Wong Sau Yin Samuel Portfolio by sam wong

Wong Sau Yin Samuel

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Presence Based on the notion of "nothingness", the pavilion offers a space that is styleless, ageless, genderless and timeless. It is a space to encourage one to do nothing but enjoy the presence.

WKCD Hong Kong Young Architects & Designers Competition 2017 | Competition

Shadow of the tree gives a gentle touch to the smooth and gleaming surface of the concrete floor

Light travels 150 million kilometers only to meet with the lonely granite, giving it warmth and revealing the quartz hidden within

Moisture in the air cooled on the cold metal fins, slowing dripping into the reflecting pool, creating ripples that waves endlessly

WKCD Hong Kong Young Architects & Designers Competition 2017 | Competition

SITE PLAN

The elevated ground plane create a platform where different activities can take place.

WKCD Hong Kong Young Architects & Designers Competition 2017 | Competition

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Hong Kong House Hong Kong House provides a space and a roof for resident artists - a space that most Hongkongers relentlessly pursue; a roof that is a dream and fantasy for the many. Hong Kong House is styleless and timeless. It is designed based on what is lacking in the metropolis; a space which interplays with light and shade, with the use of mixed materials, aiming to provide a quiet and soft atmosphere that allows the birth of artwork to take place. It is a space for the resident artists to indulge in.

Hong Kong House for Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018 | Competition

Meditation Space

Hong Kong House for Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018 | Competition

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Front Yard / Sitting-out Area

Exhibition Space / Multi-purpose Rooms

Double Height Exhibition / Meditation Space

Sculpture Garden / Backyard

Dormitory / Workspace

Bathroom and Laundry

Kitchen / Dinning Area

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Hong Kong House for Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018 | Competition

HKIA Young Architect Award 2017 | Competition

Distance Post Designed to help the Trail Walker identifying their position along the Memorial Trail, the distance post also carries important information in relation to the life of Michael Wright as well as information on project that he contributed to the city. Spaced at approximately 500m apart, there are a total of 100 Distance Post in this 50km Michael Wright Memorial Trial.

HKIA Young Architect Award 2017 | Competition

Ting Yat Ting | 停一亭 Envisioned as more than just a public resting space, Ting Yat Ting is a semi-enclosed pavilion that invites users to take a break from their busy lives to engage with the city on a deeper level.

Design Trust Future Studio 2017 | Built in 2017

A(dap)Table â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Redesigning Hamilton Street Rest Garden A(dap)Table is a park where one gets to know neighbors and the neighborhood. Everyone plays a part in A(dap)Table, it is a communal space inspired by the custom of table sharing at restaurants in Hong Kong. In the park, everyone shares this big table. The table surface reflects happenings around and offers a common perspective for visitors to observe the park. It is a place for dining, reading, chatting, and occasionally, activities such as roundtable discussions and exhibitions. At the table, everyone can naturally engage in conversations. A(dap)Table is our communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big table for sharing.

Design Trust Future Studio 2018 | Target Completion in 2019

Hamilton Street Sitting Out Area | Design Trust Future Studio 2018

SomeTimes “Living Rooms Museum Competition” being a combination of two distinguished terms, embraced an interesting mixture of two functions that does not normally exist in one space. Set for an example, a living room where, we find at most people’s home, is a gathering place, circulation are rather static. A museum, while comparing to a living room is somewhere; art pieces shall belong, people walk in a slower pace than usual commuting, fluidity is a concern, circulation-wise. The power of sometimes comes as lightning and strikes as hard as thunder. It breaks the routine reality that has always been repeating. We felt that, literally, there cannot be a form where specific exhibition and human activities shall be planned and perpetrated. So we in search for a new form and invented the structural framing system as a platform for maximized possibilities – that is to say, sometimes, it looks like this and, sometimes, it looks like that. The frame work welcomes both exterior and interior decoration of any sorts. It allows the exhibition to be opened, semi-opened and closed according to the needs of the show.

First Prize, Times Square Living Room Museum Design Competition | Built Jan, 2015

City of Resistance what if the umbrella evolution continue to grow and expand to a point in which it become a city in itself? The Umbrella Revolution has demonstrated a rebellion against the totalitarian control of the Hong Kong Government. The reactionary events make evident of the resistance against the eroded public realm and the eager in fighting for the core values that we stand for. The eighty-four days revolution has not only demonstrated the societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disobedience against the shift in recent political environment in Hong Kong, but it also reveal the formation of a new kind of city topology. It demonstrated how the city could reinvent itself from a bottom up approach; an approach that is clearly driven solely by the occupants with new interventions built from everyday materials, making use of social innovation and civic intelligent. The occupied zone was an manifestation of the idea of â&#x20AC;&#x153;City of Resistanceâ&#x20AC;?. Taking this new topology of city as a starting point, this thesis tries to question what if the Umbrella Revolution continue, what if the street are continue to be occupied and the occupation area continue to grow for 10 years and beyond? This thesis would manifest how the future city would reinvent itself by rethinking its daily functions. A new alternative kind of city within the normal working city would be proposed. This city would be a city of nostalgia, where it resemble to value we hold today, it would also be a city of resistance that resist the unpredictable changes of our society. It would describe the coexistence of two city, the action and reactionary force between the two and how the city of resistance become a city that address current urban issues as well as being a self-sustaining city in itself.

Thesis

This device narrate how the physicality of architecture could be seen as a deterministic system where human interaction provide an initial condition for the growth of this dynamitic system over its life-span. As with the Umbrella Evolution, no one could predict the fencing off of the Civic Square would trigger the â&#x20AC;&#x153;reclaimâ&#x20AC;? initiative and gave birth to the Umbrella Revolution. Projecting the Butterfly Effect narrative into the thesis, instead of describing what the future city of resistance would be like, which we know is unpredictable and chaotic, we will instead try to describe the system, the mechanism and elements involved, and how the internal dynamic of the system works.

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City of Resistance Stage 1 | essential starter kids for occupying central

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City of Resistance Stage 2 | parasitic units on existing urban facilities

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City of Resistance Stage 3 | parasitic units on existing buildings

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City of Resistance Stage 4 | architecture for parasitic occupation

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City of Resistance Stage 5 | city of resistance

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Location: Lake Erhai, Dali, China

House of view | Corridor of views and spatial sequence

MArch 1 | Studio 02

House of view | Corridor of views and spatial sequence

MArch 1 | Studio 02

House of view | Corridor of views and spatial sequence

MArch 1 | Studio 02

House of view | Corridor of views and spatial sequence

MArch 1 | Studio 02

Museum of Books | Redefining Hong Kong Central Library MArch 1 | Studio 01

Sacred Space | Architecture without Form

BSSc | Studio 06

Research | Elevation of Peel Street