an architectural portfolio by george lee
...as of now... - how did I started the likes for architecture? Like most of the people, I liked art, especially sketching, and thought that architecture was all about beautiful drawings and what’s more? It gets built! How cool was that to a 15 years old me. But as I roll along, this ‘architecture’ never stop to surprise me as I started to dive deeper. It transcends beyond me, and focuses the subject, be it people or environment, to make space with minimal hit against nature while improves lives of many others.
- what is your belief in architecture? Maybe architecture was not subjective afterall, because it is not purely art. Maybe architecture can as simple as to give a solution for never have to get your drain unclogged. Maybe low incomers can afford what society deemed is architecture. Maybe architecture can be less ego, be less about what the architect or developers want but more on how not to mess up nature too much. Maybe we should stop being parasites? more........... I don’t know, I’m like a free thinker to this religion, there’s no truth, but everyone seems to be wanting to make the world a better place.
george lee kang zheng georgelykz@gmail.com +6010 800 3319 behance.net/leegeorge
issuu.com/georgekzlee
profesional practice ‘18 - ‘19
architect’s assistant tetawowe atelier
‘14 - ‘15
architect’s assistant design network architects
- Leaning House, Site B
- Open House, Kuching
- Hanxing College, KL
- Bagan Specialist Centre, Penang
- e-library @ k-lab, Kluang
- Sunway Sales Gallery, KL
- Platform K, Kluang
- PAM Awards Submission
- Stall at Jln. Panggong
- Kuching Plaza, Kuching
- HoYanHo Museum, Ipoh
- Habitat for Humanity
- The Cove, Cyberjaya
‘15 - ‘16
architect’s assistant minwee architect
‘11 - ‘14
architectural trainee design network architects
- Bagan Specialist Centre, Penang
- Open House, Kuching
- Open House, Sarawak
- Lot 7667 House, Johor
academic B.Sc (Hons) in Architecture UCSI University
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‘12 - ‘14
- PAM SC. Graduate Competition 2019
Dip. in Architecture Tech. Limkokwing Institute - PAM 2015 Homeless Shelter
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- PAM SC. WAD 2012
- Best Design Award, UCSI University
-PAM SC. WAD 2014
- Most Outstanding Student Award
miscellaneus 2019
writer and artist of leaning house tetawowe atelier
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publikart workshop UCSI University
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graduate exhibition UCSI University
2014
borneo blitz build habitat for humanity
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design exhibition balik pulau artist’s village
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designer of malaysia day run T-shirt Lim Eng Hooi, Wee Hii Min
contents Profesional Practice at Tetawowe Leaning House ............................................................................................ 6 - 15 HanXing College ...................................................................................... 16 - 19 E-Library @ K-Lab ...................................................................................... 20 - 23 Platform K ................................................................................................... 24 - 31 Stall @ Jln. Panggong ............................................................................. 32 - 35 HoYanHo Museum .................................................................................. 36 - 37 The Cove ................................................................................................... 38 - 45
Profesional Practice at MinWee / DNA Open House ............................................................................................... 48 - 55
Academic Student Housing ...................................................................................... 56 - 83 River Conservation Centre ................................................................... 84 - 103 Artist’s Village ....................................................................................... 104 - 137 Jenjarom Epicentre ............................................................................. 138 - 151
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leaning house An old couple, who had their house built for their retirement. They spent a couple of good decades there before the husband passed away from sickness. The house was base on the husband liking, which every part of it reminded her of his pressence. Trying to live out from sorrows, she decided to built a small house beside it as a gesture of remembrance. Her brief hints that she is trying to spend her rest here without the burden of dwelling in the past, and in the wait for her afterlifeto join her husband. She needs to move on and when she wishes to, she can reminisce him in the old house.
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The house as a gesture of reminiscent but at the same time to open up the possibilities of living a new life. The form as a metaphor of their togetherness, which seems that the new house is leaning on the old.
The wife still dwell in sorrows, she often uses the passage to visit the husband.
To help, her son and grandchild comes often to visit and cheer. By then, her house is stuffed with toys and cheers. She developed fondness of gardening, something she needs to do as chore as well. Overtime, ‘the passage’ is abandoned and nature had overtaken it and extends to the old house.
For few decades, she did her gardening and every afternoon, she will sit at the deck while admiring the sanctuary she had created for all kinds of insects and birds, and also watching her grandchild grows up everytime he visits.
Until one day, somehow she knows this will be her last. She wakes up and glances the patch of blue from her skylight.
The idea of visiting her husband struck, she sits up and recall the hidden door the ‘passage’. She proceeds to the old house door. She recalls back the scene where the husband would sit on the breakfast nook in wait for her meal.
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She spent most of the day at the old house, the old memories suddenly renews, but this time she thinks of joy instead. As the day approaching to the end, she retires back to her place, she left the passage open and wonder if her husband would appear from the other side of the door to greet her. She felt tired, tucked into her bed and sinks into a deep sleep.
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Not long after her passing, the son came to visit the old house. This time he reaches the backyard and sees the gesture of togetherness from the two houses.
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hanxing college The College of media and mass communication had moved to a new building. With budget constrains, they approached Tetawowe to design their public facilities such as the library and their student activities area. With limited resources, time, and space available, we tried an unconventional ways to add value to the project, so it is packed with programs, inception of spaces to emphasize the college’s core subject, media and mass communication.
The approach was to create a series of spaces, such as discussion rooms, office, group seating, individual seating, exhibition and themed book showcase area, and bookshelves and browsing area in a limited space while not feeling congested.
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Library floor plan of One World HanXing College of Journalism and Comunication.
Utilising the bookshelves to carve out the needed series of library spaces, while the bookshelves partition creates and infinity loop of knowledge that bound the students in an learning environment.
Every here and then, along the infinity loop of books, there are openings, as if it is a portal to transport into different spaces. This also act as a metaphor to the power of media, as those opening portals are trying to focus certain situation, such as monthly themed books, study groups, or stage for knowledge sharing.
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e-library @ k-lab To repurpose an old colonial shophouse in Kluang, Johor. With the intention to turn it into a public digital library that focuses more on the histories, records of the Forbiden City, China. The library also caters a sharing space for ocasional events, also furnitures that provide the function of space making, which was intended to be used for future urban park underneath the now constructing overhead KTM railway, where the shophouse directly located opposite to it.
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The proposal was to repurpose whatever material that is dismantle inside the shophouse due to their wearing condition. These materials, mostly hardwood, are repurpose into light fittings, stage backdrop, benches, and bookshelves .
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platform K Reimagination of a former railway track as a linear urban space for Kluang. The city of Kluang is associated with railway transport ever since it was founded. The city has been segregated into west side and east side by a KTM railway that cut across in north-south direction. The both sides is only connected by a level-crossing and a few bridges. This physical barrier has caused accessibility difficulties and has certain effect on Kluang’s development pattern and its urbanism. With the introduction of 3-4 KM elevated double railtrack in Kluang, the space underneath is free up for other purpose. This is an opportunity to stitch back the east and west side of the city by creating a linear urban space that consist of landscape park, public space and amenities. This concept proposal is meant to illustrate how such linear urban space, as am urban corridor, is possible to enhance the city of Kluang in term of accessibility, public space, urban well-being, youth start-up, tourism, local entrepreneurship & industry, education, art, culture and much more.
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Existing situation of railway. Kluang has been divided by it ever since it was built.
Proposed urban park underneath elevated KTM railway. Both sides of Kluang can now cross to their respective opposites by a walk away.
Programs along the park by the operators of the shophouses along the railway.
The park as the link that connects pedestrians of both sides of the town, which they are incapable of since the inception of the town.
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stall at jln. panggong A pop-up stall was opted by a tea cafe to sell food and beverages for the massive pass-byers tospecifications and from Pasar Seni MRT Station. However, structural framing a stall can be more than selling, it can alsocoverings serves as attractionequipments feature & worktop 50mm X 50mm SHS. a e fixed flat tetrapak panel m chiller counter-top of the mother restaurant, or shelter when over it’s operating mainprovide frame stainless steel work top & f openable flat tetrapak panel n b 25mm X 25mm SHS. storage hours. g corrugated tetrapak roofing c 25mm X 50mm RHS.
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hoyanho museum Ho Yan Ho, the household brand chinese herbal tea was intended to extend their current museum, which was the infamous blue shophouse in Ipoh. The house itself was the first registered tea production factory of the founder. Today, the son took over the business and converted the old factory to commemorate his father and Ho Yan Ho and intended to commision another museum as a chinese herbal hub and museum that promotes the future of chinese medicine.
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the cove A wellness centre situated in Cyberjaya. It is a multi-programs development that focuses on wellness. To promote serinity and sensuality of wellness, poetics of space and nature plays crucial part in the schematic design stage. Our approach is to use water and vegetation to create a sanctuary for people to rejuvenate their body and mind, and to use this opportunity to also contribute back to nature at the same time. To achive that, ut-and-fill method and re-create a new landform for the site to form wetland in the hope to bring back lost eco-system of the site.
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1. Existing landform
2. Cut out wetland basin
3. Cut and fill forming berms
4. Clusters of ‘village’ on wetland
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open house An extension from the parent’s house. Mrs. Wee inquired a house in the lot next to theirs, for her four young adult boys. Each with their respective rooms and baths, a living, pantry and dining, and a link gallery linked to the old house. I had helped with this project ever since I was a student of Wee Hii Min. Since then, I witnessed it being drawn, developed, tendered and built.
Every morning, they woke up at the mild glare, a soft warm kiss by the sun. They sits up from the bed and stares at the waving leaves of the trees, and take a deep breathe of the morning cool breeze.
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One of the siblings walks out the room, tasted the smell of roasted roti reaches to him through the voids.
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student housing To design our first medium rise building in our degree studies. I am trying to challenge the definition of multi-storey buildings and it’s neccessities according to site, and the function of the structure. The project goal is to design a student hostel for UCSI University and also solving issues such as connectivity of the residence towards the campus, privacy, and providing vibrant lifestyle for students’ social activities.
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- Design Issue -
1. STUDENT LIFE Conventional education system bound students to a routine of classrooms and hostel routine. While one of the goal of tetiary education is to make networks of connection which profit one another.
2. INSUFFICIENT SOCIAL SPACE Hostels focused on rooms instead of spaces that encourages social interactions. Thus, students are confined in their own world, making little to no network during and after their time in the campus.
3. IMPROPER LINKAGES Multiple blocks, but not user friendly due to its insufficient shelter from weather. This had discourage students from walking and social interacting.
4. DEMANDED PRIVACY Surveys had concluded that students prefer privacy while wanting social interacting opportunities at the same time.
5. PRIVACY VS. MONEY High room rates. The typology concluded that as privacy increases, rental increases.
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1. INTERUPTING THE ROUTINE Introducing social / networking between the routine of classroom to hostel.
2. CONVENTIONAL MULTI-STOREY BUILDING Stacked multi-storey buildings are concerned with space saving issue while ignoring opportunities for social interactions between occupants.
3. SPREADING THE LEVELS This creates new typology for multistorey buildings which promotes interactions between occupants.
4. SHADED / PROTECTED LINKAGE To provide shaded and comfortable linkages between blocks and facilities, hence improving accessibilty and connection between class > social > hostel.
5. REDUCED ROOM SIZE Lower room area equals to lower room rental, while providing more intimate spaces for privacy in an affordable manner. 60
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- Comparisons Lesser opportunity for common space
Common area : No. of floor
Floors become barrier for human interactions
Floors spreaded create opportunities to interact
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2. OPPORTUNITIES FOR HUMAN INTERACTIONS
Mechanical access crucial for firefighting, and also higher costs
eliminating needs of mechanical access, miantenance free
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Utilised most of land, equal built up area
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Higher number of rooms, higher profit
Less plinth area, more un-utilised land
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Higher ammenities to generate profit
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1. ORIENTATION Building orientated to north to receive maximum ventilation and sun-screen on both east and west side of the building.
2. BUILDING FORM Slicing to make thinner building mass to distribute sufficient light and ventilation to each blocks.
3. ENTRANCES Vehicular entrance being placed at the service road to avoid busy traffic, and safe turning distance from main road. Thus, making 3rd block the main lobby.
5. PRIVATE VS. PUBLIC Sports ammenities is located for its proximity to lobby block, while providing seperate access between public and private.
4. CONNECTIVITY TO BLOCK E Front block ground floor as public zone due to the plaza being set as attraction point for block E and proposed hostel. 62
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1. NECCESSITIES VS. DESIRE To achieve lower rent, rooms are constrained within the size only to allow anthropometrics of slee, solitude and dressing.
2. SINGLE ROOMS All single rooms are linked directly to a common area, while providing maximum privacy when needed.
3. DOUBLE ROOMS With beds seperated by 2 different levels, this creates the same level of privacy while not compromises on interactions.
4. BUILDING ON PLINTH This creates more public ground floor common space to cater student social activities, while keeping privacy for the rooms in upper floors.
5. STACKED UNITS Units are stacked instead of side-by-side to achieve equally distributed sunlight and ventilation for each units.
6. SPACE HIERACHY Keeping private spaces sufficient and intimate. For student hall, where most activities occur, has a higher volume space. 63
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7. HAVING 6M GAP BETWEEN BLOCKS To ensure all blocks receive equally effective natural sunlight and ventilation.
8. GARDEN FOR LIGHT AND VENT The gap between the splitted blocks are utilised as garden for fresh air and to regulate the microclimate of the complex.
9. HOLLOW BLOCKS To ensure sufficient light and allowing hot air to escape.
10. PITCHED ROOF Responding to tropical climate for sufficient ceiling space to regulate hot air and gradient to sustain rainfall.
11. MORE RESIDENTS With the opportunity of higher ceiling space, additional bed space is added to form double bedrooms.
12. RAINWATER HARVEST With sloping site and roof form, rainwater harvest is made easy with gravity fed systems.
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- Passive and Services Design skylight to receive daylighting to the interior
higher ceiling space for higher aire exchange rate to reduce indoor temperature
roof as basin to channel rainwater to the underground tank
glass louvre window for adequate light and ventilation
water-tank for upper wc compartmentation
bright surface material act as a light well to channel day light to the ground level
fire staircase compartmentation
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perforated metal spandek as sunscreen to filter western sun
compartmentation fire staircase
Rainwater Harvest & Sanitation water channeling last escape point to ground floor
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Fire Fighting pump located directly above tanks
fire escape route fire staircase
rainwater harvesting tank stored at the basement
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river conservation centre This semester was interesting as it reminds me of the importance of site specific context and problem solving in architecture. The exploration of ideas are conducted in sketches and model-making that really exercises the mind as the hand moves throughout the semester. The final proposal was about disecting the brief, and to research for human issue on the site and reform the brief according to what the site needed to solve it’s issues.
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- Issue and Strategy 1 -
Flood is common in Chukai. Thus, proposed sea rescue to focus on flood management, where emerency response, evacuation points, education spaces and floodplain management.
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Pollution of Kemaman River, congested sewerage infrastructure direct and heavy discharge of surface runoff had caused pollution of riverfront. With disposal waste through back of house (which mostly facing riverfront). This is a lost of opprtunity, also causing smell and discomfort to walk along riverfront, causing the facilties underuse.
As a device to clean waste and stormwater.
Passive cleansing process to educate and bring awareness.
Aquaponics planting as extra chamber to cleanse water in stages.
Series of basin chambers created to cleanse water to healthy stage.
Open public space for social activities.
To cleanse quality of river water through a filter basin that retains and discharge through levels of chambers with water filtering plants. As exhibition to public to demonstrate and bring awareness about passive cleansing of river water.
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Unappreciated potential city element - River. From the absence of activities along site C, pollution and waste dumping along the riverfront, and obstructed human flow by facilities that are poorly planned along the riverfront.
Proposed building is potential to ‘rob’ river-view of neighbours.
Proposed landscapes in site to return the view to neighbours.
Located in the junction of Pasar and waterfront, it has potential to create a node in the city.
Using ‘green’ linkage and jetty broadwalks to draw human flow to the site and to solve the obstructed pedestrian circulation, so the riverfront can be as one continuos access. Turning ‘back of house’ into public accessible broadwalk to solve waste dumping and management along riverfront.
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- Development -
1. Existing bands of trees is aim to be conserved.
2. land-use based on dripline of the tress foliage diameter.
3. Selected new lanform option.
4. To cover up chamber 1 and 2 to prevent foul smell and hygiene
5. To lessen the kinks of new landform.
6. Development of building mass.
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Plan of filter basin
Plan of basin chambers
Massing and circulations
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chamber 1 - sedimentation of waste and grey water chamber 2 - sedimentation, barrier between class V and Class III water
chamber 3 - filtration of metallic materials in water and filtering water to class III water chamber 4 - as passive bio-method to filter water in chamber 3
chamber 4 - pond for class II water, where its safe for recreation
chamber 5 - for class I water, as barrier between river and the basin river - river flow in barrier of chamber 5 during high tide, to resist backflow
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artists’ village To explore the importance of idea conception and exploration through observation and analysis, how site forces shape the design, and the bold exploration and idea development on proposed schemes, where poetics of space and spatial quality is focused in this semester. The project goal is to design an artist’s village in balik pulau, penang.
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- Idea Conception & Analysis -
Act as a platform for collaborative research on design methodologies and to develop critical understanding on urban challenge. By exploring the unconventional we propose alternative way to look into our cities. The first project will enable us to interpret and reinterpret an existing urban condition into a design concept by observing and abstracting the unusual within the everyday.
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1. Existing condition of the house
2. House to be kept in harmony to neighbours
3. Change of programmes
4. Use of front porch as an inviting device
5. Direct access to different functions
6. Created a series of common space & realm
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- Finding the Subject Adopting ideas learnt from conception of the first project, Anees Maani, a sculptor was chosen as the subject artist. The subsequent project was to discover the core space for him, and in my case, a contemplating space for him to consolidate and work on his materials to sculpt. He was fascinated ny our wet weather the first time he got to Malaysia, and ever since had developed a habit of experiencing rainfall. He often brings home chunks of timber, which he’ll meditate upon, producing sketches of idea on how to sculpt out from the raw materials he brought in. Hence my proposal of a ‘special place’ for the artist would be an open place for him to house his material with the chance to contemplate on it for inspirations.
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- Application of Concept to Site The idea was to expand the original building boundary line to etend the wall to envelope an open space to be one of the space of the house. Where the space became the contemplating space for the artist to get inspiration of. This is also an exploration on the placement of such space. this in this scheme, i had chosen the common space, which is the current living room of the house.
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Sculpt!
a sculpture artist village
Balik Pulau is located on the back of the Isle of Penang, hence the name Balik Pulau in Malay, meaning, the back of the island. It is an sub-urban area and tucked away from the busy Georgetown. In there, things are slow-paced and surrounded by thick greenery that give sense of peacefulness and serenity. For this, often times artists around the world would visit the town in hope to find solitude.
Our brief is to design an artist’s village on a selected site of an old chinese house situated in one of the chinese settlement area in the lorong of Jalan Sungai Penang. The site is again, surrounded and secluded by nature, given its access is not easily noticed, hence it is ideal for artists’ retreat to find solitude.
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is to segments the land with walls, corridors, or room spaces to serve various functions of an artist village. Although it seperates spaces, but it is actually defining spaces and providing a state of mind to enter a different realm, which is what this project of an artist village, need!
Adaptive reuse on the existing residential building and a farm-shed on an abandoned plantation ground.
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Land seperated in 3 segments, if all existing programmes are to be kept, the middle section, being a private zone will seperate the 2 sections, being disconnected.
Existing house is exposed to road. if public programmes is added to site, would affect on noise and privacy.
Disorientated journey upon entering the site due to the lack of proper pavement or pathway to guide human circulation.
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To have a continuous flow, existing programmes must be converted to become public programmes.
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To achieve the public relationship of the middle section, existing house needed to be convert into commercial building. To open up boundary of site and ext. house as device to invite public visitation.
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To propose new buildings, with workshops in semi-public zone, and artist’s residence tucked away from public and road in private zone.
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Courtyard 1 The entrance of the existing house is disorientated, with no proper pavement leading to journey of the house.
Two entrances with the cafe entrance being the attraction for pedestrian who came to the artist’s village cycling or by walking. The entrance also serves as direct access to cafe once the gallery is closed for visits.
Existing condition shows the absence of linkage of the two buildings.
New volume is created inside the existing house in order to allow visitor to have the sense of entering another realm of space. the volumes also ‘punched’ through the existing building envelope to cater more programmes such as wc and reception.
Shed walkway is proposed to fence and to carve another open space to cater events that needed open ground. the walkway serves as a sculture gallery and also forms a boundary to the driveway and carpark and an entrance to the open ground.
The another entrance serves as a gateway for driving visitors. The narrow walkway screens off public before entering the site, to keep the element of surprise to the plaza inside.
All journeys are sort of equivalent. This is achieved by leading visitors in a loop. The diagram shows the loop where visitors enter through the cafe, where it is more towrds public activities.
Entrance from visitors carpark through sculptors gallery. The series of transition spaces helps to prepare oneself through a journey of sculpting sculpture.
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To enhance the effect, existing lower facade are replaced with glazing to allow visual connection to pedestrian.
Solution is to open up the existng boundary fence and to carve out a public inviting plaza.
Existing roof is extended to shelter part of the plaza in order to accomodate more cafe activities.
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Workshed The existing workshed has the opportunity to connect 2 part of the site. However, due to the need to filter public access twards a more private realm, the building is is then only opens up one side to allow visual connection to one side of the courtyard only, that is the public open space.
Existing workshed has low roof level, had limited visual connection, thus seperating the site into 2 parts.
Roof to pitch in this way where higher level is open up to the public open space.
Thus the remaining roof needed to adapt to the new roof form, and also existing columns are to be changed.
Roof to extend further to provide shelter for the walkway.
Operable partitions added in to allow flexible use of space to cater different events even in the same time.
Due to the need of filtering public access, directed routes is created within the building, through the gap of 2 existing buildings and through the gap between event space and services area.
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Courtyard 2 The central carved out space is the hierachy of the whole complex. Focusing on the artists’ contemplation ground to search inspirations and ideas through observing the raw materials brought back from town. Such idea was the habit of the sculptor, who stated that he needed to meditate on the materials he brought back for a moment before sculpting it.
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In response to the art activities of the Prince of Wales International school and sculptor, Anees’s passion in teaching youngsters crafting, the proposal had added open event space to cater occasional workshops and special students’ visit route to the artists’ workshop.
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To share the space with sculptor’s raw material observation courtyard, the artist’s contemplation space. In the same time, invited student/visitors can also join the courtyard to observe the process of sculpting.
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From project 2b, the contemplation courtyard needed a temporary storage to store the raw material, thus to carve out a parking/loading space and a storage niche for the space.
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To incorporate the context of school-art activities nearby, to carve out the contemplation courtyard as a journey to guide student through the sculpture process. Boundary walls are created along the pathway to screen off artists’ residence zone.
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Screens also added to preserve the surprise element of the courtyard and sculptors’ wokshop as they move through series of spaces.
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The boundary walls also serve to guide student/visitors journey, which in this case to lead the students to eventspace during for workshops or and also cafe.
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The idea for the artists’ residence is to keep it as secluded from public as possible, in order for artists to retreat, rest well, and find solitude.
Hence, a third open space is carved out as a private realm, a sanctuary for the artists. Strong boundary of concrete wall is used to dictate the space and to filter public access to this private realm.
To solve privacy issue , the rear court is again carved, to create a ‘garden room’ to give the sense of exclusively only for the artisits. This can also solve issues such as noise which will interupt them from finding solitude.
To solve noise issue from workshop, services area is located as a buffer. A courtyard is created to avoid existing durian tree.
The garden room is further developed into a series of court dedicated to each spaces of the residence.
Hence, the proposal becomes a series of ‘park’ and art and livelihood to let both visitors and artists experience, which further enhance the sense of community in a village.
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jenjarom epicentre To explore the importance of idea conception and exploration through observation and analysis, how site forces shape the design, and the bold exploration and idea development on proposed schemes, where commemorating and celebrating the character of a chinese new village is focused in this semester.
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The architecture was inspired by the unfinished musical of biblical themed ‘Moses und Aron’, picturng stories of Moses after exodus, where the circulation of space was inspired by Jewish Holocaust novel ‘Gedenkbuch’.
The extended part of the existing Victorian era museum which showcases nothing but a series of awkward spaces that is empty, silent, humid, narrow and uneven surface to evoke emotions of visitors to relate to the histories of the Jews.
This assignment provide a guideline for our main assignment to design a museum. We picked the berlin jewish museum and learnt that it was designed based on axis and circulation. The building itself channels the visitors’ emotions from spaces to spaces. The spaces are poetic enough as its own exhibition to educate visitors bout the jewish history. Thus, embedding permanent memories to whom visits.
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Despite the zig-zag form of the building, it is in linear progression guided by the voids inside the building which defined as the main axis to the stair of exodus, the key feature of the museum. the axis, represented in plans and sections by voids of skylights, which is also the main source of light of the building.
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Site contains traditional houses, with linear form.
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To intergrate the houses as part of exhibition.
Create a medium to co-relate the folks and activities of two facilities.
Site needed as an urban park for the neighbourhood.
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To allow flow between 2 buildings.
Looping the length, but only achieve short length of views.
Open up courtyard to allow park to flow in and be more inviting to old folks home.
Pushing the mass closer to main road for more attraction and allow more green space.
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Tower to add eight to capture attention.
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2nd option roof with tower.
Signboard added to enhance attraction and gives identity to the building.
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High roof to replace tower.
Tower height integrated to roof.
Roof high enough to attract attention.
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