Architecture Portfolio Brendan Cheong +6012-695 2722
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WORK EXPERIENCES
PROFILE
ABOUT ME
A motivated architectural fresh graduate with project coordination experience and a passion for learning, especially in the architectural arena. I am team driven and task oriented and I believe that meeting deadlines should be the highest priority. This by all means should not sacrifice quality in design, but rather integrate creative solutions to overcome deadlines.
Cheong Seng Sun
Jan 2018- Feb 2018, Interior Designing Intern, Rekatoh Studios, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Referee Contact: Toh Chee Lip (Director), +6012-209 0800, rekatohstudio@gmail.com
SKILLS Rhino Revit Grasshopper Sketchup Lumion Autocad Adobe Photoshop Vray
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En English Native
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Chinese Fluent
Bm Malay Basic
INTERESTS
Travel
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3D Modelling
Photoshop
Food
Mar 2019-Present, Architectural Graduate Kirk AUD Sdn Bhd, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Referee Contact: Michelle Ong (Admin), +6012 518 8752, mo@kirk.studio Aug 2018-Jan 2019, Project Coordinator, Setiakon Builders Sdn Bhd, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Referee Contact: Chop Yap (Project Director), +6013699 9511, chopyap.union@gmail.com
EDUCATION Bachelors of Environments (Architecture), University of Melbourne, Australia (2015-2018) Foundation Studies (Economics, Media & Maths), Trinity College, Australia (2014-2015) CBSE, Global Indian International School, Malaysia (2010-2014) UPSR, SJK (C) Kuen Cheng 1, Malaysia (2005-2010)
CERTIFICATES & OTHER EXPERIECES Level 1 Revit Certification, RMIT Short Courses, Melbourne Victoria 2017 Stuttgart Winter Exchange Program, “20th Century Architecture & B1 German” with GPA of 4.5/5, The University of Stuttgart, Germany. Student Ambassador, University of Melbourne Student Union International, Australia.
COMPETITIONS SUPERSTUDIO 2017, “Do u Remember?”, Student Organized Network of Architects (Victorian Chapter). Kairoo Looroo Architecture Competition for Culltural Center 2018 Sydney Affordable Housing Challenge, Bees Competition 2018
REFEREES Chop Yap, Project Director, Setiakon Builders Sdn Bhd, Malaysia Tel No.+6013-699 9511 Email: chopyap.union@gmail.com Toh Chee Lip, Director, Rekatoh Studios, Malaysia Tel No. +6012-209 0800 Email: rekatohstudio@gmail.com
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Table of Contents 1. K.D Sports Center Integrated Design Project p.6
2. Boathouse Studio Water p.16
3. Tagblatt turm Stuttgart Winter Exchange p.24
4. Plato’s Cave Studio Fire p.30
5. Secrets Studio Earth
6. Intimate Space Digital Design Fabrication p.44
6. Western Bace Construction Design p.52
8. Do u Remember? Sona Superstudio p.56
9. Other Works Studio Air: Pallatico Rekatoh House Modelling Sydney Affordable Housing Poster Designs p.60
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Lembaga Arkitek Malaysia
STUDIO: IDP
Date: 2019
1. K.D. SPORTS CENTRE Despite the high number of youth facilities in the township of Kota Damansara, there is a lack of sociable refuge space which needs to be urgently addressed. The space does not only need to attract them, but it needs to trap them. The proposed youth center then becomes a space of gathering and later transforms into a space for refuge by providing flexibility & exclusivity.
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Brief
Concept & Strategies
Being the center of 3 possible attractions, it becomes a transit point where youths can host activities and socialze while using the surrounding facilities for leisure. The spaces are flexible and lenient, allowing youths to retrofit spaces as they see fit.
UNOBSTRUCTED VIEWS
CUT
GOALS
FORM MAKING
STRATEGIES
The biggest challenge was to accomadate a large brief onto a small site. With the multi purpose hall taking up 1/3rd of the site, it dwarfs the other spaces. Making it a centre piece for image making.
GATHER & RESIDE
SPLIT
FLEXIBLE
PERMEABILITY
BRIDGE
PASSIVELY DESIGNED
PUSH
EXCLUSIVE
Overall Site
The site is surrounded by greenery on 2 sides, while flanked by a drain reserve and TNB station to the south. Persiaran Mahogani sits on the eastern side of the site, connecting to the busy Surian commercial area & MTR station while being too wide to allow pedestrian traffic. There are three attraction points surrounding the site, the reserve, the padang & Giza, which the proposed Youth Center be a middle point between the three.
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Concept Collage
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1. WATER TANK ROOM 2. MECHANICAL VENT ROOM 3.RAINWATER PUMP ROOM 4. SERVICES ROOM
1. SECRETARY ROOM 2. H.O.A ROOM 3.PANTRY/WELCOME 4.STORAGE 5.DISCUSSION ROOM 2 6. MEETING ROOM 2 7. AHU 8.STORAGE 9. GYMNASIUM 10. GAMES ROOM 11. VR ROOM 12. SEMINAR ROOM 1. 13. SEMINAR ROOM 2 14. BREAKOUT SPACE 15. SURAU 16. INSTRUCTOR LOUNGE
BASEMENT LEVEL PLAN 1:400 1. MEETING ROOM 1 2. SERVER ROOM 3. RECEPTION 4. CAFETERIA 5.KITCHEN 6.SICK BAY 7.HELP DESK 8. SECURITY ROOM 9. RETAIL 10. DROP OFF 11. MECHANICAL VENT 12. WATER PUMP ROOM 13. STORAGE 14. TNB ROM 15.GENSET ROOM 16.TELCO ROOM 17. AC ROOM
GROUND LEVEL PLAN 1:400
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LEVEL 1 PLAN 1:400
ROOF LEVEL PLAN 1:400
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SUSTAINABILITY DESIGN WHY SAWTOOTH?
STACK VENTILATION
HOLLOWCORE SLAB (IBS SYSTEM)
HEAVILY INSULATED
CROSS VENTILATION
LOUVRED GLAZING
LOW HEAT-GAIN PRODUCTS
RAINWATER HARVESTING
DIRECTION ORIENTED SHADE
Sports Hall
The sports hall being the centre piece of the building is fitted with a sawtooth roof, drowning the large space with soft light and allowing ventilation to go through the space
Multi-purposed Spaces
Spaces are divided with bifold doors and temporary furniture, where youths can retrofit as they see fit. Giving them a chance for expression and organized collaboration
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PASSIVE COOLING
The Orientation of the building is designed to accomadate the high winds to the north, cooling the space passively without much effort. Despite being Equatorial, Malaysia generally has more sun to the south with sun angles reaching between 63 degrees south to 71 degrees north. Therefore, roof spaces has to be properly shaded and any soft light openings should be less than 63 degrees north.
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Tutor: Heather Mitchell
STUDIO: Studio Water
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Date: Year 2 Semester 1
BOATHOUSE Inspired by his formal student Robert Venturi, the Yarra river boathouse aims to “parody” the formal architectural language and design processes of the world renowned Architect-Louis Kahn. By first asking “what does the boathouse want to be?”, the project then explores the contradictive idea of implementing the “grand” & “monumental” into a humble little boathouse. The form is itself an attempt at abstracting the nearby boathouse into simpler geometries and then stylizing it with “poorly imitated” features from the master Louis Kahn.
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ABSTRACT
The Boathouse Typology
EXPORT
The Forms to Assigned Site
SCALE
To Fit to Site
PUSH
Out to Create Fake Facade & Secondary Space
FUNCTION FINDING
DIVIDE
Hierachy
Studio Water: Boathouse
Programme
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
Studio Water: Boathouse
CIRCULATION
COMPLEX FACADE
The southern facade is a parade of Louis Kahn’s eternal works to passerbys, yet follows the architectural language of a boathouse typology
SECONDARY SPACE
Studio Water: Boathouse
THE MONUMENTAL FACADES
The facades of the boathouse attempts to 'display' signs of Louis Kahn's architectural language. By abstracting his older works, the facade parades a selection of Louis Kahn's most monumental works in a compressed yet orderly manner. As it does its best to tell passerbys "I am a monumental boathouse."
FALSE FACADE
This pushed out facade (north) ironically follows the formal languages of Kahn faithfully, yet it is a thin ‘false facade’ independant from the boathouse. This is done through abstracting the column into arches and using simple geometries that were symmetrical in 2 ways, as well as creating complex shadows in the secondary spaces.
Studio Water: Boathouse
Secondary spaces were important in all of Kahn’s works. It was a space of circulation, light play & semi intimacy which the boathouse imitates.
Studio Water: Boathouse
The roof has 2 layers, one shades and the other reflects. This allows filtered or diffused sunrays to enter into the spaces. As Kahn has said, “Also marvelous in a room is the light that comes through the windows of a room and that belongs to the room. The sun does not realize how beautiful it is until after a room is made. A man’s creation, the making of a room, is nothing short of a miracle. Just think, that a man can claim a slice of the sun.”
WHEN LIGHT HITS THE WALL
“Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.” -Louis Kahn The arches of the facade carefully filters out the strong Australian sun, casting strong shadows and spotlights into the secondary space. As well as additional timber reeds on the facade to help further diffuse the incoming rays. Working simultaneously with the roof, the final light that hits the wall highlights & expresses its long journey of going through multiple layers, creating a sense of awe, longing & security within the spaces.
Studio Water: Boathouse
DOUBLE LAYERED ROOF
Tutor: Stefano Delisi & Claudia Wald
STUDIO: Stuttgart Winter Exchange Program
Date: January -Febuary 2017
3. TAGBLATT TURM Half timbered houses, a symbol of Germany and its surrounding areas, has seen a downward trend of decay over the last century. Being overwhelmed with the newer modernist or neuer Sachlichkeit buildings, Germany's traditional vernacular has either been replaced or slowly left to ruined. As we move onwards into the 21st century, modernist buildings too has become a thing of the past, slowly being replaced with even newer buildings such as the Galleria just across the tower. The Tagblatt turm would too be replaced if not for the pereservation efforts of local authorities in naming it a zeitgeist, or a landmark of its era. The facade renewal would be a symbolic reminder of the lost of Germany's old vernacular, as well as playing on the irony of replacing the modern with a newer modern building.
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SOUTHERN FACADE
OLD
ADAPT
NEW
The tectonics of a timber frame facade is imitated and adapted into a skyscraper context. The imitated tectonic wraps the existing tagblatt turm as if it is scaffolding with gaps between the frames to allow glimpse into the landmark
EASTERN FACADE
THE THREE TOWERS
The Tagblatt Turm or ‘Newspaper Tower’ sits along Eberhardstrasse, which is part of the busy Rothebuhlplatz. It is the second modernist skyscraper in Germany and forms of one of the three ‘landmark towers’ of Central Stuttgart, the other being St. Eberhard’s Cathedral & the Rathaus clocktower.The high traffic exposure & height advantage on the north end allows for multiple design opportunities in the facade renewal.
The timber frame facade sits on the southern courtyard hidden facade which hides the symbolic frame facade. It is also infilled with ACRYSMART, a material that shades sunlight during hotter days and reveals the building during colder days
DER HIRSCH
The estern facade rests a familiar sight to many locals, 'der Hirsch' becomes a wayfinder in the city's narrow streets. Out of all 4 facades, this facade is kept.
BYGONE RUIN
PEEL & VEGETATE
MODERN RUIN
With its lack of upkeep and its replacement with modern buildings, many of Germany’s timber frame buildings were left to rot and retaken by nature. The new facade of the Tagblatt turm needed to show this transition, a once widespread vernacular being abandoned and replaced with a ‘newer’ style.
The peeling of the opening windows capture the eastern winds and ensure that the steep morning sun do not cause glare. The latter green wall also cools the building during summer time and becomes a green addition to the rather concrete Stuttgart.
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Typeface
Silhouette
A BLANK CANVAS
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The northern facade sits on the busy Rothebuhlplatz, a prime advertising/ news space to help promote the Tagblatt turm as a local landmark.
‘NEWSPAPER TOWER’
The canvas facade can be fitted with an interchangable sillhouette type/characters, which can be used to update Stuttgarters of local happenings & news. The
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THE EASTERN FACADE
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The east facade as viewed from Rothebuhl platz. The half timbered curtain walls are slowly rotated to create a peeling effect, and slowly transitions into a trellis that holds a green wall. This transition reminds the passer-bys of the decay and overgrowth ruins that are slowly replaced by a newer paper thin facade, and yet ironically provides a green addition to the concrete ridden streetscape.
THE NORTHERN FACADE
Since the northern facade lies on the main street & has aa height advantage, the Tagblatt turm could now return to its former use as the Tagblatt Turm or "newspaper tower". The facade displays a silhouette of characters and fonts, which could be updated daily or hourly. The characters are then lit up by a becoming an updater of news for any passerbys.
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Tutor: Robyn Pollock
STUDIO: Studio Fire
Date: 3rd Year Semester 2
4. CAVE ALLEGORY As we moved further into the 21st century, there is a concurrent trend of learning through cross pollination- Learning through the exchange of ideas between students and teachers. This form of learning has led students to have increased teamwork & a dialectic approach towards complex issues, yet it still restricts each individual’s full potential to contribute in the name of commonality. Without tailoring towards each student’s individual needs and learning styles, formal classrooms are only transformed into informal yet conventional classrooms- classrooms with flexible walls but still uses peripheral learning methods such as Ørestad College & Skive college in Denmark. Furthermore, students in such an age lack the base knowledge in order to properly contribute and argue for the best solution possible. Therefore, it is important to provide tailored spaces for each student’s learning styles such as individual study, small group discussions or even mentor based teachings. Moreover, nooks should be provided to encourage students towards self-improvement through self-enquiry and self-reflection.
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PEDAGOGY As we moved further into the 21st century, there is a concurrent trend of learning through cross pollinationLearning through the exchange of ideas between students and teachers. This form of learning has led students to have increased teamwork & a dialectic approach towards complex issues, yet it still restricts each individual’s full potential to contribute in the name of commonality. Without tailoring towards each student’s individual needs and learning styles, formal classrooms are only transformed into informal yet conventional classroomsclassrooms with flexible walls but still uses peripheral learning methods such as Ørestad College & Skive college in Denmark.
Teachers only facilitate and encourage the desire to learn
Views for students to envision the ‘ideal’ version of themselves at every corner. Thus, students constantly compete to be ideal.
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GTAC Annex
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Dormitories
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Lightwells
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Sportshall
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Atrium
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Arts-Tech
7. Old Library
Students are encouraged towards self growth through self reflection & self inquiry
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Classrooms
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Dialogue Spaces
Conversational
Bright
Self Study Spaces
Refuge
Warmth 33
B1
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GF
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2F
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CONTAINED SPACES
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CONTAINED DISCUSSION SPACES
OPEN DISCUSSION SPACES
PERIPHERAL SPACES
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Tutor: Toby Dean
STUDIO: STUDIO EARTH
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Date: Year 2 Semester 2
SECRETS “We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers”.- Glenn Murcutt Located just 5 Km off Melbourne’s CBD, the pavillion sits in the now reserved Herring Island. An isolated island of secrets, shielding many popular artpieces from the surrounding bustling city. The pavillion hopes to emulate the quaint yet disorienting pathways of the island to lead passerbys astray, but in a multidimensional way. Experimenting with mass, frame & infill,and point, line & plane as a tectonic, the pavillion aims to disrupt circulation and reward those who dare lead astray.
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Tectonic excercises
Clockwise from the top left: 1. Point, Line & Plane; 2. Mass 3. Frame & Infill
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HERRING ISLAND,
The island is a secret by itself, being only accessible between January and April. With pathways that seemingly leads back to itself, it disorients one's sense of direction and conceals the artworks dotted around the island. While the whole island is heavily forested, the west corner has mature trees that tower 10 meters and a depressed valley that becomes a perfect opportunity to hide the pavillion.
Topography
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Pathways
Points of Interest
Vegetation
EXPLORING TECTONICS
In the first few weeks of the semester, we were tasked in exploring different tectonic methods such as Point, Line & Plane, massing, and Frame and Infill. These had to be done in either modelling or drawing. The first model explores the blurred transitions between the point, Line and plane, and the importance of shifting perspectives. The charcoal drawing atempts to create 3 dimensional imagery of mass 2 dimensionaly. It shows a labryinth of pathways that tries to simulate the idea of being disoriented and confused with differing heights and scarcity of lights. The third plays on sequence and the intagible qualities of frame and infill, such as temporariness and weightlessness of the infill.
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BREAKABLE WALLS & ENTRY HOLES
HIDDEN ROOMS
HIDDEN PASSAGEWAYS
The Marker
The top, that lights up at night, acts as a marker in the densely forested site. As it becomes a well known secret afar, it disappears slowly as one approaches to the pavillion. On the top, it shows the sequence of discovering a new space. Since the pavillion is temporary,the pavillion is designed to be temporary. The walls are breakable, some with hidden exits and entrances for users to discover.
Physical Model The model illustrates the multi dimensional circulations that the pavillion has. From a labrinyth below to a breakable maze on top, the pavillion creates a disorienting space. Additionally, there are multiple v exits and entries that permits and restricts different people through different spaces, allowing only a permitted few to explore that space.
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Tutor: Nic Dingwen Bao
STUDIO: Digital Design Fabrication Credits to: Miki Ueda, Giselle Osborne & Bao Nguyen
Date: Year 2 Semester 2
6. INTIMATE SPACE The studio challenges us to create a second skin that defines our personal space. While we need to acknowledge the requirement for some personal space, we want to pursue a project that fosters interpersonal interactions. In doing so, we want to give the individual an opportunity to invite others into their personal space and to co inhabit it with them. Although our space will indeed be a ‘private space’ - partially veiled from the gaze of others - it will also be a space where intimate interactions can occur. By utillising digital design and digital fabrication, we had to overcome the shortcomings of translating from one medium to another. From the forms that we envision in our heads to digital modelling, and lazer cutting it shortly thereafter. While we need to acknowledge the constraints of digital design fabrication, the solutions created had led to dazzling results.
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ASSEMBLY
By dividing the model into groups, we can ease and divide the assembly amongst our team.
CONCEPT
Although personal space may vary depending on cullture, mood, relationship and location, personal space can only be felt by sight. In order to do so, the second skin utillises varying angles to shut off sight, similar venetian blinds shutting off the person from the outside world.
REALIZATION
By utillising the waffle command, we were able to translate complicated forms into fabricatable pieces that could be lazer cut in 2 dimensional planes. While achieving the venetian blind effect in our second skin.
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Fabrication
After lazer cutting each indidual piece, the team had to tediously assemble the second skin with glue and tape. While ensuring that the pieces do not break.
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Wearing the piece
The hardest part of the project was to wear the piece as it was brittle and heavy. Alas we managed to parade through the exhibition without breaking a piece.
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Tutor: Carly Marie Williams
STUDIO: Construction Design
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Date: Febuary-April 2017
WESTERN BACE “The Western Business Accelerator and Centre of Excellence (Western BACE), was established and opened in May 2015 with the primary role of being the hub of enterprise, community activity and business development for Melbourne’s West.” Students are tasked with producing a 1:20 model & a 1:20 axometric drawing.
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The project requires students to do a 1:20 model of multiple construction details with improvised materials
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Credits: Deon Cham & Aline Teh
SONA SUPERSTUDIO 2017
Date: 2017
7. DO U REMEMBER? "More than anything, the city is the physical platform for collective human existence; an inclusive idea that involves the diversity of people; all types of cultures, all types of ages, orientations and proclivities and desires, occupying, inhabiting and producing shared space."
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2. INSTAGRAMABLE ENTRANCE
3. MIRRORED BLOCKWAY
4. CANTINA
5. BLANK WALLS
6. STONE HOPPING POOL
A space that engages touch
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An Entrance that attracts social media followers
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Distorted mirrors that hide hidden corridors
A place to socialize
AN ARCHIVE BEFORE SOCIAL MEDIA
We believe that social media had became a core part of everyone's lives. As social media become more integrated, future generations will not be able to differentiate between the virtual and the real. Do you remember is an underground childcare center, which showcases the joys of pre-social media childhood. We hope that the centre would help develop different cognitive skills that social media has taken away. Each room develops as follows. 1. Motor & Touch- Children are encouraged to climb and adventure through a pillowed corridor between spaces 2. Stretching - Visitors & parents are expected to imitate poses before entering into the center. 3. Centration- Children learn to distinguish realities with distorted mirrors are dead-ended and true mirrors. 4. Socializing- canteens are amazing places for children to develop socialization skills 5. Creativity- Walls are blank canvases for children to draw crayons with 6. Visual & Motor- By hopping between paddles, it helps train the accuracy and motor skills of the child.
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Blank walls for kids to draw
Hop or you would drop into a pool
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OTHER WORKS
ALGORITHMIC EXCERCISES Credits: Tristan Wong & Jenny Jiang
KAKOON
DOGHOUSE PROPOSAL
PALLATICO
Balcony
Living Room
Finishing Trades Elevation 1:50
Deck
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Assignment 2
CONSTRUCTION ANALYSIS 60
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BUKIT MERTAJAM HOUSING PROJECT PROPERTY OF REKATOH STUDIO 62
SYDNEY AFFORDABLE HOUSING 63
PLAN
Capital Joint
SITE
PRIVATE
Public
Column Plan cut
Supershape Podium
Elevations
Photoshop Interest
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IC No. 980106-56-5437 +6012-6952722 Email: brencss1998@gmail.com 06-01-1998 https://issuu.com/designingenvironments
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