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<div style="text-align: center">In progress_Homeless Housing, Hong Kong</div>
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<div style="text-align: center">Lanzarote Housing, 2019-2020<br />“Solitude - to protect an intimacy with the topography from human encroachment.”</div>
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Hong Kong Special Education Needs School, 2021-2022<br />“Protective yet openness.”
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Mumbai Housing, 2018<br />
"Living in the horizontal, the vertical, the oblique, and the void."
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<div style="text-align: center">Copper House, Japan, 2024<br />
“A food truck or a house.”
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<div style="text-align: center">Neveredning House, Japan, 2024<br />
"What remains of a house after its death?"
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New State Tax University Campus Building, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2025<br />"From the underground, to the ground, to the sky."
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<div style="text-align: center">Re-Read Zaha Hadid, The Hong Kong Peak, 2016<br />
<br />Because of Hong Kong’s steep and mountainous topography, many hillsides have been flattened to create terraced building sites. These flattened areas—our <b>Artificial Plateaus</b>—are connected to one another by undulating paths. Instead of attempting to backfill these plateaus to restore the original landform, this project studies and designs how architecture can cooperate with a damaged natural landscape to form a new, unified <b>Topographic Architecture</b>.</div>
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Chai Wan Camping House, Hong Kong, 2020-2021<br />
“Not a building, but a wall intertwined with nature“
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Braemar Hill Trail Information Center, Hong Kong, 2020-2021 <br />
“A tree, a courtyard - the architecture is already there.”
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Industrial Warehouse, Hong Kong, 2021<br />
"Sculpting the air for both neighbors and users, within the constraints of the building code."
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Bamboo Retreat, 2016<br />
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"Our hands can create both freedom and boundaries. Learning how to let go, and how to practice minimal control, is a lifelong journey."
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The 58th Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition, Honorabale Mentions, 2023
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Residential Care Home for Person with Disabilities, Tai Po, Hong Kong, 2023-2024<br />
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Solitude...<br />
a space of solitude—
a place silent, static, yet fluidly alive.
To touch the orange of the sun,
to brush the green of the trees,
to feel the white of the clouds,
and to hold the blue of the sky.<br />
Know the difficulties you face, the constraints that bind you;
but please, hold onto life—free from all constraints.<br />
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Hong Kong Transitional Housing, 2021-2022<br />
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In Hong Kong, everything is reduced to monetary value. Buildings are compacted into "efficient" footprints solely to maximize saleable area, resulting in flats that completely lack a dedicated living room—forcing living spaces to bleed into kitchens or bedrooms. Yet, a generous empty space is precisely what provides opportunities for socializing, entertainment, and relaxation beyond the confines of a room. Hong Kong’s unique topography and dense population are <b>merely excuses</b>; the real culprits behind today’s sub-standard living conditions are uneven land distribution, developer hegemony, and <b>the prioritization of market value over human life</b>. True efficiency does not mean filling every square inch. Human life requires not only functionally optimized space, but also the breathing room of the seemingly useless void.
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<div style="text-align: center">Campus Service Building of National Taiwan University, 2026<br />
“Desire and Setback.”
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Xinmi Holiday House, China, 2019-2020
<br />"Sacrificing two washrooms to create these patios is a rejection of mindless optimization, in favor of beautiful, healing scenery.”
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Hong Kong: Hyper Nature, 2017<br />
<br />“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way — in short,
the period was so far like the present period,
that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received,
for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”<br />
<br />A Tale of Two Cities
Book I, Chapter 1, The Period. (Opening lines.),
Charles Dickens, 1859
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Yilan Swimming Pool, Taiwan. 2025<br />
“Respond to its immediate reality or an alightment to a distance illusion.”
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Taiwan Power Workshop&Warehouse, 2026<br />
“How can the infrastructure integrate with the site to shape the surrounding environment?”
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Math Department Bldg, National Taiwan University, 2025-2026<br />“It asks how classical architecture can be reinterpreted through Taiwan’s history, climate, and campus life.“
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Recovery Garden, 2025<br />
<br />Recovery Garden
is a water-plant filtration system in Tokyo that transforms wastewater and greywater into reclaimed water, renewable energy, and biomass for plant growth. The system integrates artificial filtration technologies with plants and microorganisms, operating as a hybrid ecological infrastructure. Grounded in a whole-systems approach, it seeks to restore and sustain urban ecosystems while advancing long-term self-sufficiency for Tokyo’s population.<br />Jingu Gaien is proposed as the first demonstration site, where biofiltration landscapes will reframe sanitation as a cooperative process between human systems and natural cycles. In the context of accelerating climate challenges, the project reimagines domestic water systems not as isolated utilities, but as active participants in ecological regeneration.
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