Carnation Kng
Architecture Portfolio
09.2021
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Carnation Kng Selected Works 2019 - 2021
Architecture Portfolio
07.2021
Contents
ABOUT
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Graduate Thesis
MACHINE HERITAGE
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M.Arch Year 2
GHOST IN THE SHELL
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M.Arch Year 1
SUPERMUSEUM
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M.Arch Year 2
AI ASSEMBLIES
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Personal Work
PROSPEGTIVE PERSPECTIVE
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About HONOURS SCI-Arc Graduate Thesis Merit Prize For thesis “Machine Heritage” | 2021 MND EDGE Scholarship Recipient of scholarship from the Ministry of National Development | 2015 - 2021 Opengap Vertikal Habitat 2021 Competition Second Place Winner | 2021 i Light Student Award First Runner-up | 2019
SKILLS Software Adobe Creative Suite, Agisoft, AutoCAD, Blender, Cinema 4D, Grasshopper, Houdini, Keyshot, Maya, Octane, Processing, Revit, Rhino 6/7, Sketchup, Unreal Engine, Unity, V-Ray, ZBrush Hardware 3D-printing and fabrication, analog and digital photography, drawing, painting, writing
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EDUCATION Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), USA • Master of Architecture – In Progress | 2019 – present National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore • B.A. (Hons) (Architecture) with Distinction | 2015 – 2019 Hwa Chong Institution, Singapore • GCSE ‘A’ Levels with Higher 3 Art (Distinction) | 2013 – 2014
EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant in SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, USA • Part-time Teaching Assistant for undergraduate Visual Studies and graduate Design Studio | 2020 - present Architectural Intern in Mark Foster Gage Architects, New York City, USA • Involved in the design and product development of art objects and a heritage library space | 2020 Architectural Intern in 8DGE Architects, Shanghai, China • Involved in the design development of the shortlisted scheme for the Founders’ Memorial in Singapore | 2019 NUS-Tsinghua-DPA Joint Studio: Sharing Cities, SG • Involved in a research studio and workshop series to research and develop practices for sharing cities in Singapore and Beijing in partnership with DP Architects | 2019 Architectural Intern in the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) of Singapore • Involved in the research and schematic proposals in the Urban Design and Physical Planning departments | 2018 Tour Facilitator in LDR Technology Pte Ltd • Facilitated educational heritage trails using mobile locationbased technology | 2016 - 2017
English (native) 我会说中文! Mandarin (native)
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Machine Heritage GRADUATE THESIS SUMMER 2021 MAIN ADVISOR: MICHAEL CASEY REHM ERIK GHENIOU, MARRIKKA TROTTER, WILLIAM VIRGIL Machine Heritage is a thesis looking into the re-generation of undervalued buildings with the development of new hybrids within. It explores architecture’s role in urban memories during the process. This project takes on the case of the People’s Park Complex in Singapore - a mixed-use commercial and residential development completed in 1973. Once an architectural symbol of a young nation’s progress, the building fell out of the public’s favour next to either distinctively ornate and “historic” shophouses, or newer gleaming skyscrapers nearby. Oftentimes, history and buildings alike present themselves as deceptively monolithic beings, when in fact they are extremely complex and dimensional entities. Using machine learning, algorithmic processes are used extensively to interpret the building’s historical and architectural make-up. With the hybridization of human and machine intelligences, the authority to determine and create heritage is extended beyond humanistic instincts. Final Site Isometric >>>
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People’s Park Complex. Image by Darren Soh for the Straits Times
ARCHITECTURAL “DEADSTOCK”? Neither too old to be precious, nor too young to be forgotten, the case for People’s Park Complex - like many others built around the same era across the world - is one that seeks urgent review and recast as we risk losing entire blocks of modern history and sensibilities to the wrecking ball. Text prompts were collected from years of media materials regarding the People’s Park Complex, and were used to generate the project’s aesthetics. The existing building structure is used as a reference to encode new programs, from which the original building is rigorously reassembled through multiple layers. For the People’s Park Complex, its existing multi-owner economic model gave inspiration to the proposal of its regeneration as an integrated data centre. This is proposed in conjunction with its existing retail and residential programs. Issues such as energy efficiency, heat dissipation then arise as parameters for the development of new tectonics for a hyper-dimensional architecture.
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Images generated from texts about People’s Park Comple using the CLIP model by OpenAI
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Existing Building
Data Center Structural Development
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Data Center Mass
Data Center Mass
Green Mass
Roofscape Development
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Roofscape Development
Vertical Green Development
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Facade Development
External Exhaust SystemDevelopment
Solar Panel Placement
Final Integrated Scheme
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Detailed Chunk Isometric
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Detailed Chunk Isometric
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Ghost in the Shell SCI-ARC GRADUATE DESIGN STUDIO (M.ARCH YEAR 2) FALL 2020 INSTRUCTOR: ELENA MANFERDINI TEAM: TOBY ZHOU In Rethinking Height, this project questions the constructs and futures of contemporary urban societies. Downtown Los Angeles presents itself to us as a manifestation of the capitalistic desires and tendencies that have driven our society up until now, with profit and productivity as king, and the US Bank Tower as its crowning glory. However, with smarter and faster technologies, we project the future to be one of a “post-work world” - where the productive capacities of our spaces and apparatus supersede and fully replace the need for actual human “work”. The ethos of happiness and fulfilment for humans then ceases its correlation with our own quantitative productivity, and seeks to hinge onto less definitive and more qualitative pursuits. Come 2020, the sudden halt of “normal” with the pandemic threw us into a future that we thought was still to come - as previously ubiquitous economic and social operations cease, and our home and work lives become less distinguishable. Hence, the act of retrofitting the US Bank Tower is our attempt to capture what it means to live in a future already happening now, as we redefine the Tower’s typology and architecture. Perspective (Day) >>>
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Site Overview (Image Source: Google Maps)
CONTEXT 633 W 5th St, Los Angeles, CA 90071 Architect: Henry Cobb / Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Developer: Maguire Thomas Partners Year of Completion: 1989 Lot Area: 63,172 sqft Existing Floor Area: 1,432,540 sqft Exisiting Height: 1018 ft (310m) No. of Storeys: 73
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Empty Downtown Los Angeles with the US Bank Tower, after the COVID-19 outbreak (Image Source: KCRW)
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Elevation Detail
EXTRACTING A ‘SHELL’ The gesture of extracting and creating a new shell from the Tower’s iconic façade presents new spatial and surface potential with the existing building. Additional floor area is created through extensions, and proposed as green voids, community spaces or both. The Tower’s existing height is treated as an expansive surface for design intervention, as opposed to a single volume to be capped. Meanwhile, closer to the ground, the tower-ground interface is interpreted as a spatial mass, blurring the notion of a definitive public-private boundary. Reaching out to embrace the public vicinity, including the Los Angeles Central Library, the streetscape is activated as a whole integrated mass.The ground FLOOR becomes the ground SPACE, and is expanded and established as THE icon of the Tower, inverting and subverting the exclusive notion of the Tower typology’s crowning glory as its literal “crown”.
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Section
Section
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Overall Section
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Office
Residential
Retail
Office
Leisure
Retail
Core Circulation
Leisure Green Space
Services
Public Space
Parking
Core Circulation Circulation Services Parking
Existing Program Distribution
Proposed Program Distribution
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Proposed Program Distribution
Tower-Street Interface
MASSING & PROGRAM
ABOVE & BELOW
Additional floor area is created through extensions, and proposed as green voids, community spaces or both. This allows for flexible and layered programmaking within the Tower, bringing an end to the monolithic office Tower.
3 main circulatory rings are introduced to address mobility to and inside the Tower, connecting 2 proposed roof gardens, a plaza, the existing Bunker Hill Steps, the Library and the Tower.
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Extending the Green
Evacuation Cores Diagram
NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL
SAFETY & RISK
From the plaza, roof gardens, green extensions and urban farming collectives, green spaces weave through the Tower at different levels and scales.
New peripheral cores are introduced in addition to the Tower’s existing circulation cores.
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Library Roof Garden
Sunken Plaza
Green Space Public Space Carpark Roof Garden
Bunker Hill Steps
Core Circulation
Ground Floor Plan
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Residential Green Space Leisure Core Circulation
Dwelling Plan
Green Space Core Circulation
Farm Collective Plan
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Elevation (Day) 30
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Elevation (Night) 31
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Supermuseum SCI-ARC GRADUATE DESIGN STUDIO (M.ARCH YEAR 1) SPRING 2020 INSTRUCTOR: DAMJAN JOVANOVIC TEAM: RENE PEREZ IGNACIO Positioned within the context of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (LACMA) extension, the Supermuseum contemplates the Nature of the Contemporary, seeking to develop architectural strategies for a knowledge institution that archives the past, acquires the now and shapes the future. Confronted by the advent of contemporary technologies, excessive proliferation of knowledge, recalibration of global cultural power balances and evolving consumption practices, the role of an encyclopedic museum today begs serious reassessment. Through the array of proposals for LACMA’s extension presented over the recent decades, we see the diversity and evolution of architectural imaginations as architects sought to interpret a clear image for the unclear future.
Stills from the final animation >>>
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NATURE (OF THE CONTEMPORARY)
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Timothy Morton described Nature as “a transcendental term in a material mask [that] stands at the end of a potentially infinite series of other terms that collapse into it.” With the Internet being the ultimate prime example of a non-discretionary host for anything and everything - the “Nature” of our times is interpreted as one of infinity, flux, suspension and flatness. Here, the museum of tomorrow is envisioned as an expansive, non-hierarchical Supervolume hosting an evolving menagerie of artifacts and knowledge.
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SUPERVOLUME Within a Supervolume, art, knowledge, nature and architecture are suspended in constant tension as each actively reinterprets and redefines the other through multi-dimensional projections upon and around. Neither party takes perpetual prominence in this environment of shifting hierarchies, overturning the conventional notion of authority associated with the museum institution.
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Linear Park and Exhibition Space
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Nature Gallery
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Special Gallery
HETEROTOPIA The Supermuseum is conceived as a heterotopic composite of elements, ranging across scales, programs and functions, distributed across a Supervolume with controlled randomness. The notion of controlled randomness runs deeply within this project, manifesting itself in conceptual, programmatic, spatial and aesthetic strategies. Spatial volumes are used as elements for randomized compositions, allowing the balance of architectural sensitivities between the specificity of collection spaces and the openness of public spaces within the liberation of chaos. Within the composition, transitionary semipublic spaces emerge as nested volumes. At the aesthetics level, the randomness is likewise applied, but to small discrete particles from which the overall image of our project emerges. The resultant architecture is one where multiple micro-worlds co-exist - where the public and institution spaces intertwine intricately while maintaining their own distinct autonomies. Intersecting and constantly changing - the dichotomies within has their pluralistic, evolving qualities captured in our architectural aesthetics.
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Detail view of the facade particles
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Spatial volumes are used as elements for randomized compositions
Spatial volumes are used as elements for randomized compositions
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An external “skin” forms the facade for the Supermuseum
Small discrete particles form the final facade, from which the overall image of our project emerges
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Elevation
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Longitudinal Section
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Typical Floor Plan
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Main Entrance
Public Plaza
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Gallery/Storage
Special Gallery
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In summary, controlled randomness plays out in the project across multiple scales, the layering and interfacing of elements and worlds producing compelling qualities. For the Supermuseum is a commentary on bridging the old and now for the future. A Heterotopia and its contents encapsulated in a super massive, super random, super moving condition - one that doesn’t succumb to the forces that try to make everything the same, from which avenues emerge for users to construct identities and meaning for themselves.
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View from park
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AI Dwelling SCI-ARC AI ASSEMBLIES SEMINAR (M.ARCH YEAR 2) FALL 2020 INSTRUCTOR: MICHAEL CASEY REHM TEAM: HEENA PATEL This seminar focused on the research and development of models for the Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU) in Los Angeles through datacollection and data-sampling with the training of neural networks. Simultaneously, contemporary fabrication techniques were looked into and techniques were developed to assess and prepared the generated ADU models for autonomous fabrication.
Generated 3D-printing tool paths for the final ADU unit >>>
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Sites
AI-generated ADU footprint
Enlarged footprint
AI-generated plans
Aerial axononmetric generated model
Worms eye axononmetric with floor removed
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Sites
AI-generated ADU footprint
Enlarged footprint
AI-generated plans
Aerial axononmetric generated model
Worms eye axononmetric with floor removed
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ADU FORM GENERATION
Aerial Axonometric
Right Elevation
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ADU Layout Plan
Reflected Ceiling Plan
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ROOF PANELS GENERATION
Voxel Mesh for Analysis
Primary Stress Vectors
Panelized Plank Model
Plans of generated panels
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3D-PRINTING TOOL PATH GENERATION
Plans of generated 3d-printing tool paths
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STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Chunk I: Stress Analysis
Chunk I: Optimal Structural Reinforcement
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Chunk I: Optimal Structural Reinforcement
Chunk I: Optimal 3D-printing Tool Paths
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STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Chunk II: Stress Analysis
Chunk II: Optimal Structural Reinforcement
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Chunk II: Optimal Structural Reinforcement
Chunk II: Optimal 3D-printing Tool Paths
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Prospegtive Perspective I LIGHT SINGAPORE 2019 (PERSONAL WORK) SPRING 2019 DESIGN TEAM: JUSTINA TENG, LOW JO-ANN FABRICATION SPONSOR: BOEWE DESIGN Prospegtive Perspective is a public art installation that adopted the humble 4-pronged clothing peg as its module of choice. Ubiquitous across all residences in Singapore, the peg is easily recognisable to Singaporeans across ages and backgrounds. The team was fascinated with the sight of pegged laundry on bamboo poles, dancing with the breeze outside buildings – how such a simple object could express so much local flavour! Prospegtive Perspective is awarded the First Runner-up position in the i Light Student Award 2019 organised by URA Singapore, and was displayed during i Light Singapore - Bicentennial Edition along the iconic Marina Bay in early 2019.
On display during the i Light event. Image credit: Fabian Ong >>>
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Pegs module assembly
FURTHER NOTE It is the team’s hope that our installation brings joy to those who see the peg in a new light, creating dialogue and bridges between generations of Singaporeans. Inspired by stories of Singaporeans through the ages building the city, each peg is replicated and connected to form planes. These planes are then layered across the installation in varying heights and sections, carving three-dimensional spaces within and also a view specific to the site - an unbuilt section of the Marina Bay skyline across the Singapore River. Acting as a projection of future developments, the installation completes the existing skyline, serving as an imaginative bridge to the future. As people interact with our installation, we hope that Prospegtive Perspective can help to bring generations together – be it through stories of laundry, nation-building, or in simple appreciation of the view.
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Pegs assembly detail. Image credit: Fabian Ong
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