portfolio for selected project
academic selected project
Succession of Cultural Sentiment Space Movement Dance Community Center of Performances Design Studio Project
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Design Ideas Competition for Preservation Corridor for Lung Tsun Stone Bridge Remnants Second Prize - Open Group Competition
Modern Nomad The evolution of Housing System Self Initiated Project
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P.12-14
Arberit Macht Frei
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Research Project
*All drawing in this portfolio are done by WONG Chak Pui
Types Collaborator Date Stage/Award
School Studio Project Indivudual 2012 Conceptual Design
20 th Century was a period full of revolution in the history of dance. A lot of movement exploded in the early century. Dance become no longer a high-class activitie,but start shifting to a public level.
Throughout years of evolution, dance become popular and easily interpreted by public. The project Community Dance Center aims to create a performance space for professional dancer and giving a gathering place for public dancer in district.
The existing site was an x-game park. It was a place fully filled by dynamic forces and movements. Through observation I figure out the key words of x-game and street dance, is the movement.
Here is a 4 minutes long video, which I am trying to analyze the similarity of sport and dance. It is a music video combining both dance and sport elements, first half of the video includes with clips of classical dance like, ballet and other traditional sports. An interesting conlusion that both the dance and the sports share similar gesture. Second half of the video is focusing on modern movement like street dancing and X games. More similarities could be found between these twos while differentiation are harder to be made. Actions of spinning, jumping and holding appear in both scene.
DANCE
SPORTS
Physical Representation
art performance
Physical Fitness
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The form of the Dance Community Center is an emerge of building and landscape. The auditorium and the landscape is merged by cutting and lifting the landscape in the methodologies of paper folding. Half of the auditorium is hidden underneath the landscape.
Generated by the forces of the x-games activties, like x-gamers skating around a loop surrounding the site, the design creates a gyrate force which pulls, tweak and sharpen a corner of the auditorium.
As the main target group in this site is teenager, attraction providing sense of youth is necessary. Classical studio dances are not put as consideration for the performing group in this theater. Rather to a modern and younger generation sense, modern dance including street dance, Hip Hop will be consider as the main performance activties.
With the similarities found in both dance and sports, the design aims to provide both a sense of sports and dance venue that facilitate both teenagers needs - rather to define strictly on dance and sports, a spaces that allows a combination of both to be happened.
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Concrete Roof Finishing
Secondary Steel Structure of Roof
Steel Truss Main Structure of Roof
Exterior Skin of Auditorium
Roof Structure of Auditorium
Auditorium
Exterior Skin of Auditirium
Interior Staircase
Intentionally, an atmosphere of carnival would be created in this dance community center will by integrating a varieties of activties to happened around the site. Both x gamer and street performancers can play around the site, before or after any venues hosted. Dancer can have a pre-performance at the public area near main entrance,
which audience could haev their best views on the stairs which serve at the same times as seating area and bar. The whole public area would be utilize as an open foyer, without boundary and limitation that allow the best interaction between the audience and “performers�(x gamer and dancer).
Back of house Area
Ticket Selling Kiosk
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Types Collaborator Date Stage/Award
Succession of Cultural Sentiment
Open Group Competition Rose Tan 2013 Second Prize
The Objective of the Design Ideas Competition for preservation corridor for Lung Tsun Stone Bridge is to collect innovative concepts for creating suitable space, ambience and environment to facilitate in-situ preservation and appreciation of the Bride remnants in the new developed area of Kai Tak. Held by Civil Engineering and Development Department in co-organising with Architectural Service Department, Energizing Kowloon East Office of the Development Bureau, Leisure
and Cultural Services Department, Planning Department, the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers, the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects, the Hong Kong Institute of Planners, The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors and the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design, the project works as a team of two for the design ideas.
Sitting quietly underground for over 70 years, Lung Tsun Stone Bridge, one of the most important connection hubs in the history of Hong Kong development is working as a unique symbol of Hong Kong spirit. With time passes by, it’s still stands and remains. The re-exposure of Lung Tsun in the Kai Tak new development area acts as a milestone of the unique Hong Kong character and linkage of the era.
The site situated in between the existing Kowloon City areas and the new developed Kai Tak area, it would become a future connection hubs from the existing urban fabric towards the new development area in corporate with the energizing Kowloon East development planning and the new Kai Tak Cruise Terminal.
In succession of this cultural sentiment, the design of the preservation corridor essence with a clear directional diagonal, extending from the history towards the future. This axis is extended from the Kowloon Walled City, where the origin of Lung Tsun Stone Bridge linked. Pushing the ground into 2 levels, a slope and a ground level deck is separated gently while Connection Bridge is introduced for the connectivity on ground level, towards the retails beside the preservation corridor. This connection bridge pointing towards Kai Tak Cruise terminal, the landmark of the new developed Kowloon East District work as a symbol towards the future.
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The cracks provide an interesting echo towards the excavation process: Breaking the existing ground to found the content inside while allowing a new perspective to experience the remnants underneath. The remnant sculpture on the ground level deck is projected from the underground remnant. It is working as a series of sitting out bench allowing another level of leisure route, serving both the customer and the resident needs, connecting with the neighbourhood-shopping arcade. Light congregate through the crack and cast on the lower ground deck remnants as a highlight.
Connectivity on neighborhood environment is the key program for the design. As situated in between the old Kowloon. City area and the future new Kai Tak area, two main types of circulation would be involved in this area – daily route and leisure route. The daily route is referring to the major connection from old town towards the new area included the linkage towards the future Kai Tak MTR station. This daily route would be relatively direct, and straight forward that allow easy and quick access towards the destination. The leisure route provides unique spatial experience, allowing people, from both the underground shopping street and neighbourhood shopping arcade a sitting out area and a place for transient relaxation space.
Remnant of Lung Tsun Stone Bridge is articulated with a water feature along the slope, holding the remnant as an entire landscape experience. Supporting structure under the remnants appears further down the slopes as a unique spatial experience for exhibition purposes. This exhibition space serve as part of the leisure route allowing people to fluid in between and explore in a gentle rhythm free from interruption. Two sides of the remnants keep with the minimum interruptions that allow the best accessibilities for daily route users. The Lung Tsun and Kai Tak remnant work as a testimony towards the exhibition area and provide the best setting for cultural activities and exhibition to be happened.
Two main Levels
Upper deck garden and foot bridge
Upper deck circulation
lower deck circulation
Main decking structure
Bridge heritage Supporting structure and exhibition area
Water feature
Green space
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Underground edge wall integrate the elements of old and new spontaneously with a vertical water feature and green wall. Both of the vertical water feature and green wall serve as a backdrop for the remnants, creating respective experience to the remnants upon viewpoint. Situated under the ground level deck, the water features echo this enclosure to provide a sheltered sitting area turning out from the underground shopping street.
The conceptual design of preservation corridors, Succession of Sentiment, creates a unique spatial experience, as a main connection linking the Kowloon City to the new Kai Tak development area. With integrated the design concept, it brings the Lung Tsun remnant alive, further from an important cultural heritage, to success the cultural sentiment of Hong Kong.
Types Research Project Collaborator Edmond Cheung Charon Lung Pasu Mau Dennis Chung Date 2012 Stage/Award Completed
Extermination of Jews In 1939 after German invaded Poland, World War II broke out and the first concentration camp was constructed in Poland. The first concentration camp Auschwitz I was under an examining purpose to control Jews and use them on experiment. 1942 the project of Auschwitz I meant to a success in Jews control and exterminating, final solution of Jews was approved on Wannsee Conference to murder Jews all over Europe. Auschwitz II and Auschwitz III
The project was based on a detail research and analysis of an historical site – Auschwitz the concentration camp, we abstract and reinterpret the site with personal expression and feeling into or work. As a foreigner and teenager, Auschwitz is a place far and intangible. The history between Nazi German and Jews are more likely as a story, which is describing a world we can never imagine nowadays. Through information from internet and books, and by reading some passenger article about what victims have seen, the atmosphere and their feeling in Auschwitz, I find I am getting very close and a feel that I was in there insensibly. Photo taken have record the live in a
concentration camp, how Jewish live in a tiny space with poor hygienic conditions, how Nazi soldiers torture and execute the Jewish. These are giving us a visual experience. The architecture left in the site, are the most solid evidence to prove the existing of the tragedy, we can feel the atmosphere and the weather by touching the texture of the wall, the ground. The article, the letters, and the belonging of Jewish leaving behind become a spiritual connection between nowadays visitor and dead Jewish, they are no more just a stranger, by the clothes, the glasses and the writing on their suitcase, we can feel what is their mood when entering the camp.
were set up afterward which took the role of both extermination camp and labor camp. In 1944, the allied army started fight back, German know they were going to lose the war and were ordered to the destruct the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers and crematoria, trying to remove evidences of the holocaust. January, 1945 Soviet troops entered the Auschwitz camp complex and it was the liberation day of the site. In May of the same year, Nazi Germany armed forces surrendered unconditionally
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In the first model I have made is a transparent box with Auschwitz information mark on it, which is the objective description and record of the history of Auschwitz. Inside is another little box with scene of Auschwitz during WWII, holding up the position by ropes representing what actual happened there, but they are covered by the objective description. The ropes represent the department try to keep the site situation as original, but they did not bring the actual happen outside the box for everyone to
feel. This box placed at the level of an adult’s eve view to symbolize the site is easily see by people but not reachable for everyone for example children. There is a small opening at the top of it; only people who know can put their hand in it and touch the box inside. The metaphor of the height is different between an adult and a child to show different generations are having different perspectives and understanding on what happened in Auschwitz. Children represent
the new generation who never experience the Holocaust, what they know about it is only through the writing on the exterior box. For the adult who may belong to the generation living during WWII or experience some similar event as the Holocaust can actually feel the truth covered.
The first section is an area showing rods with different height and some randomly positioned. This will attract visitors’ curiosity and present an interesting visual impact to walk onto the path. The randomness signified confusion and helplessness, which is the same as what the Jews saw and thought from the very beginning when approximating Auschwitz, this was a place with no hope of freedom. When visitors come into the second section, it is a path with some much well organized robs layout in both side, which create a regular, ordered, rigid single way direction, because of the continuous enter of other visitors behind. The gaps between rods are not able to
pass through, people can only move forward without any option. This is what Prisoners felt and experienced in the past when they were forced to enter Auschwitz. After the rigid rod path, the pattern of rods changed to become an irregular route, and with a bumpy road, the rods start to block part of the path and force visitors to pass this section by having to stride across and squat down. This is a way of dehumanization and humiliation to a holocaust victim or prisoner. Nazi treated the prisoner as a hard labor, by not providing a humane living condition. Visitors will again go through a regular area and find that they are heading to a tower with light and shine. The character in this section is a prisoner who is looking forward, having a hope that work can finally lead to a shiny target – freedom. When they are walking toward “freedom”, the path start dropping, a down slope bringing them not to the way of freedom, but instead way of death which are the gas chambers, they start going underground, visitors cannot look out from the gaps anymore, the path become narrow, they can smell and touch the underground soil and finally come to a tiny space, like getting buried underground. The spaces connect to the gas chamber where prisoners were gassed. The shinning tower is just a virtual image giving hope that can never reach of the prisoners, and display the terrifying and desperate message: “no matter how hard you try you could never get freedom.”
At the night, the rods path will turn into a light path, it guides the visitor to walk through the “Path of death”, and the darkness environment weakens the sight of visitor. They need to pass the sections by using their hands and other sense, this enhance their fear and confusion, they have no choice but following the light, visitor become no liberty to choose their own way like Jews in the concentration camp.
After walking through the rods path, visitors can walk freely in the site. When they looked back to the path, it gave another perspective to look at people walking inside. If the path leads to death, the people outside the path will act as people who are facing death. The whole situation created a scene like the old day when the site was a concentration
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Modern Nomad New evolution of Housing System Types Collaborator Date Stage/Award
School Studio Project | Final Year Project Indivudual 2013 Conecptual Ideas
This housing project is an experiment in a new way of dwelling combining with transportation, saving time and money on transport by carrying our own apartment to every city. A universal prototype of living container was designed ready to be plugged into every pre fabricate infra-structure, we can bring our home with own character like a modern nomad.
Flexable and Mobility of Living
Nowadays high-rise residential are highly restrict by rules set up by property manager, which are in a way keeping neat of public area, but limiting the resident creativity on using space. There are problem of unauthorized building works and subdividing units in old tenement house. But these issues can never found in the high rise, because architects and designer have already input their ideal paradigm of living, resident are adapting their way of living to the unit. This end up a non-personality, repeating building we have all over Hong Kong Today.
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practicing selected project
Mobile M+ Inflation
with Groundwork Architecture + Urbanism
Fong Yuen Study Hall
with Groundwork Architecture + Urbanism
Colony Tower
with Groundwork Architecture + Urbanism
Hawkers Reload
with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
10 Days Festival
with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Garden of Eden
with Groundwork Architecture + Urbanism
HKCCSA Clubhouse Renovation
with Groundwork Architecture + Urbanism
Panyu Shopping Complex
with Groundwork Architecture + Urbanism
NC Mall
with AGC Design Ltd.
Mobile M+ Inflation Types Collaborator Year Location Scale Stage/Award
Outdoor Exhibition, Landscape Groundwork Architecture + Urbanism 2013 West Kowloon, Hong Kong 7500 sqm Completed
This project is an attempt to create a very minimal museum with only a network of concrete lines. These lines may also be viewed from the above as an extremely large drawing driven by the invisible force of exhibits, which may be an exhibit itself. Hence, the project is also an experiment: how would people be interacting with the drawing in such open space? The ‘Mobile M+: INFLATION!’ exhibition was held at the West Kowloon Cultural District between April to June 2013. INFLATION! is the first exhibition held at the Park and the future site of M+ at the West Kowloon Cultural District, with six large-scale inflatable structures by international artists around the world.
These sets of monumental temporary sculptures are highly visible, they signal the development of M+ and the West Kowloon. They are, at the same time, playing with audience’s anticipation of outdoor sculpture in the district, stimulating a broader interest and ideas in the integration of contemporary visual art in public space, through re-thinking the role of spaces and objects in reinforcing place-meaning and place-making.
Fong Yuen Study Hall Types Collaborator Year Location Scale Stage/Award
Heritage Renovation, Landscape Groundwork Architecture + Urbanism 2013 Ma Wan, Hong Kong 140 sqm Completed
Fong Yuen Study Hall was built in the 1920s. It was a local primary school and it was built from the funding collected from the local villagers at Ma Wan. Most of the vernacular dwellers
of Ma Wan were fishermen. As the local fishery business was subsiding, the education of their children was only avenue that would be leading them out of poverty.
Our response to the brief was to celebrate the movement of the children that were once the occupants of this building. We have lined the interior with an inner second skin of translucent membrane that would be animating the reminisce of the children’s movement trajectories. The complex geometries of the second skin may not be achieved without computational design which would allow every single piece of the fabric to be precisely trimmed and tailored.
Tower of Colony Types Collaborator Year Location Scale Stage/Award
Outdoor Exhibition, Landscape Groundwork Architecture + Urbanism 2012 Taiwan 15 sqm Completed
The Colony Project is the Hong Kong installation at Taipei NEXT PLAY : Shifting Ground Exhibition. Invited by the Taipei City Urban Regeneration Office, three teams of architects from Taiwan, Japan, and Hong Kong were asked to respond to a theme, ‘Displacement’, to transform a 1 acre site at Huashan, a cultural district at the heart of Taipei City. The architects further develop the concept based on
views to his city’s identity; the works are exhibited to public for two months. The subject our team (Hong Kong) wished to explore was The Colony. We are interested in how migrant reacts on a foreign land. we ‘colonized’ 1 acre of grassland from site, therefore colonizing a fragment of Taipei. Hong Kong, a colony by nature, has now its own colony.
Hawker Reload Types Collaborator Year Location Scale Stage/Award
Academic Research The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 2013 Hong Kong Completed
Situation When Keep the Building Exit with 6m Clearance.
It was the tragic fire on Fa Yuen Street in 2011 that served as a wake-up call for rethinking the hawkers’ place, both figuratively and literally, in densely-populated Hong Kong. Hawker policies were formulated long ago to improve hygiene and traffic. Fire safety did not seem to be their explicit objective and existing designs of hawker stands have not been systematically articulated, examined, and tested. There seemed to be room for improvement in terms of efficiency, comfort, safety, and aesthetics, without a radical revamp of the hawker stalls and street culture. Situation When Keep the Building Exit with 1.5m Clearance and All Hawkerstands Cover with Fire Rated Material.
The Study on Hawkerstand Help to Break Down Hawkerstand into 3 Main Elemants: Top, Display System, Storage.
Every Hawkerstand on the street have their own character.
A PolyU task force of designers, architects, engineers, social scientists, and students implemented a one-year interdisciplinary research project. Beginning with a study of current hawker conditions and existing laws and policies governing hawkers and hawker bazaars and a series of reconnais-
sance exercises. The dedicated team carried out surveys and interviews in which owners, customers, and neighbors of hawkers raised many views and concerns.These new observations and ideas culminated in a new hawker stall design using the existing materials, so as to
preserve the character, appearance, and hence the tradition of Hong Kong hawkers. Moreover, using existing materials to help keep cost comparable to the old design and makes it easier to win these small-scale manufacturers over.
10 Days Festival Types Collaborator Year Location Scale Stage/Award
Exhibition The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 2013 Hong Kong 35 sqm Completed
The exhibition is partially an extension of Hawker Reload research project. This is a festival held by Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation, Hawker Reload was one of the institute project. I have to organize the setting, the display of the exhibit, and also all of the logistic issue. We were sharing the hall with other parties, a good communication skill was trained throughout this event.
Garden of Eden Types Collaborator Year Location Scale Stage/Award
Heritage Renovation Groundwork Architecture + Urbanism 2013 Repulse Bay, Hong Kong 600 sqm Schematic Design
This is a heritage building locate in a noble residential area with a wonderful beach in front of it. The proposal is about attracting more visitors to the site through renovating the heritage into a multifunction building with a main theme as ‘wedding’. The programme in the building can work inde-
pendently, but they can also work as a whole to serve a wedding, from make up to catering and ceremony venue. We take a good use of the sea view and beach to enhance the atmosphere to make it an ideal wedding ceremony venue in Hong Kong.
H.K.C.C.S.A. Clubhouse Types Collaborator Year Location Scale Stage/Award
Renovation Groundwork Architecture + Urbanism 2012 Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong 3300 sqm Schematic Design
The Hong Kong Chinese Civil Servants’ Association (HKCCSA), founded in 1914, has served as a unique totem which has gravitated and united the Hong Kong civil service. HKCCSA is a society with meaningful historic background, there were many members who was taking an important position in Hong Kong Government.
The new clubhouse should act as a media to connect members and public, get rid of conservative old fashioned image in the past. We suggest using a continuous green roof to merge with context rather than an iconic grand entrance, the green roof will be open to public, and visitor can access to every floor of the clubhouse through it.
Panyu Shopping Complex Types Collaborator Year Location Scale Stage/Award
Shopping Mall Groundwork Architecture + Urbanism 2013 Panyu, China 2.7 ha Schematic Design
The project aims to renovate an existing shopping mall locate at Panyu, China. The Client would like to renovate the mall and expand it to be a mixed complex with an office tower. Base on the existing structure,
we suggested separating the mall in several pieces by relocating some shops to the second floor to free up the central area as a plaza. The plaza becomes a public gathering point by the extension of pedestrian road.
NC Mall Types Collaborator Year Location Scale Stage/Award
Shopping Mall AGC Design Ltd. 2014 Nam Cheong, Hong Kong 2.2 ha Detail Design + Construction
This is a project to design a new shopping mall with residential tower on it. The site is connecting to railway station, and part of the podium is sitting on the station, this is a large scale development project provide chance to work with another architecture company which take part in the residential area. There are about 10
different parties working together, it was a good experience to participate in this project, I learned how to make good communication and figure out the best method for everyone to work in the same site during the process, and a good working habit have been trained to follow a common system in this project.