HIU YAN CHAN, JANIE BA(HONS), MARCHD(HONS) janiechy@gmail.com +44 (0) 7477202813 https://www.behance.net/janiechan
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LIGHT & SHADOW Light and shadow are inevitable in nature and they have impact on architecture in many ways. They influenced the architecture interior to exterior from floor plan to building proportion and orientation. They are also tectonic elements that architects and photographers love to work on. They also represent contrast and conflict, solid and void, positive and negative.
When light gives object a shadow; the shadow brings it a form. The form changed respond to the light; shadows overlay and become SHADES. Shade is shadow but more than shadow of darkness. Shades exist when shadows overlapped, however, shades can also be the shadow of light
LIGHT SHADOW
MUSEUM
The hand drawing of Domino Sugar Factory shows the entire sugar factory before partly demolished. The building by the left is the original sugar factory that built in 1856. It survived from sugar dust explosions, repair and expansions to follow the original design. The building on the right was part of the expansion that built in 1900s, however, it was demolished in 2014, since it is no longer exists, I draw the building more dramatic and blurry to make a contrast to my building. I outlined the factory with a thicker ďŹ ne liner and a thinner one to draw out the texture and patterns. With pencil slightly sketching on top to enrich the expression.
DOMINO SUGAR FACTORY Site Analysis Williamsburg is an area that claimed to be an artistic and low income neighbourhood. It contained a rich layers of history and diversities. It was an agricultural area in 16’s century and turned into industrial district since 18’s century. The area is still consider as low to middle class neighbourhood since the rezoning progress is slow and behind other boroughs in Brooklyn. The area has developed its own character including local hipster culture, the indie music and local art. Its value is affected by the diversities of communities, such as Hispanics, Jews and Africa American etc.
New York
Brooklyn
During the industrial revolution, williamsburg attracted many wealthy industrialists in 1850’s. world class and top of the united states factories were built in the neighbourhood. The de-industrialization began in 1980, factories consecutively shut down, demolished or renovated. It also stated the beginning of gentrification in williamsburg. It provided an opportunity for artists and young professionals to move in. abandoned factories were either demolished to rebuild as residential, or renovated into factory lofts and luxury apartments.
North Brooklyn/ Williamsburg
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TEXTILE FACTORY, REGENERATED TO HOTEL
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LOCAL BEER BREWERY, LAND REDEVELOPMENT. 2025 LEAVE NEIGHBOURHOOD
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WHOLESALE GROCERY TRADING WAREHOUSE, RENOVATED TO LUXURY APARTMENT
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SOAP FACTORY, RENOVATED TO APARTMENT
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STEEL FACTORY, RENOVATED TO LOFT
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SHOES POLISH BUILDING, REGENERATED TO LUXURY CONDO
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SODA FACTORY, REGENERATED TO CONDO
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENT FACTORY, RENOVATED TO CONDO
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BEER BREWING COMPANY, REBUILD TO COMPLEX APARTMENT
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PASTA FACTORY, RENOVATED TO ARTIST LOFT
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PRINTING FACTORY, RENOVATED TO APARTMENT
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HENCE MY PROPOSAL IS TO PRESERVE THE BUILDING OF DOMINO SUGAR FACTORY AND ITS FACTORY CHARACTERISTICS AS AN PRECIOUS LANDMARK IN WILLIAMSBURG. INSTEAD OF PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL, PUBLIC SPACE SUCH AS MUSEUM IS MORE WELCOME FOR PEOPLE TO VISIT AND UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF THE FACTORY AND ITS HISTORY IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.
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light and shadow
light and shadow museum
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Domino Sugar Refinery (demolished)
11 detail
10 museum spaces
09 museum map
Domino Sugar Refinery (remained) 1856
08 design
07 the rooms
06 concept
Abandoned Factory 1849 (former Pfizer Factory)
05 domino sugar factory
04 my museum
Factory regenerated Hotel 1901
03 light box
Residential
02 research
01 thesis introduction
Residential
LIGHT BOX RESEARCH EXPERIMENT let the light shine and let the shade grow
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KLAN
BRIC
Narrative on board
Sequence of travel
Concept This is an experiment model that combined the idea of time movement capture and present narrative with light and shadow. It applied the layering of movement from previous model and created multi-scenes on single face. The narrative in the model is referred to the walk experience I did in the beginning of semester one, which it is about how I was chasing after a person through the traces in an audio.
“In many plants (electrical) the power required for light production area, warehouses, offices, reduced significantly by installing skylight. Plants (electrical) power that are presently using skylights for building illumination have reported that electrical lighting is required only 20% of the time during daylight hours. ” -Handbook of Sugar Refinery
SPRING
AUTUMN
4 pm. 4 pm. 3 pm. 3 pm. 2 pm. 2 pm. 1 pm. 6 am,
7 am.
8 am.
9 am.
10 am.
11 am.
1 pm.
12 pm.
6 am,
7 am.
8 am.
9 am.
10 am.
11 am.
12 pm.
4 pm.
SUMMER
3 pm.
4 pm.
WINTER
3 pm.
2 pm.
2 pm.
1 pm. 6 am,
7 am.
8 am.
9 am.
10 am.
11 am.
12 pm.
1 pm. 6 am,
7 am.
8 am.
9 am.
10 am.
11 am.
12 pm.
LIGHT & SHADOW Journey of Emotions
Entrance Corridor - Linear Side Strip Lighting
Self Reflection Room - Top Single Point Lighting
Molasses Room
Corridor - Linear Top Strip Lighting
White Room
Corridor - Gradient Strip Lighting
Dark Room - Spillage of Light at Bottom of Rooms
Temptation Room
Existing Chimney For City View
Manhattan View
My proposal is to preserve the building of domino sugar factory and its factory characteristics as a precious landmark in williamsburg. Instead of private residential, public space such as museum is more welcome for people to visit and understand the value of the factory and its history in the neighbourhood.
DARK ROOM
FOCUS
Collection of individual spaces in a dark room. The way ďŹ nding is through the strips of light that leaked through the spaces from the bottom of the room.
A 5 level tall rectangular space with one small rectangle ceiling opening for lighting. The room express the loneliness of the Building since it abandoned in 2004.
TANKS
TANK ROOM
Remembrance of the sugar making process
LIGHT & SHADOW A study of light and shadow through spaces that creates expressions.
Re-using Existing sugar tanks for memorial experience
SHADOW OF LIGHT Journey of Lights Through Existing Openings
MOLASSES
Recreating the sugar making process through glass boxes of molasses
SOLAR COLLECTION Fibre Tubes Lighting System
- The factory has divided into 2 sections of the building. Sun collectors are installed in each part of the roof to collection solar lighting for the building. - There are 2 main sources of lighting in the building which are the daylight from window openings and the solar collector at roof level. The solar ďŹ bre tubes enters the tank room - The solar collector, collects the lighting and store in a centralised storage through the single source at the top of the which located in the building. The storage will then distribute the retank to give lighting for the space quired lightings into each required rooms.
Solar Collector
Solar Transfer Fibre Tubes
The was similarly used in the Lowline development
The carries light into each required room from the solar storage.
TYPICAL DETAIL
TYPICAL DETAIL
Molasses Connections
Metal Walkway Connection
Laminated Glazing Spider Connection Molasses Liquid Galvanized Steel Balustrade
Laminated Glazing box Laminated Glazing box
Galvanized Steel Grating Decking Universal I Beam Steel Space Frame to Support Walkway Over existing Beam Steel Bracket for Coumn Connection Existing Concrete Column
Existing Tank, Transformed into Exhibition Spaces Metal Walkway
Glass Bridge Welded Steel I Beam Frame Glass Balustrade
Existing Steel Beam
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CULINARY Architecture seeks to ďŹ nd harmony between pragmatics and poetics through phenomenological relationships of tectonics, placement, and culture. The choreography of these events, both physical and metaphysical, leads to a depth in the art of place making. The act of building in a certain way or attitude is read as aphorism – the statement embedded in the physical existence of a construction is manifest in the way which its existence is made.
Portugal Marco Scale Country
Religion
Alentejo Marco Scale Region
History
Evora
SĂŁo Bento de Catris
Architecture
Food
Mid Scale City
Honey Cultivation Not the main export product of the region but has potential in developing into my subproducts
Cork Tree Plantation Planted in large scale and harvest in every 9 years. Trees are tall in nature which forms a natural barrier and possibly block noise.
Olive Plantation In small scale. Being one of the biggest export in the region as an opportunity, it is proposed to expand the plantation.
Cow Farm Once a milking shed and cows were for milking purpose. However today these cows were rare for its meat.
Micro Scale Place
Phase 1 - Current Site as Culinary School - Student Accommodation
Phase 2 - Food research area, benefiting to culinary school and public.
Phase 3 - Vineyard & Wine production. Bringing winery into the site.
Phase 4 - Children playground that can be benefit to the local residential nearby.
Phase 5 - Art and cultural area for people to enjoy the art of food.
Cloister
Highway
SĂŁo Bento de Catris
Entrance
Sub Road
Small Exit
Aqueduct Sub Road Sub Road
- Density become less away from city wall. Vine Yard
- More rural area SĂŁo Bento de Catris
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3 Art/Food Research
Culinary School
Food Research Lab
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City Wall
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Children Playground
Existing Building Proportion & Materials
Natural Material - Timber - Stone
Proportion - Long Corridor Space
Aging -Damage Roof
Aging - Wearing stone and timber
Proportion
Stone: - Aging Stone in Appearance - Special Corner Stone Treatment
Aging
Material
Building Design Functional development
- Block Extension - Lack of integration of green - Decreased a lot of green space
- Decreased glass extension - Lack of integration of facade
Full height Windows - Enlarge window for better daylight
ETFE Chimney - Introduction of light weight chimney. - Daylight into rooms - Visual connection between floors
Existing unused field - External herb & veg field for culinary school. - Inter-connection to hub
ETFE hub extension - In kitchen area as a light weight structure which makes less disturbance to existing stone wall. - Serves as indoor herb area for kitchen area
- Integration of façades - Individual green houses
Building Design Functional development
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ARTIST APT & PHOTOGRAPHY CENTRE The Accommodation Buildings will explore other areas of architecture. The focus will be on challenging living/working conventions within the city, sustainability and servicing strategies, materiality and detailing. The city of Liverpool is a constant, running through both Semesters and should continue to be a resource and benchmark. The consideration of the context will be crucial because you are designing within a World Heritage Site. Your previous site analysis and design proposals will have greatly informed you to the constraints and opportunities of your chosen site. Further explore these through the design of the accommodation building and its relationship to your photographic centre and the public realm.
RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT ARTIST MARKET
ARTIST APARTMENT
PHOTOGRAPHY CENTRE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
ART CENTRE
PEDESTRIAN FLOW/ LINKAGE OF BUILDING VISTA
- VERTICAL AXIS BETWEEN ART CENTRE. ARTIST APARTMENT & ART MARKET. - PROPOSED CENTRAL ARTISTIC SQUARE, CONTINUATION FROM DERBY SQUARE. -VARIOUS ENTRANCE TO PENETRATE INTO THE SITE. -CENTRAL GREEN SQUARE FOR THE CITY, A PLACE FOR RELAXATION. -360 VIEW FOR APARTMENT USER OF THE CITY. - SEPARATION OF ART CENTRE AND ARTIST APARTMENT FOR USE OF PUBLIC AND ARTIST. - APARTMENT SET BACK FROM THE MAIN ROAD FOR NOISE AND POLLUTION REDUCTION
METRO JAMES ST CULTURAL DISTRICT
2 mins
COMMERCIAL AL
2 mins
2 mins
DOCK LAND AREA LIVERPOOL ONE COMMERCIAL DISTRICT
RESIDENTIAL AREA CITY CENTRE
BBC RADIO (CITY CENTRE)
INDUSTRIAL PARK UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
5 mins 7mins 7 10 mins 12 mins 15 mins
With the speech of Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City. “While the complexity of the modern city calls for continuity it also furnishes a great delight: the contrast and specialisation of individual character.”
GOVERNMENT BUILDING DOCK LANDS
The opportunity exists to develop a new, vibrant cultural quarter and base for the Liverpool Biennial. The Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s International Contemporary Art Biennial and has a year round roll as a world class public art commissioning agency. For ten weeks every two years the city of Liverpool is transformed into the most amazing living gallery of new art, showcasing the best contemporary artists from around the world.
TATE MODERN
Liverpool Biennial has secured funds for 40 artists to live and work in Liverpool on a two year basis. Selected artists and their families and/or assistants will live in a ‘community’ on The Strand in the same building as the Biennial offices. As well as workspaces in their apartments the building will also house larger communal/performance/discussion/ exhibition spaces. Every two years the building will have the capability of turning into a big exhibition space to coincide with the Liverpool Biennial festival and it will have strong year round links with The Liverpool Photographic Centre.
CULTURAL DISTRICT (Regeneration of Dockland)
HISTORICAL HERITAGE (Existing historical buildings)
COMMERCIAL DISTRICT (Major commercial area)
ST. JAMES’S (Metro Station)
ST. JAMES’S (Metro Station)
A great opportunity was presented to develop a vibrant, relaxing and integrated with the new cultural district and the historical city centre of an Artist apartment.
Building Access Site orientation & function
Building Lighting courtyard
Building Vista flat mix & arrangement
LIVERPOOL ARTIST APARTMENT 3rd Year Final Project
Vertical access further separate the site into 6 parts Transportation
Site Treatment - Zoning
Divided block into 3 parts similar to the neighbourhood
Create vertical access in site Site Treatment - Blocking
Historical & Cultural
Project 1- Artist apartment
Public Access
Retail
-Major and minor access - One minor access from Liverpool One which created an angle
Site Access - Permeability
- The minor access from Liverpool One cut through the green area and form another block into trapezium
- The purple area claimed to be the Artist Apartment site - The blue area claimed to be the site of Photography Centre
Site Treatment - Blocking
Project 2Photography centre
LIVING ROOM BATHROOM STUDIO SPACE
BEDROOM
SECTION B
STUDIO SPACE MOVABLE WALLS FOR FLEXIBILITY
STUDIO FLAT
1 BEDROOM FLAT
LIVING ROOM
WOODEN SHUTTER SHADING
BEDROOM
PERSPECTIVE SECTION
APARTMENT LEVEL 1
WOODEN MOVABLE SUN SHADING
SECTION A
APARTMENT LEVEL 2
MOVABLE WALLS FOR FLEXIBILITY
2 BEDROOM FLAT
SKY GARDEN
GLASS LIFT
INTERNAL CORRIDOR
COURTYARD/ EXTERNAL STAIR
STAIRCASE
SKY GARDEN
APARTMENT LEVEL 3
APARTMENT LEVEL 13
INTERNAL LAYOUT
EXTERNAL STAIRCASE SURROUNDING COURTYARD
APARTMENT TOWER STRUCTURE COURTYARD
SERVICING PIPE DUCT
GLASS LIFT
APARTMENT TOWER STRUCTURE COURTYARD
Section AA - Cross ventilation through open green area in the residential tower. - Central courtyard to increase natural daylight penetrating into the building. - Sky gardens at each level of the tower to improve air quality. - Stack eect provided from the central courtyard.
Greening
Greening
Greening
Section BB
WEST ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
ARTIST APARTMENT ART CENTRE
ART MARKET
INTERNAL COURT YARD
INTERNAL COURT YARD
PERSPECTIVE “Liverpool’s heritage of fine buildings is, with its topography, what distinguishes it from another....... (Liverpool’s) buildings tough and elegant and never just pretty set a standard which modern architects will find it difficult to improve on.” Graeme Skankland’s Foreword to, Seaport by Quentin Hughes
Pixilated Photos
Idea of Facade Left to Right Original + Bigger pixilated cell + Smaller pixilated cell = Result
- The minor access from Liverpool One cut through the green area and form another building into trapezium
- courtyard typology studied from neighbourhood - Create vocal point -Create interesting angle of views - Bringing lights to entrance
- A secret entrance under a bridge - Bring in an spatial experience, from wide-open to narrow tunnel and semi-opened courtyard - A visual journey, from complex facade to a dark tunnel and simple court yard
Open green roof can host different outdoor photography related events Large exhibition hall surrounded by green and reflected daylight
-A green courtyard to bring in daylight into the exhibition hall - Balancing the natural and human arts
Facade: - Like a big poster on the facade -Pixels are dots, the smallest thing in the digital photo, the idea of pixelated facade is bringing out the inside out, bringing the unseen into visual. -Getting different visual from far to close
Sustainability -Bamboo walls, hard and durable, grow faster than wood -Courtyard provide reflected daylight and fresh air, create a visual of photography exhibition in garden
-The green from the landscape invaded to the building from 1/F
2/F
Space -Chill and leisure -Promoting photography and photography exhibition -Welcoming amateur photographer -Balance of natural and human beauty
Pixelated facade opened up for majo major streets cape
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EXPERIENCE After my graduation, i have worked with 2 international practices, P&T and RMJM. I was involved in various projects, from small scale residential to large scale mix used master planning. Throughout the experience, i have gained experience through concept design to detailing.
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TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
PEDESTRIAN ANALYSIS
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
HEIGHT DENSITY
RETAIL CLUSTER
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