Architectural Design Studio 5 {ARC 3117} For this Studio, the theme is “Place-Making for an Urban Community�. - Ms Shyn Cheah
ARC 3117- Architectural Design Studio 5
Project 1: Preliminary Studies Part one: Precedent Studies For this introductory project, in groups of 6 or more, we were to select and analyse a case study of an Urban Infill. We selected ZaKoenji in Koenji, Japan. We learnt the basic concepts and methodologies of urban studies. We also learnt of various architectural responses for urban sites.
ARC 3117- Architectural Design Studio 5
part two: Site Analysis For this part of the project, we were to identify a dormant site along Jalan Tun H. S. Lee and conduct a site analysis for it. Through this project, we explored the urban issues relating to living and working in the city.
ARC 3117- Architectural Design Studio 5
Project 2: Final Project For this project, we were to design a hybrid building on our chosen dormant site, in order to re-activate it. The programme is to be developed from the idea of Live and Work. We were to design with the knowledge gained from our Preliminary Studies. Through this project, we learnt the issues that arise from designing in an urban context and how to design within these constraints.
Building Science 2 {ARC 3413} This module deals with the acoustics and lighting of spaces, and how building design and construction affect it. - Dr. Mina Kaboudarahangi
ARC 3413 - Building Science 2
Project 1: Lighting & Acoustics Performance Evaluation For this project, we were to evaluate the lighting and acoustical conditions of a particular selected space. We used proper light and sound equipment and took note of the lighting systems and materials of the space. we did calculations using the data we collected. From studying an existing case study, we were able to observe and understand the various factors that affect lighting and acoustics within a space.
ARC 3413 - Building Science 2
Lab Assessment For this assessment, we observed the characteristics of various lighting fixtures, as well as tested the sound insulative properties of acoustic panels. We recorded and analysed our findings, which gave us a better understanding on the lighting and acoustical qualities and properties of light fixtures and acoustic panels, respectively. This practical enabled us to gain knowledge that we could incorporate into our design.
ARC 3413 - Building Science 2
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This lamp produces a white light. It is used for basic lighting of a space.
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This lamp produces a warmer colour compared to the cool daylight lamp. It creates a warm ambiance.
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This lamp is good for spot lighting to highlight a certain object, such as used in gallery spaces or on a stage.
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This type of lamp produces bright white light, good for spaces which need bright lighting for carrying out office work, etc.
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The site of my building is at Jalan Tun H. S. Lee in Kuala Lumpur. It is a busy street, with many cars, buses, taxis and motorbikes passing by. Walking on the street, it is difficult to speak to someone coherently with the incessant honking and sounds from the motor engines. Aside from that, there is also an LRT line that passes nearby my building. With all these various external noises, it is necessary that there are sufficiently effective sound barriers to block out the sounds from entering into my building and disrupting the activities going on inside.
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Within my building, certain spaces generate sound as well. These sounds may disrupt activities going on in neighbouring spaces as well. Thus, the partitions between these spaces need to be able to sufficiently block out sound, too.
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When the sun goes down, however, my building still needs light to function. This is where artificial lighting comes into play. Various lamp fixtures are required to produce the required amount of lighting sufficient for the use of particular spaces.
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The site of my building is in Malaysia, which receives abundant daylight during the day. Allowing in some of this daylight into my building is good, but too much would cause glare and heat problems. It is thus necessary to have openings which allow the right amount of light into my spaces.
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Site Plan showing external sound sources.
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Reflected Ceiling Plan
Side section drawing. Spaces that are aligned on the front facade are affected by the sounds form traffic from the road.
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Space 2: Bedroom
Project 2: Integrated Lighting & Acoustics in Design
Front section drawing. Sounds from LRT train line can be faintly heard from the site.
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Space 1: Dining Area
Space 2: Gallery
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Space 3: Gallery
Reverberation Time = 1.76 s Transmission Loss = 51 dB
We were able to identify the issues of our site and building before it was built, and incorporate the necessary design strategies to suit its needs.
Reflected Ceiling Plan
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Project 2: Integration with Design Studio 5 .
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Building Science 2
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Project 2: Integration with Design Studio 5 .
Genevieve Yew Siew Bee
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In this final project, we were to use our knowledge gained throughout the semester and incorporate suitable lighting and acoustic strategies to our final Design Studio Project. We analysed the site and proposed solutions to counter the lighting or acoustical issues. We did the necessary calculations and simulations in ecotect to prove that our proposal was indeed sufficient to its requried function.
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Building Technology 1 {ARC 3512} This is a more extensive study on Building Construction, expanding onto site analysis, documentation and ecological impact. - Mr. Adib Ramli
ARC 3512 - Building Technology 1
Name of Project: Food Learning Centre (A Sustainable Community Farming Centre)
Precedent for Decking: Radman Brown House by Guy Herschell Architects
Location: Kampung Sungai Teras, Pahang.
Location: Richmond, New Zealand
The site:
ARC 3512 Building Technology
Project 1: Precedent Study, Design Modification, and Documentation.
Genevieve Yew
Description of Project:
Spaces and Occupants:
Kg Sg Tras is a small and isolated village. The people there live a quiet life, and very few activities occur in the area. This has resulted in the youth of the area loitering around a lot. This centre hopes to provide a centre of activity for the youth, which integrates the farming activity in the area. The centre uses the food harvests and encourages the youth to learn new recipes from older villagers, as well as any guests. These food (dishes and sweet treats and snacks) that they cook will feed themselves, as well as people in their town. The sweet snacks can be packed and sent to neighouring towns as a sort of export. Since these food will be made of natural farming harvests, they will have a better taste, as Mr Eric, the natural farmer claims it has. This will encourage more people to know about this type of farming practice, and they may come to the farm to learn about it. The youth will be able to welcome the visitors in their food centre. It is hoped that through this centre, more people would learn the benefits of natural farming and create their own small natural farm in their homes. And from that, more people would lead healthier lives, all from a tiny village of Kg Sg Tras.
The building is mainly used for the youth of the area, as well as some visitors. The Dorm Rooms can hold 6 visitors each, and with 3 rooms, that would be a total of maximum 18 guests at a time. The Kitchen was designed for about 30 people’s use at a time.
This project is a family eco-home. Among the client’s request was for the house to embody the best practice eco principles, and sustainable eco-technology, within a balanced and tightly controlled budget. Large decks on the sides of the house use eco-friendly Hybrid decking.
The Dining Area can serve up to 50 people at a time. The Reception Area can hold about 10 people at a time. The toilets and showers were calculated to accommodate the maximum amount of people in the other spaces.
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Spaces layout plan:
Precedent for Foundation, Structure, Walls, and Roof
Moving Schools 001 by Building Trust + Ironwood
Location: Mae Sot, Thailand (at the Myanmar border)
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Foundation footings using reclaimed tyres and compacted gravel. This was to make the construction concrete-free.
Designers: Dan La Rossa and Amadeo Bendetta (USA) Users: Migrants and refugees.
Steel frame construction, with simple repeated bolted connection details, for easy construction and dismantling. In this project, steel was used as opposed to timber, as timber is not abundant in Thailand, and cost of it is high. Steel is about the same price, and at certain lengths, even cheaper. The steel is treated with anti-corrosion paint and lacquer. Through the building of this school, the locals were able to learn the techniques in steel construction, such as welding and how to read prefabrication plans, as well as other contracting skills which they can use later on in future projects.
About the project:
Tensile fabric is used, by adapting fastening techniques as used by the advertising hording industry. This technique allows for easy assembly and disassembly. Typical tin/zinc materials common in the area were not adopted, as they only last for a few years. Also, when it pours over the area, the noise created by the raindrops hitting on that material would be too noisy to carry out regular classes. Bamboo wall panels and solar blinds were used in this project. Bamboo is a lightweight and durable material which makes it suitable for this purpose. The technique employed here is traditional bamboo craft by the locals.
The project is the winning design for a mobile, modular school for a displaced community on the Thai/Burma border.
Overall: The building was designed to be low-tech, with materials easy and cheap to obtain, and. It was also designed to be fast to construct, and dismantled to be easily relocated, due to the nature of the use of the school.
Project 1: Precedent Study, Design Modification and Documentation 3. Assemble the roof parts together: rubber gasket, pvc sheet, aluminium gripping strips and roof frame.
5. Attach the remaining ceiling joists such that they face each other in pairs (just like the floor joists). Bolt the ends to the top member.
3. Attach further C-channel members to connect the two frames together, as in the diagram. Drills and bolts are used. 5. Pace the joists along the floor to be facing each other in pairs, as in the diagram above. Drill and bolt the ends to the main frame.
6. Repeat steps 3 & 4 for the large roof. 7. Attach the floor decking.
4. Bolt the ends of the roof to the roof supports as in the diagram.
4. Cross-brace the frames for lateral stability drill and bolt the centre together, and the ends to the frames.
In this project, we were to use our previous semester’s final Design Studio project. We were to make necessary modifications to the construction systems to include the latest building technology. We did precedents studies on these new systems to further understand how they are employed in a building. At the end of this project, we learnt how to properly document a project with the necessary construction methods & detailings.
ARC 3512 - Building Technology 1
Project 2: Industrialised Building System (IBS) In this project, we were to create a model of A 3-storey apartment block, showing the IBS construction system employed. The step-by-step process was shown in a video. We also had to do embodied energy calculations of the materials. Through the making of this model, we were able to better understand the construction process and issues that arise from an IBS System. We also learnt how much energy goes into the an IBS construction. [Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=KqQY3yxwzi4&feature=youtu.be]
Architectural Techniques {ARC 2712} This is an elective module, whereby students are to investigate ideas from outside of architecture and translate it into an architectural model. - Ms. Shyn Cheah
ARC 2712 - Architectural Techniques
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There are basically three types of pastries, namely shortcrust pastry (as in pies and tarts), choux pastry (as in eclairs and cream puffs) and puff pastry. The ingredients required in these pastries are more or less the same: flour - the base of the pastry butter/fats - to prevent gluten formation sugar - for sweetness The mixture must always go into the oven cold. it is the butter melting in the oven and creating steam which, in shortcrust, will help it to stay tender and essentially, short, and with puff, will make it rise and not be greasy. But the different proportions of these ingredients, and the process and techniques in assembling them together create a different play on the textures.
Different Variants of Patries:
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Ingredients are mixed together to form a dough, which is then lined in pie dishes. The lack of moisture causes the dough to expand and rise little.
Leaves a pocket of air inside, due to high water content in the pastry mixture.
Layers of pastry (up to 729 layers), due to layers of butter between the pastry from repeated rolling and folding. Layers separate during baking due to water vapour evaporating. It can rise up to 8 times its height.
“Half-fat-to-flour” ratio. Butter for flavour, lard for texture.
Mixture is blended over a stove, before baking. Contains eggs.
Equal proportions of butter and flour.
Texture: Crumbly
Texture: Crisp on the outside, soft and moist on the inside.
Texture: Light, flaky, buttery.
Examples: Profiteroles (cream puff), Éclairs,
Examples: Strudles.
Examples: Pies, Tarts.
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Filo
Variant of Puff Pastry (same method as puff, but slight variant in the ingredients has yeast in the dough)
Texture: Light, buttery, soft inside, cripy outside. Examples: Crossaints, Cinnamon rolls.
Has layers, similar to puff pastry. But layers can be separated easily before baking. Has less moisture, so it is crispier.
Texture: light and cripsy, more “ordered”, rigid layers than puff pastry. Example: Baklava
This is due to the difference in nature of the air created within the pastry, and in this aspect the air is a sort of “shadow” in the pastry. Voids, which create a huge difference.
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Pastries origins and how the art of pastry-making evolved through time, in relation to location.
Ancient Greek. Differentiated pastry chef with baker. Greek pistores had mastered the art of giving their bread the most extravagant forms, shaping it like mushrooms, braids, crescents, and so on... A thousand years later, French chef Antonin Carême noted: “The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.“
Back History: Pastry roots can be traced back to Ancient Egyptian times. They were said to be small, crude pastries made out of grain meal, flavored with honey, fruits and spices.
The peak of pastry-making: In France… An order, in 1440, gave the sole rights for meat, fish, and cheese pies to patisseries, this being the first time that the word appeared. (It was made official!) French and Italian Renaissance chefs eventually perfected the Puff and Choux pastries. (Choux pastry is said to have been invented in 1540 by Popelini, Catherine de’ Medici’s chef.) The 17th and 18th century chefs brought new recipes to the table. French chef Antonin Carême reportedly was the first to incorporate art in pastry making. There were about a hundred pastrycooks in Paris at the end of the 18th century. (In 1986 the count for the whole of France was over 40,000 baker-pastrycooks and 12,5000 pastrycooks.)
Romans made plain pastries to cover meats and fowls which were baked, to keep in the juices. (This covering was not meant to be eaten.) They also made another type of richer pastry which was meant to be eaten, which contained eggs or little birds.
The secret pastry world of Austria: There is a legend that croissants were created in Vienna, Austria, to celebrate the city’s successful repulsion of Ottoman invaders; the crescent shape mimicked the crescent on the Ottoman flag. Old folklore also states that Austrian-born Queen of France Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, requested a croissant every day. Whether this is true or not, it shows that food was often traded among the royal courts, slowly infiltrating tradition and culture.
In Ancient Mediterranean times pastries can be seen as almost paper-thin, multi-layered baklava and filo, described as a “traditional diamonds and squares packed with walnuts and/or almonds, as well as little phyllo crowns---finger-size shirred cylinders called saraglidakia---filled with pistachios, with dried apricots, with prunes and more (Kochilas, Greek Soul).”
The “Danish Pastry” Actually Austrian. 1850, Danish bakers went on strike, Austrian bakers were hired. They made their own familiar classic pastries. It became popular among the Danish. Over time, it remained popular in Denmark, thus it was called “Danish”. In Denmark, the word for pastry is “wienerbrød,” or “Viennese Bread”. Northern Europe took on pastry-making after the Crusaders brought it back from the Mediterranean. The art quickly captured the imagination of European chefs.
Project 1: Deconstructing Part One - Case Study and Thematic Research
Function & Scale For the less experienced, there is a pre-made version of pastry dough (shortcrust, puff or filo) sold frozen in supermarkets. These are mass-produced in factories. They just need to be cut to required shape and filled with desired topping. This, of course does not match up in quality to the meticulously hand-made version, but it suffices.
In Ancient Greek societies… Certain recipes were associated with special affairs, such as theatrical events, religious festivals. Upper echelons of Greek society, represented and epitomize the pleasure and abundance of life. “The Greeks embellished their food, particularly pastries, to an unprecedented level of sophistication.”
Pastry “Pastry chefs, perhaps more now than in past centuries, must make a dazzling statement. They must be able 1) to adapt to their restaurant’s style of cuisine, 2) to distinguish what will sell, 3) to create uniquely flavoured compositions, and 4) to follow the produce availability of seasons. The distinguishing style expressed through the desserts and pastry items of each establishment is the culmination of many historic factors and includes the perfection of recipes from trial and error throughout the ages.
Guinness World Record: The largest serving of pastry is 39,550 pastries and was made by 2023 Metre Baris Ve Kardeslik Boregi (Turkey), in Bursa, Turkey, on 3 June 2012. The pastries were cut from a 2,023 m long cheese pastry.
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“Today’s restaurants feature the dessert course and rely on the pastry chef to carry a perfect meal to its finale… The whole menu needs to flow. First and foremeost is a flow of flavours. If the style of cuisine is soft and delicate, then the style of dessert needs to be soft and delicate.“ – MacLauclan (1999)
In this project ,we were to select any theme of our interest outside the Realm of Architecture and conduct research based on the sub-themes of Light & Shadow, Movement, and Scale & Function. We were to present our findings to the class. Through our research, we were able to gain a more indepth understanding of our theme and develop alternative interpretations to the Architectural sub-themes.
ARC 2712 - Architectural Techniques
Church of Light [Tadao Ando]
Massing Studies
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Church of Light, Japan. Designed by Tadao Ando Booklet by Genevieve Yew [1102P13379] Degree, Semester 5 A Project for Architectural Techniques [ARC 2712] Lecturer: Ms Shyn Taylor’s University December 2013
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Deconstructing Part 2: Case Study and Analytical Diagrams Misleading Front Entrance
Hidden Side Entrance
Transition Space
Sharp Turn
Through this project, we were to analyse a building of our choice. This analysis was to be presented through a series of diagrammings.
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Openings break heavy concrete walls
Through this practice of diagramming, we learned an effective method in communicating architectural ideas, as well as a tool that can be employed in design development.
ARC 2712 - Architectural Techniques
Reinterpretation The Idea Behind Pastry-Making
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Reconstructing - Modelling the Interpretation In this project, we were to reinterpret our selected building from Project 2 using the key ideas of our theme as investigated in Project 1. Through this project, we learnt to abstract meaning from unlikely sources for Design Conceptualization, as well as employ diagramming to show this process.
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Elevation