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I believe in the surprises of architecture, the opportunity of ever- evolving architecture through time and interaction, where uniqueness is being born through spontaneity in time, surprises in content and unexpected intention.

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Disruption

FoldedMemories

TreeRecords

SUTDSportsGym

HundredUnits

BirdCafe

CrowdHorizon

FitnessWall

CinemaHouse

SpaceStructure

$ & Option Studio 3|April 2016

Disruption is not just something to hinders work, but a neccessity for any work, providing a chance for us to look away from it, getting inspiration or a new perspective. This project would explore the possibility of inserting a dynamic disturbance that changes peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day to day routine, and instill uncertainty and surprises. The project site is at kallang park, situated opposite the stadium along Singapore river. The site used to be a swamp, and were developed into a bustling harbour for boat making and fishing industry. As the industry of Singapore shifted from fishing, the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s became a park, and the vivid experience that one could expect from exploring the site, became a single path in the park. By introducing an art school to the site, this project aim to bring back the diverse experience and energy back to the site. By utilising Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s frequent rainfall, water is used as the element to alter the space and the way people experience the architecture. Compared to most building, where nature is being blocked out of the building, rain is allowed to enter and accumulate at both the site and within the buildings, visitors can enjoy the change happening in the building.

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1 24mm laminate tempered glass w metal holder 2 corrugated metal roof tile 3 aluminum flusher plate 4 150 x 450 mm timber 5 12mm laminate tempered glass swing door

6 reinforced concrete 7 pebble sub-layer filtration 8 reinforced concrete column 9 water proofing layer 10 50mm timber tile

The programs are distributed among a main building and various settalite buildings. While the main campus hold various class rooms, lecture halls and meeting rooms; settalite buildings will contain more public functions such as restaurants, exhibition hall, workshop space and fabrication lab. The settalite buildings are scattered around the lush greenery of kallang park, providing an attraction force that would bring visitors deep into the park land that were once under utilised. Underneath each buildings is a pond that restore the habitat that were once lost due to land reclamation. As it rain, each habitat will join with each other and the organism living within each pond will be able to start crossing over to each other. Visitors will also be able to enjoy these temporal stream of river that appears after a heavy rain, while some path that they used to take are submerged within the water.

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Records Option Studio 2|August 2015

Tree Records is a building that attempt to capture time with space. Seeing architecture not as a point but a line that changes through time. One of the element that flows with time is growth, in which the growth of trees is one of the most amazing thing. By capturing the tree canopy every ten years, similar to marking the growth of a child on the wall, the canopy of the trees are captured and stored as voids. Humans then can experience space in which the trees once taken, the evolution of a forest, where trees grow, connect and eventually settled down, finding balances with each other. As the tree grow, the structure grows together with it. Just like everything else, with a humble beginning, the building starts its journey to soar towards the sky. Without anyone able to predict the form and growth of the trees.

The canopy space taken by the trees are recorded every ten years. And each time they became the new space in which the visitors will inhabit. As the tree fills up the volume in between them, space starts to converge; but eventually, the difference in species will again diverge and provides a hiarchy in space.

TREE RECORDS

By Ao chinwen

year 0...

year 10

year 30

just like everything else, with a humble beginning, the building starts its journey to soar towards the sky. without anyone able to predict the form and growth of the trees.

A CLOCK THAT MARKS THE GROWTH OF N A T U R E â&#x20AC;&#x2122; S GIANT. AS PEOPLE CONTINUE TO BUILD UPWARDS ALONG WITH THE TREES, A SENSE OF FREEDOM ARISES.

HE PLANTED THE FIRST TREE TO MARK THE GROWTH OF SINGAPORE. TO BUILD A MONUMENT THAT CAN RECORDS TIME AND GROW WITH THE NATION. LIKE MARKINGS ON THE WALL TO RECORD THE DIFFERENT HEIGHT OF US AS A CHILD. THIS BUILDING WILL CAPTURE THE TIME, SCALE AND ITS ACCUMULATIVE MEMORY THROUGH SPACE. TIME PASSES, MEMORIES ARE GATHERED AND STORED. WHILE THE TREES CONTINUE TO GROW, MEMORIES ARE FROZEN IN SPACE. A BOND BETWEEN HUMAN AND ITS ENVIRONMENT ARE CAPTURED AND STORED.

year 50 and now, marks the 50th year of continual growth. as the building rises, closer to the moon and the stars than ever. and it will never stop growing and witnessing.

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Studio Core 3|Sept 2014

This project is situated along Geylang Road, a vibrant area which sees many people thronging its seedy alleys every night for exotic food such as frog leg porridge and “entertainment”. Every alley holds different surprises to visitors, exposing them to the underbelly of Singapore, such as gambling dens, night clubs and “love hotels”. Considering its strategic location away from the public eye, it facilitates such activities. Come night time, one can see prostitutes thronging the narrow corridors in their tethering high heels, gamblers huddling over makeshift gambling dens, and informal dining spaces being set up in the alleys. Despite the shady dealings that take place there, one often overlook the fact that it is also a space for residents to extend their personal space into, serving as a common area for them to build neighbourly ties The concept ties in with the local Geylang culture informal and spill over space, filled with spontaneity and uncertainty. By identifying the alleys as an element to arrange and develop this massing, alley space became an important part of the residents’ daily lives. Observing others in the alley or being part of the alleys’ activities are subjected to personal choices.

Circulation&Connection There are 4 types of circulation within this neighborhood- radial entrance from alleys to the central plaza, circular sky bridge that connects all the buildings and provide a 360 degree view to observe all the activities happening within the community and surrounding Geylang area, a meandering path created by varying building offsets, and the vertical circulation that serves as skylight into the courtyard space of each building. The openings on the facade serves to address the spontaneity of the concept, and also provide visual connection for residents to look out throughout their own personal space.

Radial entrance

Vertical void for circulation and natural lighting

Circular elevated pathway

Meandering pathway

wall construction 120 mm facing bricks 15 mm Plaster Frameless side-sliding window with double glazing

reinforced 300mm concrete floor with 20mm wooden floor tile Wood-grain textured concrete layer with steel connectors

Shared Space

The alley space provides an informal space for passerby and residents to interact and influence the space. However, there is a limitation to this idea as only the residents staying on the ground floor can have the spill over. This can be mitigated by a secondary semi-public space in each building, namely a garden, which can be enjoyed by all residents living there, providing sky light and cross ventilation concurrently.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Crowd Horizonâ&#x20AC;? emphasizes on the usage of minimal geometry to introduce a dynamic shaded architectural space, designed for various types of crowds to enjoy and interact while maintaining the visual connection between visitors and the Singapore Skyline. The proposed pavilion has a roof that span across the entire site, providing several sheltered architectural spaces and giving as little visual obstruction to the Marina Bay coastline as possible. A simple and elegant design such that everyone can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Marina Bay, yet leaving a deep impression to everyone who visits the pavilion. All the main elements within the pavilion can be either recycled or reused-structural timber can be reused or re-purposed for different projects depending on the need.

Horizon Competition|July 2014

Group Member:Philip Espen Haugen

Program&Zoning The pavilion provides a diverse spatial experience to visitors by being divided into five zones, each with a different rhythm depending on its function. Exhibition area is centered in the middle, designed to be intuitive and approachable; Stage/workshop having a more formal and directional seating arrangement; Cafe as the main program of this pavilion, designed to encourage interaction among visitors.

CrowdConcept The furniture is specially designed to encourage interactions among visitors. The turf is laid at the interior of the seats, inviting visitors to step on the soft textures and at the same time, creating opportunity to have interaction among people sitting on the bench facing each other. The furniture can also be easily rearranged and stacked to create flexible spaces for various events or program needs.

This project is situated in Bras Basah, to attempt a space intervention to the existing HDB units, in which the space joined by 3 units in a L-shaped is being renovated to suit a family that consists of avid cinema fans and value time spent together watching movies

House

Studio Core 3|Sept 2014

Outdoor Theatre

Bedroom droom m2

Bedroom 1

Bedroom 3

Integration

As the centre of the house revolves around watching movies together, the screen in the living room takes advantage of the double volume created by this three joined units. The screen extends and continue to meander through the rest of the apartment, forming partitions and walkway until it ends on the door on the opposite side. The curved screen also emerges upwards to the roof top, integrating itself into the apartment and not being restricted by the existing floor slabs .The screen emerged form a projector screen on the roof top for an outdoor cinema experience that is uncommon in Singapore.

In this project we try to design a sports stadium, where it can house a hundred audience and one basketball court. The challenge comes from having a free spanning space of 46m by 42m with no column, at the same time, emphasizes on the aesthetic of structural elements in the form of this building.

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Structure&Envelope|May 2014 Group Member:Geraldine Quek Shalina Yasuda,Soh Chinyih, XiaTian

Space Span Through finite element analysis, we are able to find the deflected shape of the primary structure under selfload and normal load. By overlaying the secondary structure onto the main element to reinforce the structure, the structure becomes stable and forms an elegant arc that intersects each other. With the use of space truss, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to produce a roof with aluminum plates to prevent direct sunlight, but yet allowing natural light to enter through the gaps.

Optimization

FrameAnalysis

1. SECONDARY STRUCTURE ADDED TO MAIN ARCHES

2. SINGLE ARCH SELF-WEIGHT DEFLECTION ANALYSIS

The space layout aims to optimize the given building boundary of 40m by 45m. Since the stadium is primarily designed for basketball competition and regular training, the stadium floor plan is symmetrical in terms of programs where each team would have their own access to gym, washroom and changing room etc.

3. OVERALL DEFLECTION ANALYSIS (WITH BRACING)

Exploded Diagram

Section

Front Elevatoin

This project aims to design a bird corner that improves the existing bird corner design at Tiong Bahru . By deliberately design the lighting conditions at various section of the structure, as the program within progresses from a bird corner to a cafe sitting area, the lighting changes from abundant and active daylight to a more diffused and calm lighting condition. The shape of the structure is created by simply manipulating the parameters of each strips, providing a smooth transition between the two programs with varying spatial quality.

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Adv. Daylight|April 2015

Group Member:Lynn Ong Liyen, XiaTian

Form Studies

Orientation

Straight

North-South

Curve

North East - South West

Rotate

East-West

The curve form was selected as it was able to provide both visual connectivity between the two programs while maintaining spatial hiarchy

The orientation of the structure was chosen specifically for Singapore geographic location, to achieve a dramatic shadow play and without too much sunlight in the cafe area

Daylight simulation of final design

Sep 21th 9AM

Sep 21th 4PM

X direction-gaps between strips

Bird Corner Direct Light

Z direction-Height difference between strips

Kopitiam Diffuse Light

Max. 4.0 m

Min. 2.3 m

In this project, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re designing a weight loading wall that has been topologically optimised, while serving the function of a rock climbing wall and facade for a lobby sapce. The concepts revolves around the module used in the wall which carries the load down efficiently depending on the weight load density of various part of the wall. The modules forms an opportunity for energy and fun into a indoor wall thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s normally static. At the same time, the distribution of modules with different apurture creates an aesthetic shadow play and facade design.

Concept

Human load

Design Iterations Density distribution

Density decides the size of perforation at that point

' && Wall Adv. Geometry|April 2015

Group Member:Chiew JiaEn, Felicia LIm

Module Deisgn

This project aims to create a light weight structure that suspense in the Innovative Design Centre, SUTD Dover. Our design direction is to manipulate the weaving pattern within a module, to create a elegant gradient that could influence the space, providing a partition that reduce direct visual through the black portion, while allowing lighting to interact with the white portion of the structure.

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DesignComputation|Dec 2013 Group Member:Tong Lishi, Kenickie Cher, Terence Chew, Melissa Lim

Module Deisgn

- Works Here contains mostly competition submission that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve participated with fellow school mates. These work are a series of interesting ideas that did not develope as much as school projects but were fun to do.

LIVI N G IN

BETWEEN

Group Member:Tracy Chow Manyee

6000 mm

S T R U C T U R E TO EXISTING SHOPHOUSE

HOMELESSNESS “In the span of the last four years, the number of homeless people has increased by almost threefolds.” -- Ministry of Social and Family Development Since Singapore’s independence, the country has experienced rapid economic growth. It is no surprise that homelessness is a social plague that many Singaporeans are unaware of as it is out of sight in this gleaming metropolis. The statistics for homelessness has been increasing at an alarming rate over the recent years, thus there is a need to look the problem in the eye and come up with viable solutions to tackle this phenomenon. The homeless have been taking shelter in places such as park benches, under bridges, or abandoned buildings. This proposal aims to provide a liveable space for the homeless while activating the non-place by creating a new community of people. NON-PLACE The shophouse typology is very prominent in Singapore. Rows and rows of shophouses have eventually created many under-utilised and forgotten back alleys, which is the chosen non-place. By slotting in new compact living units for the homeless, the non-place serves a new purpose of eradicating the problem of homelessness in Singapore. New life is injected into the leftover space, which eventually transforms the transient space through the gain of permanence.

TRAP DOOR FROM GROUND

GREENS AROUND GLASS BOX AS SCREEN GLASS BOX 2200 mm

Each unit anchors itself onto the existing wall of shophouses, freeing up the ground floor for circulation, retail opportunities and other social activities. Similar to how the insertion of the units into the nonplace brings about new life, a translucent glass box is embedded into the basic living module, which provides the opportunity for the residents to overlook the newly revived streetscape.

In this project, we’re trying to design a museum that acts like a time capsule, which will be buried deep underground and be uncovered at year 3000. We approached this project with a slightly different intention of not preserving the most striking moments or greatest achievments in human history, but rather the things that are most easily forgotten in the time, our mundane daily life. Things that we use, geometries and shapes that constitutes our daily life now, influences our attitude and decision making. From the standpoint of future human, being surrounded by objects and geometries that we are so familiar or even bored of could be the most alienating experience that they could encounter! By poping out objects on the wall, the visitors will be engaged in the most direct of seeing an object comingg to ship shape, feels its’ size, it’s relationship ople to human, and imagining how people used to use them 1000 years ago. oms, Through these experiential rooms, the visitors might even be able to see ause things that we are not aware of because we just take things granted and make ivial. assumptions of what’s normal and trivial.

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Competition|May 2015 15

Group Member:Tracy Chow ManYee Yee Pamela Chua, Chou Ihsuan Sectional Perspective

As diverse as everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life is, there are some common grounds that are shared among people of the same nation. The daily routines of waking up, going to work, eating, moving from place to place, going outdoors etc. To extract the essence of these memories, each cutout object built into the walls of the time capsule boxes will inform future visitors of how we now interact with objects in our daily life, without imposing a specific material or design, so that the visitors can imagine the details with their own experience. To ensure this imaginative experience, the cutouts are composed as simply as possible: a mere laminate of a flexible and stiff material that allow the objects to unfold from the walls to interact with visitors. By physically engaging with the not the actual objects but the experience of them from the past, the memory will be transferred to the visitors in the most direct way, in terms seeing and touching the objects. Sensors will be triggered when visitors pull out each object, releasing sounds and smells of the past that allow the visitors to relive these lost moments.

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TRAIN OF THOUGHT

Group Member:Lee Fuhui, Kenickie Cher

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TRAIN ROUTES

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CROSS SECTION OF A LOBBY, STUDIO, GALLERY & EXHIBITION SPACE (from left to right)

CARRIAGE PLANS & SECTIONS 1:150

ROOM OF SILENCE

LIBRARY

MUSICIAN’S ROOM

GROUP ROOM

SCHEMATIC TRAIN CARRIAGES

walk way above

GALLERY SPACE

LIVING ROOM 1 PERFORMANCE STAGE

ARTIST’S ROOM

GALLERY/ PERFORMANCE SPACE LIVING ROOM 2

WRITER’S ROOM

: $ Gradshow Group Member:Tracy Chow ManYee Leon Jared Cher, Eileen Lim

As part of the design team for SUTD ASD grad show comittee, we wanted to have an exhibition that shows the spirit of ASD pillar, being sustainable as much as possible by reducing the waste material that often comes with an exhibition. So we decided to use wooden pallets, which can be returned or reused after the exhibition, and providing a strong contrast with the modern texture that SUTD campus centre has. 550 pallets in total, 3 meandering walls that serves as poster wall, model stand and sitting area, instills a playful atmosphere to our very first ASD graduation exhibition. each walls showcases the work of a section, while the head of each wall faces 3 directions in which visitors will arrive to the centre, and having the studio description to introduce visitors with the work theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re about to see.

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