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2016-2024 selected works
IP SUI KI
The University of Hong Kong MArch | BAAS
Registered Architect (HKIA)
IP SUI KI
DOB
Contact
Work experience
12 July 1996
Email (852) 90748436
suikiip@gmail.com
Sep 2020Jun 2022
Sep 2014Jun 2018
Jan 2017May 2017
Qualification
Registered Architect
Hong Kong ARB (member no. 7791)
Education
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, Joshua Bolchover, Design & construction
Jul 2016Aug 2016
Mar 2015
Rural Revitalization Project
Fairy Bridge Village, Hunan Province, China
HKU & Tsinghua University, Yan Gao, Design & constructi`on
The Warp Yunnan Province, China
HKU, John Lin, Timber construction
Sep 2022Current
Andrew Lee King Fun & Associates Architects Ltd.
Architect l 1 Yr 9 m
Kong Nga Po Police Training Facilities, Sheung Shui
• Master planning design
• Building layout and facade design
• Preparation of statutory submissions
• Review of shop drawings and material submissions
• Design and coordination of concrete MiC
• Contract administration
• BIM coordination
• Hosting meeting, presentation and other administrative works
Aug 2018Jul 2019
RAD Ltd.
Architectural Internship (Year-out)l 1 Year
K11 Shopping Complex, Beijing
• Attend on-site façade VMU review
• Review and approval of façade material submission and shop drawings
• Design coordination and meetings
33 Yiu Wa Street A&A, Causeway Bay
• Site visit and surveying
• Feasibility study and schematic design
• Preparation of design options and renderings
• Material selection and sourcing
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 and entrances
• Preparation of tender documentation including material specification
• Production of render images
• Coordination with local LDI
Peak Galleria A&A, Hong Kong
A&D Awards 2020 Gold
• Documentation of defects
• Assist to prepare AI and VO documents
Other experience
Jul 2017Dec 2017 Aug 2017
9 Jun 2019
Freelance, Spring Workshop
Dismantling the Scaffold, Tai Kwun
model making
Freelance, Eskyiu
Industrial Forest, model making
MC, Choeng Mei Art Ltd.
30th Anniversary Celebration and Awards Ceremony
Professional Skills
Adobe Suite
AutoCad Rhinocereos
Revit
Sketchup V-ray
Enscape 3D
Microsoft
Languages
English
French
Thesis | Spring 2022
Advisor: Ying Zhou
ACADEMIC WORKS
Public Market Reformation
Adaptive reuse of public infrastructure
MArch 1 | Spring 2021
Tutor: Shin Egashira
BAAS 3 | Fall 2016
Tutor: Ying Zhou
BAAS 2 | Spring 2016
Tutor: Jae Lim
Beyond Recycling - A Home in Transition
Pattern and system in Chungking Mansion
In-Between
Vertical public space and municipal building
The Flea Vender’s House
From John Hejduk to Shophouse design
Beijing, China
Shenzhen, China
PROFESSIONAL WORKS
Hong Kong 2018-2019 2019-2020 2022-2024
K11 Shopping Mall
One Excellence Shopping Arcade
Police Training Academy
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 adaptuve-reuse solution was experimented on the selected site - Tsuen Wan Market to 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
centre of Tsuen Wan District, surrounded by Chuen Lung Street and Chung On Street, which once flourished with hawkers and
around 2750 sqm. The ground level mainly sells vegetables and fruits, soya products, spices, grain products and some other dry goods like clothes and ritual accessories. Each stall is subdivided into 120cm x
size. The second floor has a different spatial layout that accommodates bigger stalls that sell wet products such as meat and seafood. There are total 381 stalls in Tsuen Wan Market, but only
20% where almost 40% of the stalls on the second floor are vacant and some are used as storage by the government. On top of the wet market, there is a two-storey residential block of an area around 380 sqm providing 14 units which was originally
dormitory for government officers but already abandoned.
Tsuen Wan Market
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 atriums 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 atriums 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 strucural 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 opeing 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.
PLATFORM
New Perforated facde
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 travellers.
The project reimagines 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 travellers 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.
Reimagining ChungKing Mansion - The Invisible Community
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 lifespam 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 reimagine the the inner courtyard of Chungking Mansion with new intervention.
CUT CUT 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 access-controlled 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.
1F Government Office (Private)
2F Restaurants and Food Court (Public)
3F
(Private)
Unfolded Sections - Public route
The Flea Vender’s House
John Hejduk Masque| Shophouse Design
He lives on the right while works on the left. Sometimes in the middle
When you are not passing through the house along the table. He has a dream.
One day the house can grow
As long as the wall for the flow.
This project is to design a shop-house with the site in the Chinatown of Bangkok. A character from Lancaster/Hanover Masque by John Hejduk was assigned as a starting point for the conceptual development. Since Market was given as the object, flea vendors then became the programme and subject addressed in the shophouse design. The flea vender’s house is a modular unit accommodating living, working and storage in a space divided by a long continuous table. By manipulating the ground levels, private and public space can be distinguished and organized. The modularity of the shophouse allows growth along the shape of the wall boundary to redefine relationships in the neighborhood. BAAS Year 2 | Spring 2016
The site is located in Chinatown of Bangkok by the riverside. It is in a void condition within the urban landscape, where is the roundabout of light traffics. The site is made into a local communal square surrounded by a school, residential and institutional blocks and street hawkers.
John Hejduk: Lancaster/ Hanover Masque
Professional Works
High-end Retail | Interior | Institutional
金属装饰条(铝挂板在后) CLADDING BEHIND)
铝挂板 AL. CLADDING VERTICAL FEATURE
铝挂板面外露結構
ALUM. CLADDING TO EXPOSED STRUCTURE
ALUM. CLADDING 铝挂板
铝百叶屏風
ALUM. LOUVRE SCREEN
ALUM.
L10 PART ELEVATION BEHIND LOUVRE SCREEN
RETAIL & COMMERCIAL| Beijing, China
K11 Shopping Mall
CFA: 1.1 million sqm.
Year: 2010 - 2024 (to be open in 2025) Company: RAD Ltd.
有效面積 金属百叶50%有效面積 METAL LOUVER 50% OPENING 雨棚大樣參考 D3-06 雨棚大樣參考 D3-07 REFER TO D3-07 REFER TO D3-06 CANOPY DETAIL 雨棚大樣參考
DETAIL CANOPY DETAIL
窗间幕牆 SPANDREL
可开啓玻璃幕牆(外开上悬) OPENABLE WINDOW (TOP HUNG OUTWARD)
玻璃幕牆 CURTAIN WALL
参照标誌顾问设计图纸
SIGNAGE REFER TO SIGNAGE CONSULTANT DRAWINGS
AL. CLADDING PORTAL FEATURE
网孔装饰板 MESH
玻璃幕牆 CURTAIN WALL
窗间幕牆 SPANDREL LAMINATED GLASS PARAPET
金属百叶50%有效面積 METAL LOUVER 50% OPENING
铝挂板 AL. CLADDING
框架式玻璃立面 STICK WALL SYSTEM
50%有效面積 METAL LOUVER 50% OPENING
A 12-storey retail-and-office complex located in the heart of Eastern Beijing promoting a lifestyle and shopping experience immersed with art and culture.
Job role: Architectural Assistant (Year-out) Stage: Construction
• design corrdinations and weekly design meeting
• material selection and specification
• participate in VMU site visit
• BIM used in project coordination
LAMINATED GLASS PARAPET
窗间幕牆 SPANDREL
可开啓玻璃幕牆 (外开上悬 OPENABLE WINDOW (TOP HUNG OUTWARD)
玻璃幕牆 CURTAIN WALL
LAMINATED GLASS PARAPET
铝挂板框型 AL. CLADDING FEATURE
DELIVERY DOOR SEE D3-08 & D3-09
参照标誌顾问设计图纸
4 NOS. OF MULLION LIGHTINGS REFER TO DETAIL 1 (DWG D3-05) GL-01 百叶后面屏風立面
LOUVER DETAIL REFER TO D3-11
四个直框灯光参照大样1 (DWG D3-05)
High-end Retail | Interior | Institutional
RETAIL A&A |Shenzhen, China
One Excellence Shopping Arcade
CFA: 45,000 sqm.
Year: 2019-2022 (completed)
Company: Aedas Ltd.
Design of courtyard-style shopping arcade with 3 storeys including a basement level located at the podium of high-end office towers in shenzhen CBD.
Job role:Architectural Graduate
Stage: Conceptual to Construction
• participate in layout design, material specification and coordination
• preparation of tender documents of shopping arcade and toilets
• participate in design meetings
• Use of Rhino 3D (Grasshopper), V-ray, Enscape, sketchup
link bridge
Washroom and BOH corridor
As-built Images: link bridge
As-built Images:
Design Renders:
High-end Retail | Interior | Institutional
INSTITUTIONAL| Hong Kong
Police Training Campus
Contract type; Design-and-Built
Site area: 185,360 sq.m.
GFA: 39,185 sq.m.
Construction cost: 4.9 billion Year: 2022Company: ALKF+ Ltd.
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.
Position: Architect
Stage: 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
Oil on canvas, 800 x 600
Schloss Nymphenburg , 2020
Oil on canvas, 600 x 500
Venice , 2023
Colosseum , 2023
Oil on canvas, 600 x 500
Oil on canvas, 1000 x 800