In order to travel between the accomodation and the architecture school I make 2 interchanges between buses, and the connecting … More

During my one day stopover between London and Quito I used the city of Mexico Metro to visit the historic … More

My project questions the present methods of developing plots of land excised by West African governments to the indigenous villages. The key objective is to test alternative methods of planning by proposing an architectural prototype for a village-led hotel, where a local indigenous community remains the long-term owner and benefactor of the intervention.

Hong Kong is a crossroads of opposing cultural flows, and its identity search is likely to continue for quite some … More

Whilst In China’s economic capital, I came across two sites of settlement relocation, one in兰言里, Jiaxing road district and one … More

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Houhai, [ 后海 ] Central Beijing, cold December evening. A half empty bar with most visitors staring at social media … More

Yearly exhibition event taking place in one of the famous urban villages this year. An urban village is a cluster … More

Shenzhen Huaqiangbei [华强北]: World’s largest electronic parts market. I joined the CUHK Urban conference event ran by prototyping start-up entrepreneurs.

Hong Kong’s young, sober and hardworking neighbour. Photos taken near Huanggangcun: 皇岗村.

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The proposal is a framework permitting an overtime evolution of a hotel / hospitality school. This sequence of photos visualises … More

North point is one of the less affluent areas of Hong Kong Island. It has a large population of East … More

A former industrial area, rapidly changing under the rising market prices and changing building uses. As the blue collars populations … More

BREEZE (From Previous Year) Consistent strong southwesterly wind enters the building through large scoopes. Cleaned from the dust by ne … More

Based on last CUHK tutorial, I will be using models to represent the wider site situation and case studies, as … More

Whilst on placement at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017, I contributed to a design methods presentation for … More

Last Wednesday I also met Zhengli Huang , one of the people behind the Chinese Urbanism in Africa publication by … More

Due to factors outside of its control, Nigeria’s hospitality education system is catching up with the rest of the world. … More

Much of Lagos is a mixture of exaggerated luxury and crumbling dysfunctional mess. On the contrary, Places like Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong represent … More

Today I joined Peter Ferretto’s first year masters group to walk around Sham Shui Po, one of the poorest areas … More

170914 CUHK Pin up NEED MORE  INFORMATION PRESENTED wider introduction of the project geographic: hospitality (this kind of) project – zooming … More