Christine_IP Portfolio 2024 by Ip Christine

PORTFOLIO

2016-2024 selected works

IP SUI KI

The University of Hong Kong MArch | BAAS

Registered Architect (HKIA)

IP SUI KI

Contact

Email (852) 90748436

suikiip@gmail.com

Qualification

Registered Architect

Hong Kong ARB (member no. 7791)

Education

Sep 2020Jun 2022

Sep 2014Jun 2018

Jan 2017May 2017

University of Hong Kong

Master of Architecture

Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies

Shanghai Study Centre Exchange Programme

Academic

experience

Jun 2017Jul 2017

Inter Cities

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

HKU, Design & construction

Jul 2016Aug 2016

Mar 2015

Rural Revitalization Project

Fairy Bridge Village, Hunan Province, China

HKU & Tsinghua University, Design & construction

The Warp Yunnan Province, China

HKU, Timber construction

Sep 2022Current

Work experience

Andrew Lee King Fun & Associates Architects Ltd.

Architect 2 Yrs

Kong Nga Po Police Training Facilities, Sheung Shui

• Master planning, building layout and facade design

• Statutory submissions

• Review of shop drawings and material submissions

• Construction coordination

• Contract administration

Oct 2019Aug 2020

Aedas Ltd.

Architectural Graduate l 10 Months

One Excellence Intown Shopping Arcade, Shenzhen

• Interior design of shop front, washrooms, lift lobby, link bridge Tender documentation including material specification

• Coordination with local Archietct

Peak Galleria A&A, Hong Kong

A&D Awards 2020 Gold

• Documentation of defects

• Assist to prepare AI and VO documents

Aug 2018Jul 2019

RAD Ltd.

Architectural Internship (Year-out)l 1 Year

K11 Shopping Complex, Beijing

• VMU design and attend on-site façade VMU review

• Review and approval of façade material submission and shop drawings

33 Yiu Wa Street A&A, Causeway Bay

• Site visit and surveying

• Feasibility study and schematic design

• Material selection and sourcing

Other experience

Jul 2017Dec 2017

Freelance, Spring Workshop

Dismantling the Scaffold, Tai Kwun model making

Aug 2017

Freelance, Eskyiu

Industrial Forest, model making

Professional Skills

Adobe Suite

AutoCad Rhinocereos

Revit

Sketchup V-ray

Enscape 3D

Languages

-Beginner (A2)

Beijing, China

Shenzhen, China

Hong

PROFESSIONAL WORKS

K11 Shopping Mall

One Excellence Shopping Arcade

Police Training Academy

ACADEMIC WORKS

Thesis | Spring 2022

Public Market Reformation

Adaptive reuse of public infrastructure 02

MArch 1 | Spring 2021 Beyond Recycling - A Home in Transition

Pattern and system in Chungking Mansion

BAAS 3 | Fall 2016

In-Between 03

Vertical public space and municipal building

Beijing, China

K11 Shopping Complex

A 13-storey retail-and-office complex located in the heart of Eastern Beijing promoting a lifestyle and shopping experience immersed with art and culture.

CFA: Year: Company:

Job role: Stage:

Responsibilities:

1.1 million sqm.

2010 - 2024 (to be open in 2025)

RAD Ltd.

Architectural Assistant (Year-out) Construction

• design coordinations and meetings

• material selection and specification

• preparation of VMU and on-site review

• BIM used in project coordination

Curtain wall in unitized system prefabricated in factory

Curtain Wall mock-up tested on site

K11 Shopping Complex - long section

Shenzhen, China

An A&A project of the shopping arcade within One Excellence Office complex in Shenzhen Qianhai CBD. The 3-storey shopping arcade located at the podium and basement levels links the office towers above to provide necessities for daily commute and a relaxing place after work.

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Company: One Excellence Shopping Arcade

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45,000 sqm.

2019-2022 (completed) Aedas Ltd.

Architectural Graduate Tender & Construction

• participate in layout design, material specification and coordination

• preparation of tender documents of shopping arcade and toilets

• participate in design meetings

skylight with graphic pattern

L2/F Shopping arcade - Reflected ceiling plan design

GRC ceiling bubble lighting feature at entrance greenery

Baffle ceiling aluminum in wood pattern

L2/F Entrance

to G/F

L2/F Shopping arcade - Floor pattern design

floor pattern blow-up

Concrete based terrazzo

Porcelain floor tile in wood grain

L2/F Shopping arcade - Section

L2/F link bridge - rendering

One Excellence Shopping Arcade

L2/F LIFT LOBBY

AS-BUILT IMAGEL2/F LIFT LOBBY

Kong Nga Po, Hong Kong

Police Training Campus

The training campus consists of 17 building blocks with height varying from 1 storey to 5 storey including DFMA technique, accommodating administrative and education complex, baffle ranges, driving training facilities, weapon and tactic training complex as well as helipad.

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Design-and-Built

185,360 sq.m.

39,185 sq.m.

4.9 billion

2022ALKF+ Ltd.

Architect

Detail Design to Construction

• Participate in master planning design, general building layout and facade design

• Design and construction coordination

• Preparation of drawing and material submissions to statutory bodies

• Review of shop drawings and material submissions

• Design and coordination of concrete MiC

• BIM coordination

• Contract administration

PD&TTC Complex

Maintenance Railing

50mmthk. G.M.S.

Grating

Continuous Extruded Alum. Profile Grille

R.C. Column (Alum. Cladding)

Profiled Alum. Screen Wall

Fixing Plate Between Vertical Mullions

Bolt Fixings Of Alum. Plates To Vertical Mullion

Slanted T-section

G.M.S. Mullion

Curtain wall

Aluminium grill screen

Glass feature wall

Public Market Reformation

Adaptive reuse of public infrastructure

‘ 市井 ’ means markets and daily life in Chinese, in which the character ‘ 井 ’ implies a spatial order in gird and a spatial condition of well. This thesis investigates and researches on the most ‘ 市井 ’ place in Hong Kong - the government operated public markets, in response to the rapidly declining number of public markets despite billion dollars efforts dedicated to the revitalisation programme (Market Modernisation Programme MMP). Hence, a new prototype of adaptive-reuse solution was experimented on the selected site - Tsuen Wan Market to improve connectivity and porosity of this public marketplace and to achieve a more efficient land use corresponding to the contemporary urban context; meanwhile, to appreciate the physicality and tectonics of the existing as a historical and cultural evidence to the district’s development.

THESIS | Spring 2022

Adaptive Reuse

Subtraction, densification, connectivity and porosity are the 4 major design moves of this adaptive-reuse proposal to improve the existing marketplace and prolong the life of the market building. The enclosure of the building will be demolished with significant elements i.e. structure, staircase cores and parapet walls retained. The abandoned dormitory will be transformed as the main circulation and service core connecting the marketplace to the new programmes above. The proposal aims at improving the connectivity and porosity of this public marketplace and to achieve a more efficient land use corresponding to the contemporary urban context; meanwhile, to appreciate the physicality and tectonics of the existing as a historical and cultural evidence to the district’s development.

TSUEN WAN MARKET ST

HOI PA ST

By engaging the idea of open market (fig.37) and public grounds in the design, the public market will be reconnected to the street to provide multiple grounds for communal use, and refilled with communal and recreational programmes, transforming it into a new communal space instead of a purely commercial space. Systems and measures of trading inside will be reformed as well with the open ground and new spatial arrangements zoning them into different levels and spatial conditions based on the terms and duration of lease, providing flexibility and more opportunities for different vendors.

Connectivity - Natural Light and Passive Ventilation

The 3 structural cores connect visitors from the street to the new programmes above market and the old dormitory block is transformed into a circulation and service core containing escalators and elevators. The atrium are shaped as courtyard space to bring in natural light and air flow, encouraging visitors to walk up to the new Civic Platform as well as creating a visual focus like an atrium for the market space to enhance the experience.

Tectonics - Poetics of Structure and Materials

Since the new structure can only be erected from the existing 3 atrium of the old structure to avoid collision with the existing foundation, it creates constraints and challenges to the structure for the new massing. The additional massing is supported by three steel frame cores with the old structure stabilising the cores as a compression ring. By utilising a ring truss on the facade, the interior space is freed up for a more flexible and fluid public space. The two different structural systems contrast each other while they are harmonised in form.

Envelope and structural relationship

Study model of revitalization approach

Existing atrium

1:200 tectonic model of Existing Tsuen Wan Market

Porosity - Civic Life

The lack of public places has long been an urban issue in Hong Kong. The rise of grand shopping malls by private developers further deteriorates the problem by privatising public areas. To secure and improve public space, public markets play a significant role in their communities. Besides opening up the market on the street level, the design transforms the old roof into a new covered platform in-between the old and new structures. An elevated public ground introduces a new form of civic life to its neighbourhood and ameliorates this municipal market with more cultural and communal purposes other than daily shopping.

New Perforated facade

Skylight at Exhibition Gallery

Circulation at Atrium

The Civic Platform

photo collage with 1:100 physical model

A Home in Transition

Pattern and system in CKM

Collage is a tool we see fit for exploring the theme of ‘recycling’. ’Old’ elements are given new meanings in new locations.

Chungking Mansion, known as the ‘ghetto at the center of the world’, has been the resort for many ethic minorities and refugees immigrating to Hong Kong. They form special living culture and secret business that attracts visitors while scare off the locals. With the decline in the population of African traders due to a more open trading and visa policy by the PRC government, the role of Chunking Mansion as an entrepot to the mainland market for the entrepreneurs from developing countries is diminishing. Especially during this time of pandemic, Chunking Mansion (CMK) is facing a tremendous challenge in positioning itself in the city for its declining role as a hub for foreign travelers.

The project re-imagines Chungking Mansion as the shelter for the invisible groups in the city such as the asylum seekers by experimenting the methodology of collaging. To many of the travelers from less developed areas, Chungking Mansion is still the only place to seek support once they land in Hong Kong. A housing structure built from the inner courtyard connecting the scattered nodes like charity groups, ethnic groups and business forms a more comprehensive supporting network for the vulnerable.

ChungKing Mansion -

Beyond RecyclingBoundary and Envelope

The formation and demolition of our built environment is a constant loop: raw materials taken out of habitats without compensating to damages it cause with demolitions being taken-for-granted options which architects are seldom involved. If decay is inevitable, what alternatives to demolition can be imagined to prolong the lifespan of a building?

A Building’s envelope is the easiest part to weather and replacing the envelope is commonly adopted as a shortcut to renew a building. This common practice is rethought in the collage to redefine the boundary and interior-exterior relationship. Once the facade is removed, the interior space is exposed to the street forming new spatial relationship like a balcony. If the worn out envelope is replaced with another volumetric layer, a new space is formed. This method is then applied in the intervention to re-imagine the inner courtyard of Chungking Mansion with new intervention.

CUT CUT

Pattern of Chungking Mansion- Sellers and their social network

Pattern of Chungking Mansion- Enclosure of private space

Collage- Beyond Recycling

Elevated System

Abstracting the fragments of elevated walkways in Hong Kong, the models (right) develop a language made of cork-board, white cardboard and bamboo sticks representing circulation, slab/wall structure and growth/expansion respectively to examine the relationship between permanence and temporarity in the city. The three elements are on different size of grids which grow along, superimpose, penetrate one another to form systems.

With three kinds of model materials in different forms, textures and weights, a prototype is developed to allow asylum seekers to dwell at a low cost and encourage the emergence of a local supporting network and self-sustaining community.

The network system linking different modules allows both circulation and building services supply to be achieved. Larger nodal points where the linking core system connects are then used for communal spaces. Flexible materials such as corrugated sheets, steel frames and fabrics then allows expansion catered to use.

Dwelling - Units

Dwelling - Core

Dwelling - Junction + model samples

Living modules of informal dwelling

Self-sustainable Circuit

A self-sustaining network providing accommodation, opportunities and social activities can be formed by joining different modules, allowing dwellers to engage in different walks of life.

The project is to design a new municipal building located in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. The design questions the nature of local municipal infrastructure and explores the relationship between private and public space, enclosed and open area.

By multiplying ‘ground-condition’ and arranging private and public space alternately new open-air levels and public space are created. The new municipal building accommodates more cultural and recreational programmes besides traditional administrative functions to fit in the development of the site.

A tubular network is designed to connect all the open floors to form a public circulation route that is separated from other accesscontrolled levels and visitors are connected to transportation terminals under-ground. A new form of civic life will be bring in to this new coastal area.

Typical condition

Lift up each level

Free up the ground

Transition from Private to Public

The tubular structure provides major support for the mega-structure and performs as a spatial divisor generating interesting geometry to distinguish public and private space.