CHRISTOPHER LEUNG CHEUN PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Nationality
Languages
Mauritius
English, French
Christopher is a young upcoming designer with an eye for small details, he analysed a project from the exterior skin to its very functional use. Persuading his passion for computer technology, Christopher look at the most adequate way of integrating the digital application into actual building with an aim to revisit the architecture of the past into a more efficient utilization but also interested into developing his BIM knowledge to reduce errors and deliver the project on time.
His simple design grew from his building design background from RMIT University which has given him a clear understanding how building are put together, “God is in the Details” Ludwig Miles van der Rohe , into a more efficient and effective design by understanding the site and the constrains. Central to every project is the notion of function and connectivity, as every zone are individually designed a subsequently used to full capacity considering sustainability, project cost and material finish detail.
As he continues his studies in RMIT University, he adventures himself into parametric and algorithmic design with an ambition into applying this know-how into upcoming application of future building, as technology is shifting, there would be more opportunities that differentiate himself from other architects while developing his construction documentation skills.
Design Elective//B.Arch Sem 2 2015//Technical Details
The Podium
Design Studio//B.Arch Sem 1 2015//Sport Centre Design
Mr Assembly
Design Elective//M.Arch Sem 2 2017//Mix-Reality Fabrication
Autonomous Formation
Design Elective//B.Arch Sem 2 2016//Robotic Fabrication
Belong - SONA
Architectural Competition//Sem 2 2016
Meta Gr!D
MAJOR PROJECT 2020
Major Project: Design Thesis 2020
Project Name: Meta Gr!D
Project Team: Christopher Leung Cheun (Lvl 7)
Supervisor: Ian Nazareth
Software used: Rhino 6, Grasshopper, Ms Excels, V-Ray & Adobe Creative Suite
Meta Gr!D is an exploration into setting up a platform and framework as a medium to understand how cities could possibly be planned though data. It is a grid that wants to be described by information; a grid that knows no given typography, no prescribed ideology and no context, but only pure data. Encoding the relationships between building and its environment. Future cities are to be distributed while carrying a sense of autonomy. Up until recently Big Data has been used to unpack the organisational pattern of human beings in many cities, however it has always been the case that these visualisations are from a given environment.
Meta Gr!D looks at data as an opportunity to re-imagine how planning could be distributed within itself in a virtual ecosystem, using the current physical manifestation of humans as a starting point, these data are being scaled and amplified to match the required need of such an environment. The floating objects are the materialisation of data both in physical and virtual world. Virtual as it is operating in the background while dealing with its surrounding field.
Keller Easterling : Medium Design
Early Experiment
CLUE Melbourne CBD DATA 2006 : Floor Area Programe Ratio
Bock ID 85 : Melbourne Central
OSSIFY HONG KONG
Studio Name: Ascension 2017
Project Name: Ossify Hong Kong
Project Team: Charles Boman (Lvl 9) Christopher Leung Cheun (Lvl 7)
The Ossify Hong Kong explores a generative and algorithmic design process which mimics nature (i.e Bones density, Limpet teeth...) at different scales. With 3d printing becoming a reality in the construction fields, the structural possibility of future high-rise building are becomming infinite; reducing the building cost, use of material, and the manufacturing process.
The building proposal is located in Hong Kong known for its high population density and is designed in such a way that it is connected to the urban infrastructure of Hong Kong providing the need to the surrounding environment, the podium is linked to the pedestrian bridge and is rooted to the metro network becoming a main station for Hong Kong.
The tower is generated though an agent based algorithms that changes the density and thickness of the material throughout the designed form, the podium/lower ground is speculated to be 3d printed on site and the upper body which compromise the walls and the slabs, would be prefabricated off site, then the structure is elevated into pace ,boosting the construction process. A small chuck of the building facade is then 3d printed on a smaller scale proving that the process is plausible.
This studio explore the architectural implication of 3D printing technology through the design of a high-rise towers which look at the structural intricacy, ornamental forms and tectonic geometry created through a generative design process, focusing on algorithmic techniques and methodology; a series of objects has been generated looking at the complexity of digital logics & form finding, which were then translated into elements of building at different scale.
The first couple of weeks, a series of forms were made though the understanding of typological modelling, by looking at recursive pattern in 3d forms, how to combine and blend two different type of forms, how to use “Processing V2” to generate agents that stick to the mesh surface and also Louis Sullivan as he is the father of skyscraper.
The HSBC main building was used as a based platform where the service core and the exoskeleton is the key component making the tower. The flow of the tower geometry follows the direction of the structural elements, the service core used as a printing platform of the upper floor and atrium goes throughout the whole tower encouraging a collaborative working environment.
3d Printing Idea West/East
FREGO ISLAND
Image by: Bent Rene´Synnevåg
Studio Name: Putting the pieces together
Project Name: Fogo Island, Canada
Architect: Sauders Architecture
RMIT Tutors: John Cherrey
Software used: Revit 2016
This design elective explores the world of architectural detailing, understanding how building are designed and constructed at a close-up scale. A set of unfinish architectural drawings were given and we were asked to complete a selection of missing details through our own mark up and understand how to improve the current situation of the design by looking at existing photos of the Frego project.
The key criteria of the elective was to look at the various laying of material used in particular area of the house, understanding how to prevent leaks by figuring out the waterproofing materials used, how to prevent heat lost, as the design is located in a cold region, how to custom make window frame component for a clear and seamless detail, and last but not least how to document a clear and legible drawing as an architectural feature.
138x32mm TIMBER
DECKING FIXED WITH 3mm GAP OVER ROOF JOIST
0.8 GALAVBOND PARAPET FLASHING
120x19mm HORIZONTAL SPRUCE CLADDING FIXED OVER VERTICAL BATTERNS
19x64mm VERTICAL BATTERNS FIXED OVER RIGID INSULATION
38mm RIGID INSULATION FIXED OVER PLYWOOD
AIR BARRIER FIXED OVER PLYWOOD
225x38mm F11 HW 190x35mm F11 KDHW
16mm PLYWOOD FIXED OVER STUD WALL
EXTERNAL
38x225mm F11 HW NOGGINGS FIXED @ 1400 MAX CTRS
R40 BATT INSULATION REFER TO SPECIFICATION
225x38mm F11 HW BOTTOM PLATE FIX OVER FLOOR JOIST
290x40mm FLOOR JOIST @ 400mm MAX CTRS
38mm RIGID INSULATION FIXED OVER PLYWOOD
16mm PLYWOOD FIXED TO BEARER
0.8 GALAVBOND FLASHING
BEARER REFER TO ENGINEERS DRAWINGS
FLASHING FIX OVER SKYLIGHT MULLION
TRIPPLE GLAZED SKYLIGHT REFER TO SPECIFICATION
240x65mm GLUED LAMINATED TIMBER LINTEL AS PER ENGINEER DRAWINGS
CUSTOM GALVANISED FABRICATED BRACKET AS SPECIFIED
GALVANISED STEEL TRACK FIXED TO HANGER BRACKET
REST AREA
STUDIO
EAT / WORK AREA
38mm CONCRETE SCREED OVER PLYWOOD
220x20mm T&G TIMBER FLOORING FIXED OVER FLOOR BATTERNS
MOISTURE BARRIER MEMBRANE REFER TO SPECIFICATION WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE OVER PLYWOOD
290x38mm F11
KDHW BEARER AS PER ENGINEERS DRAWINGS
STRUCTURAL FOOTINGS REFER TO ENGINEERS DRAWINGS
EXTERNAL
138x32mm TIMBER DECKING FIXED WITH 3mm GAP OVER ROOF JOIST
UPPER PARAPET LEVEL RL: 4.000
0.8 GALAVBOND PARAPET FLASHING GRADED TOWARDS GUTTER
F11
16mm PLYWOOD FIXED TO STUD WALL
6mm PROTECTION BOARD FIXED OVER PLYWOOD
235x38mm F11 KDHW FIXED OVER SLEEPERS @ 600mm MAX CTRS
Our big idea is to unite our community through the idea of contest. Competition is a prevalent facet of sport, and we felt that we can utilise its qualities to discover how we could motivate and engage the community to get involved into sport. Having a competitor may coerce us to exceed our limitations and improve our expectations.
With the idea of contest, we started to consider the symbols and analogies that could help to articulate our ideas. The podium best represents our direction as it constitutes the idea of an intimate contest, that helps unify communities towards a single interest. Other symbols that were considered such as trophies and medallions did not best represent our intentions as it does not have to be public. Therefore, the podium was considered over the other options as it is a symbol of intimate tensions between competitors and unifies the world as it is projected for everyone to observe.
The pixel facade was generated from the analogy of broadcasting events and contests throughout the world. We articulated the idea of projecting visions of contests through pixelated facade, synonymous with a tv screen. This helps give people an incentive to participate and join in on the community. The uncut pixels represent people who are not connected to sport. This creates a dynamic facade which helps to reveal the surface texture of the building.
Mixed-Reality (Mr.) Assembly methodologies allow complex structures to be fabricated from unique parts without the need for drawn documentation, creating design opportunities for intricacy, variability and streamlined assembly.
The elective demonstrates how to use Holographic modelling software to stream digital models from CAD environments to the Microsoft HoloLens in real time. Through experimentation at different scales, designing and fabricating full scale complex structure using a holographic representation of the completed design model overlay on the fabrication environment.
This elective explores the design of robotic tool, the relationship of material, an algorithmic behaviour and their interaction through real-time robotics.
An autonomous feedback loop was developed where the robot responds directly to the formation of material, without a pre-determined designed or model but only a series of basic logic. A Kinect device were used to 3D Scan the physical outcome of the material deposition (Sand & Glue) which is then converted from point clouds into mesh within grasshopper. It was speculated that an agentbased algorithm could be used to create a self-generate architectural features (Arches, Textures, Canopy…). This studio explores the generative capacity of volatile materials into creating geometries that are a hybrid of material and algorithmic tendencies, with little human intervention.
Robot tool
Generative Path
SUPER STUDIO 2016
Studio Name: Super Studio 2016
Project Names: Belong (3rd Prize Regional)
Project Team: Christopher Leung Cheun (3rd Year)
Tam Hoi Fung Jason (2nd Year)
Tong Ning Vicky (2nd Year)
Software used: Rhino 3D & Vray
Location: Melbourne School of Design
The fantasy tales of man reaching the sky has guided the human civilization towards conquering new territories. The issues of contamination, over population or the lack of resources have pushed human to live above the groundour origin. But no matter how far we go beyond the sky or even space, the unbreakable bond between human and the Earth has still remained and remind us where we belong to. Our proposal is to set up a new natural condition to fulfil our utopian dream - living in the sky. The eruption of rivers fosters the vertical civilization where it reserves the intimacy between human and nature. The pattern of human history is repeated in the new condition of vertical stream system, the irreversible movement of the water is making all the evidence of the history. The penetrations of liquid create a constantly growing atmosphere within the structures where it defines an invisible boundary of room to influence the artificial condition.
