ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO CHOW KA LOK, TIM
Content of Portfolio
CHOW Ka Lok, Tim
MArch 2 Thesis project
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Adaptive Ecologies A Living Environment Based on Self-Organization This thesis introduces a new living environment based on datadriven generative processes. It focuses on circulation as a driver for community life, freedom of choice, appropriation and adaptation over-time. This system acts as the bottom-up spacemaking process that is continuously made and re-made by the inhabitant’s decision and flexibly inhabited over the existing cities that can respond to different situations.
“Today the intersections of information, life and matter display complexities that suggest the possibility of a much deeper synthesis. Within this context, however, architecture is being forced to radically refactor its response to new social and cultural challenges and an accelerated process of urbanization.”
M: +852 -64341103 E: kalok.chow2617@gmail.com
Theodore Spyropoulos (2013)
MArch1 project
BScAS project (Selected)
Professional Works & Competition (Selected)
The Makeshift City
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Garden of Remembrance
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Shiroiya hotel, Ishinomaki City Hall
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Collective Housing in To Kwa Wan
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Shopping Arcade
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St. Hilary’s Primary School
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Digital Media in Architecture
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Hong Kong Pixel Homes Competition
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Wan Chai Community Green Station
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Hong Kong Young Architects & Designers Competition 2017
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Dalang Project Workshop House Design
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Adaptive Ecologies I LIKE HOW THEY USE THIS GARDEN NICE SKILL!
A Living Environment Based on Self-Organization This thesis introduces a new living environment based on data-driven generative processes. It focuses on circulation as a driver for community life, freedom of choice, appropriation and adaptation over-time. This system acts as the bottom-up space-making process that is continuously made and re-made by the inhabitant’s decision and flexibly inhabited over the existing cities that can respond to different situations. The investigation is on the interplay between strategic limitations set by the architect (as a process designer) and the opportunities for participation by the residents and thus to create chances for freedom of choice and individualization of individuals. Therefore, more diverse results will better suit to inhabitants needs than a conventional top-down housing project where the architect and developer decide every last detail for the residents. Through combining the theory of space syntax and the simple idea of the network - as a predictor of movement patterns. It forms the foundation for the data-driven process of generating a new circulation system with freedom of choice, appropriation, and adaptation - a new notion of what housing ought to be in the current society.
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Main research question - How can the architect design an open-ended system that allows inhabitants participating in their living environment in this ever-changing community?
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Wo Che Estate
Open space (1/F)
Elevated circulation
Location: ShaTin, New Territories Year: 1977 Number of flat: ~18,168
Everyday items
Footbridge is a major circulation for all residents in this estate. It connects residential blocks and ShaTin station.
The open space at the upper floor is frequently used by the residents
~250 shops -> 18,168 residents
Wo Che plaza contains the shops that can fulfill everyday needs of resident.
Because of the elevated circulation, open spaces at G/F are hardly used.
Site Observation: 19 October (Fri) 7:30-8:30 15:00-17:00
Number of flat: 714 Max. resident: 2,856
Vacant Open space
Number of flat: 714 Max. resident: 2,856
Number of flat: 714 Max. resident: 2,856
Number of flat: 714 Max. resident: 2,856
Number of flat: 168 Max. resident: 1,176
Number of flat: 714 Max. resident: 2,856
Number of flat: 360 Max. resident: 3,240
Analysis Wo Che Estate consists of 13 residential blocks, around 30,000 residents. The circulation system is separating pedestrians and vehicles at different levels, for the elevated circulation footbridge is connecting to all residential blocks, shopping mall, parks and a path to Shatin MTR station. As shown as the red arrow, the people movement is pushing towards to Shatin direction, and everyone is using the same path to their destination. It is an efficient way to bring all residents from their flat to MTR station without crashing with vehicles, but at the same time, residents are losing their choices and this circulation system is difficult to adapt for different social situations over-time
Number of flat: 168 Max. resident: 1,176
Ground floor circulation Elevated circulation Bus stop Open space (Elevated) Open space (Ground)
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Analysis Although more shops located in Shatin, Wo Che has only one shopping mall and few small shops. Under the site observation, most of the residents are buying foods (especially breakfast) and living goods there. In response to the government’s intention “fulfillment of everyday needs,” it is no doubt that this system can satisfy the “needs,” but cannot satisfy people’s “desire” under the restricted freedom of circulation system. For the open space, the people gather only along the main circulation and the planned area, the rest of spaces are hardly used. In some sense, the circulation is not only controlling the movement, but also affecting the behavior in the surroundings.
2. Sitting space Residents sit in the mainstream — allow them to look at the people flow.
1. Forced circulation An efficient (only one) way to get to the MTR station, all residents follow this routine.
3. Empty park at G/F The separation between footbridge and G/F - park at G/F is hardly used.
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1. Get out from the flat
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3. Walk on the footbridge
To Sha Tin
>10 ppl staying per 30 min 5~10 ppl staying per 30 min 2-4 ppl staying per 30 min <2 ppl staying per 30 min
4. Walk on the footbridge (To ShaTin)
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CIRCULATION SYSTEM Sunlight
HOUSING SYSTEM VERSION 0.1 FIXED
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Large volume Fixed programs Enclosed | Introvert
EXIT - to BUS STOP
Good for large shops for residents EAT SHOP
RESIDENTIAL CORE Visual integration
EXIT - to MTR
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Transofromation of circulation system (based on predicted human movement)
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Good for causal activities: EAT PLAY CHAT EXCHANGE WALK
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Circulation system (based on predicted movement)
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Formation of circulation system
Connections to site
Shortest path 1
Shortest path 2
Shortest path 3
Combining shortest paths (redundancy)
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Shortest path 5
Shortest path 6
Integration of segments (Foorbridge level)
Integration of segments (Lower level)
Circulation system based on the degree of integration
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Cutting the central massing (most integrated space) based on winter sunllight
Larger opening for winter sunlight
Adding planes at the intersection of paths
Integrated living system
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HARMONY X FLAT TYPE: RESIDENTIAL CORE
TYPICAL 1-6 PERSON FLAT HOME OFFICE ARTIST STUDIO
TYPICAL FLAT AREA: 20 - 50m2 TARGET USERS: TYPICAL 1-6 PERSON FLAT HOME OFFICE ARTIST STUDIO
RESIDENTIAL CORE
TYPICAL 1-6 PERSON FLAT HOME OFFICE ARTIST STUDIO
TYPICAL FLAT AREA: 20 - 50m2 TARGET USERS: TYPICAL 1-6 PERSON FLAT HOME OFFICE ARTIST STUDIO
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I LIKE HOW THEY USE THIS GARDEN
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RESIDENTIAL CORE
HARMONY X
RESIDENTIAL CORE
RESIDENTIAL CORE
RESIDENTIAL CORE
PUBLIC HOUSING
PUBLIC HOUSING
NATURAL MOVEMENT
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Based on the theory of natural movement by Bill Hillier (1993), It posits that more integrated streets, which are likely to be more accessible from other streets, will draw more pedestrians.
WALK RELIEVE
Quiet outdoor corridor The more segregated path became a quiet outdoor corridor, which is suitable for - sidewalk - thinking
Residential Core (Entrance)
LIVE
The entrance is placed all direction, more choices for residents who are getting out from their flat.
Pocket space with different depths
TO SHATIN MTR
Spaces with different depth offers different visibility (privacy) for residents.
STUDY EAT DRINK RELAX
TO FOTAN MTR, WO CHE ESTATE
Social space with good sunlight
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By cutting the mass based on winter sunlight, it forms the social space with good sunlight for residents.
Most integrated Art + Market + Shop The mass close to the most integrated path could considered as a shops with more publicness such as artist studio, open market and shop.
Community surfaces (Ball game, Performance, Relaxing, etc.)
RELAX PERFORM EXCHANGE EAT DRINK PLAY
PLAY PERFORM RELAX EXCHANGE
The intersection space can act as a communal space for the people coming from all directions.
Social platform It serves diverse activities over-time, the platform with different levels also allow interesting visibility and connectivity
Open entrance By using the strategy of cutting mass at the entrance, the space is having more capacity to serve more people who gather in there.
TO SPORT CENTRE TO PARK
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12:45 PM - LUNCH TIME Workers are having lunch in pocket spaces, so that the density of people will concentrate in the area of pocket spaces. Due to the office hours, the usage of large public space will be reduced in that time.
10:30 PM MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Hong Kong people like to hang out with their lanterns in the parks as well as moon watching in open space.
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Connectivity and Visibility analysis of overall system
Connectivity (Choice)
Connectivity (Choice)
Visual integration
Visual integration
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The Makeshift City This project is to propose a prototype of shiftable architecture that integrating a system of living and making (long-term and short-term) for the urban dwelling. As an alternative dwelling, it also acts as a critique of the current housings and the paradigms that have dominated urbanism for decades in Hong Kong. By taking the area of Fanling North as a point of departure, the project is realizing a skilled society through incorporating the shifting live and make unit and also opening up the possibilities of merging the conventional residential block and the live-make unit.
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The Narrative Collage
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1. Corrugated sheet (Boundary along the street) 2. Pitched roof of the house (inside the boundary) 3. Living space 4. Overhead plane (providing cover for outdoor workspace 5. Workspace (semi-outdoor)
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Living | Making in dwellings
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Typical Non-Indigenous Squatter 3
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Self-making furniture
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Primary component (Living shelter) Secondary component (General needs for shelter) Tertiary component (Lifestyle)
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Design narrative
Homo faber - â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man the Makerâ&#x20AC;?
Building | Dwelling -
The concept of human beings able to control their fate, surrounding environment through the tools.
Building as cultivating, protecting and preserving the growing things on the earth, and the things that can not be grown.
Making is the necessary part of being human, keep ourselves rooted in material reality.
Building as an extension of human identity - Human Existence
Reading: Frisch M(1983) Homo faber. Ein Bericht Sennet R(2008) The Craftsman
idea by Martin Heidegger
Reading: Heidegger M (1954) Building, Dwelling, Thinking
Makeshift - Temporary expedient/ substitute
The Self-produced | skilled community
Collective self-organization - dwelling through making
The ecological community Small scale self-production - Making, selling, learning.
Bottom up approach Human act of making - always in a state of being designed. Reading: Vasudevan A(2015) The makeshift city: Towards a global geography of squatting
Making is the necessary part of being human, keep ourselves rooted in material reality.
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Section with surroundings
Residential block
Hostel Making Training center
Hostel, Making, Training center Collective making space
Hostel + making space
Handicraft market
Raw material
Maker cafe (high-tech making + cafe)
Hostel + making
Handicraft market
Library (knowledge)
Collective making space
Handicraft market
Hostel Making Training center
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Ng Tung River + Landscape
Pond
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Productive landscape
Living+making (low rise)
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Makeshift unit Making Living
Double storey making space Fixed frame
Movable walls for living space
Extension part of each module (showing their own producrs
Materiality for making space
Hostel type 2
Hostel type 1 Area: 1,476m (living) 735m (making) Number of people: 25-30 (each floor) Room type: 4 & 8 - Bedded, Dormitory, Family Ensuite Rooms (4 Ppl), Twin Rooms 2
Preliminary idea of Makeshift living
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Area: 1,556m2(living) 655m2(making) Number of people: 25-30 (each floor) Room type: 4 & 8 - Bedded, Dormitory, Family Ensuite Rooms (4 Ppl), Twin Rooms
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Residential unit type
Living + making unit
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Living + making unit Area: 77.5m2 Quantity: 16
1/F
Living + making unit
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Family unit with loft Area: 56m2 Quantity: 36
Studio Area: 28m2 Quantity: 76
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Family Area: 37.6m2 Quantity: 28
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City as Palimpsest The project aims to trace back the existing urban settlement and activities, and provide the new layers of collective living space into To Kwa Wan. Under the photo-taking exercise, some characteristics of To Kwa Wan have been observed such as building edges and informal setting within the lane. The various building edges in the site form the different interfaces which affect how we see and perceive the environment. Also, the lane is most interesting part for me to look at, the informal setting inside the lane is creating the sense of exploration as well as increasing the curiosity of the space. For the physical aspect, insufficient space for the activities at the ground of tenement buildings is a serious issue for the surroundings. Therefore, the planning strategy is to provide the extensional open spaces for existing resident, as well as penetrate their activities into the new collective housing area. Various programs are placed along the open space such as workshop, performance space, and handicraft market for the residents and public in the use of leisure, breathing, and comfort in the act of inhabiting. The approach with observed street quality for residential tower and podium is proposing a new way of collective living in To Kwa Wan. The individuals can explore the meaning of certain setting through participation. This project is somewhere between a critique of the current housing and a proposal for imaging new ways of dwelling in Hong Kong. The collage shows the observed feaures of To Kwa Wan, various building edges and lines, modular facade, the lane in between the old buildings and the hidden activities inside the lane.
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Design development
Existing blocks, activities & main road
Extensional open space
Modifying mass height for views
Modifying mass height and putting towers
Open up the ground
Adding floors into the masses
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Landscape design
F&B, Retail Healthcare/ education Community
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Study room
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Removable modules (indicative only on this axo)
Metal mesh - as a mask showing activities behind Living module (flexible) Gridded spaces
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Multi-function space (Tower) 1:250
3/F plan (Podium) 1:500
4/F plan (Podium) 1:500
Typical plan A (Tower) 1:250
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GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE Location: Hoi Shum Park, To Kwa wan
Site Area: 4139m2
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This is a creative process beyond structural and spatial efficiency to invoke the aesthetics of the sublime. This project is to imagine emotions that we associate with the remembrance of a person that is important to us and picture a sequence of space for the ceremonial act of spreading ashes. This project is to transfer the emotion from the images taken by photographers to the architectural spaces, then forms a garden of remembrance.
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Emotion / Light / Ceremony
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EMOTIONAL TRANSITION
It starts by selecting three visual images that represented emotions and spaces that we have imagined. From the concentration to new beginnning. At the beginning, people should put down all the emotions and focus on their journey, direct light makes people concentrate on the space. During the memorial rituals, people communicates with their parents or friends who have passed away in the spiritual way. This process is not only communicating with sounds, but also interacting with shadows. After the rituals, people will walk in the dark road, the skylight will enter into the space and make the space being lighter, like resurrection.
Concentration - Direct light source / memorial ritual
Coummnication - Reflection of movement / gathering
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Reflective Roof Space for scattering ashes
To transfer a space to the funtional room - Hall 1. Overhead light source has been maintained. Slanted opening provides the directional light to the user which is more concentrted.
Hall 2 & Hall 3
1/F 4 Communication - Public Space Space for scattering ashes Learning Centre
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Reception & Back of house
Folded reflective roof can reflect the various angles of shadow of the movement. The relationship of the people and shadow can be represented the different way of communication between the users and their death parent.
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Folded forms are creating the space which towards a path from dark to bright. Exit from the grieving space to the ocean is like getting a new beginning from the trough.
Grieving space
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SHOPPING ARCADE Year 3 Sem B
Tutor: Dr. Lu Yi
Location: Soho, Sheung Wan
Site Area: 3550m2
Movement / Intersection / Program This project is going to design a shopping arcade in SOHO district of Sheung Wan. The main component of the programme should be the spaces for shop units. Beside the retails, at least one open space which can be opened to public for 24 hours should be provided. SOHO, Sheung Wan is the multi-cultural place, and it is a valuable district for people to memorize. It houses variety shop types and social activities in/outside the shops. It gives people two sidesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; perspective, the traditional Chinese side and Western side. Another feature of the SOHO is that the typography of the site which is very steep gradient.
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REINTEGRATION OF DISCONNECTED CULTURE Under the observation, there are several various cultural shops such as bars, cafes and Chinese old shops. These contains the people with multi-cultural background, they locate at the same location without any interaction. One of the objectives of this design is extending the paths which will integrated with the shopping arcade and it blurs the boundary between the shopping arcade and the site. This project is to connect back the relationship between Western and Chinese culture by controlling their movement on the proposed paths. Also, the open space will be merged with the shopping arcade which is solving the problem of detached open spaces in Sheung Wan/ The concept model shows two different elements merging together toward the same direction. This is a starting point for me to study the mutual relationship between various culture and the movement inside the shopping arcade.
Existing Path
Existing path across the site
Connect two sides of the site
Various shops but separated
Connect and extend the shops along the site
Open Space
Detached open spaces
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Bars
Traditional Chinese shops
Intersection space
Market
Existing Access
Surrounding Programs
Paths formation
Workshop Interior garden
Volumes
Exterior Circulations & Porosity
Spaces for interaction
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SOCIAL PLATFORM The retail spaces formed by various paths are also served as a social platform for people. The corresponding shops are provided for the people which extend the existing activities into the shopping arcade. From a, interior garden is located at the intersection point of the shopping arcade, as a gathering space for both elderly, drinking people and visitors/residents. The exhibition in b is also the interaction space for all types of people, same space and people with different cultural background will be the interesting point for this space. They can exchange knowledge, visual connection will also be remained by a spiral circulation. On the upper level, c shows that bars and Chinese old shop are arranged in the different location with visual relationship. They can learn each other by observing the activities. Two spatial configurations in d & e shows the different openness of shops.
3/F Bar + Cafe + Chinese old shop
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2/F Bar + Cafe + Chinese old shop + Supermarket
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1/F Exhibition + Garden + Bar + Chinese old shop + Gallery
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EXTENDED ACCESS FROM THE CHINESE SHOPS
EXTENDED ACCESS FROM THE BARS
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Digitial Media in Architecture
Mirror
Shadow
3D scan
Disney attraction
Mirror
Viewpoint Spot light
Visual perception Like in so many other attractions, Disney has carefully constructed this fake monument using optical illusions of the likes of force perspective in order to create the seemingly real - the hyper-real. This project is a roller-coaster journey from the inherently 3D of a perception-based architecture, to its 2D representation and analysis, into a 3D fragment as well as explore photogrammetry and 3D scanning techniques by adapting, developing and placing our architectural construct.
Advisor: Tobias Klein
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Professional Works
SOU FUJIMOTO ARCHITECTS SHIROIYA HOTEL - PROJECT
ISHINOMAKI CITY HALL - COMPETITION
The Shiroiya hotel is a Japanese project at the detailed design stage which comprises the renovation of an existing hotel and the new built hotel blocks. In this project, I have involved in the design of space and facade for new block as well as the entrance and furniture for existing block. Not only carrying out my own options , but also I had assisted in the production for daily review by Sou Fujimoto such as rendering and physical models.
This is a competition for Ishinomaki city hall in Japan, my duites were slightly different with the Shiroiya hotel which included concept studies, 3D modelling and rendering. Although this competition had less design opportunities for me, but the most useful knowledge I have learnt from this competition is presentation, my skills on graphic and diagram has enhanced dramatically. Also, I have explored the way that how to start a large-scale compeition like Ishinomaki city hall.
New block - facade and spatial design Existing block Furniture design
Exterior Rendering for competition
Entrance design
New block - Spatial design Status: TBC by Client
Post-effects and study of people activities - Spring
Post-effects and study of people activities - Summer
Post-effects and study of people activities - Autumn
Post-effects and study of people activities - Winter
Status: Confirmed by Fujimoto
Entrance design Status: Selected by Fujimoto for further development
Daily review and physcial model
Counter Design and Measurement
Post-effects - study of several major spaces
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Edmond Wong Studio - School interior design
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Competition
Hong Kong Pixel Homes Competition
Team member: Kan Tong, Sam Lai
A housing typology study for future Hong Kong housing development. The idea is to envision a new living style which encourages collective and shared style, and at the same time allows individual house ownership in a high-rise context. Three basic house modules which reflect the old HK village culture are defined: row houses, terrace house and lifted house. These modules become units to build up the building. The Houses, or the building, transform itself according to owner decision to add-on different parts to fit their lifestyle, and the connectivity of the vertical transition also help to enhance collective living.
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Competition
Design Idea Competition for Wan Chai Community Green Station
Team member: member: Edmond Edmond Wong Wong Studio, Studio, Phil Phil Tsang Tsang Team
“4 Huts” showcases to citizens 4 crucial ways to reduce solid waste - Reduction, Collection, Sorting and Upcycling. Each of the steps are demonstrated in one of the 4 connected huts which are arranged along the flow of operation of the station. 4 Huts makes waste reduction Easy, Creative and Stylish, blending the practices into the daily life of Wan Chai citizens. Public’s misconception of “recyclables” as refuses should be dismissed. The idea that “recyclables” are useful resources should be promoted. Instead of hiding the recyclables collection and sorting process in enclosed rooms like existing CGSs, we propose to showcase it. The recyclables unloaded and stored in the Collection Hut at north are sorted on a long counter in the adjacent Sorting Hut. The act of sorting done by staff in handsome uniform are shown to public just like a chef showing off in a glass walled kitchen. It is hygienic and systematic. Upcycling Hut, the largest hut, is a community workshop. The workshop equipped with tools is open to public. Citizens are encouraged to take their old or broken items here to refurbish.
Collection Hut
Sorting Hut
Upcycling Hut
Reduction Hut
Upcycling Hut
Waste collection Sorting process Upcycling/Making Showflat/Cafe
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Experience
Horizon view
Infinite depth
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. Robert Louis Stevenson
Luxury of Time : Freespace
Forest
as
House
Place to connect
Canopy
Roof
to nature
Trunks
Column
to others
Clearing
Platform
to self
Path
Stair SECTION A-A
诺德艺术庄园大浪建筑工作坊：
未来建筑——别墅区建筑概念设计
A
8
联墅设计
6
2
2
2
2
项目位置：Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France
2
3
10
6
4
10 9
7
3
7
10 9
9
7
1 1. 入口 2. 一人套房
建筑面积 ：432m2 (室内)
3. 共享LDK 4. 主入口 5. 户外平台 6. 厕所
1/F PLAN
设计人 ： 钟宏亮 周家乐
2 1
A
5
2 1
7. 家庭套房 8. 阳台
4 3
9. 阁楼 10. spa
4/F PLAN
3/F PLAN
2/F PLAN
4 3
8
2 1
4 3
2 1
4 3
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Competition
Venice Biennale HongKong Pavilion 2018
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Workshop
Emergent Urban Ecologies - Workshop in Digital Design and Fabrication
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