Farm-to-table
Mixed Used Residentials
Unity in Motion
Mixed used Building
Public Coliving Redesign Affordable Housing
1:1 Bath Prototype Installation & Protoype making
Dormer Conversion Real life Project: Detail Design
Wave up! Community Center
Yannie Mak | 2024
Mixed Used residentials
Plymouth Year 3, 2024
Individual project Academics
Instructor: Slobodan Radoman
Location: Western District Public Cargo Working Area
Kennedy Town, Hong Kong
Project Brief: An urban village design that incorporate 50% residentials, 35% food related program and 10% car park.
In Hong Kong, the current food system relies on long-distance transportation and extensive industrial processing, which often strips away the natural flavors of food. This results in a lack of familiarity with true taste, or umami, experiences among the new generation. The proposal is to bring to the farm to urban area, offering visitors the opportunity to taste fresh, organic ingredients without the need to travel long distances to the countryside.
Visitors will have the opportunity to witness and engage in organic farming, harvesting, and tasting all in this site. The immediate use of fresh ingredients fosters diners’ appreciation for the journey from farm to plate.
The relationship between humans, plants, and animals are inherently symbiotic. Humans rely on plants for food, fiber, and oxygen, while plants depend on the carbon dioxide, nutrients, and water provided by humans and animals. Animals play a crucial role in the ecosystem by cycling nutrients, dispersing seeds, and maintaining soil health.
The relationship between humans, plants, and animals are inherently symbiotic. Humans rely on plants for food, fiber, and oxygen, while plants depend on the carbon dioxide, nutrients, and water provided by humans and animals. Animals play a crucial role in the ecosystem by cycling nutrients, dispersing seeds, and maintaining soil health.
Ramp up from Key Entrance
Merge Ramps
Skylight
Continuous roof circulation across adjacent site
Amplify Farm program shape
Entrance offset to form plaza
Make Shortcut & Visual Corridors
Aligh edges to Urban grid
Plymouth Year 2, 2023
Individual project Academics
Instructor: Louis Hung
Location: Quarry bay, Hong Kong
Project Brief: Retrofiting an existing municipal services building which includes Public library, government office, sports, wet market, cooked food court (Even ratio with ±10% tolerance)
The current design of the municipal building in Hong Kong is highly compartmentalized, lacking any visual or vertical connection between floors. To address this issue, I propose introducing a sports center in the middle of the building. This sports center acts as a condenser, connecting all different programs.
The function of sports has evolved from pure exercise to entertainment. By placing the sports center in the middle, it functions as a massive television, entertaining every user in the building. The nature of sports is also neutral and dynamic, making it a popular activity that can be engaged in by every generation.
In addition to improving connectivity, the sports “center” also serves as a visual and functional centerpiece of the design. By providing a gathering space for people of all ages to engage in sports, socialize, and foster a sense of community within the building.
Sport Center Detached
Existing
Proposed
To further integrate and celebrate the sports center, the auxiliary sports rooms are arranged around the BIG hall. There’re 3 main gesture. Some rooms punching into the sports center, while others sit right between the border of the sports center and the adjacent programs. Additionally, some negative spaces punch from the sports center to the side. This strategy soften the boundary of the central sport hall, blending this with other programs.
The sports center is visible from every floor, serving as a consistent presence within the building. Considering the primary users are elderly individuals and people with shopping carts, I propose a revolving ramp that encircles the sports center. The continuous spatial contraction and expansion creates a rhythmic movement, enhancing the overall experience of navigating through the building.
Each reveals a little more of the sports center....
Primary Structure:
Base support Structure Iteration
Yannie Mak | 2022
RE-Design public housing
Plymouth Year 2, 2023
Group work (Enoch, Kirby, Yannie)
Academics
Instructor: Sebastien Saint-Jean
Location: Hong Kong
Project Brief: Propose a new public housing typology and strategies
In Hong Kong, Public Housing(PH) are always in storage. Applicant on avrage needs to wait at least 10 years for allocation, and almost half of them are single household.
Under changing working patterns with long commutes and increasing pressures to work from home, housing could be an integral component in improving general lifestyles. With increasingly fragmented communities, characterised by economic precarity and locational instability, the need to accommodate guests and others for varied durations is perhaps more pressing than ever.
We proposed shared kitchens among sub-groups of 5-8 households and shared living rooms among 2-3 sub-groups. Our systematic architectural strategies, including extended corridors, alternative triangle balconies, and atrium setbacks, aim to balance community and privacy.
To random conversation among the neigbours, we added the balcony along the corridors. These extra pockets allow the resident to have extra semi-private space to hang out and facilitate conversation. The size of the balcony is varied as the number of flats nearby.
High Diploma Year 2, 2022
Individual project Academics
Instructor: Sebastien Saint-Jean
Location: 80 Kwun Tong Pormenade, Hong Kong
Project Brief: A community center which include public library, exhibition hall and 3 activities rooms
The design of this community center is an extension of a master plan focused on connectivity. The proposed master plan features a park that links the two islands while concealing vehicular roads underground, thereby reclaiming ground space for pedestrians and fostering a walkable urban environment.
The community center incorporates a smooth walking path that connects the park to the rooftop, providing visitors with panoramic views of the master plan and serving as an observation deck along the waterfront promenade. A significant site challenge is the support column of the overpass, which the design transforms from a potential obstruction into a celebrated feature. The column becomes a canvas for creativity, with the rooftop path allowing visitors to appreciate the surroundings from a 360-degree perspective.
The wavy path design creates pocket spaces for relaxation, encouraging serendipitous interactions and fostering a vibrant community atmosphere.
Site surface mostly covered by overpass and a support column steps on the site
Push down the uncovered side to bring in more sun light
Make light well at center
Make ramp around the column and blend with site circulation
Construction Detail & Build
High Diploma Year 1, 2021
Academics
Group work
Group mates: Anderson, Anson, Cheryl, Ken, Yannie
Instructor: Johnny & Eddie Chan
Project Brief: Prototype technical detail design and construction
Reflection: Reflection:
Base material of the whole structure is wood. As a group of Year 1 student, we had little knowledge about construction detail and material. We only have a very rough idea of how the bath prototype be like, which is:
A covered bath tub with pitched roof to be placed in an outdoor natural environment .
In this consideration integrity, but not added structure ing and that the demostrate we change to cut cost.
Yet in this trying to ment.
Moving on, we started to use physical model to understand the construction in 3-dimensional. + timber frame structure
stage, we gave more consideration on structural integrity, water proofing and last not least, cost control. We the basic timber frame structure to support the ceiland hold the tub. Knowing the prototype will only be demostrate in interior setting, change back to flat ceiling cost.
this stage, we are still just to fullfill the basic require-
The essence in spa is clamness and transquility. To enchance this, we decided to go minimalist, eliminating all unecessary visual element. We double layer tub to hide the light underneath the water, as well as the inlet and drainage point.
But then, the whole thing went way beyond out initial budget. To cut cost, we decided to build half of the tub only, like a sectional moodel.
Company: ODDD
Professional
Supervisor: Huw O Droma
Location: Pont Street, Central London
Project Year: Designed at 2022, Construction began at 2024
Project Brief: Technical detail design of a dormer in conservation area.
The extension references the dormers of many of the other houses seen along the rear of this terrace. It does seek to replicate the original constructions, but also to provide a modern interpretation, with crisp detailing and utilising the best materials in zinc - a complement to the traditional lead roofing and flashing seen elsewhere on the building.
1st Draft
2nd Draft
• Zinc Standing Seam On Separating Layer On 25mm Marine Plywood
• Ventilation Gap With Insect Mesh
• Zinc Lined Hidden Box Gutter Laid To Fall Either Side
• Prefabricated Fascia Piece Formed From 18mm Ply Profile Ribs @ 600mm C/C
• Fascia Piece Bolted To Timber Head Beam
• 140mm Deep Timber Packing Beneath Head Beam
• Folded Zinc Window Reveal
• Concealed 60mm Dia. Rainwater Downpipe Within Dormer Cheek
• Balustrade Channel Fixed Over Cill With Packing
• Shims Under. Design And Fixings To IQ Glass Spec.
• Underside Of Steel Plate And Beam Flange To Be Treated With Anti-Rust Paint
• Folded Zinc Cill Dressed Over Steel Plate And Under Window Frame
• Lead Cover Flashing Tucked To Underside Of Steel Flange
• Lead Flashing Dressed Over 18mm Marine Plywood Board Laid To Fall
• Continuous 18mm Plywood Board Fixed To Timber Packer
• Existing Timber Purlin
• Existing Steel UC Beam
