Eric Chan
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Eric studied at The University of Nottingham UK with a MEng Master degree and graduated with Diploma in Architecture at The University of Westminster UK with Distinction under the guidance of RIBA Annie Spink Awardee, Professor Murray Fraser. In 2007, he joined and spent over 4 years at the highly acclaimed London practice, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) where he qualified as an Architects Registration Board (ARB) registered architect. He was involved on several award-winning education, conservation and residential projects in the UK and South Africa. He had also contributed vastly to public architectural events and public consultation programmes.
Moving from London to Shanghai in 2011, he joined the world renowned Safdie Architects, the practice led by the 2015 AIA Gold Medal recipient, Moshe Safdie. Eric was one of the Safdie’s Team Leaders in the 24billion RMB Capitaland mixed-used development, Raffles City Chongqing (RCCQ) project, leading and managing the Conservatory façade and interior design, as well as Podium Roof and Skylights design.
After spending 5 years with Safdie Architects, Eric moved back to Hong Kong in 2018 and co-founded O&O Studio with Suzanne Li. With almost 20 years international experience and as a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Chartered Member, Eric also holds professional memberships of Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA), and Hong Kong Interior Design Association (HKIDA). Having developed a strong interest on integrating sustainability into project delivery, Eric has been invited as speaker of the Build4Asia – ESG Forum, and shared the design philosophy of O&O Studio on values nurturing and sustainable communities.
In 2020, Eric was awarded The 4th China New Power Interior Design Award Top 10 (Eastern Region). Being invited by HKIDA, O&O Studio was one of the exhibitors and speakers at the Hong Kong Interior Design Week 2022 (HKIDW) Bi-City Exhibition and International Forum. With a strong belief of “Out and Outer” attitude, Eric is strongly recognized on distilling client’s brief and create unique and articulated resolutions for each specific circumstance, as well as leading O&O Studio with success of receiving over 30 international design awards in just 4 years of time. In 2023, O&O Studio was awarded The 31st Asia Pacific Interior Design Award (APIDA) – Emerging Design Firm Gold Award.
O&O Studio has also been heavily involved in education and community services. Eric is guest critics of several institutions including Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI), Hong Kong Zhu Hai College and Hong Kong City University. In addition, Eric is also an Associate Director of the NGO – Hong Kong Public Space Initiative (HKPSI). O&O is also a partner of the BODW CityProg Design !n Action, bring students various types of workshops to promote and raise students’ interest on design.
Studio
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Portfolio
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ATELIER INTIMO FLAGSHIP
In year 2020, the unprecedented epidemic and various natural crisis had brought a lot of new insights for many of us. Atelier Intimo’s first Flagship, designed by O&O STUDIO, is located on one of the busiest retail streets in Shanghai - Huai Hai Road. Taking inspiration from the epidemic, both the Flagship and Atelier Intimo’s new product range are built upon the concept of “Rebirth of the Scorched Earth”, with the view of integrating the nature’s healing power to influence and give new hope to human beings. O&O Studio wanted to craft a dramatic space that brought in and allowed visitors to spend a moment to look up, imagine and fantasize in such time and space on the prosperous spot. “Is there anything that we have forgotten about?”
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INTERSTICE
Designed by O&O Studio, the art installation Interstice, is one of the ten selected exhibits as part of the Bi-City Exhibition of the Hong Kong Interior Design Week (HKIDW) 2022.
Derived from the Latin interstitium, from inter (“between”) + sistō (“to stand”), interstice represents “a state between spaces”. Being used to a walled habitation especially under the past years of the pandemic period, we attempted to find means of virtual spaces, reaching out through gaps for new meanings of life, while the altered social forms in life also enforced many of us bearing crevices within memories. -
MOONCRAFT
MOONCRAFT is launched at the Cool Docks, which was originally a grease factory in the Shiliupu era on No. 505 Zhongshan South Road.
The branding of MOONCRAFT integrated all the design elements as one identity. From the bar’s name to its logo, as well as the architectural and interior design, they share the same concept throughout. Imagine the full moon hanging above the Huangpu River, together with the river’s geometry that forms a glass that hold some of the richest history of the city with the yellow lunar gradually dipping into the glass, form the logo of MOONCRAFT. -
POKERMETRIC
Pokermetric is an East Meet West design poker cards infused with architectural qualities. Maintaining a level of graphical simplicity with a primary colour palette of red, blue and yellow, the design carries rich spatial essences throughout with each typical English letter and Arabic number being transformed into its representative and corresponding Chinese character. Every character is a three-dimensional built up in an architectural axonometric format. An integration of each identity that forms a high-rise city, akin a mapping of a high density city, demonstrates the collaboration power between Hong Kong based designer and production firms, O&O Studio and Safe Power.
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QING FOR ATELIER INTIMO
Traditional Chinese furniture and decorations have always been the essence of long-established Chinese culture, and the fundamental elements in the spatial design.
“Qing” is a new series of installations specially for Atelier Intimo. Derived from traditional Chinese furniture, each piece has its own spirit, morphology and characteristics, while being flexible to be used in combinations, like the form of bonding between Atelier Intimo and o&o studio collaborative approach on each commission. -
Siete7
Hong Kong based architecture and interior design practice O&O Studio has completed the design of Siete7, a newly opened seafood restaurant and bar in Yuecheng District of Shaoxing. Located on the ground level of a raised terraced style pairing units, the scheme seeks for a resolution on a co-existing F&B space that inaugurate a spatial dialogue between them.
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SIU KAI FONG
In response to Hong Kong Arts Centre’s open invitation for community-driven public art, the team’s winning entry Siu Kai Fong joined seven other installations. The work was commissioned with support from the Urban Renewal Fund and acts as a reflection of the neighbourhood’s daily usage of the causeway. Further, it captures the historic district’s personal narratives through repurposed furnishings gathered from North Point households and businesses for visitors to experience a piece of the past.
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WA ZUO
Traditional Chinese marriage is not only about visual beauty but also forming a new family.
Referring to roofing method in Chinese architecture, which is comparable to a new bride setting up a new family with new partner, O&O proposed another Atelier Intimo Ningbo shop.
