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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

There are several aims behind joining CUHK for the final fieldwork semester. Working at an institution is intended to support…

Between 2017 and 2018 I worked as an in-house fitout designer for Emilia’s second restaurant. Together with the interior designer…

A recent BBC report includes several opinions about the necessity to ‘build upwards’ to address Lagos’s uncontrolled and destructive urban sprawl,…

In order to help myself thinking about the upcoming implementation essay I did a presentation at my old office, specifically…

Model to represent seasonal adaptivity:

Today I joined the Raincoat roofing team again in order to sample some of the new parts of Accra. After…

This morning I was at the border of the greater Accra region. Two years ago the Ghanian president started the…

Notes made in the meeting with the Accra main masterplanning authority. I met with three young planners two of whom…

Today I met Prof. Alex Asiedu, Ghanaian geographer who studied urban planning, lived in Japan and has an interest in…