2015-2018
PORTFOLIO CAROLINE
SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
A passionate architecture graduate who enjoys to work and exchange knowledge in a group of inter-disciplinary professionals. In the pursuit of creating a more sensible work in today’s society
CAROLINE ARCHITECTURE GRADUATE A 704 Upper Changi Road East #03-07, Singapore, 486834 T +65 87818107 E caroline@mymail.sutd.edu.sg
EDUCATION
2017 - September 2018
Singapore University of Technology and Design
2014 - 2017
Singapore University of Technology and Design
May - September 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2014
Anglo-Chinese Junior College
Master of Architecture
Bachelor of Science (Architecture Sustainable Design) Magna cum Laude (GPA 4.44/5.00)
Represented SUTD in Global Leadership Programme in Boston
GCSE A Level
SKILLS Rhinoceros Grasshopper AutoCAD, Revit Karamba Python, C# Kangaroo
Adobe Suites (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign) Vray SketchUp DIVA+ArchiSim DesignBuilder
RESUME
ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS May 2017 - January 2018
SUTD Graduation Show 3
December 2017
RTF Sustainability Awards 2017
December 2017
Asia Young Designer Award 2017
March 2017
Keppel Awards of Excelence 2017
March 2017
ASD Core Design Award 2017
2016-2017
SUTD Honours List
September - December 2015
SUTD Undergraduate Research Programm
2009-2017
ASEAN Scholarship
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Design Team Co-Head Led a team of six from concept ideation, fabrication, and installation of 3D-printed joints and tables in National Design Centre, Singapore for a twoweek public exhibition
First Winner (Housing Concept) Combined students’ studio projects on Micro-Towers Option Studio
Architectural Gold Winner Represented Singapore in AYDA Summit with 14 other countries
Awarded Top Student in Architecture and Sustainable Design Pillar, Junior Year 2017
Awarded by recommendation of the Committee in Architecture and Sustainable Design Pillar, Junior Year 2017
Awarded to top 10% of cohort in Sophomore and Junior Terms
Student Assistant Assisted Prof. J.A. Jakubiec in researching and cataloguing lighting materials in architectural research
Awarded by Ministry of Education, Singapore (2009-2017)
September - December 2017
Red Bean Architects
February - April 2017
Student Researcher
September - December 2016
Teaching Assistant for Architecture Core Studio Term 4
September 2016
Czarl Architects
Architectural Intern Managed concept ideation and drawing during tender process for multiple projects, including Delta Sports Complex and a landed property in Singapore
Supported professors in planning, designing, and fabrication of an installation for iLight in Marina Bay 2017
Supported professors in leading a studio in terms of guiding students, giving feedback, and imparting technical skills
Architectural Part-Timer Worked in a team of four for an international competition project
May - August 2016
CPG Consultants Pte Ltd
Architectural Intern (Studio A) Contributed in concept ideation and research during tender process of multiple school projects locally and internationally
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CO N T E N T
ACADEMICS
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FLEX TOWER
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MADI RIVER: HYDRO-TERRITORIES
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WINDING HILL
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LENS
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RE-FIBER
Option Studio 2
Option Studio 3
Core Studio 3
Core Studio 2
Advanced Material Computation
COMPETITION ENSO CEMETERIAL MONUMENT
Tokyo Vertical Cemetery Competition 2016
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OTHER WORK OTHER WORK 2015-2018
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KALEIDOSCOPE MONOLITH
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GS3: METADATA
i Light 2017
SUTD Graduation Show 2018
FLEX TOWER
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01 FLEX TOWER Micro-Towers: Big Ideas on Tiny Footprint Individual Project Instructor: Michael Budig Course: Option Studio/ Term 7
The studio focused on wood as a material and for the design of micro-towers. It investigated in alternative construction methods, inspired by the idea of re-inventing wood construction and revitalising a dormant industry sector that has disappeared from urban construction. Wood, composite materials and hybrid construction systems will be explored to envision new concepts of vertical construction. This studio aimed to unlock the enormous potential of wood for future applications by recording a material and craft with a long history, re-conceptualising it and projecting recordings into entirely new concepts.
Awarded First Winner (Housing Concept) in RTF Sustainability Awards 2017 as part of combined students’ studio project s
Extreme angle of bending
2 kerfs
4 kerfs
6 kerfs
8 kerfs
10 kerfs
12 kerfs
Different angle of bending based on layers
The first part of the project seeks to investigate the bending property of the wood through kerfing. It is found that through kerfing and then lamination of layers of wood sheet, a sturdy structure can be created and has the potential to become structural system that makes up a tower. One interesting property found in this experimentation is the ability of the structure to bend in dual direction. THIS PAGE Material exploration OPPOSITE PAGE Catalogue of structural elements
FLEX TOWER
Network of circuit as principal of structural DNA of tower
2 layers
1 point
4 layers
16 layers
2 layers
2 points
4 layers
16 layers
4 layers
multiple points
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Vertical load transfer
Counter-balance of forces
Counter-balance of forces
THIS PAGE - BOTTOM Axonometrics of tower elements OPPOSITE PAGE Render of tower
FLEX TOWER
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MADI RIVER: HYDR
MADI RIVER
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New Built Bridge
02 Madi River: Hydro-Territories Landscape Urbanism Project Partner: Chew Cheng York, Daniel Tay, Tan Wei Lin Instructors: Eva Castro, Federico Ruberto Course: Option Studio / Term 9
The unit has “landscape urbanism” at its core methodology and focuses on mapping/indexing Nepal’s rural areas, their risks, trends, political and geopolitical actors that de ne their material logics and structures. With this methodology we aim at defining synthetic design strategies — cutting through data— to develop “autonomous” communities, locally grounded but unconditionally committed to see nature as a “second (technological) nature”— committed to invent the possibility of a different, and common, “future”. Specifically, the unit’s aim is to investigate “sustainable” logics of development of a community from 20000 to 500000 people detached from main centers of urbanization that must utilize the site as its financial opportunity to determine its own, relative, independence, therefore to be able to decide its own rules of development: the synthesis of local material opportunities and socio-cultural demands.
Socialist Structure (Local Governance & Shared Resources)
TERTIARY VORTEX (SEMI-PUBLIC)
Land Acquisition for Agricultural Production
LAND FRAGMENTATION NGO DONATIONS Investment of Money
PRIMARY VORTEX (PUBLIC GOOD)
ENERGY
COLLECTIVE LAND OWNERSHIP
Investment of Labour for Public Infrastructure
Food Security
External Trade as a Means of Obtaining Resource
AUTONOMOUS SELF-SUFFICIENCY
RUPEES
LOCAL ECONOMIES
SECONDARY VORTEX
Exchange of Money
EXPANSION OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND URBANISATION
DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIES
Towards self-autonomy Riding on the technology development to harness sustainable hydro-energy in Madi river, our scheme aims to create an autonomous community in Nepal. With the help of electricity generated from the hydro-power technology, we foresee the use of sustainable power as capital and source of empowerment in the community.
MADI RIVER
SETTLEMENT TYPES
NATURAL RESOURCES AND GROUND CONDITIONS
LOCAL ECONOMIES (PRIMARY PRODUCTION)
INDUSTRIALISATION (SECONDARY PRODUCTION)
17,400 people
50,000 people
Wet Agriculture
INFRASTRUCTURE (SECONDARY PRODUCTION)
200,000 people
HYBRID ECONOMIES
500,000 people
ROAD NETWORKS ELECTRICAL NETWORK
VORTEX
WATER NETWORK
RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES STRAW RICE PLAINS
GRAINS
FUNICULAR TRANSPORTATION
TOURISM
OIL MULCH
BIODIESEL
ARABLE SOIL Dry Agriculture
EGGS CHICKENS
MARKETPLACE PROCESSING FACTORIES
MEAT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
DOWN SURFACE RUNOFF
JATROPHA
MOUNTAIN
MANURE
POWER GENERATION PLANTS
FODDER POTATO CLIMATE
SEEDS HUSKS
STARCH
FLOUR
FORWARD CONNECTION BACKWARD CONNECTION
System of production Our intervention works in tandem with time over a series of phases. Instead of developing the local community at the expense of the natural environment, the proposal seeks to harness the hydropower that the site has an abundance of, to provide the electricity for infrastructural development and in that process, filtering and cleansing the river as it passes through the vortex dams. The initial phase will be to utilise the indexical studies to identify potential sites within the plains for microdam-power generation. These power nodes will then be the basis of which the infrastructural grid will be placed upon. The electrical capital that these small interventions contribute will then be the cornerstone to sustain productive economies, which will then provide the investment for the subsequent development of infrastructure and the economy - an autonomous and sustainable economy generated by the landscape.
The secondary phase will be to develop the infrastructure for vertical expansion - upwards from the river. By converging at the midpoint alongside the slope of the mountainous terrain, this continuous scaffolding provides a network for the transportation of resources (Archigram’s Plug-in City) along the challenging terrain and installs the structural framework for the construction of buildings and productive infrastructure (the harvesting solar and wind energy). Rather than an erection of a monolithic linear megastructure, the proposal culminates in the coexistence between the local communities and the natural landscape. Alongside the Metabolist ideologies of the symbiotic relationship between the city and the user, the intervention preserves the existing association between the locals and the landscape in a co-existence of mutual benefit, whereby the orchestration of the strategies for the unique site conditions impose an ecological system to craft the scenario of a possible utopia in the long term.
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Topography condition Sectional studies of different types of land conditions and relatioships are done to understand the site better. It affects the treatment of land in meshing phase
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Indexical studies Analysis of different geographical and social conditions of the site are done through the use of different parameters affecting specific characteristics of the site. The studies shape the design strategies proposed on the site.
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vv Vortex The Madi River is indexed for sites that have the potential to accommodate the Vortex Water Power Plant, firstly based on river location that has sufficient water flow. The catalogue shows different variations of arrangement of vortexes in clusters, mainly taking into consideration the inlet and outlet of the water, to ensure sufficient flow of water for electricity production. 50m
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network
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a DIY initiative
MADI RIVER
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Agriculture infrastructure and land treatment Sectional studies of different types of land conditions and relatioships are done to understand the site better. It affects the treatment of land in meshing phase
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paddy field
potato
house
house
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potato
meeting point/ shortcut
potato
irrigatio n
potato
PUBLIC SPACE/AMENITIES IRRIGATION PUBLIC SPACE/AMENITIES POWER IRRIGATION ROAD POWER PUBLIC SPACE/AMENITIES ATTACHMENT ROAD IRRIGATION ATTACHMENT POWER ROAD ATTACHMENT
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meeting point/ shortcut
potato
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she lter
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potato
rainwater collection
potato
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rain wate r collection
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bridg e
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rain wate r collection
vortex
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vortex
paddy field
paddy field
potato
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house
rainwater collection roof/pa rk
house
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potato field
she lter
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cooperative
potato
market
paddy
market
paddy
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paddy field
house
irrigatio n
potato field
cooperative
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irrigatio n house
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irrigatio n
potato
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line as infrastructure line as infrastructure
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bridg e
vortex
bridg e
potato
she lter
potato f ield
potato
she lter
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she lter
25-20 25-20 25-20
potato f ield
jatropha/bamboo
rainwater collection
potato
rainwater collection
potato
S7 Production plant 30o-20o
rainwater collection
potato
rainwater collection roof/pa rk
house
rainwater collection roof/pa rk
house
coope rative
S5 Market 20o-25o
house
house
potato field
cooperative
market
paddy
potato field
cooperative
market
paddy
jatropha/bamboo
S8 Water treatment 25o-20o
potato field
cooperative
market
livestock
open space
house
30-20 15-15 30-20
coope rative
open space
house livestock
product ion plant
M&C
tra nsformer product ion plant
M&C
25-25 product ion plant
25-25 potato
meeting point/ shortcut
potato
potato
meeting point/ shortcut
potato
potato
meeting point/ shortcut
potato
S6 Industrial area 15o-15o potato f ield
potato f ield
potato
irrig ation
potato
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M&C
tra nsformer
paddy
irrigatio n
potato
house
tra nsformer
house rainwater collection roof/pa rk house
S3 Meeting point 10o-15o
paddy
open space
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irrigatio n
irrigatio n
market
livestock
jatropha/bamboo potato
15-15
coope rative
potato
rain wate r collection
S2 Rainwater collection roofpark 25o-20o paddy field
potato
rain wate r collection
vortex
paddy field
potato
meeting point/ shortcut
cooperative
rain wate r collection
vortex
paddy field
meeting point/ shortcut
meeting point/ shortcut
potato
PUBLIC SPACE/AMENITIES IRRIGATION PUBLIC SPACE/AMENITIES POWER IRRIGATION ROAD PUBLIC POWER SPACE/AMENITIES ATTACHMENT IRRIGATION ROAD POWER ATTACHMENT ROAD ATTACHMENT S4 Sheltered sidewalk 15o-0o
15-15 potato field potato f ield
15-15 15-15 15-15
water trea tment
25-25 10-20
water trea tment
S9 Waste management 10o-20o
coope rative
open space
house
coope rative
open space
house
10-20 potato
livestock
livestock
potato
waste manageme nt
potato f ield
coope rative
potato
irrig ation
open space
house livestock
market irrig ation
water trea tment
waste manageme nt water collection
potato
she lter
potato
she lter
potato
she lter
15-0 15-0 15-0
rainwater collection
potato
rainwater collection
potato
rainwater collection
potato
jatropha/bamboo
jatropha/bamboo
jatropha/bamboo
30-20 30-20 30-20 product ion plant
product ion plant
product ion plant
market
10-20 water collection
M&C waste manageme nt
M&C
market
tra nsformer M&C tra nsformer water collection
20-25 20-25 20-25
15o 20o
5o
potato field
cooperative
market
paddy
potato field
cooperative
market
paddy
potato field
cooperative
market
15o
tra nsformer
Public area
25-25 25-25 25-25 potato
paddy
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potato
Public area
potato
potato irrig ation
potato
25o
10o potato f ield
potato f ield
potato f ield
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Agricultural area Agricultural infrastructure Main vehicular road Agricultural infrastructure Agricultural area
coope rative
open space
house
coope rative
open space
house
coope rative
livestock
livestock
open space
house livestock
Type A - Main agricultural area
jatropha/bamboo
product ion plant
jatropha/bamboo
product ion plant
jatropha/bamboo
product ion plant
tra nsformer
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market
waste manageme nt
market
water collection
water collection
M&C
tra nsformer
irrig ation
M&C
Main vehicular road
Main vehicular road
water trea tment
water collection
M&C
tra nsformer
water trea tment
waste manageme nt
30-20 30-20 30-20
potato irrig ation water trea tment
market
Industrial/houses
Type B2 - Settlement/industrial area
KALEDOISCOPEMADI MONOLITH RIVER
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Processing Storage Nursery
Main river Secondary road Replaced road
New road Agricultural infrastructure in new road Agricultural infrastructure in replaced road
Potato Rice Jatropha
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Densification of existing cluster A circular void test is done on the site for the availability of land area to construct new buildings. These buildings will house mixed programs such us residential, commercial, along with civic service and infrastructure.
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existing runoff
projected population size
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Residential
1. Existing settlement
Industry
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3 Identifying voids, surface runoff Circles are overlayed with the surface runoff incident on the settlement cluster, identifying the unbuilt areas which contribute to the surface runoff of the terrain within the cluster. Within these void spaces, the circles that have current runoff are culled from the list of circles, preserving the contribution of natural runoff to the vortexes.
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4. Residential growth
Primary roads originate from the bridges, whihch connect both sides of the river through the primary vortexes, passing through settlement clusters and towards others, connecting adjacent clusters.
Residential and infrastructural programmes will be allocated to the remaining circles, a strategy to contain growth.
Industry
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5. Infrastructural spine Additionally, circulation is established from the infrastructural spine, linking the buildings to a network of adjacency above the ground plane. This provides more opportunities for communal interaction across the entire settlement. This spine is also responsible for the channelling of water (from the main river) and electrical power from the primary road to the buildings.
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Urban Living in Bukit Batok Individual Project Instructor: Oliver Heckmann Course: Core Studio/ Term 6
The project brief calls for a design of a social housing units that form a reaction to the urban condition in the Bukit Batok area. Located in the uneven topography, this project aims to seek relation to its surounding environment. The hill condition of the site allows a type of massing that can respond organically to the terrain; hence, the shape of the massing resembles a band of ribbon that weaves around the topography. This ribbon is then being molded more by the intention to create multiple connections to the surroundings. This gesture creates a series of open courtyards and private backyards that can also shape the daily activities of the inhabitants. Zooming in, the unit also has the concept of inner wall that tries to emulate the continuity of the massing. Every unit has two inner walls that not only act as the spine of the entire building, they also create zoning inside each units. Furthermore, since the distance of these walls vary as they span the building, they create different types and functions inside the building. Awarded Architectural Gold Winner in Asia Young Designer Award 2017
Low - r i s e Hig h D en sit y Hab it at io n Co n cep t In t he U rb an Hill
CIR CULATIO N O UTD O O R IN D O O R
Circulation network
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OUTDOOR INDOOR
EDU CAT ION F&B TRAN S P ORT O FFI CE S RETAI LS H EALTHCA R E
P R O GR AM M ES ED UCATIO N F &B TR AN S P O RT O F F ICES R ETAILS HEALTHCAR E
CIRCULATION OUTD OOR IND OOR
Low-rise typology
SOL A R R A DI AT I ON STUDY
SHAD OW ANALYSIS
LO W- R IS E TY P O LO GY
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The shape of the massing resembles a band of ribbon that weaves around the topography.
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04 LENS SUTDx Campus Extension Individual Project Instructor: Christine Yogiaman Course: Core Studio/ Term 5
This project asks for the design of a satellite SUTD campus building in the intersection of Bras Basah, Prinsep, Orchard and Handy Road; housing flexible space for public events, recruitment efforts, providing basic classrooms/learning spaces, lecture theatres, exhibition spaces, cafe and administrative offices. The building is a response to the linearity of the pedestrian walk along the site. It intends to create a space that progresses together with the pedestrians. It involves the play of lenses throughout the building, to create the changing illusion of the interior of the building, and even beyond the building; outwards and inwards. The building acts like a lens that may amplify programs inside (by making objects look closer) or reduce its significance (by making objects seem further). As pedestrians walk along the edge of the building, they are exposed to the changing spectacle of the activities.
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05 RE-FIBER Beam Reinforcement Optimisation Group Project Instructor: Sawako Kaijima Course: Advanced Material Computation/ Term 7
Based on the studies on rebar and carbon reinforcement in concrete, there is a potential to redesign rebar geometry in a beam to optimise its tensional performance down to the path and direction where tensional force travels. 2D typology optimisation is used as a main method to analyse the stress lines. This study also seeks to explore the new way of fabrication in the use of particles in the reinforcement method. The way suggested is to use magnetic field to redirect and redistribute the magnetic particles to achieve the intended stress lines generated and analysed on the first part of the study.
PROBLEM STATEMENT WASTAGE ISSUE There is an extensive amount of rebars utilised in the construction industry today. There is therefore a need to mitigate this wastage by optimising the rebar reinforcements.
PRECEDENT STUDIES CONCRETE REINFORCEMENTS Reinforcements counter the relatively low tensile strength in concrete. Tthe reinforcements generally are layered at the bottom of the beam where tension forces are high. This will reduce the crack lines formed.
Compression (concrete) Neutral axis
Reinforced concrete are composite material composing of high tensile steel rebar embedded in concrete to counteract concrete low tensile strength. Steel rebars are placed in regions of concrete with high tension to resist tension and prevent structure failure or cracking.
Crack pattern in concrete under load, with no reinforcement
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Crack pattern in concrete under load, with steel reinforcement
CARBON FIBER REINFORCEMENT CONCRETE Carbon fibers are typically 10 Âľm in diameter when added into concrete. It is uniformly distributed and randomly oriented. Carbon fibers also have low coefficient of thermal expansion, hence would be suitable as a fiber composite used as reinforcements for concrete.
3D TOPOLOGY OPTIMISATION FOR COMPRESSION AND TENSION Topology optimization has as a means of automating the development of minimum strain energy strut-and-tie reinforced concrete model, which can lead to improved structural behavior. (a) Design domain
(b) Optimized model using linear elastic continuum elements only
(d) Optimized model using hybrid topology optimization
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(c) Optimized model using linear elastic truss elements only
(f) Details of reinforcement at the top of (e)
Figure 16: Topology optimizaed solutions: (a) concrete block design example; (b) and (c) traditional; solutions indicate only compressive load paths; (d)-(f) the hybrid model correctly indicates the presence of tensile stresses as a result of load spreading as indicated by the placement of the steel
References: http://www.concrete.org.uk/fingertips-nuggets.asp?cmd=display&id=648 Yang Yang, S.M.ASCE1; Cristopher D. Moen, M.ASCE2; and James K. Guest, A.M.ASCE3
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CONCEPT GENERATION Based on the studies that have been studied, there is a poterntial to redesign rebar geometry in a beam to optimise its tensional performance down to the path and direction where tensional force travels.
Original rebar grid layout
Iron fillings and magnetic field lines
IRON FILINGS ORIENTATING ITSELF IN THE DIRECTION OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD LINES Carbon fiber is a resistant-magnetic material but can be coated with Fe coating via the solgel process. This would introduce magnetic properties in the fibers. By using the magnetic properties of these fibers, the fibers would be able to orient themselves in the direction of the magnetic field. This would greatly optimise the carbon fibers in the direction of the stress lines of the beam.
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DESIGN APPROACH Running topology optimisation with various support conditions will give us stress lines that is experienced by the beam. As reinforcement needs to cater for only tensional lines, simple FEM analysis is run to get an idea about the regions where it undergoes tension and compression. After the tensional region is identified, lines undergoes compression are then removed, and the tensional stress lines are optimised with a treshold of only those that are undergoing more stress.
CLASSIFICATION OF EXPLORATION After exploration of the effect of location of supports on the beam, we classify them into libraries. The way of classification is according to the number of set of magnets. All stress line with similar gradient will be considered the same and requires one set of magnets. One set of magnets will require two magnets, two set will require three, three set will require four. For efficient fabrication, results from the least set of lines is selected so that less magnets are used during fabrication.
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ENSO CEMETERIAL MONUMENT
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ROOF TOP GARDEN Includes commercial attractions intended to siphon off patrons (non columbarium visitors) from ground level
GLASS PODS An externalized staircase that leads up or down. It is through this act of traversing that the visitor is caught by a moment of liminal experience as he stood at the threshold of the glass landing, comtemplating his very own mortality.
CRYING ROOM A catharsis that is necessary for the healing of the individual . The room is lit minimally and surrounded by sounds of water trickling down the periphery of the space so as to drown out the crying of the solitary mourner.
TRANSITIONAL FLOOR Affords patrons a serendipitous encounter of cemeterial space while a mandatory descent between the 2 terraced parks to contemplate
COLUMBARIUM SPACE The columbariums are spaced out into smaller enso volumes to create a semi-private experience of mourning for visitors and still retain its efficiency.
06 Enso Cemeterial Monument Tokyo Vertical Cemetery Competition 2016 Competition Project Partner: Czarl Architects, Bryan Lim Wei Guo, Ryan Chee Wei Shen
A Monument for the Living, the  Dead and In Between In this project, we attempt to negotiate the liminality of cemeterial spaces and the transcendence of monumentality in architecture. Cemetery and Monuments are different architectural typologies which are intrinsically similar, built for remembrance of the past. The imperfect circle of life and death is often punctuated by liminal experiences. The Japanese incomplete enso describes these liminal moments of perfecting life imperfections. This forms the basis of the project's spatial/volumetric generator and create a platform to explore potential meaningful experiences of the liminality of cemeterial spatial units which can collectively grow into a monument.
Permutations of Incomplete Enso Modular Volumes The basic circular volumes are distributed to form 3 different zones which are connected to a central lift core foyer which stops at 3 floor intervals. The Enso volumes may house columbarium of various sizes, crying rooms, memorial room, administrative functions while the absence of a circular volume gives rise to a quiet garden space for contemplation. The primary composition of the Enso volumes are kept intentionally identical for every floor except for the incidental omissions or redistribution of volumes that allows for potentially infinite variations and permutations of spaces between from floor to floor. Legend Columbarium Garden Deck Miscellaneous
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Programmatic Intervention Considering the economics & social context of the site by way of introducing entertainment and touristic program at the roof levels. The revenue generated power from the commercial quantum will systematically feed the growth of more Enso columbarium.
Essemble of Modular Enso Capsules The design is made up of many modular Enso volumes which opens inwards. It is only broken at points which allows for pockets green spaces or liminal space of glass landings of stairs
Site Relations The structure is monolithic yet porous. The intended Monument will draw in the dizzying lights and endless cacophony of the streets of Shinjuku and drowning out all sensory bombardments with its gravely silent monumental presence.
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07 Kaleidoscope Monolith i Light Marina Bay 2017 Design Lead: Kenneth Tracy, Christine Yogiaman, Suranga Nanayakkara
Kaleidoscopic Monolith incites curiosity from spectators through light, reflection and form. Contradictory strategies are used to enhance the complex presence of the object. At a distance it is perceived as a single convex form which subtly changes profile from different angles of approach. On closer inspection its rippling surface contains a pattern of concavities. Filled with kaleidoscopic reflections these voids distort, repeat and reorient the context. Light projected from the centre of each dimple surrounds the piece in an ambient, glowing pool and illuminates onlookers whose own reflections become part of the spectacle. Spiralling, radial geometry and faceted, reflective surfaces evoke the cylindrical kaleidoscope toys the piece is inspired from. Like the colourful patterns created by the toy, the installation resists a singular meaning and instead provokes participants to discover their own allusions through interactive play.
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The toy kaleidoscope inspired the physical and experiential parts of the installation, how it made various complex optical illusion through reflection and refraction of simple elements.
Made of an ultrathin, 0.1mm piece of aluminium-coated polyester film supported on a recycled and recyclable aluminium frame, with sensors that control the array of LED lights.
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08 GS3: METADATA SUTD Graduation Show 2018 National Design Centre Design Vice-Head
METADATA is defined as the data of the data. Inspired by this, the layout of the show has been designed as a scatter plot, evaluating the various projects on different variables. This in turn, helps in understanding the character of the architecture, both as it was intended, and also through each individual who visits the exhibition. The floor plan of the exhibition changes every week, based on the updated votes from the visitors. As such, the exhibition is dynamic. In terms of fabrication, it is sustainable and highly-customised with the use of bamboo legs and 3D-printed joints.
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There is a multitude of metadata that can be extracted from a project. The exhibition seeks to selectively pair metadata to question further the exhibited projects. “Should a sustainable project have a high green plot ratio?” “Should a progressive project be costly to built?” TABLE TOP The form of each table is derived from the shape and dimension of the model, along with a space to place an A5 project booklet. Each table is customised and fabricated according to the data of the project.
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3D-PRINTED JOINTS Through a computational process that uses the curvature of the table, the joints are generated with considerations of the table and bamboo sizes. The bottom side of the joints and the leg caps are also designed to fit every unique piece of bamboo.
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BAMBOO LEGS A sustainable design looks into more than reusability of the tables but also the material considerations. Bamboo is a renewable resource, allowing the design to have lesser environmental damage.
FLOOR STICKERS Each sticker represents a data point which is determined by the metadata of the project. These data points are plotted on the floor, with each colour representing the relationship between two variables.
The design aims to capture each project as a single data point within a point cloud. A table is designed for each project. Its shape provides a visual depiction of every project’s metadata.
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The tables were constructed with plywood or corian for the surface and bamboo for the legs, connected by a 3D printed joint. For larger tables, additional sets of legs were used to support the surface
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01. Baan House Competition. Home for the Homeless. 02. Waterjet Joint. Digital Fabrication. 03. TKGS Library. CPG Internship 2016. 04. Inversion. Spring particle project. 05. TKGS Classroom Corridor. CPG Internship 2016. 06. Delta Sports Complex Rejuvenation. RBA Internship 2017. 07. Maze. Core Studio 1. 08. Delta Sports Complex Rejuvenation. RBA Internship 2017. 09. CAG Lightning Mast. Capstone Project
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