Portfolio 2017
Chi Wai Yuen (Wilber)
Inhabited Bridge A celebration of the heritage
/London, United Kingdom /2017
This project takes a theoretical path in creating an alternative typology for education. It introduces by using the traditional method of bakery and crafting as a remembrance of the historical heritage of the site, to enlighten children about craftsmanship in accidental education. In a wider angle, it also aims to be a pioneer for the searching feasibility in a new typology of live-work space and public space.
Accidental education
The site is located in Isle of Dogs near the River Thames. The idea is building an inhabited bridge which extends out to the river. The ground level is public space and becomes market occasionally. The upper part of the architecture would a bakery house with all the process from grinding, mixing to baking. A viewing platform is also introduced for the purpose of accidental education, allowing children could walk around the chimneys and windmills and also observe the bakery process. By using an irregular supporting structure system and the chimneys from the bakery house, the bridge will become part of the city landscape. Site surrounding
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Inhabited Bridge
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A Wall Structure: rabbeted Bevel 15mm Support battens roof membrane 30mm mineral wool insulation 200mm timber studs/200mm Cellulose insulation vapour barrier 20mm internal cladding B Roof Structure: broken-joint tiles 20mm Support battens 20mm cross batterns diffusible roof seal 18mm roof cladding 40mm vented cavity 200mm Cellulose insulation vapour barrier/airtight seal 40mm support batterns 20mm internal cladding C Platform Structure: 28mm pine planks 100mm wide 1.5mm sheet aluminium bent to form sealing layer vapour barrier 65mm anhydrite screed with underfloor heating 100mm Cellulose insulation 120mm cross-laminated timber D Oven Structure: 1 Clay flue liner 2 Brick 76mm vermiculite insulation 40mm ceramic blanket Brick E Floor Structure: 56mm plywood vapour barrier 40mm impact sound insulation 50mm EPS insulation waterproofing membrane 200mm XPS insulation 180 Cross-laminated timber F Superstructure: bent timber column with steel plate column screw into pre-cast concrete footing
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Craftmantship Centre Places to live, Places to work
/Lewes, United Kingdom /2016
For the past 30 years, The Phoenix site in Lewes has housed a community of artists and makers. Following the decision earlier this year to redevelop the area for housing, they faced losing both their workspaces and in some cases their homes. This proposal starts from master planning the whole development site. By using the craftsmanship identity which is deeply rooted in its origin in the Phoenix site, the proposal focuses on merge different functions into a symbiont body. So that the industrial workshops can coexist with residential housings. In the further step of the project, I down scale my vision into the two buildings in the center of the site. The project address the possibility of the live-work balance, allows the local makers build up their life cycle around the architecture. Furthermore, it also enhances the visitors’ shopping experience into not only sees the products, but also the process of the crafting Like the sense of heaviness in an old fashion handcrafted wood wardrobe, the architecture of the Craftsmanship centre feels both familiar and fresh; it is firmly rooted in heritage yet evolves into the future.
Master planning The new master plan should not be a radical superposition of new messages or foreign elements, but rather an enhancement and elevation of the qualities that are already abundant in and around the river.
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Craftmantship Centre - Workshop/Retail 1:100@A2
Craftmantship Centre - Living space 1:100@A2
Bakery House Taste the void
/London, United Kingdom /2016
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The project focus on responsing to the tidal change through architecture. The activities determinate by the level of the tide, the path starts from delivery by boat from the ground floor, and use tidal power to generate energy to support the bakery process. Therefore, the tidal change run parallel to the industrial process. And serves the customer in the cafe at the top floor. The architecture tends to create its own ecosphere.
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Birling Gap Visitor Centre /Birling Gap, United Kingdom /2015
The Birling Gap National Park is located in North East of England. The cliff where the current visitor centre located on is falling back one meter every year, because of the unique geography condition. The new design is trying to respond to the changes, and make the design fade into the landscape. The shape of the architecture developed from a recorded soundtrack of the site. By using the visualized image, the project generated out the initial outline of the visitor centre. Visitors will go through a journey of senses by experiencing enlarge visual and hearing. By connecting the architecture but not losing control to the site, An acoustic mirror was introduced to the design. A 5m high mirror faced to the seaside and collect sounds and transfer to the device inside the visitor centre. Visitors can focus on the Instant sounds from the seaside, can find the details that they won’t normally focus on. This proposal imbues the architecture with the same notion of ambiguity and openendedness found in the senses. By turning the architecture into part of the landscape and a place for experience senses, the design want to create a sensitive apparatus for visitor.
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Hand Crafting
Photography
Stop Motion /2016
Chi Wai Yuen (Wilber) 51 Newhaven Street Brighton East Sussex UK BN2 9NR +44 7472354505 +86 131 2079 0993 wilberyuen@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/wilberyuen