COCO TIN

is a designer and writer from Hong Kong,
currently based in New York City.




COCO TIN

is a designer and writer from Hong Kong, currently based in New York City.



ARCHITECTURE
WRITING
RESEARCH
TEACHING
Ongoing
Penthouse for Hosting
A five-story penthouse with six rooms, a conversation pit, and a tree.
Commission
in construction



2022
86 Elizabeth Street: Chinatown, NYC A building proposal with community center and rooftop garden.
Harvard GSD


2021
The Sun Rises & Sets in Revere Beach
A landscape exhibition, design and curation.
Harvard GSD


2020
No Cure? Caring for Burnout in a Neoliberal Age
An urban and architectural scale proposal for a cemetery in Hong Kong.
Cornell University
College of AAP


2019
Pierre Paulin ProgramA furniture exhibition, design and curation. Maison Bordeaux
OMA x Paulin, Paulin, Paulin.


2019
Found Things: Plate
A building proposal for a rock musuem situated in the Grand Canyon.
Cornell University
College of AAP


2017
Aqua Walk: New Waters of RomeAn urban proposal for a water museum to active public space in Rome. Cornell University
College of AAP



2023
‘Feejee Mermaid x Stefanie Hesseler’An interview for Pairs Journal: Issue 04.
Harvard GSD
Harvard Peabody Museum


2023
Osculating Relations with 野椿树 Observations on Che Yeh’s exhibtion ‘Interstitial Lives’.  Comission
Collective Futures Fund

2023
‘Terraqueous Intimacies’
To Sink, Sip, and Swim’

Essay + drawings on land-sea ontologies.

Commission
DISC Journal, Issue 2.0


2023
‘MAAT: Oceanic Thought’
A 1000-word building Review for Rumor.
Princeton University
School of Architecture


2022
‘Caring for Burnout in Hong Kong 2.0’
An essay on protest in Hong Kong.
Cornell University
Journal of Architecture


2021
‘Mimosas in the Morning’An essay on the ‘shy plant.’
Pool Magazine
Issue No. 6: Plant


2020
‘Invisible Agents:
SARS in Hong Kong’
A peer-reviewed essay on health urbanism in Hong Kong.
InformaVol. 13
Urban Disruptors

Ongoing
‘A Healthier Place: The Natures of Sanatoria’ A book of essays and photographs on modernist buildings and their relationship to public health.
KPF Traveling Fellowship

2023
Oceanic Protocols:
leaks and trouble waters
A collection of five small books elaborating on how seawater has always affected design histories and vice versa.

Harvard GSD
Thesis, Domain Award



2023
Algae Composite Panels
Bio-based material investigation.
Harvard GSD
Harvard SEAS


2022
Sustaining Sustainability Research for 2x4 in the history of branding and climate.
2x4
Strategy Team

2022
Bread, Bodies, and Boats:
hydrocolonialism in 19th c. Hong Kong
A symposium presentation on the Star Ferry in Hong Kong.
Global Oceanic 19th Century Society
Los Angeles, USA



2022
How to: not become a “developer”
A residency and public lecture on the economics of architecture.
Canadian Centre for Architecture  
Virtual


2020
Burnout is...
A collection of burnout definitions.
Self-initiated


2019
Haunted Landscapes of Imperial Ruination: Queen’s Park Savannah as Case Study.
Annotated essay for the Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities.
Mellon Foundation Fellowship
Cornell University





2023
OffCUT(s): material ecologies
A winter-course on material reuse.

Harvard GSD
J-term


2023
Privacy & Prevention: asian feminist architecture’s matriarchal blueprintsA public lecture on Asian Feminist Architecture.CAA 111th Annual Conference
New York City, USA

2023
Before the Modulor: Feejee Mermaid(s) and its oddkin A symposium presentation for ‘Mediating Myth: Image and Object as Critical Intercessor.’ Tufts University
Department of the History of Art and Architecture



2022
The Transmogrify of a Towel A lecture on wetness and stains.
Princeton Unviersity
English Department


2022
Mermaids, An Amphibian Story A winter-course on wet epistemologies. Harvard GSD
J-term
©COCO TIN 2024. All works, unless noted.