11/2014 Thesis Statement Draft 2.0 : MAKING | MAPPING | MEDIATING
Underground Cemetery
What ? program above the cemetery need to be highly selected. since most of the people doesnt want to live close with the cemetery. thus, i am proposing to use the island eastern corridor to be the testing ground
Underground Cemetery
What ? program above the cemetery need to be highly selected. since most of the people doesnt want to live close with the cemetery. thus, i am proposing to use the island eastern corridor to be the testing ground
Transitionary Shelter
The thesis hopes to experiment with the recreation of basic qualities of shelter in left over spaces. Building on temporarily unused plots of land can be treated as an emergency measure, but more importantly bring up a significance for
Transitionary Shelter
The thesis hopes to experiment with the recreation of basic qualities of shelter in left over spaces. Building on temporarily unused plots of land can be treated as an emergency measure, but more importantly bring up a significance for
Hydrokinetic Architecture
3 Axis Stabilizer for Floating Structure A New Typology Combine Fish Raft and Aquarium This floating Architecture is independent, as it can generate power and food. As it float at the ocean, the most important issue to solve is how
Hydrokinetic Architecture
3 Axis Stabilizer for Floating Structure A New Typology Combine Fish Raft and Aquarium This floating Architecture is independent, as it can generate power and food. As it float at the ocean, the most important issue to solve is how
Fakery VS Authenticity
WHAT Dafen Village, Creative Industry This thesis will explore contemporary methods of desinging a creative district using multivalent methods of understanding movement systems and events nt its site. The goal is to engender the district with a great degree of
Fakery VS Authenticity
WHAT Dafen Village, Creative Industry This thesis will explore contemporary methods of desinging a creative district using multivalent methods of understanding movement systems and events nt its site. The goal is to engender the district with a great degree of
Sunlight Recognition
Sunlight Recognition Since the invention of curtain wall, buildings with 4-sided glass facade are everywhere. The total transparency of glass allow as much as light to penetrate into architecture, which gives the sense of spacelessness, which means less stress on the articulation of light and
Sunlight Recognition
Sunlight Recognition Since the invention of curtain wall, buildings with 4-sided glass facade are everywhere. The total transparency of glass allow as much as light to penetrate into architecture, which gives the sense of spacelessness, which means less stress on the articulation of light and
SOFT INFRASTRUCTURE
The streetscape in Hong Kong is changing. From a street with multiple shops opening towards the pedestrian to a podium with large walls facing the sidewalk, the street has been degraded from being an arena of social expression to only
SOFT INFRASTRUCTURE
The streetscape in Hong Kong is changing. From a street with multiple shops opening towards the pedestrian to a podium with large walls facing the sidewalk, the street has been degraded from being an arena of social expression to only
Public Archipelago
WHAT? The thesis will try to question the rights to the public space, and criticize the modern planning and civilization of city, where the public sphere is being privatized or controlled. By designing a walled space with highly
Public Archipelago
WHAT? The thesis will try to question the rights to the public space, and criticize the modern planning and civilization of city, where the public sphere is being privatized or controlled. By designing a walled space with highly
On the Road
Road as Stage of Spectacle To view the existing road condition as a non-monoprogramatic space; a stage for everyday activities. The model catalogues a series of different activities currently existing on the road, including markets, temporary housing, transport infrastructure. The
On the Road
Road as Stage of Spectacle To view the existing road condition as a non-monoprogramatic space; a stage for everyday activities. The model catalogues a series of different activities currently existing on the road, including markets, temporary housing, transport infrastructure. The
Propagator
My thesis is to propose a mechanism of making architecture from crowd. the thesis is NOT to design a housing type for temporary, mobile use. BUT is to design a system of generating nomadic living unit with basic needs. the
Propagator
My thesis is to propose a mechanism of making architecture from crowd. the thesis is NOT to design a housing type for temporary, mobile use. BUT is to design a system of generating nomadic living unit with basic needs. the
Movability of architecture
Movability of Architecture When the Homo sapiens built their own house instead of living in caves, prototype of windows and doors was invented as some furs, which are the earliest movable parts of architecture. Mongolian yurt and Romani camp somehow
Movability of architecture
Movability of Architecture When the Homo sapiens built their own house instead of living in caves, prototype of windows and doors was invented as some furs, which are the earliest movable parts of architecture. Mongolian yurt and Romani camp somehow
ConTemporary Home in the 21st Century
WHAT? My thesis will focus on reinventing a new housing typology in Hong Kong by mainly looking at the clear cut relationship between the publicity and the privacy issues. There are possibilities to reconfigure the size and number of units
ConTemporary Home in the 21st Century
WHAT? My thesis will focus on reinventing a new housing typology in Hong Kong by mainly looking at the clear cut relationship between the publicity and the privacy issues. There are possibilities to reconfigure the size and number of units
A room with a View
Windows, allowing sight from inward and outward, is more than an aperture. With the view created through an architectural opening it could reflect the occupants’ social status, provoke spirit of freedom and beauty, at the same time interact and form
A room with a View
Windows, allowing sight from inward and outward, is more than an aperture. With the view created through an architectural opening it could reflect the occupants’ social status, provoke spirit of freedom and beauty, at the same time interact and form
MEDICAL NEMESIS
MEDICAL NEMESIS In an age of anxiety for transferring concepts between professional discourses – medicine and architecture – both of which are filled with their own contemporary ambiguities and for appearing to award architecture a more important role .
MEDICAL NEMESIS
MEDICAL NEMESIS In an age of anxiety for transferring concepts between professional discourses – medicine and architecture – both of which are filled with their own contemporary ambiguities and for appearing to award architecture a more important role .
TEMPORAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE
What As the high-speed rail system in China is becoming more and more completed, it plays an important role in the transportation between cities and high-speed rail stations become more and more important. Now most high-speed railway station locates either on the
TEMPORAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE
What As the high-speed rail system in China is becoming more and more completed, it plays an important role in the transportation between cities and high-speed rail stations become more and more important. Now most high-speed railway station locates either on the
Edible Urbanism – Where Future of Sustainability Lies
What? – Explaining the Project Singapore is one of the leading cities in Asia, famous of demonstrating high density can be associated with intensive natural features. Despite all the green buildings of the city, Singapore’s food chain highly relies on
Edible Urbanism – Where Future of Sustainability Lies
What? – Explaining the Project Singapore is one of the leading cities in Asia, famous of demonstrating high density can be associated with intensive natural features. Despite all the green buildings of the city, Singapore’s food chain highly relies on
Compact Living And High Density As Reaction To The Uncontrolled Sprawl Of Bogotá
ARTIFACT NAILING DENSITY This artifact embodies in its conception, materiality and craft an abstract representation of a scattered city, which heart allows a moderate density while its periphery is vastly sprawled along the territory. City nodes and forces acts
Compact Living And High Density As Reaction To The Uncontrolled Sprawl Of Bogotá
ARTIFACT NAILING DENSITY This artifact embodies in its conception, materiality and craft an abstract representation of a scattered city, which heart allows a moderate density while its periphery is vastly sprawled along the territory. City nodes and forces acts
Nocturne of The Lost
Nocturne of The Lost Nocturne /ˈnɒktɜːn/ (noun) –that evoke nighttime thoughts and sensations This thesis is to design a new typology of pop-up architectural partial of building, which appears in nighttime only. This nighttime architecture also exhibits the idea of
Nocturne of The Lost
Nocturne of The Lost Nocturne /ˈnɒktɜːn/ (noun) –that evoke nighttime thoughts and sensations This thesis is to design a new typology of pop-up architectural partial of building, which appears in nighttime only. This nighttime architecture also exhibits the idea of
Center to Divert
Artifact What is a core? Core first existed in the building as a chimney, a service tube which provided heat for houses. At the age of high rise, core is a representation of a transfer from the ground
Center to Divert
Artifact What is a core? Core first existed in the building as a chimney, a service tube which provided heat for houses. At the age of high rise, core is a representation of a transfer from the ground
Rail integrated communities in Urban fringes
Generating typologies by simulating the city growth This thesis investigates the development mode of rail integrated communities in the urban fringes. A computational city growth simulator is proposed to test out and generate typologies of rail integration. Government Proposal on
Rail integrated communities in Urban fringes
Generating typologies by simulating the city growth This thesis investigates the development mode of rail integrated communities in the urban fringes. A computational city growth simulator is proposed to test out and generate typologies of rail integration. Government Proposal on
Drawing and Architecture Paradox
ARTIFACT | “The importance of the diagram points to the idea of difference – it is not the drawing of a plan, or something that looks like or represents an objects; it is a condition of possibility, a template of
Drawing and Architecture Paradox
ARTIFACT | “The importance of the diagram points to the idea of difference – it is not the drawing of a plan, or something that looks like or represents an objects; it is a condition of possibility, a template of
Adaptive Planning Through Layers
What utilize tools other than PLAN, for PLANNING If urban planner can liberate themselves from masterplanning through plan, what can the city be? Within the mode of planning through plan, while the city grows, additional functions need to put at
Adaptive Planning Through Layers
What utilize tools other than PLAN, for PLANNING If urban planner can liberate themselves from masterplanning through plan, what can the city be? Within the mode of planning through plan, while the city grows, additional functions need to put at
Marginalizing In Coexistence
Tseung Kwan O Columbarium,Jason Hawkes//Crematorium,Ernest Wiesner//The crematorium and cemetery,Kat-Scoufaridou Hong Kong has long been troubled with the problem of after-death infrastructure, not only the supply of columbarium is not matching with the growing demand, but the most severe problem is
Marginalizing In Coexistence
Tseung Kwan O Columbarium,Jason Hawkes//Crematorium,Ernest Wiesner//The crematorium and cemetery,Kat-Scoufaridou Hong Kong has long been troubled with the problem of after-death infrastructure, not only the supply of columbarium is not matching with the growing demand, but the most severe problem is
ArkeMergenc(y)e
What? During the past hundreds of years, humans face hundreds and thousands of natural disasters, shipwrecks and air crash accidents. Nowadays we have wars of ocean resource. How architects can support and co-operate with adventures, fishermen, search and rescue (SAR)
ArkeMergenc(y)e
What? During the past hundreds of years, humans face hundreds and thousands of natural disasters, shipwrecks and air crash accidents. Nowadays we have wars of ocean resource. How architects can support and co-operate with adventures, fishermen, search and rescue (SAR)
MALL 2.0
MALL AS CITY GENERATOR Mall has different meanings in the world and is related to different aspects, but there is only commercially driven meaning in Hong Kong. Mall is also the core activity area for Hong Kong people and tourists,
MALL 2.0
MALL AS CITY GENERATOR Mall has different meanings in the world and is related to different aspects, but there is only commercially driven meaning in Hong Kong. Mall is also the core activity area for Hong Kong people and tourists,