Qing Lai - portfolio - 2010

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QING LAI

PORTFOLIO

After studied in Hong Kong University which is design focused and TU Delft which pays more attention to technology, Qing is confident not only in design and presentation, but also detail and technology. Qing has worked in Hong Kong, London and Den Haag for various types of projects, like highrise tower, office, school, housing and so on. Qing is also proficient in 2D drawing, 3D modeling, rendering and model making.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name/ Nationality/ Age

Qing Lai/ China/ 27 years old,

Contact

0031-644097993; lai_qing@hotmail.com Van Embdenstraat 38, 2624 HS, Delft, Netherlands

Language

Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Dutch (beginner)

EDUCATION 2008 Sep - 2010 Jun

Master of Architecture Technology University of Delft, Netherlands Graduation studio “Interiors, Buildings, and Cities�

2003 Sep - 2006 Jun

Bachelor of Art ( Architecture Study) Hong Kong University, China

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2009 Jun - 2009 Sep

Gentlemen Architecture (Netherlands) Architectural assistant - Pieterstraat student housing

2007 Feb - 2008 Aug

RMJM London Limited (London) Architectural assistant - OKHTA business and cultural center - MARS laboratory building, - Jewel Esk Valley College

2006 Sep - 2007 Jan

Rocco Design Architecs Limited (Hong Kong) Architectural assistant - Teaching hotel complex of Poly University - Jiayu hotel and office - Yuzhong residential estate master plan

2005 Jul - 2006 Aug

Michael architects & consultants limited (Hong Kong) Summer intern - Private villa

2004 Jul - 2004 Aug

Rocco Design Architecs Limited (Hong Kong) Summer intern - Zhangjiajie refurbishment - Guangdong Museum

SOFTWARE SKILLS 2D/ 3D

Auto CAD (7 years), Photoshop (7 years), Indesign (2 years), MicroStation / Sketchup (5 years), Rhino (2 years), Vray (2 years), Grasshopper,


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OKHTA CENTER

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Okhta Center, St Petersberg 2007-2008 Business and cultural center

Office: RMJM (London)


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PROFESSIONAL WORK

OKHTA CENTER

Tower top

Bird view

Garden in the tower

Lobby Okhta Center is an innovative project aimed at the creation of a new city area on the territory of a former industrial area comprising a modern business center and wide public functions: office premises, museum of modern art, theater and concert hall, stadium, cafes, shops, restaurants. The highest floor of the tower will host a public observation deck.

I worked in different teams on this project, for example, concourse team, office team (surrounded buildings around the tower) and tower team. I spent most of the time in concourse team, co-working with experts of different areas to develop the design in the field of road, car park, fire escape, and security and so on.


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PROFESSIONAL WORK

OKHTA CENTER

Working process option1

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Working process option3

This project is especially important for St Petersberg, and it’s huge. It contains a tower which is going to be the highest tower in Europe, 4 surrounded buildings and a huge entrance hall, connecting all the buildings.

Concourse team needed to co-work with all the other teams to solve problems like structure system, circulation, logistic, security, etc. Concourse team is also responsible to design the museum, shop, and restaurant which are all located around the lobby.


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CHANEL FLAGSHIP STORE

ACADEMIC WORK

Chanel Flagship Store 2009-2010 Graduation project of Master degree

University: TU Delft Studio: Interiors, buildings and cities


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CHANEL FLAGSHIP STORE

ACADEMIC WORK

Restaurant/ Club

Shop Public

Shop Exhibition/ Event Shop Cafe/ Bar Shop Lobby/ Show Anchor spaces: Locate on different levels to lead the public to explore the whole building

The site sits at the heart of Amsterdam - Dam square, where the Royal Palace and War Monument locate. No doubt, it’s the cultural, political, and commercial center of the Netherlands. It is required to put a shop on this unique spot. No matter how busy and crowd the plaza is, it’s still hard to design a vertical shop in this “horizontal” country. Also, this extraordinary location requires a strong linkage between this shop and the city life. A careful study of vertical shopping was carried out. It is found that the design of anchor spaces is very important for vertical shops. At the same time, the city is planning to develop this area into a high class shopping area, also an art/ fashion center. A few “public” spaces are merged into this shop, working as anchor spaces to drive the customers/ visitors up.

ACADEMIC WORK Cross layer circulation: Link the anchor spaces; encourage visitors to move upwards

Feature wall (product displaying wall): Turn the circulation spaces into exhibition spaces

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ACADEMIC WORK

CHANEL FLAGSHIP STORE

2nd floor cafe

Ground floor

Ground floor

Ground floor plan

2nd floor plan


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ACADEMIC WORK

CHANEL FLAGSHIP STORE

4th floor event hall

Top floor restaurant

4th floor event hall

4th floor plan

7th floor plan

Top floor restaurant


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ACADEMIC WORK

CHANEL FLAGSHIP STORE

2 layers of translucent glass

Double layer transparent glass with glass fin behind

Prefabricated curved corian panel, 1200mm x 600mm

Facade design inspirated by Chanel 2.55 bag Front facade

Ventilation -winter

Ventilation -summer


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TEACHING HOTEL COMPLEX OF POLY U

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Teaching hotel complex of Poly University, Hong Kong 2006-2007 Offices, teaching facility and staff quarter

Office: Rocco Design Architect


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The Teaching Hotel for Hong Kong Polytechnics retains the original staff residential function, but subsumes it into an overall composition that now comprises a 300room hotel as well as a teaching complex. In the process of fulfilling the client’s aspiration, the architecture reflects Hong Kong’s unique phenomenon whereby seemingly conflicting uses are amalgamated into an integral whole. I joint the team at the further design stage. I worked mainly on the plan, interior and elevation design.

PROFESSIONAL WORK

TEACHING HOTEL COMPLEX OF POLY U

5th Floor Plan

Working process model1

Working process model2

2rd Floor Plan

Working process model3

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Conceptual interior image for garden in the middle

OKHTA CENTER

Night view - lighting concept

PROFESSIONAL WORK


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MODERN CITY MUSEUM

ACADEMIC WORK

Modern City Museum 2005.9-2006.6 Graduation project of Bachelor degree

University: University of Hong Kong


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MODERN CITY MUSEUM

Site Characters: Hong Kong, Wai Chai • It’s located in one of the oldest district of HK. • The high buildings standing on the both sides of street leave the narrow, vertical street space. • The billboards hanging over the busy street build up the typical HK image. Design process 1 - Irregular-shaped “blocks” separating, attaching, and overlapping with each other, representing the mixed culture of HK 2 - Separated blocks are linked up by curved floor slabs; Solid facades are opened and interesting spaces between the city and the museum are naturally born.

Process model 1

3 - Staircases are organized along the facade to form a connection space between the inside and outside; Pixelized image are used on the facade. Diagrams 1- Impression to HK buildings:

• “Section”: the staircases on the façade of my building, remind the memory to the old HK building, part of which has been deconstructed and left the sign the staircases on the façade. • “Picture”: the walls in my design are not that realistic, they recall us some representative images of the city. Existing building on my site

2 - Stairs

•The circulation space serves as the exhibition space at the same time •Views to the inside/exhibition and outside/city exchange at the time walking on the staircases.

Process model 2

3 - City as part of the museum

The diagram shows the relationship between the staircases and the exhibition spaces, which are composed by the museum exhibition and the CITY exhibition.

4 - Various sizes of volumns to suit museum needs 5 - Central garden/ atrium

Diagram 1

Diagram 2

Diagram 3

Diagram 4

Diagram 5

Process model 3

ACADEMIC WORK


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MODERN CITY MUSEUM

Plan • We can see here that the G/F which is open for the public can be used as the changeable exhibition area to place interactive art works. • The staircases lead the visitors to explore this exhibition as well as the city at the same time. Elevations: • The elevations remind us the impression to the HK streets with billboards hanging over the head.

Elevation

Sections: • As a Museum of City, You can see the exhibitions of city/building/history related themes which take the full uses of the space. Structure • The walls on the longitude side are taken as the main structure to provide the vertical support.

Section

ACADEMIC WORK

with the service cores at the both ends providing the lateral support. • The suspending structure is chosen to provide the additional vertical support. It minimizes the structure in the middle of the exhibition. Also, the ground floor can be left totally free from columns.


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ACADEMIC WORK

MODERN CITY MUSEUM

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3 All these renderings explore the relationship between my building and the surrounding. The central garden and staircases space are quite important for the visitor to experience the city inside my museum. 1 - View to the Garden 2 - View from the Garden to the Street 3 - View from the Staircases space


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