About TING

Stanley Municipal Services Building, Hong Kong (2010)

WELCOME

Welcome to my online architecture portfolio. This site contains designs from the B.Arch degree years to independent competition schemes. Please feel free to browse through the collection via the top left navigation links. Thank you.

TING

“Style… is not of importance; what counts is the relation between the work and life, style is only the consequence of it…” – Fernando Tavora (1962)

My name is Michael Ting. I am a part II architecture graduate from Northern Ireland, and hold a B.A.Arch and B.Arch degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

During the B.Arch years in Newcastle, I was involved in schemes of varying sizes from large new builds to smaller temporary solutions through weekly charrettes. In addition to more ambitious approaches, stage 5 and 6 provided the ideal opportunity to tackle more sensitive concerns involving the social, economic, and cultural ecosystem throughout projects. This meant more active engagements with residents and community groups throughout the design process, fabricating new construction techniques alongside engineers, formulating tailored project briefs, and creating city-wide prefabricated schemes for the benefit of the city – most notably, my involvement in the Gateshead Regeneration scheme in conjunction with North East development agencies, 1NG and Urban Initiatives. The choice of Digital Architecture as side modules also enabled me to delve into the mechanics of parametricism and constraint-based modelling techniques, as well as applying the additional dimension of digital information and interactivity to designs.

Having studied in Newcastle I moved onto independent design competitions in collaboration with other graduates and architectural assistants. Working under the group names of PNT and PTZ, we undertook projects including the summer pavilion scheme for the Lightbox in Woking designed by RIBA award winners, Marks Barfield Architects. As a part I assistant for Gregory Architects, I was also involved in several schemes in Northern Ireland ranging in scale from high density residential developments to listed ecclesiastical buildings, notably the Fitzrovia Mansion Apartments in Belfast and Our Lady of the Assumption in Magherafelt.

Having passion to capture spatial experiences through architecture also led to a passion for photography. For the past four years I have been practicing architectural and landscape photography as well as the manual process of High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography. This led to a participation in the architectural photography competition, The Art of Building, during the summer months of 2012.