HKU MLA Portfolio | SPRING 2023 | Tat Tang Chi Tat

BIO

Tat, Tang Chi Tat is a student designer interested in landscape, furniture and social design. He is graduated from the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Environment and Interior Design student. Currently as a MLA candidate at the Division of Landscape Architecture, The University of Hong Kong.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PROJECTS

I II III

HEALER | landscape design & planning

/ ethnobotany

/ indigenous knowledge

/ therapeutic landscape

//spring 2023

HAVEN | landscape design

/ public open space (pos)

/ water-freindly / waterfront promenade

//autumn 2023

IV V

FOOTSDOG. | furniture design / ergonomic / pet-friendly / modular system

//summer 2022

*awarded project in 2023

JOURNAL | gallery

/ exploration / research

/ sketch

//from 2018

SHAKESPEARE | botanical research

/ digital visualisation

/ folklore

/ storytelling

//summer 2022

ACADEMIC INSTRUCTORS

Dylan Kowk

Registered Interior Architect (Finland); hello@kwokdylan.com

Hoiwood Chang

Associate Division Head (SSHD); hoiwood.chang@cpce-polyu.edu.hk

Jason Hilgefort

Adjunct Professor; hjason@hku.hk

Ren Chao

Associate Professor; renchao@hku.hk

Xiaoxuan Lu

Assistant Professor; xxland@hku.hk

PROJECT HEALER

PROJECT TITLE TYPE

THEME

SIZE LOCATION PERIOD

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Ethnobotanical Landscape: Strengthening Local Healing System and Conserving Cultural Heritage at Hmong Doi Pui Village

Landscape design & planning

Ethnobotany, indigenous knowledge, therapeutic landscape

1 KM2

Doi-suthep Pui National Park, Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand

Spring 2023

This project proposals a hybrid mode in both the forest and the Hmong Doi Pui Village area. The hybrid mode system aims to reconnect the indigenous medicinal knowledge and animism harvesting cosmology in the past as well as close the gap between legal and illegal.

INSTRUCTORS

Xiaoxuan Lu, Jason Hilgefort

LOCAL HEALING SYSTEM

There are ongoing ethnobotany conflicts at the village such as the healing system conflict between herbalist’s indigenous medicinal knowledge and the modern medicinal knowledge. It is also related to the legal and illegal conflict between the legal species and narcotic species. For the healing system, Hmong villagers used to have the herbalists’ diagnosis and harvesting in the forest to collect the herbs for preventing getting any illnesses. However, the villagers need to travel over 1 hour so as to reach a small hospital.

Village demography

Medicinal value

BACK TO NATURE

After overlaying all the maps, I generated the NTFP shed with 5km dimension, and it is around 1 hour walk from the village. They can cultivate and harvest the herbs in these areas. Providing this wellness shed could improve capability and capacity of the healing system.

Replan and reschedule the gardening area at the village

Licensing structure

Quantity of herbs needed

RE-PLAN THE GARDEN AT THE VILLAGE

Re-planning the plan the garden and give it a new schedule so as to fulfil their healing needs. Furthermore, we need an important step on that. It is licensing. Fortunately, there’s operator called Chulabhorn Research Institute which could provides licensing and receipt editing on the herb products where located in Bangkok.

Sublime & holistic management

past - future

past - future

PROJECT HAVEN

PROJECT TITLE TYPE THEME SIZE

LOCATION PERIOD

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Chai Wan Waterfront Promenade Landscape design

Public open space (POS), waterfreindly, waterfront promendae

50000 M2

Chai Wan Cargo Handling Area, Hong Kong

Autumn 2023

The main idea of this project is reactivating and transforming the Chai Wan Cargo Handling Area to a Waterfront Promenade for all by promoting water-friendly culture, providing public open space (POS) and ecology educational services. The design elements are Aquamarket, Aqua-metro (pipes logistic system between berth and market), Aqua-garten (aquatic care taking centre - “aqua”+“kindergarten”), Aqua-transit (bridge) and Public Berths.

Ren Chao

CONNECTIVITY

This site is in between Heng Fa Cheun and Siu Sai Wan and surrounded by a bunch of industrial buildings. The whole design scheme is separated into 4 phases and different design elements which aiming to solve different problems. The design elements are Aqua-market, Aqua-metro (pipes logistic system between berth and market), Aqua-garten (aquatic care taking centre - “aqua”+“kindergarten”), Aqua-transit (bridge) and Public Berths.

Illustrate the socio-economic situation by using geographic system

FAVOURITE PARTS

It is a complex project with different design components and systems. This systematic diagram shows how those design components could work together and reveals what kind of systems are working behind the design components. This diagram is initiated from 2 fish sources, they are fishermen and fish farm. As fish are from 2 places, that means at least we need to have 2 types of water and they are fresh water and sea water. Therefore, we need a desalination plant for transferring sea water to fresh water for Aqua Market and Aquagarten. Furthermore, an aquaponic can be added as there’s freshwater supply. It can be used for enriching the Aqua-market as well as the market should not selling fish only.

Place-making sceneries

PROJECT SHAKESPEARE

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Oblivious Botanies: Shakespeare

Botanical Research

Digital visualisation, folklore, storytelling / / Summer 2023

Over 175 flowers, fruits, herbs, trees, seed and grasses were cited by Shakespeare. He used those plants to enrich the stories by adapting their shapes, form, folklore, medical value…… It’s a research project that highly focusing on the plant’s narrative by modelling different plants and understanding different stories behind the plants. There are severals small objects added during the analysis. They represents interesting stories and other funny metaphors behind the plants. Understanding these stories is a way to enjoy Bard’s inner landscape as well!

Visualised with a short stories from Shakespeare’s works

PROJECT

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Footsdog. Public Seats

Furniture design

Ergonomic, pet-friendly, modular system

2400 X 800 X 600 MM

Lee Tung Avenue, Hong Kong

Autumn 2022

FootsDog. is a group project that cooperated with Sino Group. It aims to engage the neighbor around Lee Tung Avenue and pet owners through social engagement. By understanding the relationship between public seat and users, we hope to achieve a pet friendly community among us.

INSTRUCTOR

CLIENT

Dylan Kowk

Sino Group

We have made some models for residents and future users to create some design opportunities. It is our great chance to understand their wants and needs. We are glad that we really got something from the social engagement. For instance, we altered the depth and the height of the seat as higher seat make some elderlies cannot stand up from the seat easily. Craftsmanship is another huge challenge to me. We spent lots of time to smoothen the wood and make the assemble method.

From components to combinations

PET-FRIENDLY & ECO-FRIENDLY

The project initiated with 3 small seating components. Then we used those 3 components to assemble a larger seating by using different methodologies such as stacking, juxtaposing…… Furthermore, we used local recycled acacia confusa for the final production which is placed along Lee Tung Avenue right now. It is my first time to make a 1:1 model. It is one of my favourite projects in my design career. Co-creating is fun and try to make a high level in craftsmanship is a great challenge to me too. Furthermore, it is also my favourite project when I was studing bachelor degree in the previous institute.

Place-make a pet-frindly street by designing furniture

PROJECT JOURNAL

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GALLERY

Botanical Research

Exploration, research, sketching

From 2018

Other works from 2018