ARCHI TEC TURED ARCHITECTURE CHONGWEELEE SELECTEDIWORKS
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virtual architecture
2007
VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURE
This experimental design studio is aimed to broaden a first-year student’s horizon of architectural thinking. The project is devided into two parts.
The first part involves a series of hand-sketch perspective drawings that require students to explore the spatial relationship created by different arrangements of massing L-shape blocks. Through the manipulation of the size, orientation and relative distance of the L blocks, the notion of solids and voids is critically examined. A better understanding of enclosure is also one of the main objectives.
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Carlos Slim
Zhang Yin
Other than that custom textures are created free-hand. The idea of black-and-white balance is reinforced in this exercise. The visual impact of monochrome compositions is scrutinized via producing a number of custom textures based on black-to-white ratios in an ascending order.
The second part of the project calls for the design of separate office spaces for two clients, namely Carlos Slim who is the world’s wealthiest person, and Zhang Yin who is considered as one of the richest women on this sphere. The brief also includes the design of a common space for the two clients to meet. The clients travel to the common space from their respective office by specially designed elevator.
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artifice
2008
ARTIFICE
artifice
Geoffrey Bawa House Geoffrey Bawa’s House, or Office, built 1961-1963 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, was originally designed as a private residence for Dr. Bartholomeusz. However, the project was called off by the doctor himself when the construction was near completion, and Bawa decided to convert this house into his own office. Remodelling this architectural artifice discloses the architect’s intelligence behind climatic regionalism, where the structure, materiality and openings all respond sensitively to the hot local climate of Colombo. Also through the reproduction of floor plans and sections in poché drawings, the circulation, programmes and indoor/outdoor relationship of the house design can be studied and concisely represented.
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cultural speculation
2008
CULTURAL SPECULATION
Newtown Gallery The site selected for the art gallery is in Newtown, a place that is located in an intermediate zone between Sydney’s downtown area and residential suburbs. Newtown is a significant cultural spot in Sydney due to its Bohemian style and character, well-known for its street life and artistic flavour. The gallery is decidedly located here to even further enhance the unique cultural quality of Newtown. The gallery is sympathetic to the the street given a gentle tilt on its main façade. The zigzag form of the upper façade has a symbolic and expressive meaning. Each individual ‘plane’ constituting the zigzag pattern can be understood as the flat façade of the neighbouring buildings. The zigzag pattern is the result of compressing the façades of those buildings into a smaller space, thus expressing the meaning of compact richness of both the gallery and the street. The four windows on the lower façade are the ‘stages’ for performance art. Four performers will be placed in each of the rooms and doing some activities. However, due to the height of the windows, the public cannot see what they are actually doing and so they discuss among themselves and start making guesses. Here, the miniature piazza in front of the gallery restores social vibrancy to this place.
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One novelty about the façade is that there will be several large LCD screens that display the visitors’ facial expressions captured by the hidden cameras installed around various artworks. This kind of voyeurism provides some sort of entertainment for the people trapped in traffic congestions in front of the gallery. To think the visitors are here to see the artworks, now even they become part of the art themselves! The quality of celebration and engagement is thereby defined.
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Cross Section
2nd Floor Plan
1st Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
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hybrid housing
2009
HYBRID HOUSING
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Facing one of the world’s most popular beaches - Bondi, the site is a point of attraction at a global and local scale. This multi-storey mixed-use housing project takes full advantage of the site’s most desirable attributes. The design intent is to achieve a beautiful balance between the breathtaking sea view and winter solar access. Hybrid living is central to the design idea, where communal lifestyle is integrated into Bondi Beach by providing various shared facilities such as the gymnasium, swimming pool, multipurpose common rooms and community open space, all of which are carefully designed to ensure accessibility while not compromising privacy. Commercial possibilities are also maximised in the overall design to reinforce Bondi’s image as a major touristic attraction, and to cater for the need of both local and international users.
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INTERLOCKING APARTMENT UNITS to allow all apartments to have multiple aspects thus fair access to both the sea views and winter sun
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Residential Public/Commerical
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Two Bedroom Type A
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Two Bedroom Type B
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One Bedroom (Studio)
One Bedroom Type A
One Bedroom Type B
Three Bedroom Type A
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Three Bedroom Penthouse Type A
Three Bedroom Penthouse Type B
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urban renewal
Harold Park 2010
URBAN RENEWAL Situated in between two of Sydney’s western suburbs, namely Annandale and Camperdown, the old site of the Harold Park Paceway is to be redesigned for a much diverse uses in the urge to accommodate and address the city’s growing metropolitan population and alarming housing capacity issue. The master plan includes the development of a large housing “village” comprising apartments of various types to cater for different family sizes. The master plan also incorporates commercial uses along the perimeter of the site, allowing easy accessibility to retail shops from the surrounding areas via the main streets. The latter part of the project calls for the reclamation of the abandoned tram shed north to the site.
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The underlying concept of the entire master plan is to retain the existing racecourse structure and transform it into a “green loop” which connects different zones accross the site by continuous greenery. The “green loop” effectively serves as a physical boundary between the residential and the public areas.
Tram shed Residential area Residential area
Retail shops
Retail shops
Retail shops
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Building heights 1 storey 2 storeys 3 storeys
Public & Private Public
Open space network 5 storeys 6 storeys 7 storeys
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Site access Pedestrian Car park
Vehicle
The “green loop� is not to be regarded as a physical boundary, but links the entire site at various points, both to the commercial and the residential area. The nothern part of the loop provides vista to the heritage building, thus forming an interactive open space network across the site and its surroundings.
The design favours pedestrian access by creating 1 entry point from Wigram Rd. and 2 from the Crescent to the residential area, plus 2 to the public area. Vehicles can access parking from the Crescent.
Open space network
Open space network
The proposal of reusing the tram depot for art gallery embodies a strong aethetic value to the building itself. The concept of a public piazza connecting the tram depot then defines a new way of appreciating the heritage building by drawing crowds to the vicinity of the building.
Underground/concealed drainage system is implemented to direct the stormwater along its natural flowing path to the manmade water body in the site. When the water level rises during heavy rains the dam releases excessive volume into the creek.
Private
Private housings are grouped in the centre of the site while public area (retails, recreational and the proposed heritage building as art centre) forms an outer ring of the site. The private units are elevated from the ground (by carpark) to increase sense of privacy.
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adaptive reuse
2010
ADAPTIVE REUSE With the brickwork structure and the steel column and trusses conserved, the heritage-listed former tram depot building is converted into a mixeduse development consisting of residential houses and public commercial plaza.
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Ground Floor
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First Floor
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Transformation of main facade by insertion of resonating geometry + light structure
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Creation of an open, engaging residential environment inside the heritage enclosure
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timber connection
2010
TIMBER CONNECTION As a major marine research organisation, the Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS) is strategically located on the foreshore of Chowder Bay, Sydney with ready access to water. The brief is for a building that will provide accommodation for vital physical support facilities required by the Institute’s developing research programs. The proposed design is an exoskeletal timber structure that will enable sufficiently flexible, column-free interior space to allow for the Institute’s growth and change over time. The new building rests on the existing concrete hard stand area immediately adjacent to one of their current heritage listed storage and maintenance buildings while partially extends over the water to facilitate boat maintenance activities. The design also seeks to revitalise the site given its prominence as the major marine arrival point by extending the public domain over the water and integrating seating to the timber structures.
SIMS Research Facilities
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Mezzanine
Ground Floor
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West Elevation
South Elevation
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Cross Section
Corrugated zinc roofing sheet
Waterproofing membrane
Plywood sheet Wool insulation
30mmx75mm purlin Plywood sheet Battens notched to roof beam structure
150x200mm glulam hardwood roof structure joined by flitched steel plates and steel bolts
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Longitudinal Section
Roof
Mezzanine level Supported by post and beam structural system independent of the building skeleton structure
Building skeleton structure-portal frame
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school as community hub
2011
SCHOOL AS COMMUNITY HUB
school as community hub
To SYDNEY CBD
To BONDI JUNCTION
To COOGEE
To WEST SYDNEY
To MAROUBRA JUNCTION
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This project is aimed to re-think the proposition of the school in the urban environment and to explore the concept of a learning community, and to investigate the opportunities for existing public schools within metropolitan Sydney to act as a focus and catalyst for neighbourhood centres while delivering innovative school building design that supports 21st century educational needs and directions. The research analyses how the school sites within the urban context can act as a community catalyst for social engagement - a meeting place and also a community hub by incorporating facilities such as library, gym, performance spaces and child care that can be shared with the broader community. The project also allows for other complimentary uses on the site such as child care, aged care, key worker affordable housing and some commercial uses which serve the local neighbourhood. The exploration of innovative models for the design of new schools in infill areas is a key imperative of the Sydney Metropolitan Plan.
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school as community hub The master plan focuses on designing schools that enhance the experience of both collaborative and self-directed learning, and the integration of the public and communal life into the site so that the site sustains itself as a learning community hub in the surrounding urban environment. The main concept is to create a network of private, school and public open spaces which are all connected by pedestrian circulation route. By placing community facilities around the perimeter of the whole site and the surrounding of the schools, public users are allowed to gain access to the entire site without creating privacy issue for the school community and the residences on the site, including university students and artists, while being able to experience the hierarchy of open spaces.
Pedestrian access
As for pedagogical approach, the master plan proposes learning environments that promote both group activities and independent learning, and access to outdoor is made easier to maximize outdoor learning. Accommodations for the university students are introduced in order to promote interaction and mutual learning between students of different grades, while opening up tutoring job opportunities for the university students.
Vehicle access
Open space
Public use
01 Auditorium 02 Admin & staff 03 Canteen/cafeteria 04 Library 05 Dance & music 06 General teaching block 07 Gymnasium 08 Art 09 Science 10 Exhibition hall (heritage bldg.) 11 Woodwork & home economics
12 Artist residence 13 Preschool 14 Admin & staff 15 General teaching 16 Science 17 Genetal teaching 18 Gymnasium 19 Public gymnasium 20 Aquatic centre 21 Residential 22 Retail
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School internal circulation
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Public access to shared facilities
Public & private
Ground Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan (Library)
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School internal circulation
Campus social relationship
Public access to shared facilities
Public & private
First Floor Plan
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Section A-A
Section B-B
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Avoca Street Elevation
Rainbow Street Elevation
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