TOTA L W E I G H T F O R ONE UNIT (kg) 92

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Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong Cultural Building, Digital Design 2014, MArch 1 Semester 1, *Group project with Chandler Lam Kristof Crolla

HYP ER M ATER I ALI S M T H E

HO N G

KO NG

C U LT U R A L C E N T R E REIM AGINED

The project â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hypermatirialismâ&#x20AC;? is a redesign of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre with the intention to explore the crafting of fluidity, generating a creature that flows continuously at all dimensions. The continuity of movement is realized by a single, continuous skin that is composed of flowing components that wrap the building from the exterior to the interior, moving in a pattern generated by spinning force fields, resulting in an urge of movement that dislocates vision and lures exploration. The contrast of its simple external form and intricate internal space is proposing the beauty of complexity in architecture, which creates anticipation and excitement simply through their curiosity to discover.

ADMIN

SITTING AREA

CHANGING ROOM COMMON SITTING AREA

CHANGING ROOM

GREEN ROOM

CONCERT HALL

MESH MACHINE: PULL STRENGTH = 0 DRESSING ROOM

VIP LOUNGE DRESSING ROOM DRESSING ROOM

DRESSING ROOM

MESH MACHINE: PULL STRENGTH = 0

DRESSING ROOM FLY TOWER

VIP LOUNGE

DRESSING ROOM

KANGAROO SPRINGS

DRESSING ROOM

STORE

BASE GEOMETRY GRAND THEATRE

MINIMAL SURFACE MECHANISM STUDY

KANGAROO SPRINGS

BASE GEOMETRY

MINIMAL SURFACE MECHANISM STUDY

02 N

BOXES

2/F PLAN 0 2

30m

PLANKS BOXES STORE STORE

CONTROL

BREP

DRESSING LOCKERY CHANGING

PLANKS

STORE LIGHTING STORE STORE

SITTING AREA

SITTING AREA REHEARSAL ROOM

CONCERT HALL

PRACTICE

RODS

STORE

BREP

ARTIST RESTIING AREA

BASE MESH

APPLY SPINNING FIELD ON MORPHING

RODS

VISITORS’ LIFT LOBBY

DRESSING

GALLERY

BASE MESH

DRESSING

APPLY SPINNING FIELD ON MORPHING

DRESSING

VIP LOUNGE

DRESSING

SINE GRAPH FIELD STRENGTH ADJUSTMENT OF FIELD SETTINGS

SINE SUMMATION EVALUATED SINE GRAPH FIELD STRENGTH FIELD STRENGTH ADJUSTMENT OF FIELD SETTINGS

GALLERY

SINE GRAPH EVALUATED FIELD STRENGTH

1/F PLAN 0 2

LINEAR RELATIONSHIP WITH FIELD STRENGTH

A’

SINE GRAPH EVALUATED FIELD STRENGTH

STUDIO THEATRE

BASE MESH CHOIR ASSEMBLY

EXHIBITION SPACE

CONDUCTOR’S ROOM

SINE SUMMATION EVALUATED FIELD STRENGTH

30m

CHANGING ROOM

BASE MESH

CONCERT HALL OFFICE CHANGING ROOM BOX OFFICE

LINEAR RELATIONSHIP WITH FIELD STRENGTH

APPLY SPINNING FIELD ON MESH APPLY SPINNING FIELD ON MESH

SETTING AREA

CLOAK ROOM REAR STAGE

VISITOR’S LIFT LOBBY

LIFT LOBBY

DRESSING ROOM FOR DISABLED

SIDE STAGE MAIN STAGE

DRESSING

GRAND THEATRE DRESSING

CONCERT HALL FOYER

DRESSING

STORE

OFFICE

VISITOR’S LIFT LOBBY

STAGE KEEP

SEAT STORE

GRAND THEATRE FOYER

30m

REFLECTED CEILING PLAN B’ N G/F PLAN 0 2

30m

MINIMAL SURFACE COMPLEX GEOMETRY STUDIES MINIMAL SURFACE COMPLEX GEOMETRY STUDIES

MTR CITY CONNECTION SPACE MUSEUM & ART MUSEUM

TSIM SHA TSUI WATERFRONT

SPATIAL COMPLEXITY

SIMPLE SKIN

SITE CONTEXT

FLUIDITY BY FIELD FORCES

ORIFICE VS DISSECTION

0 10

50m

SITE PLAN

0 10

50m SITE PLAN

Model Photo 3D-print model exhibited in the School of Architecture

Model Photo Digital machine study with 3D print

Design Exercise - Model Photo Exploration of design language with physical model - “Seductive” vs. “Repellant”

LO C A T I O N :

Shinjuku, Japan

N A T U R E : TI ME

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Educational Institution, Energy Design

P R O J E CT:

2014, MArch 1 Semester 2 (Exchange at TUGraz)

S U PE RV I S O R :

TH E U R B AN

Daniel Podmirseg

U R BAN

FABRIC

C LI MB BU ILDING

Situated at a congested and highly disconnected commercial center of Shinjuku, a vertical education campus is proposed to re-energize the materialistic society. In the URBAN CLIMB, public space is completely given back to the community in a vertical dimension. The Private climb of the campus and the Public climb interweave to connect to the city and overcome our usual reluctance to ascend upwards. Without any pre-requisites to entering the public grounds, education is immersed into society, because the place contains a society. Learning happens as a simultaneous process: students witness the values of their works; the public sees their contribution to the fresh minds of their community.

Location: 36 °N, 139 °E Koppen Geiger Cliamte Zone: Subtropical climate (Cfa) - hot and humid summers, cool and mild winters Max. Dry Bulb Temp: 34 °C Min. Dry Bulb Temp: -10 °C Summer max. sun angle: 78° Winter max. sun angle: 30°

DRY BULB TEMPERATURE

RELATIVE HUMIDITY

SKY COVERAGE

PREVAILING WIND

SOLAR PANELS

ROOF GREEN BARRIER

ROOF 20/F

AIR PURIFYING PLANTS

20/F 19/F 19/F 18/F POLLUTED AIR COLLECTION

18/F 17/F 17/F 16/F AIR PURIFIER

16/F 15/F

GEOTHERMAL HEAT SINK

SUMMER purified air drew out from the roof natural shading to block sun chilling with geothermal heat exchange system cool air from rooms to atrium dry air from air purifier dampened by moisture from plants air cools when evapotranspiration occur in plants

15/F 14/F 14/F 13/F 13/F 12/F 12/F 11/F 11/F 10/F 10/F 9/F 9/F 8/F

WARMED AIR TRAPPED

SOLAR PANELS

8/F 7/F 7/F 6/F

GREEN BARRIER

6/F 5/F

AIR PURIFYING PLANTS

5/F 4/F 4/F 3/F

POLLUTED AIR COLLECTION

3/F 2/F AIR PURIFIER

2/F 1/F

GEOTHERMAL HEAT SOURCE

WINTER purified air trapped and warm the atrium natural shading let sun in heating with geothermal heat exchange system heat produced by plants dry air from air purifier and the environment dampened by moisture from plants air purifying plants clean the trapped air filled with human waste

1/F G/F G/F 0

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South Cadbury Village, Somerset, UK Museum, Research centre 2013, BSSc(AS) Year 3 Semester 2 Sebastian Law

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CAMELOT RES EARC H AND VIS ITO RS ’ C ENTRE

From the Arthurian literature, the South Cadbury village is at the approximate geographical location of Camelot, King Arthur’s castle, as described in the legend. From archaelogical discoveries, existing medieval ramparts and a buried castle remain both indicated the existence of a certain castle and its military importance. However, is the truly the “Camelot”? To celebrate the Arthurian legend and continue the odyssey of its research, there is no better location than the South Cadbury that the Camelot Research and Visitors’ Centre should be based at. The centre comprises of a museum containing three halls: South Cadbury, the Legend Hall and the Camelot Today; and a research centre.

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The building responds to both the legend and the site by drawing visitors’ attention to the embraced castle under the soil, at the same thing posing a question to them: is the castle proving the existence or non-existence of Camelot? As visitors journey through the museum halls, they are invited to explore and experience the site as the powerful curved walls guide them, with a climactic end of the journey where visitos arrive the roof, surrounded by an endless view of farmland, standing where King Arthur might have once stood...

The Museum Experience The exhibition flow consists in sequence the South Cadbury Hall, the Legend Hall and the Camelot Today Hall. Being oriented towards the South Cadbury Village, the South Cadbury Hall enjoys an aerial view of the village from the hill top, echoing the exhibition. The Legend Hall faces the far-away Glastonbury Tor, where King Arthur was said to be buried at. Reaching the last hall of Camelot Today, view is directed to the embraced pasture as a respect to the buried castle remains, guiding them to rethink the legend in retrospect.

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Approaching the Legend The exploration of the Legend Hall starts at the overhanging segment of the building, where both sides of the hill top can be appreciated. As the building touches and submerges into the ground, the path narrows down and leads the visitors to the mysterious hall ahead...

Encountering the Legend Passing through the narrow entrance, visitors then arrive the underground hall of the Legend, where King Arthurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stories are told, where the mighty hero stands under the skylight spilling into the room from the slit on the ceiling.

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Chittagong, Bangladesh Community Centre

Situated in the VCF, the community centre plays the role of connecting people of neighboring villages, while making itself a comfortable place to appreciate and educate about the beauty of the enigmatic forest. For such reasons, the community centre is designed as an expansive net structure following the silluhouttes of trees, visualizing the path between them. The net encloses the area like ant nests, which spaces are defined in pockets among trees. Local bamboos are weaved together to form the building wall; the crown of the trees are the shades of the centre. If the Semester 2 already provided, shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we human beings utilize nature has the given thankfully?

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO ACADEMIC PROJECT

Edward Ng COMMUNITY

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Architectural design, Architectural drawing and rendering The project is a virtual design that does not have an actual C O M M U N I TTIME Y OF PROJECT: 2012, Year 2 Semester 2 site, but instead a condition of a hot and wet climate is IN C HIT TAG ONG given. The community centre assumed to be built in the SUPERVISOR: Edwardis Ng, Village Common ForestEdwardng@cuhk.edu.hk (VCF) that exists in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. These natural forests link villages together, provide common resources to surrounding communities and are governed by indigenous management to maintain This project is a virtual design that doesand not conservation. have an actual site, a balance between exploitation The but instead, a condition of aanimal hot and wetare climate given. variety of floral and species both is richer thanThe community centre ismanaged assumedforests to bethat builtare in cultured the Village government for Common timber and other Forest (VCF) thatresources. exists in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. These natural forests link villages together, provide common resources to surrounding communities and are governed by indigenous management to maintain a balance between exploitation and conservation. The variety of floral and animal species are both richer than government managed forests that are cultured for timber and other resources.

Situated in the VCF, the community centre plays the role of connecting people of neighboring villages, while making itself a comfortable place to appreciate and educate about the beauty of the enigmatic forest. For such reasons, the community centre is designed as an expansive net structure following the silluhouttes of trees, visualizing the path between them. The net encloses the area like ant nests, which spaces are defined in pockets among trees. Local bamboos are weaved together to form the building wall; the crown of the trees are the shades of the centre. If the nature has already provided, shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we human beings utilize the given thankfully?

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1. LIBRARY 2. GUEST HOUSE 3. OUTDOOR COOKING AREA 4. RESTAURANT 5. MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM 6. HALL 7. BACKSTAGE 8. HALL LOBBY 9. EXHIBITION HALL 10. ENTRANCE LOBBY 11. PLAZA

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Situated in the VCF, the community centre plays the role of connecting people of neighboring villages, while making itself a comfortable place to appreciate and educate about the beauty of the enigmatic forest. For such reasons, the community centre is designed as an expansive net structure following the silhouettes of trees, visualizing the path between them. The net encloses the area like ant nests, where spaces are defined in pockets among trees. Local bamboos are weaved together to form the building wall; the crown of the trees are the shades of the centre. If the nature has already provided, shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we human beings utilize the given thankfully?

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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO ACADEMIC PROJECT Guesthouse Detailed Section

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Viewing is an observative, but at the same time, subjective sense. Lenscape is a pinhole camera acting as a medium to introduce different views of the same scenery. It is a mobile viewing device that reframes the characteristics of each particular view it captures. The composite view comprises a square grid of image fragments that are each amplified by inversion, overlapping and multiplying with varying focus and arrangement of lens and extension by mirrors. Every image slightly differs from each other in their effect and position, just like a metaphor of different viewing aspects of an identical object of different individuals. LENSCAPE SECTION AAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1:10 0

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