Year Two Architecture Portfolio (Spring Semester)

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HEADRICK, MICHAEL SEAN 2011584087 THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE ARCH2048 LANGE, CHRISTIANE SECOND SEMESTER, 2013


PROJECT 1: ANALYSIS AND INVESTIGATION OF THE PERIPHERY video project and storyboard


sites and themes #yau tong studio

NETWORKS: VIOLATING INFRASTRUCTURE MTR, TERMINAL, HIGHWAY, TUNNEL 6

A major program in Yau Tong is the concrete industry.

5 LEGACY: TERRAIN VAGUE XXX 4

TYPOLOGIES: INTERIOR PRODUCTION MARGINAL INDUSTRIES

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3 SYSTEMS: PERFORMATIVE WATERLINE MARGINAL INDUSTRIES

TERRITORY (LEGACY): SPATIAL CLASHES PROGRAM (TRANS-) FORMATION

1 RESISTANACE: PROGRAM ALLIANCES VILLAGE TOURISM

Stemming from the gravel mines, sprouted the mining village (now commercial fishing village).

Investigation began at Site 2, specifically about clashing of programs and the convergence of different worlds-for example, the introduction of architecture such as the municipal building and Ocean One.



TERRITORY/LEGACY

Yau Tong: the search for stability in the wake of the inevitable. Actors and major stakeholders in the area

Fruit Vendor, Municipal Building

Fisherman, Typhoon Shelter

Factory Worker, Industrial Building

Industrial Worker, Concrete Plant

Villager, “Fishing� Village

Resident, Ocean One Estate


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COMMENTARY:

We knew who we were, What we were to do, Our place in life, And whom we served, We had our occupations, And we lived in harmony with them.

In hopes of brining a very personal and emotional tone to the movie and analysis of the urbanization of Yau Tong, the movie presents a narrative of the periphery, which is in some ways almost overly biased on the side of the peripheral identity of the area.

Until things began to change, They became hungry for more, And saw no need for this so called symbiosis.

In a dramatic twist, music and tone of the movie change to depict a horror inspired view of the newer programs, buildings, and peoples in Yau Tong.

They brought their own way of life, their own crops, and their own people, Most of us knew this day would come, but we never knew it would look like this. How will this place look like, That we once called home, And what will we become?

Stills depicting the places they “once called home”, or the more periphery programs of the area in Yau Tong.

At the offset, the movie sets a romantic tone about the industrial and suburban life of the area with scenes of industries at work, fishing boats, and the older architecture of the site.

As the movie cuts from scenes of the alien municipal building lording over the village and boats, to foreign shrimp and other seafood being sold in the imitation fishing village, to real estate agents shown as brooding villains in the arrival of the new higher end housing estates; the video paints a propagandist picture of the changes that are happening to Lei Yue Mun and Yau Tong. The movie ends with a question, “And what will we become?” - the question we as architects attempt to answer at this peripheral site.


...Until things began to change... They became hungry for more...

...They brought their own way of life, their own crops, and their own people...

...Most of us knew this day would come, but we never knew it would look like this...

Various techniques were used throughout the film, namely: contrasting architecture with violent or “alien like� imagery, using one point perspective, or choosing angles that demonised the architecture and actors in the film.


Territory

Yau Tong: the search for stability in the wake of the inevitable. Penelope Fung and Michael Headrick

Municipal Building

Primary School

MTR Station

Fish Market



PROJECT 2: MASSING AND PROGRAM ORGANIZATION

connecting program to site, models and diagrams



Analysis gave rise to models which investigate the presence of cyclists and bike storage in Yautong, specifically in the LeiYueMun typhoon shelter.

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Routes are taken by different vehicle types, creating a web of unique paths throughout the site.


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The ferry terminal acts as a node for various paths and transportation types or routes.

Boats Walkers

Fish to Village

It could also act as a transit point connecting not only the programs within YauTong but also Yautong to the rest of the greater Hong Kong. This introduced the concept of a funnel-that the architecture could become a funnel that intakes commuters, residents, or other people and outputs them to various destinations.


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Separated sections of the massing model, to further investigate how this could develop the deign.

Began with a mass model that attempted to bring the typhoon shelter together in a cohesive architecture that closed the gap between the village and the terminal.

The sections began to change based on the proposed form of the terminal.


Varied paths of these sectional cuts became curvatures and sliced the linear cuts.


Tested various forms for the terminal. Sections become more about the journey along the architecture rather than sections.

Began to differentiate between various sections in terms of programmatic value. Placement and form of the paths took on qualities of the programs.

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Varying height differences in the paths indicate built architecture versus ground floor circulation area.

Using programation as a driver and paths as a language, these models begin to test different variations and ways to communicate this idea of the funnel.

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Programs reach out to various site attributes and characteristics.

Nodes are internal rather than external-a closed system with few entry points.

Working with various ways to communicate the idea of nodes, perforation and transition-the architecture started to take an almost fragmented form.


PROJECT 3: FERRY PIER, BIKE TERMINAL

typhoon shelter as a funnel



THE PLAN: Plan development originated from the models and program organization, originally taking a very non-linear form, the plan evolved to accommodate practical building techniques. Beginning with the initial act of drawing walls within the water of the typhoon shelter, the plan developed to include platforms, and enclosed spaces within the framework. This funnel framework starts to expand and contract in response to various actives throughout the architecture. For example, boat docking, biking paths, fishing spots, ferry terminal, walkways, cafe, bike storage and bike repair shop, caters to both the needs of the peripheral population as well as the new urban community. This plan hopes to tie not only the programs together in the site, but also the old and new. As YauTong urbanizes, this will be actor that facilitates growth, but also remembers the current residents of Yau Tong and LeiYueMun.




Various paths began to host different programs and the requirements of those programs.






The relationship between the wall, platform and water became a general theme throughout the project.

This trio allows for a unique experience pairing site appreciation and








Model working with walls and platforms.

Axonometric development of the spaces along walls in this framework.


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SOLID WALL maintaing original function of typhoon shelter

BASIC WALL AND PLATFORM circulation and separation; open air space

DOUBLE FLOOR WALL AND PLATFORM open air ground and enclosed lower ground floor

LOWER WALL AND PLATFORM circulation space, creating openness

DOUBLE FLOOR WALL AND PLATFORM open air ground and enclosed lower ground floor

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PLANTER BOX AND WALL

OFFSET FLOOR PLATFORMS

COVERED WALL AND PLATFORMS

for landscape and grass space

variation in relation of platform with water, access to lower levels

creating enclosed space for program placement


Single Unit Base Joint

Wall/Slab Joint


Water/Wall Partition Joint

Roof Wall Joint


Section

Various programs among the section


d15=300

d1=950

d6=3050 d4=45

d10=15

d3=200

d5=110

d16=3000

d2=850

d11=65

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d12=385

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Detail wall construction

Exploded axonometric view of the typical wall

d11=65

d8=174.5711

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BIKE RENTAL, CAFE, FERRY, AND PUBLIC AMENITIES come to Yau Tong for a leisurely ride around the historic fishing village, get a snack while observing the villagers boating

CRECHE AND FERRY BOARDING children to school and commute to work

FERRY make your way directly to the ferry and away from Yau Tong

BIKE REPAIR AND CAFE get a coffee and relax while your bike is fixed

BIKE STORAGE, PUBLIC AMENITIES, AND CYCLISTS’ CLUB take a quick shower after the ride and cool down while overlooking the Lei Yu Mun typhoon shelter



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