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SELECTED WORK
ARCHITECTURE
RIBA PART 1 ESALA/ UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH FIRST HONOUR
Hand-sketch, Model Making Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign AutoCAD, Rhino, Sketchup, Enscape, V-ray Affinity Suite: Publisher,Photo,Designer
[HI, MY NAME IS REECE]
[TECHNICAL SKILLS]
Proficient in Hand
Sketching and Model
Making
and I am a Part 1 graduate at the University of Edinburgh, seeking a Part 1 Architectural Assistant role. With hands-on experience from a diverse number of firms, I am passionate about sustainable design and community-focused architecture. Fluent in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese, I bring a global perspective and advanced software skills. Eager to contribute to innovative projects and grow within a dynamic team.
[SKILLS]
[SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY]
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
AutoCAD, Rhino, SketchUp, Enscape, V-ray
[ACCOLADES]
SHORT-LISTED
MICRO-HOME COMPETITION
Hope at Home, A sustainable micro-home for Syrian relief shelter
DISSERTATION ARCHIVE
Dissertation selected for archival in ESALA library at Minto House
[EDUCATION]
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH [ESALA]
Master of Arts (MA) with Honours Architecture
MA Nominated EAA
Participated in Geddes Fellow workshop with Riet Eeckhout + Cross year Crit with Gloria Cabral 2023
QUEEN ETHELBURGA’S COLLEGE
A Level
Duke of Edinburgh Silver Mentor Programme
PO LEUNG KUK CHOI KAI YAU SCHOOL
IGCSE
Wind Band 2010-2016 Orchestra 2011-2014
[LANGUAGES]
English (Proficient)
Mandarin (Proficient) Cantonese (Proficient)
FIRST CLASS HONOUR
Achieving First Classes Honour in MA (Hons) Architecture degree in ESALA
MA NOMINATED EAA
Aging Anew, Balance and Kintsugi Refrain
PUBLICATION
ARTICLE IN ‘BORDER’ UOU
SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL
Atlas_ Lines in Landscape: A Mushroom Farm. P.226.
[PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE]
SUN HUNG KAI ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS LIMITED
Architectural Intern
>Developed design [massing + facade] options and landscape design for mixed used office project
>Curating presentation packages + coordinating visual impact studies with the urban planning team for a 700+ residential unit
HOK INTERNATIONAL (ASIA/PACIFIC)
Architectural Intern
>Created massing options and presentation packages for a confidential University Complex in Dubai
>Conducted site analysis, research, and massing studies for a office project in Taiwan
>Assisted in writing transcriptions for client communications for a mixed used commercial mall development in China
ARCHIPLUS INTERNATIONAL (HK) LIMITED
Architectural Intern
Curating internal exhibition on tensegrity
Massing study of stairs and walkway + site photography
[2020-2024]
Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH8 9YL [2018-2020]
Queen Ethelburga’s Collegiate, Thorpe Underwood, York, United Kingdom, YO26 9SS
[2016-2018]
6 Caldecott Rd, Piper’s Hill, Hong Kong
[APRIL - JULY 2023]
10/F, Sun Hung Kai Centre, 30 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
[JUNE - AUGUST 2022]
26/F 41 Heung Yip Road, Hong Kong
[AUGUST 2019 + 2020]
9th Floor, 133 Wai Yip Street, Kowloon, Hong Kong
TECTONICS
Finding your Feet + Urban Container
Rehearsal and Production
Year 4 Semester 2
MICRO-HOME COMPETITION
Hope at Home: A Sustainable Micro-home for Syrian Relief Shelter [Short-Listed]
ON-DETAIL
Vade Mecum
Hunter Building’s Roof Extension
Year 4 Semester 2 elective
LINES IN THE LANDSCAPE
Harvesting and Rippling
Retting, Breaking and Spinning
Academic Journal Publication
A JAM MAKING, DANCING AND LIBRARY SPACE
AGING ANEW: BALANCE AND KINTSUGI REFRAIN
Project Type: Reused for Culture [Year 4 Semester 2] [2024]
Tutors: Fiona McLachlan, Mike O’Dell, Dan Anderson
[MA Nominated EAA]
CAD: Rhino3D, AutoCAD Render: Vray + Raytracing in Rhino Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro
Hand Sketching and Physical Modelling
Drawing on the concepts of kintsugi and wabi-sabi, which embrace imperfection, along with the idea of isomorphism linking nature, architecture, and the human body, the project aims to honour Dundee’s heritage, epitomized by Keiller’s marmalade. Situated within the Edwardian theatre fly tower, the project seeks to blend the old with the new, past with present, while envisioning a progressive future for Dundee.
Located in Dundee’s Edwardian theatre fly tower, the space incorporates elements of the existing Well-gate centre to accommodate a range of activities, including jam making, dancing, and library services, catering to both residents and visitors alike.
Key exterior render from courtyard
Drawing of essence X-ray isometric showing shadow, route and structure
1:100 Long Section
4TH FLOOR PLAN
[Aerial dancing space], [Library] 1:100
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
[Jam Making], [Greenhouse for home-grown strawberry][Lemon tree], [Amphitheatre] 1:100
Interior Render overlooking the Aerial Dancing Space from the inhabitable Library shelf.
Interior Render of the Jam-Making Hall.
TECTONIC INTERPRETATION
Deriving design concept from Andy Goldsworth’s Stone Coppice and a movement workshop with Janice Parker.
Delving into themes of balance, kintsugi [Japanese mending of broken pottery with lacquer laced with gold, the idea of embracing imperfection]and the isomorphism between the human, nature and architecture.
The Empress- beside the former Earl Grey Dock’s was the Empress Ballroom, one of Dundee’s main dance hall that survived into the 60s
Keiller factory in Albert Square Keiller first confectionery shop
1:50 working model of the Fly-tower + 1:200 site model of the urban container
Photo taken by Karina. Model credit to Amy, Emma, Harry and Karina
1:20 ‘rupture‘ Roof & wall detail
1:50 detail section and elevation
A. Brick wall, zinc lapping, reinforced concrete slap connecting existing truss, new roof, skin onto cornies, stainless steel stone tye onto cornies
B. 12mm LVL board, 95/45mm timber batten, 95mm mineral wool insulation, 60mm tongue and groove hempboard, 50mm cavity, 20mm LVL board
C. Reinforced concrete lintel with 4x I steel beams 240mm deep, double glazed window with corten steel frame
1:50 fragment model of roof frame [old]
Steel frame structure derived from movement workshop and study from previous exercise
1:50 fragment model of library space
Taking precedent from University Library by Office Keresten Geers David Van Severen Ghent, Belgium, 2014
HOPE AT HOME
A SUSTAINABLE MICROHOME FOR SYRIAN RELIEF SHELTER
Project Type: SHELTER, EPHEMERAL, INFORMAL CITY
[2023] [GROUP]
[Short-Listed]
In micro-home 2023/ Buildner.com
CAD: Rhino3D, AutoCAD
Render: Enscape
Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
“Hope at Home” is designed in response to the 2023 Syria earthquake. The proposal aims to create sustainable and low-cost temporal housing from re-purposed and local resources while adapting to their extreme climates.
A central courtyard inspired by vernacular Syrian architecture provides a passive cooling system through shading and ventilation. Stereo-tonic earth-bag walls act as Trombe walls, heating the room in the winter and cooling it down in the summer. The slidable polycarbonate screens installed at various levels and slanted roofs encourage cross ventilation.
For ease of assembly and transportation, the building structure is comprised of imported wood members to form a repeatable framework. The structures’ remaining materials are re-purposed from harvested materials from the post-disaster surrounding. The construction process acts as an opportunity to build community and empower vulnerable individuals.
1. Emergency Relief, Radical Harvesting of Material
2. Assembly and Construction
3. Fitting and Inhabitation
4. Post-Emergency Community
ON DETAIL
HUNTER BUILDING ROOF EXTENSION
Project Type: Reused for Culture
[Year 4 Semester 1]
[2024]
[GROUP]
CAD: Rhino3D, AutoCAD
Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom
Hand Sketching and Physical Modelling
In light of the recent closure of Hunter’s building roof by RACC, we proposed a new roof capping/rooftop to enhance its relationship with the city and the college.
Armed with the concerns with care, maintenance, and movement of the human body (and our vade mecum), we explored the lauriston building and its surrounding site, discovering artefacts and fragments - the sundials to the pavement. Borrowing from George Perec attempt to exhaust a place in Paris, we adapted a similar methodology in recording movement.
Pin up screen derived from Japanese Shoji screens run along floor tracks, housed behind the inhabited wall whiles creating intimate moments of alcoves along the way. A lattice of timber columns and beams forms the new structure, holding up what would be the new roof.
Design derived from detail allowed us to tackle ‘unknown’ by grounding it in reality
Isometric on trace
Construction sequence + hierarchy of structure
Vade Mecum (Latin for “go with me”) has long been used of manuals or guidebooks sufficiently compact to be carried in a deep pocket. In ‘On Detail’ the Vade Mecum is an essential record of and tool in the process of detailing. It collates references, regulation, material, movement and details that informed our proposal.
[ON OPENINGS]
Pants salvaged from ECA shared hub. The dimensions of the pocket determined the size of the Vade mecum; reinforcing the idea of working with material constrains [ON BEARING ON TOLERATING]
A compilation of precedents with openings that contort/engages the human body.
Documentation of site visit to Hutton stone Quarry [ON COPING ON FALLING]
Documentation of site investigation of ECA fire-station, with a focus on gutters and water.
VADE MECUM
Plan inhabited in the style of Sarah Wigglesworth, showing movement of shutter in different configurations
ROOF BUILD UP
1. 35x600 mm open pored Lochar-briggs Red sandstone flooring (Huttonstone quarry)
2. 100mm support pedestals
3. 0.8mm zinc protected standing seams
4. 55x47mm batten and counter batten
5. 10mm OSB and vapour barrier
4. 125mm rigid insulation
5. 145mm rigid insulation
6. 20mm wooden celling
FLOOR BUILD UP
1. Existing waffled concrete floor
2. 50mm rigid insulation
3. 35mm stone panel flooring
EXISTING WALL BUILD UP
1. 100mm existing Lochar-briggs Red Sandstone
2. 50mm cavity
3. 0.2mm vapour barrier
4. 55mm rigid insulation
5. 25mm vertical hook on panel system
5. 35mm internal Lochar-briggs Red Sandstone cladding
NEW WALL BUILD UP
1:20 section of an Alcove space The inhabited shelf
1. 120x 230 mm Locharbriggs Red Sandstone (With groves to prevent capillary action)
2. 50mm cavity
3. 0.2mm vapour barrier
3. 100mm tongue groove wood fibreboard
Perspective section into proposed roof-cap
ARCHITECTURAL
DESIGN: EXPLORATION
[LINES IN LANDSCAPE]
A MUSHROOM FARM
Project Type: Rural community farm
[Year 3 Semester 1]
[2023]
[GROUP]
Featured in Publication ‘Border’ UOU scientific Journal Atlas_ Lines in Landscape: A Mushroom Farm. P.226.
CAD: Rhino3D, AutoCAD Render: Enscape Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro
Hand Sketching and Physical Modelling
The initial exploration begins with investigating variation in hedgerow’s physical makeup across territories. We developed a series of keywords that underpin our propositions, responding to the essence of our hedgerow: [lines in landscape, edges, symbiosis, mutual-ism, interweaving, coexistence, microbes, decomposition, temporal change, movement, human intervention]. In our selected area of investigation, we identified key themes such as movement of water throughout different scales, from vascular to human infrastructure; and the tectonics qualities of hedgerow canopies through a series of model making.
Loosely basing our project on Culross, Fife, the proposal is a mushroom farm synthesising the previous investigation. With wandering pathways parallel to farm’s buildings, visitors can process up the site to the dining space whilst observing the GROWING, HARVESTING, STORAGE, and COOKING of mushrooms; the journey between one building and the next is a transition across the stages of a mushroom’s life-cycle.
1:50 section into the ‘Growing’ building.
HARVESTING AND RIPPLING
Watercolour drawings of ‘edges’, difference between line drawing from one day to the next, collaged to show cumulative change to hedgerow form over 6 days; Collaged ‘edges’ with
LINES IN LANDSCAPE
SYMBIOSIS MUTUALISM
INTERWEAVING
CO-EXISTENCE
MOVEMENT
HUMAN INTERVENTION
EDGES
Tracing decay, collage of hedgerow outline
Roof line Study and investigation of site Across different scale.
1:20 PLAN OF SELECTED HEDGEROW
PRECEDENT STUDY
STEILNESET MEMORIAL
Peter Zumthor, Louis Bourgeois [2011] Vardo, Norway
ALLMANNAJUVET ZINC MINE MUSEUM
Peter Zumthor [2016]
Sauda, Norway
QUERINI STAMPALIA FOUNDATION
Carlo Scarpa [1961] Venezia, Italy
‘Build Ur own hedgerow‘ a construction menu for an abstracted hedgerow model
‘How to build your own Hedgerow’ assembly manual
TOFU FACTORY
Xu Tian Tian, DnA_Design and Architecture [2018]
Lishui, China
RETTING,
SPINNING AND BREAKING
Key image from Rhyze film documenting mushroom growing process at Rhyze Size & Specifications of the spaces informed scheme spatial allocations.
DECONSTRUCTION, DECAY OF PROPOSAL OVER TIME. “I WAS A TEENAGER WHEN I FIRST BECAME AWARE OF THE PAST, MANIFEST AS RELICS IN THE LAND“ (JAMIE, 2012).
Interweaving of tree, mycelium and water network against proposal
EXPLODED ISOMETRIC
Interweaving route and funnel like roof for water collection
COMPOSTING
1:100 PLAN OF THE MUSHROOM FARM
[Water tower]
DINNING
COOKING
STORAGE
HARVESTING
GROWING
[Water filtering + Pumping
1:200 Plan and Long Section across the private route.
CAD denotes human intervention, hand drawing denotes nature
1:10 timber slatting detail model, oak, balsa, plaster, steel.
1:10 roof gutter detail model, copper, steel, oak, plaster
WEAVING RESILIENCE: TRACING DIASPORA THREADS OF UKRAINIAN MIGRANTS IN EDINBURGH
EXTRACT FROM DISSERTATION CONCLUSION
In the social and cultural integration of the diaspora, the reappropriation of spaces exemplified through the intentional deployment of ‘souvenirs’ in the form of posters, snacks, tea, and timber frames; the embodied ritual of weaving - an expressive dance of solidarity- operates as a mechanism of transnational identity negotiation. Edinburgh Spider, a shared space for the diaspora and international community, resembles a malleable meshwork in perpetual flux, melded through care, solidarity, and commoning.
In times of increasing displacement, architects must rethink conventional design perspectives, focusing on the drama of everyday reality and socio-political and economic dynamics.1 Stemming from personal relocation to the UK my fascination with migration and diaspora practices originates from the term of 人情味, expressed in Edinburgh Spider through intricate narratives woven into the camouflage net—a product of collective struggle.
DISSERTATION Archived in ESALA Architecture Library
