Department of Architecture
Please join the HKU Department of Architecture for its semi annual design studio Public Forum. The Public Forum is positioned at the midpoint of each semester to foster discourse and exchange between the design studios across the undergraduate and graduate programs. The event is organized in a symposium format with studio groupings that not only try to reflect commonalities or similar research themes, but also differences in methodological approaches and tools. The emphasis of the event is a discussion of process and the next steps of each project rather than on a final design outcome. Representatives from each studio will present the studio work in five minute visual presentations in groupings of four studios per session. Panel discussions will follow each set of presentations. Please see the above schedule for more details.
Schedule
14:00
Olivier Ottevaere
Barrier Housing –
Re-envisioning the ‘Wall Effect’ for High-density living
Michael Kokora
Cut Form
Eunice Seng
Composite Hong Kong-Tokyo-Shanghai
Ulrich Kirchhoff
(Hong Kong Studio)
Exchange: From City to Building
14:40
Fai Au
Sensory Housing: Activating the Dead Threshold
Yasuaki Onada
Memorial Landscape
Eric Schuldenfrei
Inaccessible Air Atmospheric Alterations
Thomas Tsang
(Group A)
Drawing Room
15:20
John Lin
Rural Urban Housing:
A Typological Translation
Xiaodu Liu
Urban Miniature
Ole Bouman
Projections of Chinese Creativity in the 21st Century
Anderson Lee
(Shanghai Studio)
Exchange: From City to Building
16:00
Yan Gao
Smart Housing – Structural and Material Assembly with Reciprocal Timber
Karl Chu
Bagan
Tom Verebes
Tokyo 2028
Christian Lange
Downtown Athletic Club HK – Architecture Upside-Down: Towards vertical topographies
16:40
Beisi Jia
Adaptable Housing and Flexibilities Beyond Living
Dietmar Eberle
Searching for the History of Future
Erik Amir
Cities in Cities: Fields of Inter Actions
Thomas Tsang
(Group B)
Drawing Room
17:20
Chad McKee
Climate-responsive Housing: Adaptive Strategies for the Vertical Climatology of High-Rise Residential Buildings in HK
Fernando Menis
A New Vision of Hong Kong Topography: Humidity Tubes
Jason Carlow
Tiny Footprints: Futher Explorations on the Hong Kong Pencil Tower
Holger Kehne
Stasis, Composure, Parity: New Public Projects for the City
18:00
Wrap-up
