Lo Chun Yin Kelvin Portfolio - HKU MArch 2021 Application

LO CHUN YIN KELVIN ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2014 - 2020 APPLYING FOR MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE HKU, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG MARCH1102309711

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LO CHUN YIN KELVIN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER

CONTENTS & CREDITS HONG KONG

Hello! I am a young architectural designer now applying for master of architecture, previously graduated with first class honours at University of Lincoln (UoL) in Hong Kong. During my study, I am very fortunate to be part of the overseas exchange programme and went to Finland’s Aalto University for 6 months, allowing me to experience different cultures, work style and design methodology. This experiences changes the way I viewed at architecture and further develop my passion for architecture and design. After graduation, I worked at Aedas, a global architecture design firm, for a year followed by another year of working experience in a local architecture design firm ALKF.

EDUCATION

Village Reverie Academic Work, University of Lincoln Individual Work Duration: 2017.9 - 2018.5 Instructor: Simon Chan

Water Memorial Academic Work, Hong Kong Design Institute Individual Work Duration: 2017.1 - 2017.5 Instructor: Henry Chan

Pasila Spiral 2017 - 2018

Bachelor of Arts in Architecture University of Lincoln, United Kindom (Collab with SHAPE) Graduated with First Class Honours Awarded Prize for Best Development

JAN - JUL 2016

Master of Architecture (Exchange Programme) Aalto University, Finland 6 months Exchange Programme with Two Granted Scholarships

2014 - 2017

Higher Diploma in Architectural Design Hong Kong Design Institute Graduated with Distinction Awarded GPA 3.48

EXPERIENCE

Academic Work, Aalto University Exchange Programme Partner: Josh Man Duration: 2016.1 - 2016.5 Instructor: Prof. Hannu Huttunen

StellarCircle Competition Work Partner: Tay Wong, Josh Man, Mickey Chan Duration: 2016.12 - 2017.1 Collaborators: Henry Chan

THE Pavilion Competition Work Partner: Josh Man Duration: 2017.5 - 2017.6 Collaborators: Sammy Yuen

AMBER 01 & 02 2019 - PRESENT

Andrew Lee King Fun & Associates Limited Architecture Graduate (Year Out) Collaboration in executing presentations, Tender drawings, Project Running

2018 - 2019

Aedas Limited Architecture Graduate (Year Out) Collaboration in executing presentations, 3D Rhino Model making

JUL - SEP 2017

Studio MOST Studio Designer Collaboration in executing presentations, Interior Design and drawings, Model Making

JUL - DEC 2016

Thomas Chow Architects Limited Internship Collaboration in executing presentations, Model Making

Please find more details in full version CV.

Professional Office Work, Studio MOST Duration: 2017.7 Supervisor: Julia Mok, Jonathan

Aedas Project Professional Office Work, Aedas Limited, Rendering by Silk Road Duration: 2018.7 - 2019.7 Supervisor: Stan Huang

ALKF Project Professional Office Work, ALKF Limited Duration: 2019.7 - Now Supervisor: Angela Leung, Larry Chan

Credits given to the above-mentioned partners, collaborators, instructors and supervisors. Thank you for your help and support on the journey.

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Year 3 Project Village Reverie

Village Reverie “Village Reverie� is a project that aimed to promote the diminishing fishing culture to the public, it constructs an experience journey that integrates to the existing stilt houses, opening up spaces that haven’t been explored before. The experiencing journey will introduce fishing culture in both tangible and intangible ways, providing interaction with local fishermen, learning their stories and the culture.

A newly built community center nearby is aimed to provide better communal facilities and spaces for the local Ma Wan Chung villagers as well as the residents living in the Yat Tung Estate. Communal spaces such as a market space will be positioned at the seafront, creating opportunities for locals to sell handicraft products, seafood products as well as providing a space for a night market to operate.

Other communal facilities including leisure spaces, lecture rooms, a meeting room, and a study room will be positioned on the first floor of the existing stilt houses, connecting the past and present.

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FISHING BOATS MECHANISATION

11,000

NEW PUBLIC HOUSING RESETTLEMENT AREAS

1975 vs 2020 Ma Wan Chung village existed 200 years ago. There is an estimated around 10,000 residents living in village houses spread across Tung Chung. Ma Wan Chung is one of the main market areas and the Tung Chung city center was positioned at the Tung Chung Fort.

During the 1980s development of Tung Chung, Ma Wan Chung slowly becomes a place to be forgotten, covered by the tall facades of Tung Chung public and private housing estates. It also faced chances of being reclaimed during the planning of the Hong Kong– Zhuhai–Macau Bridge.

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INDUSTRIZATION & BUSINESS INDUSTRY BLOOMING

STOP REGISTERING NEW FISHING BOATS OLD SHIPS AGING

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Year 3 Project Village Reverie

STILT HOUSE

TOOLS

FOOD & COOKING

MARKET

RESTAURANT

MARKET

COMMUNAL LEISURE OUTDOOR LEISURE

VILLAGER

FISHERMAN

FESTIVALS

SKILLS

LEARNING CENTER

EXHIBITION

TOURIST

KNOWLEDGE

STUDENT

STORIES

STILT EXHIBITION SENSORY EXPERIENCE

BIKER

TIME

WORKSHOP

YAT TUNG RESIDENT

BOAT TRIP

OUTDOOR AREAS

LEARNING CENTER

BOAT TRIP

OUTDOOR AREAS

LEARNING CENTER

BOAT TRIP

OUTDOOR AREAS

LEARNING CENTER

BOAT TRIP

OUTDOOR AREAS

LEARNING CENTER

BOAT TRIP

OUTDOOR AREAS

LEARNING CENTER

BOAT TRIP

OUTDOOR AREAS

LEARNING CENTER

WORKSHOP

MARKET

RESTAURANT

WORKSHOP

MARKET

RESTAURANT

WORKSHOP

MARKET

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WORKSHOP

MARKET

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WORKSHOP

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HOSTEL

EXHIBITION

COMMUNAL LEISURE

HOSTEL

EXHIBITION

COMMUNAL LEISURE

HOSTEL

EXHIBITION

COMMUNAL LEISURE

HOSTEL

EXHIBITION

COMMUNAL LEISURE

HOSTEL

EXHIBITION

COMMUNAL LEISURE

HOSTEL

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COMMUNAL LEISURE

0 6 12 18 EXISTING STILT HOUSE BLOCKING THE VIEW OUTWARD TO THE SEAFRONT

INTEGRATING NEW PLATFORMS TO CREATE NEW COMMUNAL POCKETS

AROUND 1/3 OF THE STORES ARE ABANDONED, LACK OF ENERGY

INCREASING ATTRACTION POINTS INSIDE THE VILLAGE

VILLAGERS LACK OUTDOOR COMMUNAL SPACES

REVERSED COMMUNAL SPACE FROM INDOR TO OUTDOOR

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WORKSHOP

OUTDOOR AREAS

LEARNING CENTER

SENSORY SPACE

MARKET

RESTAURANT

STILT EXHIBITION

EXHIBITION

COMMUNAL LEISURE

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Year 3 Project Village Reverie

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Water Memorial Water is being trapped by concrete and tubes near our living environments. People miss the opportunity to interact with it. The importance of water is being forgotten and people took it for granted to use.

Water memorial will have sequences of water spaces, forms, and motion. It creates spatial experiences and interaction with the visitors, conveys the message of the importance of water and how wonderful water is.

An abstract painting named Number 107, by Ad Reinhardt. The painting has a depth of field, creating an illusion of space. The painting inspired me to further explore the visual perception of space and the tangibility of space. Further 3D model studies were done about intangible spaces caused by a forced perspective illusion.

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Year 2 Project Water Memorial

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Water Entrance The water entrance will start by seeing a mysterious cube in the middle of the room, water falling on top of it and create a 3-side barrier and barely seeing the entrance inside. Visitors have to walk around to the only side without water to continue the journey.

This is the brightest room to reduce anxiety from visitors and continue the journey.

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Room of Silence Room of Silence is the second brightest space, provides an echo area for people to take a break after the hiking journey. A circular hole at the center where water drops fall and forming a circular water curtain, with sunlight above lighting up the curtain, making it a focal point in a dark environment. A corten pathway in middle allows visitors to step into the water curtain, create an experience of being engulfed by water and light. The room is filled with water drop sounds surrounded by a roughly circular shape stone space, aiming to reflect sounds in the space and make echo sounds, allow visitors to hear the voice of water.

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Room of Mist Room of Mist is the darkest space in the entire journey. The room is surrounded by rough rocks and light columns are shining into the mist via optical fibers and light chambers collecting sunlight from the ground surface. Mist is produced by reservoir water entering ultrasonic water diffusers at the bottom of each light columns, the mist then diffuses the light and make the floor having enough brightness to walk across. When there isn’t enough water in the reservoir, like in the autumn and winter seasons, the mist will be disabled yet space will still be bright enough to walk across by the light columns. Light will guide people to keep walking forward.

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Waterfall Exit The waterfall exit will be the end of the entire journey, concrete walls are placed at the exit and create a captured scenery of waterfall and nature. Visitors can see the water transformed from tangible into intangible droplets and mist. Water motion is also the largest among other spaces, creating an epic finale environment for the journey.

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Overseas Exchange Project Pasila Spiral

Pasila Spiral “Pasila Spiral� is a project that HOAS, a student hostel management company in Finland Helsinki, invited students in the Aalto University Master of Architecture Programme to think of innovative ways and design a student hostel located in the middle of the Keski Pasila redevelopment site.

The concept is to build a continuous ramp connecting multiple levels, allowing students to explore around the hostel without disconnecting by a change of level.

Inbetween floors have multi-level voids improving the interactive moments between students. Meanwhile, cost and time cutting is also an important aspect for student hostel, in which the student modules can be modular made and transport to the site, cutting construction time and costs.

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Connectivity Student hostels commonly lack connectivity and social spaces, which students cramped into their living rooms for social events.

Meanwhile, the living space occupancy rate is relatively low.

One topic to explore in this studio is to bring in the semi-public spaces in between apartments which act as a buffer to separate the public and private room spaces while increasing the relationship and interaction between students.

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CONNECTIVITY

CONTINUNITY

GROUPING AND ECONOMICAL

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Competition Project Arquideas - StellarCircle

StellarCircle A Colorado River-like pathway connecting the apartment modules and the main building. The pathway guides visitors to their homes replicates the experience of being a Native American. A gigantic round mirror is positioned in the main building reflecting the universe to the visitors. The apartment modules feature mirrors & lens for stargazing.

A natural ventilation system is introduced to adapt to the extreme temperature changes in the Grand Canyon.

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Competition Project West Kowloon Promenade Pavilion

THE Pavilion Located on the West Kowloon waterfront promenade, THE Pavilion is a place that allows visitors to enjoy the amazing waterfront view with multi-level platforms. The platform is a composition of simple horizontal planes and vertical supporting steel columns, minimizing the structural obstruction to the view and forming multiple “T”, “H” and “E” shapes. Communal double-height space is located middle of the pavilion, allowing larger events and user groups to have shelter space.

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StudioMOST Branding Design

AMBER 01 Lion Rock Spirit, inherited by Hong Kong people as the core values crossing generations, one of the most recognizable symbols of Hong Kong’s local culture. This symbol and culture will be brought along with a red tone perforated pattern, forming an eye-catching design.

AMBER 02 Tai Tam Reservoir, one of the most recognizable country park places in Hong Kong with a calm and relaxing scenery. Mixing the Japanese Ukiyo-e art style with a blue one perforated pattern forms a unique style to attract eyes.

Work contributed: Color and Size Correction, Pixelation and Design for Tote Bag and AMBER 01 & 02 Cup. Original photo designed by StudioMOST.

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The Cloud “The Cloud” is regarded as the front door of the west entrance of the development, being the focal point of sight. It provides a vibrant event space with the help of an elegant canopy design.

Capacitor At the exhibition hall, large steps extended from the terrace to the roof. It provides a rich pedestrian experience for the park, and it can also be used as an outdoor platform for different activities. The stepping roof is integrated with functions and aesthetics, while the multidimensional circulation gives the theme exhibition hall the function of “City Capacitor”, becomes a central identity for the development.

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Aedas Project Competition Building Form Design

The Door As the gateway entrance of the project, “The Door� attracts the flow from Shenzhen downtown by iconic & unique architecture and flexible public space, giving an identity to the project.

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ALKF Project Tender & Presentation Drawings

Process & Model A model can display the intention and thoughts put into the design during different stages. Model Making is also a unique experience to create physical spaces with real shadows.

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