selected works graduate portfolio 2015/2016
_cherngyu chen _MA Applied Design, RIBA Part 2 _Oxford Brookes University
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Spiral Staircase 22 Olive, Singapore
Local Government Centre Subang Jaya, Malaysia
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That Never Was in collaboration with Palestine Museum
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A Subversive Farming System Lifta, Palestine
West End Revival 2.0 Oxford, United Kingdom
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Renovation of NUS MD9 Singapore
NUS EDIC Singapore
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Urban Market Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Urban Design Issues Academic research: Intensification of Land Use
ABOUT HIM
CherngYu, 26, graduated in September 2015 as architecture graduate. Having worked in a small practice, he understands the need of having a strong design enthusiasm and the importance of professionalism and dedication in his work. He hopes to further enhance his diverse background and expand his knowledge, skills and practices in architecture.
LANGUAGES English Chinese Malay
SOFTWARES Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Autodesk AutoCAD Autodesk Revit Autodesk 3ds Max SketchUp Microsoft Office
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Chen Cherng Yu
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
EDUCATION Sep 2013 - Jun 2015
Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom _MArchD Applied Design in Architecture with Distinction Nominated for Best Urban Design Project
Feb 2009 - Dec 2011
Taylor’s University, Malaysia _Bachelor of Science (Honours) (Architecture) with Second Class Upper Honours
Completed in 2007
Hwa Chong Institution, Singapore _General Certificate of Secondary School Advanced Level (GCSE A’ Level)
EMPLOYMENT Feb 2012 AR43 Architects, Singapore - Jul 2013 _Architectural Assistant Provide architectural support to lead architects in the design, selection, coordination and detailing of architectural materials and systems. Assist in complex planning applications. Nov 2014 Coach, Bicester Village, United Kingdom - Jul 2015 _Part-time Sales Assistant Provide personal customer service and hospitality. Work along side an established team and on their own initiative. Develop relationships with clients and be a positive representative of the brand.
Aug 2015
Milano Expo 2015, Milan, Italy _Exhibition Volunteer Assist in welcoming and assisting visitors and participants of Expo.
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A Subversive Farming System Lifta, Palestine
The threat inside Palestine’s agricultural scene comes from Israel’s confiscation of land and economic difficulties that are driving a distance between villagers and the land as a means of production, rendering them ‘food insecure’ and thus undermining the concrete foundations of Palestinian national identity, the people’s history, identity, and self-expression. This project seeks to challenge the conventional practice of agriculture and ridicule the volatile and fragile landscape of Palestine. The proposal calls for a resilient and subversive form of mobile agricultural system that takes place across fragmented West Bank and abandoned villages in the confiscated landscape, enhanced by the existing informal transportation network. Exploring the potential of intervention at existing ruins evolving over time, multiple typologies are imagined in the scenario at Lifta, the poster child of lost villages. Each of them has different approach in intervention according to both existing conditions of the remnants and, therefore, different spatial representations that supplement and complement one another, resulting in an interdependent food production system across the landscape. It is hoped that this initiative will be fundamental to not only to agricultural cultivation but also to cultivation and reclamation of its memory, hope and identity, stitching the fragmented landscapes together, reclaiming the lost lands and planting seeds of possibilities.
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Location of site in Oxford
Site’s proximity to Oxford’s city centre.
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West End Revival 2.0
Oxford, United Kingdom
Taking an agreed part of the site developed as a framework in Studio I, design proposal is developed at appropriate scales, picking up on learning outcomes from Issues 1 project and designing for a density of 500 pph.
A master plan is prepared with individual or part of blocks or plots parcelled out to different developers. Such approach calls for flexible and diverse block structure – there are several rules but no fixed urban design.
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In order for the objectives to be fully realised, it is essential to define the conditions of developments in the form of street networks, development density, land use, building envelope, internal layout and treatment of building edges.
The proposed solution is a perimeter block development with a diversity of open collective spaces. Such arrangement is inherently flexible and can combine a range of plot sizes and building types in many different configurations and densities.
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The overall intention is that while the aim is to craft a quality urban environment, a level of flexibility is provided for the built form to grow organically and be more responsive to needs of users at different points of time.
PERIMETER BLOCK In the context of required high-density development,
sleeving of units into the inner courtyards can help in breaking down the scale of conventional perimeter blocks. A by-product of such perimeter block typology is the transition zones between public and private space where collectiveness, appropriation and private activities can take place.
STREET NETWORKS To complement the road hierarchy system, street
LAND USE Retail and mixed use development along and within close
characters with differing physical attributes are developed on a locationspecific basis with reference to both its place and movement functions.
proximity to Oxpens Road will be supported by a critical mass of people that will live within the residential buildings located to the west of Oxpens Road.
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BUILDING ENVELOPE Perimeters of building envelope appropriate to a
particular plot or plot typology in response the various design objectives of the project is set out without predetermining the building design.
MANAGEMENT Overseen by a coordinating agent, the master plan is parcelled
out as parts to various builders who can then appoint architects to design the buildings. A framework is formed for development in which the rules of game is set.
BUILDING DENSITY Putting figures of draft proposal into feasibility spread
CREATING THE CONDITIONS Simulations of appropriate internal layout,
sheet serves as a design tool in figuring its economical viability. Adjustments to suit the requirements will then be reflected in drawing board to represent the viable scheme.
spatial configurations and treatment of building edges for individual units are provided as a guideline for designers and architects can refer to and develop on.
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Spiral Staircase 22 Olive, Singapore
Assisted in design process and tender documentation of spiral staircase for proposed erection of a 2-storey good class bungalow with basement and swimming pool at 22 Olive Road, Singapore. The house sits on 16,000 sqft hilly part of Caldecott Hill – a designated Good Class Bungalow housing estate which a world apart from Singapore’s bustling pace yet located just minuted from the heart of the city’s hectic business and commercial centre. The spaces within the house converge around the water feature where the spiral staircase stands, providing a feeling of contemplation and continuation. As the bedrooms suites cantilever dramatically in the mid air stretching towards the cityscape, descending from the main arrival hall is a warm and inviting u-shape living area organised around a courtyard with large reflective pond. Assisted in design process and tender documentation of spiral staircase for proposed erection of a 2-storey good class bungalow with basement and swimming pool at 22 Olive Road, Singapore.
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Local Government Centre Subang Jaya, Malaysia
With a site at SS15, the heart of Subang Jaya, the architectural design project is based on the the manifesto, vision and objectives of a made-up political party. Appropriate programmes and spaces are designed in response to the urban and environmental context of the surroundings, representing the ideology and ideas of the party. Being the local political party that serves to oversee the well-being of SS15 users, the party aims to improve the existing issue of traffice congestion while introducing innovative and revolutionary plans for the betterment of the precinct. In general, the party aspires to transform SS15 into an area easy to get around by foot, bike and public transit. The incorporation of patrol hub as part of the government service centre will act as the headquarter to the few beat bases already scattered around SS15, strengthening the existing cooperation between local government and local police forces in tackling security issues in SS15. Such collaboration hopes to result in significant decrease in the precinct’s crime rate. With the use of bicycle as patrolling vehicles around the precinct, such move will encourage the SS15 users to adopt bicycles too as main mode of transportation while allowing the police to patrol parts of SS15 which are previously inaccessible, further enchancing safety in the area.
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NUS EDIC Singapore
Assisted in design process, presentation and tender documentation for erection of 4-storey institution building for Engineering, Design and Innovation Centre at Faculty of Engineering within National University of Singapore.
The Engineering, Design and Innovation Centre (EDIC) stands elevated above the slop site. It sits atop pillars that seemed to extrude from the ground, giving a strong relationship between the building and the terrain it is being built upon.
The building is designed with research classrooms centred around an internal covered courtyard. Facades are designed with modular metal mesh screens for creeping plants and juxtaposed randomly with aluminum fins.
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Renovation of NUS MD9 Singapore
Assisted in design process, presentation and tender documentation for additions and alterations with upgrading works to existing medicine block MD 9 for Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at National University of Singapore.
The building facade and orientation is being responded through introducing new layer of horizontal aluminum strips, resulting in better shading and thermal performance. The proposed aluminum strips created the impression of a secondary skin that wraps around
the building, helping filter visual contact from unwanted services along the exterior wall. The strips are also quintessential in infusing new identity to the existing building with the use of multiple sized strips and color distinction.
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That Never Was
Subang Jaya, Malaysia
A 4-week project in collaboration with Palestine Museum, ‘Never Part’ seeks to explore the notion of ‘displacement and identity’. Each group is to design and make devices inspired from the real ‘objects and narratives’ that would be of a diaspora community. The unwavering optimism of the 400plus airport workers who showed up for work daily at the defunct Yasser Arafar International Airport - the object - for almost 4 years after it stopped functioning is to be celebrated and to invite discussion on the idea of ‘that never was’ – an equally fitting description too in the context of PalestineIsrael conflict. The device, designed to capture the constantly opposing elements in the everyday lives of the Palestinians, aims to narrate the story through the play of materiality and and the use of everyday’s objects to provoke and invite discussion. In curating a space for the devices, the approach in the form of a linear experience aims to engage participants across the timeline of Palestinian history. To be made in Palestine, a DIY cast for the concrete paper plane model is designed along with an assembly instruction booklet with step-by-step on how the public can put together the installation.
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Urban Market
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
In designing a live and work prototype, the project aims to generate an appropriate architectural program to re-activate urban sites, designed within the constraints of feasibility and produce appropriate design solutions in relation to diverse formal, functional and urban issues. The proposed urban market aims to enhance the intraction of all user groups around the site. An event for rehabilitation, utility and growth, it helps to revitalise and rehabilitate the area. The overall intention is that the final image of urban market will not be solely down to the design itself. Instead, its appearance will only be completed when the markets are at its liveliest. As an urban infill, the market aims to gently imprint its qualities on site while the real urban character remains. Therefore, it is designed as an extrovert urban area, a kind of covered city square inextricably linked to the surrounding fabrics. Ultimately, the urban market will be one that are reflections of our society, of our environment, of the structure of the social and spatial hub. A market that reflects community, that shows randomness and logic in structure and function. A market that serves as an intermediate space to trigger urban activity and social interaction, bringing different user groups together - be it the locals or tourists, shoppers or office workers. Market typology is reinterpreted here as an attempty to become capable of supporting locals as retail trend constantly evolves.
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Urban Design Issues
Academic research: Intensification of Land Use
In a group, students are to formulate a methodology of ‘good practice’ for urban designers to address the issue of maintaining a sustainable living environment through urban intensification as part of a large scale urban development.
Therefore, the scope of the research is at a global scale that will allow us to develop a set of generic principles from existing case studies that provide innovative solutions for achieving sustainability through land intensification.
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“How do we safeguard and deliver high levels of environmental quality in the context of increasing intensification of land use?�
To be constructed in relation to three levels of intensification (200pph medium, 500pph - high and 800pph - very high), the design models will be developed from an examination of existing theory, research and international case studies.
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The group will address their design models at the block, intermediate and neighbourhood scales as described by Barton et al (2003) in their Sustainable Neighbourhood model.
thank you.
‘As our small architecture practice demands heavily on strong design enthusiasm, Cherng Yu’s work left a lasting impact on our organisation and places him in our top few outstanding members we have had in the past years. Cherng Yu is unique in that he not only has a great design sense and the technical know-how to contribute on a variety of projects, but he also learned quickly how to integrate his ideas with our overall design objectives and this made it easy for us to trust him with high-level projects. I have no doubt in my mind that his diverse background has prepared him and his passion for architecture will make him valuable as he was in our organisation. I am confident that he will be a strong asset.’ Lim Cheng Kooi Principal Director, AR43 Architects
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