Portfolio 2016

LOK CHENG SELECTED WORKS 2016 Edited for RIBA Part II Application including Final Year Projects and Practice Works.

Contents

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Project Can Ricart Memory Lane

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Project Show/Store Hide and Seek

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Professional Practice Year Out Experience

Curriculum Vitae

Education History

Employment History

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SEP

BA Architectural Studies

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Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom

OCT

JUN

10 SEP

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JAN Foundation Course in Engineering

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JAN

Foundation Course

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Taylor’s College Sydney Australia

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12 JUL

DEC

00 SEP

JUN

Dental clinic rennovation 20,000 sq. ft. Grade A office rennovation 10 storeys new data centre Kindergarten rennovation

Summer Internship Eleena Jamil Architect, Malaysia

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Model making, site visiting Occasionally involved in design project

AUG HKCEE

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Work in fast pace, Prepare presentation material, Prepare tender documents and drawings, Supervise construction, Handover to client and follow defacts Projects including:

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INTO Queen’s University Belfast Belfast United Kingdom

JUN

06

Architectural Assistant (Year Out) Studio One Design Limited, Hong Kong

8 HKCEE passes including grade A in Maths, and Visual Art, grade B in Additional Mathematics Hong Kong

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APR

10 JUL

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NOV

Draftsman Universal Publications, Ltd, Hong Kong

Worked accurately with details Learned to work individually and as a team

Project Assistant Popular Book Co. Ltd., Hong Kong

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JAN

Stocking for the book festival Handled customer inquiries during event

Pr oject Can Ricart

MEMORY LANE Artist Workshop for La Machine, Office & Gallery Space

Project Show/Store Hide and Seek

La Machine La Machine is a street theatre company.

They are known for their robotic, animallike giant machines. The industrial ascent is embeded into the soul of the La machine’s creative process. People and their skills are very appreciated.

The Machines De L’Île, La Machine workshop in Nantes, France

Can Ricart, Barcelona

The site for the new La Machine headquarters is located in Poblenou area in Barcelona, an ex-industrial quarter to the East of the city centre. Can Ricart occupies the central core of 4 joined blocks of Cerda’s city extension. The existing building in Can Ricart was a factory constructed in 1855 by architect Josep Oriol Bernadet for the textile company of Catalan entrepreneur Jaume Ricart. By the end of 19th Century, the Catalan textile industry stated to decline. During the 1920s the factory is sublet to a chemical industry until the

ABOVE Map showing location of Can Ricart (pink area)

1960s when the factory is finally sold to various small metal industries. Recently a redevelopment process “22@” plan is undertaken in the site by the municipality of Barcelona in the area of Poblenou. The main strategy of the “22@” is to transform decaying industrial buildings into a mixe used and technological quarter.

Unfortunately, most of the projects under the “22@” have come to a stall due to the current economic recession.

Nowadays, this empty ensemble consists of dilapidated listed buildings.

Project Show/Store Hide and Seek

Memory is architecture of our identity Poblenou is an industrial neighborhood, It was the main focus area of the 22@ redevelopment project in the 2000s, In 2005, the intial plan for the redevelopment of the Can Ricart complex was to demolish over 50% of the existing building complex and turn into lofts and offices, which was not going to be public accessible. The neighbours of Poblenou wanted to conserve Can Ricart in its entirety. This incident shows the deep connection

between the Poblenou neighbours and Can Ricart building complex.

As memories are the architecture of our identity, the identity of a community is built up by the community memory.

Can Ricart builidng complex is also an Architectural Heritage in thecity of Barcelona as cultural asset of national interest. It shows the general interest in preserving the industrial assent of the area.

Project Show/Store Hide and Seek

The stairs are designed to face the clock tower, since the clock tower is an iconic building within the site, it will be the focus at the end of the journey.

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In this area, guests are able to hear and smell the burning scent and the hammering sound from the workshop, promotes a working industrial feeling.

Reception area also serve as a secondary exhibition space.

GF Cafe

Old facade to be repainted and serve as walking aid.

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Office

Workshop After passing through the exhibition rooms, guests finally get to go into the workshop and take a look of what is happening inside.

The ramp of the lane is bended inwards to face the facade of the existing buildng, so people are looking at the facade while they are walking up the ramp.

Pipe ducts and Plant room machines are embeded into the primary exhibition space, the noise would serve as a white noise to create a industrial atmosphere.

Exhibition Rooms

Graffiti on the exisiting building would be reserved and reminds guest about the story of protesting.

Concept Plant Room

Canteen

To remind poeple the industrial history of the Can Ricart building complex, I decided to integrate the La Machine workshop as part of the experience of the building. To emphasis this part of the history, the design is about experiencing the industrial histroy in 5 senses. To tie the experience together, I decided to create a memory lane for people to reminisce the industrial history of the Can Ricart Building complex.

Project Show/Store Hide and Seek

The design proposal involves intervention of two buildings in the Can Ricart complex.

Firstly, the SW part of the old buliding will be demolished to open up the centre area of the Can Ricart complex.

most of the function is going ot fit into the old building.

The fu memo

unctions are connected by the ory lane.

Project Show/Store Hide and Seek

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Test Assembling

Welding Area

Cutting/ Sanding Area

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1. Box Office 2. Reception 3. Cafe 4. Public Toilet 5. Drawing and Modeling Atelier 6. Office 7. La Machine Canteen 8. Plant Room N

Material Storage

Material Storage

Sculpting Area

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9. Exhibition Space with Plant Room Machine 10. Exhibition Space 11. Exhitibition Space 12. Exhibition Space 13. Stairs/Seating Area N

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- Stairs/Seating Area -

- Bird Eye’s View -

Pr oject Show/Stor e

Hide & Seek A Museum and Storage Space for a Selected Collection

Project Show/Store Hide and Seek

My Choice of collection is folding camera. Folding cameras was one of the most important invention of the history of photography. Before the invention of folding camera, camera was huge and people are only allowed to take pictures in studio because of the size of the camera. Impressionism starts because the invention of tube colours that allow painters to paint in outdoor, folding camera was the impressionism to photography.

Exercise 1:Incubator

Phase I of the project is to design a mean to display one of the object from the collection of choice. This camera that I have chosen is a Kodak Nagel Vollander 48, It was manufactured in 1930s. To display the camera, I need to consider which perspect of the camera that I want to show, first of all I tried to extract key elements from the camera.

The incubator is designed to be a 500x500 mm one way mirror box. The small size of the box represents the compactness of the camera. People have to get close to the box to investigate the camera inside. The one way mirror represents the reflection of lens in the

camera, The transparency of one way mirror changes according to the quality of light, so as the photographic films, the more the light, the whiter it gets. W hen viewer are standing in front of the mirror box, they can look into the box and see the reflection of the camera, there is a drawer in the box, it can be opened by pushing it inward, then the mechanism inside will bounce and push the drawer out, when the drawer is being pulled out, the platform will turn 180 degrees. so that the camera will be facing the viewer when it is pulled out. The mechanism is a representation of the mechanics inside the camera.

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Project Show/Store Hide and Seek

The narrowness of the chare represents the linearity of the viewfinder of a camera. When people walk through a narrow space, they are forced to look through the gap of the buildings on the two sides, which is very much like when we look through the viewfinder, the sight between the two building becomes the viewfinder that frames the view.

Plummer Chare is one of the chares that located near Quayside in Newcastle. The fire escape stairs can be folded up when it is not in use to provide a wider passageway, which matches the folding features of a folding camera.

The incubator is going to be placed on the first floor of the fire escape stairs. The high location allows people to see the incubator from afar. Attention will be attracted by the reflection of the sunlight of the mirror box in the dark alley. The small size of the incubator is designed to raise people’s curiousity, since the content of the box is concealed, just like the folding camera when it is folded up. It also requires people’s effort to walk up the stairs to stand in front of the incubator.

THE CONCEPT: HIDE AND SEEK The concept of the building is about hide and seek. The idea comes from how nice pictures are hidden in the nature, and the photographers’ job is to seek these pictures in everyday lives.

In exploring the location to place the incubator, I found that the relationship between viewer and viewee and how the role changes interest me. Initially I thought it is realted to the loaction of the poeple standing, but soon I realised it is not about the height. For a performer as a

viewee, they are standing on the stage (a higher location) while the audience are at a lower location. But the same situation, the roles can be swapped. For example, in a lecture theatre, the lecturers usually stand at the bottom of hte room, but they are usually the centre of attention. This makes me wonder what makes people a viewer and vice versa. To investigate this kind of relationship, I created 6 different situations that involve different architectural elements and different viewer viewee relationship.

Project Show/Store Hide and Seek

Project Show/Store Hide and Seek

THE CATHEDRAL When poeple’s sight are being blocked, they wouldn’t notice that they are being viewed, that makes them the viewee in the situation.

THE STAGE This situation is describing the relationship between audiences and the performer, while people are standing on stage, they havethe audience’s attention and become the viewee.

THE LECTURER In a lecture theatre, seats are designed as steps up from the lecturer, located around the lecturer, the form of the lecture theatre is forcing poeple to focus on the people standing in the middle.

THE DARKROOM When two people are located in two rooms when one is darker and one is lighter, due to the visibility, the one in the lighter room tends to be viewed rather than being the viewer.

THE PEEK When people are walking along the corridor and there is a window on the wall, the person who walk pass are usually the viewer, while the people inside the room are usually focusing on their task.

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THE TRANSITION This situation is describing the role of viewers and viewees can be changed according to position, number of people, and also other factors.

Project Show/Store Hide and Seek

Project Show/Store Hide and Seek

Project Show/Store Hide and Seek

Pr ofessional Practice

Year-Out Experience A Museum and Storage Space for a Selected Collection

Professional Practice Year Out Experience

Grade A Office Refurbishment Location: Scale Of Site: Project Category: Renovation Period: Responsibility:

North Point, Hong Kong 2,000 Sq.ft (Approx.)

Fitting Out Works Completed In 2015 Site Inspection Presentation Board Tender Drawing Construction Supervision And Inspection

Professional Practice Year Out Experience

North Point Dental Clinic Location: Scale Of Site: Project Category: Renovation Period: Responsibility:

North Point, Hong Kong 2,000 Sq.ft (Approx.)

Fitting Out Works Completed In 2015 Presentation Board Tender Drawings Meeting With Clients And Contractor Submission For Government Department Construction Supervision And Inspection

New Data Centre Location: Scale Of Site: Project Category: Renovation Period: Responsibility:

Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong 10,170 Sq.ft (Approx.)

New Building Under Construction Presentation Board Toilet Design Tender Drawings