Portfolio 2012

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INFINITY FOLDS form : urban structure, Shanghai, China from studying the development and urban structure of a residential district in Shanghai, urban structure was developed into tectonic structure of a facade

CUPS - DEFORMATION CHAIR INFINITY FOLDS

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CUPS - DEFORMATION CHAIR

FLYING BIRDS

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form : flying birds a pop up restaurant travelling around the world since 2010. One year after in 2011, she flew back to Berlin

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FUNCTION LET’S GO FILMING

LET’S GO FILMING

BUY WHATEVER YOU WANT

function : film crew residence 24 hour-architecture for those who works 24 hours a day

SCHOOLIVAL

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form : body crafting exercise constructing a paper cup to a self-structured furniture p.1 - 4

form : tessellation of a button from experimenting different tessellations of a button, an envelope of a button was created via manipulating the 2D patterns

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BATHHOUSE

Copenhagen

function : travelling school architects like travelling. However we spent a huge amount of time working in studio. This is a travelling studio to architects which engages them with the public

function : public bathhouse using the apparatus of manipulating 2D panel to create light and space for a public bathhouse in Dumbo Pearl Sqaure, Brooklyn, New York

Shanghai Venice

Sichuan

Rio de Janeiro

Guangzhou

Tokyo Hong Kong

Mumbai

Rio de Janeiro

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CAR “PARK” BATHHOUSE

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BUY WHATEVER YOU WANT function : residential houses of three different livingstyles houses of whatever living styles the house of your own living style

HOUSE ANALYSIS search : stair house analysis and analytical drawings of Villa Müller of Adolf Loos

HOUSE ANALYSIS

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IDEA PROJECT, CAMBODIA

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BING BAHN & WAWA

BE AN ARCHITECT WITH ME

function : car park tower a car park tower in Hong Kong. However we don’t like car, we like park more

search : global transformation we believe you can draw using this simple belief, space were transformed

search : dreams we believe dream and space are together research and workshop on different people’s living preferences around the world “What do you want to do when you are 60s” we ask YOU to design your world p.61 - 62

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BE AN ARCHITECT WITH ME

IDEA PROJECT, CAMBODIA

BING BAHN & WAWA

search : childern’s happiness we just believe children can be an architect

2010

p.25 - 31 school -- work

2011

works from work p.35 - 38

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DEFORMATION CHAIR (2007)

FURNITURE DESIGN WORKSHOP, BA(AS) I, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG COLLABORATE WITH CHRIS TSUI, BUZZ YIP & FRANCIS LAM

TO STRENGTHEN P APER CUP AS A FURNITURE COMPONENT A series of folding and interlocking method is studied. The weakest part of the cup, the section with the largest diameter, is folded into star shape. By interlocking the folded cups a piece of flexble furniture is created.

folding and interlocking method

deformation - furniture top view

folding and interlocking method

deformation chair p.1 -2


deformation - furniture side view

deformation chair p.3 -4


HOUSE ANALYSIS - VILLA MÜLLER (2007)

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house analysis p.5

THIS IS THE “BORDER” PAGE


LET’S GO FILMING (2008)

FILMING CREW AND PUBLIC MEET AT THE BORDER

DESIGN STUDIO, BA(AS) II, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG INSTRUCTOR : EUNICE SENG

enjoying and paying

Public

The site three main business districts (shenzhen side)

river border wetland (hong kong side)

director producer actors art team movie editing team

advertising

By looking into the production crew structure and the daily routine of the filming crew, the fast and rapid living style is observed. With the very short resting time in their own lodge, the concept is thus to provide a minimum but spacious living lodge with efficient acess to their working places.

budget, human resources

Producer

idea development

Director

Art Team - setting and props - camera - make up and dressing

The site strategy aims to make use of the visual potential of the Lok Ma Chau Loop. Different production fields are located sprially facing different view. production area : film crew working day and night

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Movie Editing Team - sounding - visual effect

crew structure

work crew schedule

site strategy

let’s go filming p.7 -8


Module study

1. 1. One person module - single crew - minimum dwelling

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study model : visual connection

1:100 model

3d model - lighting study

upper level plan

ground plan

let’s go filming p.9 -10


INFINITY FOLDS (2009)

DESIGN STUDIO, BA(AS) III, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG INSTRUCTOR : PASCAL BERGER site : regency park residential district, Shanghai, China urban analysis : onion urban envelope the road structure from the surrounding regency park is like an onion. It started from the largest loop in an urban scale and slowly approaching to the villa

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Constant ratio between villa and circulation

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At first, the 1:4 square relationship was introduced. Each square represents a potential to enclose private space.

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Then different polygons were introduced to break the square geometry. The “onion relationship� : an infinity enclosure, was still exist.

Enclosed Private Space : the villa

infinity folds p.13 -14


x1 FOLD IT ! x2 x3 movable elements

model photos : “x3” model

model photos : “x2” model, several modules

connections to main supporting structure

infinity folds p.15 -16


AIR EXCHANGE RATE

System Integration

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6m2 Kitchen Required Air supply

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0.008m3 q = nV q = fresh air supply (ft3/h, m3/h) n = air change rate (1/n) V = volume of room (ft3, m3)

0.05m3 0.003m3 0.025m3 0.025m3 fresh air supply of each module

= 360 m3/h Air supply per column of modules 6x0.08+2x0.08 + 1x30 =30.64 Numbers of columns of modules needed for a kitchen’s facade 360 /30.64 =12 columns

Building / Room Air Change Rates -n(1/hr) All spaces in general min 4 Attic spaces for cooling 12 - 15 Auditoriums 8 - 15 Banks 4 - 10 Barber Shops 6 - 10 Bars 20 - 30 Beauty Shops 6 - 10 Boiler rooms 15 - 20 Bowling Alleys 10 - 15 Cafeterias 12 - 15 Churches 8 - 15 Clubhouses 20 - 30 Cocktail Lounges 20 - 30 Computer Rooms 15 - 20 Court Houses 4 - 10 Dental Centers 8 - 12 Department Stores 6 - 10 Dining Halls 12 -15 Dining rooms hotels 5 Dress Shops 6 - 10 Drug Shops 6 - 10 Engine rooms 4 - 6 Factory buildings, ordinary 2-4 Factory buildings, fumes and moisture 10 - 15 Fire Stations 4 - 10 Foundries 15 - 20 Galvanizing plants 20 - 30 Garages repair 20 - 30 Garages storage 4 - 6 Homes, night cooling 10 - 18 Jewelry shops 6 - 10 Kitchens 15 - 60 Laundries 10 - 15 Libraries, public 4 Lunch Rooms 12 -15 Luncheonettes 12 -15 Nightclubs 20 - 30 Malls 6 - 10 Medical Centers 8 - 12 Medical Clinics 8 - 12 Medical Oces 8 - 12 Mills, paper 15 - 20 Mills, textile general buildings 4 Mills, textile dye houses

Principles of cooling by ventilation Convention flow warm cool

2.4m (6 modules) one storey room Obstructed Air Flow Indoor air speed 4% of outside

Free Air Flow Indoor air speed 35% of outside

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Schoolival : School as Design Carnival, Travelling Around The World (2011)

3rd Place, Competition of Intergrated Design School for the Socially-aware education, Social Design Foundation COLLABORATE WITH Nam Wu & Kenton Lam Architects design space that we live. Under the undeliable fact of globalization, architects build out of their own countries. However, we all come from different countries with different backgrounds and experiences. Decisions in architectural design are deviated by our different values. It is a potentially dangerous move. Without clear understanding of the city itself and its citizens, those buildings may not be effective to the users or even give adverse effect to them. At this age, socially aware design education should be based on close contact with the users, with clear picture of the city fabric. A mobile school, travelling over the world,giving totally different insight to students from different backgrounds, initiating close interaction with the locals is our proposed tool for developing design student’s social awareness. 1 Scale of Travelling school

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Public exhibition

The temporary modular school stay at the city for a semester

Public Lectures

We Are Just CITIZENS .. We Love Our City.

Dialouge with public through public presentation

studio (right) concept diagramg (left) site strategies top : Guongzhou, China middle : Venice, Italy botton : Tung Chung, Hong Kong

Dormitory

Library

Studio with Washroom

Multi-Purrpose Hall

schoolival p.21 -22


Car”Park” : Timely Swap between Art & Park (2012) Alternative Car Park Tower in Hong Kong, AC-CA (Competition entry) COLLABORATE WITH Nam Wu , Kenton Lam & Owen Lam

highzone restaurant

Pop up cells connected by Vertical Automatic Delivery System Traditional carparks are marked as dark and unwelcomed. To reverse this condition, programme weaving of car parking space is our solution. The complexity of site context is addressing the potential of different city life during different times of a day. highzone

Central - next to one of the most busy street in Hong Kong, Connaught Road - next to City Hall, cultural icon - connected to central commercial destrict - convenient access to public transportation. We are proposing an automatic car delivery system as a response to the need of quick access with high density. And we also benefit in having control of the location of occupied car slots, the system can flexibly rearrange the cars so as to provide extra space for any pop-up activities.

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midzone smaller plane

midzone larger plane

ground floor plan 2/f plan

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The top floor restuarant is equipped with a fixed kitchen with flexible seatings, the parking lots can be occupied as seatings when there are more people come to the restuarant. The pop-up studio space is a key component of the self suitainable maintanance of the building. By renting out the unused car lots, income generated could be used as the maintainace cost of the highly mechanical system of the car park tower.

seperated cells formed individual studio space

consecutive floors at the top made use of the core quality and became a performance space

midzone smaller plane

The concept of facade is to make a continous surface connecting three towers and to provide public screens serving city hall roof’s audience and the opposite site of the sea.

lowzone smaller plane

lowzone larger plane tower plan

critical flors connected with car lots formed exhibition space overall section

car”park“ p.23 -24


IDEA Project Cambodia (2010-12)

HKVA Hong Kong Volunteer Award ; Role : leader of architectural design team COLLABORATED WITH DESIGN TEAM : ALVIN KAN, AMY CHAN, CHERRY CHEUNG, HILDA LEE, JENNIFER LUI, JENNY CHIN, JONATHAN WONG, NICOLAS FOO, ROBERT WONG, SANDY LING, SIMON LEE

Good architecture brings happiness. We believe all people should have the equal opportunity to enjoy, partake in and have access to the design of architecture and environment. IDEA Project is a NGO in Hong Kong aiming at exploring solution towards sustainable design and community participation. We would like to set up a good example of sustainable architectural design and particiaption. We aimed to improve the livelihood of the villagers in remote areas, and empower the underpriviledged and the poor in the developing world with design opportunity.

I can design my own school ! ENGINEER I can design my own school !

PSYCHOLOGIST

ENGINEER ARCHITECT

cooperation with education team

Do you like it?

architectural details

VOTE ME!

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Your dream school?

Are you the designer?

STUDENT budget estimation teaching the children pretrip meeting officials

meeting the future users

Is this going to be my school ?

JOURNALIST brainstorming

local voting

volunteers from different backgrounds all worked on the design options

design schemes were voted anc commented by the locals for further development

TEACHER

details development

design services trip build work sweat

I am always searching for new social apparatus on creating architecture. Believe me, architecture can create social change.

idea project cambodia p.25 -26


Site research and visit Kampot town, Cambodia

Ventilation There is no fans in classroom and no natural ventilation.

Lighting Children reared in darkness the first few years of life may have permenantly impaired vision.

The temperature difference between outdoor and indoor stimulate the growth of bacteria, especially in hot and wet season.

south elevation

LOCAL VOICES the schematic design was commented by the locals on the following aspects and received the respective responses (r) FUNCTION 1 - “We want public space but there are so many thief here” r : self enclosed outdoor playground; control of facade openings STYLE 2 - “We want “modern architecture”, we don’t want traditional Cambodian school” r : careful study of vernacular style ; communication with local workers to understand the technological constriant use of local material (brick, metal, tyre)

ground plan

idea project cambodia p.27 -28


We arrived CAMBODIA ! July 2011 Let’s get it started

Day 1 Workshop Sketches we couldn’t speak the local language to communicate with the kids, but we draw to communicate

Let’s build it ! The school came out in four days. Family Before we arrived Cambodia we issued the main strucVisit tural drawings to the local contractors. After our arrival, we have different workshops with children every morning. The volunteer team spreaded in teams to work at the afternoon, have workshops with The workshop include both brain-storming sketch drawing and craft making. Our design team look into the sketches at night to get ideas from what the children think ok : “My Dream School”

IDEA sketches, main classroom exterior (left and middle) ; interior (right) LEE KA KI (THE CANDIDATE), AMY CHAN, CHERRY CHEUNG

Day 2 Workshop Crafts We made it!

Teacher Training Workshop

idea project cambodia p.29 -30


Wall of memory

“Don’t play! We are still building it!”

These are the paint bowls of each child which they used in the workshop designing the schoool

photo credits : Edward K. Chan

idea project cambodia p.30 -31


PRET A DINER BERLIN 2012 (2011 - 2012)

Pop up Restaurant design for Pret A Diner 2012, Berlin, Germany NOVONO. Project role : assist the designer on concept brainstorm and drawings

The project is to design and build a pop up restaurant in an old building in the city centre of Berlin. The Pret A Diner restaurant travelled around the world and stayed three months in every city. The construction time is one week.

photo credits : novono

The design concept of Pret A Diner Berlin was inspired by the architectural feature of the building. There are lots cage-liked window frames in the building, with the very limited lighting supply of the building the site looks like a prision. The design play with the escape from the cage. Flying birds and spots of light are the main elements to play with.

pret a diner berlin p.33 -34


SELECTED OFFICE WORKS - LUOYANG FOUR-SEASONS PEONY EXPOSITION WORLD, LUOYANG, CHINA (2012) pavillion and museum for China’s national flower Sauerbruch Hutton Project role : assist the architects on drawings

north elevation

north elevation

east elevation

east elevation

selected office works p.35 -36


SELECTED OFFICE WORKS - CAMPUS BUILDING IN GENES-ENSAE, SACLAY, PARIS, FRANCE (2012)

SELECTED OFFICE WORKS - ZURICH CC REDEVELOPMENT, HAU ALS STADT, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (2012)

Department building for an university campus (Competition entry) Sauerbruch Hutton Project role : Concept brainstorming, assist the design development, drawings and modelling

Cooperate building for Zurich Insurance Company (Competition entry) Sauerbruch Hutton Project role : design of exhibition area

Renderings : cooperate with Bloomimage

exhibition space design

selected office works p.37 -38


BUTTON STORY (2012)

the button was panelized throught pepakura and a pattern of button was thus created

DESIGN STUDIO, M.ARCH YR 1, GAUD, PRATT INSTITUTE INSTRUCTOR : KAREL KLEIN

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the flipped models with different concave-convex relationship were remodelled. And panelized by pepakura series of experiments on deforming the buttons were carried out finally a set of relationship between “points on curve” and “panel” was explored Through drawing curves with ten control points but with different curvatures. Different density of panels were found. This tessellation methodology was carried on for further development.

10 point- button exercise

other transformation exercises

10 point-button pepakura pattern - version one

button story p.41 -42


10 point-button pepakura pattern - version two

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FOLDING BATHHOUSE (2012)

DESIGN STUDIO, M.ARCH YR 1, GAUD, PRATT INSTITUTE INSTRUCTOR : KAREL KLEIN

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the task is to design a public bathhouse in Dumbo Pearl Sqaure, New York. The bathouse comprised of two different kind of bathing experience, the fast and the slow one. The strategy is to create an interlocking pathway relationship enclosed by a water structure.

the smooth envelope of those paths were panelized by pepakura. Same methodology used in the button project applied here too. By manipulating 2D panel pattern, the smooth surfaces were broken.

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steamed sauna pathway to the bathroom optional private bath

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site plan : Dumbo Pearl Sqaure

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folding bathouse p.51 -52


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folding bathouse p.53 -54


The structure transported water of different temperature around the whole bathhouse. The envelope is the skin as well as the core. The 2D manipulation from pepakura pattern maintained the general pattern of the skin and the same time provided little gaps for lighting and ventilation. This situation is perfect for public bathhouse as it created a semi-private conditions. pepakura pattern 1/8"=1'-0"

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folding bathouse p.57 -58


BING BAHN & WAWA (2012 - now)

EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING GROUP INSTRUCTOR : EVERYONE ; FOUNDER OF BING BAHN : Roberto dell’Orco and Sebastián Zabronski ; FOUNDER OF WAWA : Lee Ka Ki (the candidate)

Bingbahn and Wawa are experimental drawing groups exploring different issues in the city. We believe everyone can draw. We believe the energy of art can transform space. It is not about talent, but about participation.

http://bingbahn.tumblr.com/ http://www.facebook.com/wawaisdrawing

(left to right) 1. giving drawings to passenger @ Berlin, photo credit : Roberto dell’ Orco 2. invite a passenger to draw a shoe 3. how to earn a smile “ if you smile you are beautiful”

(left to right) Water perception, looking at the same water movement at the same time, we peceive differently. 1. Zhou Lai Jingjing 2. Raviraj Gulrajani 3. Lee Ka Ki (the candidate)

<<How to Draw : I earned a smile>> This thursday when I were Bingbahn-ing again, an old woman sit opposite to me. She bent her brows all over the journey. I always love to draw wrinkles therefore of course this woman is on my drawing list. After I draw I felt like I wanted to give the drawing to the woman, i thought for while as I like the drawing very much. Finally I wrote something and gave this to the woman : Teach me draw, Brooklyn, New York

city perception

i taught the first children to start drawing an ant, that children continued to teach the second one. The second then taught the third one, and so on...

transforming different abandoned or unusual space into an urban museum (below) drawing on fence, Berlin, Germany

bingbahn & wawa p.59 -60


BE AN ARCHITECT WITH ME (2010 - now) RESEARCH GROUP ON ARCHITECTURAL SATISFACTION FOUNDER : Lee Ka Ki (the candidate)

statement no. 1 :

response no. 1 :

“ crowd = unhappy? “

“ space = money? “

“ I were borne in Hong Kong and our flat is extermely small. I have to share a bedroom with my brother and sister. The room was 3.5 sqm.”

Think Big, Act Big workshop (2011)

Social Campaign, a special thanks to voluntary helper : April Lam

“I am going to feed my children outside my house” HKD $ 7,500,000

Three questions :

“Housing price in Hong Kong is expensive.”

1.How big is your home? Do you like living there and why? 2. What do you want to do when you are 60? 3. How big is your ideal home? And what has to be inside? global research since 2010, participants from 17 countries until now

Yes, people from all over the world know this. The crazy housing price in Hong Kong also led to a pessimistic thought among the citizens. “What are we working for? We work day and night for 3o years but all our salaries go to the rent.” I collaborated with “Think Big, Act Big” on this housing workshop on rethinking how much space do we actually need and try to explore the potential of housing within the limited space supply in Hong Kong. I criticized on the typical flat units of Hong Kong’s housing system. People have different lifestyles today so their needs of space differentiated. The improvement of information technology also allow us to live in small space with a computer. Of course we want a big house. But this time I am asking “How much do you want to pay for your house?”

“I am not going to pay for a cat” HKD $ 5,500,000

“I want big TV and a lot of food” HKD $ 50,500,000

HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT TO PAY? be an architect with me p.61 -62


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