Ching-Tai Chang
meng engineering and architectural design
The Bartlett UCL
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Architecture / Sustainable Design / Interior Architecture
My location: London, United Kingdom
Ching-Tai Chang
First Name: Ching-Tai
Last Name: Chang
University / College: The Bartlett UCL
Course / Program: meng engineering and architectural design
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Architecture / Sustainable Design / Interior Architecture
My Location: London, United Kingdom
About
Ching-Tai Chang recently completed his Master of Engineering degree in Engineering and Architectural Design at The Bartlett, University College London (UCL). This interdisciplinary programme fosters an integrated approach to architectural education, equipping him with both structural and environmental engineering expertise to inform and support his architectural designs. Drawing on his multicultural background—rooted in Taiwan, Hungary, Malawi, the United States, and the United Kingdom—Ching-Tai adopts culturally sensitive and people-centric approaches to architectural challenges.His academic work, which primarily focuses on adaptive reuse and heritage conservation schemes, combines innovative parametric design methods with traditional iterative drawing techniques. Ching-Tai emphasises sustainability in his projects, aiming to deliver operationally net-zero, structurally gestural designs. Inspired by philosophies such as kintsugi, his dissertation investigates the integration of aesthetic and environmental performance of thermal repair strategies for Victorian homes, with particular attention to timber sash windows as a celebration of resilience and heritage preservation.Ching-Tai is devoted to embedding sustainability within all aspects of his work, with a focus on advancing climate-resilient and enduring architectural designs throughout his academic and professional career. Ching-Tai will be joining Buro Happold in September as a Graduate Facade Engineer.
Memory is intrinsically tied to happiness and our shared understanding of one another. This interpretation of eutopia weaves a garden of remembered and forgotten fragments, layered over the Victorian Haggerston Baths as a vessel for holding, healing, and re-inscribing memory. As visitors ascend a ramp into a fantastical hall of suspended platforms, they leave behind artefacts for others to uncover: neighbours, grandchildren, ex-lovers, classmates. Memory becomes a shared ritual, a timeless act of rediscovery and reinterpretation. At its core is a gestural inversion of the poolhouse frames: a funicular suspension roof and corrugated façade that respond to and redefine the existing structural rhythm. Through a multi-scalar choreography of movement, the proposal uses the existing Baths' wall as the design axis; subtle sutures that guide circulation and provoke moments of reflection and awe. These gestures stitch past and present, conjuring spaces where physical memory lingers, quietly stirring reflection within the folds of life. This project integrates structural and environmental design with architectural intent, reaching a resolution of net-zero operational carbon.
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