PORTFOLIO Penelope Fung
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Selected Work Featured in Portfolio Featured on http://cargocollective.com/plpfung
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/airport restructured/ proposal for a future Philadelphia Airport Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
spring 2018
/black mass/ data center & geothermal power plant Keflavik, Iceland
fall 2017
/elixir/ whiskey distillery Brooklyn, New York
spring 2017
/urban shuffle/ hybrid residential & commercial tower TriBeCa, New York
fall 2016
/altered (e)states/ residential tower rennovation & addition MId-Levels, Hong Kong
spring 2014
/sneak peek/ performing & visual arts complex Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
spring 2016
/inherent/ Russel Wright gallery Manitoga, New York
fall 2015
/flare/ digital fabrication
spring 2018
/work experience/ i. revit project ii. United States & Hong Kong
2015 - 2016 2012 - 2017
Part 1
Institutional Project
01 Airport Reconstructed Proposal for a Future Philadelphia Airport Philadelphia, Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania Spring 2018 Studio Critic: Masoud Akbarzadeh Partner: Kailin Wang
Airport is often stereotyped to have comparatively elongated volume in order to provide ample parking space for aircrafts. The intention of this project is to challenge the existing designs for airport and propose an airport that would fit the new era and improve the internal organization to improve efficiency. This research studio utilizes Dr Akbarzadeh’s formfinding algorithm which makes use of 3D Graphic State to find a compressional structure in its equilibrium. Through our intense investigation, our team successfully created an interlocking structure enclosed by developable surfaces. As the base module is further developed with information from the program studies of the airport, a circular structure of an unconventional airport terminal design was derived. The circular configuration allows the terminal to provide 12 boarding gates around its circumference. Along the radius from the gate to the center of the circle are 12 sets of departure and arrival service programs, each radiating from the central atrium garden. This arrangement allows the airport to employ a decentralized system that would increase its efficiency, and orient towards a nextgeneration further digitalized passenger experience.
Exterior Rendering
Module Development The goal of this exercise is to make use of the parametric script to create a structural module from manipulating the 3D force polygons. From the original module with two interlocking chambers generated by the developable surfaces, the force polygons are being further subdivided and aggregated in various manners to test out a variant of means to create different spatial quality with better understanding of the relationship between form and force with the aid of the algorithm.
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Aggregation Components After numerous testing, the final module is in the shape of a fan which consists of several spatial characteristics. The hierarchy of space created is helpful in curating the circulation in the airport. The modular unit facilitates the actual construction, as the fan adheres to the adjacent module to eventually form a full circle. This finalized module component includes multiple layers of space. Each layer showcases a different type of spatial quality that would serve for a certain type of airport program as illustrated below.
1/ Double Curve - Outer Ring
2/ Tunnel - Middle Ring
3/ Double Curve - Inner Ring
4/ Tunnel - Atrium
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Structural Model
Force Diagram - Perspective View
Form Diagram - Perspective View
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Circulation Diagram The new terminal is proposed on the basis of a circular configuration offering 12 boarding gates along its circumference. Level 1 houses all major service programs (for example, check-in, security, customs, etc.) of the airport, with departure (red in the diagram) and arrival (blue) occurs alternatively along the circle radius. The waiting lounges and retail/entertainment space are located on Level 2.
Physical Model - Departure Hall The middle paths radiating from the center of the ring is mainly for circulation use - alternatively for departure and arrival - to effectively stream departure passengers from arrival passengers. The shops and restaurants are located in the middle ring, causing minimal disruption to the distance from check-in to gate but forming its own strip around the terminal. This centralization certainly allows passengers to locate shops more easily.
Program Diagram This diagram illustrates how departure programs (red in the diagram) and arrival programs (blue) are alternatively laid out in the space. Retails space on Level 2 allows people to look down onto other program space and experience the airport more dynamically.
Physical Model - Roof Skylights are introduced onto the roof to allow natural sunlight to penetrate through the concrete roof. The baggage claim hall and AirTrain Platform in the basement also benefit from the elegant curves from the structural shell. As visitors move along the airport, they would witness different developable surfaces that form the interior space, making the experience a journey of discovering various spaces developed with the same language.
Section L - Arrival
This section cuts through the Arrival path in the terminal, illustrating the route from passengers’ arrival at the gate, proceeding down to Level 1 for Customs, further down to B1 for Baggage Claim, and eventually towards the AirTrain located on B2 level.
Exterior Rendering
Section R - Departure
Departure route illustrated in this section starts from passengers’ arrival with the AirTrain at the center of the airport terminal. Passengers will complete ticketing and check-in on the inner most ring of the circle, then proceed to Level 1 for Customs and Security, and to the waiting lounges on Level 2. Also located on Level 2 are the retail and entertainment space which has a view onto other program areas in the terminal. Physical Model - Sectional View
Floor Plan - Floor 2 Departure Hall This plan illustrates the waiting lounges next to the boarding gates, and retail/entertainment spaces in the middle-ring of the circle.
Physical Model - Departure Hall and Security Control Passengers can see straight to their corresponding boarding gate from the first moment of arriving at airport through the AirTrain. Checked-in passengers will be guided down to security and customs before reaching the other end of the airport for waiting lounge, retail and dining services.
Floor Plan - Floor 1 Arrival Hall This plan shows how the AirTrain station in the center of the terminal is connected to other service programs, with departure and arrival routes occur alternatively.
Level 1 Floor Plan This plan shows how the AirTrain station in the center of the terminal is connected to other service programs, with departure and arrival routes occur alternatively.
Interior Rendering - Departure Hall & Retail Spaces The departure hall is given a high degree of visual transparency. Passengers can see straight to the runway from the second they arise from the AirTrain Platform, passing through the central atrium garden. Shoppers and diners could also enjoy seeing the planes taking off and landing from the overhanging pods which also overlook the check-in areas. This visibility provides locational information to passengers at the airport to help them navigate at ease. As though the terminal is in a circular ring, the process from checking-in to boarding is of the shortest distance and the boarding gate is preassigned to ensure the shortest walking distance to gate. Interior Rendering - Arrival Hall & Baggage Claim
Physical Model - Departure Hall & Retail Spaces The baggage claim area is located underground to be connected directly to the AirTrain to take passengers from the satellite terminal to the city road network. It also provides the utmost convenience for families and friends to pick up arrival passengers. Access to the central atrium garden is available from this floor, allowing transfer passengers to stretch their legs and visitors waiting for delayed planes to step out of the airport. The full vision for the future Philadelphia Airport is to have three rings catering international flights with bigger aircrafts and 10 smaller rings for smaller planes. All of them will be connected by the underground AirTrain. Future Prospect - Master Plan
Part 1
Commercial Project
02 Black Mass Data Center & Geothermal Power Plant Keflavik, Iceland University of Pennsylvania Fall 2017 Studio Critic: Jason Payne
Data centers are an arising architectural typology. The existing data centers are mostly governed by technical requirement. They have great need for plot size but little for architectural aesthetic. This project is to challenge the stereotype for this type of architecture being vast and industrial through the means of creating hyperrealistic images. The project is visualized through a series of images that would best represent this new type of architecture. Black Mass in essence is a play of visual qualities produced by the building mass, site strategy, materials and coloration. The intent of the project is to challenge the linearity and clear reading of the existing data center. As security and privacy is highly valued by data center owners and users, the ever-shifting geometry of the complex provides a visual barrier for outsiders to the data center. The complete layout of the complex is also then only made clear to the users of the building. It is hard to determine the scale and boundary of the building from afar . The building is thus made more intriguing on the outside, but also well protected because of its specific layout.
Sectional Drawing
Aerial Drawing
While the aerial image of Keflavik is being read as black and white for the figure ground relationship, the coloration of the data center at the scale of approximate to a geological feature allows the building to borrow features from the natural landscape. The shadow casted by the building varying at different time of the day blurs the outline of the actual physical massing giving the data center a pseudo-outline thats ever changing. The play between a gigantic artificial architecture and natural landscape is similar to the former air force bunkers on site to cause illusion to viewers looking down from above, such as pilots and satellite images.
Exterior Cladding
The exterior of the building is cladded in corrugated metal panels that are common building materials used in Iceland. However, they are painted in black to echo with the surrounding natural elements, the black volcanic soil, the limited amount of sunlight and long nights in the winter, as well as the darkened silhouette of the mountain ranges in the far back of the landscape. In addition to metal, there is also rubber and metal fins to add different texture and width of patterns to enhance the visual misalignment. The panels however are not being aligned nor installed in a traditional manner. They are rotated and disconnected from the adjacent panels to create different reflections and blur the geometry of the building mass.
Floor Plan
The data center is being arranged in various blocks according to the different provision of technical facilities. The pathways inbetween different portions of the data center allow technicians to access the facilities in a centralized manner. Each grey portion represents the power facilities supported by the underground piping system. This allows each section have stable supply of electricity. The hexagonal arrangement of server racks provides flexibility in changing the composition of server spaces. This accommodates more clients with various needs of space. The sheared building mass is helpful in masking the actual outline of the geometry. As one walk around the building, the overlapping masses will change the reading of the whole complex depending on where one’s is standing. Just as one may think they can see through the corridor between the adjacent mass, the zigzag geometry will block the view of the complex beyond.
Exterior Rendering
The whole building is in fact sunken into the landscape to further create misjudgment of the building scale. As privacy and security is important to data centers, the sunken complex is further separated from the surroundings. As there is no distinct entrance of the building, this makes the building more suspicious and protected from random people passing by the area. While the building is being seen as a collective mass from the outer perimeter, the shifting of building masses allow the actual allocation of the data centers to be more ambiguous.
Exterior Rendering - Distant View
Exterior Rendering
Building masses are being collapsed due to the choice of materials and application of color. The usage of color give visual connection of the building with the landscape, the correlation with the dark soil, the mountain silhouette in distant landscape, etc. This creates a misreading of the building size. Exterior Rendering - Distant View
Exterior Rendering
The actual mass of the data center is actually composed of multiple massing with various geometry. As the panelization on the facades are being arranged in an irregular manner, the geometry is being blurred which creates a misread of the scale of the project
Exterior Rendering - Distant View
Part 1
Commercial Project
03 elixir Whiskey Distillery Brooklyn, New York University of Pennsylvania Spring 2017 Studio Critic: Nathan Hume Partner: Kailin Wang
The project “elixier� is crafted around the concept of misalignment. Three massing entities were generated with variations of the same design language, achieving consistency and a sense of delicate difference at the same time. The siting of the massing is subtly set backed from the surrounding buildings to draw visitors in, while remains tension among the three entities. Inside the massing, a different language, which is inspired by the tubular facilities in distilleries, was employed to organize the interior space, allowing the creation of the misalignment between interior and exterior. Nonetheless, these two systems interact at certain moments, for example, the interior volume sometimes penetrates the building envelope, and the skin also folds inwards to form the atrium. The boundary between interior and exterior, public and private has been blurred as a result. The sense of misalignment is furthered by the design of the building facade. The facade is consist of pipes arranged into a pattern which is the 3D projection of a 2D line-work. This pattern not only creates visual connection between the three massing entities, disguising the edges of buildings, but also changes the perception of the buildings as the viewpoint shifts.
Site Model
Floor Plan - Lower Interior space serves as a contrast of the exterior massing
Sectional Model - Experience Center
Floor Plan - Upper Partially enclosed/ opened chambers enhances the experience as visitors tour around the facilities.
Sectional Model - Atrium
Orthogonal Facade Drawing Piping on the building envelop creates a visual connection between three separate massing
Unfolded Elevation
Unfolded Section Drawing
Physical Model Piping on the facades are guided from exterior to interior space to create continuity
Sectional Model Piping on the facades are guided from exterior to interior space to create continuity
Facade Construction Details Tubing and foam are attached onto the wall with a pin system
Sectional Model Tubes are being layered on top of foam to create different textures on the facades
Facade Model
Part 1
Residential Project
04 Shifting [Hybrids] Hybrid residential & commercial tower TriBeCa, New York University of Pennsylvania Fall 2016 Studio Critic: Hina Jamelle
Urban architecture should adapt to living styles and working patterns that are ever evolving. Collaboration and hybridization of both living and working environment are in demand due to expensive rent and people’s pursuit of efficiency. This project aims at developing a live-work environment in TriBeCa to establish a housing and business model that gives insights on promoting a new urban lifestyle. With a system of vertical farming that is embedded within pockets of spaces unfolded from the system of facade and structure, the living and working users are being tied to a harmonious logistics of leisure and business. Each unit is designed to have a continuous logistic of farming, cooking and eating, which essentially altered the unit layout. While farming provides recreation and social bonding for entrepreneurs and residents, the farm produce creates extra income for the owner.
Diagram showing the infiltration of vertical farming within the hybridization of living, working and live-work units.
External Rendering Looking from the intersection of Vestry Street and Greenwich Street
External Rendering Different balcony and fenestration systems to incorporate farming into the units. Vestry Street
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Program Diagram Diagram illustrating the distribution of different types of units within the hybrid tower.
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3D Sectional Drawing A portion of the tower is taken out to reveal the mechanism of vertical farming being weaved into living and working spaces within the tower.
Communal Farming Area Vertical farming is facilitated by sunlight on the top two floors. Sunlight is used during daytime, instead of artificial lighting.
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Part 1
Residential Project
05 Altered [e]states Alteration and addition to existing residential tower Mid-Levels, Hong Kong University of Hong Kong 2013- 2014 Studio Critic: David Erdman & Dylan Baker-Rice part I partner: Ruby So
Altered [e]States is a project that explores how architecture can challenge conventional perception of space. This two part project is consisted of an alteration proposal and designing an additional tower to a luxurious residential tower built in the 80s. The challenge is to propose alteration to be made within minimal interruption to existing context, while providing new unit types that post a new reading to space. The addition acts as a continuation of the language developed in the first part of the project. Through a series of operations, more dynamics are read within the project, suggesting bending and rotation; divergence and convergence.
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Exterior Rendering of the renovated tower
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Interior Renderings
Part 1
Institutional Project
06 Sneak [Peek] Performing and visual arts complex Delaware Riverfront, Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Spring 2016 Studio Critic: Joshua Freese
Sneak [Peek] plays with the notion of providing previews of the vast amount of festivities happening within the complex. As non-performance spaces weave and penetrate through performance venues, this provides opportunities for visitors to discover the happenings in other areas of the complex, or at some point, the activities beyond the complex. While the design is seemingly composed of four zones, they are linked up through retail activities and outdoor performance spaces which implies dynamics and liveliness that could act as mediums to balance the relative inactivity of indoor performance venues whenever they are vacant.
Physical Model of the Theater
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[01] Project Overview This project is a manipulation of circulation and arrangement of programs to distribute festivities across the site. To heighten the weaving of retails and circulation around performance venues, patterns are used to indicate the location of such programs; framing entrances and apertures that serve as directory to visitors. [02] Pattern Studies To enhance the Sneak [Peek] effect, patterns would develop thickness which attack the exterior shell to attack inner volume or for certain program to penetrate through the outer skin. Various pattern studies are used to investigate the interaction of 2D patterns and 3D geometry and volumes. [03] Floor Plan & /Massing Diagram Colors are used to highlight the performance venues - blue, being wrapped and penetrated by circulation - orange, restaurants and retailers - red. [01] [02]
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Site Plan 1/32” - 1’ Legends Pedestrian Entrance Vehicle Entrance
1. Black Box Theatre 2. Theater 3. Concert Hall 4. Outdoor Public Space 5. Outdoor Theater 6. Visual Arts Cinema Theaters 7. Viisual Arts Collection 8. Flexible Outdoor Public Space
a.Entry Hall & Restrooms b. Shops c. Box Office d. Gift Office & Cafe e. Cafe f. Shopping Arcade g. Conference Center h. Food Service Market i. Cafe j. Archiving Library k.Cafe
Site Plan 1/32” - 1’ Legends Pedestrian Entrance Vehicle Entrance
1. Black Box Theatre 2. Theater 3. Concert Hall 4. Outdoor Public Space 5. Outdoor Theater 6. Visual Arts Cinema Theaters 7. Viisual Arts Collection 8. Flexible Outdoor Public Space
a.Entry Hall & Restrooms b. Shops c. Box Office d. Gift Office & Cafe e. Cafe f. Shopping Arcade g. Conference Center h. Food Service Market i. Cafe j. Archiving Library k.Cafe
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Part 1
Institutional Project
07 Inherent Russel Wright Gallery Manitoga, New York University of Pennsylvania Fall 2015 Studio Critic: Lasha Brown
Inspired by the synergy between two collision-impending masses that affect and impress on each other, the new gallery is in essence an aggregation of three colliding curved-folded shells. Instead of building up from a flat surface, the gallery begins with the clustering of the volumetric shells. With respect to the folding template for the pavilion, the orientation and massing of the gallery is a translation of the folding template onto the topography of Manitoga. By referencing the template, more interaction between the behavior of curves on a flat surface –reinterpreted as the plan; and its resulted volume – now translated into the form and geometry of the gallery, are allowed. The tension between curves on the template is thus transferred onto the plan and the colliding gesture. Each seam on the shell of the gallery is an illustration of how eyelets and arches of different orientations and sizes eventually fuse with each other. Each seam is, thus, inherent from the template, embedded within the curved surfaces and a legacy of all folds.
Curve-folding Studies
PART I
This project is composed of three parts. The first part focuses on studying the ceramic artwork collection of Russel Wright. Through a series of drawings and digital modeling of the assigned piece, a container was designed to introduce a new reading to the carafe in my case. The second part is a construction of pavilion through teamwork, which attempts to re-interpret the ceramic collection through an introduction of new materials and geometry. The last part was to design a gallery as an extension of the existing Russel Wright Residence individually.
The container is a resultant effect of inflating and fragmenting the carafe. The fragmented piece left a footprint onto the smaller hexagons which fully packed the given hexagon container. As the hexagonal columns are projected onto the carafe at different angles, the openings to the columns are either concealing or revealing the hidden carafe in the middle, depending on the angle of observation. The translucency of the materials of the container gives a second layer of conceal and reveal effect that further strengthens the playfulness between the carafe and the container.
Carafe & Container Model
Drawing of the Carafe
Aperture Study - Concealed
Carafe & Container Model
Drawing of the Container
Aperture Study - Revealed
PART II The pavilion is the embodiment of harmony Russel Wright found within the dynamics and elegance of curves and geometry. As an attempt to explore the potential of curves in creating volumes, the pavilion adopted curved-folding as a language in articulating the intricacy of curves found within Wright’s Modern American Collection. During the design and production of the pavilion, the team adopted a bottom-up approach which produces curves and essentially curvedsurfaces from a flat surface. It is a constant exchange between flatness and curvature – area and volume. The fascination of curved-folding lies within its ability in achieving formal aesthetics, whilst attaining the resultant structural rigidity. With careful choreographing of the arrangement of curves on a flat medium, volume could be manipulated with a variation in form,
depth and magnitude of enclosure – an alternation between mountain folds and valley will contribute to the interiority/ exteriority of the enclosed volume; whereas the convergence/ divergence of the ends of the curves will determine the size and types of openings – “eyelets” vs “arches” in the pavilion. The eventual pavilion is comprised of two sibling bodies implemented in different scales and combinations of openings. With a set of mirroring curves on both siblings, they appear as two masses with impending collision-tendency, amidst a tension between two close-by volumes that impress oneself upon the other. PART II Partners // Patrick Reeves, Leetee Wang, Yue Cao, Selin Zakuto
Massing Strategy - PART I
Curve-folding Paper Model from 2D template to 3D pavilion
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PART III Inspired by the synergy between two collision-impending masses that affect and impress on each other, the new gallery is in essence an aggregation of three colliding curved-folded shells. Instead of building up from a flat surface, the gallery begins with the clustering of the volumetric shells. With respect to the folding template for the pavilion, the orientation and massing of the gallery is a translation of the folding template onto the topography of Manitoga. By referencing the template, more interaction between the behavior of curves on a flat surface –reinterpreted as the plan; and its resulted volume – now translated into the form and geometry of the gallery, are allowed. The tension between curves on the template is thus transferred onto the plan and the colliding gesture. Each seam on the shell of the gallery is an illustration of how eyelets and arches of different orientations and sizes eventually fuse with each other. Each seam is, thus, inherent from the template, embedded within the curved surfaces and a legacy of all folds.
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Part 2
08 Flare Digital Fabrication & Fashion in Architecture University of Pennsylvania Spring 2018 Critic: Danielle Willems Partner: Kailin Wang & Jun Cui
This project’s objective is to borrow ideas from architecture to inspire the design of a piece of garment, and in return, lending techniques from the fashion industry to open up new opportunities for architecture. Flare is comprised of two parts. The first part is to create a piece of garment for the annual Wharton Fashion Charity Show. The second part is to extract techniques discovered through the creation of the garment to create a new architectural component. The intent and goal of the project is to expand the possibilities of architecture, especially to celebrate the versatility of the profession and the importance of designing the detail elements that always compliment and accentuate the design.
Finished Garment on Model
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Part I | Fashion The dress is evolving around the idea of turning 2D materials and patterns into volumetric components. By utilizing the technique of heat-forming flat acrylic sheet, this rigid material can be morphed into curved surfaces and form joints with engineered punctures that allow the acrylic to interlock with each other without additional adhesion. The dress is composed of the crown piece that adorns the neck and shoulder. Vinyl is used as the fabric for the garment as an echo to the transparency of the acrylic. Layering is another technique used to compliment the visual vibrancy of the dress. As the pattern runs through the crown to give it shape and translates into colorful patterns and slots for the tulle to form a volumetric sweep for the dress, the dress is delivering elegance and liveliness with a variance of material rigidity descending from top to bottom.
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Wall option with acrylic-formed baskets
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Part II | Architecture This interactive wall is borrowing the concept of heat-forming acrylic to form basket-like storage space embedded within a wall. Heat-forming acrylic promises a lot of possibilities in terms of the final form of the end product. The shape is controlled by the cuts made on the flat acrylic sheet, which determine how much flexibility would be given during the heating process. The boundary and orientation of the cut pattern also promises forms that vary vastly from one design to another. In the crown piece, the pattern runs more linear and pointy, whereas the wall is adopting a radial cut pattern which enables the circular flat acrylic to form a basket once cooled after being heated. However, acrylic is still rigid in terms of the volume created as the pockets in the wall. An alternate proposal is to replace the acrylic with flexible materials that retain the pattern of the basket. As a result, the magnitude of morphing is determined by the weight of the objects stored. This flexibility allows the wall to uphold a static state versus a dynamic state depending on the usage of the baskets. The acrylic baskets can now transformed into lamp shades to form a drop down ceiling that resonates with the wall.
Wall option with flexible baskets
Functionality of the Interactive Wall
Section Drawing
Part 3
09 Work Experience i. Philadelphia Office Project Revit Exercise Philadelphia, Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania Summer 2016 Structure Course Critic: William Braham
This exercise is an integrated Revit exercise in constructing an office tower. This exercise focuses on producing construction document through building a 10-storey tower. The office is built on pile foundation, cladded in glass facade and equipped with light fixture and an atrium.
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Interior Rendering - Lobby
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Part 3
09 Work Experience ii. Internships
Fox Architects, LLC District of Columbia, US Summer 2017 Project Participated: Projects participated: 2100M Street, 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, Alexander Court, 1901 Pennsylvania Avenue Photo Credit: Fox Architects
P&T Architects & Engineers Ltd. Hong Kong 2014-2015 Project Participated: Victoria Park Swimming Pool Complex, Residential complex in TKO Photo Credit: P&T Architects & Engineers Ltd.
Thomas Chow Architects Ltd. Hong Kong Summer 2012 Project Participated: Former Police Married Quarters (PMQ), Diocesan Boys School Renovation Photo Credit: Thomas Chow Architects Ltd.
Work Experience