Ida&Billy Architects

25/12/2025

Wishing Everyone a Peaceful and Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year

08/10/2025

26/07/2025

Yuen Long Effluent Polishing Plant (YLEPP)

26/07/2025

Shenzhen Fu Tian Kindergarten

19/07/2025

The Embracing Ring

Yisabu Dokdo Memorial Park International Competition

The main notion behind the design proposition is to link up several volumes within the site to unify them as a collective entity. Symbolically, the gesture also represents the unification of ancient Korea by General Yisabu. The ring weaves the old and new fabric together to create clearer definition of the new development. The ring expands and contracts to connect itself with the existing roofscape; and to create adequate amount of space for various programs.

The existing volumes are selected and retained for their aesthetic and cultural value –the vernacular roof. With their volume protruding on plan, programs are inserted under these roofs; with thCaeir intricate structure retained. These volumes are connected via a ring with various widths to create a diversity in spatial quality both internally and externally. External pocket spaces are created where volumes are closely packed together. The largest volume, which is a new one; houses the symbolic Yisabu Exhibition Hall. This results in a hierarchy among the fluid roofscape.

The ring is divided into three zones spread across the site– the visitor centre, Yisabu Dokdo exhibition space and the Art and Culture Village. Due to the current traffic and diversity in programs along Saecheonnyeon-doro, the visitor centre is placed nearest to the public, fronting the bustling street to receive visitors and tourists. The Yisabu Dokdo exhibition spaces are grouped at the southeastern side facing the Obun Port due to its historical significance as a point of departure to Dokdo. The Art and Culture Village is slightly reorganized by re-purposing certain existing shops and houses into art pavilions, workshops with artists’ residence above and gallery. These shops and houses are carefully selected and curated to maximize social opportunities and public engagement through their placement, orientation, and the resulting open spaces. New private residences would be provided around the area in exchange for the spaces used.

17/07/2025

24/03/2025

‘Pillow’
Napavilion competition, Winner

We propose a huge Pillow of Timber Frames that sponges from inside out.
It acts as an extended skin of the human body,
to give a sensuous buffer in the natural setting.
The Pillow is a tube of standardized timber frames.
It buffers on the side while allowing extended views to both ends, and enhances ventilation across.
On the ceiling fabric is inserted between the frames, to filter in daylight and shelter from rain.
The Pillow interacts with the bodily movements,
to change spatial dimensions and relationships for sitting and sleeping.
The body’s stepping in pushes the flooring planks and thereby deforms the frame and form.
The sitting area is on both sides of the tube, with an unobstructed views of the surrounding.
In the middle is the napping zone,
here the floor sags with the body’s weight and subtly hide the napping person from outside view.
The walls push out and the ceiling lowered, to enhance the sense of protection and intimacy.
The 15m long Pillow provides generous buffer from outside.
It moves with the movement of intruders, and alert the napping person.
On the outside the Pillow breathes and moves with the napping person,
as if a pillow’s sagging in the middle with the weight of a human head,
and softly indicates the Pillow’s occupation.

24/03/2025

Corporate Headquarter Workspace Design

The project begins with an open brief, allowing for the exploration of the brief and design potentials. The company has been focused on developing product technology and collaborating with well-known product designers. We observed that physical communication and design reviews are among the most important activities. Meanwhile the staff members require a high level of privacy when they focusing on individual work.

In view of these, we have set three goals for the design: to enhance efficiency by proper departmental zoning and connection, and provisions of formal and casual meeting areas; to strengthen the company’s branding & sense of belonging by giving a sharp corporate image and department individuality; and habitability by providing a bright working environment, with a balanced desire for open plan and privacy. The overall idea is to provide a comfortable, orderly working space with insertion of the arts.

Lift lobby and entry lounges are the main branding areas, where greenery and company products were incorporated into the design to convey an identity of forward-looking, liveliness and sense of pride within the company. They also function as an informal meeting space.

At the working areas, glazed rooms are arranged around the core walls, while semi-open cubicles occupy the main areas with peripheral windows, to enable all to share daylight and views. Timber window panels, greenery, casual meeting areas, tailor-made cabinets and art works add to the habitable setting.

24/03/2025

HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity Resources Centre

We see the new library together with the adjacent communal open space as an important social and learning hub for the school. The design uses a continuous plywood shelves to fulfill the different functional requirements of the library – book shelves for a large amount of books, display shelves, individual sitting space/ studying space, porous screen to the outdoor communal space. The shelves sit along the periphery, to replace wall decorations, and to leave a large central space for occasional classes and lectures. Unfinished plywood adds a touch of nature.

24/03/2025

The Roof

Oi! is a fascinating cluster of colonial buildings of different heights that laid out in a playful arrangement and all capped by a black ceramic pitched roof with overhang. In our installation for the central lawn, we have knitted a floating ‘roof’ which is freed from the normal functions associated with this structure and from any supports below: reduced to a pure form, it gives a clear shape to the space underneath. The ‘roof’ denotes the lawn as an outdoor area for art, interacting with the sun to dapple the lawn in an ever-changing net of shadows and linking with the buildings that provide the specific context to form a tight bond of shapes and spaces.


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24/03/2025

Dream City
2013 HK-SZ Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture

An ideal city fosters the development of civilization – the cultivation of the soul.

An ideal city does not start from scratch nor expire. It contains a depth of history, accumulation of wisdom and sensibly imagined possibilities. It embraces and encourages diversity. An ideal city thus exists only in the mind. It consists of the vanished, the existing and the envisaged.

We take away the boundary of time to imagine and visualize this ideal city with large realistic photomontages. It is a display of the jewels of urban planning and design throughout history. We hope these montages enable us to contemplate the natural gifts and true value of the city, and to learn from the past and inspire what we could have in the future.