M A N C H O Design Portfolio
2019-2022 Selected Works
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SELECTED PROJECTS
I. CITYMAKING - REFLECTIONS FROM CONTEXT AND CULTURE Re-Centering Central: The Future of City Hall- Design Thesis
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Land Reformation - Urban Strategy for a Porcelain Town
12-19
Equal City - Master Planning of Lok Ma Chau Loop
20-25
Dream On - Future Cultural and Governal Complex proposal
II. PLACEMAKING - SITE CONTEXTUAL RESPONSE Wall We Share - Food and Sport Complex Home of Nature - Social Housing Building
III. SOCIAL CREATIVE WORKS The Weave Chair- Cross-generation public furniture Egg Max Tree - Upcycling Installation
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32-35 36-37
FolTable Chair - Multi-purpose furniture
Working Experience
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The Future of Hong Kong City Hall / Design Thesis / 2022 Spring Semester
Re-Centering Central: The Future of Hong Kong City Hall Tutor: Dr. Tao Zhu, Christian Lange Programme: Creative Studio Space + Residence Project Site: Central Harbourfront, Hong Kong Project Area: 3 hectares
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Hong Kong City Hall has been a significant cultural and civic venue since 1960s. This thesis re-examines the cultural mission and civic meaning in future context, in particular completion of Urban Design Study for the New Central Harbourfront in 2032. City Hall encounters spatial marginalisation and a fading cultural prominence by the construction of finance and government headquarters along the harbourfront as well as rise of large-scale cultural facilities along Victoria Harbour. Instead of conserving City Hall building in future planning, this project extends and grants City Hall a further role to support a 3 hectares of creative art space proposed in front of City Hall. Through regenerating City Hall, the extension of creative studio and residence welcomes local cultural as a source of creative power injecting into Central. It envisions a testimony of a cultural landscape that driving Hong Kong City Hall in re-orienting Central into a cultural and civic community.
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The Future of Hong Kong City Hall / Design Thesis / 2022 Spring Semester Questions of Space
Reprogramming potentials
{ City Hall is the only cultural landmark in Hong Kong } Chinese Ink Art, Western Paintings, Design, Print Art, Caligraphy, Pottery, Sculpture
First Comic published in Hong Kong Renjian Pictorial 1911
TAI KWUN
Special Topics
Special Topics of Hong Kong Art
Addition of Cultural Section in Local Newspaper 1940s
Hong Kong Contemporary Art 1975
Hong Kong Art Festival 1972
Hong Kong Art Today 1962
Hong Kong Contemporay Art Show 1987
Early Hong Kong Art Shows ST. JOHN CATHEDRAL HALL
CITY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY
Western Paintings
Specialised Topics of Hong Kong Design, Moving Image and Architecture
M+ MUSEUM Visual Culture
Hong Kong Art Biennial 2003
Hong Kong Art 1997
Hong Kong Art History Research Hong Kong Art History Research Pilot 2013 Hong Kong Art History Research 2nd phase 2016 Hong Kong Museum of Art Collection Databank 2019
CATTLE DEPOT VILLAGE, JCCAC
Influx of Chinese Immigrants to Hong Kong 1940s
New Forms of Art in installation, arts curation and media HONG KONG ART CENTRE
Canton Operation 1938
Arts Go Digital Platfrom established for digital and virtual art
Contemporary China Art , Contemporary East Asian Collection
Hong Kong Art Biennial 2001 Hong Kong Artist Vision 2001
Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 1992
Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 1981 Hong Kong Art Review 70s-80s
Chinese Ink Art
West Kowloon Cultural District idea in Policy Address 1998
HONG KONG MUSEUM OF ART
Hong Kong Contemporary Art 1977
Hong Kong Early Artists individual shows
Contemporary Art, Performing Art
Handover of Hong Kong 1997
Hong Kong Art Display 1998 Contemporary Hong Kong Art 2000
Establishment of Hong Kong Arts Development Council 1995
Comtemporary Hong Kong Independent Video Art Video Art Show 1993 1983 Installation Art Show
Leftist Riots 1967
Performance Art, Movie, Video Art
Hong Kong Independent Video Art 1993
1985 Asia Contemporary Art New Ink Painting Movement in 1970
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The research mainly investigates on space and programme respectively. Hong Kong City Hall has experienced a declining spatial order from its establishment in 1962. After Central reclamation in late 90s that it is no longer connected queen’s pier and its neighbours, eventually city hall will be conserved in government master planning of New Central Harbourfront in 2032, it furthers isolates City Hall and excludes it from all the axis and centres set up along Central harbourfront. On the other hand, City Hall building demonstrate a unique courtyard compound typology in Central against shopping malls and towers. In terms of programme, it had been the first and only cultural landmark in Hong Kong in the 60s-90s, nurturing the first generation of local arts and culture. In addition, it is a place of converging different purposes since it provides public service and public plaza- Edinburgh place. Being a civic centre in Hong Kong, City Hall owns strong originality and this thesis would like to empower its social and cultural role in Central to confront its spatial problems. 7
The Future of Hong Kong City Hall / Design Thesis / 2022 Spring Semester
ARTS & CUTLURAL AXIS
1:1000 Site Model
To intervene spatial order in Central, this arts and cultural hub extends City Hall to an additional 3 hectares of land and linking to no. 10 Central pier, reconstructed queen’s pier and art ferries as further extension by an arts and cultural axis. In terms of programme City Hall, this proposal reinforce its cultural role in network of West Kowloon cultural district, cultural centre and art museum in Tsim Sha Tsui and HKCEC in Wan Chai. In terms of the design, mat building I addressed City Hall courtyard and colonnade language, as well as the advantages of an open and expandable urban framework from mat building. I think an open framework could allow free flow of cultural activities.
MAT BUILDING & COURTYARD
Berlin Free University, 1963
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The layout of framework is based on dimension of city hall building cluster. On the ground floor, through infilling ourtyards, each court is given a theme such as museum, ampitheatre, playground, market and they present civic qualities that bring into Central harbourfront. Each strip corresponds to function of City Hall in terms of privacy degree.
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For first floor plan, public could visit from elevated walkway of City Hall to multiple galleries, restaurants, art supplies shops then to the harbourfront.
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Regeneration of City Hall The integration would also regenerate City Hall existing facilities to serve for diverse cultural users. For example, the galleries and art archive could support artist’s resources and exhibition. The overall form and density are specifically addressed the heights of city hall building and Victoria harbour, it is ascending height from city Hall and end with descending levels to dissolve the mass to pier connection. Inside the building, it is imagined artists could freely take up open space for their creation and installation of their works, these open space could also adapt to other cultural users such as designers, musicians and son on. Significance This thesis imagines alternate space strategy in Central, a horizontal architecture versus Central’s verticality of skyscrapers. By evaluating institutionalised public space along harbourfront and providing different spatial quality of multi-level courtyards that promote flexibility. Secondly, this project embraces courtyards qualities, using courtyards to organise programs so that the atmosphere surrounded with greenery, openness, fluid environment for local artists in this cultural creator.
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Land Reformation in Jindezhen / Urban Strategy for a Porcelain Town / 2021 Fall
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Land Reformation in Jingdezhen Tutor: Dr. Tao Zhu, Christian Lange Programme: Masterplanning Project Site: Lok Ma Chau Loop, Hong Kong Project Area: 420,000-600,000m2 Research collaboratored with Tian Zeng & Fangyi Yin, design belongs to individual work
Jindezhen is a city in Jiangxi province, China. It is internationally renowned as “porcelain capital” for its hand crafted ceramic production. Through decades of rapid urbanization and high speed railway development in this city, our research revealed the mountains had been heavily exacavated, reduced and to be extinct under planning of new city extension. The consequences of land destruction led to increase risks of water flow, a fragmented land use in terms of program and loss of pedestrian connectivity. Our site locates at a critical intersection of a growing road network and rural landscape contours, the project sees it as a gateway to diverge and rechannel the traffic, stopping further land exacation process. To evaluate current transportation-driven urbanism, instead of excavation process, this project is proposed a strategy of land reformation. By adding volumes into this destructed landscape, repatching the mountain. Through re-grounding in the site, these artificial mountains bridge fragments that we identified and reconnect pedestrian. They are sensitive to the natural landscape and provide more programs to cater the population growth in future. Finally each artificial mountain proposals cope with three conditions in how buildings interface with mountain, road and river respectively.
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Land Reformation in Jindezhen / Urban Strategy for a Porcelain Town / 2021 Fall
Site Topography
Road network
Land excavation and ceramic activities
Land reforming area and experiment
The project started with drawing site conditions in different scale, to examine destructive consequence in terms of landscape, program, river through years of land excavation. Then, clay models are adopted to show early trial of land reforming idea, for example the building volume and mountian volume, they give a sculptural sense in the crafting process. 14
Integrating Digital Making Method and Building Strategy Clay 3d printing is used to further study land reformation language since it could generate clay prints in three dimensions. To acheive accuracy of existing topography, the contours are scripted into printing paths and scripted together with artificial mountain’s design, in order to examine the relationship between existing mountian and reformed architecture.
Clay prints with various printing paths to represent a moutnain
Clay tiles as site models to represent early design and site context
Iterations of different printing paths to inform a design language, improving printing accuracy throught scripting
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Land Reformation in Jindezhen / Urban Strategy for a Porcelain Town / 2021 Fall
Artificial mountain location
1:750 model printing design structure
1:750 plan drawing
Artificial mountain and overall composition My individual project takes place between two hills. It is excavated for the construction of main road. This artificial mountain would be the first architecture to receive visitor/population flow from railway station and rapid traffic. Design is divided into 3 volumes which the access responds to neighbouring schools , housing, ceramic museum. The program consists of entertainment complex , hotel, expo, in this scale robotic arm generate continuous building organisation, double line , which I took this piece the hotel to further explore the spatiality in between mountain condition. 16
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Morphology and Building Organization Transforming from 1:750 to 1:250 scale, the path of robotic arm articulates higher resolution of morphology of mountain, edges offsets by each layer, stepped form. It also articulates the undulating facade and walls in more organic and imitation to the neighbouring landscape. 17
Land Reformation in Jindezhen / Urban Strategy for a Porcelain Town / 2021 Fall
1: 250 Final Model & Key Perspective Drawing Both final model and key perspective summarised the project to diverge the traffic into underground system and reprovide the neighbourhood with landscaped deck, access to both side of mountain as well as entertainment, restaurants and stores to stimulate vivid urban life in future urban center site. 18
Imagine interior space driven by 3d printing technique and materiality Reading from final model, 3d printing paths articulates the undulating facade and walls in more organic, imitation to the neighbouring landscape. The material clay create authentic experience to vistitors since clay also represents Jingezhen’s image.
Equal City / Master Planning of Lok Ma Chau Loop/ 2020 Fall
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Equal City Tutor: Prof. Nasrine Seraji, Dr. Tao Zhu Collaborators: Gordon Poon, Nathan Sin, Tai Sheng, Mengyin Lu Programme: Masterplanning Project Site: Lok Ma Chau Loop, Hong Kong Project Area: 420,000-600,000m2
What is a city? does it serve for humanities or economic prosperity? What is a non-city? a place to vacate or a place to refuge? What is equal? Could equal be only justified when it attempts to correct inequal conditions?
Lok Ma Chau Loop is an isolated land bounded by the old and new Shenzhen river, resulted by river training project in 1990s. The new territory line between Shenzhen and Hong Kong gave an oppotunity for Hong Kong-Shenzhen government to co-develop this unincorporated land, transforming to innovation and technology park as proposed in 2017. Meanwhile, the loop is situated along the flight path of migratory brids to Mai Po and isolated by hillscapes along Ma Tso Lung area, they present disadvantages to develop the land to a citytown. This project brainstorm alternative city and ownership of the land. Equal City proposes the loop to become an eternal refuge site where people could indiscrinately, equally receive and contribute towards specturms of information, data, history, culture and trans border activity. These five issues also infact the urgencies of Shenzhen-Hong Kong in contemporary context, under socio-political environment as well as territory framework towards 2047 unification. Through the symbolic expression of five bridges, each bridge sets their own system operations and governance, which neither Shenzhen nor Hong Kong. The bridges also free the ground space to provide greenery to streghthen the ecological corridor as well as responding the urban grid of Shenzhen.
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Equal City / Master Planning of Lok Ma Chau Loop/ 2020 Fall
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Border Control Point
Shenzhen Huanggang
The Cultural Archive of Shenzhen
The Cultural Synthesis Complex
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Data should be shared indiscriminately, without any filters or censorship, nor should be altered by any form of governance. The bridge data on one hand portrays a black box experience to reflect the Great Firewall and on the other, an open plan to illustrate the liberty within Hong Kong. They converge to the giant database in the middle where information could be accessed without barriers as one does not cross borders within the looped circulation.
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CULTURE BRIDGE SYSTEM OF OPERATION: 1. VISITORS MUST PASS THE BORDER CONTROL STATIONS AT TWO ENTRANCES.
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2. NO MATERIALS CAN BE LOANED OUTSIDE THE BRIDGE. Proposed Footbridge above extended old Shenzhen River
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3. FACILITIES ARE SERVED FOR RESEARCH PURPOSE ON SHENZHEN AND HONG KONG CULTURE ONLY.
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4. ONLY SCHOLARS FROM ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES ARE ALLOWED TO BE APPOINTED AS INTER-DISCIPLINE COMMITTEE
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Wall We Share / Food And Sport Complex / 2019 Spring
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Wall We Share
Tutor: Lee Sze Wan, Clover Project Site: Lok Fu, Hong Kong Programme : Food and Sports Public Building GFA: 7500 m2
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Surrounded by educational institutions and public estate, the programs strategy aims This project explores the role of public space and public buildings in Hong Kong. serving the elderly and the youth. While Public the datumnbuildings wall responding the landscape, hill and cemetry. accommodate shared societal resources as well as various users from the community. While municipal buildings have been developed for thirty years in our community, it is hoped to provide experimental options that further incorporating community needs.
The distinctive contexts in Lok Fu gives opportunity to generate divergent facades in order to maximize the pleasant Lok Fu hill view and underplay the cemetery entrance and heavy traffic, as a result, the geometry as a barrier proclaims a strong statement that a new datum to open up an internal landscape that shared by youths and senior residents at the same time being the backbone to support the food and sports facilities in the complex. As the sports arena and supermarket is intended to attach on the linear spine, the compacted footprint frees up ground area, allowing free flow of communal activities under two massive cantilevers. The ground space gathers various social and cultural programmes such as performace stage, market, event lawn to facilitate civic relationships and exchange ideas among different groups of users in the same level. Thinking the building as a conspicuous object in urban scale, the project attempted to conceptualize a public complex thus breakdown to simple elements responding greenery and topography of the site. The urbanistic vision of public buildings should respond, connect, interact with city structure and urban nodes, in this way to broaden the design spectrum of public buildings in Hong Kong.
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Wall We Share / Food And Sport Complex / 2019 Spring
Key section showing datum wall to separate a
Axonometric showing social life and landscape quality responding to Lok Fu hill
The datum wall acts as the circulation core and provide servant space to support main programmes such as parking, refreshment space, storage, offices as the programmes interlock or attach with the linear spine. The linear staircase encourages people with different distinations to meet and gather inside the building, while the big cantilevers provide a covered square for performance. 28
adjacent columbarium and demarcate an internal public street of activities
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Covered plaza cantilevered by sports arena
Spatial complexities created as the recreation programmes interlock or attach with the linear spine. Also, the in between space of wall and facade creates another layer to envelope the building.
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Wall We Share / Food And Sport Complex / 2019 Spring (right) Vertical Sections through facade, edge of roof scale 1:15
In terms of the envelope system, the volume is wrap with translucent skin and with the fritted glass for privacy, as this project has a strong emphasis on the front and back orientation, another layer of mesh is added on top of the circulation block to control the views and act as noise barrier. So when visitors travel escalators, the in between space of mesh and circulation block create transition space before they enter the building.
The façade of building also has dynamic effects during the day and night. During daytime, the façade supports as passive role and act as a noise barrier. It is monolithic and fuzzy. At night, the façade is more active, glowing effects that become an indicator/icon of the city. 30
1 stainless-steel rod mesh, rod diameter 2mm 2 2mm stainless-steel sheeting 3 i-beam 150mm, polished finish 4 galvanised steel cap 5 metal support, adjustable in height 6 moisture-proof membrane mineral wool insulation vapour barrier 7 3mm steel casing 8 mineral wool insulation vapour barrier 9 H-beam 350x350 10 acoustic insulation suspended ceiling hanger wire plasterboard 11 heavy duty galvanised steel grating 8/45mm stainless steel flat, polished finish i-beam 150mm 12 top hung window, laminated glass 10 +1.5PVB+10 13 12mm low- E tempered glass door 14 alumnium door frame with water drip
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The Weave Chair / Cross-Generation Public Furniture / 2021 Spring
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The Weave Chair Winning entry of Harbourfront Public Furniture Competition Project Site: Wan Chai Promenade at Water Sports Precinct Commissioned by Development Bureau HKSAR Dimensions: 1474mmx1074mmx900mm Status: Completed, Jan 2021 Co-project executive: Venus Cheung Project Background: The Weave Chair is one of winning entries from the Harbourfront Public Furniture Competition organised and commissioned by the Harbour Office of the Development Bureau (DEVB) and the Harbourfront Commission (HC). 20 units of public furniture designed by the public is placed at various locations on promenades along Victoria Harbour. Concept: “The Weave Chair” incorporates ergonomics design catering for adults, the elderly and children respectively. The furniture intertwines adult-children body dimensions to provide optimum back,arm as well as leg comfort. Apart from celebrating the dynamic scenery of Victoria Harbour, the design also facilitates social inclusion across generations. By referencing anthropometric data of the Hong Kong Chinese population, the normal distribution of Hong Kong adults and children’s body data is acquired including knee, buttock, popliteal measurements to device the most ergonomic sitting for adult and children. While combining the two generation’s body curves through a weaving language, a small table is created for snacks sharing as well as comfortable armrest. ^you are welcomed to visit “www.theweavechair.com” to further explore on the project.
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The Weave Chair / Cross-Generation Public Furniture / 2021 Spring
Erogonmics design for adults and children of age 8-10
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Photo Credit: Jonathan So
Design Basis By referencing anthropometric data of the Hong Kong Chinese population, the normal distribution of Hong Kong adults and children’s body data is acquired including knee, buttock, popliteal measurements to device the most ergonomic sitting for adult and children. While combining the two generation’s body curves through a weaving language, a small table is created for snacks sharing as well as comfortable armrest. Social Inclusion “The Weave Chair” ergonomically designed for children, adult as well as provision of elder-friendly components. In terms of sitting height and armrest assist elderly users to get up from chair independently. It is aspired that the furniture faciliates a social inclusive environment for various group in Hong Kong. 35
Egg Max Tree / Upcycling Installation / 2018 Fall
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Egg Max Tree / Upcycling Installation / 2018 Fall
Egg Max Tree Design Team: Tiffany Yuen, Gervas Tai, Stephanie Wong, Alice Chau, Sianne Lau Collaborated Art gallery: IM Creative Exhibition Period: 22-27th December, 2018 Location: Sham Shui Po Community Green Station, 339, Tung Chau Street, Sham Shui Po Subsidizer: Campus Planning and Sustainability Office of CUHK Facebook page: Dozendesignstudio Instagram: Dozendesignstudio
This is a self-initiated project inspired by excessive wasted material in studio after semester ended. Six CUHK architecture students (Dozen Design Studio) is working with ‘IMCreative’ , a social enterprise, to invite art students who are aged between 4-16 year old to create an art installation during Christmas in 2018. The art collection is made from recycled egg cartons, consists of a tree structure and Christmas decorations. All egg cartons are sterilised after collecting from CUHK campus restaurants. Our prospect is to bring the idea of recycling to Sham Shui Po community as well as celebrate Christmas with the residents. This project has been subsidised by Sustainable Development Goals Action Fund (SDG Action Fund) and supported by Campus Planning and Sustainability Office of CUHK. The expression of egg cartons grasps our attention and interest in the beginning. In terms of design, the form of egg carton demonstrates its purpose of container and protection, which is an application of ‘Form follows Function’, a prominent architecture principle. We are intrigued by the visual appeal of the texture naturally present in egg cartons. In this project, we explored the possibilities and potentials of egg cartons through architecture expressions such as create openings, lightings, patterns etc. The exhibition has approximate 100 visitors in the period of 7 days. The process of construction is documented and shown through video and samples in the station. All materials of installation can be recylced after exhibition. Media interview by Oriental Daily & Invited presentation to Secretary for Enviornment.
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Working Experience
Office Tower in Western district Position: Summer Intern, KPF (Hong Kong) Role: prepare facade design development drawing package, interior design of office main lobby and lift cab Location: Western district, Hong Kong Site Area: GFA 28,180 sqm Status: to be completed in 2024
East Kowloon Cultural Centre Position: Architectural Trainee (2019-2020), Rocco Design Architects Associates Ltd. Role: Design construction study in facade (doors and canopy), Back of House area ceiling and light fixings, Signage Location: Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong Site Area: GFA 56,000 sqm Status: to be completed in 2022 East Kowloon Cultural Centre is intended to become a hub for performance & community events across 5 different districts: Kwun Tong, Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon City, Sai Kung and the future Kai Tak Area. It will provide a 1200-seat grand theatre, a 550-seat medium theatre, a 250-seat black box theatre, a 120seat music lab and other supporting ancillary culture facilities.
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Proposed new faculty building for The University of Hong Kong Position: Architectural Trainee (20192020), Rocco Design Architects Associates Ltd. Role: Conceptual design, diagram and drawings Location: HKU Pokfield Campus, Hong Kong Status: Competition
Hospital Project in Hong Kong Position: Architectural Trainee (20192020), Rocco Design Architects Associates Ltd. Role: Hoarding Graphic design in phase 1 construction site Location: Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong Status: Completed hoarding installation
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Appendix- Media Exposure
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2 1 “Egg Max Tree” / Oriental Daily / 27-12-2018 2 “Egg Max Tree” / Presentation to Secretary for the Environment, Mr. Wong Kam Sing at CUHK/ 15-12-2018 3 “FolTable Chair” / TVB News / 3-11-2018 4 “FolTable Chair” / Hong Kong Economic Journal / 14-11-2018 5 “Furniture as a Miniature of Architecture “, Student stories interview by Cedars, HKU / 3-2021 6 “The Weave Chair” / RTHK media interview for “830 Mag”tv programme / 4-3-2021 40
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