Crafts on Peel Creative and Experiential Venue by Annette Pui Man Chu |
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| DESIGN NAME: Crafts on Peel PRIMARY FUNCTION: Creative and Experiential Venue INSPIRATION: “Renovation is an act that connects history and future possibilities. We preserve, at the same time, intervene. We remove and insert precisely new elements.” - Annette Chu, Eureka. With the objective to preserve and revitalise traces of the old habitation have been retained, generating a dynamic juxtaposition of old and new, while allowing for a continuation of heritage and storytelling. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The project revitalises a 3-storey tenement built in 1948 to become a creative and experiential venue to serve its new mission to revive and reinterpret traditional crafts in a contemporary context. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Crafts on Peel is a multipurpose venue providing home to experiential retail opportunities, exhibitions, workshops. To keep the 120m2 floor space flexible, full height oxidized steel posts with adjustable display shelves extend across the exposed brick wall at all levels. On second floor is an addition of an artisan-in-residence studio that models after the traditional accommodation which the bed platform is elevated. Young apprentice can live and work on this floor, and have the works exhibited on the floor below. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in 2017 and was completed in late 2019. It is located in Peel Street, Central, Hong Kong. FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Interior Space and Exhibition Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: A prominent feature that runs through the building is the exposed brick wall which the design deliberately preserves. Large voids, which are thought to be windows of the originally exterior walls, are replaced by stainless steel display shelves that also serves as structural supports. Loose bricks are broken into chips, mixed with white cement and installed as terrazzo to strengthen the brick wall. The renovation process is an improvisation with the existing building which design modifies and refines with site conditions. Three different steel treatments are used throughout to create deliberate tactile differences. Intact stairs threads are kept and while the broken ones are repaired with a 5mm thick steel plate installed. Polycarbonate layered with perforated steel panels are inserted between flights of stairs, but give way when existing solid balustrades can retain. Plaster mouldings, old timber windows, concrete columns are exposed to create a juxtaposition of the old and new. Externally, the building is painted white with fine horizontal texture, retaining the outline of the original façade features. Revolving windows reminiscent of 1940-50s fenestration designs encourage natural ventilation to the space inside. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The project is a revitilization of a 3-storey tenement building built in 1948 with a total floor area of 120m2. TAGS: crafts, revitalization, materials, gallery, culture, hong kong, eureka RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The strengthening of the existing brick wall was a conscious action that no new bricks shall be added. Bricks with good conditions were cleaned and sealed. Loose bricks were removed, hammered into small pieces which were mixed with white cement and installed as terrazzo to repair and strengthen the brick wall. This resulted a particular pattern and aesthetics on site. CHALLENGE: The most challenging and yet rewarding part of the project was the improvisation of the design with the site. It was a continuous dialogue with the building. As we removed and cleared the site, more existing features and spatial qualities were discovered. Some design gave way in order to create this overlapping reading of the new and existing. For example, the broken yet intact concrete stairs balustrade was preserved at locations possible, and new perforated metal sheets layered with polycarbonate were added to other locations. ADDED DATE: 2020-02-28 16:26:33 TEAM MEMBERS (2) : Annette Chu and Gigi Chiu IMAGE CREDITS: Image #1: Photographer Bai Yu, Interior, 2020 Image #2: Photographer Bai Yu, Facade, 2020 Image #3: Photographer Bai Yu, Artisan-in-Residence Studio, 2020 Image #4: Photographer Bai Yu, Materials juxtaposition 1, 2020 Image #5: Photographer Bai Yu, Materials juxtaposition 2, 2020 PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: Copyrights belong to Eureka Limited, 2020 |
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NAME: Eureka Limited PROFILE: Eureka is a Hong Kong based architectural studio established in 2011 aiming to create a multi-layered experience. Architecture is not just about being visual. It is an opportunity to use the resources to build to bring in other values. DOUBLE AGENDA is what we believe in. We create commons, be it in a home, a school, or in society, to encourage new and positive interactions between people. Meaningful space can transform people’s behaviour. We do not believe in excess. We want honesty in our materials and construction, and connect space with nature and surrounding. To feel the beauty. Architecture should have narratives, and sensibility. We focus our works in our home city Hong Kong. Currently, we are working on a new-built kindergarten, an intergeneration co-living residential tower, a HK crafts foundation and other interior projects. |
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Crafts On Peel Creative and Experiential Venue by Annette Pui Man Chu is Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category, 2019 - 2020.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Annette Pui Man Chu. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Annette Pui Man Chu. |
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