CHEE WEI LIM
SELECTED WORKS
Contents Academic - MArch (Postgrad RIBA Part I) 01
San Juan Cruise Hub Honorary Mention Category Award
Academic - BA architecture (Undergrad RIBA Part I) 02
Tectonics studio House of the Acrobats
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Exploration studio Soundscape Ecology
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Technology and Environment Timber Bridge Design
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Anyplace studio Library Design Proposal
Professional - Year out 06
KW Associate Architects
mixed development proposal (commercial and residential blocks), drop-off roof design, fencing and
lighting proposal, colour scheme proposal
- during internship and official working period
Academic - Diploma in architecture 07
o2 Sustainable Entrance Proposal Gold Award
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Music Interactive Center
Extra 09 Photography
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Festive Threshold
San Juan Cruise Hub Proposal Honorary Mention Award
San Juan is one of the most popular tourist destination in Puerto Rico. Vibrant festivals, parades and rich cultural heritage attracts millions of tourists to the city annually. Over the last decade cruise ships have had a major role to play in the tourism industry. The aim of this project is to mediate between the two entities i.e, ‘the city’ and ‘the festivals’ through a threshold which will be the new terminal. Hence our terminal design incorporates popular festivals identified in the city, namely San Sebastian Festival, Sofo Street Festival, Kite Festival, Le lo lai etc. Terminal design is inspired by the city wall that was once demolished for the expansion. This ‘new wall’ acts as a gateway to the city. Design also takes inspiration from the urban fabric of old San Juan with each terminal having a strong visual connection/axis to the urban blocks. The proposal is divided into three main routes/axis each corresponding to the respective festival in the city (three terminals) and connected by the new wall. The terminal is the starting point of the cultural journey of the tourists through festival workshops sat on the wall enhancing the journey from the terminals to the bridge connecting the city of San Juan. Master Plan
Cruise Ship Mapping
Contextual Analysis & Strategy
Waterfront Proposal
Building Circulation
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House of the Acrobats
Architectural Design: Tectonics Appearances And Essences
House of the Acrobars is a communal living project designed for the flying trapeze artists. The building program consists of two main ideas: The flying trapeze artists Idea of spectacle of the public realm but the spectacle is continually changing, while the trapeze artists are working, swinging and training, it may seems to be an ordinary llife for them but it may be a spectacle of somebody else in the public realm. The building itself as a performance The buildings are designed to be situated lightly on the ground and the structures allowed minor movements to the buildings. The architecture character is designed to be spectacle and enable to perform to the public realm. The flying trapeze are constantly living in the air also enhances the theatricality.
Observation
Morphosis - decaying and replacing the city.
From building construction then the observation focuses at a bigger scale from the city itself. The diagrams show the changing cityscape from Year 1850 to Year 2013. An urban city is a city in a state of ‘constantly changing architecture’. No buildings are silent and they are constantly decaying, changing, being renovate and reform. There is a flux in the city forming the temporarily city leading to renewal and reborn of the architecture trend. The voids in a city forming through the solid of the buildings density. The concept of infilling and extracting buildings in the city contribute to one of the ‘constantly changing architecture’ thinking. There is a directy relationship between the density of in the city and architecture replacement in the city. The conventional building architecture is catastrophic by itself.
The Flying Trapeze The trapeze artists allowed us to look at the idea of sociological performance in the public realm – what is everyday activity to one person might be spectacle for another. It invokes a commentary on how we are both performer and audience on the public realm – on voyeurism, spectacle and curiosity. The program itself becomes a catalyst to fully immerse captives in a play with ‘limits’ to flux the state of mind between the real and unreal and the role of spectator or spectated in the public realm.
Mies en Scene
Siting Strategy + Programme + Scenario ‘creating the scene’
Programme
curation - from construction scenarios to flying trapeze artists
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Lower Level Plan
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The site is located at the center of the theatrical public route. This strategic location acting as a connection threshold between upper and lower King’s Stable Rd. Siting on the back of Edinburgh castle and the castle rock as the building’s backdrop enhances the theatricality of the programme.
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King’s Stable Road
Upper Level Plan
Level -1 1:100
Level 0 1:100
5. Kitchen 6. Bedroom 7. common space - training area
1. common space - working area 2. living room 3. individual space 4. common space - training area South Elevation View looking up to the House of Acrobats with the castle backdrop.
Appearance + Essence The design addresses architecture different apart from conventional building design. The design emphasised on ‘communicating architecture’ as a functional performance to the public realm.
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2. 1. Main building structural frame with pivoting foundation 2. Pulley structure to allow building movement and reduce tension force 3. Metal decking suspended by cable attached to main frame. 4. Steel strusses with concrete beam anchor to avoid pivoting. 5. Steel strusses supported by structural frame projecting to the public realm to allow acrobatic performances. 6. Steel batons for decking support
Pedestrian view from public realm
Entrance from Johnson Terrace
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The tectonic ideas of the building consist of three main components:
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1. the angled columns, allow some degree of bouncy movement to occur in the building. 2. the retractable pulley system, to tie the building down to the solid fundation and to eliminate tension force. 3. pin joint anchor, to hold the building structure back in place and avoiding the building to pivot.
Sound Dalgety Bay The idea of sounding Dalgety Bay was born mainly due to the realization that no specific sound events can be discovered along the journey towards the Dalgety Bay Sailing Club. We believe that the study of this sound footprint can reveal and interpret the influence of architecture towards the city’s inhabitants and the existence of changeable temporary soundscapes of high value.
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Soundscape Ecology
Architectural Design : Exploration
Digital Ecologies: Contamination Digital Ecologies explores and challenges methods of conventional sustainable design in a digital era where data is ubiquitous, remotely accessible, and abundant and where remediation is equally ubiquitous, but is also site-specific and operates according to environmental logics conventionally understood on the ground/in the field. This unit explores this dynamic, between digital registration of environmental data remotely (from the studio) and physical registration of environmental phenomena on site (in the field). It explores the interactions between these two kinds of environmental knowledge and uses a series of inventive methodologies that hybridise the digital with the analogue, remote sensing with fieldwork, and landscape and architecture with infrastructure.
1. Dalgety Bay Station
The contamination of Dalgety Bay, Fife, which requires immediate attention following the discovery of radioactive material on its shores. But Radiation levels are low and there are no health risks associated with a site visit if access use guidance is followed. However, the richness of the natural ecology in Dalgety Bay should not be forgotten and more attention towards inhabitants should be given to this.
Chapter 1: Fieldwork & Data collection Chapter 2: Data translation to Digital Ecology Chapter 3: Digital ecology to hybrid analogue models
Chapter 1: Fieldwork & Data collection: Device
Chapter 4: Altered Ecologies: Becoming architectural
2. Town Centre
3. Residential
4. Sailing Club
The sonic zones
Data translation In the exploration of the interaction between natural and engineered environmental processes, we translated the onsite raw sound data into digital data fabrication. With the support of Rhino, Grasshopper, Processing and Audacity, we are presenting the data in interactive visualisation and sonic responses. Digital data will then be used to generate, develop and test hybrid models.
Soundspread The collage of the sound visualisation is mapped on the site and main sound spread is showed, which is the shortest route that connects the train station, town centre, park and the sailing club at the end.
Chapter 2: Data translation to Digital Ecology
With the support of the digital applicances, user can generate their own new soundwalk with new experiences in our model. Distance sensors are placed underneath the logs (soundspots) which can interact with the movement of the user and trigger the movement of the moving metal arms on top, as well as the speakers of the chosen sound spots.
Front Elevation
Side Elevation
Version 1. Hybrid analogue interactive model
Isometric Sound Collection: Sound Machine
Chapter 3: Digital ecology to hybrid analogue/digital models
sound receiver reflective surface
LED indicator/street light
sound feeder
harvesting rainwater
street light
Becoming architectural The previous three chapters are complemented each other in order to reveal the ecologies defining the site and led to the development of a thick site plan where all data figured in. This plan started to expose the site conditions and temporalities.
Thick Site Plan
sonic post
Train station: sonic posts the first sound installation at the arrival point which leads user towards to the sailing club
sonic cloud
led light tube
green pavement Replacing the existing road with concrete grass pavement allows the vibrant sound emitted by the moving cars sonic clouds Enhancing users experience by adding in mirror surface, as well as recycling the rainwater
sonic follies Enhancing users experience with lightings and sound features
Soundscape urbanization Soundscape is connected with flows and public, open space environments. The design of roads and nodes has preceded the shaping of solids and the edge, a natural border between the town and the bay, played a major role in the formation of the city. Concerning the soundscape, sounds of the street urban life and mark indelibly everyday routine. Moreover, flows and places where people concentrate constitute the foundation of public urban life, the places where city’s inhabitants coexist and interact. Therefore, sounds related to networks constitute the soundscape of urbanization. Chapter 4: Altered Ecologies: Becoming architectural
sonicmills Wind energy at the bay is used for the operation of this instrument
Proposed plan Sonic prothesis on site
sonic follies
sonicmill
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Technology and Environment
Building Fabric - Timber Bridge Design
Because the main structure and platform uses Scottish Oak due to its high structural strength, the balustrade uses the same material to maintain a sense of consistency throughout the bridge.
A New Wall For Edinburgh
The balustrade is made of a series of timber beams with a cross section of 25x25mm. In every 500m, a beam with a cross section of 50x50mm is nailed to a horizontal beam with a similar section.This is used to provide safety for children.
The West end of the Grassmarket used to be enclosed by the Flodden Wall (1514-1560), the second phase of the city fortifications of Edinburgh. City walls had to provide protection but equally important they had to have civic characteristics, often manifested in the creation of significant gates or the expression of the masonry. When however they did not serve a civic purpose any more, most of the walls were demolished. We are asked to design a lightweight timber walkway to recreate the missing parts of the wall and “stitch� again aspects of the important yet neglected medieval past of the Old Town. This “new wall� will link the steps at the Vennel with those at Granny’s Green opposite and should allow space for the traffic through the Grassmarket.
Example of Calculation
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Checking permissible shear stress
Design Concept
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The layout of the platform was influenced by two roads and the Grassmarket square.The layout of the platform is such that there are no columns on the road, preventing any hindrance to traffic. We chose to use a combination of post and beam and arch system to span the full width of the roads. The bridge is not entirely linear and takes some subtle turns to avoid the road. There are three platforms: two on the bridge and one performance platform on the Grassmarket square.
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Controlling value against permissible shear stress fv,k=3.8 (from Table 3)
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One of the two viewing platforms is raised above the bridge to create a viewing zone, seperating it from the pedestrian traffic on the bridge. The performance platform is raised one meter above the ground on the Grassmarket square with stepped seating. The bridge can be accessed from the existing steps and the staircase on the central performance platform.
Deflection
Axonometric 1:500
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Final deflection = W(1+kdef). Kdef for service class 2 is 0.8. This means (5.19+0.25)mm x (1+0.8)=9.79mm Max allowable Deflection: L/150= 4000/150= 26.67mm Hence 150x295mm cross section is acceptable
Platform Plan 1:200
Exploded Axonometric 1:150
Material Selection
Connections
We initially used Douglas Fir for the timber structure and Scottish Larch for the cladding. However, the calculations showed that the structural characteristics of Douglas Fir were unsuitable for the desired span.
Pinned joint system is used in two areas of the bridge. Firstly, it is used to connect two primary beams together. Secondly, it is used to connect the primary beam to the post. This allows better connection and reduces any extra forces to the post. Plate and bolts are used as another connection system to connect the columns to the concrete plinth foundation.
Therefore, Scottish Oak was used for its high structural strength. This is important as it allowed the bridge to span greater span (11m) and greater height due (4000m) to the roads being used for double decker bus. As the bridge structure is located in an urban environment, the columns need to be protected by concrete plinths from possible impact of vehicles. Furthermore, the plinths act as foundations for the timber structure.
Steel knife is used to prevent direct contact between the timber post and concrete plinth. Stainless steel plates are used to prevent moisture from accumulating inside the concrete.
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Library Design Proposal
Architectural Design: Anyplace
The proposed library encourages the public to use library not only as a form of knowledge source but also as a social gathering space for the neighbourhood, a place for the community besides on the main public library that nearby. It caters for the families and children which provides library and study space for the adults and also children, an open stage seating for performance, gallery space and a cafe as a leisure activity for the community. Library as an urban pause. Adopting the green idea in an urban constrainted site, the library allows a little pause for the urban busy life.
An Upward Dynamic Concept The library captures the movement of public with strong journey movement which interlacing every single level yet creating a sense of dynamic moment in spaces within the building, an upward dynamic movement. The concept helps to encourage exploration and curiousity of the user within the building.
View of the open stage seating from south pedestrain entrance.
Second stage design proposal. This stage of design trying to implement circulation movement into the building through horizontal movement.
Floor plates showing the differentiation of library. Third stage design proposal. The circulation movement changed in this stage and slowly seeks to bring the movement upward instead of horizontal.
4th stage design proposal. The circulation movement evolved by folding down the floor plate to enhance the upward movement of user. Facade view of proposed library from the main road, Calle de Mendez Alvaro.
Floor plates showing the movement of internal space.
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Professional- KW Associate Architects
Mixed Development Project
During my working period with KW Associate Achitects, I was lucky enough to involve in several big scale mixed development project. I have mostly involved in the schematic proposal such as unit types and layout, carpark design, ground floor and lobby design. This proposal consists of two blocks, 30 & 29 storey of shops, restaurants and service apartments. Besides, there is a proposed facilities level on top of the podium level.
Carpark Level
This service apartment proposal consists of 28 storey of shops and residential units. The ground floor level is designed according to the fire regulation acts and the landscape has been designed in a way to achieve the planning regulations. I was involved in the schematic proposal stage of this project.
Ground Level
Facilities Level
Ground Level
Units Level
KW Associate Architects
Proposed new drop-off area and roof
KW Associate Architects
Fencing and lighting proposal and building colour scheme proposal I have been involved in dealing with consultants and manufacturer and meetings for assisting the Architects in charged on fencing and lighting proposal.
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o2 Sustainable Entrance Proposal
Gold Award
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09 Photography Frozen moments
Putrajaya, Malaysia.
Xiamen, China.
Putrajaya, Malaysia.
Kuala Selangor, Malaysia.
Siam Reap, Cambodia.
Xiamen, China.