Examples of Work by Tsz Kiu Chow

Proposed Building

Post Office

248 Ferndale Rd, Brixton, London, United Kingdom MOST COMPACT

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COMPACT+ COMPACT+ is a specialised furniture concept store to discover every aspects of small-scale living as

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Brixton Recreation Centre with gym and fitness studios.

well as providing design solutions to the home occupants of this ultimate smart living pattern.

Compact+

Pop Brixton - a community project, event venue and the home of a community of independent retailers, restaurants, street food startups and social enterprises.

The store is launched by two parts: COMPACT+ Concept Store and COMPACT+ Aparthotel. The home showcase community aparthotel

concept store includes furniture showroom, home improvement warehouse and restaurant, each covers different area of compact living. Exhibitions held regularly in the store to showcase new ideas, designs and technology by designers around the world, to suceed the goal of making beautifully designed compact home acheivable for everyone.

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Brixton Station Road Market - a community market run by local traders.

For COMPACT+ Aparthotel, it is located in the building next to the Concept Store with the idea of ‘Live it and experience it’ to maximise the experience of compact living. I believe nothing is better than living in an actual environment to complete the experience of compact living. With Compact+ individual entrance to ensure the security and privacy of the visitors while making connections

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home showcase community aparthotel

LEAST COMPACT

with the concept store through exterior public space. furniture showroom

home accessories

staircase

mezzanine

Brixton Underground Station

SCHEDULE OF ACCOMMODATION

S I T E A N A LY S I S

Overview of Ground Floor.

Steel Perforated Sheet 3mm holes Powder Coating in White for Staircase Risers

Red Brick Wall

Herringbone Pattern Floor in Mango Timber Lime Wash Effect

Golden Oak Timber

Dulux Paint Mixing Easycare Washable & Tough Matt Putting Green

GAU0122 Light Metal + Wood Pendant by Gaucho Där (Matt Black)

4 Light LED Pendant by EGLO Fornes (Oak)

First Floor 1:200@A3

FLOOR PLANS

Ground Floor 1:200@A3

Overview of +Community Cafe.

The design is inspired by street food stall where the customer and chef share the tiny space together. Customer sees how their food getting prepared and chef constantly getting feedback about their food.

Overview of First Floor.

Void were included in each floor to extending the spatial scale and to eliminate the sense of pressure while creating the extension of visual axis. Using reflective materials to allow light to penetrate freely and improves the interactivity between floors. Each space can interact with their “neighbours”.

Overview of “Pick-N-Mix Customisation Alley”.

Where the customer can pick their combination of furniture, material and colour. The computer bar and interactive display table will then let them visualise and calculate the item price.

DESIGN CONCEPTS

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Hong Kong (15m²)

Tokyo, Japan (35m²)

Italy (31m²)

United Kingdom (37m²)

Overview of furniture showroom.

The showroom is where you get an insight into compact living. There are 18 showrooms in total, each of them have been carefully designed to show the living habits of different types of family. Not only showing the average size of UK housing, some of the showrooms were created to reveal housing sizes in different countries and the way they use to tackle with the small living spaces.

SECTION PLAN 1:100@ A3

People of Red or Dead are explorers with confidence and no boundaries. Fear is not an option. Quirkiness and integrity are always in our blood.

Discover new ways to look into Red or Dead’s quirkiness and playful characteristic with technology-powered personalization to enhance user experience in store. The design concept is to simulate the fluidity of the liquid by using neon lighting to form a scenery of the laboratory setting.

Lab Of Exploration is a concept store featuring the brand’s eyewear, footwear and clothing, also combines traditional shopping with online shopping to fit in with customers’ busy lifestyle.

Nowadays, the world of retail is facing challenges like never before. Due to an increase in popularity of

LAB OF EXPLORATION

online shopping and high expenses on rent, it is compulsory to explore ways to provide an extraordinary shopping experience to customer. Red or Dead has teamed up with footwear retailer Schuh and optical retail chain Specsavers for their range of products.

The concept store allows customer to book an appointment for their eye check and making orders through the “Sit back and relax” system.

LOC ATION Selfridges & Co The Bullring Upper Mall East Birmingham B5 4BP

Overview of Point of Purchase.

Experience the new way of shopping and check-out! ‘Point of purchase’ allows you to make orders, check-out or make an appointment with our partners (e.g. Specsavers for prescribed glasses). Chances are you are feeling tired after a long day of shopping, so what is better than the products come to you without you walking around just to ask for a staff ’s help for trying on shoes that you are interested? Just choose the products and size, then relax. The products you ordered will be in front of you within minutes.

Conceptal Imagery.

Try on shoes

POINT OF PURCHASE

Red Rusty Brick Wall

Rusty Brick Wall Painted in White

Your 3 order(s) has been sent. Sit back and relax!

How the machine works?

Floor tiles with Red or Dead logo pattern

One of the staff will deliver your order(s) to you. Try it on -> Like it -> Buy -> Don’t like it -> Leave it there

Make an appointment Glossy Wood In White

Clear Acrylic Tube

Please select a day and slot:

Oak Birch Wood

23-Oct-2017 15:15

MATERIALIT Y

Check-out 1. Sit down and select the services you want

BRAND/MAIN COLOURS: neon light fixture (clothing, footwear)

A reminder has been sent to your mobile phone.

Please scan the barcode on the product(s)

Thank you for shopping at Red or Dead. We look forward to see you soon!

Furniture: eyewear

MINOR COLOURS: neon light signs

COLOUR SCHEME

C L O T H I N G D I S P L AY

The clothing section is the most appealing part of the store. Neon lights in 3 colours and different thickness to create a fun and vibrate atmosphere inside and throughout the store.

Red: Shows connection with the footwear section, also lead the way to different parts of the store.

Blue: Shows journey to ‘self-helping clothing’ and ‘point of purchase’, ends at the footwear section.

Yellow: Shows connection with the eyewear section.

E Y E W E A R D I S P L AY ( T W O - S I D E D ) The idea of ‘pick up, try it on and look up’ is to minimize the time of travelling around the store just to find a mirror to see how you look in the glasses. Makes the shopping experience straight forward and no fuss!

F O O T W E A R D I S P L AY The shoe section is formed by clear acrylic tubes inspired by liquid poured in test tube.

The lighting installed under the area will create a bright and dynamic feel.

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Sizes for Eyewear Stand: W100cm D 100cm H 80cm (Lowest point), 100cm (Highest point) Height of "EYEWEAR" neon light: 40 cm from the highest point of eyewear stand

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Mid Point

Side

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Highest Level

Front

Mid Level Lowest Level Layout of the shoes shelf

F E S T I VA L S Q UA R E A co-design brief to design elements of Festival Square, for the Manchester International Festival, in collaboration with Oh Ok alongside Practice Architecture and The Office of Crafted Architecture.

The project involved working with live client to develop ideas and concepts with regards to making artefacts and elements at object, human and architectural scale and branding, to meet the client needs. By working in a group of 5, we worked closely together for decision making and individually to identify each of our role in the team.

During the live project, I had the opportunity to involve in all stages of the design process including space plan and produce accurate drawings using Vectorworks. I also learned how to design furniture and update existing fixture according to the brand guidelines. My floor plan and layout design were moved forward to the final production and was featured on BBC live broadcast.

Conceptal Imagery

Photograph taken from actual site after completion.

Furniture Making Workshop.

INTERIOR DESIGN

ENTRY & EXIT

FURNITURE DESIGN - BENCH ENTRY & EXIT

BRAND COLOUR SCHEME

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Seat Height 750 mm

Cork 5mm Foam 3mm Tile 5mm

Seat Height for children 450 mm

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Interior Florrplan of Festival Square 1:100@A3 4 sets = Single Chair

Hex stool

FURNITURE

12 sets = Bench

Conceptual imagery with the bench outside Festival Square.

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Front

Right side

Fixture included in the floor plan:

Right isometric

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10 Hex Stool 10 Triangle Stool 20 360o Hex Chair with Hole 10 360o Hex Chair without Hole 20 Hex Table 1 DJ Booth 1 Existing bar with updated colour scheme 1 Podium Stand (Teepee) with extensions

3D interior overview created by Vectorworks.

Overview of Waiting Area.

Overview of Reception.

Coat rack

STYLING UNIT

Overview of Cutting Area.

For the cutting area, styling unit were custom made to suit the needs of the hair salon. Locker and coat rack are available for all the styling unit. As we got only 10 minutes slot for each customer, putting the lockers can save time while ensuring the security for customer’s belongings.

Foot stool

Locker for personal belongings

Big items

10 minutes haircut SITE: AVILA HOUSE, OXFORD ROAD, MANCHESTER, UK OUTDOOR SPACE

Located in a busy area surrounded by university campus and offices. Brisk hair salon cut down the service time down to 10 minutes. Target on providing high-quality service for busy professionals and students. The semi-automatic operating system to create a seamless journey for customers.

The 10 minutes hair cutting salon presents the idea of “cut out the unnecessary waiting time” and focus on the haircut itself. The idea came up when I thought about how many times I washed my hair in the salon but actually didn’t need it, and ended up paying extra for the service. And many people felt the same when I brought up the topic. More than that, it was considered as rude when you didn’t have a conversation with the hairdresser but sometimes you just want to finish the haircut and get going as soon as possible.

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Customers can take control of everything at Brisk. They pay for their service by the self-service ticket machines by choosing the service(s) they needed, service time is shown next to each service item.

A ticket will then released after they paid. The customers will then wait in the waiting area for their number to show on the television screen. Styling stations are labelled with colours that match the one on the ticket, to help the customers look for their seat. This system would make sure the flow of the salon is smooth and each barber is handling with similar numbers of customers.

STORAGE

STAFF ROOM

Customers are good to go after they have been served. No queues or wait for the bills and changes because they have already done that at the beginning.

STYLING

BACKWASH

WAITING

TICKET TOILET

DISPENSARY

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ENTRANCE

COLOUR SCHEME

FLOOR PLAN 1:100@A3

Purchasing & Waiting

American Black Walnut

Service

White Rough Wall

Concrete

Staff Only Customer Route

MATERIALIT Y

E L E VAT I O N A - A 1:100@ A3 FOTO Light by IKEA (Green, cream, white)

Timber Footstool

About A chair by HAY

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STEEL 15MM Wyatt LED 9 Pendant Ceiling Light in Bronze by John Lewis

Space Divider

If You Could Bench By Jorre Van Ast, Damien Poulain

FURNITURE AND FIXTURE

1. STAFF ROOM 2. STYLING AREA 3. BACKWASH AREA

E L E VAT I O N A - B 1:100@ A3

Mirror

Meditation Room

H. R. S. S is a future proof psychotherapy centre for greater flexibility and ever changing social trends.

The goal for this project is to explore new ways to give support for those who are suffering from depression caused by chronic pain syndrome. And at the same time, design a future proof psychotherapy centre with greater flexibility to adapt the ever changing social trends.

There are many factors to determine the health of a person. Exclude the innate factors, we could still make a change of our habits to improve the acquired factors. The arise of the psychotherapy centre is to give a push to those who are struggling with their illnesses, by providing direct help like giving medical advices and counselling. At the same time, to provide indirectly options through experiencing with the Japanese Zen meditation and adjustment of their eating habits.

To achieve the goal, the design of the space is a key. My goal is to create a place that is welcoming and feel less of being inside of a clinic, hopefully feel more like being in the nature. More importantly, to let those who are suffering with the chronic pain syndrome to start a new life.

Exterior

Interior - Ground floor

Interior - Basement

SITE RESEARCH

‘Future proofing’ is the key for this project. The aim is to think ahead of the present, not only to considerate about the problems that might happen now, but also to predict the possibilities of sudden changes and be ready to tackle with the environment and the society.

MATERIALIT Y

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RESEARCH ON THE PERCENTAGE OF INDIVIDUAL WITH CHRONIC ILLNESSES EXPERIENCE WITH DEPRESSION

COLOUR SCHEME

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Coronary Artery Disease (without Heart Attack) 18% - 20%

Parkinson’s Disease 40%

Research on chronic illnesses and depression indicates that depression rates are high among patients with chronic illnesses.

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Multiple sclerosis 40%

Stroke 10%-27%

Heart Attack 40% - 65%

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Cancer 25%

TOPIC RESEARCH First Floor Floorplan 1:100@ A4

DESIGN CONCEPT 1. Rethink the definition of room 2. Make a move to transform space The concept of the psychotherapy centre is to explore the possibilities of creating variable elements within the same space. For example, the size of a room for private therapy could also be a space for group activities. Most of us have a set of guidelines about how big a room for certain activity should be. But in this project, I have tried to break this concept and making connections between rooms. Rather than providing a ‘frozen’ setting for activities, the new concept is to make a multiplicity of different uses and atmospheres possible. The result is to develop a well conceived mobile room in compact environments that take up less space than conventional approaches.

I used the technique of space in walls to create extra storage for the use of dividing and joining spaces. Also to accommodate flexible elements like door inside the wall. The particular element is ‘parked’ in the wall and taken out as needed. The same element has been used on the tables within the space. By increasing the height of flooring to create extra room to ‘park’ the tables. Only pull up when it is needed. And to help transforming the space for different activities.

Basement Floorplan 1:100@ A4

The group area located in the basement is where I experimented with the variable room elements.

FLOORPLANS