MICHAEL LW WONG
Selected Works Part I Architectural Assistant | University of Bath
About Me Michael Wong is a third year BSc (Hons) Architecture student at The University of Bath, pursuing his Part 1 education and professional experience. With strong interest in retrofit, social architecture and photography.
Experience 2023 - New Office Works 2022 - P&T Architects 2022 - Project Hap Sap
Education mw2419@bath.ac.uk +44 (0)7565392264 https://www.linkedin.com/in/ michaellwwong/
2021-2025 - University of Bath 2016-2021 - Uppingham School
Languages English - Cantonese - Mandarin
CONTENTS Walk in the Field Pages 1 - 4
An architectural competition for the design of an Art Exhibition Centre, Sound Museum, and a Footbridge within a rural development in Western China.
Bath Fields Pages 5 - 8
Masterplan project located on Bathwick Hill, including detached, semi-detached or terraced dwellings. This masterplan should include one or more communal buildings or areas.
Salubritas et Industria Pages 9 - 12
A regenerative Net Zero Building situated within an old high street of Swindon, with aims to rejuvenate the area’s commerce and battle the repercussions of gentrification
Extras Pages: 13-16
Brass Luminesence Garden Living Loft
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WALK IN THE FIELD Themes: Competition, Cultural, Masterplan, Rural Development July 2023 Architectural Competition with New Office Works Duration: 4 weeks Team Members: Paul Tse Hwan Seo Lee Yuki Xu
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Brief The competition calls for the design of 3 sites within the masterplan of a rural development in Western China. The first site will host an “Art Exhibition Centre”, the second a “Sound Museum”, and the third is a footbridge that connects the first two sites together. ART EXHIBITION In the design of the art exhibition centre, we called upon the typical topography of Linpan and its tea culture roots, reflecting it through the courtyard formation and roof structure.
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SOUND MUSEUM Composed of three different zones, the museum takes the users through an auditory experience, reflecting the sound of ones self, nature, and others. The semi-vaulted roof on the exterior ring of the museum reflects the sound of nature to passer-by. As the users enter the central atrium pool, they are met with a cluster of sound rooms, each offering their own self-auditory experience through variation of scale, light and ambience. As they funnel into opposite end of the atrium, they are met with a performance venue space with a view into the BaiZhang lake, offering a space to appreciate the sounds from ‘others’. SOUND ROOM TAXONOMY
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FOOTBRIDGE ACCESS DIAGRAM
VISUAL DIAGRAM
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SITE CONNECTIVITY The three proposed structures respond to their respective surrounding environments whilst retaining a visual connection between one another. They each offer their own cultural and social responsibility within the social realm of this masterplan.
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BATH FIELDS
Themes: Masterplan, Housing, Modular Design, Sustainability, Vernacular Year 2: Semester 1 Group Project Duration: 4 weeks Group Members: Afrodite Ioannidou Alexander Whitwell Karoline Woogon
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Brief Masterplan project located on Bathwick Hill, including detached, semi-detached or terraced dwellings. This masterplan should include one or more communal buildings or areas. Response Introduce a sense of community within the lonely suburbs of Bathwick Hill, through series of artisanal shopfronts that adjoins the communal gardens. The housings are all timber-framed modular design with locally-sourced Bath stone for front facade cladding. Celebrating the Bath vernacular with orderly ‘front‘ and chaotic ‘back‘.
FLOOR PLAN - 3 story floor plan of the third terrace block
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INITIAL MASTERPLAN
VEGETATION AND GREEN LANSCAPING
Took shape of a cresent to accommodate for a central community area in the hub of the detached houses, with terraces stepping in line with the site’s contour.
The Introduction of communal gardens in the western front of the site would bridge the new dwellings with the existing Sydney Street buildings through open greenspace.
BATH’S VERNACULAR AND HERITAGE
BATHWICK STEPS
Exploring Bath’s vernacular Georgian housing type, and the dichotomy of the orderly ‘fronts‘ and chaotic ‘backs‘.
A series of 14 long flights where the dwellings meet the footpath, offering a key viewpoint down into the city of Bath.
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Salubritas et Industria Themes: Retrofit, Sustainability, Biodiversity, Health & Wellbeing Year 3: Semester 1 Individual Project Duration: Ongoing
Brief The brief calls for a regenerative Net Zero Building situated within an old high street of Swindon, with aims to rejuvenate the area’s commerce and battle the repercussions of gentrification. Response The proposed building rehouses the displaced food and beverage independent shops from Commercial road. Introducing cooking classes to promote a circular consumption within the building and a food bank that acts as the central food distribution in Swindon.
CONSTRUCTION STORYBOARD
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1. Existing plot housed a real estate office. Utilising a concrete frame structure, the three storied building was cladded with thin facing red bricks with PVC window strips.
2. Stripped away the roof and facade to reveal the concrete frame. The facing bricks would be transported to a brick reclaiming center for later re-use in the project.
3. The revealed concrete structure had a strict structural grid with existing BOH stairwells and regularly spaced columns supporting the weight of the long spanning concrete slabs.
6. The new building houses clay rendered walls insulated with hempcrete fill. Planters on the roof garden are meticulously placed to evenly distribute loads onto the existing columns.
5. The construction of the hempcrete walls, rooftop, and skylight would be done through scaffolding, and therefore minimising the constructional embodied carbon of the building if a crane were to be used.
4. New columns and supporting walls were introduced to manage the additional load from the roof. The central area of the concrete slabs were removed, creating an atrium and a lighter dead load for the structure.
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Recycled Aluminium Coping Render stop and mastic seal 20mm hemp quilt insulation sandwiched between hempcrete and roof coping 4. Timber Batten 5. In-Situ Hempcrete filled insulation 6. System substrate with varying depth (>200 mm) 7. Filter Sheet SF (Zinco) 8. Floradrain 9. Rootbarrier 10. 150mm FOAMGLAS insulation 11. Stone Coping 12. Recycled Bricks
The tectonic model showcases an in-situ filled hempcrete wall with lime render. Utilising timber battens as the structure, layers of hemp shiv would be packed in between panel boards, forming a bio based, carbon negative thermal insulator. Once dried, the panels would be removed to reveal beautiful layers of hempcrete.
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BRASS LUMINESENCE Themes: Re-use, Upcycling, Furniture
An upcycled Lamp from an old trombone and a high-stool seat. The LED bulb housed within the bell has its wiring through the turning slide and down into the slide tubes. 13
PHOTOGRAPHY
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Produced a selection of images and short film for ‘Garden Living Loft’ by New Office Wiorks. A minimilast home that challenges the conventional layout of private and social space.
Contact: mw2419@bath.ac.uk +44 (0)7565392264 www.linkedin.com/in/michaellwwong/