Portfolio (2021) by Clarissa Lim Kye Lee

Portfolio Clarissa Lim Kye Lee

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Clarissa Lim Kye Lee grew up in between Malaysia and Hong Kong. She is an architectural designer, researcher, lecturer and writer currently based in Hong Kong S.A.R. She runs several platforms such as a cultural platform Inven_tory with Vanessa Ma Chang Ling. The current project is titled, ‘a Good(s) log’. She is a partner at BAO Platform, a creative agency based between Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Hong Kong & London. She is one half of DoubleHolz, an art and architecture research group which recently exhibited at the Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale 2021. She is also a writer on BASKL.

P R O D U C E R-FA B R IC AT O R

DoubleHolz

Low-energy systems

Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

Kombucha-cha, is a migrating laboratory for speculating cooperative art, design, and production processes at the domestic scale, through collaborative material research on homegrown bacterial cellulose sheets. The project explores the opportunities of designing with homegrown materials, taking advantage of ease of accessibility to ask questions about the relationship between domestic spaces and the production of goods, and models for collaborative art and design.

Bacterial-cellulose

Kombucha-cha

Invited participant in: Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021 (SBAU) Z/KU Artist in Residence Think and Tink Artist in Residence Funded by: CENDANA Visual Art Showcase SBAU 2021 Malaysian Institute of Art Sumatra’s Finest Coffee Co.

Kombucha

KO M B U C H A-C H A BY D O U BLE H O L Z

[R E S T]

Kevin Xi Lin Clarissa Lim Timothy Ng Rachel Chee

[M I G R A T I N G]

MArch H K UI Fall M ARCH

/ Scheme generated

MArch I, FallEffect 2016 Co-Everything

pitch

Customisable Private Space

Co-Bed(ing)

Massing Models of Bed x Shared

My project investigates the idea of adopting the traditional Co-Housing model into the modern context of Hong Kong. In such an interconnected and dense city with a large variety of activities to do outside of the home, we live a lot of our lives outside of privacy. How much space do we as humans truly need? If we live our lives outside of the home, outside of the private, I propose a scheme where the BED is the only private space we need. There are other spaces such as toilets or shared enviroments where we can allocated privacy through a timed model, but the bed is the only space which is truly your own.

Body mapping diagrams theoretical studio

research

table top crits

Our working process involved post-its to share ideas and present

Key Ideas Q&A Process

Test models for my scheme

LECTU RER

MIA Collaborative Practice, Year II

Creative Hubs

C O LL A B O R AT I V E PR ACTICE C R E AT I V E H U B S IN M A L AY SI A Malaysian Institute of Art Birmingham City University BA (Hons) Interior Architecture Programme

This module will analyse the current projects and initiatives of the creative economy in the context of Malaysia. As part of the larger ideology of creativity through the discipline of interior architecture, how can we through our discipline position ourselves within this new practice? How do such spaces that attempt to encapsulate the creative industries have?

Co:Lab teaching Emily Wong Pei Wen Er Zhi Ni Kylie Lee Yun Qi Ronan Low Jia Lian Yap Hui Yee Chen Wee Jin Hong Xue Xin Liew Kar Kar Lim Wei Shan Ooi Nen Sheng Cheow Hee Yew Ng Shi Phei Thong Yan Kit Wong Chee Sang Chong Joon Kiat Foo Yong Jun Foo Yuen Fung Siew Jia YI Wong Ho Yan

Online Module

We will be setting up a collaborative discussion platform to speak, debate and reveal ideas in a quick and iterative process, setting up our own collaborative workshop. We will examine the notion of a creative or cultural space, create our own discourses through a series of site visit and discussion sessions. Students will be asked to identify all parties of the creative hub ecology, understand the underlying systems to run one and are asked to pitch in teams possibilities of installing such a framework involving design, programming and management systems of a creative space.

LIG HTIN G DESIG N

Branding

M A R T S M ELL O W S I N STA-

Programming

D E TA IL D R A W I N G S

A C T O F B E H AV E I N S- E R T I I N STA G R A M

C O :L A B P R E S E N T E D A T

RESEARCHER

Report writing for Universiti Malaya

Arts and culture

Writing

The Hubs For Good programme covers five countries in Southeast Asia and supports creative hubs as key drivers and catalysts for good in cities. The programme focuses on enhancing the positive role of creative hubs in an urban context for socioeconomic, political and cultural change.

Hubs for Good

fieldwork

In Malaysia, Hubs For Good is a collaboration between The British Council, Yayasan Sime Darby, and Cultural Centre, Universiti Malaya. The three year programme involved several interrelated projects; a country-wide mapping and research, a toolkit for the use of creative hub leaders and creative practitioners, a digital platform, and capacity building activities to address skill and knowledge needs of local creative hub leaders.

interview

H O MEPAGE

C A SESTU DY PAGE D ATA B A SE D E V EL O P-

MArch H KThesis U M ARCH

perception Thesis Project

multi-layered indentity

feeling vs. representation

The worlds depicted in anime encapsulates our memories and forces a new paradigm overlaid upon it. The director’s act of world building and intertextuality relies on our memories to generate a world. Then we begin to build our perception of our world. Hong Kong is a borrowed place in a borrowed time. Sitting in between 50 years of postcolonialism, change and a complex multi-layered identity, it is in a state of change. Much like how worlds are revealed in anime, our perception of the city is also not a static singular condition, but rather a transgressive measure of space overlaid upon history.

How do we craft worlds

Currently we take maps as an objective tool for drawing the city, and as an architect, we use maps as a tool to craft upon the world. But how do we examine the a city in stasis A condition which our city persists within our perception to a representation? This thesis examines methodologies of representation through narratives which crafts Hong Kong, using filmatic and mapping devices to reveal the complex presence and history of became the city.

mapping

transgressive

Thesis presentation

This thesis exists as a platform for me as a creator, designer and facilitator in this world to understand how we begin to build. Where do we draw the line between the individual and the collective, how do we allow that space to manifest and multiplicities to exist through examining and evaluating our current condition. I went on a journey, an expedition even, to examine how I generate my world and how I begin to draw these transgressive sequences and ultimately, identitfy conditions which we can learn to build upon. This resulted in my four stories / conditions to find ways to methodically craft our perception of our world.

Image from series: Light & Darkness

Drawing indicating sequences of space through narratives

“There is no actual existing entity that serves as evidence of boundaries between districts or countries. Therefore we can say that the boundary is a fictional exercise of power.” - Dung Kai Cheung

Screenshot from my videolog of exploring mediums for narratives

Layered Halfway Hill

Hill for Hong Kong

Periphery

Overlay

To build one must add a layer atop the old. The city becomes a series of stepped textures, always adding to the façade, expanding one loaded corridor at a time. Through time, the inner most layer degrades due to the wetness dewdrops of the trees. The rain begins to wash away the sand and dust of the past, crumbling as the material exits, and allowing new construction to be built. The natural cycle of destruction lies within our peripheral vision as we see the layers of the past offset from the new. Tunnels are carved into the surfaces to burrow through the layers of time and memory.

As the developers of the mountain continues the trajectory of filling in the gaps, Halfway Hill grows taller and taller towards the sky. We continue to build to face the sea, to face towards the imaginary vision of Canton: Victoria Harbour, grasping to the only understanding of what Canton is supposed to be – the skyline.

It is almost as if the built textures on the hill has morphed into some sort of man-made construction. To build this world means to build atop history physically. We gaze into the lay of the land, the lay of infrastructures and the lay of our enclosures every day.

How does one build to seek for just the sea in front, mountain behind? As a result, we begin to lose sight of ourselves, our condition. We are so constantly pre-occupied by the outside. Just to be part of the overlay of Victoria Harbour consumes the developer’s minds so deeply that connections, architectural details and spatial conditions are lost – as long as people can somehow live is enough to fulfil their agenda of the day.

Hill of Boundaries

Hill of Darkness & Light

Transit Residential estates, supermarkets, shopping centres, schools are sprinkled along the various contour lines of Halfway Hill, each with only one raised entrance and exit. Citizens beep in and out with ID cards, walking on their constructed routes towards their next destination. Colonisation has not left Halfway Hill. Passed from the British to now a disputed territory in Canton, security is high. Set in a constant in-between, borders has evolved from a physical wall to a constant border control at every ‘place’ a citizen needs to go. The only wall left is the entrance to Half-way Hill. Every new migrant has to be issued an ID card stating their rating and potential contour line to use. Each citizen walk amongst the carved surfaces of Halfway Hill, carving a new route if they ‘level-up’ to exploit new facilities. The city is crafted by this card and the NC reader, connected by a complex set of infrastructure to facilitate the constant surveillance of transit. Each facility is like a castle in the sky, one entrance, self-standing and self-sustaining. Citizens have to make their way to their chosen castle, choosing their own paths on the land. When the pathways wear down Halfway Hill, nature rumbles and rebuilds itself, taking the facility down to be reborn.

Halfway hill lies in the sunshadow of Canton, the rays of the sun are blocked by pollutants accumulating in the air. The night is never truly dark, and the sunlight never really shines. A muted light, just visible hangs in the air. The citizens resorted to artificial light as a way to light the city. During the day we build to contain light, reflective surfaces, architecture that diffuses, and bright, clear ‘nature’ light becomes scarce – a commodity. We begin to turn to the digitalisation of architecture. LED strips are laid out on the edges of the ground, each colour indicating a condition. Red – Warning, Green – Go, Blue – Water. A multi-coloured cityscape emerges to align with the processes of the city. “Taxi”, “Bus Stop”, “Realty Agents” neon signs. We resort to images, boxes, text to highlight conditions at Halfway Hill.

C U R AT O R

Exhibition-making and event organising

Constructing Worlds

Web design

‘Constructing Worlds’ will situate the possibilities of a new imagination of the Malay Archipelago <> monsoon region by reinterpreting the threshold between three fluid dichotomies. Fact and Fiction A Thousand Thousand Islands by Centaur Games Fact and Fiction can exist in tandem with one another in a precarious balance. It relies on an interpretation of one’s perspective of fictional realities, the narratives tend to sit inbetween within the spectrum and draws from either possibilities. Past and Future Hasanul Isyraf Idris A tabulation of what can be reconstructed, based on memory and/or speculating into the future. One relies on the past to predict the future, to be aware that to reconstruct is to situate the future in relation to the past.

https://constructingworlds.cargo.site/ Password: 0 Curated by - Rebecca Yeoh and Clarissa Lim Produced by - Beyond Architecture Outlet [Eugena Goh, Edmund Tan, Jowin Foo] Artists - No-To-Scale*, Hasanul Isyraf Idris, Centaur Games (Mun Kao, Zedeck Siew) Collaborators - BACA, XYZ Projects, Cikgu Huda & Nicholas Ng Funded by CENDANA

Online exhibition

Somewhere and Nowhere Not-To-Scale* A curiosity to explore and challenge limitations of place and time, between the place and noplace. This pairing questions the when a place manifests, a form of discovery and exploration.

Developing thesis

CO NSTRUCTIN G W ORLDS

branding and managing

N O -T O - S C A L E

N O -T O - S C A L E I N T E R A C-

DISCO RD - C U LT I V A T E D A 10 0 + PA RTICIPA NTS A N D A N O NLINE CO M M U NIT Y DURIN G T H E C O U N T R Y- W I D E L O C K-

H A N T U! W O R K S H O P D E V E L O P E D B Y C E N T A U R G A M E S, F A C I L ITATE D B Y CIKG U H U D A

MArch A K B IILSpring D M ARCH

Tread Softly

Exhibition Architecture

Gottfried Semper MArch II Fall, 2017

Migrational histories

Our studio explores migratory architectural devices to migrational history installations. We had three stages to the project. Initially generating a response to the semperdepot, we then collaborated with the Bard College in Berlin to generate an exhibition at the Berlin Wall Memorial. Finally, we banded together to create an exhibition as a response to the intersectionality between WandGewand and the migrational condition of our relationship between our heritage and our studio space.

Bard College

Migrational Architecture

Humidity as a leading device to generate migratory architectural facilities

Exhibition on Migratory History with fire resistant cardboard at the Berlin Wall Memorial with Bard College

Final exhibiton with our 1st project work titled ‘Tread Softly’

BA H (AS) K UII Spring B A ( A S)

theatre by Fall, the water BA (AS) II 2012

Urbanism Architecture

touch, smell, see

Theater Back of House Dragon Boat Restaurant

The Wall

livable wall

Located in Chai Wan, the eastern urban fringes of Hong Kong Island, this project responds to the divide between Hong Kong’s godown condition and projects forth towards the sea. The thickening and thinning of the wall allows for a Theatre, restaurant, and dragon boating club to generate a spectrum of negotiations with the waterfront. Rising from the ground to 15m above the waterline, one touches the water, observes the water, and smells the water.

post-industrial vs. sea

安全

柴灣貨倉 Chivas

貨倉工業大廈

8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Godown

elevation

section

嘉里（柴灣）貨倉

KERRY GODOWN (CHAIWAN)

cuts are indicated by views

site plan

Dragon Boat storage area

VIEWING DECK VIEWING DECK DRAGON BOAT CENTER

SEA LEVEL -4M section cut A - A’

DRAGON BOAT CENTER - STORAGE OFFICE KITCHEN TOILET

GROUND FLOOR 0M

STORAGE

REHERSAL STUDIO

RESTAURANT

STORAGE

FIRST LEVEL 4M

REHERSAL STUDIO

BACK STAGE

STAGE

SECOND LEVEL 8M

FOYER

THIRD LEVEL 12M

Diagrammatic plan

Whole Model images

BAH(AS) K U III BSpring A ( A S)

residential - housing Year III, Spring 2014

rural-urban village

UNIT

UNIT SHARED COURTYARD UNIT

Corridor Village Re-Make

Located in the rural-urban fringe of Lijiang, a tourist ‘village’ of Yunnan province, my project addresses the changing identity of the village. Modular housing is organised through identifying visual corridors and circulatory processes. Focusing on generating three semi-public courtyards, the corridor leads into a tower condition.

UNIT

SHARED COURT-

UNIT

1 - 200 model

courtyard condition

modular housing unit typology

mass housing

1 - 200 model

DIFFERENT LEVELS OF PRIVACY

courtyard

Site Analysis of Lijiang, Yunnan Province pathways

marketplace corridor

public square

Site Plan

1:100 Courtyard House Area private corridors

1:100 Tower Typology public x semi-public corridors

G/F - 5/F - 7/F Plan

BA H (AS) K U I Fall B A ( A S)

Mapping x Body

BA (AS) of I Fall, Mapping Human 2011 Body

1:1

This project investigates installation-making as a way to project body mapping in relation to a site - a gated area within the public garden. We dealt with site restraints, and mapped the relationship betweent the social condition over a 24 hour period.

design of social connector

courtyard condition

modular housing unit typology

mass housing

physical mapping

social connectors

Competition - Blank DESIG N E R Space

Smooth & Striated

Urbanismcompetition and world-crafting

Smooth and Striated

As our world is generated by self learning machines, a higher being, Gras S. Hop “play” with a planet known as Asiata and causes chaos. Our systems are removed, infrastructure disintegrates, our online profiles gone. but somehow the human condition to survive prevails and Gras S. Hop’s chaos reshuffles and reorganises itself to in-between of the Smooth and Striated.

Overlord and City generation

program a city

boy x girl

A RYear C H IOut T E-CHandi T U R Architects A L A S SLimited I STA N T

77 Peak Road

Sub - contractor contact

House Development Handi Architects Limited

Foundation and beginning construction

77 Peak Road is a 8 house luxury development each with unique relationship to the complex site condition. Located on the Peak, it provides between 1000 sqft to 4000 sq ft, 3 storeys with a garage and a pool. This project has been comissioned in 2007 and is slated for completion in 2018.

private pool

Luxury Housing

10200

3250

6950 275 TOP 394.150

F. 2026

F. 1499

1499

F. 1499

2026

3450

10100

S.D.

1100

SFL 393.050

S.D.

FFL 389.600

3495

F. 1614

635

S.D.

2946

1614

180 52

1434

104

2868

104

2868

1434

52 180

635

FFL 386.100

635

4505

S.D.

FFL 381.600

150

FFL 381.450

HOUSE 5 SOUTH ELEVATION 1:100

10200

3250

6950

ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN

9F, 88 HING FAT STREET CAUSEWAY BAY, HONG KONG

TOP 394.150

F. 2026

F. 1499

1499

S.D.

E3 6102

DRAWING TITLE

HOUSE 5 ELEVATION 5040 south/west elevations

750

1500 TOP 394.150

SFL 393.050

1499

2026

3450

RESIDENTIAL REDEVELOPMENT 750 2600 AT 77 PEAK ROAD, HONG KONG

10100

4625

TEL: 2547 1267 FAX: 2875 1467

8698

PROJECT TITLE

1100

SFL 393.050

14800

Handi architects limited

275

S.D.

FFL 389.600

3495

F. 1614

635

S.D.

2946

1614

180 52

1434

104

2868

104

2868

1434

52 180

635

FFL 386.100

635

4505

S.D.

FFL 381.600

FFL 381.600 150

HOUSE 5 SOUTH ELEVATION 1:100

Handi architects limited ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN

9F, 88 HING FAT STREET

TEL: 2547 1267

PROJECT TITLE

RESIDENTIAL REDEVELOPMENT AT 77 PEAK ROAD, HONG KONG

DRAWING TITLE

HOUSE 5 ELEVATION south/west elevations

FFL 381.450

HOUSE 5 WEST ELEVATION 1:100

DRAWING

SCALE

REV. NO.

DATE / REVISION NO.

APPROVAL BY

1:100

27.07.2015

DATE OF APPROVAL

NO.

GA/H5_11

- HKU A R C H I T UEDL ECTU R A L A S SI STA N T

Living on the Water x CEDARS

Workshop

Water people

3 exhibitions

Living on the Water In collaboration with the Centre of Development and Resources for Students (CEDARS) and the Urban Ecologies Design Lab (UEDL), Living on the Water was built as a living, traveling museum telling stories of the water communities in Hong Kong. UEDL participated in 3 exhibitions disseminating images, tales and researching the relationship between Greater Bay Area and Hong Kong fishing communities.

Intangiable History

Very HK - Very Aberdeen Exhibition

Stanley Mobile Living Museum

A R C H I TEC T U R A L A S SI STA N T

The Bookshop

White

UEDL - HKU

Multi-layered

feeling vs. representation

The Bookshop is at the Hong Kong Museum of Art.

transgressive

Thesis presentation

P R O JUEDL ECT M ANAGER

UEDL informality - HKU Invisible

sub-divided units

spatially sustainable

SoCO

SDUs

Sub-divided units is a form of invisible informal housing. This specific informal urban condition is a spatial product of flows of economy, sociological conditions and political endeavor in Hong Kong. My research examines SDUs through the lens of the in-between. We collaborated with an NGO - Society for Community Organisation (SoCO) and a property developer to gather spaces which are planned for redevelopment in the longterm plan. These spaces are then renovated and in-filled with modular units to create an instant city - a homeless hostel run by SoCO.

per-fabrication

We ran a summer elective course where we conducted research, design and installation of small scale interventions within SDUs. I was a teaching assistant for this undergraduate summer elective. We developed a construction technique involving aluminum sections, mosquito nets and specific interventions with the negotiation between the outside and the inside of the building - the facade condition. They appear invisible, connected to the skin of the wall and small degree of intervention. These projects are left with the families of sub-divided units and are site specific, high quality and tailor made for each condition time / space / routine.