PORTFOLIO
RUI MA
813232 B.ENVS.MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION: 2010 - 2013,
CONTENT No.2 Middle School of Huhhot First Class Student
2014 - 2015,
Trinity College, the University of Melbourne Average 89
2016 - 2018,
Architecture,Bachelor of Environments,the University of Melbourne
01. Wunder Kammer
Studio Fire, 2018 Semester 2, Individual
02. The New Order
Studio Air, 2018 Semester 1, Group Work
WORKING AND VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCES: 2017 - 2018,
Architects Assistant (1 month) CIIC Architects, Beijing Design Proposal on Nursing Houses in Huhhot
2018,
University of Melbourne
Rui Ma 1995/1/27 Inner Mongolia, China
AND Speaker Series Organiser Inivite Architects to give lectures on three of their designed projects each week
Studio Earth, 2016 Semester 2, Individual Rework
04. Second Skin
Digital Design and Fabrication, 2017 Semester 1, Individual
05. Construction Design 2018 Semester 1, Individual
Host of 23rd of April, Mcildowie Partners Architects on Trinity College Gateway Building
2018,
Architecture Open day assistant Robin Boyd Foundation
Art or architecture? I can paint a fabulous painting, leave it in a corner of a gallery and hope people can see it and get inspired. However, an architecture for me is a powerful tool which many people can see it and directly change the behavior of people. It’s a ‘painting’ which is drawn on a much larger scale that everyone can see and get inspired if it’s a good one. Architecture should be radical, they should concentrate on solving the current social problems and aiming for a better future. Architecture is a sequence of spaces, but more than just space. I believe only people who are passionate in their life can design good architecture and well-designed architecture will inspire people to be better human beings.
03. A Continuous Journey
Architecture Awards 2018, 25 Fawkner Street, South Yarra, Workshop Architects
2018,
Living Cities Forum 2018 MPavillion
2018, 2017,
Open House Melbourne 2018
07. The Corten Effect (Movie)
2017, Group Work, Design Workshop Studio
Architecture Open day assistant
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saBmkmkeZWg
Architecture Awards 2017, Dark House, Architecture Architecture
Australian Collaboration Cambodia Fundraiser Trinity College, University of Melbourne Student Fundraiser, Builiding houses, Painting School Helping people with improving sanitation
AWARD 2015
2019, Individual, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
All Saints Church East St. Kilda
Robin Boyd Foundation
2015 - 2016,
06. Spain Travelling Studio
Commendation for Environment and Development Trinity College, University of Melbourne
Hobbies:
PERSONAL SKILLS:
Movie Books Pop Music Painting Travelling Animation Cooking Planting Board Games Roller Skating Computer Games Ice Skating Biology Physics Collecting: coins,stamps,antiques, and fossils
Rhinocero 5 Indesign Photoshop Illustrator Sketch up V-ray AutoCAD Premiere CC
Grasshopper Revit Laser Cut 3D Printing Model Making Photography Chinese English
01: Wunder Kammer Studio Fire/ 2018 Semester 2/ Individual
Site Analysis
Royal PDE Story Street Site Location
Urban Context
Ciculation
Prevailing Wind
Sun Analysis
Form Finding The project aims to design a new teaching building and stadium at the University High School. The site is located in an area which is planned for education, medical research and green space of Melbourne. The current problem is that the layout of classrooms lacks of flexibility and individuality. It is hard to develop different function and variety of spaces. My proposal is to combine school design with museum exhibition and I borrow a concept - 'Wunder Kammer' which is used for describing places like Museum and Art Galleries. Wunder Kammer is a German term which means cabinets of wonders. The design aims to transfer General Learning Area into Exhibition Space like museums and art galleries. The pedagogy outcomes would make students to be more creative in learning and tutors would have higher self-efficacy which means they are more capable of applying different pedagogy methods in their teaching.
Each space becomes individualized with different projects, and they are linked with a linear circulation.
Main Circulation It's connecting the Royal Parade and main buildings across the site.
Site Hierarchy(Privacy)
The site is divided into three sections based on privacy. Place closes to the street is more public to the site.
Building Location
The orange block represents the teaching building. The arrangement enhances the privacy hierarchy of the space.
View Interaction with streets
The design tries to create conversation with the local community.
Detailing
Generating open spaces and terraces base on the programming of the building.
Design Development - Cabinets
Existing classroom layout
Its linear arrangement and lack of character for each of the classrooms.
Separation
Classrooms are separated into individual boxes, so each of them can become a cabinet.
Differentiation
Creating a variety of spaces around the classrooms, the corridors also become part of the design.
Design Proposal
Connection
Classrooms are connected through a linear circulation through the doors as different exhibition rooms.
Cabinets of wonder
Cabinets are also added to the corners of the classrooms to display student's projects through the semesters.
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Story Street
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Royal PDE
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1. Existing school building 2. Car Parking Area 3. Basketball Court
4. New Teaching Building 5. New Stadium 6. A School Garden Area
Site Hierachy Private
Public
Site Plan 1:400
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Ground Floor Plan 1:200
To combine exhibition space into school design, I tried to design the negative spaces for example the corridors to make them into exhibition spaces. The cabinets which are the classrooms intends to be multifunctional, so I put storage room which connects two different classrooms. It provides opportunities to develop different activities inside classrooms after school hour.
Ground Floor Programming
Section AA'
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First Floor Plan 1:400
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Second Floor Plan 1:400
Second Floor
First Floor
Stadium Interior
First Floor Kitchen Area
Ground Floor Ground Floor Corridor between classrooms
04: The New Order Studio Air/ 2017 Semester 1/ Group work
The project is about designing columns with parametric modeling. The classical column takes the proportion of human body to create order. In our design, we tried to study the behavior of the white necked heron & large bindweed flower and combined them into our columns. Therefore, it becomes a new order to a column. My part in our project focused on using image sampler tool from the grasshopper to create patterns on surfaces and making prototypes and final physical model. For what we found interesting is that the birds will dance with their neck during a reproduction. The dots on their neck become most important for the males to attract the females. we created a pattern which simulates the dots, and we studied the movements of the neck to become parts of our design.
The movements of the neck during dancing
The study of the heron
Pattern Iterations
Pattern Design
The dots on their neck becomes larger and less densed from the head to the body and they have a combination of three different colors, white, grey, and black.
Whole Suface
Front View
Iterations of different scales
Side View
Whole Suface
Front View
Side View
Iterations of different UVcoordinates
Design Logic and Process
Detail
Column
Detail designed with different patterns
Column designed with different angles of the behaivor
Selecting the best outcome
Selecting the best outcome
Detail interations by changing vectors and data in GH
Think about real physical construction Column with details
Column interations by changing vectors and data in GH
physical prototype
Computer simulation of prototype
The flower bloom in the anti-clockwise.
The study of the Flower
Iterations of different concepts
The water splash when the bird takes off from the lake
The slow motion images of neck when the birds are dancing and for each one of the column looks like the bud of the flower.
The bloom of the flower
The growing of the flower
Top view of the column which takes the form of the flower
The neck of the birds when they are dancing
The body of the column with details of the dots.
Physical Modelling
We sliced a part of the column into more than 200 pieces and glued them together. The purpose is to give us more details than digital modeling and also to enhance our concept of the slow motion image for the movements of the neck.
03: A Continuous Journey Studio Earth/ 2016 Semester 2/ Individual Rework
The project aims to design a pavilion on the Herring Island which contains a secret to be discovered.
Site Analysis:
My proposal for the secret of the pavilion is the geometry of the architecture, which is generated from the shape of the island. The intention is to recreate a similar circulation which people walk and explore the island. Topography
Therefore, the three zones (above the ground, ground surface and below ground) are not separated into three layers but become a continuous journey.
Circulation
Vegetation
Selected site
Form Finding:
There are sequences of spaces which are generated by following the path, which intends to create a mixture of different experience.
Design Concept: Above the ground Ground surface Below ground
Ground surface
The spatial relationship of the three zones are changed from vertical to horizontal.
Generating the form bases on the shape of the island.
Differentiate the three zones by variation of depth; Locate the building into the site
Differentiate the three zones by introducing different amount of light into the spaces.
04: Second Skin
Digital Design and Fabrication, 2017 Semester 1, Individual
Final Design:
ELEVATION
FRONT VIEW
BOTTOM VIEW
TOP VIEW
Digital Assembly Development:
The design regards human body as a landscape, and we need to design a structure that protects our body as our second skin. My proposal was inspired by boxing. I take the old saying that ' Attack is the best defense' and I try to use my design to show the idea of punching. The energy of the punch becomes concentrated at the fist and air flows around the arm. The design itself combines the waffle building system and MoirĂŠ Pattern to form a half translucent structure. The moirĂŠ Pattern is inspired by the movement of air flow to create a sense of movement which is identical to the action.
1. Design the printing drawings and having them labeled.
2. Installing the long panels and the ring panels. It has
3. Following step 2, installing the rest of the panels
The top image is going to be printed with A2 Clear Poly-
to start from the first one at one of the ends of the long
based on the number of each them. The structure is rig-
propylene and the bottom is going to be printed with 3
panels, because the connection point for the panels at
id because the two panels at each end acts like a lock
mm MDF board.
the ends which are different from the ones in the middle.
for the structure.
1. Remove all the polypropylene panels from polypropy-
2. Install the supporting ring structure which are made
3. Installing the polypropylene panels to the ring
plene boards.
of MDF boards.
structures.
4. Insalling the Polypropylene Panels.
Physical Model Development:
4. Final product.
Front View
Moire Pattern
Wearing
Back View
Footings & Foundation (1&2) 1. The foundation of 3 meters below this building mainly has three parts; - Fill with non-descriptive crushed rock - grey, moist & sand, medium dense, cement stabilized from 0.3 meters. - Clay – orange brown, moist, silty, stiff, tending to extremely weathered siltstone - Siltstone – extremely weathered, yellow orange/grey, very silty & gravels, very low rock strength. a. Minimum founding depth is 2000 mm for bored piers to bear pressure up to 450 KPa. b. Trench done by others for geothermal energy.
RL 42.02
Therefore, the bored piers should be deep into the siltstone to get enough strength to support the building and blinding concrete is used to form a plane and workable base for the building footing system. The building should stand up for Hazard Factor (Z) of 0.08 for earthquakes. 2. The Footing system of my allocated site has three bored piers @ 1500 * 2850 CRS and a traditional concrete slab on top of the bored piers. All blinding concrete is 50 mm unless specified. a. EB1 – Edge Beam 1, W(mm) 600 x D(mm) 600 MIN with 3-L12TM at top and bottom. 3-L12-TM stands for 200 width trench mesh with 3 wires. b. F7 – Footing 7, L(mm)1200 x W(mm)1200 x D(mm)600 MIN with SL81 bottom. For each sheet of SL81 reinforcement - main wires 7.6 @100 (mm), edge wires 7.6 @100 (mm), cross wires 7.6 @100 (mm). c. F8 - L(mm)600 x W(mm)600 x D(mm)600 MIN, it has a 75mm MIN. concrete encasement at bottom to protect the bolts (4M204.6/S H.D.) d. 20 mm MATT recess of a concrete surface.
5.a. 5.b.
Ground Floor structure (3) a. Cc3 – Concrete column 3, it has 15 mm chamfer and 6N24 Bars vertically. There are N12 LIGs @ 300 CRS (40 cover). There are 800 LAP for the concrete column and 300 COG at the top of cc3, the drawing is showing the LAP with 3 reinforcement bars at 600 above the ground level. b. C2 – 310 Universal Beam as screen column at 39.45 mm. It is connected by a square hollow section beam to the roof where above window17. c. Wall type SF3, 120 min fire rating – CSR 908 or CSR 123. NOM 46 O/A Aluminum composite cladding system; 2x16mm fire rated & moister resistant plasterboard; 90mm stud wall frame with sarking. (outside) d. Wall type SF9, 13 mm plaster board, 90mm stud wall frame with sarking. insulations for both SF3 and SF9.(inside) e. Brick wall with 19 courses sit on the edge beam 1. It has wipe hole at 4th course and conjunction point to allow movement caused by ground conditions. The bricks are 140mm THK X 190mm H face reduced block. Mortal used is M3 (1 portland cement, I building lime, 6 sand). f. For most of the Aluminum cladding panels are L4000mm X W1200mm. The finished cladding system of the round corner section is @RL 42.02 the total cladding at that area has a height of 8920mm. g. Spill air louvers. h. DP- downpipe of 150 diameters. HDPE- high density polyethene. i. The ground floor ceiling on the drawing has a height of 3000mm. The ceiling material is Lay-in within suspended grid and 10 mm CD flush plasterboard. For each of the lay-in panel is L1200(mm) X W600(mm) X0.7(mm). They probably used Tegular 24 mm as the connect between up-floor slab and ceiling panels.
RL 36.00
4.c. 4.b.
4.a.
3.f.
4.f.
2018 Semester 1, Individual
3.i. 3.g.
3.d.
3.i. 4.d.
RL 31.80
3.c.
3.e.
4.e.
First Floor Structure (4) a. Condek slab connected to traditional formwork of concrete slab (SLAB 450). The slab 450 is 450 in depth and it sits on top of a load bearing wall. They probably want to use the formwork concrete to carry more loads. Furthermore, the shape of the slab 450 varies in different sections which makes it hard to use condek slab. b. Wall type SF5, NOM 46mm O/A Aluminum composite cladding system with 90mm stud wall and sarking. 13mm plasterboard in the inside surface. c. Wall type SF6, 13mm plasterboard or moisture resistant and 90mm stud frame. There is another 13mm plasterboard or resistant in the inside surface. d. Reinforcement - Unless otherwise shown, support top reinforcement with 12mm diameter support bars at 300mm centers on bar chairs at 1000mm centers. (The drawing for bar chairs is not in scale but to show more bar chairs.) e. Polymeric Waterproof Membrane - Provide and install under concrete slabs on ground ‘Fortecon Super’ flexible polymeric film 0.3mm thick. (4.e is another ground floor structure and 4.d is same for ground floor slab and first floor slab) f. Windows are 6.8mm Think single glazed. Awning sash and window frame is 102mm thick. FWS - fly wire screen is used.
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2.d.
3.h. 1.a.
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Roof structure (5)
1.b.
a. 250mm wide gutter and 150 mm wide valley gutter. b. Roof insulation and Spandek colorbond finish roof sheet.
AXONOMETRIC DRAWING
05: Construction Design
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06: Spain Travelling Studio 2019, Individual
The studio is organized by the Labird Company from China and the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. We travelled from Madrid to Merida, Sevilla, Cordoba and returned to Madrid. During this Journey we visited more than 40 different contemporary architecture in the south of Spain.
National Museum of Roman Art Rafael Moneo, 1985, Merida The building is designed to recall the ancient Roman cities. In my sketch, I try to show the large scale of the arches inside of the building, which is a key strategy here to demonstrate the scale of an ancient Roman City. There is sequence of spaces created by variation of height. The scale gives a sense of glory of the past and the presence of the city. The arches which have the height of three floor levels are constructed in a way that similar to the Roman construction. It is a reinvention of the old building technique with today's new technology. The building is actually built up on the old city remains to keep the history and use time as a material in architecture. It is a sustainable design strategy that removing the building would not destroy the ancient relics and it gives a potential for people to redevelop the space. I took a photo of the Ground Floor Plan which is a reflection of how the building is sitting on the old roman city, it shows the old city streets and building locations.
The project includes on site observation, analysis and criticism to the buildings that we visited. The final project is a presentation which to present our sketches and what we had learned from the journey.
The Ground Floor Level of the Museum (Photo taken by author)
The Basement Level of the Museum (Photo taken by author)
The Ground Floor Plan (Photo taken by author)