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Ginkgo Swan Lake

Ginkgo Swan Lake is a park with the theme of Ginkgo Tree. The designer extracts shapes and colors from Swan and Ginkgo to design the signage system. They put the outline of ginkgo leaves and the white of swans into the design. And they create a series of icons with a sense of water waves. The steel plate hollowing process and the rich layering, so that signs are clear light and shadow in the day or night. And the signage system conveys the purity, tranquility and eternity of Ginkgo Swan Lake.

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Walk DVRC Street Basket

Walk DVRC is a pedestrianization plan to turn 1 km of Des Voeux Road Central in downtown Hong Kong into a park. The area is filled with banks, offices, and shops but the sidewalk is over congested to allow a sustainable and walkable downtown. The project called for a partial pedestrianization so that retail businesses can still deliver their goods during off peak hours. During peak hours, office workers and residents can enjoy the wider road as part of their park and walkway.

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Note

It is a bench designed for open public spaces. The covers on it can rotate on their own axis. In this way, two different colors are used and the top surface of the bench becomes suitable for the use of a text or pattern. The top surface of the bench is a surface consisting of 7x27 circles. This surface provides a writing or drawing area for people to leave notes, draw figures and express their feelings, even if temporarily.

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Fold

What if a bench is also a table? Fold is an interpretation to the question above, to fulfill multiple functions yet retain a simplistic and sturdy form to be used in the public. This piece of furniture is not much more than a piece of plywood folded back on itself at an angle. Yet, this simple manipulation creates another surface that can be used as a table, without sacrificing its unanimous form with extensions or appendages.

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Trinity

Trinity is a street furniture representing a world where adults, children and animals get together. The circular form and the arrangement of the seating units represent sitting, shelter and social communication or social distance. Unlike existing street furniture, Trinity is designed for people to sit, and for animals to have a shelter and to be fed. The solid and void surfaces help to benefit from daylight and provide shade that is suitable for summer and winter seasons. Concrete and iron materials are recommended due to their resistance to exterior conditions.

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Modular

The urban sanitation tool room series boasts flexibility and expansibility as composing of modular spatial elements, which can be used as a separate sanitation room with different functions or combined as a multifunctional small public area. According to feedback from the workers, the vertical space of the interior design making to improve the utilization of the room, so the sanitation tools can be placed neatly.

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