Born and raised in Hong Kong SAR, China, I am a 2nd year MSCD student at Carnegie Mellon University. I graduated from CMU's BArch program in 2022 with a strong interest in the intersection of computational design and affordable urban development.
In my own time, I make professional-grade dance performance videos, participate in game jams and enjoy experimenting using Arduino-powered robots.
The second branch of an independent coffee shop constructed and operating in Wanchai, Hong Kong.
Materials prepared include renders, construction plans and elevations, material schedules, millworks drawings and details for all custom fixtures.
Other responsibilities include sourcing materials and procuring quotations, measuring site dimensions, and communicating and coordinating with clients, consultants, contractors and suppliers.
9 St. Francis Street, Wanchai, Hong Kong SAR
All construction drawings and design works produced by
Clover Chau, Kush Sethia and Hadrian Lam at DEFT, under Norman Ung.
Sankofa Community Greenhouse
Susquehana & Brushton Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15208
Adapting the existing NOMAS Bamboo Pavilion for Spring Carnival 2023 into a Community Greenhouse for the Homewood community in Pittsburgh, gives this pavilion structure a ‘second life’. Students design, build and resolve real life issues with regards to design, material systems, prototyping and construction.
Lead Designer: Patrick Zheng, Tina Han
Project Manager: Clover Chau
Renders: Michael Bi
Student Team: Andrew Wang, Nadia Cho, Esha Shah, Xuze Shao, Ben Hao, Amika Sono, Joanne Zeng, Harrison Marx-Ascencios
Instructor: Vicky Achnani
Guide to Instructor and Student team : Omar Khan , Laura Garofalo
Structural Consultant: John Schneider, Gateway Engineers
The Sankofa Community Greenhouse aims to provide one of the underserved communities of Pittsburgh with a productive community garden all throughout the year. A place for educational workshops, farmer’s markets and community gatherings, Homewood residents can grow and sell their own produce, further their agricultural and entrepeneurial skills, and cultivate interpersonal relationships.
The entire project is constructed by hand by students as a gift to the community; responsbilities range from buying equipment, processing metal flats and bamboo pieces, preparing and hosting client presentations, to handling quotes, ensuring clear communication amongst team members, and producing prototyles.
Conflict Transformation Center
Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Based on theme theme of Conflict and Dialogue and ‘conflict transformation’, this project proposes a series of ‘folies’, such as courtyards, open spaces, and communal gathering areas to act as a series of “loose tangram pieces” with the aim of acknowledging the impacts of past violence and encouraging conversation and understanding across gender, income and caste.
A path paved in the ruble of old local buildings leads from the main motorway at Ashram Road through Imam Manzil and the proposed adjacent Conflict Transformation Center, where exhibitions from local and visiting artists as well as social, cultural and memorial events will occur. The path pivots at the community meeting space where the local government (the panchayat) meet to discuss civic matters, threading through a series of private residences on either side to form a large otlaesque space for more informal community gatherings such as weddings, performances, and plays for the 3 schools on the South side of the site.
By leading the visitor away from mainstream society on a journey through the various community vuildings, this projects aims to persuade the public and stand as a proof of concept of the tangible effect architecture can have on human relations.
Team: Clover Chau, Shanice Lam
Inspired by the concept of a ‘forest’ of intersecting beams and ‘floating’ modules in space, this project uses CNC routing and comptutational modelling to create a maze-like planter structure, resulting in a vertical garden thata allows visitors to walk amongst the flora.
Team: Clover Chau, Vishaka Nayak, Steven Fei, Melissa Thomas
Precedents
Design Development
circulation through the structure.
As we refined and developed the module, these were the design and assembly logics that we settled on. In order to connect separate modules, we introduced slots and horizontal and vertical spanning pieces that would not only lock the pieces together, but create a Above are speculative renders of different ways in which the
As we refined and developed the module, these were the design and assembly logics that we settled on. In order to connect separate modules, we introduced slots and horizontal and vertical spanning pieces that would not only lock the pieces together, but create a sense of visual contuinity throughout the structure.
Above are speculative renders of different ways in which the modules could be aggregated to create different spatial conditions.
