COMPANY: DLN ARCHITECT.LTD
TYPE: SHOPPING MALL DESIGN
Encourages indoor outdoor activities by creating a comprehensive design for building exterior, interior and landscaped outdoor spaces.
Introduce fun and youthful mix of commercial and leisure activities for visitors of all ages, including your four legged friends.
Improve the appearance of Megabox shopping mall
Bring life to Megabox shopping mall
Improve on retail strategies of megabox
Maintain the iconic dna of megabox
Create a contemporary fresh new look
Improve street level presence of the two main entrances
Highlight the new sky dining zone at level 17 & 18
COMPANY: DAYDREAMER DESIGN.LTD
TYPE: EXHIBITION DESIGN
Sam Tung Uk House (built 1786 onward)
Sam Tung Uk is a Hakka dwelling founded in 1786 during the reign of Emperor Qianlong.
The name of the house literally means “Three Beam Dwelling” and aptly describes the original floor plan.At that time the Chan clan, which was originally from Fujian, had moved to Guangdong and then to Hong Kong to engage in farming.
Under the leadership of the clan patriarch, Chan Yam-shing, the house was constructed as four modules clustered around an ancestral shrine at the north center.
As the clan grew more prosperous additional units were added to the house, giving it its current appearance. Other rooms were attached to the north, but the house’s rectangular plan allowed for easy expansion.
The descendants of the pioneers lived in the house for over two hundred years. As late as the 1970s, Chan clan members still farmed in this area of Hong Kong.
Finally, in 1980, with the encroachment of urban sprawl, the last clan member moved out.
In March 1981 the house was recognized by the Antiquities Advisory Board as a historical monument and was protected from destruction.
The Advisory Board repaired the house, bringing in authentic Hakka material from nearby Guangdong province.
Nowadays the museum is a little too well maintained. Although it preserves authentic architectural features from centuries past, it has been spruced up so much that it looks almost new.
The exhibition presented the different stages of appeasing god, from calling for stability and faith, thriving in the entertainment and craftsmanship to uniting the community through vocal, instrumental and physical, situational respectively.
Heritage Preservation is a process of renovation, refurbishment, alteration and modernization of Sam Tung Uk Museum with an aim to preserve and reuse the portions which are significant to its historical, architectural and cultural values.
“Lost & Sound in Festival” is aimed at presenting the ICH items in an innovative and creative manner and establishing a connection between the visitors and the ancestors by giving them sensual pleasure with the tingling sensation on the skin caused by ASMR.
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The revamp purpose to preserve and put historic buildings into good and innovative use. Committed to putting historic building to good adaptive re-use. Aim to give Sam Tung Uk Museum a new lease of life for the enjoyment of the public.
In the future, exhibitors able to design their own exhibition according to their needs, and they can put their exhibits in the exhibition hall safely without destroying the historic building.
1. Intangible cultural heritage over time as a symbol of cultural inheritance
2. Reinterpret local traditional culture in a new and creative way.
1. Visitors to the exhibition can refresh their minds by hearing the sounds of traditional activities
2. Perceive the wisdom of our predecessor while chanting their words
The birthday celebrations held for deities in villages are usually accompanied by dancing lions or other auspicious animals. They worshiped at shrines and temples to report to the deities, and hence lion head paper crafting emerged.
Lion head paper crafting comprises four processes, namely crafting the frame, mounting the paper, coloring and decorating.
The bamboo theatre is a temporary space that can accommodate thousands of audience, with the flexibility to be constructed and dismantled at any time.
The original intention of Shengongxi is to perform for deities, so the theatre is usually built in front of the temple. If not, a place facing the stage is reserved for worshipping the deity statue Invited from the temple.
COMPANY: DAY DREAMER DESIGN.LTD
TYPE: EXHIBITION DESIGN
SITE: SHANGHAI NATIONAL EXHIBITION AND CONVENTION CENTER
The patterns exhibited in various items as the construction of city contour, street signage, window and entrance gate’s metal frame, traditional Chinese mosaic tile, red-white-blue nylon canvas and signature plastic products.
“The Silhouette” captured the series of Hong Kong pattern and reinterpreted into a contemporary pavilion in Shanghai Chinese International Import Expo organized by Hong Kong Tourism Board.
The 220sqm, 6m in height pavilion divide into three zones including Reception Lounge Area, Hong Kong Exhibition Area, and Greater Bay Area Exhibition Area. Space showcased Hong Kong’s tourism brand and its unique travel experiences, as well as, highlighted multi-destination travel in the Greater Bay Area and promoted Hong Kong’s diversified travel products.
Submerging in the impressionable world of Hong Kong, the vivid memories is in every corner. The memories became cultural symbols. The elements in our daily life are the nutrient of our creativity and inspiration. The pavilion aimed to outline the pattern of Hong Kong and requesting our attention to the subtle beauty surrounding us.
The iconic plastic product, the red lampshade in the Chinese groceries store in wet market reinterpreted into a contemporary chandelier to lit up the environment. The articulation amplified by nostalgia for the surrounding atmosphere.
ACADEMIC PROJECT
TYPE: EXHIBITION DESIGN
To the Utmost, you yourself Empty; Remain in Silence and Clarity. All Things are evolving together, thus -- I see the Life Cycles continuous. by LAO ZI
More and more Hongkongers are turning to meditation to forget the stresses of everyday life, find balance and nurture inner peace. The Design aim at helping visitors find inner serenity, bliss and a more positive outlook.
Desire is perilous. Ultimately, Desire is progressive after it is conceived. It is like a seed is put into the ground, growing and developing into whatever that seed is.
Turning down the clatter in our lives, restoring a sense of contentment, and reclaiming the calm. achieve the greatest blessing - shalom, peace of mind and spirit.
Watch something unfurl slowly is to experience the passage of time itself, and to be reminded of the rarity of being fascinated by something so simple as leafs and the wind, and with this, we regain a curiosity and attention that we have forgotten we’ve had.
One soon becomes aware, upon entering the Meditation Pavilion, that there is not much to do. You can watch the leafs move. All one can do is stand, or find a place to sit and experience the building itself as a space, and watch the wind flow and the leafs move and think about what it means.
Nature’s tranquility is very much part of the presentation of the Meditation Pavilion, where you are surrounded by the birds, the wind and the sounds of the leafs, it encourages you to dwell on it in appreciation. Allow wind, sounds, and light of the world outside into this organic space where nature and architecture intimately interconnect. In the interior space.
This setting, in which nature, art and architecture come together with such limitless harmony, conjures an infinite array of impressions with the passage of seasons and the flow of time.
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