FROM  A  Lamp  To  A  City                          


Palace Museum NarrativeChineseness & ModernismLocation: West Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR Academic work: museum
Chineseness is a complex and multifaceted concept that refers to the cultural, ethnic, and national identity associated with China and its people. It encompasses a wide range of elements, including language, history, traditions, values, and customs. 

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
North Point Municipal Service BuildingAdaptive Type of Municipal Service BuildingLocation: North Point, Hong Kong SARAcademic work: MSB Building
Since the 1960s, Hong Kong Municipal Service Buildings have met a significant problem. Their booth vacancy rate rose consistently in this period. Since that, Hong Kong Government has tried to launch a series of Municipal Service Buildings with different functions to fit various demands at different times. As a result, Municipal Service Buildings in Hong Kong, like a series of products, change their types all the time to meet society's needs.

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
Yunghsin Bridge-fair （永新橋市）The Motivation of CalligraphyLocation: Yunghsin County, Jiangxi, PRC Academic work: bridge complex
Yunghsin is a county with the multiple culture, and it’s honoured as the town of the calligraphy as well. Now, there need a bridge to connect the ancient city with new city. There was a type of construction crossing the river and it with function of bridge and fair in “Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival ”. This kind of construction would not only for transportation, but it also is the carrier of the city. And citizens can experience old and new elements of cities over the river.

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

Flying Dragon Library （飛龍书屋）The Motivation of Dragon Location: Santai County, Sichuan,  PRC Academic work: book houseWith the rapid development of the city, Santai, a county with the culture of dragon,which is falling into a cultural crisis. The library is located in Xiangyang middle school at Santai county. The purpose of this building is to improve the transportation condition at this area,and provide the space for teachers and students to entertain and study. The form of the building is responding the culture of dragon, and it also responds to the environment.

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


Wetland Birds’ Nests Project Birds’ Nests for Different Species of Birds Location: Chengdu City, Sichuan,  PRC Academic work: landscape construction
There are several city wetlands being built in Chengdu City recent years. These wetlands provide birds essential inhabitants in urban, and birds are also vital to the Wetland Ecosystem. This project has considered the various species birds’ habits and demands. The bird nests also contribute to the original environment, such as offering the variety of surroundings and reinforcing the original terrain environment. One of them is in a mobile structure, which can protect the birds from the human interference during a day.

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


‘AKARI’ Lamp Foldism Applciation Academic work: furniture design

The design background of this project is from The Tale of Genji. It describes the love story of Genji in the Heian Period. In this period, female social status is at a low level. Although each female has a natural personality, women need to be reshaped in a male-dominated society to fit this environment.

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


The Wall of Genji Origami Construction Location: School of Architecture, CUHK Academic work: stage design
Making it as a medium for light and silhouettes, a space of lives is staged with the Tale of Genii-- atraditional Japanese fiction illustrating the misunderstanding between males and females. lateriality.tectonics and dancing movements are the golden ingredients that help bake a dancing installation which is solely made of paper.

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


Kandinsky’s Dance Curves Exploration Abstraction and Infusion Location: School of Architecture, CUHK Academic work: robot-arm  application
Lacan’s Mirror Stage theory suggested that human beings are able to distinguish subject and object by the looking self into the mirror before the age of three, such recognition is enlightened by the gaze one self have to the mirror.

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


I. M. Pei’s GSD Thesis - Model ProposalM+ Museum “I. M. Pei: Life is Architecture”  Exhibition
Academic work: exhibiton proposal
I. M. Pei’s GSD thesis, a project that culminated his time as a student, was a design for Museum of Chinese Art for Shanghai. It proposed a series of small galleries conjoined with gardens at a scale that evoked a sense of privacy traditional to Chinese art museums. But it also represented a thoroughly modern design and foretold a deepening interest in the interdependence of physical space, light, and environment-the built environment and the natural world.

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



Urban New Babylon City Renewal
Location: Chengdu City, Sichuan,  PRC Academic work: city complex design
Constant's early vision emphasized the interconnected relationship between people and spatial materiality, as well as the uncertainty inherent in daily life, by proposing a series of scenario-based spaces to link the functional elements of New Babylon.

This project was informed by the study of Constant's New Babylon theory, investigating how an urban complex designed under the guidance of this theory could transform and impact the surrounding city and its users. The design process followed a top-down approach, starting from the city scale and progressing to the architectural components.

In this project, the metaphorical urban axes serve as the "lines" that stitch together these scenario-based spaces. By designing such scenario-based spaces of varying scales along these distinct urban axes, a narrative-driven urban section was achieved. This approach aimed to influence the surrounding city while also allowing users to experience the uncertainty and anticipation embedded in the contextual story, ultimately manifesting an urban complex with the qualities of Constant's New Babylon.

B.ENG Year Five Project    丨  2022.02-2022.05
Tutor: Miu Ying




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