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Introduction
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HI, I’m Brandon Lim, a second-year architecture student at the University of Waterloo. My interest in the field stems from its ability to improve + develop human life, a quality kept in mind when designing the selected works.
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Curriculum Vitae
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EDUCATION University of Waterloo Candidate for Bachelor of Architectural Studies 2015 - present Ryerson University Candidate for Bachelor of Architectural Science 2014 - 2015
SKILLS & ABILITIES Digital
Analog
AutoCAD
Adobe Creative Suite
Hand Drafting
Wood Working
Rhino 5
Maxwell Render
Model Making
Photography
V-Ray
Microsoft Office
Laser Cutting
EXPERIENCE Studio V Architecture Architectural Assistant 01/2017 - 04/2017 - Developed construction drawings for commerical office rennovation - Created presentation drawings and diagrams for client meetings and publication - Progressed facade design through iterative studies, using digital modelling and hand drawing K2LD Architects - Singapore Architectural Intern 06/2015 - 08/2015 - Formatted competition board layouts for the 2015 SIA Awards - Built physical models at various scales for project proposals - Produced construction documents for residential and commercial projects Habitat for Humanity ReStore Volunteer 04/2015 - 06/2015 - Communicated with customers to help them find specific inventory - Reorganized store goods to ensure clean and welcoming environment
RECOGNITION Excellent Academic Standing - 3.3 GPA University of Waterloo / 2015-17 Year End Show Feature Ryerson University / 2015 5
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Table of Contents
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8 The Living Factory 18 A Kit of Parts 26 Gridscape 34 Bike Stack 40 Phรถ to Library 48 Contact
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The Living Factory Mixed Use Residential Design Studio III A. Blackwell
The factory, a building typology centering on order, efficiency, and function, acted as the infrastructure for the workplace. Its peak appeared during the Fordist movement where mass production skyrocketed, but minimal room for innovation was given. Today society stands in the Post-Fordist era, the opposite extreme, where creative freedom has overcome working order. Mediating between these two extremes is the Living Factory, a mixeduse cooperative housing project providing innovators and creatives with spaces for creation in work and daily life.
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The Living Factory
Landsdowne Station Susan Tibaldi Park
Margueretta St
Emerson Ave. Bloor St W
Site Plan The site is programmed with startups + creative spaces, populated with independent post-graduates and dropouts working part-time, expressing an interest in creative endeavors. Whether an issue of life or work, The Living Factory looks to revice deadened expressive aspirations, providing spaces to facilitate new ways to work and live.
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Exhibition Cafe Parking Parkette Extension Interactive Gallery Space
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Work Pod Common Space Kitchen / Bath / Storage Bedroom
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The Living Factory
Living Rooftop
Living Unit
Common Space
Bike Shelter / Canopy
Within the living quarters, residents are provided with spaces of varying levels of privacy to provide for varying living needs. One enters right into the common space, where floormates coopertate to organize the leisurely space. In contrast, efficiently standardized bedrooms give residents an area to personalize the rooms to their liking. Serving in between these two spaces are a set of 3 cores, housing the essential domestic services to be shared.
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The Living Factory
Workspace Rooftop
Working Unit
Interactive Gallery
Exhibition Cafe
The work space is a free composition of private volumes, implying a circulating public gallery space for residents and visitors. Within these volumes are spaces for residents and the public to work, either independently or cooperatively. The public is invited into the space through sharing + communication with residents and one another, opening up opportunity for either to connect and create.
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A Kit of Parts Modular System Digital Fabrication C. O’Grady + J. Read
The simplest of connections, a stick and node, was the basis of an investigation exploring the potentials of a kit of parts. However, unique to this kit is its availability and efficiency, consisting of readily available materials in pairing with a developed node design. Acknowledging the domestication of 3D printing as a new-found resource, the designed node (as a file) can easily be shared, modified, and distributed, as with its complimentary parts: PVC or copper pipe, and standard nuts & bolts. In combination, this consumer-ready kit of parts embraces creativity over consumption to provide for what is needed. w/ M. Clubine + N. Yip
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A Kit of Parts
Detailed Section Due to the availability and standardization of all but one of the kits components, the node was the focus of the project. Designed for manipulation and strength, the 12-axis node is compatible with a variety of configurations, limited only by its user’s imagination.
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Detailed Axo
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A Kit of Parts
3D print testing rigidity of connection (weak)
3D print testing rigidity of connection (strong)
Comparing sizes of standard copper piping
3D sketch models, testing tolerances
Fitting the correct tolerance 3D print
Testing of correctly sized direct node connection
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Sketch model, positioning all 12 axis of node
Test print of simplified node
Failed print of 1:2 detailed model
Node in progress of being 3D printed
Node put together after 3D printed
Example of node occupied on 6/12 axis
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A Kit of Parts
Seating
Hanger
Performance Space
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Lighting
Canopy
A Planter
Configurations 25
Gridscape Master Plan Design Studio IV L. Shepphard
As a result of human instinct to choose a path of convenience over exploration, man has distanced itself from the landscape, thus a new intersection between the two has been proposed for the reopening of the park Ontario Place. A gridded superstructure floats over the site at a single datum, intersecting the ascending and descending topography. The changes in elevation allow the grid and its pedestrians to meet, go above, and below the ecologies distributed in the park, providing for a new experience of landscape. w/ K. Ahier
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Site Plan 27
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Gridscape
Wet vs. Dry
Lush vs. Barren
Protected vs. Exposed
Social vs. Isolated
Wild vs. Maintained
Bright vs. Dark
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Ampitheatre
Cinesphere
Pods
Beach Pavillion
Log Cabins
Marina
Geology Centre
Greenhouses
Farmer’s Market
Shelter/Pavillion
Program Distribution 29
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Rain Water Collection
Gridscape
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Site Axonometric 31
Gridscape
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Vignettes 33
Bike Stack Pavillion Digital Fabrication J. Read + C. O’Grady
Bike Stack is a designed bike station that resides within Central Park. Split into three, various sections were studied to comprehend the ways in which people could interact with the structure (sit, lean, rest, be sheltered, etc.). Through the concept of the design, the construction of Bike Stack results in minimal material consumption and waste. Effectively, both positives and negatives of cut material are used in construction, resulting in shorter construction times, economic assurance, and material efficiency.
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Bike Stack
Sheets
Divided
Connected
Interpolated
Design Development
Initial design began with the theme of voids, created by the separation of a whole into independent pieces. Through a study of sections, these pieces were manipulated to make thoughtful use of all the material cut. This strategy allowed the structure to remain relatively waste-less, while providing the multiple functions of a flamboyant bike station.
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Seating
Shelter
Parking
Sectional Study
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Bike Stack
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Physical Model Photos 39
Phöto Library Public Library Design Studio II L. Shepphard
Commonly defined as a still moment in reality, “photo” also translates to “light.” The proposed photographic library is situated along the regenerating portion of Queen Street West in Toronto, surrounded by art galleries, restaurants, young residents, and the CAMH campus. In an effort to subtly add to the existing programs, Phöto Library provides as a space of resource for new, up and coming, and established photographers. With ode to its name, the library defines space and experience with light.
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Exterior Perspective 41
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Phรถto Library
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Gallery Periodicals Service Desk Storage / Display Rental Shop
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Gathering Space Courtyard Dark Room Stacks Study Space I
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Quiet Space Printing Study Space II Service Desk Staff Room
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Phรถto Library At street level, a reveal in the ground creates a gathering space in front of the library, itself appearing as a glass box with a floating roof. Below the library retains its traditional use as a space of study, hosting books, computers, and resources of print. With majority of the project below grade, natural light is sourced via a light well in the south, peeled clerestory in the north, as well as the courtyard in the middle.
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Queen St. W Elevation
Section A-A
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Contact
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