engineering

May Wah Building

May Wah Building is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand May Wah Building rather than just read about it. In short: May Wah Building (Chinese: 美華大廈), also registered as Mei Wah Building, is a composite building in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, located at the corner of Johnston Road and Wan Chai Road. Completed in 1963, the building contains 80 units.

Key takeaways

May Wah Building belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect May Wah Building to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of May Wah Building from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

May Wah Building (Chinese: 美華大廈), also registered as Mei Wah Building, is a composite building in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, located at the corner of Johnston Road and Wan Chai Road. Completed in 1963, the building contains 80 units.

Architectural characteristics

Building Height: 14 stories: Ground + 13 floors Completion: 1963 Type: Composite building Use: Residential and Commercial Corner: Less than 90°, making it an acute corner building. Style: 20th-century modernism/Bauhaus Address: 164–176 Johnston Road and 80 Wan Chai Road Note: The terrace of May Wah Building looks like a big teardrop. This is due to the government believing a design of this type would protect people from rain. Also, the walkway of Johnston Road need to be widened, making the terraces of May Wah mansion showing the width of the walkway pre-widening.

Occupants G/F: Ki Chan Tea Co. 4/F: Daci Hospital 6/F: Fu Clansmen General Association Headquarters 7/F: [to be completed] 10/F: Ying King Guesthouse In 2010, the building was described as "covered from top to bottom with signage of functioning and defunct businesses that include a guest house, clan associations, hair and beauty salons, two Chinese tea shops, fashion retail shops, massage parlors, Western and traditional Chinese medical clinics, tuition schools, fortune tellers and a feng-shui consultant."

See also Corner Houses Bauhaus Modernism

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with May Wah Building

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what May Wah Building claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to May Wah Building before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about May Wah Building ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of May Wah Building

In research: May Wah Building appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses May Wah Building in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: May Wah Building is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Buildings and structures completed in 1963, Buildings and structures in Hong Kong, Wan Chai, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for May Wah Building outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study May Wah Building in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what May Wah Building means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain May Wah Building out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is May Wah Building in simple terms?

Why does May Wah Building matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study May Wah Building?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on May Wah Building.