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TABLE OF CONTENTS Housing for different communities connected through vertical landscape

Situated in Yunnan, a city well-known for lakes

and mountains, the housing complex responds to the site context – through a series of

stacking contours connecting units for differ-

ent units plugged in between. Different from conventional lift-and-stairs system as circula-

tion, the contours work as a vertical landscape, smoothening transition from public – the

The investigation on noise that affects the ground and sky-lit courtyards and tolevel private – targeted area from different directions.

housing units. These interstitial spaces provide possibilities for informal events and activities.

Location: Lijiang, Yunnan, China Individual Project (all drawings done individually) Year Three Semester Two (Final Year Project) 2013 Jan - May Supervisor: Gao Yan (yangao@hku.hk)

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more roads are being pushed back into Competition

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FAIRYTALES

TO FIRE

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LIVING with DENSITY

CAR CITY

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04 - FAIRYTALES 2015

01 FAIRYTALES

drawn by: Cherry Yau, Maisie Chan, Whitney Wong, Clarissa Lim

The Fairy Tales Competition requires participants to create their own unique architectural fairy tales up to our own choice of story’s scale, location and program.

The purpose is to depict how architecture shapes society and how society shapes architecture. We aimed to point out an existing social issue that a lot of developed cities encounters - the effects of fast growing technology: how it changes the place we live in, and how it creates the barrier between people for minimum interactions.

BLANK SPACE | Fairytales 2015 Competition Entry

and more roads are being pushed back into

04 - FAIRYTALES 2015 y,” he said. “Why haven’t we talked before?”

drawn by: Cherry Yau, Maisie Chan, Whitney Wong, Clarissa Lim

04 - FAIRYTALES 2015

“Hey,” he said. “Why haven’t we talked before?”

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People are encapsulated with the technology; it overtakes their lives where physical interaction is completely depleted from society. The systematized organization of human activity in Asiata caused many humans to share the drawn by: Cherry Yau, Maisie Chan, Whitney Wong, Clarissa Lim same space, everyday. Same coffee shop, same swimming pool, same library, same everything. Every day. They see, but do not feel the need to speak or interact in any way.

Certain walls in Asiata were lifted away from the surface of the planet. They disintegrated into a multitude of pixels. More and more roads are being pushed back into

place. People walked on sidewalks, green lawns and gardens bloomed over the city. Asiata was rebuilding itself.

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The villains programmed the city from an organised, grid-like structure to a chaotic environment with formal, non functional buildings and introduced advanced technology that drastically changed the nature of the city.

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01 - SUPER SHELTER

02 SUPER SHELTER The purpose of this project is to build a supershelter at a self-chosen site in Ladder Street. Our theme is to create a quiet, tranquil shelter that act as a protection from the noisy, chaotic surroundings. Openings are implemented to allow visual connection to the outside while maintaining certain levels of privacy.

Location: Ladder Street, Hong Kong Year One Semester One 2011 Sept - Dec Supervisor: Jean Choi

One of the early investigations involved the study of human’s movement when approaching the site. We had to look into the details of the body movement as well as how our joints change in order to design our shelter in a way that best fit the occupant.

The purpose of this project is to build a supershelter at a self-chosen site in Ladder Street. Our theme is to create a quiet, tranquil shelter that act as a protection from the noisy, chaotic surroundings. Openings are implemented The investigation on noise level that affects the targeted area from different directions.

to allow visual connection to the outside but still maintain certain level of privacy.

The investigation on noise level that affects the targeted area from different directions.

The investigation on noise level that affects the targeted ar

Location: Ladder Street, Hong Kong Group Partner: Elaine Tsang Year One Semester One 2011 Sept - Dec Supervisor: Jean Choi

different directions.

0104 - SUPER SHELTER

One of the early investigations involved the study of human’s movement when approaching the site. We had to look into the details of the body movement as well as how our joints change in order to design our shelter in a way that best fit the occupant.

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01 - TO FIRE The original idea of having contious staircase that flows through the building

03 TO FIRE The purpose of this project is to derive a housing design from a given word (in this case - to fire), which eventually lead to the idea of stacking typical chinese courtyard house vertically, allowing continuous circulation and various level of privacy to take place.

This also redefines the quality of courtyard space in a vertical manner, allowing natural light to penetrate through the layers of the house. In order to acheive the level of transparency and openness throughout the building, a number of factors were taken into account - the size of courtyards, wall thickness, staircase design and opening sizes. They are all arranged to create a dissolving motion and visual lightness.

The sectional concrete model is casted separately then stacked on top of eachother afterwards. This allows to showcase the transition of openness (visual weight of circulation, openness and privacy of each floor...etc) in four different layers.

Location: Conghua, China Year One Semester Two 2012 Jan-May Supervisor: John Lin The changes of openings on the outside, allowing more privacy for the rooms on the upper floors

The sectional model is effective in showing the quality of continuous circulation of the design within the building

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1. BLOCKS A symbiotic relationship between LIVING and DENSITY The graduation studio’s theme focuses on creating ‘Affordable Housing for Sustainable Development in the Global Urban South - Addis Ababa.

Being the existing solution to tackle the problem of urban population growth, the top down condominium blocks has estimated to fail in the long run as it wipes out all the cultural qualities from the original settlements. Therefore, the project aims to tackle the issue of density by taking advantage of the potential of Open-to-Sky spaces to implement a new way of creating dense, liveable and culturally vibrant settlements.

Location: Geja Sefer, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Msc 3-4 Graduation Project 2016 Sept - June 2017 Supervisor: Dick Van Gameren, Nelson Mota & Anteneh Tola

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2. SETS

3. COMBINATIONS

Public Amenities and Recreations

Family Businesses

Production points

Improvements

Existing Situation

Domestic Activities

private Open-to-Sky spaces (as well as internal courtyard space for domestic activities)

spaces in between neighborhoods are opened up for public amenities and recreations

units on the ground floor with shop front, creating a commercial border along the streets

production spaces are attached the main street but leveled down for a safer environment

main street

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inner street

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inner courtyard

vertical street

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individual open-to-sky space

2020

MATERIALISATION

TECHNICAL SECTION

1:100 MODEL

Although Coney Island has been known as a major output for Manhattan’s leisure culture in the 1900’s, the Northern part of the ‘island’ has developed into an automobile service zone due to its proximity to major traffic arteries.

In the context of an investigation of Booklets - a series of ten booklets presents close findings and analysis of different places in the automobile service area

proto-public space in New York City, the project suggests a set of architectural interventions that can strengthen this overlooked part of Brooklyn while maintaining its original function to provide efficient automobile services.

Location: Coney Island, New York City, USA Msc 2 2016 Feb-June Supervisor: Hans Teerds & Leeke Reinders

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Through close readings and observations, multiple conflicts between pedestrians and cars can be identified on the streets of the automobile service zone. The pavements are always appropriated by the garages as temporary economic extensions for the storage of the cars that are needed to be serviced. These become the ‘proto-private’ space within area. The imbalance use of public space not only cause problems for the local residents and the neighbouring areas, but also for the clients and the garage owners themselves.

On the right are four examples out of the ten booklets that are created in a comic-story book manner to show how the ‘car city’ functions in different specific place (selected examples: Junction Road, Garage, Dwelling and Restautant) from day to night. Every page describes and depicts moments in a particular time frame, including the traffic, the users invovled, their activities, their cycles and their needs.

The booklets not only work separately as separate findings, they also have a different presentation while put next to eachother - a comprehensive view of one of the streets in the automobile service area will be created. for example:

Restaurant

Dwelling

Garage

Junction Road

third party third party

customers customers

WHY ARE THERE NO VISITORS..?

WHY ARE THERE

ITS SO CROWDED ITS SO HERE...

CROWDED

wait..

NO VISITORS..?

JUST WANNA GET OUT OF JUST WANNA HERE...

GET OUT OF HERE...

WHERE SHOULD WHERE I GO NOW..I SHOULD

WHICH WAY IS THE STATION? WHICH WAY IS

GO NOW..

THE STATION?

wait.... wait.. wait... wait.... wait...

HERE...

SHOULD WE STAY? OR SHOULD WE LEAVE? STAY? OR LEAVE?

BUT WHAT CAN DO BUT WE WHAT HERE? CAN WE DO HERE?

TARGET USERS

(BORED) (BORED)

workers workers

THE CARS ARE THETAKING CARS ALL THE ARE TAKING SPACE...

ALL THE

residents/ residents/ pedestrians pedestrians

SO CROWDED...

SO CROWDED...

SPACE...

THE TOOLS TAKE SO MUCH SPACE! THE TOOLS TAKE I NEED MORE SPACE FOR CLIENTS..

I NEED MORE SPACE FOR CLIENTS..

...meow.. ...meow..

WE WANT SPACE TO PLAY! WE WANT

I NEED A JOB.. A I NEED

SPACE TO PLAY!

customers customers wait.. wait.... wait.. wait... wait....

JUST WANNA GET OUT OF JUST WANNA HERE...

GET OUT OF HERE...

WHERE SHOULD WHERE I GO NOW..I SHOULD

WHICH WAY IS THE STATION? WHICH WAY IS

GO NOW..

THE STATION?

JOB..

SHOULD WE STAY? OR SHOULD WE LEAVE? STAY? OR LEAVE?

BUT WHAT CAN DO BUT WE WHAT HERE? CAN WE DO HERE?

wait...

(BORED) (BORED)

INTERVENTION

THE TOOLS ARE SO THE TOOLS EXPENSIVE..

ARE SO EXPENSIVE..

workers workers

THE TOOLS ARE SO THE TOOLS EXPENSIVE..

ARE SO EXPENSIVE..

THE TOOLS TAKE SO MUCH SPACE! THE TOOLS TAKE I NEED MORE SPACE FOR CLIENTS..

I NEED MORE SPACE FOR CLIENTS..

WISH WE HAD MORE WISH WE SPACE..

HAD MORE SPACE..

SO MUCH SPACE!

WISH WE HAD MORE WISH WE SPACE..

HAD MORE SPACE..

SO MUCH SPACE!

POTENTIAL INTERVENTION SPACES

EVENT SPACE

ing from linear direct circulation to a opened, freed up network of circulation.

03 - WEAVE

Certain types of users (shown in different colours) are more suitable

for certain unit types, but other users can still treat different unit types as options to move in. The area around the central atrium would be the place where different users meet and linger around.

Different public programes can be held on the contour surface, with the options on customisation on balustrade, floor, wall and ways to redesign the slopes.

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Housing for different communities connected

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through vertical landscape

Situated in Yunnan, a city well-known for lakes

and mountains, the housing complex responds to the site context – through a series of

1

stacking contours connecting units for differ-

ent units plugged in between. Different from conventional lift-and-stairs system as circula-

stacking possible streets vertically

2

press down certain points for access/connection 3

tion, the contours work as a vertical landscape, smoothening transition from public – the

ground and sky-lit courtyards and to private –

3

housing units. These interstitial spaces provide possibilities for informal events and activities.

Location: Lijiang, Yunnan, China Individual Project (all drawings done individually) Year Three Semester Two (Final Year Project) 2013 Jan - May Supervisor: Gao Yan (yangao@hku.hk)

0036 - WEAVE

result in different entry points to the building

4

structural refinement and insertion of lift cores

Many of the village housings in Lijiang are located on a mountain slope, where individual households are scattered around; in this case,

the horizontal circulation is rather difficult as villagers have to walk all

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the way from one point to their own house; therefore, the idea is to cut

the housing fabric in patches and stack them up, creating a continuous vertical landscape that connects village houses together, not only

bring people and households closer to eachother but also provide a clearer circulation within the building.

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curved structural floor plate reform unit shape; units

inserting units into different pock-

are lifted to open up the ground area

et spaces created

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03 - WEAVE

03 - WEAVE

The units are situated along the periphery of the building to absorb maximum sunlight and allow certain units to benefit VISITORS

from the view of snow mountain and reservoir. Smaller units are located at the tail area with retail shops on the ground floor.

HOSTEL USERS

RESIDENTIAL 3

1

HOSTEL USERS

[Kite]

VISITORS

[Smoking]

[Sitting]

[Bird feeding] [Bicycles] [Playing badminton]

[Riding]

[Vending]

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stacking possible streets vertically

2

press down certain points for access/connection

1

Typical Hostel Unit Layout (duplex)

RESIDENTIAL 2 RESIDENTIAL 1

Communal Unit Layout RESIDENTIAL 1

RESIDENTIAL 3

RESIDENTIAL 2 [Skateboarding]

[Dog walking] [Hawking]

VISITORS

[Vending]

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[Skating]

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result in different entry points to the building

4

structural refinement and insertion of lift cores

[Clothes drying] [Babysitting]

[Gambling]

[Flying of discs] [Photo]

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Different types of users are alocated to certain areas (unit types) throughout the building. Other types of users can still

inhabit other areas as options. Through this, it is proven that the middle area on the top part is the most activated zone, this is why the central atrium and main communal programmes are positioned there Typical Residential Unit Layout

Typical Small Residential Unit Layout

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Typical Shop Layout

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curved structural floor plate reform unit shape; units

inserting units into different pock-

are lifted to open up the ground area

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(previous) Due to the form of the floor plate system flowing into the units, the shape of units are affected by the floor plates, forming very different unit types at different corners of the building. (Type 1-4 shown on the left) For example, units or areas with curved ceiling or floor (Type 1&3) are suitable for more communal programs including hostels, public seatings, indoor galleries...etc.

Units at the top left corner (Type 2) are lifted up from the floor plate, facing outwards.

They best serve as residential units as they overlook the view of the lake and snow mountain and holds higher level of privacy.

On the other hand, smaller units at the lowrise, tail area (Type 4) serve as retails and smaller residential units, maintaining the lively movement for communal activities and interactions to take place.

The variation of unit types provide suitable living conditions for a variety of user groups (categorised in different colours) while maintaining separation and privacy needed.

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