Architecture Portfolio 2015 by Ao Chin Wen

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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 derived through spontaneity in time, randomness in content and unexpected intention.

Page 6 HundredUnits 12CrowdHorizon 18CinemaHouse 22FoldedMemories 24 SUTDSportsGym 28 BirdCafe 32 FitnessWall 34 SpaceStructure

9 Units

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

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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’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 coming 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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15 Competition|May 2015

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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Axonometric Detail of Home

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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.

7 # Stadium 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 self-load 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

M ax. 4.0 m

M in. 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

Human load

Design Iterations Density distribution

Density decides the size of perforation at that point

Module Deisgn

& %% Wall Adv. Geometry|April 2015

Group Member:Chiew JiaEn, Felicia LIm

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.

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

Module Deisgn

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