a room of oscillation: A
Selected student work from first-year architectural studios led by Haotian ZHANG in spring 2023 and 2024 at the University of Hong Kong
The hawker stall is the measurement of the city’s fluctuation. It responds sensitively to the flow of pedestrians, the weather condition, or the governmental management of public spaces. It is temporal, yet its temporality is somehow permanent: the stall is ready to unfold, migrate, and be dismantled or constructed, but always present somewhere in the city. Just like the vibrant city where the stall is situated, architecture constantly transforms, sometimes oscillating between one state and another.
Zooming into its mechanism and performance, the stall is also a spatial puzzle. Its agility toward external forces results in its architectural versatility, as it intelligently deploys doors, pockets, and foldable canopies to expand and contract. The studio takes this further in the redesign of the stall and its surroundings by requiring a geometric precision of how the spaces move against each other therefore shaping each other.
Site:GrahamStreet,PeelStreet,andAberdeenStreet,Central,HongKong. Designtask:reimaginethestall(s)andthesurroundings.
Studio participants (BAAS 25'), spring 2023:
Md Hasan ABID
Kashvi BHAYANA
CHEN Ruoyi Angela
FUNG Yu Ching Stanley
Lilit GRIGORYAN
NG Ho Ning Hayden
NG Tin Lok Ryan
Catharina Belinda PUTRI
SHE Yaxuan Katherine
TANG Yuet Yi Daisy
TONG Hui Yan Agnes
Studio participants (BAAS 26'), spring 2024:
CHAN Chun Ip Brian
CHOW Hiu Lam Carby
Fraze FEI
HUI Ruitian Ronnie
LAI Ka Lok Carlo
LI Hin Ying Huey
MA Wing Sum Kristie
TAN Yu Hahn
TSANG Shuk Yin Ashely
WANG Yi Cheung Talia
WONG Chun Wing Rachel
ELEVATION; 1:20; NIGHT TIME
ELEVATION; 1:20; DAY TIME
1:20; NIGHT TIME
Section of neighbouring hawker stall, daytime Section
Section of neighbouring hawker stall,
Section of neighbouring hawker stall, daytime Section Section
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