Kwok Chi Yin portfolio
Selected Studio Projects 1. Circular Housing
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2. Formwork
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3. The Hangover
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4. Sense/Architecture
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5. Library/Market
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6. Mirage
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7. Bodymapping
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Other Works Work Experience Curriculum Vitae
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Circular Housing
High Density Housing Design with variety of typologies Tutor: Olivier Ottevaere 2013 This project explores a high density housing design with variety of typologies at a difficult site. Situated at a challenging sloping site, with cable car track above the site and facing the Yangtsz River in Chongqing, a hilly, energetic, chaotic, and the biggest city in China, the housing complex has embraced its landscape and engaged with the urban quality of the city. With rapid urbanization, intricate urban fabric on the mountains are flattened and replaced by big blocks. In response, I also propose one big complex on the site, which its building massing maximizes sunlight and avoiding the cable car track. The complex is lifted by pilotis, as a grounding strategy to sit on the sloping site. The freed ground is designed as public space which is commonplace in Chongqing. It also connects subtly to the surrounding neighbourhoods. By proposing a grid regulating the structure and geometry of the mass, it provides unity of the housing complex yet great variance in itself. from a pencil radial tower transforming into individual circular units and terrace typology.
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concept
cable car station
site
site sections and site photos
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1:500 & 1:200 Massing Development I was initialy interested in the mixing of typologies with connection in a much larger scale in 1:500 massing models. Under further investigation and study did i found the massing as agglomerates of room scale merged as a whole gives more potential to the design.
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massing development
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series of plans: program
33-35/f
28-32/f
9/f
8/f
27/f
7/f mezzanine
19-26/f
18/f
7/f
6/f
15-17/f
5/f
Legend 14/f
13/f
12/f
11/f
10/f
indoor public space
landscape retaining wall
main roof garden
core
radial tower unit
flowering columns
sided tower unit terrace unit public round house unit shops
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3/f
2/f
1/f
g/f
series of plans: program
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35/f plan: radial tower
13/f plan: corridor typology
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7/f plan: public space/ transfer lobby
6/f plan: terrace and circular houses/ underground landscape
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plan E: circular houses/ public platform
render/section A: the overall concept: typologies, landscape, context
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section B:
cascading slope for landscape/ houses typology roof gardens and public space/clubhouse (accessed by core)
section C: 90 degrees slope accomodate straight cores/ vertical circulations and lobby transfer allows traffic efficiency
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visualization: public spaces: roof gardens
visualization: public spaces: underground
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diagrams
model photo: circular houses against the slope
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model photo: public platform in between circular houses
model photo: unit typology with strip facade
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Formwork
Concrete Formwork Design and Research Tutor: Olivier Ottevaere 2012
This project investigates concrete formwork that could be utilized on a sloped site for a possible housing structure. After a straight extrusion, we consider the walls splited for floors and shift to create balconies for pleasant living space. Three units for each floor and gaps are void for light and ventilation. Circulation are spiral stairs along the slope and lift core anchored inbetween units, to provide efficient yet site-reponsive circulation. Geometry of units and arrangement of openings are carefully constructed with systems designed as learnt from previous design process for ellipse construction and hexagonals openings. We tried hard to incoperate the goods of our design into the final model.
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concept
Plans and sections show the shifting of balcony, efficient vertical circulation for units and aperatures for respective program and function. Graduation of the cut line on successive plans shows the interaction and the respect of topography for the structural system. A common corridor is created at the back for a back-up route/alternative circulation which two spiral stairs runs along the slope to the ground floor.
plans and sections
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G/F
1/F
2/F
3/F
4/F
decreasing sizes of circles for a converging void from top to bottom
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6/F
7/F
8/F
walls are constructed by circles and tangent lines 26
geometry/ process diagram
shifting of circles to create balconies
spiral staircase & lift
1. Anchoring
1. Anchoring
Shear wall itself is served as pile cap - It is casted on piles that fix the structure on slope.
2. Slip Formwork Shear walls are divided into unitized panels, at the same time, side walls and circular parts are divided into equal parts for the ease of fabrication.
3. Precast Circulation Core Stairs and lift core are precasted and installed floor by floor during casting procedure. 3. Precast Circulation Core
4. Casting Procedure The structure is casted floor by floor for each floor, wall is casted, where precast slab is firmly connected to the wall before the cast continues for upper floors.
2. Slip Formwork
4. Casting Procedure
Precast floor slabs
Shear wall on piles
construction axonometric
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unit 1
unit 2
number of openings
lift lobby
unit 3
1200mm
900mm
900mm
Opening sizes
1200mm
900mm
1200mm
1800mm
window
2400mm door
to stairs to lift to balcony
1800mm
1800mm
Aperatures for program/ in concrete casting Apertures are opened on the closed shear wall to attain sunlight and ventilation for units. With different sizes of apertures, different sizes of windows for program, entrances are defined. Aperatures in casting as solid also acts as both voiding and spacers in the casting process, counteracting the pressure of concrete.
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apertures
core circulation to units
balconies allowed by shifting
stairs circulation in between units
model photos
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to fountain
cross the road to sky
to theater life + relax
to fountain to tunnel
to street
info ground + art
blocking
The Hangover
A proposal for Basel Tourist Centre for Arts Competition Entry with Sam Ki, Jason Yeung 2013 Situated in a condensed yet vibrant urban context - forming a tight triangle on plan with Tinguely Fountain and the Basel Theater, with dramatic topography across the site. Instead of a traditional visitor center sitting directly on the ground, we propose an unequaled vision: a hanged floating surface above a freed ground plane, forming an ephermeral pavilion space both in the air and under ground. The design is an extrusion of the site plot. The roof is inclined to arrive the around. This roof terrace becomes a social space with views to fountain. The complex surface that comprises all the programs of the visitor center is hung with wires anchored to the roof, which is supported by columns on the periphery. Since the structure is supported from above, the space on the ground floor can be freed. Paper, a material with cozy translucency is chosen for the ambience of the space, as basel possess one of the finest paper museums in the world that produces its own local paper, making it a decent material with respect to the context of the site and the architectural qualities of the space.
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concept/ visualization
blocking
roof/ public space
pavilion/ interior space
ground/ public space
exploded axonometric drawing
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sections
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urban strategy:
context:
activate opera house
residential
create a cultural experience liberated from work through sequence of spaces library + book market + music school
music school
private
library market
opera house
edges mismatch context for layers
foyer/shared
open close
music school access:
transparency and programme
library
east/west facade translucent: screen from adjacent
market foyer/shared
north/south transparent: connection to programme spatially, visually
ground floor
programmatic sequence and privacy deeper in space, more private the programme privacy : market >library > music school user specificity: music school > library = market general reading
reference/ general reading
concept
learning center
foyer/exhibition
study room
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performance
market market
digital library/ circulation
library
foyer/exhibition
music
foyer/exhibition
market
book
design of a mixed-program building/ development of the market analysis Tutor: Wang Fei Spring 2012 It locates at a site with Shanghai Opera House at the back while facing high density residential zones and vibrant street with a huge office tower at the front.
street side and commercial centre
public
Market/Library
flexibility
To deal with contradicting program market and library with an additional program of music school, the design approach is adapting interlocking boxes giving spatial layers with respect to program, depth of spaces. Public and private is also considered into the design, by screening and movement in spatial layers.
basic relationships
we read space as layers
total boolean of spaces (public/shared space)
material (literal transparency)
partial boolean of spaces (privacy)
atrium
space (phenomenal transparency)
manipulation
dimensions of spatial units
exhibition
can be noisy
layers created by boolean
library
must be quiet
go to one you feel comfortable with reading < exhibition read
stack
diagrams: constructing layers in space
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general reading +3.3
general reading +3.8
foyer/exhibition/activity +3.3
performance +3.3
1/F
local materials
study room/new books
digital library
admin/circulation
courtyard
market
music school
G/F
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plans
reference/reading +11.8 reference/reading +14.3
cafe market +12.4
3/F
referemce reading +9.3
market +9.3
2/F
plans
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Through each layer in the space, the spatial frame changes through movement, as if a series of floating box hovering around the main lobby/ market space, but when any frame is captured, the space slows down and become sharp, acute and deep as the percipient slows down.
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visualizations
Mirage
photo essay Tutor: Christiane Lange 2011
An urban scenario resembles the excerpt “City and Desire” in the by Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities”: “In the center of Fedora, that gray stone metropolis, stands a metal building with a crystal globe in every room. Looking into each globe, you see a blue city, the model of a different Fedora. These are the forms the city could have taken if, for one reason or another, it had not become what we see today. In every age someone, looking at Fedora as it was, imagined a way of making it the ideal city, but while he constructed his miniature model, Fedora was already no longer the same as before, and what had been until yesterday a possible future became only a toy in a glass globe.” The mirage of industrial building behind the glass facade has a reminiscence of the inextricable and paradoxical relationship between the cities old fabric and the isolated island of new construction.
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The Invisible Cities and the photo essay
Bodymapping
handdrawing, mapping and installation with Sam Ki, Kevin Huang 2010
In this project we think about how to map and record space through exploring the possibility of arm movement, through strectching, bending and twisting of it. For strectching, we devise mapping points at 3D coordinates through plumbeting arm position to a grid on the ground, so that we can gain corresponding x, y, z coordinates through time. Twisting, which is more invisible, reveals through a layer of tight fit skin composed of tapes and plastic, which is unfolded to suggest a twisting through striation patterns.
plumb line = z coordinate grid = x, y coordinates
Bending is measured through projecting a grid onto photographs with changing degree of twisting.
concept/ mapping of 3D coordiantes in space
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body-skin making for unrolling
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mapping of strectching and twisting movement
movement mapping by projection of grid
left: installation of bodymapping in Detour HK 2010 right: elevation of bodymapping installation
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smart twisting modules
shelter
folding foodstall
kinetic facade study
with Jack Lai visualMID communication, 2011 TERM RENDER
with Anthony Chu, Benedict Lee, Jack Lai visual communication, 2012
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other works in school
with Anthony Chu, Benedict Lee, Jack Lai, Tim Tsui visual communication, 2012
with Anthony Chu, Clarence Fong, Tim Yeung 2012
tensigrity model
with Anthony Chu, Clarence Fong, Tim Yeung, Kit Yau structure design, 2013
bridge
parametric design digital media, 2012
Daxing Mixed-Use Development, Beijing mixed-use development, GFA: 365000sqm Year-Out at Aedas 2013 The huge GFA required for the project on two plots of land is resolved into six office towers with a megablock of retail space which is divided into smaller parts for illumination and ventilation, with plenty of green spaces resulted from massing arrangement. In the project, I participated in the concept, schematic and detail design stages. I contributed in 3D modelling and geometry study, CAD drawing and renderings. image from aedas.com
other works in school/ work experience
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input: main entrances 3D detailing and rendering
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work experience
Allmetropolis urban research
Internship at Go West Project Summer 2012 A research project examining the possible consequences and urban implications of a special economic zone, a chinese model, establishing in Europe.
AREA km
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By comparing the special economic zone Shenzhen and Flevoland in China, with researches in political, economical, social aspect of different cities, the project tries to extrapolate qualities from the Chinese model. It aims to address and pose question about the current international development, fully aware of the gradual power shift from the west to the east.
DENSITY per km
GDP per capita (USD)
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4
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2
KILOMETERS
KILOMETERS
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4
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KILOMETERS
KILOMETERS
METRO Length (km)
POPULATION
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4
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KILOMETERS
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KILOMETERS
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Dubai
Barcelona
CBD
Hong Kong
CBD
Airport
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KILOMETERS
KILOMETERS
CBD
CBD
Airport
Manhattan
Los Angeles
CBD Green
CBD
Airport
Airport
Shenzhen
Airport Residential
Airport
Commercial 0
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0
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Industrial
Hong Kong
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2
4
KILOMETERS
Industrial
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Industrial
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Industrial
CBD Green Airport Residential
Commercial 0
2 KILOMETERS
Industrial
Shenzhen
Airport Residential
Commercial 4
4
CBD Green
Airport Residential 2 KILOMETERS
2 KILOMETERS
CBD Green
0
0
Manhattan
Los Angeles
Commercial 2 KILOMETERS
2 KILOMETERS
Airport Residential 0
0
4
CBD Green
Commercial
Commercial
2 KILOMETERS
Airport Residential
Residential 4
0
4
CBD Green
Green
2 KILOMETERS
2 KILOMETERS
Dubai
Barcelona
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0
KILOMETERS
KILOMETERS
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Industrial
Commercial 0
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4
Industrial
KILOMETERS
scale and data comparison of major cities to Flevoland
work experience
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Jiaxing island, Jiaxing
mixed-use development, GFA: 10000sqm, under construction Internship at Go West Project+AIM Architecture Summer 2012 It is a mixed use project with multiple program with great connectivity through bridges connection, a open space and high ceiling underground garage/event space in a courtyard setting. I took part in early concept stage to schematic design stage, including massing development, models, facade design, drawings, renderings and presentations to clients. I am excited about this project, for the great participation of a design which is getting built, and the tremendous speed of china urbanization.
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work experience
construction site
1:200 model
work experience
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Education 2010-2013 Jan 2012- May 2012
University of Hong Kong, Bachelor of Arts (Architectural Studies) Shanghai Study Centre, Study Program
Work Experience July 2013-now July 2012-Sept 2012 July 2012-Sept 2012
Aedas, Hong Kong Go West Project, Shanghai AIM Architecture, Shanghai
Activities 2013
Degree Show
-As one of the selected third year project exhibited in the Annual Degree Show of HKU 2013
Basel Pavilion of Culture Design Competition -Competition Entry Other Activities
Kwok Chi Yin (Stephen) +852 96239536 stephenksky2@gmail.com
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curriculum vitae
2010-2013 2011 2013 2013
Conductor/ Pianist/ Chorister at Starr Hall Choir, HKU:
2010-2012
Chorister/ Designer at The Greenerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sound(Choir):
2011 2003-now 2009 2009, 2010 2010 2010 2011 2012
-HKU Interhall Choir Competition Champion -HKU Interhall Choir Competition 1st-runner up -HKU Interhall Choir Competition Best Accompanist Award
-Logo and Booklet Design -Hong Kong School Music Festival 2011, 2nd Runner Up
Chorister/ Soloist at Wah Yan College, Kowloon Boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Choir: -Friendly Concert at National Theatre, Beijing -Hong Kong School Music Festival Senior Boys Choir(Chinese), Winner -Vocal Master Classes at Castel Viscardo, Italy -6th World Choir Games, Xiaoxing, Gold Medal Award -3rd Hong Kong International Youth and Children Choir Festival, First Prize -7th World Choir Games, Cincinnati, Gold Medal Award