nee wong [ p o r t f o l i o ‘ 14 ]
nee wong
designer, enthusiast, photographer, dreamer, maker. [ p o r t f o l i o ‘ 14 ]
Little things, when designed differently, explores a different perception of its art of usability and experience. A night market that reminisces, an empty room that shifts visual focus, a self-sustaining biomass tile that can be multiplied, or even the way a croissant is made and eaten; This portfolio documents how I enjoy considering the littlest things in several architectural proposals, handcrafted works, and the art of photography, imagining a life beyond the everyday.
+ Bachelor of Science (Hons) (Architecture) Taylor’s University, Malaysia
+ Master of Architecture
University of Melbourne, Australia
architecture
Space is merely considered as a specification of program in today’s built environment. I have always asked what will architecture be if it was governed by humane senses, by a journey at walking pace, or by one’s acute nostalgia of place instead?
Pasar Malam_ The soundsphere of the Malaysian night market (Pasar Malam); of people preparing all kinds of street food and speaking a concoction of different languages, inspires this gustatory journey through four pavilions: The Aromatic, The Cacophony, The Nostalgia, and The Cleansing.
the aromatic _herb garden
the cacophony _night market
the nostalgia _meditative pavilion
the cleansing _food & wine
i. The Aromatic_ The senses are opened with the smell of primary herbs and spices of the Malaysian night market; chilli, spring onions, cinnamon, pandan leaves, & parsley.
ii. The Cacophony_ The night market is a bustling intervention under the bridge of King St. It is designed to unfold during the night, and to be kept by day; much like the Pasar Malam culture.
beam clamp guying steel cable enclosed in steel chs one icosahedron umbrella module lightweight polyester non-woven fabric ‘Tyvek’ zipper
100 dia. galvanised steel chs coarse-finished steel floor plate 4-layer polycarbonate panel
merbau floor board pivoting leg
75 dia. steel member with groove welded to main frame
telescopic leg
iii. The Nostalgia_ The hollow sounds of plastic, wood, and metal body-chimes reminisce the concoction of languages spoken by the local Malaysians at the night market.
iv. The Cleansing_ The solid and polished glass of the food & wine restaurant brings one’s consciousness back to present Melbourne, cleansing the palatte as one ends his gustatory journey.
Capturing [ s p a c e ] This thesis explores the relationship between still photography and architecture. If space is experienced as motion through a continuum, how can architecture play the role of a camera and capture one’s awareness of singular moments in space and time? How can the organization of these ‘frames’ propose a new choreography of space and experience?
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a. movement around image-space.
b. movement to the left and right of imagespace. c. movement straight towards image-space.
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VISUAL TENSION & TIME
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As the body moves around an image, the ocular senses of the eye restrains to maintain a visual axis with the image, being more aware of the time elapsed.
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The intention of this architecture is to frame an image at every second, heightening the user’s ocular consciousness of space and time in these singular intervals.
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When the body moves with the visual axis maintained by the image ahead, time elapsed is percieved as faster as one’s body movement and optical desire work with each other.
Seeds of Home_ A speculation of the primitive elements of ‘home’. The nostalgia of experiences in my home (Food, Belief, Context, Weather, and Companionship), reinterpreted as individual spaces imagined in the future urbanised city.
The speculated elements of ‘home’: Food, Belief, Context, Weather, and Companionship, broken down into transient experiences in the future city.
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handcrafted works The art of making and the art of experiencing is more acute in a scale moulded by the hand. How can the human ergonomics shape the design of objects, furnitures, or even food?
Textured Tiles_ Handmade concrete paving tiles. Design was influenced by a play of an equal amount of positive (tile mass) and negative (vegetation), creating minimal intervention for pedestrian trafic. Construction aided by Rhino 3D and CNC machine.
Each triangular module, measuring about 100mm on each side, is designed to butt to another module and taper to deliver water to encircled plants. The complex design of the tile was created by cutting a Rhino3D-generated inverse of a foam mould. The mould was then created by pouring silicone into the foam model, subsequently allowing 12 concrete tiles to be made at one time.
V-inyl Shelf_ A modular shelving system to hold and showcase record vinyls in the beauty of its own covers. Made of CNC-cut Pine Plywood and Acrylic sheets.
10mm thk plywood 6mm dia. dowel
CNC-cut Plywood rings
9mm dia. dowel 2mm thk acrylic sheet
Record vinyls don’t have much of a storing solution in the twenty-first century - yet. The V-inyl shelf’s was designed to allow tabletop showcasing and ease of browsing by offsetting each vinyl at a regular diagonal distance.
Crisp Croiss_ A re-design of your typical everyday croissant. From the way the dough is made, to the shape of its container, the crisp croiss is a way for consumers to effectively enjoy the crisp, layers, and buttery texture of a takeaway croissant.
The dough of the Crisp-Croiss is refolded into 125 thin layers and cut into small triangles, allowing the peeling of many crisp, greasy layers for a fuller experience.
Stories of Hardware Ln_ Handmade pop-up books that tell the everchanging day-to-night stories of Hardware Lane. Featuring the adventure for sweetness in a macaron store, the snipping action that goes on at a hairdresser’s, and a band of drum’s thirst for music in a restaurant.
photography The choreography between my eye and the camera’s lens allows me to focus on the detail of everyday elements people overlook, creating a unique visual experience I wish for others to see, too.
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