Twirling the grid

Large Scale Planning

Tutor: Nanako Umemoto
Urban Cracks
Urban Mapping and Design
Tutor: Christianne Lange
By Bending And Twisting
Material Prototyping
Tutor: Pascal Burger
Weaving the Street
Mixed Use Housing Design
Tutor: Christian J. Lange
Other Work
Lau Cheung Hau, John
Architectural Studies, Bachelor of Arts,
University of Hong Kong
Weaving the Street
Mixed Use Housing Design
Fortress Hill, Hong Kong
Year 3 Semester 2
Tutor: Christian J. Lange
Gateway Hotel
Cultural Area
Residential Area
Island East Corridor
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Apartment Area
Newton Hotel
Fortress Hill is a typical Hong Kong Site. With coastal space using as the
Commerical area and extending up to the mountain side with school, cultural
space and residential space. An unique Axis is identifed in the Site such
that this site linked different cultural area, School, Hotel, MTR Station and
Commercial Offce. It is potentially possible to build a new Axis for Hong Kong
to activate the whole district and create an unique attraction to Hong Kong.
The site, which is at the head of this axis become very important to this Axis
as it is opened to the harbour and can act as a lamp post of the Axis.
New Axis Of Hong Kong
Site Analysis
Site: Fortress Hill, Hong Kong
TERRACE BLOCK LEVEL + 18.00
+ 9.00 PODIUM LEVEL
+ 3.00 GROUND LEVEL
+ 0.00 GARDEN LEVEL + 0.00 GARDEN LEVEL
Barbican in London, acting as one of the major rebuilt project after war.
Through years and years of trial and investigation, a new and unique
way of building a residential community were introduced. In this district,
different levels are introduced into the building, both in the lattitude and
also public and private layers. Art theatre, School, Public Garden are
introduced in this large residential planing with towers, Garden Flat,
Maisonettes. Barbican is the pioneer of mixed programming and also
introduced a new way to activate the residential community.
Mixed-Use Community
Case Study - Residential Project
Case: Cromwell Tower, Barbican, London
In Hong Kong, Housing Estate are always built with Podium Tower, which
refers to grouping the Public programme such as communal space and
shopping malls at the lowest level and the housing units are grouped as the
tower.
Such Confgurations made a successful mixed use Housing typology. But this
confguration has certain assumption that can be challenged. It assumes that
all the Residents requires more privacy than interaction such that the Housing
Units should be far from the public programme.
This project tries to suggest a new typology of housing, which is assuming
people are willing to be lived within the public space to maintain high
interaction with public. To create such typology, STREET, which is thought
to be the real public space in Hong Kong, is used to organize the public
programme and Housing and interweave up to the top of the Tower.
The Streets interweaving with the building will intercross within the three
towers and connecting to the local circulation up to the upper Fortress Hill.
Weaving the Street
Mixed-Use Houseing Design
Site: Fortress Hill, Hong Kong
Knots are splited to form
space
By offsetting the curve, surface
is formed and was used to
organise space
At the void of the circulation,
two structural cores are put
and acted as the vertical
circulation.
More Structural Shear Walls
are added to the knot to help
the support.
By extruding the communal
part downward, four housing
units are formed.
By Deforming the shape using
the device, different angle of
view is generated. and the
space is reorganised.
Three Spiral Towers are placed at the
two sides of the tower.
The Tower is deformed to create
different view for the apartment.
The attraction is placed along the
main spiral. the bridge provides
the interlinkage between each
other.
Traditional Podium Tower Form Weaving the public space
along the tower so as to
increase intereaction.
To Prevent monotonus
spatial experience, knots
methodology provides an
unique expereicne of weaving
in and out.
By offsetting the inner core,
the apartment and placed
with the circulation.
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Rooftop Garden
18/F Observatory
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By Bending And Twisting
Material Prototyping
Lilong Houses, Shanghai
Year 3 Semester 1
Tutor: Pascal Berger
The Swiss Pavilion is all Built with Timber, Helical Spring, Concrete and
Butamen. There is no Nails and Joints used in building the Pavilion.
The Timber used is unseasoned douglas fr and larch wood. They are cross-
stacked with the stacking timber so as to let the wood be dried. After the
expo, the wood are sold to different Country.
The Wood are held together by the increased comperssion by the helical
spring. By increaseing compression of the vertical force, friction also
increased so as to hold the wall together.
By No Nails and Joints
Case Study
Case: Swiss Pavilion, Peter Zumthor
By Investigating the bending and Twisting properties of the glue laminated
wood, we discovered that it can create various pattern my hanging them
together as an screen walL. It can helps to create opennings and also the
direction of the opennnings and thus control the direction of the vision.
The system also developed to form structure, not only for the screen wall. It
becomes foorplate, steps and also furniture.
Lamellas System
Prototype
Material: Plywood, Lamination
Inner Layer Lamellas
Sturcture Lammellas
Beam Lammellas
Outer Layer Lammellas
From the Prototype, it can be clearly seen that the building can be formed by
created loops and allow the whole building constructed by using the system.
The project is aimed to provide a crack between the two original building, by
doing so, it can allow more sunlight to come into the building, moreover, the
Crack can be acted as a new public space which allow people to climb out to
the roof cafe which are expendable to the terraces of the Li Long House to
create a new relaxing Area.
Design of the building are basically started with creating section of the
building, by using different section as the spacial realationship, adapating
different quality of the fascade and create the ultimate form of the building,
which can allowed the artist to work, to exhibit and also allow the urban
residents to get relaxed, so as to activate the area.
House in Loops
House Design
Site: Lilong House, Shanghai
Living Room
Shop
Art Gallery
Dining Room
Bed Room
Bed Room
Reading Room
Atrium
Urban Cracks
Mixed Use School Design
Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Year 2 Semester 2
Tutor: Christianne Lange
The Project is aimed to create a school with a footstreet intertwirl and interact
with each other. The site is located in Wan Chai, which is a community with
rich urban context. By using flm and different method of urban mapping, the
strategy of Cracks is used to the project to create a stepping community and
layers of urban programme to activate the new Wan Chai District.
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Residential Area
Green Area Commercial Area
Restaurant
Furniture
Shop Sports Ground Art Gallery
School
Market
Food Street and School
Programmes
Expanded Branches
Residential Area
Commercial Area
Art Gallery Sports Ground Market
Furniture
Shop
School
Green Area Food Street and School
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High
Communication
Low
Restaurant
Residential Commercial
Green Area School
Shop Site
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Sleep
Lecture
Extra-Curricular Activities
Leisure
Homework
School
Street
Stduio
Home
Social Activities
Lecture and Studio
Meal
Leisure
Design or Assignment
Learning from school
Spatial Distribution through time
Urban Context as a tool of Teaching/Design
Urban Context Involved in Learning Process
The time spent on the street to learn more closely with Urban is lacked.
Aim: Actively involve the Urban Context within the Design Stage.
Time of Peak hour of Programme
Normal School
Normal School
Design School
Design School
1. Relaxing Zone
Pressure
2. As a zone for Research and Observation 3. As a zone for sharing discussion
Studio/
Lecture
Cafe
Bar
Observation Research
Evaluation
Analysis
Trials Design
Final Product
Design Process
Involved in Urban Context
Involved in School
Dai Pai Dong
Local Cafe
Cafe
High Class Restaurant
School Programme
Fast Food Shop
Bars
Exhibtion Space
Staff Room
Office
Studio
Lecture
Workshop
Library
CAD LAB
School Programme
Food Street Programme
Lecture Exhibtition Space
Studio
Library
Office
Bars
Local Cafe
Fast Food Shop
Cafe
High Class Restaurant
Staff Room Workshop
Cad Lab
Space Allocation
Oscillating Time Use Building Centre Quiet Area
Food Steet Programme
Major Circulation(to Public)
Minor Circulation
Food Street School Complex
Exchange Ideas
Materials Provider
Craftmen
Students
Professionals
Twirling the Grid
Large Scale Planning
Tai Hang, Hong Kong
Year 2 Semester 1
Tutor: Nanako Umemoto
This Project is by studying the Plug-in City, which is a combination of the
structural grid, programme grid and the circulation grid. This three important
vertical grid forming the network of the plug-in city. In this project, by twirling
the grid, it creates another circulation and the circulation goes up to the
building to form the new urban centre.
Other Work
Material Pavilion
3D Body Pixelation
House - Powers of Ten
iRest Pavilion
Material Pavilion
Material: Bamboo Screen
Crit Room, Hong Kong
Year 1 Semester 1
Guidance Tutor: Nanako Umemoto, Jesse Reiser
The Workshop lasts for one week which is started by making a framework
with tracing the body motion movement.
By using Cardboard to trace the body motion and then building an envelop
which is the bamboo screen to cover the framework as the envelop.
Our Group chose to use the sushi bamboo rolls to make the pavilion because
of its fexibility and interlocking system.
3D Body Pixelation
Material: Paper
Body
Year 1 Semester 1
Tutor: Giulia Foscori
Inspired by the sea urchin, the body movement can be recorded by the
pixelation. As the 3 dimensional cubes when bending and moving, they will
be contracted or extended because of different curvature.
The different kinds of grid on the body is because the fner the grid, the fner
the record of the movement. So the fner grid is applied to the part which is in
a greater movment.
House - Powers of Ten
House Design
Peel Street, Central, Hong Kong
Year 1 Semester 2
Tutor: John C.H. Lin
By Studying the Power of Ten and Eames house, Scale is very important to
architecture. This project is aimed to study the relationship about different
scale of grid and the architecture.
By having the courtyard at the centre and varying different kind of grid to
different furniture or up to the playing landscape or even the programme.
iRest Pavilion
1: 20 Model
Material: MDF
The Bund, Shanghai, China
Year 3 Semester 1
Tutor: Michael Peng