Marcus MA Architecture Portfolio 2018-2021

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MARCUS MA, TING KWONG 馬廷光 Hong Kong 21 / 10 / 1995 T +852 9377 3756 E tingkwong.ma@gmail.com W issuu.com/tingkwongma

Reference Inge GOUDSMIT, Reg Arch (NL) Gary CHANG, EDGE Design *provide upon request

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Professional Skills AutoCAD Adobe Suites Rhino Sketchup Pro V-ray Enscape Grasshopper ArchiCAD Lumion Revit

Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Intermediate Intermediate Basic Basic Basic Basic

Languages Cantonese Mandarin English German Japanese

Native Native Fluent Basic Basic

Academy & Research 2019 - 2021

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Master of Architecture

2014 - 2018

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Bachelor of Social Science (Architectural Studies)

2017 Jan - Aug

University of Applied Science, Stuttgart (HFT Stuttgart) School of Architecture Semester Exchange Programme Professional Experience

2019 - 2021 DEC FEB

MONOTYPE Studio, HK Architectural Designer (Freelance) - Goldenscene Cinema

2019 AUG

A( )VOID Studio, MO&HK Architectural Designer (Collaboration) - Juxtacavern

2018 - 2019 JUL JUL

EDGE Design Institute Limited, HK Architectural Designer (Year-out) - MoMA Design Store - Nano House Exhibition - Newsstand for Future - Island & Peninsula Exhibition

2018 Jun

Dotan Haim Architects & Urban Designer, SHANGHAI Architectural Internship, Teaching Assistant Achievement & Competition

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Best Studio Award, M2 Studio, CUHK

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Shortlisted Candidate, Newsstand for Future, MILAN

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Winning Scheme, MoMA Design Store, HK

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Winning Scheme, Precious Blood Learning Centre, HK

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Honours Award, U3 Studio, CUHK Exhibition

2021 May

Year Show Exhibition, HK Curator (Product, Graphic, Exhibition)

2019 Oct

Island & Peninsula Exhibition, LA & HK Installation Designer

2018 Jun

Nano House Exhibition, HK Installation Designer 5

SELECTED WORKS XL __ LAND & CITY

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GRADIENT CITY

Street (Re)imagination Create Cultural Identity in HK New Town Srping, 2021, CUHK, Studio M2

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L __ ARCHITECTURE & MASS

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VEILED SUBTOPIA

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JUXTACAVERN

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WATER STUDIO

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Underground Spiritual Healing Centre Srping, 2020, CUHK, Studio M1

Rebirth of the Hollow Village in Rural China Summer, 2019, A( )VOID Studio

Reconnect the Community, Recall the rituals Srping, 2018, CUHK, Studio U6

M __ INTERIOR & DETAIL

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GOLDENSCENE CINEMA

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MoMA DESIGN STORE ( HK )

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The Timeless Lighthouse Spring, 2021, Monotype Studio

The Shoppable Museum Summer, 2019, EDGE Design

S __ ELEMENT & ARCHETYPES

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EDIHUB

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LAND OF CONSTANT CHANGES

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OTHER WORKS

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A Newsstand for 21 Century Modern Italy Spring, 2020

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The Manual of Transformation: Island of Infinitude Autumn, 2019, EDGE Design

Exhibition & Installation, Drawings, Researches, Studies & More ...

2018 - 2021

"IN THE NEW AGE OF RECYCLABLE NEON CITY" ARCHITECTURAL DIGITAL DRAWING, 2020

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01 GRADIENT CITY STREET (RE)IMAGINATION Create Cultural Identity in HK New Town Tung Chung East Extension Area, HK New Town x Cultural Identity x Cultural Infrastructure x Street ~10,000m2 Studio Project, 2021 Team: Larissa Leung, Martin Lau, Karen Yeung Supervised by Inge GOUDSMIT

Why is the cultural belongingness diminishing?

And How can we (re)create the Culture in New Town?

Gradient City is interrogating the issues on the disappearance of cultural identities in Hong Kong New Town since 1990s, the third generation of Satellite Cities. On Cultural Political viewpoint, the proposal is questioning the existing Cultural Policies Pyramid and the conventional typology of Municipal Buildings. On Urban viewpoint, the proposal is challenging the trend of Megablock City and pondering on the problem of Dead Open Spaces in New Town.

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ON CULTURAL IDENTITY...

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STREET SPATIAL ANALYSIS

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GUIDELINES OF STREET METRICS

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URBAN GRID & STREET NETWORK

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ON OPEN SPACES NETWORK...

CONCEPT OF MUNICIPAL AVENUE

PROGRAMME DUALITY ANALYSIS Courtesy to Larissa Leung

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VEILED SUBTOPIA THE URBAN PLACEBO AN UNDERGROUND HEALING CENTRE

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Sham Shui Po, HK Detox Clinic x Rehab Centre x Mental Health Factory ~500m2 Studio Project, 2020 Supervised by Patrick HWANG, Cheng Chun

The project consists of two heritage buildings, at the front, Chinese Public Dispensary built in 1933, and at the back, KwanTai Temple built in 1891. Behind the clinic there is a Chinese temple situated diagonally. The interlocking coordination creates a different geometrical relationship with the orthogonal surroundings which are basically composed by blocks of traditional tenement houses. We can see the healing feature of the context could be traced over a century of history, either physical or mental.

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THE CONTINUATION OF HISTORICAL USE To carry on its healing mission, the clinic would be transformed into a mental health centre in referencing the Maggie’s Centre founded by Charles Jencks in 1995 who believed in the Architectural Placebo Effect which the aesthetic value of architecture could actually help soothing people’s sorrows and pains. On top of that, the ornamental elements with all the art deco features will be preserved for the aesthetic appeals.

Physical Healing

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"When One is Veiled, Another is Unveiled."

Maggie Centre (Mixed Healing)

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WHAT IS VEILED COULD BE UNVEILED IN THE DEEPEST URBAN "EXCAVATION SITE"....

In this healing centre, spaces are free planned and less determined, the counsellor, the therapists and social workers, will be scattered across the centre, there are no constraints or designated areas for counselling because everywhere is possible for everything. Whenever one is feeling free to talk, the counsellor will unveil themselves and approach for help, otherwise, one may also stay solitude to appreciate the beauty of shadow and light, the breeze coming from the voids, the shades of tree, the reflection of water and the feeling of being inclusive by the place, as if the perception on this Subtopia, this underground, is their second home, a home away from home. Building a new ground beneath the old one, the veiled Subtopia is not only a factory of healing, but an urban placebo, a place for people to sooth and talk, and re-discovering themselves through the process of meditation, counselling, reconnecting themselves with the place, time and architecture. A place dedicated and belongs to them.

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P. 9-10 1. Subtopia 2. Healing Complex 3. Submerging Entrance

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P. 13-14 8. RAMPWAY 9. ZEN GARDEN 10. SECTION

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INTO THE VEIL OF THE EARTH SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

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ORIGINAL USE, 1933: PUBLIC DISPENSARY

TEMPORARY USE, 1950: PUBLIC COMMUNAL CENTRE

CURRENT PROGRAMME, 2002: PUBLIC METHADONE CLINIC

SUBTOPIA The Subtopia is a uprooted place which was untraceable from the book of history. An archive of memorable memories and imagination. Both devine and despotic are transformed into stacks of semeiotic meanings under the subterranean surface. Beneath the complex and dynamic geometry of the city, the untold precipitate of time and space was forgotten.

FUTURE PROPOSAL: MENTAL HEALTH CENTRE

"Whisper, whisper, becoming the murmur of the mythical ground."

ROAMING INSIDE THE CONNECTED GROUNDS SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

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JUXTACAVERN

Rebirth of Hollow Village in Rural China Zhangjiakou, Hebei, CN Hollow Village x Dwelling x Community ~1980m2 Professional Project, 2019-2021 Team: Matthew Hon, Willson Iu, Stephen Wong @ A( )VOID Studio

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SAVING THE HOLLOW VILLAGE is a common phenomenon in rural areas of China. The indigenous people of the entire village have moved to the new rural residential areas. Their homesteads are still there, the old houses are ruined, and none of them is willing to revitalise the countryside.

While aiming to realise a public yet private community through juxtaposing the ancient fashion of living with the modern idea of connectivity, alongside the agrestal locality of Yu County. Via exploring the organic way of living, we are aiming to establish the potential cohesive bondage between that and the modern ways of living.

2 1 3 1. A Vertical Cave 2. Whispering Lanterns 3. Organized Randomness

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IN ARTICULATING THE MURAL OF THE RURAL The point grid, who punctuates the constructional erections, populates and sets the tones and restraints for the imminent idyll. The derivation of him, the plot (4x6m), is coming from the formerly-peopled dwellings and will be cradling the freshly grown rurality.

With the re-interpreted dwellings paving the blanket, chants come into play. Grottoshaped overpass along with the velvety ripples, swimming through the inherited landscape. They have been choreographing the nature and the man-made, while all of this is seeking to mirage an aperspectival mural.

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4. Isolated yet Together 5. Mural Montage 6. Village and Villagers 7. Corten, Mud and Rural 8. Formal yet Informal 18

INFORMALITY IN FORMALITY The formalistic outcome of the dwellings being a rationalised cavern with scents of collective randomness. Slanting towards one side, minimally sculpted 10° cut along with the fenestration which varies in both sizes and pivotal directions. Utilising the advantage from our perspectival vision and the angular placement of the units, they feel as kinsfolk as they are cloned.

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04 WATER STUDIO

RECONNECTING THE COMMUNAL RITUALS Shau Kei Wan, HK Swimming Pool x Cinema x Studio ~5500m2 Studio Project, 2018 Supervised by Clover LEE The overall architectural form is inherited from the local shipyard structure. The vernacular element defines the language. Seven major concrete structural bearing walls are fanning out from the highland at the back to lower point in the front.

Programmes are sandwiched in between the walls and created a tunnel-like visual effect with strong directional focal point of view from the rock to the sea.

Visual Porosity Analysis

Visual Porosity

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Programme Orientation

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This project consists two major communal programmes: swimming pool and cinema. Dry and wet programmes are articulated by the division of the major circulation tunnel on the diagonal axis. Programmes are connected and integrated between the flying platform from spectator stand to mini black boxes with clear hierarchy of private and public, dry and wet. During the nighttime, longitudinal wall aligning with the pool the spectator stand will also be the projection screen for cinema which can accommodate more than 300 audience.

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05 THE TIMELESS LIGHTHOUSE Kennedy Town, HK Communal Cinema x Bar ~1000m2 Professional Project, Interior & Facade, 2021 Team: Jackey Ip, Hysan Lee @ MONOTYPE Studio CONCEPT

DETAIL DEVELOPMENT

CONSTRUCTION SUBMISSION

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"A Theatre for Dreamers” Hong Kong’s has always been an unique city of extreme, full of hustle and bustle.

With the city’s unstoppable momentum, Hongkongers gradually lose their retreat of personal time, especially in the latest work-from-home lifestyle. Hence, we believe cinema remains as one of the best retreat for emotional release, to pacify the senses, to dream a little whilst immersing in the narrative of movies…

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REINTERPRETATION OF CINEMA AND CITY The methodology of reconstitution of traditional Hong Kong urban elements in the historical Kennedy Town. The arches hallway conveyed the impression of the harbour front Kei-Lau and shophouses arcade typology with the intervals of poster box which depicting the billboards and display windows under the vivid scenoscape.

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1. Classical Cinema 2. 1/F Plan 3. G/F Plan 4. Lighthouse Details 5&6. Day as Hall 7&8. Night as Bar

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TRANSLATION OF MATERIALITY IMPRESSION As Hong Kong culture inherits from its Chinese heritage as well as its colonial past, Hong Kong beholds its one of a kind character of being neither definitively Oriental or Western; this allowed us to borrow the timeless and familiar vernacular or modern motifs in Hong Kong architecture and along with material palettes to create a design that resonates with our sense of nostalgia and belonging to the city…

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2. FLUTED SKIN

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4. SUBSTANCE OF GRAIN

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06 MoMA DESIGN STORE HK A SHOPPABLE MUSEUM

Tsim Sha Tsui, HK Museum x Gallery x Design Store ~600m2 Professional Project, 2019 Team: Gary Chang, Jackey Ip, Caroline Fok, Hysan Lee @ EDGE Design

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The profound concept is to create a unique experience which juxtapose people in between the boundaries of retail and arts, shopping mall and museum. The interactive and transformable store environment provides a haven to customers of all ages, with flexibility catered to sustain the fast-paced retail landscape. Many local elements have been incorporated in homage to our cultural heritage as part of the aesthetics.

To name a few: the use of bamboo and galvanized zinc, the mobile chess-piece-like fixtures inspired by mah-jong tables, and fixtures inspired by the dim sum trolleys.

The reinterpretation of traditional elements helps evoking a sense of familiarity and belongingness for Hongkongers while inspiring an international audience.

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The spirits of Hong Kong branch is all about adaptability and flexibility which pay a tribute to local identity. The dim sum trolleys are inspired by the vigorous adaptability and mobility of traditional ones here in Hong Kong. The bespoke book shelf, which duals as a furniture wall, is a statement piece converging the best of the MoMA identity and local practicality. The incorporated seating space for readers is a twist on the tight seating in local cafes – the cha chaan teng.

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The movable fixtures allowed the transformation of the layout in order to adapt different events and programmes. Ranging from large, medium to small, the transformable planning created various scenarios for different time, day, and season. ALL fixtures and furnitures in the store are designed with removable and changeable feature which maximized the greatest amount of flexibility in this every changing commercial forest.

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1. Clean Portal 2. Basecamp Zoning 3. Product as brush, Timber as frame, Metal as the canvas

4. Site work 5. Strip Facade 6. Grid of Scaffolding 7. Bamboo & Zinc 8. Timber as the new white 9. Contrast on lighting 10. Dim Sum Trolley 11. Old HK Material Palette 36

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A NEWSSTAND FOR FUTURE Duomo, MILAN Architype ~30m2 Conceptual Project, 2019 Team: Larissa Leung, Jacky Lam, Tracy Fong Every Edihub are similar yet different in their own ways as tailored by their owners.

The Edihub is composed of many standardised pieces, such that each component can be replaced easily for maintainance / repair. The Edihub is the new lego for adults. Every component is replaceable and customizable, owner can put together their favourite composition and have fun while running their business. The Edihub is more than only selling newspaper, there is much more to it! The simple assembling procedures allow the Edihub to be set up instantly anywhere, anytime. It is designed to minimise travel cost and for easier logistics. While the shopkeeper gets to determine COMING SOON: A Newsstand of the Future the orientation of the “Cores”. The positions of individual modules are determined by participating users.

EDIHUB

Milan, Italy Design Week Premiere Special Issue

Time x Place TIME-BASED TRANSFORMATION

Keywords #adaptive #flexible #collaborative #sustainable

Place x People

You name it, you can build it, like a lego!

PEOPLE-BASED ADAPTATION Form follows function, while function is determined by the people. The new newsstand leaves a lot of blank for users to fill, it is where they can show-off their creativity and create spaces that fits their purpose as they favour. While the shop keeper takes some degree of control over the form of his/her newsstand, the eventual outcome (of the form) will be greatly influenced by each users participating in the newsstand.

In order to keep up with the rapid changing pace of the modern city. The newsstand of the future should pocess the ability to adapt and change in time. A felixble and adaptable space is the key to input into the future newsstand in order to meet the needs of the lively and ever-changing street-scape of Italy city. The ultimate goal is - to create a newsstand that transforms in time and offers you different spatial experience every time you walk by it.

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MASSING ARRANGEMENT

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EDIHUB

Milan, Italy Design Week Premiere Special Issue

Keywords #adaptive #flexible #collaborative #sustainable

COMING SOON: A Newsstand of the Future

Time x Place

Place x People

TIME-BASED TRANSFORMATION

PEOPLE-BASED ADAPTATION

In order to keep up with the rapid changing pace of the modern city. The newsstand of the future should pocess the ability to adapt and change in time. A felixble and adaptable space is the key to input into the future newsstand in order to meet the needs of the lively and ever-changing street-scape of Italy city. The ultimate goal is - to create a newsstand that transforms in time and offers you different spatial experience every time you walk by it.

Form follows function, while function is determined by the people. The new newsstand leaves a lot of blank for users to fill, it is where they can show-off their creativity and create spaces that fits their purpose as they favour. While the shop keeper takes some degree of control over the form of his/her newsstand, the eventual outcome (of the form) will be greatly influenced by each users participating in the newsstand.

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“The Edihub (place) is an interplay and reaction between different people, and is always changing over time.”

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With the declining popularity in physical newspaper thus newsstand business. The newsstand of the future ought to find it’s way of survival by extending it’s business. Unlike traditional static Newsstands, Edihub is able to adapt to different scenarios to generate an optimum form/space, hence changing it’s function from time to time.

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The function of Edihub is never only limit to one at a time, it can be many things for many people at the same time, making it a social hub where people come together to connect and interact, mix and match! A nightclub in the middle of Centro Storico or a secret hideout within Porta Romana ...

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Exhibition / Installation LAND OF CONSTANT CHANGE: THE MANUAL OF TRANSFORMATION

Santa Monica, LA Installation ~10m2 Professional Project, 2019 Team: Gary Chang, Angel Chan @ EDGE Design CONCEPT

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EDGE DESIGN INSTITUTE LTD

香港鰂魚涌海澤街 28號東港中心 1103室

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The island itself is representing a cityscape and the reflecting water. The height of the acrylic symbolizes the special status of Hong Kong as a small city with high-rises and a harbor in front, making a frame for the socio-background that contributes to small space. The buildings in between the hilly landscape is shining from the sunlight and reflected, with the special material that allow light to pass through and reflect.

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Exhibition / Installation / Graphic Design School of Architecture Year Show 2021

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Design Team: Martin Lau, Tracy Fong Curated a 5 days long Year Show for 60 architecture graduates at Hong Kong Art Centre. Designed graphics, exhibition style and installation with the design team. The installation, Studio As Life, is the embodiment of our 2 year studio life under COVID and social unrest. Also the team had designed the products, tote bag and sketchbook, with abstractive graphic of "CUHKARCH". As well as the publication of graduation book from graphic design, content layout to coordination with publisher.

A3 Tote Bag "CUHKARCH" Product, Qty 400 43

C5 Project Collection Product, Qty 800

A5 Sketchbook Product, Qty 400

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OTHER WORKS Hand Drawings

Neon Housing Scenography, A1, Sketch, 2017

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Exquisite Corpse: (Re)Framing Le Fresnoy Art Centre , A0, Sketch, 2020 This is a dialectical interplay between sections, drawings, elevations and plans. Section of the three main halls under the realm of great roof is transited to the unfolding roof plan with the staggered vector elements from one place to another. The drawing is an imaginative synthesis of different materials such as movement analysis of Manhattan Transcripts, the screenplay exercise of Bernard Tachumi, the original concept drawing of Le Fresnoy and my personal of improvisation along the drawing process.

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OTHER WORKS

Research Museum of Gaze: What is the Reality of Edward Hopper, 2020

This research aims to interrogate the paradoxical complexity of subjectivity and objectivity between the interrelationship of the gazing subject and the object being gazed. The virtual museum was an embodiment of the dissolution process of body images with the appropriation of Edward Hopper’s artworks.

The artworks were particularly selected for its ambience of tranquillity and solitary within the condition of urban settlements.

Through the dissolving body images, the subject (audience / visitor) was enabled to submerge into the virtual environment of the artwork. The immersion allowed people to question the alienation and isolation of modern society.

The loneliness was strengthened under the pandemic situation in reality which further reinforced the coherence and fuzziness between reality and the second reality. The journey was scripted according to the first hand experience of Foucault’s experience on Las Meninas by objectifying the subjects in the painting without preposition and prejudice on the particular expression on particular space or time. Therefore, the script of the journey was intended refraining from a descriptive transcript on history, context or background but the phenomenological bodily experience.

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Hand Drawings Architecutural Fairytale: Dual City Tale, 2018

Welcome to Victoria City. This is a city of happiness. In the middle of the city circus, there is a large blinking dome which has been rested for very long time . The dome itself is sophisticatedly enveloped with fragmented pieces of mirrors which creates overwhelming reflection across the harbour from the artificial sun. Too bright it was that no one ever gets close to it. No one knows. No one dares to question the abnormal substantial existence of the dome, as if it was a normal norm. Until the day that a piece of glazing panel peeled off. Until the day that a girl abruptly broke into the other side of the dome. When the other side of the world is exposed. When two become one. When the normal is normal.

Team: Jefferson Chan, Rosy Tam

Victoria Parade

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Research Urban Village Settlement of Hong Kong @ Tin Shui Wai

This is a traditional Small House (Ding House) in Hong Kong village. The headboard will indicate the foundation year of the particular building / or / the family name of the resident to imply the indigeous right or to indicate the history of the house.

Suggestively the house at the left was firstly built in 1970s which is the first generation of Ding House and the one at the right completed afterwards when they have new male family members reached age of 18.

The Study was a referencing approach to Forensic Architecture by sheerly objective internet observation without any actual visit to the particular building. The research focuses on the understanding of the housing from the exteriors.

When you look closer, the building elements would start unfolding the story of the house.

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Research Urban Informality: Squatter Housing Studies @ Manila

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