Francoise John Espares Y ing URBAN PLANNING | ARCHITECTURE | DESIGN
PORTFOLIO 2016 - 2021
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Work Experiences
Master of Urban Planning (NUS) BSc. Architecture and Sustainable Design (SUTD)
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Francoise Ying is a graduate urban planning student from National University of Singapore (NUS), with a bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Sustainable Design from Singapore University Technology and Design (SUTD).
2020 - 2022
National University of Singapore Master of Urban Planning
2016 - 2019
Singapore University of Technology and Design Bachelor of Science (Architecture and Sustainable Design) with Magna Cum Laude Undergraduate Scholarship
Woek Experiences
May 2021 - Jul 2021
May 2020
Feb - Mar 2020
TENarchitects Internship • Assisted on the concept interior and logo design of ACJ Women’s Clinic. • Helped in the coding of the parametric facade design for Singapore Founders’ Memorial design proposal. • Assisted in the model-making of Ooredoo’s new headquarter. • Learned architectural practice standards and procedures while attached to several landed projects and competitions.
Jan - Aug 2019
National Institute of Education (NIE) & Queensway Secondary School (QSS) Capstone Project (Nominated) • Worked closely with NIE and QSS in re-imagining the design of libraries with its technology keeping up with time, encouraging young tech-savvy students to voluntarily engage in reading.
Jan 2018
Kyoto Institute of Technology (KIT) Winter Independent Activity Program • Worked together with KIT students to develop parameterised mapping and data sets that act as narrative tools to analyse and understand the acitivity of spaces surrounding shrines in Kyoto.
Jan 2018
Inujima Workshop with Kazuyo Sejima & Assosciates Winter Independent Activity Program • Participated in a workshop in Inujima island initiated by Kazuyo Sejima. • Renovated the Tameshu House as well as cleaning and making of the street at the north coast side.
Zhejiang University College of Civil Engineering and Architecture Asian Leadership Program
Jones Lang LaSalle Integrated Facilities Management Intern • Managed engineering and site services to improve energy efficiency of the workplace environment of The Coca-Cola Company office • Calculated ROI for technological solutions that improve operation and management services; Supervised space management and upgrading initiatives; offered design solutions to improve employee experience • Represented in a video production for the Future Skills Programm MOGUL Photographer • Photographed property photos for use on the company’s real estate portal. Cendes International Project Assistant • Assisted in an urban planning proposal to rejuvenate the business and industrial district at Kallang. • Designed site specific urban typologies sensitive to the context of the site. • Researched on the current trends in designing integrated business districts and community-centric working environments.
Honors & Awards
Summer 2017
May - Aug 2018
May - Aug 2017
Skills
Education
He has a strong interest in pursuing a career in the operation and management field in the built-environment sector.
Others
As an individual with a background in architecture and urban planning, paired with an exposure in the real estate industry, he has worked in several architectural, urban planning and real estate firms, being involved in projects of different scales related to design, research, data collection and visualization as well as project/ facility management. He is skillful in engaging with several stakeholders and managing different interests and considerations, ensuring successful completion of projects.
COLOURS: Collective Ours Project Research Surveyor • Interviewed residents of Taman Jurong to better understand their health and lifestyle. • Collected and organised data as part of a research to improve the facilities and programs around the area.
Aug 2019 2016 - 2018 2017
Zhejiang University College of Civil Engineering and Architecture Asian Leadership Program • Designed a walking origami robot that could fold itself from a single plane surface to a 3D object that is capable of moving. • Designed a water sports centre from shipping containers that includes an office, a classroom, changing rooms and storage for canoes and kayaks located at Zhejiang University campus.
Nominated Capstone Project SUTD Undergraduate Scholarship SUTD Asian Leadership Program
Rhinoceros 3D, SketchUp, Revit (BIM), AutoCAD, ArcGIS, QGIS, R, STATA, DesignBuilder, DIVA, V-Ray, Enscape, Grasshopper, Python, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Lightroom, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint
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Urban Design & Planning, NUS
A l e x H e y Y e u n g , C h e n M i n g l u , Va n e s s a H o Swee Ling, Ying Francoise John Espares Heng Chye Kiang, Jeff rey Ho, Rahul Mittal SITE
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prout @ Lim Chu Kang is a masterplan proposal which aims to provide state-of-the art agriculture resilience by sprouting innovation, nature, talents and identity.
End-Goals
Locally, Lim Chu Kang will be part of the northern agritech food corridor and the Sungei Buloh nature park network.
Situated at the heart of SouthEast Asia and known for its academic and innovative excellence, Singapore is an ideal city to become a leader in agritech, fostering innovation and talents within a region that still relies predominantly on traditional methods of farming.
Largely undeveloped, Lim Chu Kang is an ideal location for it to be a centre for future agri-tech innovation and the agricultural production to meet the 30-by-30 demand. Lim Chu Kang will be part of an overall masterplan that involves collaboration with surrounding districts such as Sungei Kadut and Senoko Food Zone in the manufacturing and distribution of food.
The goal of the project is to welcome talents into Singapore to research and innovate new agriculture technology, strengthening food resiliency and diplomatic ties within the SEA region.
The project aims to preserve ecologically sensitive areas, ensuring ecological connectivity to neighbouring wetlands such as Kranji marshes and Mandai mangrove
URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING
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Illustrative Map
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Mobility Ecology & Recreation Blue System
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he Oasis Residences is an integrated housing complex which forms are shaped to redirect wind flow coming from the NorthEast direction into communal spaces and the units.
located throughout`the apartment complex. Chanced interaction amongst the residences would occur at their personal balcony spaces or at the sky gardens located at several pockets of the buildings.
The complex aims to provide an integrated community that connects each residential building with inter-building sky bridges. Several functional spaces such as the study room, recreational lounge, library, garden and gym are
The landscape is shaped by an intersecting wading pool that not only provides spaces for recreation for the residences, but also helps cool down spaces when wind flows through the complex.
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iving in an increasingly digital world, students today require an ever higher literacy level and new approaches to gain knowledge (Belisle, 2006). The school library has been identified for its untapped potential to support these new ways of learning in the 21st century (Loh, 2018). Against this backdrop, Dr. Loh and her team have been studying local secondary school libraries, including Queensway Secondary School (QSS), to evaluate and rethink library design to encourage futureready learning. Discoveries from this research form the basis of an intention by QSS and Ministry of Education (MOE) to renovate the existing library as a prototype for future secondary school libraries across Singapore. This capstone project aims to conceptualise a “Library of the Future” as a design renovation proposal for the existing QSS library, by exploring the potential of transforming the space and
integrating digital mediums to increase utilization of the library and develop a stronger reading culture. The role of school libraries is evolving in the 21st century. The QSS library lacks appeal to potential users as it is based on a traditional model. Thus, the school library is underutilised, especially for reading and learning activities. The two primary issues that need to be tackled are the physical spaces and digital mediums, which are not used by different users to their full potential. The QSS library serves as a model for the “Library of the Future”. Shifting away from a traditional library model, it should serve as a learning hub and a place to inspire imagination. The library should provide spaces and digital resources that allow various functions such as independent study, reading, collaboration and research to come together and draw students into the library to explore and learn.
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Certain non-structural walls were removed as the walls compartmentalised spaces within the library making them unaccessible and unusable. By removing these walls, replacing some with glass panels and using design to demarcate different zones, the space is freed up and we can maximise the potential of the floor area, as well as bring in more daylight in to the libr ary.
Large object-like furniture act as visual cues that demarcate space and limit sound propagation through the space in response to the decision to open up the space. Furnitures are multi-use, abstract in form and informed with colour, with the hopes of inspiring imagination and interest in utilising them, be it for reading, studying, browsing or leisure.
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Furnitures are iconic yet functional and their goal is to enhance the library experience. Variety of fun reading spaces, feature shelves, hidden storage and access to technology are the key design ideas.
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The sufficient hidden storage allows for the display of what is needed, opening up the library space. Repeated books are kept hidden and will be move to the display once the display book is borrowed.
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Library Portal In addition to the spatial proposition, the project proposes a re-design of the existing OPAC interface to make it more intuitive for online browsing for the students as well as an interactive screen with a gamified design that hopes to pique their interest, to get them updated with new arrivals and different forms of learning that the library can support.
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personalised virtual browsing experience. Where the user will be able to look up books using the OPAC and personalised recommendations. The Interactive Screen acts as the digital extension of the new library space into other parts of the school. It introduces students to new features of the library, and invites the students to the library with its captivating interactive graphics.
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Raffles Place, Singapore
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ne Finlayson Green intends to revitalise the central business district with an inviting entrance and a captivating facade that lifts up spaces with open spaces, greenery and light. The building design is defined by carving slits out of its massing which is refined accordingly to site analyses. Following the abrupt punctures in a monolithic block with slits, the language is translated into the facade design, making use of louvres that flow along horizontally and repelled above slits. An open ground floor space is provided for pedestrians passing through the site. It aims to engage the public through green spaces and activities, making it an iconic center of the CBD.
Within the building, the floor plans follow a geometric dichotomy: the angular facade is juxtaposed with the more organically formed spaces within the offices. It creates more fun and wayward working spaces as opposed to the grander gestures of the building’s facade. Office spaces consist of 3-level combined offices for larger companies, single level offices for smaller businesses and recreational spaces for communal purposes and relaxation. Construction considerations were of heavy emphasis in this project in finding a suitable size, easy to construct component for sun-shading that emphasises on the curve aesthetic without compromising on good shade.
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ndivided Borders seek to address the highly unstable border tensions between North and South Korea through the activation of the heavily guarded maritime frontiers between them from a zone of surveillance and inactivity to a thickened zone of interaction in forging stronger inter-Korea relationships.
the volatility of its geopolitical relations.
By punctuating holes through the heavily fortified borders, the project aims to explore how a strip of land shared between the North and South – primarily focused on education – could initiate a slow and controlled escalation of exchange and understanding between them, thereby easing the tensions between these separated communities and laying the foundation for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula.
The border being an expression of sovereignty and power holds the important role of controlling trespass across nations, however if reunification between the two Koreas were to be envisioned, the fall of the border will inevitably lead to a mass migration towards the more prosperous side.
The project seeks to question if a line of defence and national sovereignty could also become a thickened zone of interaction in softening the tensions arising from
With the demilitarised Zone (DMZ) being the 4km wide thickened border extending across the Korean Peninsula, the goal is to redefine the premise of this thickened frontier zone by extending it to the maritime border shared between them.
Drawing parallels to history where the haste reunification of East and West Germany led to an exodus towards the latter (Frank, 2007), it calls for a thickened frontier much akin to the Rem Koolhaas’s Voluntary Prisoners (1973) by providing a land of exception between them for a slower assimilation.
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Aerial View of the Border Island 순위도
leading to two recent battles, the tensions amongst the surrounding islands remains palpably high.
S U W I ND O northern most South Korea island, Baengnyeongdo, and the coast of South Hwanghae of North Korea.
대한 국 Thus, we propose the민 softening of this particular북 조 선 SO U T H KO R EA the shores of N O RT H KO R EA border at the midpoint between the
This thickened zone reclaimed as a 1km strip of land straddling along the NLL extends 100m into both
the North and South Korean waters, positioned for fluid exchanges and interactions along this hardened border. S ea Rou te Trai n Rou te Nor ther n Li m i t Li ne (NLL)
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Aquaponics & Fisheries
Piers & Markets
Parks & Recreation
Residential
Educational Institute
Educational Institute Floor Plan
Island Map The aim is to create a land of exception where the border is trivialised, allowing for interactions and exchanges between North and South Koreans through the five main developments focused on this island – Aquaponics and Fisheries, Markets and Piers, Parks and Recreation, Residential and an Educational Institute.
of borders from the urban scale all the way down to the individual level, revealing how interactions between these separate communities could be fostered with architecture as the conduit.
In creating this island of exception which disregards the existing border much like the Blue House at Panmumjom, the project explores the thickening
Educational exchanges between socialist countries has long been commonplace in exchanging cultures for instance in Songdowon International Children
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Camp, Wonsan, North Korea where children from Thailand, Tanzania, China, Vietnam and so on have been participating. Hence for our thesis, we explore how thickened borders as rooms within walls facilitates fluid social interactions within a rigid boundary. The institution compose of 9 buildings arranged back to back with the border line as reference which culminates as a one metre glass gap set into the spine of the institution. The gap firstly acknowledges the border condition within the institution, serving as a poignant reminder to its
inhabitants of the act of crossing this divide as they traverse within the institution. Secondly, the institution is designed such that each building encapsulates programmes of different variety such that its inhabitants will be unapologetically forced to traverse across the border multiple times within a typical day of the summer school. This act trivialises the idea of a border and redefines its perceived impenetrability. The spine of the institution under the border skylight therefore 21 18
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Axonometric Section Axonometric Section CENTRAL
becomes the primary thickened zone of interaction between the two polarities of each building, bridged through five main staircases as social condensers. Branching out from the spine projecting towards
North and South Korean shores are a host of programmes which continues the acknowledgement of a border condition through the one meter gap between adjacent floorplates. This thickened zone shared within the same building encapsulate an
atmosphere between the floorplate and the façade which thickens with increasing distance for spaces which are more communal and shared and vice versa for private spaces. The division between floorplates within a building is therefore blurred, changing the
AT R I U M atmosphere with energy from each unique programme. Within each individual programme, borders created endure a subsequent widening of it to create spaces 22 19
Co-living & Co-learning / Educational & Cultural Exchanges / Collective Pitch Roof between walls for intermingling of both North and South. Within the residences, distinction is drawn between the living quarters of North and South, from the furniture to the number of occupancy and size of each room. However between these distinctions lies a middle zone of basic amenities – toilets and showers, kitchen and laundry as well as communal spaces – which forces both sides to utilise a shared space between the divide.
Similarly, within the library, controlled and sensitive content for both countries led to a separate library catered for each country. Visual interaction is enforced through the protruding reading rooms into each library as spaces where the kids have visual connection with one another from opposite sides. Further interaction is then enhanced within the curated library section shared between
Long Section Long both libraries, allowing for deeper conservations and engagement. Grid structured translucent ETFE at the exterior shrouds the activity within the building while apertures of various sizes crop out spaces typological of North and South Korea, allowing the façade to appear like a pixelated collage of the harmonious coexistence between them.
As one departs the island, the lasting image of the institution will be one where the individually unique buildings with their collective pitch roof culminates as an imagery of a large house while its collaged façade stands as a symbol of reunification and of two Koreas, one institution.
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RE-DIRECTING WIND
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s u s ta i n a b l e l i v i n g COUR S EU R SAEr c hAi tr ec chtiut er catl uE SU CO r anle rEgnye rSgyys t Se m y sst,e m s TD MEMBERS
O n g W u e n g K e e , P o o n We n g S h e r n , Ta n J i n g Ren, Ying Francoise John Espares MENTOR SITE
Alstan Jakubiec
Punggol, Singapore
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ue to an expansive open site, there is generally a lot of wind passing through the project site. The aim of this project is to focus on designing a sustainable residential building in Singapore which captures the wind into its public spaces as well as the individual units. To do this, the project combines strategies to create wind tunnels using openings and staggering of units, allowing for venturi effect to take place and to re-direct wind into courtyards and residential apartments. The design of the massing for the project is carefully guided using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) by DesignBuilder software, where the team analyses the effect on wind flow in December (NNE) and July (SSW), and how it changes through the several
iterations made. This has allowed for relatively strong winds in well shaded spaces allowing for residences to enjoy the natural ventilation in hopes to minimise electricity needed to cool down spaces. The eventual composition of the building consists of three c- and s-shaped blocks placed next to one another. For each courtyard, there are entry points where wind enters and exits. Openings are narrowed, causing wind to accelerate through the courtyards and around the building. The blocks are terraced inwards going up, forming a nice shade for the centre courtyards. The first two floors will be dedicated to communal and public spaces, featuring cafeterias and minimarts, with ten floors above being residential floors.
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Wind takes the shortest route between gaps opened meant to redirect wind in the massing
Buildings stagerred to redirect wind towards opening created. However there are still spaces with no wind flow.
Enclosed spaces created to capture wind that flows through openings. However this creates voids where there are almost a lack of wind circulation.
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Wind circulation on the ground floor for both massings are identical with consistent wind flow throughout the entire space.
Wind is being directed through opening shown by the arrow. There is wind circulation coming from the opening of a floor below shown by circle.
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The position of the openings at the bottom were moved to the left. This allows a more consistent wind flow through.
Buildings were rotated 10° to capture wind flow coming from NNE. Stronger wind flow is detected with eddy currents.
Buildings were terraced and openings within and on the sides were introduced. Wind flow is stronger with more diversed routes covering most spaces.
Iterations (Wind Analysis)
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Wind flow is being directed into the opening of the building on the left as shown by the arrow.
Wind is being directed through opening shown by the arrow. There is wind circulation coming from the opening of a floor below shown by circle.
1st Slit 14m
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Two inroutes of wind into one of the courtyards in December.
Two inroutes of wind into one of the courtyards in July & December.
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Two inroutes of wind into one of the courtyards in December.
Two inroutes of wind into one of the courtyards in July.
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MAUSOLEUM
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FA M I LY M A U S O L E U M SITE
C a t b a l o g a n , S a m a r, P h i l i p p i n e s
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he mausoleum is a personal family project which is meant to be built to house the tombs and ashes of family members who have passed on. With a limited plot of land of 25m², the main objective for the design and concept was also to optimize interior space and illumination into the mausoleum. This is achieved by locating the stairs at the back of the mausoleum, with
the space beneath the stairs used to store a portion of the tombs and cabinets for the urns. The toilet is strategically positioned behind the concrete exterior feature wall at the corner of the mausoleum. The design of the mausoleum has a clean, modern and elegant appearance featuring beige/brown elements with a hint of black and gold/brass accents. The cross is purple as it was my Nanay’s personal favorite color.
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S PAT I A L J O I N T S Metal Joiner y COURSE
Digital Design & Fabr ic ation, SU T D
MEMBERS
E u n i c e L i m , M a r d h i a n y P u t e r i J u n a d i , O n g Wu e n g K e e , Y i n g Fr a n c o i s e J o h n E s p a r e s
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Stylianos Dritsas
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his project explores the concept of creating a metal joinery without using nuts and bolts. The progression reflects the different strategies the team attempted: locking four pieces of wood with two-part aluminium joints and brackets that lock onto the plywood by alternating rotating movements.
x 4 Unique plywood fins The first few prototypes focused on the logic of the mechanism and explored how to create seamless joinery without the use of fasterners without the compromise on aesthetics. The final design manages to incorporate the design intentions and qualities we had wanted to achieve.
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Materials
1. Fit aluminium elements to its corresponding plywood piece for all fins
2. Align the levels of the aluminium elements and angles between the plywood fins
3. Bring the pieces together and snap the aluminium elements together at where they split
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ACJ WOMEN’S CLINIC Interior & Logo Design C O M PA N Y CLIENT
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AC J Wom e n’s C l i n i c Neo Sei Hwa (Principal Architect), Yvonne Chew (Architectural Executive), Lim Yanhan, Y ing Francoise John Espares
arm hue s and s oft l ig h tin g d e f in e th e interior of ACJ women’s clinic with the play of gentle curvatures and mirrors. The desired goal in the design of the clinic is to create an inviting space for pregnant mothers to feel at ease and at home instead of feeling that they are in a clinical and claustrophobic space.
A defining feature of the space is its parametric wall which curves are defined by the first cardiotocographic wave of a foetal heart beat the clinic has scanned. The clinic’s logo is redesigned to mimic a mother carrying her child in her arms, while keeping the initials of ACJ part of the design.
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