Images:
Profile Photo credit: deTour 2025
Artwork: "Victoria Harbour as a Tapestry of Festive Tale", deTour 2025
Photo credit: Xu Liang Leon

Profile
Sze Wing Chan is an architect based in Hong Kong. She completed her Master of Architecture at Delft University of Technology in Netherlands in 2019. With experience at Kengo Kuma and Associates in Tokyo and Studio Ossidiana in the Netherlands, she focuses on designing public spaces and cultural institutions that have a strong relationship with material culture, including the New Kistefos Museum in Norway and Art Pavilion M. in Netherlands. Passionate about creating spatial atmospheres through materiality, she seeks to craft architecture in a tactile and sensory way.

Base of Activity: Hong Kong
Media Used: Architecture

Selected CV:
1. "Victoria Harbour as a Tapestry of Festive Tale" deTour Design Festival, PMQ, 2025
2. Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award, DFA Awards, 2024
3. Architect, Kengo Kuma and Associates, 2025

Residence Plan
During the residency, I aim to focus on material research of a particular type of building materials. The comprehensive research process will include examination of material properties, extraction processes, craftsmanship, fabrication techniques and cultural significance. I intend to create a comprehensive series of prototypes and physical models as the tangible outcome of this research endeavor. The entire process, from in-depth research to hands-on production, will serve as a testing ground for translating material research into a design methodology for architecture.