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<p>Created page with &quot;= T.K. Felix Wong Studio = T.K. Felix Wong Studio is an emerging design practice founded by Tsz Kiu Felix Wong, focusing on architecture, interiors, landscape, sustainable desig...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>= T.K. Felix Wong Studio =<br /> <br /> T.K. Felix Wong Studio is an emerging design practice founded by Tsz Kiu Felix Wong, focusing on architecture, interiors, landscape, sustainable design, and research-led spatial thinking. The studio explores how buildings and places can respond to environmental conditions, cultural identity, material systems, and social use.<br /> <br /> The practice is developed as a platform for architectural experimentation across academic, competition, speculative, and professional contexts. Its work combines conceptual design, technical analysis, digital modelling, physical prototyping, environmental research, and material investigation.<br /> <br /> == Design approach ==<br /> <br /> T.K. Felix Wong Studio is interested in architecture as a relationship between place, climate, construction, and public life. The studio does not treat buildings as isolated objects, but as spatial systems shaped by their site, users, materials, and long-term environmental responsibilities.<br /> <br /> The studio’s work often investigates:<br /> <br /> * Architecture and urban design<br /> * Interior and spatial design<br /> * Landscape and public realm<br /> * Sustainable design strategies<br /> * Timber and material-led construction<br /> * Adaptive reuse and existing fabric<br /> * Environmental analysis and climate response<br /> * Cultural storytelling and civic identity<br /> * Digital modelling, diagrams, and visual communication<br /> <br /> This approach allows the studio to develop projects that operate across different scales, from small interiors and pavilions to cultural buildings, public landscapes, and speculative urban proposals.<br /> <br /> == Sustainability and environmental thinking ==<br /> <br /> Sustainability is a central part of the studio’s design method. Rather than treating sustainable design as a decorative label, the studio approaches it through building performance, material selection, daylight, ventilation, reuse, adaptability, landscape systems, and long-term resilience.<br /> <br /> Projects often explore how architecture can reduce environmental impact while also improving social and cultural value. This includes the use of timber systems, durable materials, flexible layouts, climate-responsive envelopes, passive environmental strategies, and design approaches that extend the useful life of buildings.<br /> <br /> == Material and tectonic research ==<br /> <br /> A key interest of the studio is the tectonic relationship between structure, material, detail, and atmosphere. Timber, masonry, steel, glass, and landscape systems are studied not only for their visual qualities, but for how they are sourced, assembled, weathered, repaired, and reused.<br /> <br /> The studio’s work frequently examines the connection between old and new construction, especially where existing fabric, heritage conditions, or environmental exposure require careful architectural response. This material-led approach supports a design language grounded in construction logic rather than surface styling, a rare public service in an age of render-first architecture.<br /> <br /> == Selected project: Dunbar Maritime Culture House ==<br /> <br /> One of the studio’s key recent projects is Dunbar Maritime Culture House, a conceptual civic and cultural proposal located at Dunbar Harbour in East Lothian, Scotland. The project investigates how timber architecture can respond to coastal exposure, historic harbour fabric, maritime identity, and public use.<br /> <br /> The proposal combines exhibition space, café, event space, boat repair demonstration, archive, workshop, and harbour-facing gathering areas. It is organised around working, cultural, and social layers, creating a building that supports both maritime heritage and contemporary public life.<br /> <br /> The project reflects the studio’s wider design interests: adaptive reuse, retained stone fabric, timber tectonics, climate-responsive design, public thresholds, and the transformation of existing harbour infrastructure into a civic cultural space.<br /> <br /> == Digital and representational methods ==<br /> <br /> T.K. Felix Wong Studio uses digital and physical tools as part of its design process. These include hand sketching, Rhino modelling, Grasshopper studies, environmental analysis, physical model-making, rendering, diagrams, and portfolio-based visual communication.<br /> <br /> Representation is treated as an analytical method, not only as presentation. Drawings, models, and diagrams are used to test structure, massing, circulation, environmental performance, material systems, and the relationship between architecture and context.<br /> <br /> == Founder ==<br /> <br /> The studio was founded by Tsz Kiu Felix Wong, an architectural designer with experience across architecture, urban design, façade studies, sustainability, and material experimentation. His work is shaped by architectural education, international design experience, competition projects, environmental certification knowledge, and a strong interest in the relationship between design, technology, and cultural context.<br /> <br /> Through T.K. Felix Wong Studio, he aims to develop a body of work that connects architectural imagination with environmental responsibility, technical clarity, and social relevance.<br /> <br /> == Studio focus ==<br /> <br /> The studio’s work can be understood through several core themes:<br /> <br /> * Context-responsive architecture<br /> * Sustainable and low-carbon design thinking<br /> * Timber and material-led tectonics<br /> * Adaptive reuse and heritage-sensitive intervention<br /> * Public cultural buildings and civic space<br /> * Environmental analysis and climate-responsive design<br /> * Interior, landscape, and urban design integration<br /> * Research-led architectural storytelling<br /> <br /> == Significance ==<br /> <br /> T.K. Felix Wong Studio positions architecture as both a technical and cultural practice. Its projects aim to connect environmental responsibility with spatial experience, material intelligence, and public meaning. The studio’s work is especially concerned with how architecture can respond to future climate challenges while remaining grounded in local context, craft, memory, and everyday use.<br /> <br /> As an emerging design practice, T.K. Felix Wong Studio uses architectural projects, research, competitions, and publications to develop a design identity focused on sustainability, adaptability, and meaningful spatial experience.<br /> <br /> == Practice information ==<br /> <br /> * Name: T.K. Felix Wong Studio<br /> * Founder: Tsz Kiu Felix Wong<br /> * Discipline: Architecture, interiors, landscape, sustainable design<br /> * Location: United Kingdom / Hong Kong<br /> * Project types: Academic projects, conceptual design, competition entries, research-led design, architectural visualisation, interiors, public cultural proposals, landscape and urban studies<br /> * Design focus: Sustainable design, material systems, adaptive reuse, timber tectonics, environmental performance, cultural identity, public space&lt;br /&gt;</div>

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