Vol.1
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PORTFOLIO Tam Wai Ho, Steve
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2015-2016 A supportive shelter 2016 semester7&8 Design studio Yau Ma Tei
P O R T F O L I O
VOL 01
CONTENTS
D E S I G N
Crossing hotel 14-17 2015 Semester 4 Design studio Wong Chuk Hang
Orbit house 18-19 2015 semester 5 Competition studio No specific site
A R C H I T E C T U R A L
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4-13
Vertical shopping street tower 2015 Semester 5 Open studio No specific site
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Vault study 24-27 2015 semester 4 Princple of building No specific site
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Ideology exchange commune A supportive shelter
A supportive shelter Ideology exchange commune
Brief Ideology exchange is an abstract concept and it varies a lot depending on the particular subject nature. students would choose from the three selected areas, Yau Ma Tei, Lamma Island and Yuen Long, in Hong Kong to study in-depth in terms of the urban fabric and community dynamics. Students are asked to propose an Ideology Exchange Commune with specific programme in response to a particular phenomenon or urban research interest which can serve the community as well. This can bring the abstract concept of ideology exchange to the highly community-grounded architecture.
Selected Site location
day time open space usage
Kowloon side of Hong Kong
Yau Tsim Mong
night time open space usage
Yau Ma Tei
section of street Yau Ma Tei shelter
permanent shelter, Yau Ma Tei shelter
section of Henry G. Leong Yaumatei Community Centre
temporary shelter, Henry G. Leong Yaumatei Community Centre
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homeless hotspots
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Ideology exchange commune A supportive shelter
A supportive shelter Ideology exchange commune
Idea to improve the future of homeless 30.00%
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圖 1 8 露宿的原因及數目
研究樣本的年齡分佈百分比
The situation of Yau Ma Tei Street sleepers is to chose to sleep on the street rather than homeless shelter. This is a strange phenomenon that out of our expectation. After visiting and interviewing the site, I reveal that the living condition and environment of Yau Ma Tei shelter is bad and terrible. Back to basic, the exciting shelter is just to cure the symptoms, not the disease. The operation and the idea of the shelter cannot help the homeless back to the track of the society. In order to effectively help the homeless work with the society, supportive shelter is running the idea of exchanging living place with your working force. Shelter would provide the living place, education and job opportunities for half year so the inhabitants would not worry to find their jobs with or without working skills.
45.00% 40.00%
25.00%
35.00% 20.00%
3.1%
30.00% 25.00%
15.00%
9.91%
20.00% 10.00%
33.13%
15.00%
20.43%
10.00%
5.00%
5.00% 0.00%
0.00%
33.44%
教育水平及人數
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percentage of homeless’ distribution
percentage of homeless stay at homeless shelter
圖 1 6 尋找工作的困難及數目
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Idea to improve the future of homeless
Age distribution in percentage
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reason why sleep at street 圖 10 不接受綜緩的原因及人數
有綜緩及沒有綜緩的百分比 Comprehensive Social Sercurity Assistance
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0th months
homeless’ education level
reason why not receive subsidy
shelter
分之一受訪者 (35.81%) 表示已露宿多於一次，其中最多次數為 30。平均再露宿次數為 2.8
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Learning
-office -up-cycling workshop -inhabitant sleeping area -cooking workshop -inhabitant communal -coffe making workshop
Working -exhibition area -restaurant -muti-function hall
-cafe -market -clinic
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再露宿
work
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再露宿意指曾經為無家者，之後找到屋房定居，但之後一次或以上再成為無家者。超過三
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4th months
Programs
percentage of homeless in employed
再露宿的情況
次。
2nd months
concept flow 18
reason why cant find job 露宿的原因、阻礙脫離露宿生活的因素及房屋議題
back
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day schedule of unemployed homeless
current homeless’ sleeping quality
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job types of employed homeless
selected site
Henry G. Leong Yaumatei Community Centre + behind open area
serve jordan and yau ma tei, be a centre spot
existing homeless group in this side of yau ma tei
business and tourists spot are around this area, homeless could have more opportunity to contact with people
existing is a temporary street sleeper area, but the quality not really good
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Ideology exchange commune A supportive shelter
workshop
A supportive shelter Ideology exchange commune
sleeping zone
workshop retail and showcase
seperate public and private volumes
massing 1 seperation of homeless and the public
a deck to seperate homeless and public
public area and dwelling area were distributed north side relatively busier than south side according to the busy level of east side is relatively higher than west side
diagonal cut for generate more view and accessibility
connect different levels’ ramp to generate more ideology exchange
Final massing Program position diagram
workshop locate in between the dwelling strip and the public strip
distribution of busy level of the site
market strip is inserted into both dwelling strip, workshop strip and public strip
exhibition area
up-cycling workshop market strip inhabitant communal
main lobby
3rd stage dwelling cooking workshop
muti-function hall 2nd stage dwelling coffee making workshop
4.5m
1st stage dwelling
4m
cafe
retail and showcase
6m
rooms of retail and showcase worker 4.5m
5.5m
6m
4m
rooms of workshop worker
basketball court
rooms of coffee worker
workshop
separate sleeping zone and workshop zone by the noise of the lot
use at least 4m to generate a lot like the existing urban fabric
rooms of cooking worker
public stripe programs distribute by the busy level of the site
coffee studio cooking studio
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provide a open terrace for inhabitant to use
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arrange the similar worker live together, to reach a high efficient condition
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massing 2 to continue the atmosphere of the alley of the old tenement
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different stage of the dwelling are get closer to the ground
workshop
cooking studio child care centre
rooms of 41-50 year old
rooms of 31-40 year old
rooms of 21-30 year old
coffee studio classroom
connect the historical stripe and visual connect with the temple and police quarter
to generate hierarchy walking journey, to experience homeless sleeping condition
public get know the working process of homeless
cooking studio get a wider view, cafe workshop can enjoy the internal courtyard
basketball court
rooms of staff
massing 3 provide different inter-courtyard and open space for public and homeless
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the market strip are inserted in between different privacy o fthe blocks
There are 4 layers of this supportive shelter, they are public area, dwelling area, workshop and market. In order to create the warm coming home feeling, the timber is the theme of composing the building blocks in public area. On the other hand, the spatial setting of the dwelling strip is designed according to different stages of inhabitants by their mental condition. The workshops are plugged in between the public strip and dwelling strip in order to separate the circulation of public and private. When public can see the activists of the workshop while they were traveling the public programs however, they cannot access. In opposite, the inhabitants can pass through different workshops before arriving their own resting area. Finally, so as to remind the public the existing of the shop built in between the alley of the tenements, the market is inserting into different building blocks. Also, the market strip can attract the public experience different building blocks.
retail and showcase
rooms of 51-60 year old
workshops are plug in between the specific public program and dwelling
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Ideology exchange commune A supportive shelter
A supportive shelter Ideology exchange commune
Private zone
Public zone
west elevation (private) 1:600
east elevation (welcoming) 1:600
Inhabitant lobby and office
final stage dwelling
2nd stage dwelling
cafe
1st stage dwelling
multi-functional hall
main lobby and restaurant
exhibition area
chalk white concrete
grey concrete
scratch metal sheet
outdoor curtain
existing tree
dark brown fine wood frame
bamboo wood plank
dark brown fine wood frame
The gradient of the warmer tone of grey is representing the level of welcoming. The warm tone is stand for relatively welcoming.
the group of final stage inhabitant have already realize the important of private and sense of belonging, therefore using grey concrete can barry the circulate by public
the group of 2nd stage inhabitant can start to have some solid material due to they start the have the sensitive of belonging.
to create the similar atmosphere and condition of the existing homeless’ resting area
laminate glass
combination of laminate glass and frosted glass
laminate glass
frosted glass
the people can enjoy the existing tree, the curtain to divide the indoor and outdoor space. The poeple can also use the outdoor space to relax.
the people who are using can see the outside view by the transparent glass. however, the frosted glass can also barry the public see through all the activity inside the hall.
the density of the fins are coordinate by sun-path, while it is representing more interior space expose to public, the twisted light color wood fins is the feature of welcome.
to diffuse the direct sunlight and convince the lighting of interior space.
1st stage dwelling
coffee workshop
2nd stage dwelling
up-cycling workshop
final stage dwelling
office
exhibition area (for staff)
inhabitant communal
inhabitant lobby public multi-functional room
section BB’ (private circulation) 1:600 coffee workshop
dwelling setting of
dwelling setting of
0-2 months
1st stage inhabitant
3-4 months
2nd stage inhabitant
dwelling setting of final stage inhabitant
inhabitant cooking workshop
up-cycling workshop
outdoor eating area
food-court kitchen
5-6 months
market
market
section AA’ (public circulation) 1:600
mental condition strange to the new environment
re-think the before living environmet
stat to realize privacy
without wall
start to have enclosure
have more privacy
more walls provided
spatial setting flexble of combin the slab scale up the 1st stage sleeping slab
accommodate 4 people more capacity of serie of final stage dwelling
circulation
1.8m
3.6m
do not enclose
use the own circulation share the circulation by the sleeping area share the same circulation
visual connection
start to have visual connection with public reduce the visual connection with public
less visual connection with each others
create differnt levels of slab
only the sky window open
can see outside when lying down
can see outside when standing
see the neigbor activities higher dwelling, less visual connection with public
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exhibition area (for public)
cafe
lower dwelling, morevisual connection with public
Overview of market strip
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market
main lobby
market
Ideology exchange commune A supportive shelter
A supportive shelter Ideology exchange commune
Intermediate zone
angle 4
angle 5
angle 6
angle 1
angle 2
angle 3
angle 7
angle 8
angle 9
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B
exhibition area +3.65 roof garden +6.60 7
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office +3.65
public food court +3.65
food court kitchen +3.65 up-cycling workshop +3.65 5
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outdoor eating area +3.65
public multi-functional room +6.40
inhabitant cooking workshop +3.65
Construction detail 1 1:400
final stage dwellings +2.60
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coffee workshop +3.20
2nd stage dwellings +3.80
roof garden +4.60
roof garden +6.60
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1st stage platform +4.00 1
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A’ B’
ground level plan 1:800
private zone intermediate public zone zone
first level plan 1:800
second level plan 1:800 Channel glass construction detail 1:4
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Construction detail 2 1:100
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Wong Chuk Hang
Urban Place, People Mountain People Sea
NE E D NE TOE DDO TO: DO : -COM -PCOM RE SSPTHE RE SSSHIP THE YARDS SHIP YARDS AND AND TE M P TE ORARY M P ORARY INDUSTRIAL INDUSTRIAL ARE A ARE INTO A -P UT -THE P UTMTHE ARINA M ARINA CLUB CLUB TO ANOTHE TO ANOTHE R W ATE R RFONT W ATE RFONT
INTO TW O TW ZONING O ZONING S S COMMUNITY COMMUNITY AREA AREA
Urban Place, People Mountain People Sea
Wong Chuk Hang Existing problem The existing Mariana Club barries the public to enjoy the waterfront. Also some of the programs are interrupting the related porgrame locate together.
Brief The studio’s primary goal is to learn more about the extremely rich and eventful urban life in familiar neighorboods of Hong Kong. At the same time we will reflect and study the topics of high-density urban areas and building design, while considering the urgent need to provide high quality standards of urban and domestic environments to the local community. Continuous assignment site exchange Exchange a exisiting site or programe with another site to reach a better environmet in Wong Chuk Hang PUBLIC AREA PUBLIC AREA
MARINA CLUB MARINA CLUB
Site location BOAT CLUB BOAT CLUB
POLICE BASE POLICE BASE TEMPORARY TEMPORARY INDUSTRIAL INDUSTRIAL AREA AREA MARINA CLUB MARINA CLUB SHIPYARD SHIPYARD
LAUNDRYLAUNDRY FACTORYFACTORY
LAUNDRYLAUNDRY FACTORYFACTORY
TEMPORARY TEMPORARY INDUSTRIAL INDUSTRIAL AREA AREA SHIPYARD SHIPYARD SHIPYARD SHIPYARD
BOAT CLUB BOAT CLUB POLICE BASE POLICE BASE
Hong Kong Southern part
Aberdeen Eastern part
Wong Chuk Hang Shum Wang Road
Solution -move the Marina Club to another bay -move Boat club and Police Base to the end of the street -combine Temporary industrial area and Shipyard and compress them into the original size of shipyard area
Ideas sketches of re-master planning of Sham Wan Road
connection
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grid
levels
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module
Wong Chuk Hang
Urban Place, People Mountain People Sea
Wong Chuk Hang
Urban Place, People Mountain People Sea Design diagrams design strategy
connect with the ground floor of small park building attracts visitors to visit program nearby Design process
massing development
building mass
remove unneccessary
develop models
public- private relationship
public- private relationship
diagonal cuttings for site access
idea models
A’
FINAL PROJECT
Lobby
HOTEL DESIGN
B’
Final project - reprogram the Marina Club to a hotel
Lobby restaurant
IT IS INTENDED TO GIVE A MORE COMPLEX FACADE DESIGN FACINGS SHUM WAN ROAD BECAUSE IT COULD ATTRACT THE EYEBALL OF THE VISITORS AND ENTRANCE THE EFFECT OF THE MAIN STREET AS A STARTING POINT OF THE JOURNEY TO THE NEARBY COMMUNITY
Swimming Lobby pool basement B
A
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Ground floor plan Guest rooms
Gym Room
Swimming Pool
Guest rooms
Cinema
Bar and Restaurant
Bar and Restaurant
First level plan 01
0
20
Ballroom1
Second level plan 50
100
Guest rooms
SELECTED SITE -ELEVATION Guest rooms
Theatre Ballroom2
Guest rooms
Ballroom1 Cinema Lobby
Swimming pool basement
Section AA’
Guest rooms
Guest rooms
Restaurant
Guest rooms Bar
SELECTED SITE -TOP VIEW
SITE CONTEXT PHOTOS
ENTRANCE OF OCEAN PARK
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TOURISTS ROUTE
Section BB’
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Restaurant
Concept
Modular House
Concept
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Brief This is a design competition specifically set up by Halo Creative Design Limited and for the module Expanded Studies 6: Competition Design. The aim of this competition is to design a modular living unit of about 20 - 30 square metre that can be a plug-in module to a modular building as well as a standalone architecture.
The module must include a twin sleeping zone, and a wet area. The function of the unit could be a studio, home office, serviced apartment, hotel room, etc. Although the competition is not set in a specific location, students should give a contextual background to their design. Prize Students competed for a unique prize, the winning design would be built in 1 to 1, constructed by Timothy Oulton’s master craftsmen.
100mm X 100mm plank are used as primary structure shorter elements are then inserted to create furniture, pattern and space
Site location No specific site location Step1
Step2
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Creatin� View
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Step1
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Creating space
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morning : work
afternoon : lunch, tea
evening dinner :
afternoon : lunch, tea
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Hong Kong Super Mixer
Vertical shopping street tower
Vertical shopping street tower
Brief What housing towers appear when public program are integrated? What vertical organization is needed? What living qualities can then be discovered? Does such a vertically mixed tower bring a desirable diversity to the HK housing market? What kind of vertical communities could emerge? What values? And what typologies? What new concepts of living can we think of? What new lifestyles could then emerge? This studio explores the potentials of mixed-use housing towers. It aims at designing innovative mixed-use towers that unfold and expose new high dense living strategies, its advantages, disadvantages and spatial qualities.
Site location No specific site location
Serenade Plot Ratio: 4.5 Flat Size: 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Plot Size: 51.2(L) X 65.1(W) = 3,333.12m2 Height: 189m No. of Towers: 2 No. of Floor: 45 Amount of Flat: 270
x0 >30m2
x3 76-110m2
x0
Target Mixing the traditional shopping street with the residential tower Reason To keep the advantage of shopping street to defense the podium effect in Hong Kong. Mixing the shopping street can also return a lot of open space to the pedestrian. Futhermore, inhabitant can enjoy the shorter distant to shop whay they desire to buy.
Program: Residential (742m2, 35635m3) Clubhouse (742m2, 1484.8m3) Car Park (742m2, 1,300m3)
30-45m2 x0
x0
46-75m2
<110m2
Volume
Standard Tower of Massing Total Volume of the Residential : 31455M3 Total Volume of the Podium : 2784.8M3
Residential
Podium Each Floor of Volume = Total : 349.5 M3 Unit A 92.5 M3
Unit B 108 M3
Unit C 91 M3
Lobby Area 58 M3
Unit C 4095 M3
Lobby Area 2610 M3
Each Tower of Volume = Total : 15727.5 M3
Unit A 4162.5 M3
Unit B 4860 M3
Total Volume of the Building Tower = Total : 31455M3
Unit A 8325 M3
Unit B 9720 M3
Total Volume of Podium = Total : 2784.8M3
Unit C 8190 M3
Lobby Area 5220 M3
Podium 2784.8 M3
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relationship between operation time and the spatial usage of shopping street
Section of Standard Tower
Hong Kong Super Mixer
spatial usage of mobile stall
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Hong Kong Super Mixer
Vertical shopping street tower
Original Street Market - Mong Kok
Street Market DNA
Street Market DNA
fruit kid fashion
Street Market DNA
homeware shoes
toy accessory
phone accessary open space
Section
Shopping Sandwich
Shopping Core
Continuous Loop
Spiral Loop
Infinity Loop
Ramp
Interlace
Crossing-ramp
The shops and reidential will locate in different layers
The shops become the core, different shops can serve different floors
The shops will put into the route of shopping, the residential units will plug into the gaps
The residential unit roof will become the land scape for open space
The infinity will give a endless mood to people
The Pei Dong will on the ramp, people can have different levels feeling
The interlace loop will have different upward or downward slopping, interlace will give them illusion
People can by buying
female fashion
Shopping Sandwich
Shopping Core
Continuous Loop
Spiral Loop
Infinity Loop
Ramp
Interlace
Crossing-ramp
Jenga (Chosen)
The shops and reidential will locate in different layers
The shops become the core, different shops can serve different floors
The shops will put into the route of shopping, the residential units will plug into the gaps
The residential unit roof will become the land scape for open space
The infinity will give a endless mood to people
The Pei Dong will on the ramp, people can have different levels feeling
The interlace loop will have different upward or downward slopping, interlace will give them illusion
People can by buying to to reach different floors
The shops and residential will stack on each others to gain more relations
Option2 - Intergrated
food male fashion
Option2 - Intergrated
develop models
Option1 - Classified
food male fashion
Option1 - Classified
fruit kid fashion
homeware shoes
toy accessory
phone accessary open space
female fashion
Shopping Sandwich
Shopping Core
Continuous Loop
Spiral Loop
Infinity Loop
Ramp
Interlace
Crossing-ramp
Jenga (Chosen)
The shops and reidential will locate in different layers
The shops become the core, different shops can serve different floors
The shops will put into the route of shopping, the residential units will plug into the gaps
The residential unit roof will become the land scape for open space
The infinity will give a endless mood to people
The Pei Dong will on the ramp, people can have different levels feeling
The interlace loop will have different upward or downward slopping, interlace will give them illusion
People can by buying to to reach different floors
The shops and residential will stack on each others to gain more relations
Section
Option3 - Multipled
food male fashion
fruit kid fashion
Jenga (Choosen)
homeware shoes
toy accessory
phone accessary open space
female fashion
The shops and residential will stack on each others to gain more relations
Twist the jenga can gain ore view, the view for resi dential and shopping will both increase
The shopping will rotate to reach the end of the residential, people can go the the shopping street easier
Design diagrams The Pei Dong Strie will next to the residential unit, people will exact pass through the shop when they are getting into or out of the home
Option3 - Multipled
Hong Kong Super Mixer
Vertical shopping street tower
Design process
The Pei Dong Strie will stack on the top of the residentila stripe, inhabitant can go shopping by using the short staircase
Section
The open space and plaza will located in between the residential unit and the shopping street
Inhabitant can enjoy the outdoor open space after shopping or take a rest by easy access.
section
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Making the hand dirty
Vault study
Vault study
Brief The aim of the project is “Making the hand dirty”. For me, learning architecture is not only making the card board model and foam model, it is also about constructing 1 to 1 scale. How to join the material together and how the structure is. What is materials replace the glue in real life. In one day, I have watched a youtube video “ Vault Structure Test” which is about some of the students was testing the vault structure. They tried to walk on the vault and tested will the vault collapse. It is very interesting for me that the vault was made by thin red bricks, but it can be stand by 4 to 5 people. So that, we tried by ourselves
Mortar Preparation
We brought from Kwun Tong Hardware store. We moved the sand and cement by a handcart. Cement +
Sand
Brick Preparation
Water
We brought from Mong Kok building material store in Reclamation Street. We chose the thin but not the thick bricks because they are more suitable as we gonna do a small scale vault, 0.8m to to 0.8m. CUTTING BRICKS As the length of the bricks is too long, it's too long for being put together to form an arch in 0.8 meter diameter. We had to cut them into around 6x6cm each.
Fixing the Vault
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Making the hand dirty
At first, we tired to put masking tape between to hold the bricks. Then we started with sticking triangular bricks on the arch. Afterward, we started to place rectangular bricks at a corner between two arches. We also apply mortar on the whole surface of the layer of bricks. We were putting some bricks benneath to support the bricks for the vault construction.
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Making the hand dirty
Explode Explode Diagarm Diagarm
Vault study
Material Material
TileTile
Arch Arch
KeyKey Stone Stone
Card Card Board Board Structure Structure ( For ( For ConstrucConstructiontion ) ) Explode Diagarm
Card Card Board Board Structure Structure ( For ( For ConstrucConstructiontion ) )
Material
Tile
Arch
Arcylic Arcylic Supporting Supporting ( For ( For ConstrucConstructiontion ) )
Key Stone
Card Board Structure ( For Construction )
Card Board Structure ( For Construction )
Vault Vault
Arcylic Supporting ( For Construction )
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