CHUNG SZE MAN KATIEPORTFOLIO

CHUNG SZE MAN (KATIE)BACHELOR OF ENVIRONMENTS (ARCHITECTURE), MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Date of Birth: December 24, 1991Email: katie6a09@hotmail.comMobile: 62133373Home phone: 27095352Address: Flat 1D, Block 12, Laguna City, Lam Tin, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

‘An architect is the drawer of dreams.’

Frank Lloyd Wright

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University design projects/works:

Mask and life drawing 1Space and Matter 2-3Performative structure 4-5Elemental sheltering 6-7ARCH-IVAL Investigation: Balkrishna Doshi 8ARCH-TECTONIC Assemblage: Indian Architecture Gallery 9-10The 10-Second Experience 11-13Barlow Motors 14-15

Extra works:

Photographs, sketches, artworks 16-19

University design projects/works...

Dreams never end.

Mask and life drawing

These 2 small exercises were considered as an introduction to the bachelor course. The task of hand-making a mask helped me to develop a sense of beauty. On the other hand, the task of life drawing require me to draw the static moments of a person by free-hand. In order to become an architect, it is important to learn how to draw, by good coordination between eye and hand.

Mask

Life drawing 1 Life drawing 2 Life drawing 3 1

Space and MatterThis whole design project was divided into 6 stages, each contributes to the next stage and the final product. This project helped me to understand the relationship between space and matter, thinking from 2D to 3D.

A) Spatial Body

Counting how many layers are overlapped in each area.

Coloring the areas with different colors according to the different intensities of overlapping.

Spatial body drawing

B) Sequence Space

Front View Back View Side View

C) Massing

Perspective view 1 Perspective view 2

Top view 2

D) Excavation

Dissection 1 Dissection 2 A view on both dissections

E) Dissection

Sextion 1 Sextion 2 Sextion 1 Sextion 2

(1st Renderings- Without shading the background in the darkest color) (2nd Renderings- Shading the background in the darkest color)

F) Inhabitation

Sextion 1 Sextion 2Plan (Effect of sunlight on different areas) Plan (Heights of different levels) 3

In this project, I am required to design a stair for a client, which is Nuttin but Stringz. This is a team formed by a pair of siblings, which are great violinists, they perform very well. My aim is to design a stair which combines with a platform as a stage for them to perform.

Preliminary sketch Preliminary sketch

Final sketch

4

Performative structure

Plan South elevation

East elevation

Representations

5

Elemental shelteringIn this project, I needed to design a shelter in a location that I chose. I chose Hong Kong Wetland Park as the site location. It was the first time I have to design a building, it is important and difficult to keep it functional and aesthetically appeal at the same time. I had to consider many different aspects/elements when designing the shelter, for example, to develop an universal design which allow all kinds of people including disadvantaged people to access the shelter, to allow adequate sunlight into the shelter, etc.

Plan of Hong Kong Wetland Reserve

6

7

ARCH-IVAL Investigation: Balkrishna DoshiThis was a group research project with 3 members, studying one of the famous works of a well-known Indian architect, Balkrishna Doshi. We chose his work- Sangath(1979-81) in Ahmedabad, India. We analyzed the details of the design of this building and get inspired by it in our future designs.

8

The design of this project was based on the last project-ARCHIVAL investigation. The aim was to develop a design of a gallery according to the design characteristics of Balkrishna Doshi. The location of the site (Site 6) is inside a carpark next to the university campus, the site has an elongated shape. Designing a gallery is different from designing a shelter, due to the variations in use. Different aspects needed to be considered when designing a gallery.

Exterior view 1 Exterior view 2 Exterior view 3

ARCH-TECTONIC Assemblage: Indian Architecture Gallery 9

Spaces and Volumes

Interior Designs

Computer area Double volume space

Reading area Reception

Secure archival storageSitting area

10

The 10-Second experienceThis project was very innovative and new to me, it was about manipulating parametric modeling (grasshopper + Rhino) to design a public sculpture on a busy highway in the city of Melbourne. Parametric modeling is very different from the traditional way of designing, different components were combined and used in grasshopper to produce the design, different inputs can create completely different results. This project was extremely inspiring.

It was a group project with 3 members. The 3 main concepts of our project were lighting (cut/diffused technique), cellular skin(voronoi and layering) and ecology (rooting system). We combined the 3 themes to produce the final design- a tunnel sculpture with 2 layers of voronoi pattern. Cut and diffused lighting techniques were applied in the holes of the voronoi patterns. Using an interval of every 50m, an attractor point is applied while constructing the voronoi pattern. This results in a big contrast between the cell sizes.

The lighting techniques (cut/diffused) are used to indicate the distance travelled by car drivers (an interval of every 50m). In the voronoi patterns, smaller cells are not extruded between the 2 layers to provide ventilation and act as cut light technique (light penetrate through the pattern at sharp angles), they are located in every 50m. Colored semi-transparent glasses are applied to larger cells to diffuse the light penetrating through the pattern and create aesthetic effects. The speed of cars on the highway is 100km/hr, for a 300m long tunnel, the tunnel now is a 10-second experience.

Stop motion lighting effect of physical model

Stop motion lighting effect of physical model

The beginning of a brand new experience... 11

1:150 physical model 12

Perspective view

Perspective viewPerspective view 13

Barlow MotorsThis project was mainly about designing a carshowroom at the corner of Melbourne CBD area, the client of the building is the Barlows. The building has multifunctional uses: carparking spaces, carshowroom, coffee shop, miniature golf course, apartment, etc. The building is a high-rise building with 12 floors: carparking spaces at the bottom; intermediate open spaces; top carshow-room. Circular ramps connect carparking levels; the intermediate open spaces provide an excellent view of the Victoria street; glass curtain walls are applied in the carshowroom levels to provide an open view for people inside and outside; apartment and a rooftop garden are on the top level.

3D panorama-La Trobe Street

La Trobe St Elevation Victoria St Elevation Grant Lane Elevation Rooftop view

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Car showroom Service Centre Portfolio

Carparking levels Miniature golf course Rooftop garden

Interior spaces

15

Photographs, sketches, artworksSearching for inspirations...

Photographs

Personally very interested in taking pictures when traveling around different plac-es, especially vegetations and buildings, both in their dynamic and static states...

Flowers, Guangzhou, December 2012 Garden, Guangzhou, December 2012 16

Photographs

Chinese traditional Garden, Guangzhou, December 2012 Chinese traditional Garden, Guangzhou, December 2012 17

Sketches/ Drawings

Teddy Bear, 2008

Lanscapes, 2009 18

knit work, 2009 ‘Sakula pavilion’, 2005 Plant room (clay), 2011

Traditional Korean dolls, 2011

Front view, model of a family house, 2011 Back view, model of a family house, 2011

Handmade artworks 19