GABRIEL CHAN selected projects 2013 - 2017 / University of Hong Kong BAAS 2017’ / work portfolio
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SELECTED PROJECTS
GABRIEL YAT HIM CHAN
MOBILE: 929 542 6408 EMAIL: gbrlchan@gmail.com gabriel.chan@columbia.edu
EDUCATION Columbia University GSAPP Master of Architecture
2017 - Current
Stephanie Lin / Stephanie Lin Studios
The University of Hong Kong Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies
2013 - 2017
The University of Hong Kong Bacherlor of Social Sciences
2012 - 2013
Holger Kehne / Plasma Studios Koon Wee / Skew Collaborative Ulrich Kirchoff / ICE Thomas Tsang / Dehow Projects
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LANGUAGES: English Native Mandarin Native Canto Native Japanese L4
Spanish German Processing
SOFTWARE
PRODUCTION
Adobe Suite Autodesk Suite Rhinocerous 5 Vray Rhino / 3ds Max Grasshopper Rhino 3ds Max Office Suite
Concrete Casting Lasercutting 3d-printing Shop Book Making Model Making Rendering
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FLOODZONE HOUSING
housing masterplan in Makkasan (BK)
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CRUCIFORM TOWER
commerical tower prototype (HKSAR)
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compression CANTEEN
community centre in Yangpu (SH)
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FLEX HABITATION youth housing prototype in Changsin-Dong (KR)
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EMPLOYMENT SKEW COLLABORATIVE SHANGHAI July 2016 - August 2016
Summer Intern. Feasibility and Schematic Designs. Singaporean Regulations Research.
Fort Canning Readaption
RURAL URBAN FRAMEWORK January 2014 - May 2014
Intern. Schematic Design, Site analysis and Project Documentation.
Longjiang Masterplan
Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong September 2013 - December 2013
Student Research Assistant coordinating BAAS year 1 studios.
Facade Workshop with KADK
Future Industries HK August 2013 - January 2015
Branding, Fabrication and Rendering. Exhibition Planning.
Yardbird Limited Company October 2013 - August 2014
Events Planning Intern.
AWARDS AND COMPETITONS HKU ARCHITECTURE DEGREE SHOW Selected Project for exhibition and RIBA bronze medal competition Highest Grade for Final Year Thesis Proejct for 2016 - 2017
6. The Warp Jintai Housing
OTHER EXPERIENCES July 2017
HONG KONG DESIGN YOUR AIRPORT COMPETITION Honorable mention
July 2016
ACAU TONG JI WORKSHOP Honorable mention
January 2016
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AND FULL SCHOLARSHIP Creative Secondary School International Baccalaureate Program
2010 - 2012
Second Runner Up
Hong Kong Clmbing Open Competiion
Senior Team Member
HKU Sport Climbing Team
Assistant Coach
University of Hong Kong Institute of Human Performance
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cavity HAUS
massing studies and facade design
work and competitions
FLOODZONE HOUSING
housing masterplan in Makkasan (BK)
AXONOMETRIC DRAWING
studio advisor: Holger Kehne spring 2017
In face of a rising population and development opportunities, Bangkok has long infilled farms and canals for buildings and this has striped the lands ability to drain off heavy monsoon. Recent decisions to reverse this process, together with Bangkok’s desires to build mega projects like Buro Schereen’s Mahanakhon tower, prompts the question of how could we create housing that engages with both scale and typology on one hand, and be part of flood infrastructure, removing the need for retrospective drainage?
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Legend 1.
Artificial Water Bodies for
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Tree Distribution
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Public Sports Programs
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NS Pedestrian
Connections
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Pasture and Hardscape
Mix 6.
Existing State Railway
Depot and Museum
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Low Income and Public
Housing and Local
Hospital 8.
Train Depot and Beung
Makkasan
A balance between top-down and bottom-up planning
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EW Highway and
Informal Morphologies
CONCEPT COLLAGE
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Floodzone Housing is a housing masterplan proposal that assumes and speculates that buildings should be lifted off the ground with cores and stilts to free up landscape that functions as storm drainage. Because of this assumption, the interaction between figures and ground, figure and figure would differ, and the figures themselves have different degrees of porosity in order to preserve privacy and daylight. The key idea of the project hinges on the concept that the building blocks of the city and regulations need to evolve to tackle climate needs architectonically and spatially.
CONCEPT DIAGRAM
FLOODZONE HOUSING
base typology
the lift
The operations on the building massing begin with having a central elevator and utilities core lifting the mass of the ground. Each core subdivides the ground area into a nine square grid where four parts ara employed for landscape and drainage. The question to ask under this premise is that how these lifted buildings come together to form a different kind of urban fabric?
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expanding the ground
TYPOLOGY AND TAXONOMY
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existing social housing layouts
0. Site 1. Makkasan Station 2. BST/MRTA Line 3. Rot Fat Hospital 4. State Railway Authority Depot 5. Sirat Expressway 6. Informal Morphologies 7. Beung (Lake) Makkasan 8. Petchburi 9. Sukhumvit 10. Buddhist Temple 11. Government Office
expanding demographics
diversifying landforms and manipulating topography
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HIERARCHY AND SITE ANALYSIS
site mapping
FLOODZONE HOUSING Petchburi
ESTABLISHING GROUND CONDITIONS / LANDSCAPE AS SPATIAL DEVICE The ground is conceived as a landscape project in itself, where existing train tracks and north south walkways form a grid in which program is plugged in. The ground is kept free for reprogramming while the housing structures follows the order of the masterplan, using it as a spatial device. The project creates context as well as responds to Bangkok.
10. base conditions
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1. Pasture 2. Hardscape 3. Canopy 4. Pools and ponds 5. Existing Tracks 6. Walkway 7. Basket Ball Court 8. Tennis Court 9. Swimming Pool 10. Soccer Pitch
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subdivision
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MASTERPLAN AND TAXONOMY DRAWING
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carving troughs
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Sukhumvit
minimizing runoff
border connection
1. canopy and pool type
2. hardscape type
3. pasture and hardscape type
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corner to corner access
TYPOLOGY AND TAXONOMY bigness and lightness together
COURTYARD COLLAGE
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FINAL MODEL 1:200
FLOODZONE HOUSING
courtyard referencing train station types
conncected terrace form a second landscape
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PLAN TO SECTION RELATIONSHIP
Projecting programs on the ground onto the massing model results in vertical and planar courtyards that are indexical and performative together.
two slabs joined by horizontal skyscraper
parti model overview
The orientation of the slabs also run parallel to the tracks, resulting in an unobscured walking and banding logics for programs like that in Koolhaas’ Parc De La Villete Scheme.
a sequence of programmitc voids
section follows plan
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SUTDY MODEL 1:300
MACRO VOID SYSTEM
VERTICAL CORRIDORS VERSUS PLANAR CORRIDORS
TYPOLOGY DIAGRAM AND PLAN
typological combination
stilts
mat
slab
slab/stils
mat/slab
slab/stilts
final combo
MAT TYPE AND THE GRID OF OPEN SPACES As a result of projecting the ground grid and its figure ground relationship in both plan and section, the interior experience is an extension of the landscape and the city, with distinct city grid like vocabulary. Units look both extrovertedly and introvertedly at building-scale external courtyards and program-scale internal courtyards. Compared to the tower units the mat units receive better cross ventilation and access to green spaces.
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UNIT TYPOLOGY AND MICRO VOID SYSTEM
THE SLAB TOWER TYPE AND VERTICAL CORRIDORS THE tower zone reinterpret the Thai vernacular practise of having semiinterior spaces into void decks and patio in the slab tower type.
staggered decks and shifting cores create unit taxonomy
massing broken down into pixels solid to void ratio
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UNIT MASSING ANALYSIS AND SYSTEM MODEL 1:100
The space for this move comes from employing a corridor-less core based layout logic that compacts units and structure tightly, allowing ‘pixels’ to be carved out and one extra facade for ventilation in each tower type unit that has a deck. In a sense this create extra ‘ground’ and inhabitable spaces above potential flooding ground conditions.
ELEVATION COLLAGE
FLOODZONE HOUSING
facade configuration
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POROSITY, DIVERSITY AND DIFFERENTIATION
ORDERS AND POROSITY THE elevation of the tower type and the staggering bay windows are indices to ground floor landscape planning. From the mat slab type base to the slab tower, the solidity and density of facade elements reduce so that the slab tower is thin, light and porous whilst the mat slab feels more compressed.
north elevation
south elevation
facade sectional render
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ELEVATION AND FACADE ANALYSIS
The purpose of such configuration is to offset the scale of the complex and compliment the pixel -like massing logic of the scheme.
FLOODZONE HOUSING
TOWARDS A NEW KIND OF URBAN SPACE THE intersection of the three types forms a cascading terrace the grows above the sky train tracks, and digs below trains tracks revealing natural and artificial programs. The sectional sequence of the building is a transition from low rise to high rise, each cross section maintaining the same solid and void relationship. As a result of this intervention, a valley of built form and landscape can attract not only extra surface runoff but also diverse users in and out of the complex for its public programs and differentiated living conditions. The project could serve as a template for a new degree of publicness and infrastructural awareness.
mat type cross section 2
SECTIONAL SEQUENCE
mat type cross section 1
horizontal skyscraper cross section 1
slab tower cross section t
horizontal skyscraper cross section 2
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SECTIONAL LOGIC
SHORT SECTION 1:100
type 1 and 2
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CRUCIFORM TOWER commerical tower prototype in Hong Kong
CONCEPT COLLAGE
studio advisor: Christian Lange / Don Holohan in collaboration with Christina Kong Ka Yu summer 2016
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Cruciform Tower delves into issues the form and typology of the cruciform tower through an inversion of the tradition role of the cruciform as an index of the residential unit into the structure and demarcation of the office unit.
Andrea Brodsky - The Intelligent Market
The tension between openess, differentiation and playfulness within the fixed bounding box attempts to liberate the commerical tower and cruciform types from banality and boredom.
Christian J. Lange - Hong Kong Typology
explorations on cruciform
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CONCEPT DIAGRAM
In the office tower type where visual perception has driven development and form finding, the metaphor of a twisting pathway of observation, the technique of manipulating structure in scale, rotation and intersection creates unexpected arrays of office layout and atrium forms.
PROCESS MODELS
CRUCIFORM TOWER
part to whole relationship
STRUCTURE AS STARTING POINT Through first designing a structure system that plays with order, similar to an inside-out methodology, more dynamic and three dimensional spaces can be achieved as opposed to conventional solid void operations. 20
TYPOLOGY AND STRUCTURE
SKELETON TO SPATIAL SEQUENCE
VOID ANALYSIS
This sequence describes how atria can be configured through the intensity and directionality of the twist. The scale of the central void is inversely related to the other eight squares of the grid system, thereform constractions in the atrium at key moments are expansions in room scale, adding a second layer to prgramming.
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CRUCIFORM TOWER
CONCEPT MODEL 1:50
joint detailing
atrium outcome
translating parametric logic into space
simplicity versus complexity
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scalar qualities
STRUCTURE AND DEMARCATION
conceptual section expanding and contracting void
TRANSLATION AND EXPRESSION
second floor plan
The expression and spatial qualities of this building is depend on the slanted and skewed columns that suspend floor plates together through compression.
orthogonal entrance
twenty second floor plan
distorted and open interior twenty eighth floor plan
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The edge conditions as a whole are blurry and ambiguous so that the modernist free plan layout is even more exagerrated and views are cropped by triangular and polygonal sightlines.
PLANS AND SECTIONS
Staggers and offsets of the columns result in an organic, flowing atrium that has a continous spiral quality.
STRUCTURE AND FACADE RENDER
CRUCIFORM TOWER
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RHYTHM AND BANALITY bringing playfulness and Portman like atria to business towers
CONCEPT DRAWING
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compression CANTEEN
neighborhood canteen in Yangpu (SH)
CONCEPT RENDERING
studio advisor: Kenan Liu spring 2016
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URBAN ANALYSIS AND DIAGRAM
site analysis: parking conditions
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SMALLNESS AND INFORMALITY GO TOGETHER Shanghai has been rapidly and violently transforming urbanistically, every year monstrous mega project appear with no regard with context, like that in fringes of the Huangpu and Pudong CBD. Now this has reached the working class neighborhood of Yangpu, compression CANTEEN, which lies at the threshold between a series of large malls and old communist worker village, aims to provides ‘space’ for the declining informal dining and parking experience of old Shanghai.
1. Hospital Area 2. Store Front and Existing Restaurants 3. Mega Mall 4. Government Worker Class Housing 5. Low Rise Luxury Apartments 6. District Business Tower 7. Subway Station
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finding the lower end of spectrum of scales
compression CANTEEN
PARTI MODEL 1:200
distorting and compressing box and frames
a gradient from solid to void
front elevation
top view 1
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top view 2
FIXED VERSUS FREE PLAN
courtyard
internal folding
external folding
shearing
one fold
box field
CONCEPT DIAGRAM
SUPERIMPOSING FLOWS AND CONFIGURATION The parti model of the scheme was derived using a series of configuration diagrams. The question that was asked was how one could accommodate and guide multiple scales of activity in a single plan and structure. The grid and bays of parking and dining manifest through intersect frames that suggest room scales and directionaliy, with the density of the model highest at the center.
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PROCESS SKETHCH MODELS
compression CANTEEN
even distribution
split level rooms
the free plan
aggregation
courtyard as section
shear model as section
box field as section
the opening box
unfolding stairs
split level type
piazza area
internal void
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exposition of room
secondary lift
INTERLOCK AND COMPRESSION carpark bay as structure grid
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cross section sequence
PROCESS DIAGRAMS AND CONCEPTUAL MODEL 1:200
folding walls
INTERIOR CORRIDOR RENDER
compression CANTEEN
ROOMS WITHOUT WALLS Learning from the grid and intersection exercises, a structure framed is formed that follows the orders of a standard dining table and standard parking bays. The room spaces are each suggested by the columns landing on four ends of each cell. Windows, on the other hand, demarcate corridor spaces, through their placement on the facade at both ends.
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SUPERIMPOSITION a collection of small houses
TRANSVERSE SECTIONS AND STRUCTURE DIAGRAM
cross section 1 no subdivision
cross section 3 open ground condition
elevation 1
cross section 2 maximum subdivision
elevation 2
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compression CANTEEN
TABLES AND HARDWARE AS STRUCTURE
PLANS AND CONFIGURATION
By making columns thin and light, and minimizing wall elements, the primary partitioners of space are no other than the tables of the restaurant, not unlike the use of books that infill structural shelves in Labrouste’s Bibliotheque Nationale.
architectural plan
bar configuration
restaurant configuration
chinese banquet / restaurant configuration
The ground floor, like the configuration diagrams, is a minimal composition of four folding walls that enclose a rectilinear semioutdoor kitchen and dining area. Open ground area in the site flow in and out of the “core”; the core is just a focal point for food stallsand diners to gather.
ground floor plan
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SLAB AND COLUMN
openings facing river side
structure bifurcates to accommodate corridor
INTERIOR RENDER
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openings correspond to door scales
FLEX HABITATION
youth housing prototype in Changsin-Dong (KR) studio advisor: Koon Wee Fall 2016
CHANGSIN-DONG MAP
Shanty Band
Studio and Sweatshop Band Chungsin-Dong
Market Band
In face of grander urban renewal and an ageing sweatshop industries and laborers, this project aims to design a flexible youth housing scheme that can be inserted along irregular and hilly sites in Changsin-Dong area Seoul. The project begins with taking the architectural elements of slopes and stairs as base geometries to form a KEY section that can be folded, compressed and expanded to fulfill contextual and programmatic requirements. The outcome is a conceptual system and understanding of type and form for different contexts and constraints.
Dongdaemun Fashion District
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Dongmyo
split levels for public private zoning
extending slabs in between
FOLDED PLATES AS seen on the porch of a typical row house in New York, stairs and amphitheatres have the potential for being social spaces or buffers between private and public spaces. What this project is interested in is to use operations related to folding and circulation to affect and work with housing programs in the Changsin-Dong context.
secondary hierarchy within each ‘block’
folded plates in plan and section
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FOLDED PLATES CONCEPTUAL DIAGRAM
stepped entrances for privacy
FLEX HABITATION
problematising stairs and the corner
ELEMENTS OF ARCHITEC
BEGINNING WITH THE UNFOLDED SECTION / SPIRALLING STUDY MODELS
THE prompt of the studio architectural element wh manipulated into a spati
Means of egress and slab combined together into t new element was employ creating an extension in buildings.
spatial sequence and circulation diagram
massing 1
inhabitable surfaces
controlling voids
floating volumes
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floating volumes
folding and bending
spiral language
ACTIVATING CIRCULATION SPACE
CTURE
is to pick an hich could be ial device.
bs were chosen and the folding slab. The yed as a solution for the corner between two
folding in and out
between fixed and folding slabs for program
visual connection and staggered zones
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STUDY MODEL FOR SLAB OPERATIONS
linking folds into a pathway
PARTI DIAGRAM
FLEX HABITATION
inside out: projection and volumes from folding
PATHWAYS AND PROJECTIONS THE section is conceived as a series of cojoined public studying areas similar to that in DS+R Vagelos project that together form as circulation route. The hybrid between stairs and dwelling spaces at the cost of more area to be taken away from individual units, allow more diverse and larger communal living areas with spatial qualities that would impossible to achieve if it were just contained in a studio flat. The projection and blending of two or more of these cells in section create exciting and unpredictable volumes when folded and intersected.
section zoom in 1
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section zoom in 2
SECTION AND PROJECTIONS
base unfolded section for generating prototypes
KEY UNFOLDED SECTION AND RESULTING SPACES
section zoom in 3
spatial complexity
public dwelling spaces
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expanding corridors and stairs to inhabitable spaces
FLEX HABITATION
SITE 1: U Type Courtyard Tower
SITE 2: Closed Courtyard Tower
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1. Existing Car Park 2. Social Welfare Centre 3. Quarry Cut
1. High School Complex 2. Quarry Cut and Depot
SITE 1 AND 2
site 1 overview
Condition: Neighborhood Communal Spaces Fold Effect: To Create a semi-open court that reponds to communal activities at the height of the quarry.
operations: 4 corners and one bridge platform
site 2 overview
Condition: Adjacent to Quarry and Neighborhood Schools Fold Effect: To Create a sequene of Terraces that look out to the city and provide amenities to neighborhood residents.
operations: 4 corners and 3 patio / deck spaces
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A SERIES OF RESIDUAL SPACES AS INTERVENTION SITES
SITE 4: Linear Slab Tower Type
SITE 3: Double-Loaded and Single-Loaded Corridor Hybrid
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1. Derelict Plot - public court - private court 2. Christian Church
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1. District Park 2. Heunginjimun 3. Restaurant and Toy Market Area
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site 3 overview
Condition: Changsin-Dong Border Fold Effect: To Create a passage way that connects Dongdaemun and Changsin-Dong
operations: 4 corners and 2 bridge platforms
operations: 4 corners
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SITE 3 AND 4
Condition: In between low-rises Fold Effect: To Create an Exterior Court and an Interior Court
site 4 overview
KEY PLAN SITES 1 AND 2
FLEX HABITATION
SITE 2: Closed Courtyard Tower
SITE 1: U Type Courtyard Tower
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SYSTEM AND FORM
SITE 3: Double-Loaded and Single-Loaded Corridor Hybrid
A COLLECTION OF WORK-LIVE-PLAY SEQUENCES
The conclusion would be that for the mixture of old industry and young populations around Changsin-Dong and Dongdaemun a fine balance work / study areas and living quarters in the schemes of site 1 and site 3 could perhaps be successful projects that allow for movement, quietness and intensity at once.
SITE 5: Corner Tower Condition
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SITE 4: Linear Slab Tower Type
KEY PLANS SITES 3, 4 ABD 5
THE experiementation resulted in five possible configurations of the section that have various youth housing potentials, ranging from the most compact and visual in site 5, where programs and hotspots are deployed vertically and sectional, versus the most spreadout and field like in site 2.
cavity HAUS
massing and screen studies
FINAL MODEL PHOTO 1:1
studio advisor: OLIVIER OTTAVAERE in collaboration with Karry Li / Jacky Cheung / Bryan Hui fall 2016
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CONSTRUCTION DIAGRAM
demolding diagram
cavity HAUS is reimagining of the brick as a fluid surface that is structural and porous, with degrees of porosity and play on the macro scale of the wall configuration and micro scale of varying types of brick forms. The proposal attempts to create a screen wall that is both experientially airy and massive at different angles that amounts to an atmosphere of light, shade, shadow and movement through changes in diffusion in time.
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GRADIENT EFFECT
cavity HAUS
individual module
construction diagram for prototype 1
a gradient of apertures
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SOLID AND VOID
DETAIL IMAGES
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cavity HAUS
Elevation 1
Elevation 1
module 1: The prototype
Elevation 1
Elevation 2
Elevation 2
MODULE TYPOLOGY
Elevation 1
Elevation 1
module 2: The parti
Elevation 1
Elevation 2
Elevation 1
module 3: Final Design
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Elevation 2
Elevation 2
Elevation 1
Elevation 1
Elevation 2
Elevation 2
Elevation 2
Elevation 2
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE
MOULD DEVELOPMENT
mould types, instructions and fitting
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MOIREE EFFECT AND MOTION
cavity HAUS
45 degree lighting
22.5 degree lighting
screen performance
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PERFORMANCE AND EXPRESSION
m/s
CFD Analysis
2.00+
Value Range: 0.20 - 2.00 m/s
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Flow Vector
-45 degree lighting
1.82 1.46 1.28 1.10 0.92 0.74 0.56 0.38 0.20
Curvature creates wind tunnel to control velocity of wind-flow.
Velocity ≤ 2m/s.
Creating better ventilation with wind from diverse angles.
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VOID ANALYSIS
- 22.5 degree lighting
CONTEXT PHOTO
RURAL URBAN FRAMEWORK / UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG / THE SWEEP (CN)
THE viewing deck is intended as a landmark, an entry point to a village in Greater Chongqing area that captures the view and provides canopy. Duties carried out in this project concerned communication between the architecture office, the university of Hong Kong and the local students, planning and documentation and publication of the project.
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PROJECT INTERN / PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND PHOTOGRAPHY
VIEWING DECK
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COMMISSION / FINE ART (HK/LA) 2015 - 16
THE project is a translation from a flat painting to headwear design.
CONCEPT DIAGRAM
The process involved mapping and extracting linework from existing paintings and projecting them onto a helmut geometry. The commission formed an opportunity to engage with metal printing and scripting.
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ARCHITECT / TRANSLATION AND FABRICATION
PROCESS AND OUTPUT 1:! SCULPTURES
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SECTIONAL DIAGRAM
RURAL URBAN FRAMEWORK / JINTAI VILLAGE (CN) 2014 - 15
THE project is a university-developer funded mat type housing project for villagers in a community affected by earthquake conditions in China. The opportunity arose when redevelopment of the area was greenlit. The houses improve current livelihood through responding to climate and program, with more room space, courtyards and roof gardens introduced. Leisure and work are embedded in the design.
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PROJECT INTERN / COMMUNITY CENTER DESIGN AND FEASIBILITY STUDIES
PROJECT PHOTOS AND MASTERPLAN
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CONCEPT RENDERING
HONG KONG DESIGN YOUR AIRPORT TERMINAL THREE EXTENSION COMPETITION in collaboration with Christina Kong Ka Yu
THE projects concerns developing recreational spaces and upgrading existing toilet facilities. The point of attack is the lack of personal and green spaces within terminal areas and hence an indoor grid-and-frame garden and a bathroom with seated-mirrors and expanded stalls were proposed. Curvatures, diffused lighting and green walls form the syntax of the projects. Thinness of envelope and members compensate for the carving out spaces from existing programs. 60
HONG KONG AIRPORT TOILET EXTENSION COMPETITION in collaboration with Christina Kong Ka Yu
CONCEPT RENDERING
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