VERDI TSUI PORTFOLIO SELECTED WORK /2014-2019
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PROFILE | I am a quick learner who constantly seeks for creative opportunities. Recently graduated from HKU, I enjoy design as a process of thinking, sketching, drawing, and making, striving for perfection. I am eager to learn and willing to try. My determination and perseverance have brought me exceptional achievements academically and beyond.
CONTACTS |
WORK EXPERIENCE |
phone
+852 9537 7075
verdi.tsui@gmail.com
EDUCATION | 2014-2018 BA in Architectural Studies (first class honours) The University of Hong Kong 2008-2014 Belilios Public School
QUALIFICATIONS | HKDSE
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mathematics, physics, chemistry, economics
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english language, liberal studies
language IELTS overall 7.5 music
violin trinity LTCL - distinction theory ABRSM grade 5
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THE OVAL PARTNERSHIP architectural assistant (year-out)/ assist on masterplanning projects.
2018 ESKYIU aug-dec year-out/ visual, architectual design, and overall coordination for “ESKYIU PLAYKITS”, an interactive exhibition collaborating with NIKE and HKNME, sponsored by ARTISTREE and SWIRE PROPERTIES. 2017 ESKYIU jun-aug design intern/ publication design and editing for “industrial forest”, an art installation commissioned by Spring Workshop. 2016 ATELIER OF NEUTRAL ARCHITECTURE jun-jul summer intern/ physical model making and graphics assistant. /
freelance graphic designer
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS |
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Y.M. Wong Memomorial Prize
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proficient in cantonese; fluent in english and mandarin; conversational in japanese
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Dean’s honours
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adobe
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pro arte orchestra of hong kong music scholarship
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HKU Foundation Scholarship Outstanding Student
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Outstanding Students Selection (Hong Kong Island) - Certificate of Merit
(best overall result in Architectural design throughout BA(AS) curriculum)
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photoshop illustrator indesign lightroom audition
rhinoceros grasshopper (basic) sketchup (basic) v-ray enscape
B.O.G.A. Mrs. Esme Short Scholarship for All-rounder in Art, Music and Sports
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EXHIBITIONS | 2018
“DRAWING FOR THE DESIGN IMAGINARY” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 2047 hk nation - border/architecture
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HKU DEGREE SHOW & PUBLIC REVIEW 2018
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ARCHIGRAM MEETS CENTRAL (PMQ)
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BI-CITY BIENNALE OF ARHITECTURE (SHENZHEN)
2047 hk nation - border/architecture space,time and central / sound(e)scape
URBANISM\
sub-divided unit in hk/ community building workshop
COMMUNITY OUTREACH| 2017 jun-jul
COMMUNITY BUILDING WORKSHOP sub-divided unit in hk
2015 aug SRI LANKA IMMERSION TRIP with golden z club, hkusu
2015 mar THE WARP
a pavilion for the community in yunnan province, china
2014 nov BEYOND ARCHITECTURE
community project in hong kong
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HK NATION 2047 BORDER/ARCHITECTURE 2018 SPRING SEMESTER / instructor: sony devabhaktuni / This project asks a series of question about the border and architecture. In the case where the political border between Hong Kong and China dissolves in 2047, how could architecture resist the debordering? How could space itself reforms the border? What is the afterlife of the architecture that was once defined as the border by the politicians? When border is reconceptualized in architectural scale, it becomes something that exhibits spatial characters and generates architectural implications. The contradictions in these scenarios become a spatial manifesto of the socio-political relationship between hong kong and china. exhibition: “Drawing for the Design Imaginary� - ACSA USA 2018 HKU degree show and public review 2018
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《中華人民共和國國務院令第221號》
- 2018 guanzhou-shenzhen-hong kong express rail link (co-location) bill 《廣深港高鐵(一地兩檢)條例草案》 “the Mainland Port Area is to be regarded as an area lying outside Hong Kong but lying within the Mainland.”
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B O R DE R A S L I N E ; BORDER AS ARCHITECTURE; D E -B O R D E R I N G ; ARCHITECTURE AS BORDER.
/ This project asks a series of question about the border and architecture. “the boundary is not a spatial fact with sociological consequences, but a sociological fact that forms itself spatially.” – Georg Simmel (“The Sociology of Space”, p142) The border has always existed as a line on a map. in particular, it is a line without thickness. bordering is understood as something that happens at the territorial scale. However, with the ‘co-location’ joint checkpoint scheme proposed by the central government and the hong kong government, an area, named as the mainland port area, within the underground terminus situated at the heart of hong kong is politically defined as an area ‘lying outside hong kong but lying within the mainland china.’ this implied that a new border is established inside the terminus and it has radically changed the concept of border in 2018. the border is no longer a line, but thickened and dimensionalized as architecture and space. it is reconceptualized and redefined at architecutral scale. This architecture becomes a victim in this action of bordering where the political is mapped onto the architectural. In the case where the political border between Hong Kong and China dissolves in 2047, how could architecture resist the debordering? How could space itself reforms the border? What is the afterlife of the architecture that was once defined as the border by the politicians? When border is reconceptualized in architectural scale, it becomes something that exhibits spatial characters and generates architectural implications. The contradictions in these scenarios become a spatial manifesto of the socio-political relationship between hong kong and china. /
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1547 - Redraw of Atlas of the Ming Empire - Atlas of Guangdong 1595 - Redraw of The Coastal Map of Guang Dong 1721 - Redraw of The great Ming Dynasty’s Atlas of Mountains and Seas 1785-1820 - Redraw of The General Map of Guangdong Province 1787-1801 - Redraw of The Coastal Map of Qing Empire 1812-1816 - Redraw of The Map of the Waterways in Guang Dong Province 1819 - Redraw of The Maritime Map of Xin’an District 1845 - The Ordinance Map of Hong Kong 1860 - Redraw of The Attachment(Map) of The Convention of Peking 1864 - Redraw of The Complete Map of Guangdong Province 1870 - Redraw of Coastal Map of the South China 1870 - Redraw of The Complete Map of Guangdong Province 1878 - Kwang Tung Province with Canton town plan 1879 - Redraw of Guangzhou Fu Zhi, Map of Xin’an District 1885 - Redraw of Waterways and Roads in Guangdong Province 1898 - The Attachments of The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory 1898 - Redraw of The Canton Kowloon Railway Map 1903 - Redraw of China Postal Working Map 1915 - Environs of Hong Kong and Kow-loon 1954 - Series L500, U.S. Army Map Service, hong kong and kowloon 1958 - Redraw of Nationalist China, Hong Kong, and Macao 1997 - Administrative Boundary of Hong Kong Special Administrative region (HKSAR)
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SPACE, TIME AND CENTRAL SOUND(E)SCAPE 2017 FALL SEMESTER / instructor: eunice seng / collaborator: cheung king him obed Sound is spatial and space can be aural. This project questions the visual culture in the field of Architecture – what if we look at architecture, not only through plans or sections, but through the lens of sound?
/ Sounds in the project are intangible but very real. The project is wrapped up with the production of a sound-film of Central – a sound-driven narrative complemented with a score of notations and a projected animation on scaled models. Through following the sonic experiences of specific protagonists in Central as ‘listeners’, the sound-film is a medium to let the audience to experience spaces in Central with their ears. The narrative of the sound-film is not absolutely real, nor is it fictional. It is a synthesized reality based on an extensive observation of the real and a re-imagination of what can be real. It is driven by a conceptualization of space as perceptual, transformable and periodic and the idea of sound as soft architecture. /
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CNDC 2017 SPRING SEMESTER / instructor: kenan liu / collaborator: yim chi chung tim this is a project on infrastructural building. the project starts with “infrastructure� as the parameter. it tries to see infrastructure beyond its functionality and explore on its potential in difining a space in different scales.
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STORAGE / storage shelves are placed in the middle part of the building. the storage area is a double-height space. goods unloaded are taken to the storage area for temporary storage. they are then repackaged and loaded for delivery. /
STAIRCASES / HUMAN ACCESS / people access the elevated building from the two staircases at two of the corners of the building. /
FORM / the form of the building comes from the typical zoning of a delivery centre. the delivery centre is typically divided into 5 zones: unloading and loading at the exterior; sorting, storage and packaging at the interior. the building begins as a box, sliced into 3 segments, the segments are rotated to give the final form. the degree of rotation and orientation of the building are determined by the surrounding site context. /
STRUCTURE / to minimize intervention to the river and to give a better view from the roof, the whole building is elevated 5 meters above the ground. the building is supported by a truss-column megastructure. the parts of the delivery centre have truss structures while that of the community centre employ a column grid system. the middle part has a denser structure than other parts because of the heavier load of the storage area. /
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BRIDGING 2016 FALL SEMESTER / instructor: roberto requejo / collaborator: yu ka long keith “bridging� is a project designing a municipal building sited in sai ying pun district in hong kong. starting with circulation as the parameter, the project connects the two existing markets in the district, creating new public space on the ground and roof levels.
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BANGKOK MASQUE - FLOATING MARKET 2016 SPRING SEMESTER / instructor: sony devabhaktuni / the project starts from john hejduk’s lancaster/ hanover masque, an unbuilt project containing 68 different objects and subjects. models of various scales were made to potentials and intentions of the masque.
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DRAWING ROOM - THE VIOLIN ROOM 2015 FALL SEMESTER / instructor: miho hirabayashi / The project starts from an object - the violin. music, represented as the movements of the bow of a violin is translated into a drawing. the drawing is then translated into a room - a space.
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STRUCTURE ON A TERRAIN 2015 SPRING SEMESTER / instructor: donn holohan / the project explores the strucutral possibilities of building on a terrain.
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instructor: minjung maing collaborator: obed cheung, simon wong, joshua shum, maria moreno
ESKYIU PLAYKITS / 2018 NOV
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Starting point Jumping through 3 small hurdles Jumping through the big hurdle Hitting ping-pong ball from corner to corner Returning to starting point Shooting basketball at the 3-point line Agility run between poles Return to starting point Shooting football to goal
In 2012, ESKYIU had a great opportunity to interface with LeBron James in Shanghai at the Festival of Sport. We understood the power of an individual to inspire and create communities to come together over sports such as basketball. In this event, learn more about how the three-point line started as an experiment at a college basketball game in 1945, eventually transforming the game. It is interesting how constraints build innovative capacities in team work and how experiments become regulations.
17 NOV / SPORTS CHALLENGE / Circuit Training
21 NOV / SPORTS CHALLENGE / Basketball
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Back in 2009, ESKYIU curated a 3-sided football match at the HK-SZ Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism on the West Kowloon Cultural District. The event had three separate teams representing architecture companies playing against each other. The game involved tactics and strategies of how to perform and interact with other teams to “team-build.” In a similar spirit this 3-sided football game is a testament to new ways of interaction and play. 3-sided football was conceived in the 1960s by the Danish Situationist Asger Jorn. In this game three teams strive on a hexagonal pitch, collaborating rather than merely competing, and agreeing amongst themselves what was allowable and not allowable, rather than being controlled by an outside force. In other words: no rules, no referees. Just pure play.
The special yoga sessions are complimented with sonic musical landscapes, A2 where the breath and body align in perfect timing with the teacher’s instructions. Use of well-curated playlists are on offer to create a calm A1 and personal environment. Allowing the unionA3 of mind, body, breath, and beat, demonstrating the physical benefits of yoga. Sensorial and aural A4 an ambiance to allow flexibility to landscapes will be introduced to create improved circulation, mind and body B4 awareness, in the setting of ArtisTree. 5
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CEOs, Culture, Community and Creativity – the spirit of experimentation 49 and creativity in play have often become the ingredients to success in work – so how does design intersect with the culture of creativity? Ranging from CEOs to community members, the Dialogue participants are invited to engage in the space of dynamic “turntable” conversation originating from the 3 way football event, discussing topics and issues that will transform mindsets and challenge preconceptions of how design can play a role in the interweaving of work and play.
Free your mind, go run – rhythmic motion of hands and feet tranquilizes the mind, allowing a higher level of clarity and exploration. In this running circuit runners are challenged with running exercises and then they explore the city and urban environment. Travelling over to Quarry Bay Park and then continuing for 5K- and ending with stretching back in ArtisTree. Come challenge footwork, strength, and also relaxing the body and mind as you run free.
Speakers: Don Taylor, Ashley Hegland, Aric Chen, Catherine Shaw, Marisa Yiu, Eric Schuldenfrei, Colin Grant, William Lane, Leon Jakimič, Mimi Brown, Douglas Young, Bonnie Chan-Woo, Luke Bryne, Julie Pourtis, Paul Zimmerman, PerMagnus Lindborg, Joyce Beetuan Koh, Yuk King Tan, and more.
19 NOV / SPORTS CHALLENGE / Running 104
22 NOV / C-SUITE DIALOGUES: When Work is Play 112
C-SUITE DIALOGUE NOV 22
RUNNING NOV 19
ESKYIU STUDIO in collaboration with nike and swire properties
The table tennis design uses a net inspired by Flyknit technology combined
With the Black Box at ArtisTree as the centre, 8 locations are chosen as sites of live-stream performance during the day. Together with the ensemble of 8 different musical instruments, this corresponds to the Eight Tones (八音)
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ESKYIU PLAYKITS / 2018 NOV
‘a constellation of celestial sounds’ - the greeners’ sound summer concert 2016 / 2016
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‘perfect fifth’ - the greeners’ sound annual concert 2015 / 2015
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‘green’ - the greeners’ sound annual concert 2016 / 2016
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community building workshop - sub-divided unit / hong kong / 2017 instructor: du juan collaborator: kyna lauren javier payos
the warp / yunnan / 2015
