Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award 2010/ Practising Designers/ Portfolio Image: Page 001_Steven Ma Tze Chung- 2008-2010 Collections Image: Page 009_HKBCF International Idea Competition_2nd Prize_Open Group Image: Page 002-003_Profile Image: Page 004-005_VC Image: Page 006-007_Xuberance WORKS Image: Page 054-055_Xuberance WORKS Image: Page 108-109_Xcessive WORKS Image: Page 134-135_Xcessive WORKS Image: Page 152-153_Publications/ Exhibitions Image: Page 154-155_To be continued Image: Last Page_Xuberance-Graphics Image: Perfect Binding Image: Section 02/04_Xefirotarch WORKS_Graphics
Monday, June 14, 2010
Excessive Final Review + Essence End Year Show 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities International Design Ideas Competition
2ndPRIZE |open group Project Designer Ma Tze Chung, Steven Team Members Fok Wei Yue, Wendy Strzelec Dominik
Friday, April 30, 2010
Prize Presentation Ceremony & Exhibition will be held on May 14th 2010 in Hong Kong @ 3:30pm.
exterior lighting grant 2010: street furniture/ec-O_Bench image_01/05_Extreme Lighting ec-O_Bench infuses nature into pedestrian traffic zones by creating a self-sustaining eco-system that envelopes sitters in living and growing plant-life. ec-O_Bench collects and filters rainwater and harnesses sunlight using thin-film photovoltaics, creating a welcoming resting spot even when it's dark outside. image_02/05_Overall Concept ec-O_Bench is a multifunctional green concept bench system which generates electricity through solar panels that are embedded into the top of the extended structure which hovers above the suggested seating area. These panels harness electricity during the day to illuminate the seating are at night. A built-in system collects and filters water that is used for healthy plant growth. As they grow the plants wind around the bench's circular structure, creating a jungle-like canopy dangling above the user. image_03/05_Formal & Functional Concept The continuity, twisted and visual dynamism is generated through the unique properties of a [mobius strip] concept. Double [mobius strip] ws used to transform and mutate. image_04/05_Technical Drawings & Specs image_05/05_Materials Research & Environmental Affects ec-O_Bench design is intended to be constructed of Bio-Luminum and Bio-Glass. The Bio-Luminum tiles are made from salvaged parts from retired airplanes and are an excellent long-lasting and high-strength materials. Bio-Glass is engineered from recycled glass with no additives or colorants. Both materials will contribute towards LEED certification.
Monday, April 26, 2010
publication_[sci-arc.graduate.thesis]
This title of AD heralds a new era of exuberance in digital design. Having overcome the alienation and otherness of the cyber, having mastered the virtual qualities and protocols of the parametric, having achieved the intricacy and elegance of the digital, and having fully embraced the potential of 3D computer software and CAD/CAM manufacturing technologies, it is now time for architects to show off! Conjure up the extravagance of furniture design, the abundance of CGI in Hollywood, the profuseness of bio-techno ornamentation or the lavishness of Middle-Eastern and Asian super-urbanism. Exuberance not only celebrates new Baroque theatricality, formal sophistication and digital virtuosity; it also debates a plethora of joyful and intelligent ways in which experimental architecture manages to cope with the contemporary turmoil in global politics, economics and ecology.
Includes the work of seminal figures such as Peter Cook and Wolf D Prix Features Hernan Diaz Alonso, Marjan Colletti, CJ Lim, Ali Rahim, Yael Reisner, Neil Spiller, Kjetil Thorsen and Tom Wiscombe. With contributions by Robert Harbison and Judith Clarke.
Xuberance.....now in HONG KONG Xuberance.....not a protest, not a manifesto, but a celebration to new virtuosity in contemporary architecture
not optimised|not modulated|notalgorithmic
Xuberance..... here equals energy| enthusiasm| excitement|encouragement
Xuberance.....rediscovering the "Dark Matter" of Baroque and Surrealistic Art and Architecture.
education
Institute of Architecture_University of Applied Arts Vienna [Phd_present] Advised by: Wolf D.Prix Southern California Institute of Architecture_SCI-Arc [M.Arch II_08] Ryerson University [B.Arch_05]
work
Steven Ma is a design architect for Coop-himmelb(L)au in Vienna, specialized in digital visualizations, 3d management & productions. He is also the assistant professor in the "Excessive" post-graduate program at the University for Aplied Arts Vienna, Austria. He has worked as a lead designer for Xefirotarch in Los Angeles from 2006-2008.
Born in Hong Kong, Steven holds a master of architecture degree from Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 2008, where he graduated with distinction and he has been awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal and the Best Overall Graduated Thesis Award entitled “Xuberance: Liminal Form & Calligraphical Aesthetics”. He also holds a bachelor of architecture degree from Ryerson University in 2005, graduated with honour and awarded Best Thesis Award.
Steven Ma has lectured at The Bartlett School of Architecture in 2011. He also did several advanced digital workshops which focus on digital design evolution and digital representational techniques at The Institute of Architecture in Dessau, Germany and The Institute of architecture in Wien, Austria.
In 2010, Steven established his own experimental design studio “Xuberance”.