Architecture Portfolio 2017 | Andrew Kwok

A rc h it e ct u r e

PORTFOLIO An drew K wok C h un Yin

CURRICULUM VITAE

Andrew Kwok Chun Yin Personal Information Date of Birth Place of Birth Nationality UK Address

25/01/1993 Hong Kong British 47 Oxenholme

Harrington Square London NW1 2JN Email Address andrewkwok125@yahoo.com.hk Phone Number 07531786506

Education 2017- Architectural Association, UK Diploma, ongoing 2012-2016 University of Bath, UK BSc (Hons) Architecture, 2:1 Four Years Thin Sandwich Course Two 6- Months Mandatory Work Placements 2007-2011 Framlingham College, UK A- Levels, A*AABBB Maths, History, Chinese Physics, Further Maths, D&T

Work Experience October 2016- PLP Architecture, UK August 2017 Architectural Assistant (Part I) Working on a Masterplanning Project in London. Worked on a number of competitions, including a tower project in Chengdu and an office + residential block in Tokyo Feb - Aug 2015 Wilkinson Eyre Architects, UK Feb - Jul 2014 Architectural Assistant (Part I) Worked on 45 Bay Street, a tower project in Toronto at SD and DD stages. Worked on two pedestrian bridge projects at SD and DD Stages. Participated in several competitions, including a cultural building project in London

Key Skills Drafting 3D Modelling Rendering Post- Producton Documentation Langauge

Microstation, Autocad Rhino, Sketchup Vray Photoshop, Illustrator Indesign, Microsoft Office Cantonese (Native) English (Fluent)

Interests Football Member of the college football team and 7-a-side office football team. Played casually every weekend while in university

August 2013 Arup, Hong Kong Summer Intern Worked at the Building Physics Department.

Produced energy audit reports for a number of existing public buildings in Hong Kong

Running An interest I have developed during my work placement. Run 5 miles after work two times a week

August 2013 RAD, Hong Kong Summer Intern Assisted in researching materials for Hong Kong Bi- City Biennale of Urbanism/ Architecture ‘Ideal City’

Reading A reader who enjoys a variety of genres, including Rem Koolhaas’s Delirious New York, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, Thomas More’s Utopia, John Ruskin’s Stones of Venice and Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nation

Archive of the Picturesque Wye Valley | UK Fourth Year Individual Thesis Project

‘A piece of Palladian architecture may be elegant in the last degree... But if we introduce it in a picture, it immediately becomes a formal object, and ceases to please. Should we wish to give it picturesque beauty, we must use the mallet, instead of the chisel: we must beat down one half of it, deface the other, and throw the mutilated members around in Heaps.’ - William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye The Picturesque is a British movement popularised by William Gilpin after his excursion along the River Wye in the 18th century. Initially started as an aesthetic ideal of viewing the landscape in pictorial principles, its theory would further expand to the fields of architecture, philosophy and sociology through the debates of numerous theorists, including Edmund Burke, Uvedale Price and John Ruskin.

My thesis project aims to explore its ideology through the understanding of the context, the experience of the journey and the representation of the architecture.

An archival building that houses both the physical and non physical substances of the Picturesque Movement, substances in the form of painting, writing and poetry, as well as memories, emotions and imaginations.

The Archive

St. James Church

Gallery Spaces & Repositories | Basement Floor Plan

Conservation Workshop, Cafe & Entrance | Ground Floor Plan

Reading Room & Exhibtion Space | First Floor Plan

A Cenotaph

A Shrine for Picturesque Pilgrims

An Obsevatory The Archive in Ruin | Isometric

Wye Valley | Site Model

Lancaut | Massing Model

The Archive and St. James church | External Perspective

Situated on a sloping field in Lancaut, the archive overlooks the River Wye and a small abandoned Church. The building has two distinct parts: the folly and its wall.

The folly, acting as an observational tower, stands isolated and unapologetically in the middle of the field, a stereotomic mass that is carved, unwrapped, stripped down and thin out as it rises. Its own vulnerability and exposure provides the traveller views of prospects, inviting us the temptation to believe men’s ownership over nature though visual boundaries, an idea that occupied in the minds of many land owners, landscape architects and painters of 19th century.

View of the Folly from St. James Church | External Perspective

The Folly | Internal & External Perspectives

Celebration | Painting Gallery

Commemoration | Reading Room

Conservation | Repository Atrium

Surrounding the folly is a retaining wall that is partially submerged into the ground, drawing up a new boundary for the archive in the middle of nowhere.

The front wall holds a series of internal gallery spaces, while the back wall, completely underground, contains the repositories, conservation workshop and the reading room.

The external skin of the wall is undecorated and unrefined: the use of exposed structural concrete boldly resonates with the tectonic honesty, truthfulness, rudeness, savageness and the ‘as- found’ nature of the nearby ruin.

It creates a mirrored image of St. James church with its wall, forming a dialogue between the new and old.

Conservation | Repository Atrium

Reading Room, Conservation Workshop & Repositories | Detailed Sectional Perspective

Hut • L ine • B oat Portland | UK Fourth Year Basil Spence Group Project As a group of three architects and two engineers, we were asked to design a hybrid structure that provides a grandstand, a pier, an auditorium and a gallery to the nearby National Sailing Academy in Portland.

Racing Location for the Sailing Compeition of 2012 Olympic games

Portland Harbour

‘You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.’

- Andrea Gide, Les Faux-monnayeurs Portland Harbour tells us the story of our relationship with the sea: while man has conquered land, the vast sea is still very much uncharted. The engineered breakwater thus symbolises human’s attempt to establish his dominance over nature. Physically and visually, it creates a safe haven for boats and a comfort zone for the sailors. It transforms the unknown to known.

Using the breakwater as a starting point, our response sought to explore the concept of adventure, transition and threshold.

Sitting on the current location of the breakwater, the building manifests itself as a comb - a series of huts linked together by a spine and connected to the sailing academy by a bridge.

We aimed to use our building as a tool for social regeneration and to promote sailing as a non-elitist sport.

The Spine The breakwater marks the threshold between the land and the sea. It divides the water into the tamed and the untamed, and creates a juxtaposition of the man made and the naturals.

Our building is built upon this metaphorical boundary line, with the breakwater acting as the main circulation space through the building.

View from the Bridge | External Perspective

The Long Huts The sailing competitions are often held far from the land. Rather than placing the grandstand in the harbour, we translate it into a series of boats that could be sailed out and to watch the race in close proximity.

On the outward side of the breakwater, we place the long huts looking towards the horizon, serving as ferry terminals on the ground floor and gallery spaces on the upper.

The Long Huts | Model

Terminals | External Perspective

Main Gallery | External Perspective

The Short Huts Four small huts are placed looking inland, thus forming an alternating pattern which is similar to the nearby pontoons.

These smaller huts provide spaces for a boat building workshop, a fitness centre, an auditorium and a cafe, serving as amenities for the local sailors to prepare for venturing out to the sea.

Workshop | Tectonic Model

Fitness Centre | Detailed Sectional Perspective

Fitness Centre | Exploded Isometric

The Sky Pier A bridge forms a connection between the sailing centre in land and the building in the sea. It provides an alternative route for the visitors to arrive and depart. Lifted up from the ground and the water, it also becomes a viewing platform for the visitors to observe the day-to-day activities of the sailors, from preparing their equipment to venturing out.

Internal Bridge | Internal Perspective

The everyday thus becomes the exhibits for those who are no accustomed to sailing.

Concourse | Internal Perspective

Classroom in the Park London | UK Third Year Group Project

‘Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.’ - Dejan Stojanovic Located in Kensington Gardens near the Serpentine, the pavilion was designed for those whose voice are not heard, and those who don’t have a voice to find one; to break down the established barriers in the surrounding area that divide the people by promoting a dialogue across all culture, age and apparent wealth; to provide an acoustically dynamic environment that stimulates the mind of those whom inhabit.

Supported by a timber- framed rib cage, the pavilion is wrapped in tensotherm membrane and carpeted with undulating fiberglass floor, resulting in the creation of different acoustic environments in different parts of the pavilion. The various organic forms cater to specific activities, ranging from communal story telling to self- reflection.

Amphitheatre

Silent Transition Zone

Discussion Domes

Acoustic Tunnel Classroom | Floor Plan

Tensothermic Fabric

Triangular Timber Panels + Rockwool Acoustic Absorber Sound Absorbing into the Membrane High Density Polyproplyene Pedestal

Glulam Arch Structure Abrasion Resistant Acrylic Dome

Fiberglass Floor Classroom | Detailed Sections

Sound Reflecting around the Disc

Sound Bouncing off a Concave Wall

Classroom | Sectional Model, Internal & External Perspectives

Casa e Arquivo da Arquietura C ontemporâneo Porto | Portugal Third Year Individual Project The museum houses the work of the three influential architects of Porto in modern time: Fernanado Tavora, Alvaro Siza and Edurado Souto de Moura. The building provides exhibition spaces for the enthusiasts who wish to see their work, education facilities for the locals who wish to learn, and public spaces for travelers who wish to explore.

Theatres & Offices | Ground Floor

Entrance & Education Facilities | First Floor

Exhibition Space | Second Floor

Café & Plant | Fourth Floor

Public Realm

External Circulation

Dedication to the Three Architects

Viewing the City

Sitting above and adjacent to Garden of Virtues and overlooking the landmark river of Douro, the museum attempts to reconnect the Porto’s streetscape with the public yet elusive terraced garden below.

With the main entrance and circulation core situated at the very centre of the building, the monolithic volume is split into three by several pathways. These corridors adopt the same urban language similar to those narrow pedestrian streets scattered all over Porto’s cityscape.

On the two exhibition floors, the three volumes are articulated by a series of bridges, a metaphor of the collaborative spirit and the humble origins of the three Portuenses architects. The openings are carved out and extruded windows are plugged in, serving as directional guides for the visitors to journey through the building.

At the very top, a café overlooks the terraced Jardim Municipal do Horto das Virtudes and the river of Douro.

Musuem | Model, Internal & External Perspectives

Activities within the Museum | Section

Un d e r f a l l Ya r d Vi s i t o r C e n t r e Bristol | UK Second Year Individual Project The project intends to celebrate the significance of Underfall Yard as a 19th Century Victroia boatyard in Bristol. The existing complex was later revised by the famous engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, which consists of a hydraulic engine house, a dock maintenance workshop and a slipway.

By proposing a visitor centre with mulitple exhibitions spaces, a cafĂŠ and a shop for local merchandise, the design hopes to regenerate the area and capture the local industrial and naval history. The adoption of portal frames is a reference to the neighboring warehouses and the use of corten panels resonates with nearby red bricks buildings, while the overall form in a continuation of the adjacent residential housings.

Visitor Centre | Sectional Perspective

Exhibition Space | Internal Perspective

Visitor Centre | Exploded Isometric

To S w i m the Tiber Rome | Italy Honourable Mention | Open Competition The river Tiber plays a symbolic role in the foundation, growth and prosperity of the Eternal City. However, in truth, it has little practical use since the ancient times: the Romans would rather build aqueducts to bring in fresh water from distanced lands; a port was built along the river only to be abandoned shortly after; its physical presence has always acted as the schism between the Western Papal State and the Eastern secular society throughout history. Our notion therfore is not to rediscover the greatness of the river, but to introduce new technology in order to make the Tiber usable and useful.

We thus proposed a beacon in the river and a swimming pool within the water: the tower provides energy generator and public facilities, introducing a new industry to Rome during its economical hardship.

By installing water filtering and cleansing systems, people would be able to use the river as a public water plaza for social interaction. We aim to bring people together beneath the city, along the now forgotten beating heart of Rome.

Elements of Rome | Isometric

Changing Room

Research Room

Office

Modular Units | Isometric

Workshop Programmes | Exploded Isometric

A Travelling Apparatus

A Mulit-fuctional Pavilion

A Framing Device

Panorama Tr a n s s i b é r i e n

The Trans- Siberian Railway was the pinnacle of Russia’s cultural and technological advancement. It choreographs the everexpanding landscape of Siberia, presenting the astonished traveller many sceneries of nature and pictures of colourful cultural activities.

Siberia | Russia Open Competition

To celebrate its achievements, the brief asks for a visitor centre to be constructed along the route.

However, we believe that this tourist centre is not merely a counter for formal information. It should capture the motion of the locomotive, explore the vernacular, and provide a social and cultural agenda.

Referring back to Piasetsky’s panoramic paintings of the Railway in the 1900 Paris Exposition, we’ve designed a structure that could be attached to the train and deployed accordingly to the contextual need, a structure that operates as part of the journey.

1 Departure 4 Arrival

2 Displacement 3 Relocation

Sequential Jounrey | Internal & External Perspectives

Ts a s t A l t a i School Extension Khovd | Mongolia Honourable Mention | Open Competition

Organised by Building Trust International, a nonprofit charity that focuses on helping Third World countries through architecture and design, the brief was to create an addition to a run down school for the children in Khovd, who have to travel far for classes even in the coldest day of winter.

With limited local resources and labour to consider, and to minimise the construction cost and time, we proposed to integrate our design as an extension with the existing school. The design is simple yet sensible as we hope to provide a safe and homely learning environment for the students in extreme climates.

Together with my friend from university, we were awarded an honourable mention out of 180 entries, competing with other practices such as Arup Associates, Lateral Office and MUDI Architects.

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Extension and Existing | Plan, Elevations & Sections

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Sports Hall Store Male WC Female WC Classroom 1 Classroom 2

Sports Hall | Internal Perspective