HILDA LO DESIGN
CONCEPTUAL SPACE
Retreat House/ Restaurant/ Digital and Interactive space/ Store
WATER PURIFICATION
Retreat House
Lai Chi Kok, Hong Kong
Reusing former Lai Chi Kok Hospital.
CONCEPT Retreat is a practice that one leaving his everyday life to reconnect with God by praying. Retreat center provides a place for catholic to claim down and be peaceful in their mind. They can spend a weekend or even come to relax after work. By listening and walking into the nature, people feel less stressed and peaceful.
DESCRIPTION 5 stages of purification:
I. PATH of GUILTY
II. HOUSE of CONFESSION
III. BRIDGE of FORGIVENESS
IV. CHAPEL of SANCTIFICATION
V. HILL of REJOICING
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
Vegetarian restaurant
Guangzhou, Hong Kong
Redesign a conceptual store to a restaurant.
CONCEPT Having a vegetarian diet is a way to make one feel peace. A vegetarian restaurant is a place to let one clear his mind and come down his heart. Therefore, a place with comfortable music and enjoyable environment is needed. M . I stands for “ Muscial Instrument”. In the restaurant, chinese music acts as a tool to create comfortable environment and make one feel relaxed.
DESCRIPTION Plan design and division pattern is curvy and circle which based on SOUNDWAVE which started from the center of the whole building where the performance take place. Sectional division is mainly based on ELONGATED LINES which symbolise the rhythm of the instrument.
WAVY SCREENING
Digital & Interactive Space
2 low-tech toys are chosen for studying their sensors. Together with additional low price electric accessories, a spatial device is designed.
DESCRIPTION When people walk by the screen, sensors is stimulated and a group of fans are reacted to turn on and off to create a wavy effect on the fabric.
TRANSparent SHOWer
Soap Conceptual Store
Hung hom Metro Store, Hong Kong
After long traveling, a resting place is provided.
CONCEPT To buy a product which is perfectly suit a person, he needs to try it. This conceptual store is not only for selling products but also a place for try and use them, so as to experience the brand's natural feeling and choose their own perfect types of soap.
DESCRIPTION For a Small retail store in metro station, the crux will be the facade. Light inside will cast the shadow the semi transparent glass. This kind of body movement will attract those who curious.