July Her
Spatial Designer 2013 – 2017 Selected Works
“IT IS WHAT IT IS.”
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Space. Sensation. Phenomena.
JULY HE XUE (852) 6224 1759 July003chu@gmail.com FLAT B1, 7/F, 99 Tam Kung Road KOWLOON, HONG KONG
Education BA (HONS) Environment & Interior Design
2013 – 2017
Shenzhen Experimental School, Shenzhen, China
2009 – 2013
School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Working Experience Internship, Interior Design Intern, Dedo Design, Shanghai
2016
Internship, Executive Assistant, Innvation Aid & UABB, Shenzhen
2015
Internship, Web Design Intern, Shenzhen Centre for Urban Design, Shenzhen
2015
Membership Student Member of Hong Kong Interior Design Association
Skills Photoshop/Indesign/illustrator Revit
SketchUp
AutoCAD
Microsoft Office CoolEdit/GoldWave/Corel VideoStudio/Premiere Arduino/Python Mandarin English
Cantonese German
native fluent fluent beginner
Activities “One Belt One Road“ Cultural Exchange Programme with Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel
2016
Student Ambassador, 10DAYFEST, Hong Kong
2015
Volunteer English Teaching, Dabu, Guangdong, China
2015
Art Project, Politics Of Space by the Zurich University of the Arts, Hong Kong
2014
Volunteer, UABB Shenzhen, Shenzhen
2013
Installation, TEA FOR TWO in FreeSpace Fest, Hong Kong
2013
July Her 2013 – 2017
01
GAMBIT
INVISIBLE CITIES
Eutropia, a city selected in Invisible City, a novel by Italo Calvino, is also called the city of Mercury. She and her citizens are always changing. She moves on her own chessboard. This city is made of gypsum in 1m x 1m that you can pick up any pieces like playing chess. Every piece is different from one another in different scale.
July Her 2013 – 2017
July Her 2013 – 2017
July Her 2013 – 2017
+ The making process of the gypsum models. We used several types of moulds and tested a lot in order to get models done as fast as possible. The workshop was in a mess that our class were warned by the school. Comparing to our classmates, we have very few reuseable moulds for every piece of our“chess” is in different form – some are interlocked while others are hidden in another piece, some are made with patterns while others are flat... This made our work outstanding as well. You may watch a video about how Gambit made here: https://youtu.be/Hze-d0Z7Vcs
July Her 2013 – 2017
02
EPHEMERA
A DESIGN METHOD FOR EPHEMERALITY
My project discusses the ephemerality of the materials, space and experience. As it is said that “Beauty doesn’t last”, it usually takes a lot to protect an artificial space from being destoryed by time, even if they would be destoryed eventually. After researching on the decaying of construction materials and fully understanding the materials I have chosen – ice, I am proposing a method of designing ephemerality by controlling the phenomena. In my project, I also designed several situations to trigger ephemeral features. I hope in the future designers can take this + The shadow cast differently as time pass by. kind of ephemerality of materials and expe++ The refraction of ice just like rainbow. rience into consideration, the design would be not only more sensitive and beautiful, +++ The dew on the glass indicates the change of temperature. but also more reponsible. They could refer to my project since I have developed a method of designing ephemerality.
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+ The phenomena: Time, temperature, humidity, sounds, light and shadow, movement of drops, trace of the event, etc...
++ The making process of models. I have experimented many moulds to make ice in any shape I need. I finally find a method to make ice in which iron was needed. It was a “double mould”, the outer mould controlling the leaking due to the expansion of ice while the inner mould controlling the shape of ice. My classmate was helping me iron the expansion part away.
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+ A collage to indicate the scale and spatial arrangement of the phenomena.
+ This is how I took photos and made videos. You may watch video of all the phenomena here: https://youtu.be/GmmNnhSTt-0
+ I made all the space dissolving happen when I gave my presentation. The audience could touch and see all of the spatial phenomena by their eyes and hands.
July Her 2013 – 2017
Shadow
Manual of Decaying
Status
Refraction
Reflection
Form
Transparency
Moisture
Texture
1. Research on the material
Ephemerality Design Method
2. Make a manual that about all the phenomena during decay of material Phenomena
Phenomenon A
Phenomenon B
Phenomenon C
Time 01
Moment A1
Moment B1
Moment C1
Time 02
Moment A2
Moment B2
Moment C2
Time 03
Moment A3
Moment B3
Moment C3
Time
3. Situation that trigger phenomenon B
4. Control the phenomenon through details
July Her 2013 – 2017
03
UP, THE PUFF CIGARETTE BUTTS & ASHTRAYS IN THE NETWORK
PUBLIC SMOKING HUB
SMOKERS
Ashtrays and smokers in this area. ACTIVITIES AND BEHAVIOURS OF SMOKERS 1:200
SOLO SMOKERS AREA 3
This project studies the ‘social’ and ‘anti-social’ behaviors of smoking and seeks to adapt an existing footbridge in Wanchai to create a pocket park where smoking is welcomed. Smoking is not only related to nicotine and in/exhaling but also a social behaviour. It is a trend that many international companies enlarge their common space for employees to get inspiration from other departments. Nevertheless, they rarely look into some existing social area such as smoking spots.
SOLO SMOKERS AREA 4
SOLO SMOKERS AREA 2
SOLO SMOKERS AREA 1
GROUP SMOKERS GATHERING POINT 2
GROUP SMOKERS GATHERING POINT 1
Smokers around the area I studied, however, were isolated and lonely. There is no doubt that passive smoking is harmful, but can the boundaries between smokers and non-smokers be diminished? Is it possible to introduce a smoking space to the public without any experience dislikeable?
PEOPLE FLOW
SMOKING AREA
RELAXING AREA
DINING AREA
+ Most smokers smoke alone where less people pass by.
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SMOKING SITUATION IN THE NIGHT
SMOKING SITUATION IN THE DAY
1:500
1:500
CONVENTION AVENUE
CONVENTION AVENUE
AD HY RO
OC TONN
AD HY RO
OC TONN
HARBOUR DRIVE
HARBOUR DRIVE
HARBOUR ROAD
GLOUCESTER ROAD
GLOUCESTER ROAD
50 20
PEOPLE FLOW
70
QUANTITY OF CIGARETTE BUTT (IN ASHTRAY)
WALKING SMOKERS
QUANTITY OF CIGARETTE BUTT (OUT OF ASHTRAY)
SMOKING ISLAND
5
FLEMING ROAD
FLEMING ROAD
PEOPLE FLOW
70
50 20
JAFFE ROAD
5
70
QUANTITY OF CIGARETTE BUTT (IN ASHTRAY)
WALKING SMOKERS
QUANTITY OF CIGARETTE BUTT (OUT OF ASHTRAY)
SMOKING ISLAND
NUMBER OF SMOKERS
NON-SMOKING AREA
JAFFE ROAD
70
50 20
50 20
5
5
5 3 1
NUMBER OF SMOKERS
5
NON-SMOKING AREA
3 1
+ The pattern of smoking: People usually smoke at the corners, + The pattern of smoking: There were more solo smokers in the before stepping into a different area (gates of buildings, between day while more group smokers in the night. More smokers stand the bridge and buildings, etc.) or next to the restaurants. still and loose in the night while more smokers walk and stand closely in the day. ACTIVITIES AND BEHAVIOURS APART FROM SMOKERS
PEOPLE FLOW AND WALKING PATTERN
1:200
1:200
MAKING PHONE CALLS
PARALLEL PARKING IN THE DAY (LOGISTIC)
EATING TAKE-AWAY FOOD
WALKING THE DOG
LOGISTIC OF RESTAURANTS
PARALLEL PARKING IN THE EVENING (PICK-UP&DINING)
RELAX BEFORE GOING OME
CARGO AT THE STREET
HAVING TAKE-AWAY FOOD
The passage is strongly influenced by the weather
People will smoke at the deadspace when the weather is alright
The bridge is congested before entrying the open area when it is raining heavily
People will have a rest after work perhaps to avoid rush hour
Not much people flow but some will stand there and relax
Not much people flow but some will stand there and relaxx
CHATTING
APPOINTMENT
LOOKING AT PHONE
PEOPLE FLOW
SMOKING AREA
SMOKING AREA
RELAXING AREA
NON-SMOKING AREA
DINING AREA
PEOPLE FLOW
COVERED AREA
OPEN AREA
+ Activities: Compared this map and the left one, smokers won’t stay close to the restaurants with outdoor seats. Many of them prefer quiet places with less pedestrian.
+ The people flow: The traffic mainly happen between Sun Hung Kei Building – Gloucester Road and Sun Hung Kei Building – Wan Chai Pier. Pedestrian preferred walking under cover.
July Her 2013 – 2017
July Her 2013 – 2017
+ The proposed pocket smoking park adapts to the existing footbridge where there is a node smokers usually smoke before they entre the building. Smokers from different buildings in the area could meet here. Considered smoke goes up in the air, the smoking area is introduced by several elevated islands. The park is divided into 3 main areas which are themselves inter-connected: the bypass, the basin and the highland. The highland is designed particularly with smokers in mind, whilst the basin is designed for all. The method adopted to LAYERING OF SMOKERS AND NON-SMOKERS attract smokers to the highland is actually by locating all ashtrays there. 1:100
SECOND-HAND SMOKE
DETAIL OF ASHTRAY GAP 1:50
FRESH AIR
July Her 2013 – 2017
04
BLACK MILK
A RESTURANT
Black Milk is inspired by A Clockwork Orange, a film talking about violation and human dignity. The restaurant is a spatial interpretation of the film. There is inversion of the space such as carving a sharp outdoor garden on 1/f, shaft inside building with a well protected facade. It would be a sense of nervous when meeting the sharp garden which cannot be touched. The restaurant is located in PMQ, a designer hub, neighbouring many galleries, bars and historic blocks with many greening in. The milk is a clash of orgainic feeling and underground culture around the site. It is a place to enjoy different fun.
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Ground Floor
Terrace
First Floor
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+ Analysis of scenes in A Clockwork Orange
+ Conceptual Models inspired by the analysis
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+ Volumetric Model
+ Sketches of furnitures design
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05
THE BEAUTY OF TEMPERATURE
SAUNA HOTEL ROOM
+ Lighting test
This hotel room is designed for the businessmen who are tired for whole day social activities and desire for relax. The room is designed in different zone with different combination of temperature and humidity to bring people utter relaxation. There is no standing furniture in the room but waving floor to create a sense of void and bring back one’s ego. The material is mainly timber and stone to make a natural feeling.
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Zoning
Humidity
wardrobe sauna room
Temperature
dry
Route
cold humid
Temporature Distribution
hot
bathroom
Route B (Relaxation Time)
cold living area
dry
neutral humid
Route A (first arrival)
July Her 2013 – 2017
06
TEA FOR TWO
INSTALLATION
The intallation is consist of two plastic chairs, a mannequin made of concrete waste, a cable reel as table, a tea set and audience. Facing the skyline of Hong Kong, the installation is a mirror of those beautiful skyscrapers, but showing their rough inners. The tea set build an emotional bridge of tasting between concrete man and the audience. The man-shaped is inviting audience to slow down their busy life in this good Sunday on the grassland, to have a small talk about this prosperous concrete forest in front where we live in and to share their stories as a part of the concrete landscape.
July Her 2013 – 2017
+ Our site was at West Kowloon Promenade. Facing the classic Skyline of Hong Kong, I would like to invite people to have conversation to something behind the good view in front. The things I would like to reveal in such a Sunday afternoon is the construction waste that produced under the beauti-
ful skin of the cities. I used the waste in PolyU to regenerate a mannequin in a gesture of “He wanna talk to you“. Our installation must be related to five sense, mine was “taste”. I, therefore, involved “Tea“, a common Chinese way of communication to implicate my concept.