Modernism is a response to the rapid social, economic, and technological changes of the modern era, and it challenged traditional forms of art, literature, architecture, music, and thought. As a former British colony, Hong Kong has been shaped by both Chinese and Western influences, particularly in the realm of architecture.
In the early 20th century, as Hong Kong underwent a period of rapid urbanization and modernization, the city's architecture began to reflect a blend of Chinese and modernist elements.
The design project for this academic year involves the construction of a new Hong Kong Palace Museum on the original site of the Hong Kong Palace Museum. This endeavor presents an opportunity to explore how the utilization of modernist architectural approaches, such as spatial transparency, compositional logic, and the narrativity of architectural spaces, can be employed to interpret and imbue this project - which is deeply steeped in Chinese cultural characteristics - with a contemporary sensibility.
M.ARCH Year Two Project 丨 2024.01-2024.05
Personal Work
Tutor: Betty Ng / Chi Yan Chan / Juan Minguez
Structure Consultant: Wang Shuaizhong
This acadmic year studio mainly researches the relationship between geometry and architecture. We tried to comsume geometry to create a new type of municipal service building.
In the first semester, we researched the Tensegrity Structure System in geometric aspects and evaluated different types of structure. In the second semester, we depended on architecture design and studied the Municipal Service Buildings' prototype to design the adaptive type of Municipal Service Building in North Point neighborhood for decades.
M.ARCH Year One Project 丨 2022.09-2023.05
Personal Work
Tutor: Zhengfei Wang
Structure Consultant: Zhang Zhun
The calligraphy’s writing way such as connection, turn and stop, these movement are with three dimension motivations and the prototype of this project is from them. After getting the shape we using BESO evolution to optimize the structure. Finally, we get the spatial form of bridge-fair following the shape of the structure.
B.ENG Year Five Project 丨 2021.08-2021.10
Personal Work
Tutor: Li Meizi
BESO Consultant: Xie Yimin
The inspiration of the building’s form is from the dragon’s motivation: the dragon hiding in deep water, the proud dragon repents, seeing the dragon in the field,a flying dragon in the sky. All of them are allusions from the Book of Changes. These allusions describe the dragon in different term with different motivation, which is the same as the people. The spatial form of building is combined with these motivation in sequence. And it also responds to the elements of environment such as trees, mountain and road.
B.ENG Year Four Project 丨 2021.01-2021.02
Personal Work
Tutor: Meng Zeyuan
There are four kinds of birds’ nests, floating nest, ground nest, brush nest and tree nest. Floating nest is designed for the natatores and waders as an isolating island on the lake. Ground nest is setting on the slope near the lake, it provides the various inhabitant and can also stabilize the geographical environment. Brush nest is a mobile device, for protecting the birds from the interference of human. And tree nest is a structure imitating the tree and it adds the inhabitant of finch.
B.ENG Year Five Project 丨 2021.10-2021.12
Personal Work
Tutor: Li Meizi
In this project, our group used two curves to compare the Heian Period Society and Female World. One is a winding line, and another is a flexural line. We design this project to show the process of the switch of these two types of lines to show how females live in this period.
Then, we study how the simple units influence the whole project and research the unit's shape of the boundary and each size. These primary factors will influence the final shape of the project. In this way, we develop new types by folding the different series of units.
Last, we consider the ideal material for 1:1 scale pavilion construction. We use three common materials to make fundamental units and test their quality from the transmission of light, the weight of the material, the strength of the material and the toughness of material aspects.
M.ARCH Year One Project 丨 2023.01-2023.02
Cooperate with GUO Shuhan Cynthia
Tutor: Hiroyuki SHINOHARA
For this project, we collaborated with performer Wong Pik Kei and her team to showcase the multifaceted artistry of Origami through the medium of performance art.
M.ARCH Year One Project 丨 2023.02-2023.05
Cooperate with WONG Yuk Teen Kelly,
AU Ying Tung Christy, GUO Shuhan Cynthia
Tutor: Hiroyuki SHINOHARA
In a environment which one grow up in, one are both the subject and object, with the assumption being said, the environment we live in shaped our behavior and at the same time we shape the environment.
This Project focuses on addressing this research gap by investigating the translation of a few basic dance steps of a dancer into complex human dance movements performed by a robotic arm. By recording and analyzing the movement trajectories of different body parts during these dance steps using Kinect, the research aims to develop a solution that consolidates these individual movement trajectories into a unified trajectory for execution by the robotic arm.
M.ARCH Year One Project 丨 2023.05-2023.06
CUHK CAADRIA Student Award 2022/23 Project
Cooperate with KAU Brandon Tin Yu , POON Andrew Chi Kin
Tutor: Adam FINGRUT
This project is a collaboration with the M+ Museum for the exhibition "I.M. Pei: Life is Architecture". We have provided the M+ Museum with a proposed exhibition model for their consideration.
M.ARCH Year Two Project 丨 2023.09-2023.11
Cooperate with WANG Zhixi Holiday
Tutor: Betty Ng / Chi Yan Chan / Juan Minguez