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Hong Kong
My earliest passion and appreciation to architecture recall the memories when I walked pass the Victoria Harbour frontage, gazing at the shuttling ferries splitting the tides and ripples that reflected the hustling and bustling Hong Kong. The breath-taking composition of buildings possessing uniqueness inspired my admiration to architectural fascination, which evoked my pursuit of architecture.
My architectural journey at the Newcastle University and University of Kent has made me realize the true profound meaning of architecture. Exploration during design stages through modeling and material testing has deepened my technical knowledge and design experience as the challenges progressively stiffened. Countless times of design presentations have improved my competence to express ideas more fluently and confront critical opinions. For my two years of architectural practice at Aedas and Andrew Lee King Fun & Associates Architects Limited respectively, I had the opportunity to shadow the seniors to have a glimpse of actual practice work. I was able to work under the guidance of my colleagues on different projects such as Landmark North Arcade and Morse Park Public Swimming Pool Complex, learning invaluable experience as I walked through the practical procedures at different stages with them. Sitting in regular site-meetings, I am responsible of liaising with different contractors to bargain for our design intent. The whole process has taught me the significance of architects’ leadership and negotiating skills to cope with all kinds of specialists who would unreservedly defend their professional stances. The back-to-back coordination with BIM team has also widened my horizon and given me a much more thorough understanding in terms of structure and building services. Despite the hardship and bitterness in the actual practice where the pressure can be intense, the process was rewarding especially when you witnessed the results arising gradually, which would ultimately benefit the public’s interest.
Studying the topics of integration between technology, urbanisation and architecture, which I am interested in, would be my prime objective for my part two study. Such an interest was raised through the study of some enlightening architects like Archigram and Kisho Kurokawa, a metabolistic pioneer who has designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower. My final year thesis regarding utopia and futuristic cities pushed me further to study revolutionary precedence made possible in the era of technological advancement. Presenting a stark contrast to my improvidence as a young student, the architects’ flexibility in combining modern technology with architecture and lifetime devotion to changing people’s way of life were the most admirable qualities I have been longing to possess.
The key to changing people’s way of life, confused by many designers, is not as primitive as to follow the fashion of designing distinct building structures. On the contrary, architects should not be limited to inventing new forms or intricate shapes but bear the social responsibility of discovering the boundless potential of architecture and envisioning the future of cities. It is my belief that the school, established upon the vision to innovate and to remind architects of their cultural responsibilities, can provide me with the most suitable environment to refine my architectural vocabulary so that I can be more capable of improving people’s lives with architecture.
Date of Birth: 13 March 1999
Nationality: Hong Kong
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EDUCATION
09/2022-07/2024
Newcastle University
Newcastle, United Kingdom
Master of Architecture - RIBA Part 2
University of Kent
Canterbury, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Architecture - RIBA Part 1
Upper Second Class Honours (68)
JAN 2024-MAY 2024 [STAGE 6 SEMESTER 2]
Topic: Specialised Residential, Mix-Used
Studio: In Mind
Tutor: Neveen Hamza Nature: Academic Work
09/2011-07/2017
WORK EXPERIENCE
07/2021-07/2022
07/2020-07/2021
Overall Band score - 7.0
Diocesan Boys’ School
Hong Kong
Graduated with Honour IELTS
JAN 2023-APR 2023 [STAGE 5 SEMESTER 2]
Topic: Alteration & Addition
Studio: Material Change
Tutor: Daniel Burn Nature: Academic Work
Andrew Lee King Fun & Associates Architects Limited
1. Year-out Architectural Assistant
2. Architectural Summer Trainee 3D Rhino model making and producing design options Executing presentation for clients Meeting clients and project running
Take part in the process of design in various projects
Preparing tender drawings for submission Making massing models to assist design
Preparing illustrations for presentations Sites visiting and liaising with contractors in weekly site meetings
JAN 2020-APR 2020 [STAGE 3 SEMESTER 2]
Topic: Cultural & Educational
Tutor: Chloe Street-Tarbett Nature: Academic Work
Architectural
Architectural
APR 2021
Team: Angela Leung (Hong Kong Registered Architect), Kharlie Tang (Hong Kong Registered Architect), Pun Siu Pok, Jessica Ying, Kelvin Lo Nature: Professional Design Competition
JUN 2023
Team: Pun Siu Pok, Peony Hong Nature: International Design Competition
JUL 2020-JUL 2021 JUL 2021-JUL 2022
Workplace: ALKF, Hong Kong
Supervisor: Kharlie Tang (Chief Architect) Larry Chan (Associate Director/ BIM Director)
Nature: Professional Work Practice, Institutional
Workplace: Aedas
Supervisor: Jerome Wong (Executive Director)
Architectural
Emphasizing personal autonomy, this thesis aims to revamp apartment living to accommodate diverse needs, particularly for those with dementia and other health conditions. Current standards often neglect individuals requiring additional assistance. The design concept focuses on creating functional and supportive residential spaces for the elderly and those in early to mid-stages of dementia. The goal is to break down social barriers found in traditional nursing homes, fostering greater interaction between the general public and those with limited abilities, while allowing inhabitants to choose their preferred lifestyle. This program investigates assisted living apartment models to achieve these aims. The thesis sets out to invert the characteristics of traditional nursing care facilities, proposing an alternative program that utilizes architecture as an agent to bridge the gap between residents and the community. The overarching goal is to create a living environment that fosters autonomy in personal life while facilitating meaningful connections with the surrounding community.
The story board showcased some of the difficulties and hazards that a dementia patient may face in every day life including the visual impairment that make them intrepret darker spots as holes, fire hazard in gas stove, sensory problems in feeling hot items, confusion by the mirror reflection, risk of falling in steps, difficulty in sleeping, etc.
WIDEN THE USABILITY SPECTRUM OF RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT
Examining the current demographic landscape, London is confronted with a significant surge in its aging population over the coming decades, necessitating a thorough exploration of enhanced nursing care facilities. Dementia, a prevalent condition, further exacerbates the vulnerability of individuals in self-care.
The thesis critically questions the existing nursing care facilities that impose formidable social barriers, isolating inhabitants from both the broader community and the surrounding environment. These facilities often become insular spaces, detached and overlooked within their districts, lacking meaningful interaction with the external world. Insufficient provision of exercise and green spaces further underscores the limitations of current nursing care facilities, which may not align with contemporary needs. Moreover, residents in these facilities may experience constraints on their autonomy in personal life.
The thesis sets out to invert the characteristics of traditional nursing care facilities, proposing an alternative program that utilizes architecture as an agent to bridge the gap between residents and the community. The overarching goal is to create a living environment that fosters autonomy in personal life while facilitating meaningful connections with the surrounding community.
RESIDENTIAL SPATIAL SCENARIOS
SENSORY GARDEN SPATIAL SCENARIOS
INTERLOCK PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACE/ PROGRAMME
The design focus on the social aspect of the elderly in the living environment. To avoid current trend of nursing home and hospital care houses which has a strong social barrier from the public community, the concept align strictly on the intergration of the public and private space within the whole programme with the provision of podium activity level as a emulsifier that bridge the two user groups.
A list of schedule of accommodation, the respective size and potential number of users are first calculated to generate a rough idea of space needed. It is also used to estimate the method of accommodating the public and private spaces. A handful of sketches is also made to start the massing and facade design.
The target user group—elderly individuals and those with early dementia—requires specific design considerations. These considerations have been meticulously integrated into the architectural design, ranging from minute details to overarching structural features. On a detailed level, interiors utilize non-slip materials with contrasting colors for enhanced visibility and safety. On a larger scale, the building employs a loop plan layout and a cross-bracing system to create a more transparent facade, resulting in a brighter, more inviting interior. Additionally, the design emphasizes incorporating natural elements within the building envelope. Safety measures include minimizing the use of staircases (except for emergency staircases) and providing ramps as alternative options. Each communal space features a quiet room to offer a safe haven during incidents. The building’s openable double-skinned facade serves as a conservatory balcony, offering space for plant growth while also providing an acoustic and thermal buffer, enhancing comfort for sensitive users. These design elements draw inspiration from hospital architecture, ensuring a supportive and secure environment for the elderly and individuals with early dementia.
A residential natural atrium is integrated into the residential block, serving as a shared communal space for residents. Designed to simulate an outdoor environment while providing full enclosure, this space allows natural light to stream in through skylights. This design enables residents to enjoy the benefits of the outdoors, regardless of London’s frequently windy and rainy weather. Each floor’s corridor layout is uniquely designed to avoid repetitiveness, aiding wayfinding for residents with dementia. Communal spaces and seating areas are strategically placed at regular intervals, offering places to rest and socialize. Additionally, all corridors are designed in a loop and are single-sided to minimize confusion and agitation for residents with dementia.
The function hall serves as the central hub, connecting the sensory garden and medical facilities, which cater to both residents and the public community. Situated next to the canteen area, the function hall is ideal for hosting communal events and workshops for residents. Given that the podium level is likely to be the most active zone in the building, ramps are included to enhance circulation, especially for wheelchair users. This design creates a seamless space that encourages interaction between public and private users.
While sensory gardens offer therapeutic benefits for individuals with dementia, there is a risk that they may attempt to eat the plants. This challenge inspired the creation of an edible garden, serving as a communal space for people with dementia, the elderly, families, and the broader community to engage in exercise and social interaction. The sensory garden is thoughtfully designed with landscaping that includes a farming area to produce food for consumption within the building. It features resting spaces and shaded areas, allowing the elderly and individuals with dementia to easily rest while they exercise. A loop-plan walking platform is incorporated to provide a safe exercise space and address the wandering tendencies often associated with dementia. Handrails along the walking path are meticulously designed to offer additional support and safety.
Art and Cultural Exchange
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
The Newbridge Hotel sits adjacent to the Newcastle Central Motorway A167(M), an infrastructure that splits the Newbridge Street West in halves and created division between central and east of Newcastle. The project kick starts with an in-depth exploration of repurposing the building from its present role of being a hotel and transforms it into a vibrant hub of art and culture, acting as a magnet to draw people in. Following with the analysis of the building in terms of its material, location, building structure and its surrounding site context, a set of proposal will be made to reuse the building to fit its new ‘purpose’ whilst celebrating its current characteristics. The aim of the project is to reuse the current building to promote cultural development in city centre and to reconnect the division between central and east Newcastle while reconstructing a more welcoming threshold for the city.
VISUAL/DIRECTIONALLY UNCERTAIN CYCLING-UNFRIENDLY
VISUALLY/DIRECTIONALLY CERTAIN
- Strong Odour
- Unhygienic Environment
- Deprived and underused
- Poorly Managed
- Narrow Street
The exhibition hall is one of the most prominent space in the programme. In a rectangular layout, the exhibition hall can be used more flexibly and can be used to hold huge events such as exhibitions, business conference, and even local fashion shows organised by local universities or communities. The material in the space showed a huge contrast between existing concrete columns and the new glulam structures. The exhibition hall, located at the same level of the pedestrian bridge that links between the city centre and east of newcastle, welcomes visitors by sharing a preview of ‘what is happening’ in the city.
PERCENTAGE OF THE PUBLIC WITH SUB-AVERAGE QUALIFICATION (EDUCATION)
Site Location: Margate, United Kingdom Definition of Lido: A British term for public outdoor swimming pool
DISCONNECTION BETWEEN THE NEW-BUILT CULTURAL ATTRACTION AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
Cliftonville, Margate, ranked as one of the most deprived place in UK, is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in south-east England. Many attractions were built to support the local tourism such as the Lido, the theatre of Winter Gardens and the Dreamland Amusement Park, which has the oldest wooden roller coaster (Grade II Listed) in the UK. The Margate sands has led to other intangible cultural heritage such as bathing machines and beach huts. The site is a former Lido situated on the northern part of Margate near the coast with sophisticated terrains. After the late 1960s when tourism declined in Margate, the Lido, being a listed heritage, has been fallen into disrepair to a state that it is facing critical structural risks. Other wooden heritages such as Dreamland Roller Coaster, bathing machines and Margate Jetty were either extincted or facing critical danger.
The building expresses itself through its distinctive architectural form of blocks, possessing different architectural languages. The east part of the facade featured a preserved brick wall with arch doorways and wooden structures, acting as a material for users’ study. The central part expressed itself as a doorway to the site and the building with huge frame that have strong verticality to symbolize ‘Entrance’. The modern classical sweeps across the facade as huge colonnades stand out from the rest of the building in terms of materiality expressing its interior function of a woodcraft workshop. The element of timbers ascends across the west part of the building as the timber structures replaced the original facade with minimal interference to the existing building.
cladding (12mm)
Mechanical Ventilation Space
Stack ventilation is effective in the atrium space of workshop. Fresh air enters through the doorways and windows in the facade at a lower level pushing out exhausted gas out from the saw tooth roof. Louvres are installed between the big steps allowing moisturized air from the washing area to escape. Mechanical ventilation is installed in the toilets to remove odour through underground tubes. Earth tubes will also be installed to bring in fresh air to the ground level.
Rainwater is collected by the gutter directing the water to the water tank underground. These water collected will be filtered and be reused for sink and toilets. An geothermal heat pump will be added underground to regulate the room temperature by absorbing energy from the ground in winter and releasing energy to the ground in summer. The energy will be dissipated through the geothermal floor heating system.
Winter Solstice: 18° Summer Solstice: 60° Solar Lighting + Acoustic
The optimal solar angle is 39°, but having considered the shadowing of the southern building frontage, the angle of the windows is set higher to 42°. The saw tooth waffle roof will allow sufficient sunlight for this educational atrium of workshop. Artificial light will be installed on the baffles to aid the skylight if sunlight is insufficient. Sound absorbing acoustic panels are installed on the ceiling to reduce the noise level and the echoing inside the space.
Timber structures serve as a visual replica of scattered structures in the Lido during 1960s. These structures can be redesigned and constructed by users of the woodcraft centre to create different space to accommodate different use and events. They create interesting space and visual stimulus to recall people’s memory and pride to the place. The woodcraft centre takes the role of ‘regional carpenter’ to reshape the site with the expansion of timber fragments and to repair or maintain other timber cultural heritage in Margate. These fragments fosters activities around the site encouraging people to explore the site and to restudy this cultural heritage.
The educational level in Margate is significantly lower than the national educational level causing social problems within the region such as high crimerate and high unemployment rate. The setting up of such an educational institution can equip people with design skills and craftsmanship.
The competition was opened for Registered Architects and members of Hong Kong Institute of Architects to contribute designs for the expansion of Hong Kong Science Museum and Hong Kong Museum of History for reference and future implementation by the Hong Kong Government. Our design approach for the facade design for the expansion of Hong Kong Science Museum and Hong Kong Museum of History is to introduce the theme of four seasons across different segments of the facade of the museum complex. We feel this would stimulate various sense of arrival depending on which route the visitors takes. The idea of the four seasons also symbolically represent the cycle that’s relative to seasonal changes, festive seasons stemming from different culture and more important to the aspect of time. Everything in life falls within the cycle of the four seasons and we feels this theme truly reflects both Hong Kong Museum of History in representing the past as well as the Hong Kong Science Museum with the notion of looking forward to the future.
This diagram shows one of the experimentations on the alignment and configuration of Curtain Wall with width constraint and visual considerations.
Year-out
Architectural Assistant
I was given an opportunity to work as a year-out architectural assistant at Andrew Lee King Fun & Associates Architects Limited after my graduation from the University of Kent. Working smoothly with the team, I get to participate in two on-going projects: Conversion of Morse Park Swimming Pool Complex in Wong Tai Sin and a 30-classroom Primary School in Anderson Road. The primary school project was at tender stage and I was tasked to draft some of the tender drawings and prepare documents for different departments such as the Public Works Subcommittee. Morse Park Swimming Pool Complex is at the construction stage, I formulate designs for the shop-drawings as construction goes on at the same time. My duty also includes following up defects and liaising with different contractors to check and amend problems from time to time. In addition to the two projects that I have been following up, I also take part in making design proposal and producing diagrams for project bidding at times. The company has also granted me trainings on Building Information Modeling (BIM), allowing me to work in a more flexible and fluent manners on different projects.
Phase: Construction Stage
Site: Morse Park, Wong Tai Sin, Hong Kong
Role: Project running, draft construction drawings for site coordination including section and elevation drawings, liaising with contractors and suppliers, attend sitemeetings, create design on detail features.
The Conversion of Morse Park Swimming Pool Complex is an alteration and addition project which has been in construction stage. I was responsible for liaising with different contractors and producing draft that fits our design approach for contractors to work on the shop-drawing. Dealing with construction defects, I am responsible of attending regular site inspection to update the status of work. The project have also provided me with an opportunity to take part in experimenting on curtain wall design and study the structural details of roof truss, which are uncommon in Hong Kong in terms of the scale of work. Shadowing a senior architect on site meetings, I get to learn from his skills to collaborate with contractors as well as clients. Taking part in such kind of governmental project and studying room schedules have also allowed me to understand the building procedure more thoroughly. We have also experimented different designs for the renovation of swimming pool lobby space by playing with tile patterns and colourings on the ceiling to highlight the existing waffle structure, rarely seen in Hong Kong. The project pushes me forward on understanding more about MEP of a building as it has a more complex building system due to its nature of being an indoor swimming pool.
Phase: Construction Stage
從南面望向小學的構思透視圖
Site: Morse Park, Wong Tai Sin, Hong Kong
PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOL FROM SOUTH DIRECTION
Role: Project running, draft construction drawings for site coordination including section and elevation drawings, liaising with contractors and suppliers, attend site-meetings, create design on detail features.
構思圖
構思圖
ARTIST’S IMPRESSION
ARTIST’S IMPRESSION
I am also following up an Architectural Services Department educational project. My task includes designing interior spaces of the school, generating render images, preparing diagrams for clients’ meeting and other relevant committees, preparing tender drawings and modifying the computer 3D model. The project allows me to thoroughly understand some of the E.V.A requirements as well as some technical knowledge of different component within a school in Hong Kong. During the projects, I had made design experimentations and proposals in different aspect from small details to large modifications during the tender stage. The school is also one of the earliest schools in Hong Kong to adopt Modular Integrated Construction (MIC) method for constructions, allow me to thoroughly understand the mechanism of each MIC units. The school project also incorporate a BIM model with Revit 2018 giving an opportunity to explore architecture in a much different perspective.
觀塘安達臣道發展區(地盤KT2C)1所設有30間課室的小學 A 30-CLASSROOM PRIMARY SCHOOL AT SITE KT2C, DEVELOPMENT AT ANDERSON ROAD, KWUN TONG 355EP
