Architectural Portfolio

ARCHITECTURE
PORTFOLIO
LIU TSZ SHING, JASON
Selected Works
2014-2018

01
XINXIANGGANG 2047
02
A FICTIONAL FUTURE HISTORY OF
HONG KONG
SPRING 2018
FUSING THE GROUNDS
HYBRID PEDESTRIAN NETWO
CENTRAL NEW HARBOURFRONT
HONG KONG
FALL 2017

03
RK
MONUMENT OF DUST
04
AN ARCHITECTURAL REACTION TO
AIR POLLUTION
SHAM SHUI PO
HONG KONG
SPRING 2017
ROOM OF
TRANSFORMATION
DRAWING ROOM
SITELESS
FALL 2015
SELECTED WORKS

01
XINXIANGGANG 2047
DISTRICT INTERVENTION STRATEGY
Shangye Lingshou Hybrid (Business Retail Hybrid)
Shangye (Business)
Type 1
Connecting urban developments
Infill under elevated highway
Route 9, near Yuen Long, Hong Kong
Wenyu (Civic)
Xiuxi (Rest)
Type 2
Connecting large urban development with the shore
Ground highway to sunken highway
Binhe Dadao, Xiasha, Shenzhen
Residential (Village)
Traffic Police Headquarter
347.8
1:4000
Development Bureau
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
of the People’s Republic of China
Laodong (Labour)
Jiaotong (Transportation)
MTR to Airport and Yuanlang Qu
Route
9
Civic /
Communal
Binhe
Dadao
Civic
57.8
Residential
(Village)
92.5
Raised
Landscape
Carved In
Spaces/
Tunnel
Bridge
Masts
13.4 171.6 10.0 46.4 109.5 63.6 10.0
Ground
Highway
Sunken
Highway
Residential (Village)
(m)
(m)
Carved Out
Soil
Light Rail to Yuanlang Qu and Tunmen Qu
Compacted
Soil
Natural
Wetland Shore
Retaining
Wall
Underbridge
Solid-Void
Strategies
1:500
Ground vs Sunken Highway
1:500
C
MTR to Shenzhen and Old Hong Kong
A FICTIONAL FUTURE HISTORY OF
HONG KONG
SPRING 2018 | 2-person group project
Tutor: Sony Devabhaktuni
This project imagines a fictional
government’s plan of building a new city
rid of colonial influences in Northwestern
New Territories. It represents the
government’s ambition and optimism
in a future which the new Hong Kong
(Xinxianggang) is no longer a city state
but instead becomes half of the twin city
that is the Hong Kong (Xinxianggang)
and Shenzhen agglomeration. The unique
economic and legal framework of the new
city allows for the symbiotic cooperation
with Shenzhen in the advancement of
economic development without the
constant struggle for self determination
demanded by the citizens of old Hong
Kong. Xinxianggang becomes the
Chinese ideal of the SAR system, one that
emphasizes on One Country instead of
Two Systems.
B
Type 3
Connecting urban development with natural slope
Soil refill above ground highway
Route 9, near Hung Shui Kiu, Hong Kong
Route
9
New Levelled
Pathway
New Structure
(Shallow
Foundation)
Steel Truss
Framing
Landscaping
Soil Refill Strategy
1:500
Compacted
Fill
Original
Landscape
Interventions in urban, district and building
scales were employed in investigating the
issue of connectivity of different fabrics.
Residential (Village) Green Belt Natural Slope
(Preserved)
45.0 8.1 74.0 64.3 (m)
20m
Type 4
Connecting water across border
Floating docks centered at bridge mast on water
Route 10, Deep Bay, Hong Kong
Stacked
Modules
Anchored
Truss
Bridge
Mast
Truss
Deck
Anchorage Types
1:500
China
Hong Kong
Hong Kong-Shenzhen
Western Corridor
Polyethylene
Pontoon
Water Level
Seabed
Long-term: Shallow Foundation
(Public programmes)
Short-term: Floating Deck
(Residential boats)
Residential
Retail /
Civic
Residential
48.5
(m)
Urban Intervention Strategy
1:5000 / 1:1500
Development Bureau
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
of the People’s Republic of China
X
First Opium War
Great Qing
City of Victoria established.
1841
7450
(
Treaty of Nanking
Hong Kong Island ceded to
the United Kingdom
in perpetuity.
British
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Island
1848
24000
[ X
1850
Taiping Rebellion
X
Chinese refugees fleeing
from the Taiping Rebellion.
1850
1851 1853 1855
33000 39017 72000
Tai Ho - Tung Chung East
1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2024
2030 2040 2050
Development Proposal
119500
2014
82800
Tung Chung
( +
>
Beginning of
2024
2036
2047
Second Opium War Xinhai Revolution
Sino-Japanese War Chinese Civil War Great Leap Forward Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Reform and Opening-up
Tian’anmen Massacre
2014
281900
8207200
Shenzhen SEZ
219800 Greater Bay Area Plan
2031
8141700
] [
+
2026
7996200
>
Republic of China
People’s Republic of China
Tin Shui Wai
2006
2016
2024
* * * * (
396400
454000
7825200
343900
2021
Abolishment of
7608400
Hong Kong
> Special
2016
Tsueng Kwan O
Administrative
(
7336585
1991
2006
Region.
2011
229724
Daily quota of 150 granted to mainland Chinese138500
2016
Xinxianggang
7071576
for Hong Kong identity
2006
155600
established on
Yuen Long
2001
6864346
1 July 2047.
1991
6708389
2016
165666 1996
251918
Fanling-
6412937
2006
*
Sheung Shui
235000
+
1991
][
2006
2016
1971
1981
202117
2036
265700
262849
1991
105500
44040
74356
5674114
Tai Po
Kwu Tung North
( +
( >
>
1981
2006
2016
1971 *
120657 1986 1991
500400
472098
46361
5495488
380683
Tuen Mun (
<
2006
2016
1981
423400
444431
5109812 + 1991
Ma On Shan
Sha Tin
*
*
1986
506368
>
( +
362033
1981
Fanling North
2006
2016
188400
205478 (
118331 Tsuen Wan
< 1986 1991
2016
1966 1971
1981
420049
440807
2006
323950
321900 2016
1911
1921
1931
271892
1961
205700
Kwai Chung
94432
94655
116619
1968
Kwai
New Territories
Tsing
Tsing Yi
( < Tsuen Wan
+ (
Hung Shui Kiu
New Kowloon
* * 2036
622387
<
84823
1991
>
293737
160000
3927000
1986
271576
2006
1981
245238
277100
2016
1911
1921
1931
+
(
1970
3731030 1986
179588
13693
9487
22634
3995400
3550904 1991
2001 2006
3281676
3359448
3573635 2016
1931
3731140
>
1960
1872
1881
1891
1911
1921
1971
240386
113961
3000000
3191036
7704
9021
32673
56186
2001 2006
2016
3343046
3381795
Kowloon
3287655
X X X <
Convention of Peking
Kowloon Peninsula ceded to
the United Kingdom
in perpetuity.
(
+
1862
123511
1872
89084
1881
109970
1881
160402
1891
149469
1891
221441
X
Outbreak of the Bubonic plague
in Tai Ping Shan District.
Temporary exodus of
100000 Chinese.
X
Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory
New Territories leased to
the United Kingdom for
99 years.
+
1901
283978
1906
326961
1911
244323
1916
530000
1921
347401
1921
625166
1925
725000
1931
409203
1931
849800
Fixed legal boundary of
New Kowloon.
Battle of Hong Kong
British surrendered to
Japanese in 18 days.
][
1941
1600000
Japanese surrendered.
British governance resumed.
Metropolitan Area
][
1945
500000
Abercrombie Plan
*
New Territories
Frontier Closed Area established.
Border closed.
1950
2200000
*
Hong Kong British
Hong Kong
Occupied Hong Kong
Special Admistrative Region
Territory
of PRC
(Japan)
2000 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050
Designated as New Town
Incorporation of Kwai Chung
1961
1730052
1961
456404
Colony Outline Plan
Ten-year Housing Plan
Incorporation of Tsing Yi
1971
665700
Touch-base policy
Designated as New Town
Incorporation of Tai Wai
1981
1329035
Incorporation of Fanling
Sino-British Joint Declaration
Incorporation of Ma On Shan
1986
1907031
Port and Airport
Development Strategy
Incorporation of Tai Wo
Emigration wave towards 1997
1991
2374818
Hong Kong 2030+ :
Towards a Planning
Vision and Strategy
POPULATION HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF HONG KONG (1841-2047)
Name of Event
X [ ] ( + > <
1st 2nd 3rd Future Generation New Towns Traditional Urban Core Population Flow Event / Time Span Start / End of Regime New Development Extension / Incorporation Policy Merge Split Planning / Constructing Inhabited
Development Bureau
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
of the People’s Republic of China
*

CENTRAL
1:20000
Residential
Village Houses
Retail
Office
Industrial
Mixed Commercial / Residential
Mixed Programmes
Parking
Civic
Education
Hotel
Religious
Transport
Other Buildings
TIN SHUI WAI
1:20000
Residential
Village Houses
Retail
Office
Industrial
Mixed Commercial / Residential
Mixed Programmes
Parking
Civic
Education
Hotel
Religious
Transport
Other Buildings

02
FUSING THE GROUNDS
HYBRID PEDESTRIAN NETWORK
CENTRAL NEW HARBOURFRONT
HONG KONG
FALL 2017 | 2-person group project
Tutor: Holger Kehne
The hyper-density of Central created one
of the most congested pedestrian network
above ground. The intervention was a
series of intersecting multi-programmed
bridges, in hope of regenerating street life
on the footbridge which otherwise only
provides defined circulatory route with
minimal street activities, interactions and
sense of place.

03
MONUMENT OF DUST
AN ARCHITECTURAL REACTION TO
AIR POLLUTION
SHAM SHUI PO
HONG KONG
SPRING 2017 | 2-person group project
Tutor: Ulrich Kirchhoff
The project began with environmental
concerns on air pollution. By visualising air
pollution with distribution of dust, reaction
was brought in different scales, combined
with formal strategies and programmatic
requirements.
Dust samples were collected with tapes on
road signs at different points in the area
around Sham Shui Po.
Porosity and layering were the two
strategies applied on different scales, in
both its form and facade.

30/F Typical Office
11/F Co-working Space
8/F Community Hall
4/F Commercial Podium

Staying Duration
at Respective Area
CO
Wind
Speed
SMALL LARGE
Relative proportion of floor area
BALCONY
GARDEN
CORRIDOR
WASHROOM
HANGOUT SPACE
PANTRY
STORAGE
OMMU
COMMU
COMMUN
UNITY
YH HALL
OFFYH AO
CO I LL
COM
MER
RCIAL
PO
ODIUM
WORKING SPACE
OFFICE
EE
CONFERENCE ROOM
GYM
CHANGING ROOM
LECTURE/MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM
KITCHEN
Protection
Against
Pollution
Required
floor area
CHANGING ROOM
DINING AREA
SHOPPING AREA
Physical
Porosity
Common/ Service
Area
600 sqm
1800 sqm
Community
Hall
200 sqm
Commercial
Podium
400 sqm

y model 01
model converted the overall
ept of the transforming energy
the lever to the hammer) into
gle (and relatively more metaical)
space. The lever raised the
gy level step by step; the
mer was expressed as a narrow
ing point at the end of the
ow ‘levering’ part, and opened
o a huge space, representing the
resonance.
NG TO MODEL
04
ROOM OF
TRANSFORMATION
DRAWING ROOM
E KEYBOARD
dy model 02
s model translated the rectanguand
repetitive visual language in
keyboard part of the drawing
rd.
s was almost like a wall that
wed people to walk through, and
e were many horizontal and
lar walls within this thick ‘wall’.
SITELESS
FALL 2015
Tutor: Mei Chiu
ING TO MODEL
KEYBOARD AND THE
SITIONAL PIECE
By observing the motion of piano action,
the artefact was transformed into drawing.
The drawing was then translated into
a spatial sequence in 3-dimensional space.
The space was finally translated back to a
drawing, concluding the cycle of drawing
and modelling which informed and inspired
each other.
odel 03
odel consisted of two parts. A
ed version of study model 02
d the basis of the keyboard
ut the exterior walls align
e lines on the drawing board.
nsitional piece prepared itself
dging rectangular elements
ore triangular motif of the
rts of the room.
G TO MODEL
DRAWING TO MODEL
ECE
odified,
ion was
plify this
between
e of the
ecreased
THE HAMMER
Study models 06+07
The hammering action was recorded
as a series of stop motion layers. The
concept behind these two models
was similar – capturing the motion
as segments joined together.
DRAWING TO MODEL
Study model 08
This model was a trial of simple
parametric expression, representing
the final ‘resonance’ in an actualised
manner.
The space continuously varied itself
between wide and narrow, which
was an element taken from the
drawing board.
DRAWING TO MODEL
DRAWING TO MODEL
DRAWING TO MODEL
The cross-sections of the models
decreased in size when the space proceeded
forward. The more condensed and
angular space represented the increasing
concentration of mechanical energy of
the hammer.

The Lever
Threshold
The openings are made according to
the construction lines and triangles
on the drawing. The representation
of energy is expressed with light and
shadow, and the spatial qualities
which the user may experience. This
also connects the compartments as a
whole with the directions of light
and the angulated circulation.
A single tiny light creates a space wh
darkness cannot exist. The lig
vanquishes the darkness. Try as
might, the darkness cannot conqu
the lig
Donald L. Hicks, Look Into the St
ness, 20
THE MODEL
THE MODEL
Light is directed regularly into the
space, creating a tunnel-like (but
perpendicular with the circulation,
unlike tunnels in normal sense)
space and lighting experience.
A compartmentalized building had to
be organized by the movement
through it, because movement was the
one remaining thing that could give it
any coherence.
Robin Evans, Figures, Doors and
Passages, 1978
THE MODEL

The Transition
This piece connects the keyboard
and the lever. It transforms from the
orthogonal motif to the triangular
language, with certain relationship
with the ‘rhythm’ of the keyboard as
in the first piece of model.
THE MODEL
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all
disorder a secret order.
Carl Jung, The Archetypes and the
Collective Unconscious, 1934
THE MODEL

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