ARCH1080 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 2 THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE TUTOR: ROSALIA LEUNG SEMESTER 2|2020-2021
Fong Sam Zung, Joey 3035792195
CONTENTS
3 OVERVIEW 4 CASE STUDY 10 SHOP ANALYSIS 14 DESIGN
OVERVIEW Hong Kong is a high density city with space limitation and the maximisation of use of space. Specific typologies have evolved as a consequence of the density, creating hybrids of public (commercial) and private space (habitation). The studio investigated the spatial potentials of a public/private room and it’s relationship to the city. Architecture doesn’t have to result in an actual building, yet the understanding of tectonic, craft and materiality shall be embedded into architecture and the architect’s thinking process from the beginning. To master the understanding of conception, experimentation and crafting is a core competence of the architect. The studio offered a constructive discourse to that process.
STEP1: CASE STUDY I investigated two case studies: 1. An urban context and 2. an existing commercial space in Hong Kong, both through isometric, plan, section and a photo. The purpose of this exercise is to be able to analyse and draw an idea off an existing project and communicate it through specific drawings.
Aberdeen Street Aberdeen Street is a border street dividing Sheung Wan and Central on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Different kinds of stroes and cafes can be found along the street, with famous place like Lin Heung Tea House and PMQ.
恆豐大廈 HARVEST BUILDING 永吉街 29-35
Collective work - Aberdeen Street Section
Effendi Justine Meita GROUP E SITE 01
Mao Yueyang GROUP E SITE 02
Lee Man Wai Monique GROUP E SITE 03
Mak Cheuk Yan Eunice GROUP E SITE 04
Ju Wai Hang GROUP E SITE 05
Yeung Ho Pak GROUP E SITE 06
Fong Sam Zung GROUP E SITE 07
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Chan Wing Lui GROUP D SITE 07
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SITE Aberdeen Street Group D
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Leung Man Wah GROUP D SITE 01
Yeung Ho Lam GROUP D SITE 02
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Chu Long Yiu Dominic GROUP D SITE 03
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Yim Yung Ching GROUP D SITE 05
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Lai Kwong Ning GROUP D SITE 06
han Ka Yu ROUP E TE 08
hau Kok Shan Christie ROUP D TE 08
Jung Jong Min GROUP E SITE 13 Mo Ka Wing GROUP E SITE 12
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Kwok Hoi Wing GROUP E SITE 09
Chan Yu Ling GROUP E SITE 10
SITE Aberdeen Street Group E
Zhang Yifan GROUP D SITE 14
Site F Li Ze Fu Jeff GROUP D SITE 13
ABERDEEN STREET SCALE 1:100
Liu Yichu GROUP D SITE 11
Liu Hoi Ching GROUP D SITE 09
GROUP D&E URBAN PLAN
Sin Oi Yin Nicole GROUP D SITE 12
Tsang Yuk Yuk GROUP D SITE 10
Collective work - Aberdeen Street Overall Plan
Collective work - Aberdeen Street 1:100 grey cardboard model
Site Photographs Individual Site Section
Individual Site Plan
Individual grey cardboard Site Model
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STEP2: SHOP ANALYSIS This step focusses on learning from an existing precedent and understanding the specific urban conditions in Hong Kong. The studio started by studying and observing context and space and learn from an existing case study. I studied the given site along Aberdeen street and chose to study a milktea shop and in particular the interface between public and private space.
Shop Photographs
Shop Isometric Drawing - illustrating how people use and interact with the commercial space (the milk tea shop)
Shop Isometric Drawing -indicating different ways I observed how people use the shop front (the block) which articulate the interation of people and acrivities insdie and outside the shop
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Elevation Drawing
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Most people sit on the block after they ordered a drink. Some of them face inside to use the tables, while some face the street and chat with the people on the street. Some just stand on the street and put their drinks on the block. It is intersting to observe how people perceive and use a space or a strcture d i f f e r e n t l y. Through obser ving the milk tea shop, I was par ticularly interested in how the shop front ar ticulate the interaction between interior and exterior space. The bright and inviting atmosphere, the opened windows and the undefined block are all welcoming ever y visitors.
STEP3: DESIGN Along Aberdeen Street, the longitudinal section illustrates a transition from the low-rise tenement houses at mid-level to the high-rise commercial buildings towards Central. Both vehicular and pedestrian traffics are fighting for space, yet between buildings there are narrow in-between spaces for informal expressions of urban life, some traditional, some contemporary. Hawkers, street-corner barbershops, informal settlements,… are composing the unique character of Hong Kong streets. To discover and reinvent this kind of vernacular architecture will request a critical eye from how spaces are ‘shared’, ‘borrowed’ and ‘occupied’ with the public domain, thus a room truly interacting with the city.
SITE ANALYSIS Back-lanes, side-streets, leading from the main thoroughfare of Aberdeen Street are identified with specific characters, some narrow, some hidden. The project is to create an infill ‘room in the city’ at these passages to demonstrate how the idea of sharing transforming spaces will generate new opportunities for urban living. My chosen alley is Wa On Lane. It acts as a connection between the street and the park at the end. There is a grocery store on the left and a flower shop on the right. People from Aberdeen street must pass by this alley to reach the park, but the alley was empty and boring.
SITE LIMITATIONS - USABLE SAPCE EXPLORATION The design has to cope with the site constraits, avoid hindering the using of windows and doors along the alley. By experimenting the solid and void concept, usable space is explored by studying and measuring the buillt areas. The design does not exceed 3m to prevent blocking the view of the upper residential area.
FROM SHOP TO DESIGN The shop facade from step1 is observed because I love how it connects and bring together the people inside and outside the shop. The frame of the shop front further inspires me to think what would happen if the openings are bigger? or smaller? What if the frames are layered? What kind of experience will it create?
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Exploration of different sizes of openings
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Design Concept Collages
CONCEPT Through making collages and concept models, I explored the atmosphere and expereience I would like my design to have: a labyrinth and forest-like journey, in which the alley acts as a corridor between the street and the park. With the element of greens, the design can echoe both the park and the flower shop on the street
ITERATIONS I applied the elements I extracted from the previous step into my iterations. Iteration 1 - Layerings This design divides public area and shop area/ private space into two floors. It is composed of wall layers and a very long bench. A lot of sitting places are put into this design. Iteration 2 - hatched Pillars are hatch crossing, creating a net-like structure which connects different boxes (spaces). It implies classicism of structure. Iteration 3 - Arcs Round arc and column resembles the Roman architectural style. The large number of openings aims at making the design as welcoming and open as possible.
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1:100 white models
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INSPIRATIONS Kengo kuma starbucks The building is made of 2,000 stick-like parts in the sizes of 1.3m – 4m length and 6cm section. Piling up of small parts from the ground was highly developed in the traditional architecture of Japan and China. The method was greatly improved in combination with state-of-the art technology so that people are brought further into the architecture. The design inspires me to make a fluid, cave-like space with hatching of sticks. West kowloon pavilion The pavilion, "Growing Up" captures everyday elements fundamental to Hong Kong, embedding and cultivating them within the fabric of a soon-tobe major arts and cultural centre. While nurseries cultivate plants to be transplanted elsewhere, Growing Up transplants fragments of the city to cultivate them within the cultural district. The pavilion makes me think of creating a sloping roof, ascending heights with frame layers towards the end of the alley. Fushimi Inari Taisha Fushimi Inari Taisha, the main shrine of Inari, including various torii footpaths through hundreds of sacred red gates, establishing quite a procession to the temple. Each torii has been donated by a worshiper of the god of business. The very dense parallel gates make me rethink what kind of experience or atmosphere i want the visitors to have.
FINAL ITERATION - BLOCK FRAMES Stacking of cubic block frames. The whole strcuture can be more transparent and inviting, as well as utilise the horizontal bars to hang plants. Various combinations and forms can be created by different ways of stacking.
EXPLORATION ON ARRANGEMENTS Arrangement 1 - Regular layering with same form - A clear tunnel-like structure - BLOCK --> LAYER; - Duplication of LAYER --> STRUCTURE
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Arrangement 3 - Random displaying of frame blocks - Openings of different sizes - Directly from BLOCK to form STRUCTURE The openings are usually 2-2.5 meters tall to let people walk through.
Design Dimensions Diagram
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1:25 Perspective model This model is made with a forced one point perspective which emphasises the welcoming and energetic atmosphere of the alley.
1:100 Wooden mass model The wooden mass model is put into the collective site models to visualise how the design will look like in the alley. Rather than the structural details, the wooden mass model helps to influence the sense of space and have a general presentation.
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Design renderings
THE GREEN CORRIDOR The main focus of the design is to strengthen the connection between the street and the park. The layering of frames with different sizes of openings provides places to hang and sell plants. Climbing plants can also grow along the structure to echoe with the greens of the park and the flower shop. The private space is located at the side of the structure, minimising the area as small as possible to make the whole structure more welcoming. The overall structure also plays with sunlight, casting gridded shadows over the open areas.
