2013 department potfolio

Admission to Master of Architecture MArch 2013, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG APPLICATION NUMBER : MArch72312019 UNCERGRADUATE INSTITUTION: LONDON KINGSTON UNIVERSITY EMAIL: garnett21timber@yahoo.com.hk

KA CHI DESIGN PORTFOLIO

1:10 (A1) Measure Drawing, wapping 2012 October

Johnston Road

Queen’s Road East

Mapping of Wanchai

02/03

Hong Kong is a developed city as same as New York, London and Tokyo etc. Vertical high density building become the major solution for releasing the ground floor area and the urban fabric becomes a complex of commercial and resdidential high rise. This project is a mapping of the skyline of Wanchai district.

Queen’s Road East (South)

All the pictures were taken by a camera sitting on tripod 60 degree upward, along the Queen’s East Road which is the most representative road of the complexity of commercial and residential in Hong Kong.

The arrangement of the photo is reflecting the sequency of streets along the Queen’s east road.

Queen’s Road East (North)

The skyline of the buildings create the gap above us. They are another kind of public space owned by us, but we can never touch. The Sky is a public property of the citizen. However , in Hong Kong , we can only share very little of it.

The charactoristics of each inbetween space is given by the surrounding building. It is rarely to see similar skyline outside Hong Kong.

Through a series of diagram, I attempted to push one more step to study the spatial quality, proportion, texture and language of these ‘gaps’.

URBAN SKYLINE A MAPPING OF WANCHAI HKU SPACE 2010 (Yr.3)

Johnston Road (South)

Queen’s Road East (South)

Queen’s Road East (North)

Johnston Road (South)

Mapping of Wanchai

04/05

Vertical Street Model - Wan Chai Architecture Centre

06/07

Following the Mapping Wanchai Project, I tried to go further and to explore wanchai more. Similar mapping methodology is applied and the typology of staircase, or relationship between different levels in St. Francis Yard is recoded.

In the proposal, an architecture centre need to be design to reflect the charactoristics of Wan Chai.

As St. Francis Yard was a historical site which has a typical Topography of Hong Kong Island, the idea of the design is an extended ground floor landscape, and to be a vertical street.

St.Fransics Yard is nowaday a hip area because of the gentrification. Different restaurant, cafe and shop works together with the landscape and created a unique context. The streets are always occupied by the shops for extension of business.

With the same idea, the staircase in the architecture centre penetrate to each floors and walking through the staircase is a transition of different function or events which is similar to St.Francis Yard.

VERTICAL STREET

ARCHITECTURE CENTRE OF WAN CHAI HKU SPACE 2010 (Yr.3)

1:50 (3x A3) Isometric drawing - Wan Chai Architecture Centre

Mapping of Wan Chai Part 2, topography of Stfrancis Yard- Wan Chai Architecture Centre

08/09

1:100 (A1) Concealing and Reavealing Plan - Elderly Care Home in Wapping

10/11

Nothing is not inevitable. From a facade (outdoor) to a hallway with wall mount cupboard (indoor).

Surfaces are washed away by rain water, dried by the sun and repaint by human being. It’s a process of communication ,between human and the nature. And marks were left on the facade and it becomes a media of communication. They are cues of stories underneath, which cannot be read entirely, cannot be erased and cannot be rewritten. But they have occurred. We call these stories ‘experiences’ which polish human and non-human. This natural process give inconspicuous qualities, a subtle and delicate rhythm, which are not difficult to be observed. Stay here and be drawn into trance, touch it, smell it and don’t miss out any single traces. Then, they start telling you their stories.

Thesis of year 3 final project is Revealing and Concealing the Traces. The design program is an elderly care home.

Historical footprint of the site, Rose Garden in Wapping, is the initial idea of this project. In this project, different layers of spaces are revealed or concealed for different situation, different population mix in different time.

Elderly Care Home Traces of Wapping

Kingston University 2012 (Yr.3)

Above Belgium - Gloves store, Conceal and Reveal - Elderly Care Home in Wapping Below Rose Garden - Elderly Care Home in Wapping

Thesis concept model, corridor - Elderly Care Home in Wapping, Kingston university

12/13

Above Development model - Elderly Care Home in Wapping Below 1:100 Model (with site model) - Elderly Care Home in Wapping

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Model, Structure - Elderly Care Home in Wapping

16/17

1.Infirmary 2.Elderly Living Unit 3.Front Yard 4.Reading Room 5.Therapy Pool 6.Swimming Pool 7.Chapel 8.Memorial Garden 9.Public Access to Chapel

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Above Model - Elderly Care Home in Wapping Below 1:50 (A0) Sectional Perspective - Elderly Care Home in Wapping

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1:100 Model Garden - Elderly Care Home in Wapping 1:50 (A1) Section of basement bath and ground floor garden - Elderly Care Home in Wapping

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1:10 Model, semi public space - Elderly Care Home in Wapping

1:10 Model, Landscape - Elderly Care Home in Wapping

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