Portfolio - Anthony Chan by ManPok Chan

ANTHONY CHAN

M. ARCH. II, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

B. ARCH., UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

NAME MAN POK CHAN, ANTHONY

BIRTH JUNE 8 1992

CONTACT

MCHAN4@G.UCLA.EDU

(+852) 63385504

1906, BLOCK 21, HENG FA CHUEN, CHAI WAN, HONG KONG

Performance arts civic building paying homage to traditional village architecture

Technica feasibility study for new wet lab buildings

Masterplanning

NEW TERRITORIES EAST CULTURAL CENTRE

period: may 2020 - jan 2025 type: civic building

The project site is located at Area 11 in Fanling, abutting San Wan Road and Sha Tau Kok Road - Lung Yuek Tau and covering an area of about 17,740 square meters. The cultural centre comprises of a large-scaled auditorium (1400 seats), a medium-scale theatre (860 seats), a multi-purpose studio (180 seats), four rehearsal rooms, with catering facilities, ancillary facilities, and a public car park. A new footbridge connection and bicycle tracks are also provided for accesses to and across the project site.

Anthony worked along with Theatre Plan, a theatre consultant from the UK, on the design of the Theatre 2 venue. It is a flexible seating black-box theatre of maximum 860 seats. The theatre is equipped with stage lifts, retractable seating and seating wagons to allow the transformation between various seating modes. The architecture of the space takes reference to the timber-and-brick local village elements as the major concept for the interior design. The project involves BIM modelling to facilitate the tender drawing production, GBP submission, and consultant coordination.

HONG KONG SCIENCE PARK HKSTP

EXPANSION STAGE 2B

period: dec 2023 - apr 2024

type: technical feasibility study

The TFS of Hong Kong Science Park Extension 2B comprises of two new annexes and a 132kV substation for providing additional power. The two new annexes are both potential wet labs, with 10,000 sqm. and 15,000 sqm. proposed GFA. MIC construction and in-situ construction options have both been explored in the study. The proposed lab layout are based on modular lab units to allow maximum flexibility in the future. To enhance the connectivity with existing buildings an create a visually appealing space, landscaped podiums are proposed to unite the campus through open spaces and reinforce a park-like ambience.

FUTURE TOWN CENTRE, HUNG SHUI KIU

period: dec 2019 - july 2022 type: master planning

The project is commissioned by CEDD and PlanD to review and design the urban framework on Hung Shui Kiu as a New Development Area. The objective of the study is to formulate a comprehensive architectural, urban design and engineering scheme for the project area to achieve a holistic design and create a distinctive sense of place for the future Hung Shui Kiu Town Centre.

The design of the masterplan is coordinated along with urban designers and landscape designers, and is compiled into an urban design report. The report includes schematic plans, building layout study and lease condition drawings for each of the individual sites in the project area.

TUNG WAH COLLEGE NEW CAMPUS

period: apr 2023 - dec 2023

type: master planning

URA TO KWA WAN, FACADE DESIGN

period: may 2022 - dec 2022

type: residential

TUNG

G PROJECT

period: sept 2016 - july 2017

type: residential design

G Project is a single-family residential project in Asia (exact location undisclosed). It consists of a main house with over 200,000 square footage and a guest house. The houses are French in style and are articulated with ionic and corinthian order columns to give the houses a sense of verticality and elegance. The main house contains a series of galleries, dining rooms, bedrooms and internal gardens, and is connected to the guest house by a connector.

TO STACK OR DECONSTRUCT

with junxi wu

year: fall 2018 to present type: mixed-use building site: tuvalu tutor: jimenez lai

Tuvalu, like many other island nations, is facing the dangers of the rapidly rising sea-level and an imminent danger of physical disappearance. As Tuvalu disappears as a natural hardware, the studio as a whole proposes a total reconstruction of a completely artificial hardware to support a software - the citizens of Tuvalu - against these challenges. The proposal of the Multi-layer City looks at the configuration of a mixeduse model and how residential, recreational, commercial and working spaces interact with each other in one coherent system.

The present thesis deals with the issue of diverse functional configuration of mixed-use buildings. Contemporary mixeduse buildings are usually described with a cracker or a sandwich concept implying that layers of different functions are aligned with one another with no interaction between them. In contrast, this project explores how residential, recreational, commercial and working spaces co-exist in one system referring to a comparison with a salad or a smoothie, where every component is finely divided and blended into a coherent mix. Four different models of mixing are generated from four different live-work situations in this project, namely, Nomadic, Hybrid, Independent and Centralized.

The housing units of the Nomadic mixing model are easily convertible. The items of furniture are a part of the partition wall that can be pulled down when the unit is in use, and pushed back into the wall as the tenant travels to a different location. When the unit is unoccupied, it can be converted and rented out for business, recreational or gathering purposes.

The Hybrid type system consists of different grid systems and makes the rhythm of living and working different. In such cases, the core capacity of the system is blurring the boundaries between life and work, overlapping and shading into one another. Being able to secure on different levels, interlinked environment with this kind of diversity and dynamism constitutes strong advantage and uniqueness.

The housing units in the Independent mixing model combine living and working spaces. The furniture items in the housing units are identical in all units, comprising a number of separate parts. When assembled together, these parts become one super-furniture unit, while individually each part is a piece of furniture that has its own function.

In the Centralized Mixing Model, the residential wall functions as a transformational device in order to increase and compress the space between "excellence" and "mediocrity". The given model provides different meanings of fair living and working patterns. The working space is an open, multi-purpose area. The use of the space is defined by a series of super-furniture items that float around the space at different periods of time.

Petroleum Exploring and Logistics

Technical Design and Research

Sales and Marketing

Production and Processing

HONG KONG MODERN ART GALLERY

year: spring 2016

type: modern art museum site: central, hong kong

tutor: gil gorski

The Hong Kong Modern Art Gallery is located at an acropolis site near the edge of Hong Kong’s commercial center. The site is elevated 50 feet above its surroundings, overlooking Hong Kong’s dense urban skyline, with glimpses of the Victoria Harbor in between high rises. The gallery takes precedents of the works of Tadao Ando, using exposed concrete as the major material which juxtaposes with its natural surrounding. The building plays with the contrasts of light and dark, as well as weight and weightlessness. The majority of building is dense and heavy, but opens up into light areas as focal points to direct attention.

The thesis behind the design of this art gallery is “Theories and philosophy of classical architecture should be used as the design basis for contemporary buildings, while modern materials and construction methods should be used as a vocabulary to convery the narrative of the building”. The gallery is designed using simple geometries and clear axis. The major massing of the building is in a circular form, which corresponds to the panoramic view of the site, while the circulation of the building is centered around a major axis. On the other hand, posttensioned beam and vierendeer trusses are the major structrual elements used to convey the contrast between weight and weightlessness.

HONG

“Theories and philosophy of classical architecture is used as the design basis for contemporary buildings”

HONG

“modern

materials and construction methods is used as an architectural vocabulary to convery the building narrative”

HONG

DUSABLE TOWER

year: fall 2015

type: high rise

site: chicago, illinois

tutor: john stamper

The site of DuSable Tower takes over the abandoned site of the Chicago Spire. Utilizing the existing underground structure, students are asked to design a high-rise of around 650 feet/50 stories tall that consists of both hotel and residential functions. The scheme of my project experiments with the concept of two clashing volumes. The podium is aligned parallel to the street and has a classical character that corresponds to the architectural style of Chicago on the street level, while the tower is aligned perpendicular to the podium and has a modern character so that the predominant facade can be viewed from the city and the Chicago harbor.