Mike M.Arch Portfolio

MIKE KWOK

PostGraduate Studies Selected Works

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LIVING THE PROCESS A Modern adaptation of Residential-Market Mix-use & Industrial-Cultural Archive TAI PEI, DI HUA STREET M1 SPRING

TYPOON LAB Performative Surface WEST KOWLOON M2 FALL

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Postgraduate Studies

WKCD CENTER FOR OPERA ARTS Performative Surface WEST KOWLOON M1 FALL

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SCREENS and SPACES behind

Frames of rooms under a generous roof structure Superimposing views of rooms in one direction while concealing them in the other direction

Mega Structures

Continuing the old Urban Fabric into the Espanade Intends to counter the disconnection of the Espanade reclamation from the older part of Central through an underground sunken garden bypass under the 6-lane broad highspeed roadway. A series of covered structures that are adaptable to different public uses are lined along the Espanades. One of the many covered structures is then occupied for test out, using the main programe of a typhoon monitoring laboratory is then used as the theme of the design.

Colonization

Programmatic Long Section One of the mega structures extending towards the Espanade is used as a typhoon research laboratory. Enclosed Platofrms and screens are hung from the mega trusses under the canopy. This essentially “colonizes” the canopy and gives it a programe of its own.

SCREENS and Privacies

Amphitheatre

Open Decks

Technical Sections

Screens, Cubicles and Decks hanging from the roof creates a variety of projection spaces priavte lab-spacesm data centers and exhibition centers for both the public as well as laboratory staffs working in the faciilites

PHYSICAL STRUCTURAL MODEL 1:100

PHYSICAL STRUCTURAL MODEL 1:100

INTERPLAY BETWEEN SCREENS & SCREENED SPACE

PHYSICAL STRUCTURAL MODEL

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Traditional Shop House section & production diagram, DI HUA STREET, TAIPEI

SITE Industries

The prescribed site is located in TaiPei, DaDaoCheng, an old industrial district where shophouses are the dominant typology of the place.

The site is famous for cotton, tea leaves and rice produce. Traditional shophouse owners use their long and narrow shophouses for both commercial and residential purposes.

During daytime, owners carry out production in the backyard of their houses and then bring their goods to the ground shopfronts for sell. After work, owners will live in the upper floors of their houses. The shophouse thus becomes a place for both making a living as well as residence.

The grid arrangement is dominant in the the site as shown in the site model above. The orthogonal houses are typically 3-4 stories high and each has a unique facade of their own, that faces the open street and roads. The combination of facades of shops that sell different products makes the street site elevation extremely vibrant and architecturally exciting.

Industrial Revolution

Unfortunately, with the onset of the Industrial revolution, mass-production techniques are brought into TaiPei, causing handcrafts production to be replaced by machinery-based mass productions. Delicacy and customization is lost in the process, shophouses begin to go obselete and residents are forced to import mass-produced products which are no longer produced and sold locally. The area is then void of its vibrant commercial life that was once present in the 1930s.

Mass Retail

The recent consumption modes comprising mass-retail centers and shopping malls make it even more difficult for small handcraft shophouses to survive. Culture of delicacy is now facing a threat never forseen.

Internal archive exhbition alley

LIVING THE PROCESS

A Modern adaptation of Residential-Market Mix-use & Industrial-Cultural Archive TAI PEI, DI HUA STREET

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of retail & residents The rotated grid of shophouses(now orthogonal to the streetfront) is a re-invention of the old shophouses that lined only the road fronts previously. This re-invention of shophouses increases the land-use efficiency of the retail experience but still keeps the residential spaces on the upper levels of the shophouses. Each of two structural walls form a utility lane that houses the service elements(kitchen, toilet, storage & loading-unloading) needed by shophouse operators. As the needs of consumption changes, shophouses evolve and replaces one another while the utility lanes remains permanent to serve the changing merchandises.

Alley

Archive & exhibition At the end of every preserved wall, the entrants is greeted with a massive canyon-like space under the towers which exhibits old machinaries and merchandise as well as serve as public performance and cultural space for the community. Each tower above houses residential units as well as vertical lane of archive in between every two towers.

The mix of archive and residential injects a sense of vintage and appreciating the old among the current generations.

LANES of production

(Cotton, Tea & Rice industrial showcase) There are 3 indigenous industries at the site, namely; Cotton, Tea & Rice. The design proposes to map the production lines of these three major industries along the length of the wall as a way of showcasing the obsolete industry that has slowly been replaced by Mass-production in big factories abroad. As one proceeds through the uni-directional structual walls that are left behind by historical shophouses, one is presented with the obsolete process of producing cotton products, tea products or rice based products using small tools and basic machineries. The process of production can be educated to the public so that the later can appreciate what they get so easily from mass-production nowdays, actually requires so much effort to produce in the past.

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WKCD CENTER FOR OPERA ARTS Performative Surface WEST KOWLOON, HONG KONG

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RETRACTABLE PARTITION

OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATRE & PUBLIC PLAZA

Year 3 Term 2

U6 Studio

Tutor:Patrick Hwang

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