Architectural Portfolio for Master Studies 2013

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CANYON ARCHITECTURE Project Title Visitor Centre Objective Non-Linear Form Location Kai Tak

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BACKGROUND L I VES-WALLED IN

Scarce sunlight, winding corridors, trsh-packed door front - made for the dommy shelter for past citizens in the Kowloon Walled City. The underpriviledged and the outlaws found their lives in this extremely congested condition with unspeakable difficulties.

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DILEMMA IN DENSI T Y

There flied the planes through the slit between the old building blocks and more contrastingly, the sarcasm existed between freedom and spiritual imprisonment.

The Kowloon Walled City is torn down for its out-of-control development.

Yet the high-dense development in the new Hong Kong fosters strangers to meet and loved ones to grow apart.

C ANYON ARCHI TEC TURE

Canyon architecture embodies softness in responding to the surrounding and retain strength in shaping people’s experience of space.

It emphasizes the hybrid curvature of both gradual and adrupt changes, the phenomenal casting of light and vertical and horizontal layers of space.

CE ASED ‘KOWLOON WALLED CI T Y ’ OLD K A I TAK A IRPORT

inconming pedestrain museum landscape amphitheater with stepped seatings riverside promenade covered shopping street red carpet steps to theater above public stage water taxi dropoff

VISUAL FIELD DIAGRAM As the journey started out, the visual fields of the visitors are inward looking, but as it proceeds to the upper floors, the pane stretch out to views outside, gradually librerating the confined feelings they first conceived.

CIRCULATION DIAGRAM Circualtion is hectic in the lower portion of the center and connection was made with the public (nonvisitors, symbolises the outsiders of the Walled City). As they go up, the circulation is simpler but nonetheless contact with the outside world is beyond reach. museum nodes & paths public nodes & paths

EXHIBIT VIEWING The exhibits viewing experienc mimics what we face in real life Hong Kong - never getting the full picture.

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reception lobby exhibit A - floor projection exhibit B gallery shop exhibit C - wall projection

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back of house public gallery exhibit D - outdoor display library library exhibit C - media projection exhibit D - outdoor display

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The change in spatial and interactive experience tells the story of what life is like in the Walled City.

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roof construction: plastic sealing layer, vapor barrier, 20mm plywood 100mm corrugated metal

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primary structure: 180mm steel-I beam in truss

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secondary structure: steel sheet bent to shape, galvanized

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40mm gypsum plaster on wire netting, with absorption board insert 25mm hat channel

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2mm sheet steel, galvanized, coated white; 19mm plywood

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translucent glazing

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blackout screen

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HIDDEN SENSES All too often are we restrained by today’s shopping mode without knowing it, People are spending more time than ever, LINGERING between brands and brands, EVALUATING, CRAVING, PURSUING, among which products are different only in their utmost ‘skin value’ – ads, tags… sidekick with racks of magazine.

It’s what the little details. A tick, a whim… all the instinctive elements coming from within that drives us into wanting something.

And we want to amplify that.

THE ORIGINAL INCIDENCE With a set of new order introduced to this shopping arcade, we want to ring the bell - ‘It’s not about something between PEOPLE & PRODUCTS – it’s about something between PEOPLE that allows them to mingle through the selection of products.’

This project initiates by embracing the dynamics between different pedestrians in Wan Chai into the reconfiguring of modern day shopping mode*, which is also to inject the dynamics between individual shoppers, and so therefore we have:

(seekers x searcher)* x

(shoppers x shoppers); in cross-correlating the 2 typologies of users, series of INCIDENTS are expected to happen along the way.

These incidents, however, are exactly the essence of shopping – what shopping’s supposed to be, what ORIGINAL meaning of shopping is.

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URBAN DYNAMICS Project Title Shopping Arcade Objective Typology and Programming Location Wan Chai

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CATALOBBY is a catalobby real-life catalog for the sales of bags, shoes and accessories put in a welcoming setting where everyone can go in and out, and hence cata-lobby. It amplifies predetermined purchases (shoppers inside) and in wish for affecting the un-determined.

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POW BOOTH is a cluster of booths that allow patrons to BUY, TRY and DO makeup in one go; selection of product range and real life models will be key to attract more customers instead of overwhelming face shots of excessively beautified models.

R-O-C is a collective stock of a particular category of clothes, available of advanced fitting.

Undermining all factors other than the clothes themselves, each R-O-C is the simplest form of displaying its items, to be supported by a correlated scene.

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BOOTHS READYTODATE

MAKEUP ARTIST WITH PRODUCTS’ DISPLAY

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Project Title Youth Hostel

HISTORY AND EXISTING PLAN

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To quickly house the poor and homeless in the 40s of Hong Kong, a prescribed design was born.

Revitalization Location Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon

Mei Ho House is the last one standing among the mass temporary housing.

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In these effective housing, little was provided for household space; every corridor became community space for laundry, cooking, ventilated space to hangout during the day, etc.

The bond between neighbors became an unbreakable chain in the hard times and is still one of the glorified spirit in the short history of Hong Kong.

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COMMON CORR IDOR S TAFF

MULT IPURPOSE (MOV IE)

COMMON BALCONY COMMON LOUNGE

MULT IPURPOSE (PANTRY)

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MORE COMMUNAL SPACE

A silhouette profile have a concentric power to draw the whole building’s attention to the middle. This emphasizes the spirit of a community and when events are held, the balcony could serve as spectator stands.

To enhance circulation, some of the existing partition and slabs at the middle of the ‘H’ part were knocked down to allow extra staircase and lift, which will provide easier access for luggage bearers and the backpackers to social around.

New supporting structure was added to the building, allowing extended slabs at the balcony and the ‘H’ shape lounge - hence more space for the tenants to carry out various activities.

SL AB EX TENSION

S TRUC TUR AL REINFORCEMENT

AS MOV IE-SHOWING ROOM

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