11/2014 Thesis Statement Draft 2.0 : MAKING | MAPPING | MEDIATING
Parallel Cities
So long as one- third of urban residents are migrants without legal resident rights, urbanisation in China will remain incomplete. Meanwhile, house prices have skyrocketed in cities, with the national average house price increasing by 250% in the decade between
Parallel Cities
So long as one- third of urban residents are migrants without legal resident rights, urbanisation in China will remain incomplete. Meanwhile, house prices have skyrocketed in cities, with the national average house price increasing by 250% in the decade between
RESPONSIVE ACTION to Human Coexistence
What? An unplanned pavilion is not presumed for number of people and activities. This is a big empty space with indoor and outdoor
RESPONSIVE ACTION to Human Coexistence
What? An unplanned pavilion is not presumed for number of people and activities. This is a big empty space with indoor and outdoor
Square Regeneration
WHAT? A New Habitation of Square in Hong Kong My Thesis is to design a form of new generation of public square for 22th-century Hong Kong people. Through observation and mapping to test and factorise out a set of
Square Regeneration
WHAT? A New Habitation of Square in Hong Kong My Thesis is to design a form of new generation of public square for 22th-century Hong Kong people. Through observation and mapping to test and factorise out a set of
Miniature Architecture
Kinderspelen, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna “… that there ought to be a child in every adult and that an adult’s city ought to remain a city for the child, built out of chaos and dreams.” Aldo
Miniature Architecture
Kinderspelen, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna “… that there ought to be a child in every adult and that an adult’s city ought to remain a city for the child, built out of chaos and dreams.” Aldo
11/2014 Thesis Statement Draft 2.0
Rhythmi(city) STATEMENT This thesis is interested in the rhythm of the city, which identifies SO UND as the generator of the architectu ral/social dialogue between activity and space. Sound is a cue that activates space, and the threshold between
11/2014 Thesis Statement Draft 2.0
Rhythmi(city) STATEMENT This thesis is interested in the rhythm of the city, which identifies SO UND as the generator of the architectu ral/social dialogue between activity and space. Sound is a cue that activates space, and the threshold between
Revolutionary Windowscape Era
“What concerns me is that the individual person becomes less and less important in building or in the city. We hand over the whole responsibility to companies or architects. We walk around through our cities feeling that we have not
Revolutionary Windowscape Era
“What concerns me is that the individual person becomes less and less important in building or in the city. We hand over the whole responsibility to companies or architects. We walk around through our cities feeling that we have not
STREETSCAPE EMANCIPATION
WHAT? Mong Kok boasts the highest population density in the world, with 130,000 in 1 sqkm (Guinness Book of Records, 2013). Within the urban fabric along Sai Yeung Choi Street South, Mong Kok has more and more often been the
STREETSCAPE EMANCIPATION
WHAT? Mong Kok boasts the highest population density in the world, with 130,000 in 1 sqkm (Guinness Book of Records, 2013). Within the urban fabric along Sai Yeung Choi Street South, Mong Kok has more and more often been the
In-between Level
Urban-Scale: Urban scale will focus on the whole city for the future development. The city will be divided as the several different part for different function and transportation. Architecture-Scale: For a single building, the most important thing is to relocate
In-between Level
Urban-Scale: Urban scale will focus on the whole city for the future development. The city will be divided as the several different part for different function and transportation. Architecture-Scale: For a single building, the most important thing is to relocate
Dreamna for Dreamna’s Sake
What? Project Description: The thesis seeks to rethink architecture in the new context signified by the emergence of ubiquitous information, which creates a virtual space that parallels the real. Thus, the thesis questions the boundary between the virtual and
Dreamna for Dreamna’s Sake
What? Project Description: The thesis seeks to rethink architecture in the new context signified by the emergence of ubiquitous information, which creates a virtual space that parallels the real. Thus, the thesis questions the boundary between the virtual and
DIVERSIFIED FORUM
| ARTIFACT | ‘in political thinking transparency is linked to open and accessible government, while in sociology it connotes a pluralistic society.’ Suggested by Deborah Ascher Barnstone in The Transparent State. | WHAT | Government Headquarter with legislative council and the public
DIVERSIFIED FORUM
| ARTIFACT | ‘in political thinking transparency is linked to open and accessible government, while in sociology it connotes a pluralistic society.’ Suggested by Deborah Ascher Barnstone in The Transparent State. | WHAT | Government Headquarter with legislative council and the public
Learning from Macau
Public Housing x Cultural Heritage A formal and programmatic analysis on public housing in the sensitive cultural heritage area of Macau, and seek for a new form of architectural language to elevate public housing into the status of future heritage.
Learning from Macau
Public Housing x Cultural Heritage A formal and programmatic analysis on public housing in the sensitive cultural heritage area of Macau, and seek for a new form of architectural language to elevate public housing into the status of future heritage.
PERMEABLE CRACK
WHAT Permeable crack is intended to use the concept which is extracted from Peter Zumthor’s projects and tested with light, space, and material aspects to regenerate the abandoned district in the northeast of HongKong. The abandoned TV studio in HoChung
PERMEABLE CRACK
WHAT Permeable crack is intended to use the concept which is extracted from Peter Zumthor’s projects and tested with light, space, and material aspects to regenerate the abandoned district in the northeast of HongKong. The abandoned TV studio in HoChung
Architecture on (de)Xenophobia
(What?) The thesis will explore how architecture can respond to Xenophobia issues and foster racial cohesion through new architectural interventions. Globalization is fueling increased international migration worldwide. The immigrants are displaced as the other in new territories. The imbalanced notion between
Architecture on (de)Xenophobia
(What?) The thesis will explore how architecture can respond to Xenophobia issues and foster racial cohesion through new architectural interventions. Globalization is fueling increased international migration worldwide. The immigrants are displaced as the other in new territories. The imbalanced notion between
CUAN. CHUAN
WHAT? Establish Rural Eco-tourism System, Design Floatable Archtecture, Advocate Cuan Culture I will make full use of local rich tourism resources and unique Cuan culture, and recover abandoned and neglected waterways to establish rural eco-tourism system which has the long-term
CUAN. CHUAN
WHAT? Establish Rural Eco-tourism System, Design Floatable Archtecture, Advocate Cuan Culture I will make full use of local rich tourism resources and unique Cuan culture, and recover abandoned and neglected waterways to establish rural eco-tourism system which has the long-term
Surgical Intervention
ARTIFACT Time-Based Urban Evolution Model for Erase, Substitute, Conserve, Alternate, Create An interface to process data obtained through city surveys that will help project trajectories of current urban fabric over time. Acting as the digital media toolbox for developing and testing prototype models
Surgical Intervention
ARTIFACT Time-Based Urban Evolution Model for Erase, Substitute, Conserve, Alternate, Create An interface to process data obtained through city surveys that will help project trajectories of current urban fabric over time. Acting as the digital media toolbox for developing and testing prototype models
Photography defining Urban Connectivity and Dis-connectivity
People understand our city through the lenses of their camera phones. The relationship of photograph-taking and the city has become an event itself rather than capturing an event. The way people perceive our city has changed as photographic devices has
Photography defining Urban Connectivity and Dis-connectivity
People understand our city through the lenses of their camera phones. The relationship of photograph-taking and the city has become an event itself rather than capturing an event. The way people perceive our city has changed as photographic devices has
NATURE, CITIES & ARCHITECTURE: GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
ARTIFACTS Imagining that the density is getting higher and higher, buildings, people and vehicles are everywhere. Many problems like heat island effect, canyon effect are created. The urban ecology of the city is completely out of balance. We cannot find
NATURE, CITIES & ARCHITECTURE: GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
ARTIFACTS Imagining that the density is getting higher and higher, buildings, people and vehicles are everywhere. Many problems like heat island effect, canyon effect are created. The urban ecology of the city is completely out of balance. We cannot find
Rejuvenating the mega-block
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city. – Le Corbusier WHAT?
Rejuvenating the mega-block
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city. – Le Corbusier WHAT?
Media Forest
Media Forest- day and night The Media Forest explores an autonomous medium of canopy that develops a new type of urban infrastructure connections and rethinks this connection that build characters into the urban context of Hong Kong. This canopy grows
Media Forest
Media Forest- day and night The Media Forest explores an autonomous medium of canopy that develops a new type of urban infrastructure connections and rethinks this connection that build characters into the urban context of Hong Kong. This canopy grows
Build On Absence
WHAT? Presence and Absence Dynamics Opposing to what we constructed, this thesis would emphasize on what we lost. The loss may be caused from conscious abandonment or renewal, to human conflicts or warfare, accidents or natural catastrophes. To response
Build On Absence
WHAT? Presence and Absence Dynamics Opposing to what we constructed, this thesis would emphasize on what we lost. The loss may be caused from conscious abandonment or renewal, to human conflicts or warfare, accidents or natural catastrophes. To response
URBAN MIGRANT VILLAGE
URBAN MIGRANT VILLAGE This thesis is designing a convertible village housing typology for the displaced residents of Yangon, the former capital of Burma. By challenging the irresponsible and delayed government policy, the thesis aims at proposing a migrant house that is capable
URBAN MIGRANT VILLAGE
URBAN MIGRANT VILLAGE This thesis is designing a convertible village housing typology for the displaced residents of Yangon, the former capital of Burma. By challenging the irresponsible and delayed government policy, the thesis aims at proposing a migrant house that is capable
Conscious Hybrids: Rail City 2.0
‘Hybrid landscapes are either “conscious” or “unconscious”… Conscious landscapes deliberate “collisions of different points of view,” which fuse the un-fuseable… multiple types of landscape brought together that perhaps don’t belong together.”’ ~ Walter Hood Designing with existing rail infrastructure while
Conscious Hybrids: Rail City 2.0
‘Hybrid landscapes are either “conscious” or “unconscious”… Conscious landscapes deliberate “collisions of different points of view,” which fuse the un-fuseable… multiple types of landscape brought together that perhaps don’t belong together.”’ ~ Walter Hood Designing with existing rail infrastructure while
Vessel Architecture: Deconstruction & Reassembly
What? My thesis investigates how decommissioned large ships could be strategically dismantled and remodeled into architecture, specifically housing and working docks/piers for 20,000 ship breaking workers in the Chittagong Shipbreaking Yard in Bangladesh. The thesis explores subtractive and dissective methods
Vessel Architecture: Deconstruction & Reassembly
What? My thesis investigates how decommissioned large ships could be strategically dismantled and remodeled into architecture, specifically housing and working docks/piers for 20,000 ship breaking workers in the Chittagong Shipbreaking Yard in Bangladesh. The thesis explores subtractive and dissective methods
The Death and Life of Old City
WHAT? As an accelerated urbanization in China, the traditional culture has been approaching died out during the process of old city renewal. The old city gradually become a declining core area with klunky streetscape, where gives a sharp contract to surrounding modern
The Death and Life of Old City
WHAT? As an accelerated urbanization in China, the traditional culture has been approaching died out during the process of old city renewal. The old city gradually become a declining core area with klunky streetscape, where gives a sharp contract to surrounding modern
The Double Play of [INFRA]STRUCTURE
Spaces are remembered according to its perceptibility. Human minds sometimes work like montage sequence in filmmaking – fragments of spatial perceptions on various destination places are remembered and juxtaposed in a single sequence. Based on how the homeless and the
The Double Play of [INFRA]STRUCTURE
Spaces are remembered according to its perceptibility. Human minds sometimes work like montage sequence in filmmaking – fragments of spatial perceptions on various destination places are remembered and juxtaposed in a single sequence. Based on how the homeless and the
Living on Edges
“Edge gives shape to the material rim of a given space through a clear change in substance. In geophysical term, an edge is formed by the divid- ing line of water and earth, earth and air, or air and water,
Living on Edges
“Edge gives shape to the material rim of a given space through a clear change in substance. In geophysical term, an edge is formed by the divid- ing line of water and earth, earth and air, or air and water,
Perception of Void Space
-WHAT? Based on analysis of the regional cultural spirit and cultural connotation ,as well as void space as a medium and expression of architecture, this thesis about Ambiguous void space will attempt to create
Perception of Void Space
-WHAT? Based on analysis of the regional cultural spirit and cultural connotation ,as well as void space as a medium and expression of architecture, this thesis about Ambiguous void space will attempt to create
Reassembling Junkspace: Heterogeneous City
The thesis explores innovative strategies for building on top of, around and within existing buildings – a practice not common to asian cities like Hong Kong. The goal of the thesis is to discover new degrees of heterogeneity and urban
Reassembling Junkspace: Heterogeneous City
The thesis explores innovative strategies for building on top of, around and within existing buildings – a practice not common to asian cities like Hong Kong. The goal of the thesis is to discover new degrees of heterogeneity and urban
PARA(magka)SITE
“Science has not and never will have the same ontological sense as the perceived world, for the simple reason that it is a determination or an explanation of that world.” “Truth does not “inhabit” only the “inner man.” Or more
PARA(magka)SITE
“Science has not and never will have the same ontological sense as the perceived world, for the simple reason that it is a determination or an explanation of that world.” “Truth does not “inhabit” only the “inner man.” Or more
Traffic, Speed and Architecture
WHAT The Optics Valley Square, located in a central intersection of a commercial zone in Wuhan City, is a very proper site for my thesis topic. The streets around the square are planned in a radiate layout and the round
Traffic, Speed and Architecture
WHAT The Optics Valley Square, located in a central intersection of a commercial zone in Wuhan City, is a very proper site for my thesis topic. The streets around the square are planned in a radiate layout and the round
Air-atmosphere
My thesis will look to find ways in which architecture can produce new types of nature and new concepts through which we may understand nature through the “air-atmosphere” strategy. The site for investigation will be a parking garage as it
Air-atmosphere
My thesis will look to find ways in which architecture can produce new types of nature and new concepts through which we may understand nature through the “air-atmosphere” strategy. The site for investigation will be a parking garage as it
Spatial Narrative
Spatial Narrative Novel, fiction and folktale can tell stories by texts. Comic, painting and photograph can tell stories by pictures. Movie, animation and cartoon can tell stories by dynamic picture and sounds. However, architecture tells the story without texts,
Spatial Narrative
Spatial Narrative Novel, fiction and folktale can tell stories by texts. Comic, painting and photograph can tell stories by pictures. Movie, animation and cartoon can tell stories by dynamic picture and sounds. However, architecture tells the story without texts,
Latent in City
In “Delirious New York”, Rem Koolhaas use three principles to describe the construction of Manhattan: “grid”, “lobotomy”, and “schism”. “Grid” illustrates the regular blocks in cities with different architecture infilling them; “lobotomy” describing the split between interior and exterior of
Latent in City
In “Delirious New York”, Rem Koolhaas use three principles to describe the construction of Manhattan: “grid”, “lobotomy”, and “schism”. “Grid” illustrates the regular blocks in cities with different architecture infilling them; “lobotomy” describing the split between interior and exterior of
In Touch with Soil – Urban Agriculture
Plant in City A Journey Seeking For the Sun Living in Concrete Jungle like Hong Kong, people inside the city are still finding the place touching the soil and the sunlight. Lacking of sunlight inside theirs flats don’t stop them
In Touch with Soil – Urban Agriculture
Plant in City A Journey Seeking For the Sun Living in Concrete Jungle like Hong Kong, people inside the city are still finding the place touching the soil and the sunlight. Lacking of sunlight inside theirs flats don’t stop them
Long- lasting Topography and Architecture
Long- lasting Topography and Architecture Artifact, self drawn. Thesis Brief This thesis is to design a public space, a sense of long-lasting architecture on part of the landform. Challenges are to respect the historical,ecological and geographical contexts behind the topography.
Long- lasting Topography and Architecture
Long- lasting Topography and Architecture Artifact, self drawn. Thesis Brief This thesis is to design a public space, a sense of long-lasting architecture on part of the landform. Challenges are to respect the historical,ecological and geographical contexts behind the topography.
Metamorphic Altar
WHAT? This thesis will experiment with the interior of a contemporary statuary museum which have series ancient statues and frescoes. The research and experiment objects is culture relics from Xiangtangshan grottoes, Hebei province, China. In the early 20th century, the grottoes were
Metamorphic Altar
WHAT? This thesis will experiment with the interior of a contemporary statuary museum which have series ancient statues and frescoes. The research and experiment objects is culture relics from Xiangtangshan grottoes, Hebei province, China. In the early 20th century, the grottoes were
Enliven Gaps
This thesis is rethinking the urban gaps by shearing volume, try to generate a new atmosphere for the negative urban gap, forward to transform the negative gap to be a positive semi-public space which with more natural light and sky view. WHAT?
Enliven Gaps
This thesis is rethinking the urban gaps by shearing volume, try to generate a new atmosphere for the negative urban gap, forward to transform the negative gap to be a positive semi-public space which with more natural light and sky view. WHAT?