ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO SELECTED WORKS
CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL WICKS
Architecture and Sustainable Design Graduate Passionate individual interested in design, driven to create architecture that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing for the masses
Education B.Sc, Architecture and Sustainable Design (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Class of 2017) GCE A Levels Catholic Junior College, Class of 2011
Work Experience DP Architects (May-Aug 2016) MKPL Architects (Sept-Dec 2017)
Skills Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Rhinoceros, SketchUp, AutoCad, Revit
Languages English (written and spoken) Chinese, French (basic)
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SELECTED WORKS
Individual Projects 4
DWELLING
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EVENT SPACES
Core Studio 3, Fall 2016 Mentor: Pauline Ang
TAMPINES HUB
Core Studio 3, Fall 2016 Mentor: Pauline Ang
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MICRO TOWERS
SUTDx
Core Studio 1, Fall 2015 Mentor: Jackson Tan
URBAN LIVING
Core Studio 2, Spring 2016 Mentor: Shim Dongmin
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Core Studio 2, Spring 2016 Mentor: Shim Dongmin
Option Studio, Summer 2017 Mentor: Michael Budig
Group Projects 34
STRUCTURE OF SPACE
Introduction to Design Computation, Fall 2015 Mentor: Sawako Kaijima
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SPATIAL JOINTS
Digital Fabrication and Design Computation, Spring 2016 Mentor: Stylianos Dritsas
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SCHOOL CAMPUS TAKE OVER
Digital Fabrication and Design Computation, Spring 2016 Mentor: Stylianos Dritsas
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DWELLING This Urban Living project used an existing HDB podium block, Bras-Basah Complex, which houses two high-rise residential buildings on top. We were tasked to envision an alternative dwelling model that responds to changing societies and adapt to high-density living, while creating a residential community with a particular idea of sharing their private realm. This includes merging three existing apartment units- two next to each other with one either above or below. The only limitations were to keep the unit’s vertical load-bearing structure, service shafts and accession space intact, but otherwise to redesign the entire space - including the vertical divisions and access points.
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The spaces are explicitly separated into Public and Private areas. The section with the double volume height is semi-Public and Public, meant for having meals and entertaining and hosting guests. Contrasting to the other half of the unit, which is meant for the resident’s more private spaces.
PRIVATE
PRIVATE PUBLIC
PUBLIC
UNIT AXONOMETRIC
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UPPER LEVEL FLOORPLAN
A
B’
C
C’
D
D’
A’
B
LOWER LEVEL FLOORPLAN
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RENDERING
SECTION AA’
SECTION CC’
SECTION BB’
SECTION DD’
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Event Spaces This project was aimed at designing a building to host public events in a satellite SUTD campus at the intersection of Orchard Road and Cairnhill Road. Not limited to being an anchor for SUTD’s student recruitment efforts, the project involves the strategic involvement in the current SkillsFuture initiative. Programs required are basic classrooms/learning spaces, a lecture theatre, exhibition space, cafe and administrative offices. A tree was the guiding concept behind the design of the project. Similar to the anatomy of a tree, like how it receives nourishment, the users enter through a basement link or ground floor, leading them up to the classrooms and other learning spaces, where they will receive their “fruits of labour”.
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SITE ANALYSIS
RESIDENTIAL
RESIDENTIAL
RESIDE
SHOPHOUSES
RESIDENTIAL SHOPHOUSES RESIDENTIAL
SHOPH
HIGH-END
HIGH-END SHOPHOUSES SHOPHOUSES
HIGH-
RETAIL
RETAIL HIGH-END HIGH-END COMMERCIAL RETAIL RETAIL
RETAIL
COMMERCIAL
COMM
COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL
ROADS SPACES
CONCEPT SKETCHES
ZONING ROADS SPACES
ROADS
ZONING ROADS
ZONING
ZONING
SITE PLAN
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SHORT SECTION
PHYSICAL MODEL
LONG SECTION
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ROOF
2F
CA
IRN HIL
LR
D
N
GROUND FLOORPLAN 1F
OR C
HA
RD
RD
B1
B2
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Urban Living This project was aimed at developing innovative urban housing concepts for sustainable high-dense living and focus on themes like density, diversity and connectivity. The integration of building systems like load-bearing structure, and building envelope will be treated as constitutive parts of design process. Circulation spaces should not simply be considered as a just functionally necessary element, but as a system that determines the entire spatial hierarchy. One that does not only link the programmatic components to an urban context to either benefit from or contribute to its vitality, but which can essentially also become an instrument of social intensity, diversity and cohesion. The abundance of natural greenery on site’s urban scale, led to the use of Branching as a guiding concept.
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TREE MAPPING
CONCEPT
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LONG SECTION
SHORT SECTION
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COMMERCIAL AREA FLOORPLAN
ZA PLA EN OP
ZA PLA EN OP
G
TIN SEA ED AD SH
RESIDENTIAL LEVEL FLOORPLAN
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3-ROOM UNIT
4-ROOM UNIT
3-GENERATION UNIT
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PHYSICAL MODEL
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Tampines Hub This project’s site was an open and natural space in Tampines area. Boundary conditions of the plot like the MRT station and different types of roads and pathways, buildings that frame the space, accessibility, close amenities, potential users, character of the different traffic roads, and other factors had to be taken into account to produce a building thoroughly connected to its close environment. We were to develop an approach to deal with an urban yet natural context, and explore strategies to arrange the required exterior and interior spaces within a consistent and relevant design. This project was based on the concept of a central plaza that could act as a spill-out space for any of the surrounding permanent spaces.
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CONCEPT A B
E D
C
INDIVIDUALISTIC
SPILL-OUT SPACE
MULTIPLE CONFIGURATIONS
FIXED PROGRAM LOCATIONS
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SECTIONS AND SITE PLAN
SH OP PI NG
DING CPF BUIL
BE LT
BU SI NT ER CH AN GE
TA M PI NE SM RT ST AT IO N
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RENDERINGS
FLOORPLAN
CE PA S E
TR EA
RE AD
TH
ING
AR TS TO R
SPA CE
E CA
FE
EX
HIB
ITI
ON
TE
RIA
SPA CE
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SutdX This project was to design a satellite SUTD campus (SUTDx), with the site located at the intersection of Bras Basah, Prinsep, Orchard, and Handy Road. The location of the project was for the campus to be a downtown anchor among the network of universities and institutes of higher learning. As the site context has significant height differentials in the landscape around it, the concept behind this building was providing a form of gradation while allocating programs to the spaces based on how public or private the spaces are.
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SITE PLAN
SITE ANALYSIS NOISY
LOWER FLOORS Cafe Performance Area
LEVEL PLACEMENT
NOISE LEVELS
Space Lobby
Interior LTs
Classrooms
QUIET
HIGHER FLOORS PRIVATE
PRIVACY
PUBLIC
RENDER
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EAST SECTION
CAFEE
PERFORMANCE E AREA
LOBBY
EXHIBITION SPACEE
1F
2F
LT1 OPEN DECK AREA
TT1
LT2
TT2
WEST SECTION
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CLASSRO OOM 3
4F
STAFF BALCONY
ADMIN OFFICE
3F CLASSROOM 1
CLASSROOM 4
CLASSROOM 2
MEETING ROOM 1
CLASSROOM 3
MEETING ROOM 2
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Micro Towers This studio allowed us to explore the possibilities of timber being used as the main building component. Starting with exploring the design possibilities that can be done given the material properties of timber. With the site located along River Valley Road, numerous lowlevel shophouses line the streets. Our intervention was to design a micro-scale tower approximately 10 storeys which would fit into the existing context. For this project, I proposed the idea of a Tower Of Water. A building fitted with water-based activities such as swimming pools, pool-pods and spas areas.
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PLANAR vs SLANTED
CONCEPTUAL DIAGRAM
EXPANDING VERTICAL SCALE
DESIGN PROCESS
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NATURAL VENTILATION
FLOORPLANS
OPEN-AIR SPA
SCENIC LOOKOUT
OPEN BATH
COMMUNAL POOL
POOL PODS
SHOPHOUSE CONNECTION
GROUND FLOOR RECEPTION
ROOF
6F
5F
4F
3F
2F
1F
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SECTION
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MODEL PHOTOS
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RENDERINGS
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Structure Of Space This project tasked groups to create a pavilion, but specifically using the Grasshopper plug-in on Rhinoceros 5. The constraints we had to work with was that there has to be 4 entrances to the site and the design system should be able to control a gradation of transparency where visibility or light conditions will shift as users circulate within the pavilion. Our group decided to create a pavilion that provides several “lightwell-cave� moments for the users which allowed them to experience their own exclusive space but still enjoy natural light.
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FORM EXPLORATION
AXONOMETRIC
FRONT VIEW
1 TUBE & POINT CONSTRAINTS
1 TUBE & LINE CONSTRAINTS
2 TUBE & LINE CONSTRAINTS
1 TUBE & CURVED LINE CONSTRAINTS
ASYMMETRICAL & CURVED LINE CONSTRAINTS
3 TUBES IN ASYMMETRICAL POSITION & STRAIGHT LINE CONSTRAINTS
PHYSICAL MODEL
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ELEVATIONS
FRONT
FRONT
RIGHT
TOP LEFT
BACK
DETAILED FLOORPLAN
FLOOR PLAN 1:50
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N 1 DETAILED ELEVATION
+ 10.00 m
+ 9.00 m
+ 8.00 m
+ 7.00 m
+ 6.00 m
+ 5.00 m
+ 4.00 m
+ 3.00 m
+ 2.00 m
+ 1.00 m
+ 0.00 m
- 1.00 m
RENDERING
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Spatial Joints In this project, group pairs were tasked to create a 3D shell structure from a planar aluminium stock, using a water jet cutter. As the joint would be treated as a parametric node, the design of the node would have to adapt to subtle variations of curvature that can be found in complex geometric envelopes. Given a template file marking out the pre-determined angle of separation between each of the joints, the forms of the legs and securing system would be designed by us.
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The concept for this project was ‘Quattropus’, named due to having half the legs of an octopus. The point of interest focuses on the interplay between the two types of material stipulated: wood and metal. This aims at continuing the language of metal and wood, such that there is a continuity from joint to leg. Continuing the torso of an octopus’ body to its tentacle represents this ideal: two different parts, while still being a single entity.
LEG DESIGN
PROTOTYPING
Metal leg component Upper half of locking plate Lower half of locking plate
INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS
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DETAILED AXONOMETRIC
ASSEMBLY PROCESS
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PHYSICAL MODEL
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School Campus Take Over This particular project challenged groups to design and build a lightweight, spatial construct/experience within the school campus using computation methods. Materials provided to us were wooden dowels and a PLA 3D-printing spool. Each group is assigned wooden dowels are 12mm in diameter and up to 40m in total length, each dowel weighing 75g. For this project, our group decided to create a tall, free-standing structure which would emphasise on the vertical spacial experience within an area with a high ceiling. We designed a “twisted� tower which would be placed at a location in the school, surrounded by high ceilings.
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3D PRINTING
13 mm
14 mm
14.5mm
15 mm
97.50
97.50
585.00
97.50
97.50
97.50
VISUALISATION
170.00
INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS
13.5mm
97.50
PATTERN GENERATION
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DETAILED ASSEMBLY 60.00
60.00
40.00
8800..0000
°
13.20 80.00
9 25.3
40.00 30.00
2
8800..0000
38.97
4400..0000 30.00
38.97
86 .7 °
17.00
17.00
13.20
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21.4 8
92
33.05
80.00
40.00 30.00
33.05
4400..0000 30.00
19.5
17.00
87 .2 °
13.20
17.00
13.20
30.00
30.13
30.13
40.00
30.00
92
13.20 80.00
3
40.00 30.00
31.2
80.00
48.06
4400.0000 30.00
48.06
85
.9
°
17.00
°
17.00
13.20
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93
13.20
40.00 30.00
80.00
40.00 30.00
35.7
3
54.98
54.98
85
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°
17.00
°
17.00
13.20
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80.00
94
13.20
58.53
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80.00
38.0
40.00 30.00
60.30
80.00
58.53 40.00 30.00
60.30
85
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°
17.00
°
17.00
13.20
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94
13.20
84
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17.00
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17.00
13.20
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80.00
80.00
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39.1
9
40.00 30.00
17.00
°
13.20
17.00
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13.20
40.00 30.00
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PHYSICAL INSTALLATION PIECE
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