ARCHITECTURE WORK SAMPLE
SELECTED ACADEMIC WORKS 1 Centre for Coffee-conomy 2 Urban Acupuncture 3 Everyman House 4 M.E.G.A Project 5 Harvest! Manchester SELECTED PRACTICE WORKS 6 Qore Suites 7 Serenia Gardens 8 Parcel F Putrajaya
CENTRE FOR CIRCULAR COFFEE-CONOMY
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MArch Y3/1 2019 Ghent, Belgium
As awareness of the food process from farm to table begins to grow in Ghent, the project deals mainly with coffee production in the city, spunning into a series of programmes that either benefits at the receiving end of the waste or benefits the coffee production. The vertical &
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Industrial- Thesis 8 Months
horizontal integration of the coffee & waste industry in the building allow people to understand the bean to cup process, and provide research opportunities for a variety of produce found in the building, such as mushroom growing and aquaculture production.
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URBAN ACUPUNCTURE
MArch Y2/1 2019 Ghent, Belgium
Ghent is slowly evolving into a sustainable city with its encouragement of pedestrianisation, cycling and getting vegetarian, ridding its image of a wasteland since deindustrialisation. An ideal place to live for the younger generation, the urban development of the place is disjointed due to scattered pieces of industrial leftovers
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Masterplan- Group 2.5 Months
in the city. The targetted area is the north of the city where industrial, residential and commercial parts of the city intertwine. They are very divided by the grid roads and previous planning leftover. The strategy focuses on mending the disconnected parts via urban acupuncture, creating small interventions at different points.
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EVERYMAN HOUSE
MArch Y1/3 2019 Toxteth, UK
Liverpool requires a flexible and affordable social housing. In this scenario, Toxteth, which is less than an hour walk to the city centre, becomes a very appropriate location to house affordable housing. To aid prefabrication of components as well as reduce the cost, four types of plan are produced while being able to be flexibly
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Housing- Individual 2.5 Months
rearranged into two different access pattern. One is deck and corridor access for family and elderly housing surrounding a courtyard, which the other main street facing block will strictly have staircore access, eliminating the need for corridors and increasing privacy for young professionals. This flexibility eases buildability.
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M.E.G.A. PROJECT
MArch Y1/1 2018 Ellesmere Port, UK
Ellesmere Port is a decaying town due to its dcclining population and economy. The proposal seeks to densify the core of the commercial town centre by populating the leftover spaces with activities and civic usage. Activating the social network with the civic assets radiate outwards into the neighbourhood. Three types of public squares
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Masterplan- Group 2.5 Months
are created: namely for play, for culture and for market. The squares are interlinked to facilitate movement across the core, increasing footfall while making the whole centre vibrant. A green belt surrounds the core reducing the impact of unsightly cars and also link two green spaces together completing the circuit.
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HARVEST! CITY
BArch Y3/1 2016 Manchester, UK
The project is a response to the community of Manchester City Centre with escalating mental health issues while tackling food waste. The design also takes into account the lack of green spaces for biodiversity in the city to thrive and attempts to compensate the deficiencies by giving wildlife an avenue to thrive. The design includes
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Public- Thesis 6 Months
the building as well as the landscape. The building serves as a food pantry and pavilion while the landscape is terraced. These act as a bridge between solid artificial urban fabric and the ruderals growth. It serves to shelter all regardless of species, a multipronged strategy to address the site, the community and the organisms within.
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QORE SUITES
2018 Sepang, Malaysia
The project is a mixed development involving SOHO on the top, parking floors in the middle and shoplots below at the ground level. The building plans have already been approved and the structure is almost complete. However there is a need to connect the new building to another adjacent building, and I was
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Mixed Use 2 Months
tasked to initiate the design for the pedestrian bridge. The job scope includes drafting all the plans, sections and elevations, detailing and specifying the materials, checking with local authorities about the restrictions and regulations while communicating with structural engineers to improve the design.
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SERENIA GARDENS
2018 Ampang, Malaysia
The project is at second phase of high-end residential development by IJM corporation. The project is in planning phase where I was tasked to amend the models and present a mockup prespectives of the three types of houses involved: Semi-detached, 2-storey
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Housing 1 Month
terrace house and a 2-anda-half-storey terrace house. The perspectives are done for internal review where the architect will correct the design and submit to the client. My task also involved amending the CAD drawings of the design as instructed by the architect.
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PARCEL F
2017 Putrajaya, Malaysia
The project is an office building spanning 34 acres and since our firm has won the masterplan competition, we are designing the 4 blocks of buildings as shown above and I was tasked to do the lift designs and CAD drawings for the lift to be sent out to the manufacturers. This is a
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Office 3 Months
design and build project so we are always on our toes, and I as well did the wall details for the buildings. The following is the example of what I have done. Besides this, I was also tasked to create plans for positions of active and passive equipments of fire safety.