Design Portfolio paula siu ka ying
selected completed projects between 2015-2018
about
paula siu ka ying
CONTACT Address: Diamond Hill, Kowloon, HK Email: skypaulas@gmail.com Website: https://paulasiu.com Cell: +852 6807 2294
WORK EXPERIENCE
AWARDS
2017/12 Exhibition Assistance Hong Kong Design Centre Unpacking and introducing exhibit
2017 People’s Choice Award FUSICS Designboom Schott CeranŽDesign Award -showcased at London Design Fair
2017/07 - 2017/09 Product Design Intern MisoSoup Design ( Taiwan ) Develop concepts, CAD, photo shooting 2016/09 -2016/10 Human Resources Intern DHL Global Forwarding ( Hong Kong ) Managing attendances, compensation data
EDUCATION 2014 - 2018 Product Design BA ( Hons ) Scheme in Design The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 2017/02 - 2017/06 Man & Mobility Exchange Programme Bachelor of Design Design Academy Eindhoven
2016 Honorable Mention Prize Taiwan International Student Design Competition Second Runner-Up Team Disney ImagiNations Hong Kong 2016 Design Competition
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Contents projects
6-11 a b c d (a) HOTEL LIGHTING Hong Kong Industrial (b) ROUNDLE Desktop lighting for Chinese restaurant
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(c) ECHO DE LA MER interactive installation for releasing stress (d) LIVE TO space saving living system for HK
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(e) NOURISHMENT self-sufficient kitchen block
(f) ADD VALUE
MACHINE
Redesign the existing top up machine uses in Hong Kong
(g) PHOTOGRAPHY
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06 / HOTEL LIGHTING
Hong Kong industrial style
(a) HOTEL LIGHTING This cooperative project started with a very clear and innovative direction which is an artistic hotel based on Hong Kong industrial background. We started with researching the background information of the assigned industries. We worked separately by different disciplines so the outcome is full of differences in terms of topics, styles, and professions. By sharing what we have got, we gained a in-depth understanding of the topic. The hotel consists of eight floors and with different topics accordingly.
Project Duration: Sep to Nov 2017 Nature: School project
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6/F_Furniture is developed according the theme “garment�. To enhance the design value of this hotel project, I selected up-cycling items to create furniture. I strived for a balance between aesthetic and used objects. Believing denim is one of the significant garment representing Hong Kong Industrial history, a floor lamp is designed using second-handed denim pants.
Research, sketch, prototype, technical drawing, rendering are included to convey our ideas to the client.
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Lamp I The floor lamp is proposed to be placed in the 6/F VIP Room. There are some photos to show the garment factory in the past. The tone is set to be denim blue with the denim curtain and pillows. The experimental denim testing: it changes the softness of fabric which can stand by itself and forming the angles on top.
The lamp is formed by the folding up a rectangular denim and then fold a ninety degree on the top. By sewing up the top and sides together, dome-shapes are formed and created a circle lampshade. We also sanded part of the shade to make a special lighting effect, showing the structure and weaving method of the denim.
Orginal VIP Room
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Lamp II The floor lamp is also proposed to be placed in the 6/F VIP Room. The lamp creates the special lighting effect, showing the layers of the waistbands and also the waving pattern of the denim. For alternative option, I develop other part of the jean which is the waistband. I used a very direct approach this time. Connecting different waistbands together, it allows the viewer to think of denim immediately.
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Considering the connecting method of each waistband, I emphasize the unique feature of the waistband. I wanted to use the hook effect for connection. However, I do not want to make them aline. So I gave up the hooking method and stitched them together randomly.
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220v yellow light bulb
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desktop lighting for Chinese restaurant
(b) ROUNDEL
A good lighting can enhance the mood and create a visual interest in a restaurant. Roundel is inspired by the tea cup in Chinese restaurant. Getting the idea of Chinese culture, introverted. Regular look is given to Roundel when people see the outer form. Inside the cup, a round shou pattern is designed to project the oriental taste.
Project Duration: July, 2016 Nature: School project @PolyU
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LIGHTING IN RESTAURANT affects impression of the space/ can make a space enjoyable LOWER light levels: subjective impression is more “private” / fewer customers/often higher product costs brightness contrast between the object and the surround increases the impact
LIGHTING in RESTAURANT:
non-uniform distribution/wall lighting/lower light levels
affects impression of the space/ can make a space enjoyable
LOWER light levels: subjective impression is more “private” /fewer customers/often higher product costs
Privacy Focus non-uniform distribution/wall lighting/lower light levels
Relax
brightness contrast between the object and the surround increases the impact
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3D PRINTING As the extruded pattern on the inner wall was very complicated and the extrude length of the different parts was various. Roundel was considered to be hard to be produced by the traditional manufacturing methods. 3D print was a flexible manufacturing method, the pattern inside the Roundel can be customized by the consumers when it is in the market for production. It can attract a larger group of customers.
UPPER CAD section view RIGHT 3D printed model before sanding and colour spraying
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CHINESE RESTAURANT IN HK / MOOD BOARD It is found that most of the chinese restaurants are lacking of well planned lighting system.
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SCENARIO Roundle is placed in the Chinese restaurant and in the living room. 3D PRINT MODEL the round shou pattern is projected on the inner wall. INTROVERTED getting the idea of Chinese culture, introverted. Regular look is given to Roundel when people see the outer form. ROUND SHOU PATTERN round shou pattern means longevity in Chinese word with the center 壽 . I designed the pattern with other propitious signs, like the clouds and bats.
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18 / ECHO DE LA MER
interactive installation for releasing stress
(c) ECHO DE LA MER Echo de la mer is an outdoor interactive installation for stress releasing in the campus. The idea comes from the bottle message. People who are suffering under pressure, we portray that it is an endless waiting for hope, just like throwing out a bottle message into the sea.
This is not an endless waiting. We enlighten them with hope.
Project Duration: Jul to Dec 2016 Team Members: Alice Wu/Crystal Pang/ Jada Hung/Paula Siu Nature: Local Competition
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LOGO DESIGN
PROJECT IMAGE
This project won the second winner up award from the Disney ImagiNations Hong Kong 2016 Design Competition. BELOW: project displaying day in the Hong Kong Disneyland.
20 / ECHO DE LA MER
LA MER Users can speak, shout,sing, meditate or take a rest in their own spaces. The bottles can capture sound waves, and has a response from the echo of the sea, giving users a feedback but not in a direct and disturbing way. In the dark, it still shines bright, just like being in a spacious ocean, when you look up, a silver moon shines high up in the sky, and there is hope underneath. Same as those stressful people, all they need is a tiny little simple motion or incidents that will cheer you up, for example, a warm embrace, like what la mer gives.
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LOCATION Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus Echo de la mer consists of two parts: La mer & Blubbur. La mer allows user to express their depressions and frustrations by various ways. Blubbur acts as the receiving centre which collects messages from la mer and giving feedback.
ripples give them a feeling: roaming on the water surface
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BLUBBUR Sometimes stress cannot be verbally expressed, which others might not fully understand what they are facing. La mer & Blubbur. It interacts between each other in a far distance. It may only be a temporary relief if you just express the stress physically in La mer. If there is someone, or even something, that touches one’s heart by showing sympathetic. It gives a greater encouragement to the person spiritually.
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Those bubbles have a shining effect which acts like an SOS signal to the viewer, curiosity is what leads the people to those bubbles, wanting to know what’s happening inside. When people walk by blubbur, they are seeing a silhouette projection from la mer. People might have an instinct to touch the bubbles. At this moment, they have just done something for the people who are suffering from stress at la mer side who need a hand from them. How to show la mer’s problem is solved? When the blubbur turns into cool colors, there are problems needed to be solved. If the problem is solved, blubbur tur ns into warm, soft color. Sometimes, problems cannot be solved completely, there is a transition colour, purple, to represent the progress. Same as the shadow part, when the people touch the shadow, it will fade away, just like things will eventually turn better if there is someone willing to stay by your side and defeat the darkness in life together.
Sea surface messages spread out widely on bubbles by colour changes, opacity, silhouette
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USER FLOW It shows the interaction between La mer & blubber. Including the stress releasing, replying feedbacks and most importantly, the emotional support to the users.
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>> spreading messages >> Responses in the sound of sea waves, giving users a feedback but not in a direct and disturbing way.
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<<<< Messages in La mer will fade out. As a metaphor, it means that someone understands how you feel. It touches the deepest side of your heart. It is time to let go of the problems.
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The messages are transformed into visual effects that attract people to come near this area. It also projects the silhouette of the users in La mer.
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People might try to have an instinct to touch the Blubbur surface. With a sudden touch, the lights turn warm, meaning that you bring warmth to the needy at La mer side.
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26/ LIVE TO
space saving transformable furniture system
(d) LIVE TO
LIVE TO provides a brand new living system targeting 18 to 30 years old age group, two people per flat. According to the current living trend and various analysis, Hong Kong citizens will face the serious housing shortage in the coming years. Under the limited resources we have, LIVE TO aims to provide a visionary space saving living experience. Although space is limited, we are not live to live but LIVE TO____, defined by the resident.
Project Duration: Sept, 2017 - Apr, 2018 Nature: School Final Year Project
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Hong Kong has long had the smallest average flat sizes in the world, about 470 sq ft. The amount of projected population will reach the peak in 2043, to 8.22 million. The population will keep on growing in the coming 30 years. It creates great pressure to the housing system in Hong Kong.
CHINESE CULTURE 成家立室 安居樂業 Chinese culture inherits the values of living and working in peace and contentment, establishing a family, reflecting the thirst for security and stability in the home. The family seems like a safe haven for Chinese people. In the past, people live in the rural areas. Unsuspecting farmland and mountains are faced with violent insolation and precariousness. People always want to go back to the shelter - home. In the modern society, the intense interpersonal relationships lead people willing to go home when relaxing and apart from working.
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LIVE TO SHARE Apart from the newly introduced flat layout, LIVE TO also different from the usual floor plan. By removing the toilet and kitchen from each flat and putting them into two common areas, it increases the number of flats from 10 to 13. There are two common areas from each floor. Residents can share the kitchen and bathroom area. There are also the washing machine, fridge and a large dinning table to gather with. This change not just increase the flat provided but also enhance the neighbourhood bonding by letting the daily rountine to semi-private activties. Citizens can purchase the minimal flat with a lower price and the increase of flats number profits the developer.
The ceiling height is increased from 3.2m to 4m. Also, the windowsill is removed to maximize the efficiency of the use of space. 3035mm
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a flat built in 2018 (sample) the new flat introduced in LIVE TO ceiling height: 4m
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By removing the toilet and kitchen from each flat and putting them into two common areas, it increases the number of flats from 10 to 13. There are also the washing machine, fridge and a large dinning table to gather with. This change not just increases the number of flats provided but also enhancing the neighbourhood bonding by letting the daily routine to semi- private activities. H
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FURNITURE SYSTEM Under the brand new floor plan and flat layout, LIVE TO also includes a space saving furniture system for an advancel iving quality or an idealistic living style in the coming years. In order to tackle with the limited space, the essential objective is to minimize the size of the furnitures. Second step is to add in the flexbility. Therefore, the whole furniture system includes the concept of multi-functional items, use of height, folding by hinge and rotational by bearing.
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Design Strategy Double level rest and relax area include a double bed, closet the loft starts at 2m ceiling height, users can stand on both layers
Work & Dine zone providing flat surfaces of a table height with hidden chairs, include two chairs and two turning, connective surface with different hinge and axis , it allows a transformable performance
Flip stair providing the mobility between different layers and storage, total of eight rotatable steps, forming a 180 degree turning
Storage providing adequate storage include a a cabinet& shoe wardrobe, fits the corner
Transformable closed when not in use, include the stair and the work zone allow them flip closely against the wall, giving a large empty area
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LIVE TO____ With the above furniture system, it fulfils the basic physical needs of a home. LIVE TO not only provide you a place to rest, but also allow you to enjoy different living style. Let you define LIVE TO ____. The below shows two kinds of suggested application with LIVE TO furniture system. When the furniture system is closed, the whole flat transforms into another usage, like the cat playground and garden below. LIVE TO allows user to purchase their flat with preferred living style by applying the furniture system flexibly.
LIVE TO COMPANY When the furniture system is closed, it gives a large empty area. Applying the same mechanism, rotation axis, it creates a large cat playground in the apartment. Even when the furniture system is in use, cat can still climb around the house and stay in their own house.
The two pillars at the back can be rotated. When the furniture system is closed, the whole apartment turns into a cat playground. Even the pillars are not turned, they can still serve as the cat house.
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LIVE TO GREEN This layout simply divide the flat into two layers. Staircase becomes a platform for planting and a garden area on top. Below is a glasshouse like area for daily routine: rest and work.
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EXHIBITION This project is exhibited in the 2018 polyu annual show from June to July. It also shows a 1:10 model indicating the furniture system and two 1:20 models projecting the applications, Live to Company and Live to Green.
The booth is constructed by wood boards in different sizes. Under the differences in height and depth, explaining the whole Live To system with the help of the models. There is also a book stand keeping the project report and catalog for the project details.
The whole booth is wrapped by PP paper. The presentation board is printed because of its toughness and high performance in whiteness and resolution.
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38/ NOURISHMENT
self-sufficient kitchen block
(e) NOURISHMENT
In a typical modern lifestyle, especially in metropolitan cities, having a secured food source is getting more and more difficult around the world. Most of the people live very far from where foods are harvested. There are no way to figure out what kind of food processing these foods went through before arriving us. The design concept for the next generation kitchen system could be the one of solution to provide secure and clean food source in urban living condition.
Project Duration: July, 2017 Team Members: Daisuke Nagatomo/ Minnie Jan@MisoSoup Design / Paula Siu Nature: International competition
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“Nourishment” is a self-sufficient farming surface equipped kitchen system, which incorporates with durable ceramic glass counter top surface for cooking top and interactive screen.
SCHOTT CERAN® is a German-based world market leader in glass-ceramic cooktop panels. They are always working on new solutions, about the material glass-ceramic. It pushed them to a collaboration with designboom and the idea of a special design competition: putting SCHOTT CERAN® glass-ceramic cooking panel in the center and create the space around it. Think of new kitchen block designs with combination of different materials.
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RESEARCH Understanding the required materials: SCHOTT CERAN® glass-ceramic cooktop panels, knowing the restrictions and finding the possibilities in designing the future kitchen
04 – Jury http://www.schott-ceran.com/blog/en/panel-of-experts-continued-jury-schott-ceran-design-awards-2017-part-2/
Michael Young, product designer, Hong Kong
specialises in creating modern design through exploring the endless possibilities Asia’s technological ingenuity provides
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CHALLENGE This is the inital design of the self-sufficient kitchen. It is reminded that to be careful of the scale and the actual structure. So I have to remove the layers and make it not that transparent, for the pipes and water flow.
Size and shape of the final design
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MECHANISM The self-sufficiency concept consists with reuse of two main resources, which are water and food waste during the cooking process. Wasted water is filtered after the kitchen sink and goes to the water reservoir of aquaponics, which can produce not only green vegetables but also aquatic animal such as fish and prawns. Meanwhile, the wasted food can be processed at the bottom of sink to convert for food composite which will be great nutrients for soil based farming vegetables. All these complex farming systems are embedded under the clean ceramic glass surface to emphasize simplicity of its design.
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INTERACTIVE INDUCTION COOKING TOP The ceramic glass surface provides not only high efficiency induction cooking top, but also interactive computer screen for “Nourishment” system to monitor nutrient level of farming medium, check pollution level of water, and connect with other “Nourishment” system for sharing their harvests with others.
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KITCHEN ISLAND This kitchen island design serves as a separation between dining room and the kitchen. Locating at the middle of the kitchen, it enhances the interaction between the one who is preparing the meal and the other members. It also favours the use of the interactive cooking top, to connect and share.
46 / ADD VALUE MACHINE
mass transit railway station
(f) ADD VALUE MACHINE Add value machines are located in every station of the most popular public transport in Hong Kong, for topping up the balance of Octopus Card. According to Octopus Holdings Limited, there are more than 20 million Octopus Card in circulation. It is three times the population in Hong Kong. Those data shows the popularity and commonness of Octopus Card and the MTR in Hong Kong. However, the add value machine is in low utilization.
Project Duration: Feb-Apr 2016 Nature: School project @PolyU
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SCENARIO HK MTR station - Austin Station (hkrail.wikia.com)
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RESEARCH After the research of the existing machine, it is found that: unclear instruction - the fonts and pictures are too small confusion of button - there are some buttons that would not be used limited users serviced - the height of the machine is not suitable for child andwheelchair users limited amount of money can be added - users can only insert fifty and one hundred dollar notes to get their Octopus Card topped up inaesthetic - it is in box shape and the colour and form create a sense of pressure to the users At first, I tried to solve all the problems that mentioned and add in the give change of coins function. But Ifound that it would be too complicated for the interfaceand also would confused the users.
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(a,b) exisiting add value machine in Hong Kong MTR station
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(c) the oldest version of add value machine in MTR station. Taken in 1997. It is similar to the one existing in heavy rail line stations. (Image captured from Octopus Card advertisement, 1997) (d,e) taken in Hung Hom Station. The notice shows the suspension of EPS adds value service. (Image from apple daily, 2007) (f) the new version of add value machine in Siu Hong light rail station (g) the location of the new add value machine in Tuen Mun station in light rail line Written research paper: Low utilization of Add Value Machine in MTR Station
https://drive.google. com/open?id=1MGSr_ hPe5SxzXgCimyTW9qoekmCPfVy3
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RESEARCH In order to facilitates the conveniency of using the machine, the second part, the dollar note sholder,it is located at the curve the the machine. With the filleted bottom, it aallows the users to slide the note through the curve smoothly and insert the note easily. By setting the numbers into large font with arrowsand words, it can give a clear instruction to theusers even if they use it for the first time.
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The form of this add value machine is first developed by the inspiration of architecture. They share similarshape just in different scale. The final for m is inspirated from a standing human, with the head on top and two arms in the middle. It looks like welcoming the users and also provide a stand for supporting or put the bags on top.
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city captures
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