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PUI YU YAU Entry Level Architectural Graduate V7C 4X2, RICHMOND, VANCOUVER PUIYU.YAU@GMAIL.COM | +1(672)968-8168
WORK EXPERIENCE
Rural Urban Framework (RUF) Research Assistant Hong Kong | May - Aug 2021 • • • • •
Rural China Dwelling Typology Research Technical Drawing Physical Model Furniture and Material Sourcing Communicate between Contractor and Architect
Yau Lee Construction Company Limited Intern Hong Kong | July 2022 • • •
Learn about MiC Construction Understand construction drawings BIM Introduction Course
The University of Hong Kong Curatorial Team Hong Kong | June - July 2022 • •
Curation of Exhibition at PMQ Gallery Teaching and coordinating workshop
Teaching Assistant Hong Kong | June - July 2023 • • •
Plan and Deliver Lectures Teach students model and drawings Organize Studio and materials
EDUCATION
The University of Hong Kong
B.A. Architectural Studies | 2019 - 2023 • • •
Cumulative GPA : 3.49 Fung Scholarship | 2022 Dean's Honour List | 2020 - 2022
IE University School of Architecture Exchange Semester | Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Dulwich College Shanghai (DCS) Secondary School | 2009 - 2019 • • •
Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award | 2017 Completed IGCSE | 2015 - 2017 Completed IB Diploma | 2017 - 2019
SKILL SET
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Rhinocerous, Vray, Grasshopper, Lumion Autodesk | AutoCAD, Revit Editing | Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Procreate Microsoft Office | Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Outlook Casting, Lasercut, Wood workshop, 3D Print
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Fluent | English, Mandarin, Cantonese Intermediate | Spanish, Japanese
COMPETITIONS EXPERIENCE • 2021 Modular Home Design Challenge • 2022 Nisshin Kogyo Architecture Competition • 2023 Uniqlo T-shirt Competition • 2023 Winnipeg Warming Hut | Top 20 out of 201
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Hong Kong Elderly Mid-Rise Housing
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T h e n e w l y a p p o i n t e d C h i e f E xe c u t i v e i n H o n g Ko n g h a s a n n o u n c e d t h e g ra n d v i s i o n o f c r e a t i n g a n e w metropolis in the Northern Metropolis Vision Plan. In this studio "Discovering the frontier: Midrise housing in Hong Kong", we investigate the possible redevelopments that could happen in this area in thirty years time. The site of this studio is situated in Hung Shui Kiu, close to the border between Hong Kong and Shenzhen where most of the areas remain as brown fields or temporary logistic storages. On the far north, there is Tin Shui Wai estate with a highrise towers and towards the south, situates a historical walled village named Shek Po Tsuen with three storey high houses. Between the super high-rise and low-rise housing typologies, could a new housing typology be formed to serve as an alternative option for the future residents in this area? Given the aging population in Hong Kong and the need to refine elderly care centers, the studio looks int new housing typologies that may begin to inform new ways to live with elderlies.
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Single Room Unit (32sqm)
Duplex Unit (55sqm)
RCHE Unit (32sqm)
Double Room Unit (55sqm)
Duplex Unit (55sqm)
RCHE Unit (32sqm)
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SITE ANALYSIS: HUNG SHUI KIU The testing site of our project is in Hung Shui Kiu, Hong Kong. The 'pocket' site is enclosed by a water channel and a highway. Additionally, the site is further divided into three parts by a road and an elevated MTR railway. We name the three parts A, B and C. Together, we divided eleven sites with an area of 11000sqm to form each of our housing projects. and each group member chose their preferred site. My site is located in Site C bounded by two neighbours. It is directly opposite to the old walled village Shek Po Tsuen on the west and a retaining wall of the highway on the east. Through plan diagrams and elevations, I began to analyze elements I find interesting on my site such as existing vegetation and the porosity of the bounding edges in order to generate the massing of the project.
Existing Vegetation
Existing Car Park
Summer Soltice
Pedestrian Accessibility
Car Accessibility and Speed Limit
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Madrid Canillas Housing Project
The Madrid housing project is set in Canillas. This neighbourhood has a relatively low residential population and a lot of unused land. The elevations on the left depict four streets with very different characteristics. By combining these observations with later analysis of the walking experience and movement in Canillas, the project attempts to combine these four qualities together in the new residential neighbourhood and provide a better planning for pedestrian and cars.
Informal and Formal Movement
Free Movement (Open Space)
Obstructed Movement (Pedestrian)
Constricted Movement (Pedestrian)
Shortcut Movement (Cross Road)
Limited Movement (Fenced Plot)
Semi-Free Movement Calle de Manzanaar
Informal Parkings
Formal Parking
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Quarry Bay Municipal Services Building
During the site visit to Quarry Bay, I realized the mountain behind the MSB is inaccessible. Many rubbish was found behind the MSB, while this space still ser ves as a home to many plants. Could the new proposal open up this mountain slope and allow nature to take over and create a new leisure space for the nearby residents? I imagine the MSB to be a continuation of the existing natural landscape and nurture the growth of plants, to create a new type of public spaces. To put the spotlight on to the existing landscape of the MSB, I turned the face of the building towards the mountain slope. By designing the space according to the local existing environment and plants, I believe architecture would act as a media to connect humans the landscape together. The massing models and section sketches from the previous two pages explores how the building should face the urban road and the mountain and finally confirms the basic building form as demonstrated by the model above and the section opposite.
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Warming Hut Competition: Snow Stocking
We designed this snow hut to allow interaction between human and the winter landscape. Inspired by Antoni Gaudi's and Frei Otto's structure models, we investigated the change in material form following an accumulating snow load.
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Components: (1) Flooring: 200 mm CLT Board (7ft x 14ft) (2) 100 mm Timber Columns (3) Snow Stocking: Nylon Fabric (4) 2mm and 1mm bolts
(5) 200mm and 400mm Timber Rings (6) Ceiling: 200mm CLT Board (7ft x 14ft) (7) 50mm x 50mm Timber Rod with hooks (7ft) (8) 50mm x 50mm Timber Rod with hooks(14ft) (9) Curtain: Nylon Fabric
Flexible nylon fabric is used to create the curtain and stocking elements in the installation. The stockings and ceiling have openings that would allow accumulation of snow and provide space to hide the core structures to blend into the winter environment. Nylon curtains are applied to block wind meanwhile still blending the outside and inside through its semi-transparent property. To keep visitors warm when seated, sand is used to first form the rounded bottom of the stocking. During different times in winter, the stockings will be in different form status.
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Corner House: An Zhen Castle Renovation
The setting of this renovation project is in An Zhan Castle, a collective dwelling situated in Fujian, rural China. The Castle was constructued in the early Qing Dynasty by two architects, father and son, to build a place for the Hakka people to defend themselves from the locals. When at its peak, a thousand people could live in this dwelling, with the center offering services and the periphery as living units. Today, the site is conserved as a UNESCO heritage. By working with traditional wooden structure and the four meters thick masonry wall, the project imagines and investigates what kind of contemporary house could form by joining traditional and modern living together.
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Casa Gerassi: Modern House Case Study
This modern house research and analysis project was one of the early projects I did during my studies. The house, Casa Gerassi, was designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha in Brazil. The most interesting design concept is the use of prefabricated concrete components to finish the construction of this house within four days. T h r o u g h o b s e r v i n g a n d a n a lys i n g t h e b u i l d i n g co m p o n e n t s a n d t h e o r d e r o f construction, a series of drawings, models and a short film was made to demonstrate
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Typical Office Building
The site for this typical office building locates in Kowloon Bay. Directly opposite to it is a fifty-storey high-rise office building. Hence, our team decided to rotate our design by 45 degrees to face the Victoria Harbour a n d fo r i n d i r e c t s u n l i g h t . T h i s m o d e l s h o w s t h e d e t a i l s o f t h e ra i s e d floor, false ceiling and the return and supply airducts of the AHU room.
Supply Air Duct
Sprinkler Pipe
Return Air Duct False Ceiling Light
Curtain Wall Electrical Cable Raised Floor AHU
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RUF Internship Construction Drawings
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Tai Po Hakka Walled House Surveying (In Collaboration with Liao Tianyao, Cai Yijun, Guo Yue, Liu Chengxi)
Ma Tsuek Leng San Uk Ha is a half-abandoned walled house discovered in Tai Po, Hong Kong. Our team conducted a survey to understand the traditional timber structure and plan layout of this traditional dwelling typology. The geographical location also influenced the orientation due to aspects of Feng Shui. As the site is now half-abandoned, many of the structures were damaged. Our team carefully investigated areas that needs to be recovered for better historical monument conservation.
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Nurturing Growth: Foundation as Habitat
What type of architecture could help sustain human living and create a habitat to nurture organism? After careful consideration to balance the two criteria, I decided to design a set of foundation. This set of foundation will be placed in the sea, where marine organisms could swim by to dwell and feed on. Meanwhile, it also act as the structural core for a building above to sustain human living. I took coral as a habitat reference and explored how to create the organic texture with concrete casting. The increase in surface area of the foundation could allow oyster reefs to grow, as well as provide space to cultivate water plants and for fishes to swim through.
Normal Concrete
Concrete with Soda Water
Concrete with Salt
Concrete with Sugar
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Casting Weather Exhibition
The casting weather exhibition that was held in PMQ, July 2022. It was an opportunity for current and past HKU architecture students who have participated in the “Weathering Architecture” studio to showcase their work. The exhibition mainly explores different imaginations about how non-human and human species to co-exist together in the same space. The curation team and I decided to place the concrete models together on the ground with clay pebbles spread freely in the room, several of them contains living plants to show the theme of growth within artefacts. The large organic stools exhibited here were made by Jackie and myself, applying a similar method I discovered in the “Nurturing Growth” project.
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Concrete Casting Workshop
A concrete casting workshop was also held for young participants to create their own concrete sculptures where I taught the method I used to create my own concrete models. Before the workshop, we collected some drawings of plants and vegetables made by participants and transformed them into a red and white template, distinguishing the potential solid and void of the sculptural piece. D u r i n g t h e w o r ks h o p, w e s u p e r v i s e d a n d a s ke d t h e p a r t i c i p a n t s t o c u t o u t t h e w h i t e p a r t a n d s t i c k t h e r e m a i n i n g r e d t e m p l a t e o n t o a b l o c k o f fo a m as a guide to help them know where to melt t he foam with corrosive acr yli c g l u e . We t h e n m i x e d c o n c r e t e t o g e t h e r a n d c a s t e d i n t o t h e D I Y m o u l d .
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Visual Communication Works
Metamorphosis was a visual communication course project where we translated an actual stone in reality to a new sculptural form in Rhino digitally. We first used 3D scanning to make the stone into a point cloud and recreated the surfaces of the stone with Rhino. The geometric control of the curves are very important in order to create a closed polysurface at the end. Gradually, the original stone transforms into a new sculptural form that was later 3D printed as a joint.
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