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WKCD
Recently all that I can think of are the two assignments that I aim to finish before the end of the month. My sleeps were often interrupted by vivid dreams and were not as revitalizing, a sign of procrastination and stress. So it felt quite refreshing when I made time to see the proposals for […]
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Tired
Had my first weekend of lectures for this semester. It’s been a long time since I had to miss a Sunday Service. Didn’t sleep well for the last couple of nights. Tired, but tired in a good way. I’ve been spoiled with too long of a ‘vacation’ without meaningful work, it’s about time that I […]
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Experienced the drastic switch in density when I moved back from Canada more than a year ago. 40-stories seemed to be the minimum height of residential/commercial towers being erected here in the last decade or so. Living in high-density cities like HK is good in a lot of ways and will inevitably become the norm […]
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Urban Design
Sat-in a public lecture titled ‘Urban Placemaking and the Role of Design Review’ today. The Canadian speaker presented many pictures of the beautiful Vancouver waterfront developments, proudly stating the city’s ranking as one of the most livable cities in the world. The truth is, as the speaker also acknowledged, a city like Vancouver needs at […]
tagged: architecture, canada, hk, school
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HKGBC Conference
Took an excursion to the full-day annual HKGBC Conference today. It was rather boring most of the time, but I felt quite refreshing to be outside of my studio leaving my papers/books and computer behind. Perhaps I’ve spent way too much time at home recently. I really should go out more often.
tagged: architecture, event, green, school, travel
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Independent Study
Locked myself in my studio reading research papers today. In fact, this had been my 9-5 job since Monday! Still much to read before I can even begin to write my research paper… Kind of miss my research days in the EcoLab, miss the occasional random chit-chat with my lab-mates in the windowless lab.
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Grass
Sat in on a seminar about Grass today. Didn’t realize we humans depend so much on grass until now – more than 45% of our diet’s calorific value comes from it (rice, wheat, barley,…)! Furthermore, grass can be used to make paper, herbal medicine, oil, furniture, construction materials, etc. And the fastest growing plant that […]
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Learned from the book that Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste is the major contribution to landfills and reclamation sites in HK. This waste stream can be vastly minimized through better planning, design, construction, and maintenance of architectures. Unfortunately, I find this particular book to be bloated with common sense and lacking much of the details, […]
tagged: architecture, books, design, dislike, school
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Spending much of my time these days reading books. Sometimes I feel guilty for leisurely spending my time while most of my peers are working hard to make a living. It seems almost as though I’m slowly building up a debt on finishing up my fair portion of meaningful work on Earth. I could have […]
tagged: architecture, books, green, like, school
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Read a book on planting green roofs and living walls. It’s just part of the preliminary readings for my proposed independent study. There’s a part of me that is reserved just for plants – succulents, bonsai, and even freshwater species… I remember how much I used to envy the school gardeners for spending their days […]
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