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Statement

Carnation is currently a graduate student pursuing her M.Arch II degree at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). A recipient of the EDGE scholarship from the Ministry of National Development in Singapore since 2015, she received her Bachelors of Art in Architecture degree with Distinction from the National University of Singapore in 2019. She was born and raised in Singapore. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, her undergraduate years were spent extensively between Singapore, Indonesia and China through her academic and personal commitments. Recent experiences include her internships in the Urban Redevelopment Authority in Singapore, and in 8DGE Architects in Shanghai, China. Notably, her works have been showcased in the i Light Singapore Biennale Edition (2019), and SCI-Arcâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spring Show (2020). Carnationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interests lie in architecture, urbanism and art. The intersections and integrations of these fields captivate her as explorations of probable futures.

Contents

01 / Design Works 2GBX Design Studio II

SUPERMUSEUM

2GBX Visual Studies II

CONTINUOUS GARDEN

2GAX Design Studio I

AFTER IMAGES

2GAX Visual Studies I

SLICE IT!

2GAX Advanced Material and Tectonics

LIGHTING MACALLAN

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Supermuseum 2GBX DESIGN STUDIO SPRING 2020 INSTRUCTOR: DAMJAN JOVANOVIC TEAM: RENE PEREZ IGNACIO Positioned within the context of LACMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 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 LACMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

Still from the final animation >>>

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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2GBX / Supermuseum

Within the 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 Heterotopias, as described by Michel Foucault, exist in a dynamic state of layered and changing meanings - essentially places in a perpetual dilemma. The Supermuseum is conceived as a heterotopic composite of elements, ranging across scales, programs and functions, distributed across a Supervolume with controlled randomness.

spaces within the liberation of chaos. Within the composition, transitionary semi-public 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 yet still maintain their own distinct autonomies. Intersecting and constantly changing - the dichotomies within has their pluralistic, evolving qualities captured in our architectural aesthetics.

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

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Detail view of the facade particles

2GBX / Supermuseum

Spatial volumes are used as elements for randomized compositions

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An external â&#x20AC;&#x153;skinâ&#x20AC;? 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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Stills from the final animation 31

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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 doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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

Continuous Garden 2GBX VISUAL STUDIES SPRING 2020 INSTRUCTOR: DAMJAN JOVANOVIC TEAM: HEENA PATEL (From the syllabus) “The game scholar James P. Carse introduces the idea of an Infinite Game: a game where the purpose is not to win, but to continue the play. The artist Ian Cheng defines the activity of “Worlding” as the introduction of meaning into the open-ended chaos of a simulation. The Garden World presents a series of real-time simulations that explore these two concepts as a possible format for architectural visuality. Working with simulations means adopting an anti-normative worldview. This worldview privileges open-ended structure and implies a non-deterministic universe, as a liberation from fixed and finite models of thinking and making. It does not conform to ideas of art of closed formal systems, it rather understands art as an extension of everyday existence, as one aspect of the many-faceted reality. It is about play at all times, about life as play.”

Still from simulations, generated with Unreal Engine >>>

2GBX / Continuous Garden

The Continuous Monument: On the Rocky Coast, project (Perspective), 1969. Source: moma.org

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The Continuous Monument: On the River, project (Perspective), 1969. Source: moma.org

INSPIRATION - THE CONTINUOUS MONUMENT We drew inspiration from The Continuous Monument (1969) by Superstudio to the limit of modern distinction between nature and artificially created objects. The way to the new hybrid philosophy of relationship between architecture and nature in which the term blends in a single design. The Continuous Garden is a world where all the forms like architecture and simulated particles emerge from one single continuous environment, unified by the digital world, simulation, architecture and all the other inevitable forms of imperialism. The world which we have created is an open ended chaos of a simulation as the new pictorial space.

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Autonomous actors interacting with the landscapes

BUILDING THE “HYPER-LANDSCAPE” On a more general note, we are entranced by this idea of a “hyper-landscape” - subliminal landscapes composed by the material world as much as by our minds. Where “material” attributes are embedded with our subconscious desires and biases, constructing hybrid and hyper-realities hand-in-hand with the high-resolution simulators (Unreal Engine, Quixel Megascans and Houdini in our case). Alongside digital meshes, data maps and calculations come personalities, emotions, intentions and carelessness. The extreme rationality assumed to be inherent in digital technologies is questioned, as we advance towards the age of hybridized, layered fiction-realities.

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Series of landscapes built to host the final simulations

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Panning above and across the Field

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Top View of the Field Landscape

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Panning above and across the River

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Top View of the River Landscape

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Stills from the final simulations portfolio . carnation kng

2GBX / Continuous Garden

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Still from final simulations

2GBX / Continuous Garden

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Still from final simulations

After Images 2GAX DESIGN STUDIO FALL 2019 INSTRUCTOR: JENNY WU TEAM: HANS STEFFES “What we see now is [but a] dim image in a mirror” - Ghost in the Shell After Images focuses on the power of rational thought and logical processes to produce distortions and fluctuations. The primary pathway for these distortions and fluctuations is the Gaze - the Western gaze on China to produce Chinatown, and the postsingular gaze on Chinatown to produce an object and its facticity. Los Angeles’ Chinatown struck us as an assemblage of overt, perceived symbols of Chinese cultural authenticity, almost like the place was overcompensating for the inaccuracies and assumptions of the Western gaze. Simultaneously, the advent of computers and the subsequent accumulation of incalculable data have given rise to a new system of memory and thought, parallel to our own. Here, the architectural object is the product of a post-singular machine, a hybrid intelligence comprised of both human and computer processes but indistinguishable from the product of a single intelligence. Stills from the final animation >>>

2GAX / After Images

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Preliminary cataloging of Chinatownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elements through photogrammetry

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Initial resin-dipped photogrammetric models

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Plan View

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Initial resin-dipped photogrammetric models

PROCESS A multitude of processes were employed to inform and enrich our design development. From initial form explorations with photogrammetry, resin-dipping and vacuum-forming; to the employment of hyper-rational algorithmic processes and artificial intelligence to inform, compose and organize our architecture.

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Architectural composition from photogrammetric scans

In After Images, hybrid intelligence and the postsingular gaze act as a bricoleur insubordinate to materials and tools to produce, using the sea of data to renew and enrich the object with remains of previous constructions and destructions. Reality to hybrid intelligence has no concern for ideas of past, present and future, instead acting only on the sea of data that is constantly reworked - simultaneously perceived and actualized.

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Final Texture generated through CycleGAN portfolio . carnation kng

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Key Plan

PROCESS Programmatically, the project brief called for the design of a co-working commercial space in LA’s Chinatown. In our process, the traditional architect’s hand is shared across intelligences, as the project’s representation is directly interpreted and generated algorithmically through AI speculation. Similarly, hybrid co-workers share processes as subroutines of the same system of thought that gave rise to the object.

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Key Sections

2GAX / After Images

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Physical models across time - preliminary experimentations, massing and final compositions

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Final Physical Model

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Key Axonometric

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Caption

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Key Elevation

The final outcome - a 3-minute long animation - wraps up our After Images journey. Paraphrasing Michael Young in the Aesthetics of Doubt, â&#x20AC;&#x153;[we] intervene the world through constructed fictions [in our compositions and representations] - in an attempt to open alternative plausible realities; to peel a possibility away from the dense surface of the way things are.â&#x20AC;? <<< Stills from the final animation

Slice It! 2GAX VISUAL STUDIES FALL 2019 INSTRUCTORS: ANDREA CADIOLI, CURIME BATLINER GUEST LECTURER: CASEY REAS TEAM: SHAYANTANI MUKHERJEE (From the syllabus) Playing in the game of part to whole, the project looks at the potential of a gestural cut as a device for the production of dualities in an ontologically weak system. Concepts of inside/out, open/close, right/wrong are challenged in a surface in continuous evolution in between opposing identities. Following the contemporary explorations of the 2.5D canvas in post-digital area, the project investigates the architectural facade as a space of multiplicities and singularly, deeply public and in an infinitely state of fluxation.

Stills from mid-term animations, exploring forms with Grasshopper >>>

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2GAX / Slice It!

Mid-term animations and projections display (photographs courtesy of Andrea Cadioli)

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Mid-term Sticker Panel

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Processing manipulations

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Mid-term Sticker Panel

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Furthering our design process with a 3D robotic arm sequence

PROCESS Through several experimentations with Grasshopper, Processing and robotic arm sequences, a layered interplay between the 2D and 3D is developed to produce new aesthetic and formal design strategies. This series of design experimentations and workshops was culminated into a series of animations, static motifs and pattern. multiplicities embedded within a singular, infinite language.

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Final Patterned Panels on display

Final Pattern >>>

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Lighting Macallan 2GAX ADVANCED MATERIAL & TECTONICS FALL 2019 INSTRUCTOR: MAXI SPINA, RANDY JEFFERSON TEAM: AASTHA AGGARWAL, SHAYANTANI MUKHERJEE, WEN CHEN As part of our Tectonics project, we selected the Macallan Distillery and Visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Experience Centre in Scotland, designed by Richard Rogers, for our precedent study. Of the options given to us, this project spoke out to us most because of its distinct domed timber roof, covered by a layer of vegetation on the top to make the architecture appear like a part of the surrounding landscape.

BUILDING ENVELOPE ASSEMBLY

BUILDING STRUCTURE ISOMETRIC

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Concrete Retaining Wall and Concrete Retaining Wall and Slab Structure Slab Structure Primary Tubular Steel Primary Tubular Steel Support Frame Support Frame

Vegetated Roof Layer Vegetated Roof

ROOF STRUCTURE ISOMETRIC

Prefabricated Timber Prefabricated Timber Roof Decking Roof Decking System

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ROOF STRUCTURE ISOMETRIC

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Glue-Laminated Timber (Glulam) Glue Laminated Timber (Glulam) Roof Structural Grid Shell Roof Structural Grid Shell

Primary Tubular Steel Primary Tubular Steel Support Frame Support Frame Precedent Study: The Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience Envelope System: Steel and Timber Shell Structure

Advanced Tectonics & Materials AS3200 Aastha Aggarwal_Carnation Kng_Shayantani Mukherjee_Wen Chen

Macallan Distillery and Visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Experience Centre Building Envelope Assembly

2GAX / Lighting Macallan

20mm Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL)

Structural Steel Tube

160mm Glulam Core 20mm Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL)

A1 - Original Steel Member to Timber Beam Detail

Pregrown Vegetation Mat Double-Glazed Glass Unit 25mm Toughened & Heat Strengthed Geoweb Retention & Growth System Waterproof Membrane Rigid Closed Cell Insulation Vapour Control Layer 20mm LVL Timber Sheet 750mm Glulam Timber Roof Beam

Timber Joist

A3 - Original Skylight and Roof Module Detail

While selecting an appropriate transformation for our building, we looked at possible alternative solutions for the roof of the Macallan Distillery. We have chosen to replace the existing glulam panels that make up the framework of the roof of the building with MPP (Mass Plywood Panels) which are lighter and can be customized into larger panels than CLT, reducing the weight of the

roof as well as the assembly time, labour and material quantity. This would allow us to use of steel members to join only the critical junctions, instead of at every intersection of wooden beams. The panel size for the roof has been changed from 3m x 3m to 6m x 3m, to generate a smoother curve for the domes at the centre of the roof.

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Vegetation on Roof

Timber Roof Panels Timber Frame Structural Grid Shell

Primary Tubular Steel Support Frame

Detailed Chunk - Original Roof Structure

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Glass Panels for Sky Dome

Timber Roof Panels

Vegetation on Roof Timber Structural Grid Shell

Brise Soliel (AFRP Panels)

Primary Tubular Steel Support Frame

Cables connecting to secondary steel tubular structure

Detailed Chunk - Proposed Transformed Roof Structure

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Cable Connection

150MM thk AFRP Panel 240MM dia Steel Tube Screw Connection with AFRP Anchor Socket

A4 - Steel Frame to AFRP Connection Detail

Horizontal Steel T-Joint

240MM dia Steel Tube

Cable Connection to AFRP Panels

A5 - Steel Frame to Cable Connection Detail

Since it is a distillery, we could not allow direct sunlight to enter the lower level of the experience centre. Hence, our last intervention was to include a curved brise soleil beneath the glass dome, attached to the steel frame with cables in tension, ensuring that only diffused light passes into the building. The brise soleil itself is made of AFRP (aramid fibre reinforced polymer)

making it lightweight (AFRP is 40% less dense than GFRP), and easy to hang from the existing steel frame without additional bracings for reinforcements. Moreover AFRP has a high elastic modulus, which enables it to retain its shape when hung from the steel frame. AFRP can also be easily molded into any shape, which gives us flexibility to design the shape and form of the brise soleil.

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Pregrown Vegetation Mat

Prefabricated Timber Roof Decking Glass Dome

Roof Structural Grid Shell

Brise Soleil

Birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eye View of Transformed Roof Chunk

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750MM MPP Timber Roof Beam

Double Glazed Glass Unit 25MM Toughened and Heat Strengthed Consisting of Green Tinted Glass w/ Low E Value

Steel Clamp Unit

A6 - Glass Dome to Vegetated Roof Connection Detail

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Steel Clamp Unit

Pre-grown Vegetaed Mat

Roof Drainage System Geoweb Retention System & Growth Medium Waterproof Membrane Rigid Closed Cell Insulation Vapour Control Layer 20MM LVL Timber Sheet

Double Glazed Glass Unit 25MM Toughened and Heat Strengthed Consisting of Green Tinted Glass w/ Low E Value Prefabricated Timber Roof Deck Unit

750MM MPP Timber Roof Beam

A7 - Glass Dome Skylight Module Connection Detail

Instead of keeping the original small triangular skylights at the corners of the domes, we decided to remove the vegetation cover on the timber panels over the domes and replace them with two varieties of glass panels- green tinted glass panels and insulated glass, to allow more light to enter the interior of the building. The Pilkington Optifloat Green tinted glass can be an option to represent the vegetation replaced. It reduces solar glare and unwanted UV radiation, and additional thermal insulation performance when combined in an insulating glass unit with a low-emissivity glass. The Pilkington Optifloat Clear can be

combined with it in an IG Unit, to allow light transmission for outstanding visual clarity and high solar heat transmittance providing passive solar gain to allow more heat through. This makes the building more energy efficient by allowing greater percentage of natural light to enter, especially because the building is partially below ground level. The removal of the vegetation layer over the domes exposes the timber frame structure, now visible through the glass panels, which is the strongest tectonic element of the Macallan Distillery, giving it an altogether distinctive look.

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