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00 l THE STREETS OF SUDT
The initial phase of this project seeks to understand how Design neg o t i a t e s w i t h Te c h n o l o g y h e n c e i t s t i t l e S U D T . The redefinition of streets are being explored in the redesigning of SUTD campus. Pockets of spaces and extruded billboards are 2 main concepts and guiding principles to the design of the streets. This project is completed by 7 people with individual interventions combined into a single cohesive design of the campus. My individual intervention is mainly the streets of the school, introducing the 2 main concepts above to activate the streets and enhance the street living experiences in the school akin to a city scape with intersections of avenues, boulevards and v a r y i n g s t r e e t w i d t h s t h a t e n h a n c e s t h e j o u r n e y i n a c i t y.
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01 l URBAN DWELLING This project investigates the complexity of urban living through the understanding of density, diversity and connectivity. Balancing the respect for existing site and the content for future expansion is being illustrated in this urban design through interlocking modules that terraced towards the view of pearl hill, a greenery that is often scarce in urban dwellings.
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Conceptual Diagrams Interlocking modules were designed and arranged in a manner that exposes loggias, overhangs and void spaces to house the diversified living environment in a dense urban living environment. Circulation stems from the middle of each tower to facilitate interaction between different communities living in an urban cluster. Towers are arranged in a terracing manner to house roof gardens that respon to the lush greeneries and the prominent Pearl Hill that resides opposite to the current site
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Sectional Relationships CORE CIRCULATION
The interlocking spatial relationships provides platforms of opportunites to interact vertically through extended balconies. Each household will have their individual private green balconies that allows them to be close to nature in an intensely densified area. Some of these balconies are shared community decks that fosters interaction between neighbors living on the same level. The interlocking modules allow for double volume room spaces making them feel comfortable.
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DOUBLE VOLUME INTERLOCKING SPACES
THE SPATIAL QUALITY OF INTERLOCKING GREEN VOIDS
02 l DESIGNER HOUSE This project delves into the context of urban dwelling. The complexity within the urban context empowers architects to design flexible housings that caters to people of diversified culture and background. This residential project situated in Bras Basah Complex employs reconfigurability living for designers that are able to use their apartments for work and galley spaces. Thresholds between work and life were being investigated in this design process. Movable wall panels were designed to enhance the different spatial qualities.
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Sectional Perspectives This apartment is designed to cater for designers that often try to strike the balance between work & life. These sectional perspectives highlights the interaction between the split levels within the designer’s house. It shows show the gallery spaces at the lower level is being accessed from the upper level and how the open balcony spaces allow for the designers living in the apartment to have an alternative living and working experience.
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03 l SINGAPORE VISITORS CENTRE This project seeks to design a Singapore Visitor’s Centre that aims to pronounce the identity of Singapore architecturally through the bridging between the powerful historical moments and the urban city context that the current SVC resides in. The building form was derived through the understanding of the site context and analysis to sculpt and merge two vital parts of Singapore’s history into a meaningful journey that visitors experience when they visit the SVC.
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04 l SINGAPORE MUSEUM This project stems from the significance of the Singapore’s river to Singapore as a growing nation.
Housinng exhibits that reflects the character and personality of a young and growing nation, historical foundations should be well established. The form of the museum is carved in a way river boat stops are mapped on a urban site plan. The advantage of the site being part of the river journey, calls out for a design that synthesizes with the rythm of the river flow. Hence, circulation through the museum was very much inspired by the river boat stops through the river, mapping historical moments and new developments that characterize Singapore. The experience throughout the museum was vital and crafted in accordance to the journey people take to understand how Singapore was established.
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01 ll URBAN 05 PLUG - IN DWELLING SPACE This project seeks to establish a negotiation between an existing space that has lush greeneries and the need to design an architecture plug in that houses eprogrammatic requirements such as exhibition areas, performance areas and spaces that relates to the greeneries in the space. A Ribbon concept was introduced that ties people entering the space to the programs designed for the space. This concept starts from the circulation staircase that brings people from Level 1 into the different levels of this plug-in space.
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01 ll URBAN 06 THE GUARDHOUSE DWELLING This project delves into the realms of origamic design strategies. Grid points were plotted on the site area in 3d to gauge the extent to which the guardhouse folds and unfolds itself. An SUTD Guardhouse, being employed as an integral facade seeks to pronounce its architectural quality of form and function through the folds that provides shade and gateways to the school.
07 l RESIDENTIAL DESIGN This project is completed by a group of 5 people namely, Pang Xin Hua, Pan Shiqian, Lou Zhining, Ng Huilin and myself. This project aims to design a residential apartment at York hill that makes use of the understanding of daylighting in order to design apartment units that are able to receive adequate amount of daylight at a comfortable level. Diva daylighting were one of the toolds used to understand daylighting in an apartment. Vasari was another tool used to understanding daylighting on a larger scale.
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OVERLIGHTING Mainly residential units that are directly exposed to the sun.
OPENING UP IN A FAN-LIKE CONFIGURATION TO INCREASE VENTILATION
WIDEN ONE EDGE OF EACH BUILDING TO PROVIDE SHADING FOR ADJACENT BUILDING
LENGTHS OF EACH BUILDING WAS ADJUSTED TO MEET THE VOLUME REQUIREMENTS
COURTYARD INTRODUCED TO AID WITH VENTILATION AND DAYLIGHTING
Voids carved to capture the East morning sun and increase sunlight entering courtyard and lower levels.
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08l THE VOID The intention of Perforating the North-South facade is to pronounce the visual connection between the neighborhood & the church, and embrace the modern interpretation of a church being a social gathering space where many activities are being organized and held by introducing a gradual gradient of perforations. These gradual increase of perforations and opening size hints dynamism and its baffle architectural properties allow soft light to seep into the church. This enhances the atmosphere of a gathering space in a modern church that is both contemplative through the diffused lighting & interactive through its visual connection between the exteriro and interior of the church.
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09l UNTERGRUND SPORTHALLE This project is completed by a group of 5 people namely, Ng Huilin, Tracy Chow, Matthew Chan, Amaryllis Seah and myself. The intent for this project is to design a gym in our school on the open field in Dover campus. This project seeks to investigate and understand the importance of structure and detailings of materials.
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A N TO N I O G A U D I - S A G R A DA FA M I L I A Catenary arches were being explored adventurously in the Sagrada Familia, light wells, openings and the calibration of light entering the space in this church were very precise and highlights his intent as an architect and the understanding of how a user uses the space.
A N TO N I O G AU D I - C ASA M I L A An organic architecture that dwelves into how the users use the space was carefully designed right from the interior furnitures to its open roof top spaces. Spaces were designed to cater for specific functional purposes and each door has its unique door knob design catering to the ergnomics of a user and the furntires largely define the type of space it was designed for.
A N T O N I O G A U D I - C A S A B AT T L O A different interpretation of organic form was being employed in Casa Battlo. Gaudi has always believed the intrinsic relationship between architecture and nature. He designed the handrails, and fences to follow the way plants grow in nature. The vibrant colors and mosiac tiles used in this masterpiece highlights the dialogue it has with nature.
M I E S V A N D E R R O H E - B A R C E L O N A P AV I L I O N Differing very much from Gaudi’s architecture, Mies van der Rohe belongs to the pioneering masters of Modern Architecture. His insistence on simplicity and transparency is prevalent in the pavilion. However the extensive play of materials were observed and how each material define the mood of a space was interesting to absorb while feeling it in the space. Its transparencies allos crucial viewpoints towards the plaza where people from all walks of life carry out different types of activities. It is interesting to observe people in the plaza as well as from the pavilion.
11 l FLORENCE FIRENZE The Instituto Europeo was engaged with SUTD to enforce the learning of the history of architecture, mainly the renaissance period which is largely found in Florence, Italy. Paintings, sculptures, streets, pavements, plazas, walls, floors, rivers and the people make up the rich history that narrates the renaissance era. In order to understand architecture, journeys are the best teachers. The journey in Italy was an unforgettable one, the people and architecture, the negotiation and relationships between the people today, the people in the past and how architecture is used by both groups of people speaks volumes about how these 2 groups interact to create Architecute.
MICHELANGELO - THE CRYPT It was interesting to understanding the use of this crypt and how the exterior looks so humble with a hue of extravagance while the interior of this architecture narrates an entirely new story of respecting and honoring the predecessors. Windows were seems to be randomly designed but with a certain order in detail. The sculptures in the interior of the building were carefully calibrated to tell a story using the artistry of the sculptor. This kind of exquisite calibration of a story in a sculpture will never be fully understood and achieved with the modern technology of 3D printers.
SAN GIMIGNANO There is some negotiation between the gothic and renaissance in this architecture with pointy arches and smooth arches existing on the same facade of the chapel. More details were given to the higher part of the building explaining how architecture and materials were being designed in order to give a perception of stability and aesthetic to the chapel.
F I L I P P O B R U N E L L E S C H I - PA Z Z I C H A P E L Geometry and proportion was crucial and prominent in many of Brunelleschi’s work. The art of propotion allow one to feel ‘right’in a space.Views into the chapel and out from the chapel were carefully constructed and every ornament and alignment has its purpose and functionality. In this renaissance period it seems silly to bring forth the modern debate of form and function because the understanding of a space and its proportion was a natural thing that breeds its function.
A R N O L F O D I C A M B I O - S A N TA C R O C E The Frescoes on the walls and the ceilings were painted by Giotto and his followers, each depicting a different story. The level of detail and ornaments in Santa Croce is very different from the chapels designed by Brunelleschi. It shows the wealth and status of the people at that point of time. The Mosaics di Firenze shown above are rare art that is scarcely found in Italy today. We saw the master at work, the patience he had in this form of artistry. The display of brillance on the masterpieces provokes me to think about how technology today is robbing us off our ability to appreciate such art. The fast paced society we are in demands everything to speed up, will we then lose the sense of art appreciation?
12 l LYON A A LY O N W O R K S H O P
The AA Lyon Workshop in Grand Atelier Lyon was about understanding the negotiation between Earth and Architecture. This intrigues me alot about how Earth [often neglected as a choice of material] can be used innovatively with technology to design interesting forms an even houses for the third world country.
First, we were introduced to the number and types of earth and its natural form. Using our sensory, we tasted, smelt, felt the true essence of earth and its varying relationships with water and bamboo. Differ ent techniques were also introduced to enhance the knowledge of earth-making structure.
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BRICK FORMING TECHNIQUE This brick forming technique is called Adobe, that is the mixing of 3:1 proportion of 2 types of earth, dry and wet respectively. The wet earth was to ‘glue’ the dry earth together so they become a whole. We then transfer the mixed earth to a brick making machine and pour the mixed earth in. A brick is then formed in less than 5 minutes! From the images towards the right of the page, experiments were done to understand the strength of sand and the science behind its strength. Another way to strengthen earth is to add an optimal amount of water. This is because water capillary bridge due to its bonding with each H2O molecule. This ability to strengthen earth is called ‘De léau pour constraire’.
BRICK STRUCTURE The instructors from the Architecture Association gathered us into groups to brainstorm on how we can make use of the knowledge we learnt in the past few days and come up with a pavilion structure that is able to shelter us from rain, people friendly and of a 3 by 3 area. We are aware of 4 different types of earth’s beauty. Adobe, Torchi, PisÊ (Rammed Earth) and Fabric Framework. My group cohesively decided to use bricks because we want to explore more on bricks and how we can modify the rigid structure of bricks to create an interesting pattern and structure.
D E S I G N I N G E A R T H PAV I L I O N The main objective of this workshop is to use the understanding and knowledge of Earth Construction and our knowledge on technology like using Rhino & Grasshopper with the help of CNC machines to design the wooden frames so as to design an makeshift pavilion. The wooden frames were first being assembled by hand drills, then the earth construction begins where different types of earth and hays are mixed to strengthen its quality and then applied it onto a thin sheet of fabric. Strong heat lamps were used to bake these earth however it is to bemade sure that the earth is evenly spread onto the fabric before cracks are formed which may lead to the failure of construction.
P U B L I C S PAC E S Public spaces in france are luxurious and the types of people that uses it and how public uses the space is thought provoking. There are many failures of plazas in cities that are either empty or heavily under-utilized, it is essential then to understand what constitutes a successful plaza. Tourist attractions are some of them, correct seatings, shades, activities are some of the small but crucial features that enhances and activates the plaza.
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