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verdi tsui // portfolio // selected work 2014-2018
verdi tsui 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.
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EDUCATION | 2014-2018 BA in Architectural Studies (first class honours) The University of Hong Kong 2008-2014 Belilios Public School
SKILLS | `
language
proficient in cantonese; fluent in english and mandarin; conversational in japanese
computer
adobe
photoshop illustrator indesign lightroom audition
rhinoceros / v-ray autocad
WORK EXPERIENCE | 2018 ESKYIU aug-dec year-out
QUALIFICATIONS | HKDSE
2017 ESKYIU jun-aug design intern 2016 ATELIER OF NEUTRAL ARCHITECTURE jun-jul summer intern /
freelance graphic designer
5**
mathematics, physics, chemistry, economics
5*
english language, liberal studies
4
chinese language
language
IELTS overall 7.5
music
violin trinity LTCL - distinction theory ABRSM grade 5
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS | 2018
Y.M. Wong Memomorial Prize
(best overall result in Architectural design throughout BA(AS) curriculum)
2017-18 2015-16
Dean’s honours
2016
New College Photo Competition - Honarary Mention
2014
HKU Foundation Scholarship for Outstanding Student
2013
Outstanding Students Selection (Hong Kong Island) Certificate of Merit B.O.G.A. Mrs. Esme Short Scholarship for All-rounder in Art, Music and Sports
2012
Princeton Club of Hong Kong 2012 Book Award
COMMUNITY OUTREACH | 2015 aug
SRI LANKA IMMERSION TRIP
2015 mar
THE WARP
2014 nov
BEYOND ARCHITECTURE
with golden z club, hkusu
a pavilion for the community in yunnan province, china community project in hong kong
EXHIBITIONS | 2018
HKU DEGREE SHOW AND PUBLIC REVIEW 2018 2047 hk nation - border/architecture
2018
ARCHIGRAM MEETS CENTRAL (PMQ) space,time and central / sound(e)scape
2017
BI-CITY BIENNALE OF URBANISM\ ARHITECTURE (SHENZHEN) sub-divided unit in hk/ community building workshop
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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.
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treaty of nanking
convention of peking
《南京條約》
《北京條約》
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- 1997 -
convention between the united kingdom and china regarding on the extension of hong kong territory
order of the state council of the people’s republic of china no.221
《中英展拓香港界址專條》
《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.”
border of hong kong
border
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2018-border as architecture / 2047-architecture as border
elements as border / contradiction
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?
spatial-sound notations / score for sound(e)scape
interactive mobile app / guide to notations
sound(e)scape / sound-film
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 reimagination 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. The title SOUND(E)SCAPE comes from the interpretation of the phone booth and the Post Office as sound-escape architectures in Central. Despite having very different functions, both the phone booth and the Post Office, in the process of becoming obsolescent, share a similar spatial character that mask out the exterior sounds and allow the protagonists to ‘escape’ from the overwhelming soundscape of the busy Central. On top of the idea of passive sound-escape architecture is that of the active creation of acoustic-space. By actively producing sounds that drown out the soundscape, the protagonists created both private (headphone of the office worker) and public (music of the busker) acoustic-spaces in Central. To respond to Schafer’s statement of modern architecture as architecture for the deaf, the sound-film questions the role of the architect in the design of sonic environment and that of sound in the design of architecture.
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.
/ the project is sited in hongkou, shanghai. the project is based on the concept of “urban living room�, which comes from the idea that individual activities at household scale can be scaled up and become collective activities in an urban scale. /
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VEHICLE ACCESS / UNLOADING / CONVERYOR BELT / SORTING
/ trucks with goods to unloa parked on the ground. goods unl from the car is transferred upwar the delivery centre. sorting pr takes place on the two sides o first level of the building. /
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/ a footbridge is built to connect the the two commune areas on the second level. the bridge goes through the double-height storage area of the delivery centre, revealing the operation of the centre to the public. /
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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SE CO N D S T R E E T
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PROGRAMME DISTRIBUTION
FLOOR AREA = 100 sq.m
RECREATIONAL PROGRAMME
HEALTH PROGRAMME
MARKET PROGRAMME
multi-fuction
daycare centre
wet market
sports
medical care centre
cooked food centre
= 400 sq.m
= 300 sq.m
= 300 sq.m
= 300 sq.m
= 300 sq.m
PUBLIC SPACE
ADMIN. PROGRAMME
outdoor public space
= 500 sq.m
administrative office
covered public space
= 400 sq.m
= 500 sq.m
= 100 sq.m
multi- function daycare centre medical care
sports (outdoor)
sports (indoor)
wet market
cooked food wet market
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cooked food dry market
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dry market
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sports (outdoor) wet market wet market
Medical Centre
wet market
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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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1:50 - structural frame
1:50 - roof structrue
1:25 - roof details
1:25 - furnace
precendent study - john hejduk’s lancaster/hanover masque / 39 butcher’s place
site analysis
structrual details
plan
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.
plan
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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.
02 graphic design
‘a constellation of celestial sounds’ - the greeners’ sound summer concert 2016 / 2016
facebook profile
poster
‘perfect fifth’ - the greeners’ sound annual concert 2015 / 2015
poster / flyer / concert booklet / banner / fb profile
‘green’ - the greeners’ sound annual concert 2016 / 2016
poster
03 community outreach
community building workshop - sub-divided unit / hong kong / 2017 instructor: du juan collaborator: kyna lauren javier payos
the warp / yunnan / 2015
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