KARINA HUNG

ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT



I'm a creative at heart. When I'm not immersed in architectural work, you will find me sketching in a park, knitting, piecing together collages or developing digital products that reflect my curiosity and love for design.

My passion for architecture is rooted in sustainable, meaningful practices — particularly adaptive reuse, the circular economy, and community-led design. I believe architecture should be as responsible as it is inspiring.

With two years of experience as a Part 1 Architectural Assistant, I’ve had the opportunity to contribute to community-focused projects, sharpening my design thinking and collaborative skills.

I'm currently pursuing my Master's degree at the University of Westminster, working toward becoming a qualified architect with a focus on creating characterful, sustainable, and net-zero buildings that respond thoughtfully to our changing climate.

I love exploring design through sketching, 3D modelling, and 3D printing, tools I’ve used extensively throughout my undergraduate studies and in practice. For me, these tactile processes bring ideas to life in the most rewarding way.


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Education
University of Westminster
Master of Architecture (MArch) 
2025 - 2027

Newcastle University
Architecture BA(hons)
2020 - 2023


Experience HETA Architects
Part 1 Architectural Assistant
2023-2025

Digital Product Creator
KarinaGraphicDesign shop
2025 - present

Farrell Centre
Outreach Worker
2023

Gammon Construction HK
Summer Intern
2022

@LoopyThings
Creator
2020 - present


AchievementsArchitect’s Chair Competition
“H-AUX” project
Shortlisted (as part of HETA)
2025

Under Bridge Competition
“Voronoi Under Bridge” 
Shortlisted (as part of HETA)
2024

The Holy Art Gallery “Kaleidoscope Brick Wall” art piece displayed
2023


Skills
Rhinocerous 3D
AutoCAD
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Indesign
Revit
Enscape
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Powerpoint

3D Printing 
Physical Modelling
Midjourney / Visoid
Sketching


Volunteer
London Open House Festival
Volunteer Guide
2024

BAME Student Representitive [Moment]um Collective
2022 - 2023

Peer Mentor Newcastle University
2022 - 2023

Student Ambassador Newcastle University
2022 - 2023







PORTFOLIO

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2021 - 2025




The Playground - A creative climbing centre for children


Queensferry, Scotland

Year 3 Undergraduate year long project
STUDIO: SPHERICAL ENTANGLEMENTS
A climbing centre for children in Queensferry and Edinburgh, offering two distinct facilities: a traditional bouldering area and a crochet climbing playground. The design amplifies freedom, creativity, and imagination, shaping a utopian, boundless space for children.

Envisioned as a dynamic indoor playground, it caters to each child individually through bouldering and art-making activities. The flexible, organic nature of crochet is mirrored in the building’s external form with a timber woven roof and surrounding landscape, thoughtfully integrating with and protecting the site’s historically rich structures as disused Navy barracks. 






Circle of Life Materinity Centre


Kolda, Senegal

Competition

Located between the small villages of Saré Omar and Guiro Mandou in Kolda, Senegal, the “Circle of Life” aims to offer a safe, hygienic, and tranquil environment for expectant mothers. Supporting them from prenatal care through delivery and postnatal recovery. The design of the b

Our design adapts the circular typology by splitting it in half, placing the delivery and post-delivery areas on opposite sides. This layout symbolizes the “circle of life,” with the birth of new life on one end and the continuation of life on the other. The naturally curved walls not only soften the room edges but also creates an intimate and comfortable spaces for mothers to rest and recuperate. 





Staying Afloat Microhome


London, UK

Competition
“Staying Afloat” is a microhomes concept, a future thinking proposal for mobile single-storey floating dwelling emerging as a symbol of sustainable future living on flood prone areas. Designed to be folding and flexible to suit neighbourhood clusters, it’s interchangeable form could position itself equally on narrow waterways, with its linear configuration, or on wider rivers with a folding triangular plan. 





3D Printed modelling at practice


Final + process models
Using 3D printing as an interactive tool between the design team and clients, each model is created with a clear purpose, highlighting specific design elements and its value.





Voronoi Underbridge


Musmeci Bridge, Potenza, Italy

Competition
A conceptual housing design responding to the pressing housing crisis. The brief challenges the use of overlooked spaces beneath bridges around the world, exploring ways to introduce communities that could live, thrive and enhance these environments.





The Kaleidoscopic Brick Wall


Queensferry, Scotland

Year 3 Undergraduate year long project
STUDIO: SPHERICAL ENTANGLEMENTS
An experiemental process work as part designing “The Playground”. Utilising relciamed onsite mterials to create an immersive element to be used in the design.






Life Drawings / Sketches / Digital art