Steel Fold

Su Chang Design Research Office combines design, research and action to rebuild architecture’s relationship with the environment, provoking a broader imagination of architecture as geography. The projects embrace the multi-facets of materiality and cultures of living within the clear formal language of architecture. We have adopted a hands-on and open design approach to envision architecture as spatial infrastructures that support future iterations and adaptations, encouraging sustainability, diversity, and participation.

Su Chang is a licensed architect, Principal of Su Chang Design Research Office, and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong. His work innovates traditional crafts and familiar-seeming elements through contemporary spatial cultures. Recent design research and practice focus on architecture’s relationship with the water environment and the (post-)millennial arts and living space. Chang received his Master in Architecture with commendation and Dean’s Merit Scholarship from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Prior to his tenure, Chang studied at Peking University, ETH Zürich, and received his BA in Architectural Studies with first class honours and a full scholarship from the University of Hong Kong.

Frankie Au is a US-registered architect based in Hong Kong with eight years of international practice experience. He is currently working at Su Chang Design Research Office and is also a lecturer at the Department of Architecture at HKU. In addition to being a graduate of the University of Hong Kong and Harvard Graduate School of Design, he is currently pursuing an MA in Fine Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, exploring the cross-disciplinary potential between architecture, art and other territories.

Oscar Wong is Hong Kong-born and bred and has a BASc in Architecture, majoring in Design+ and Architectural Studies at the University of Hong Kong. He currently works at Su Chang Design and aspires to be an architectural designer who operates at various scales and encourages new ways of approaching architecture through a multidisciplinary lens.

Tam Wing Huen is an architectural designer who graduated from the University of Hong Kong. She applies cinematic or illustrative means in her works and hopes to integrate design with materiality and contemporary living patterns.