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Campbell’s Cove, 2012 The Rocks, Sydney Pencil on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm

CON PROJECTS //

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© 2014 Helen Chan All rights reserved Contact: h.c@live.com Website: www.helenc.net

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Central Confluence Swiss Pavilion: Student Accomodation Art Gallery + Shop + House 3 Mile Art Gallery + Studio Live Work HUB Diminuendo: Softening the Barrier in Communication

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Spatialisation Sketches Charcoal Drawings

CAD Drafting

Work Documentation

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ABOUT

Experience //

Ballin & Associates Architectural Assistant

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Mirvac Design Draftsperson

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Education //

Prepared plans, sections, elevations, schedules, and images for a 4-storey mixed-use project Development Application with CAD and Adobe software Ensured building’s compliance with BCA, DCP, and LEP Maintained and organised architectural drawings

3D modelling and visualisations for building elements and structures for a masterplan community development Amended parts of a building design guildline with rules and regulations for a development

Master of Architecture ::

University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Bachelor of Architectural Studies ::

University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Bachelor of Interior Architecture ::

Awards //

University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Dean’s Merit List :: ::

Top 5% UNSW Master of Architecture

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WAM (Weighted Average Mark) 80+ UNSW Bachelor of Architectural Studies

Mirvac Design Prize ::

For best performance in Design Studio

UNSW BIA Award ::

For high achievement in Design Studio

Kathryn Hendy-Ekers Art Prize ::

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Architectural design Sustainable design Problem solving Graphic design for presentations, websites, and print publications Physical and digital 3D modelling Hand drafting and sketching Languages - English and Cantonese Computer skills: see below

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AutoCAD Revit

SketchUp ArchiCAD

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Vray

Photoshop

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Illustrator Indesign

2011

Premiere Pro After Effects

2009

Ecotect

Microsoft Office Suite

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For a student who has been a role model, displayed an exceptionally creative spirit and a mature determination which has contributed to the creation of a dynamic and positive learning environment for others

ARTEXPRESS ::

Skills //

Visual Arts Body of Work selected for ARTEXPRESS

2008

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CENTRAL CONFLUENCE

A masterplan proposal to revitalise Sydney’s Central Station location where it is now sometimes referred to as the “scar”,

This project was done working with people from different disciplines from landscape architectural students, urban planning students, to architecture students. It was an invaluable experience in which I realised how much richer and detailed the design was after communicating and understanding design decisions according to the expertise brought in from these different disciplines.

The location of Central Railway Station was once part of an Aboriginal camp site. This has been the case until the railway was built in the mid-1800s, displacing the Indigenous people living in the area. These people living in the Sydney coastal area spoke Darug/ Dharuk and are refered to as the Eora people.

Eora people live in the Sydney coastal region. According to “Sydney’s Aboriginal Past”, it has been observed that the

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shelters of Indigenous people living near the coast were mostly rockshelters. These rockshelters were often created naturally by the weathering of sandstone cliffs and outcrops.

Inspired from the rich history of the area, this design is developed linking the place, time, and culture metaphorically through the expression of the urban form.

Shelter

Meeting Place

Metropolis

Long Section along length of Platform

Section through Walkways Design Development from idea to physical form

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SQUARE

Masterplan

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TOTAL FLOOR AREA OF ZONES Residential 41 443m2 Commercial 21 172m2 Retail/Commercial 85 602m2

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Retail 36 700m2

SHELTER 1.

Aboriginal Cultural Center 2. Aqua play 3. Art store 4. Children play & learning Center 5. Book store/ Aboriginal design 6. Cafe 7. Workshop indigenous design /

Art/ Music 8. Music store 9. Aboriginal customs 10. Hostel/ student accommoda tion 11. Retail/ Convenience store 12. Play school child care 13. Service center 14. Aboriginal museum 15. Restaurant/ Food court

Shelter Plan

Meeting Place Plan

MEETING PLACE 1. Cafe 2. Gallery/ Performance Place 3. Exhibition Place 4. Temporary exhibition space 5. Administration/ cafe 6. Retail / cafe 7. Retail handcraft 8. Restaurant 9. Book store 10. Music store 11. Theatre 12. Tourist info point 13. Travel agency 14. Bank 15. Real estate 16. Hotel 17. Hostel 18. Cafe/ Restaurant 19. Retail 20. Disco club/ performance stage 21. Bank insurance 22. Dessert cafe 23. Retail indigenous design 24. Art store indigenous design

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METROPOLIS 1.

Coffee shop/ Restaurant/ Accommodation 2. Cafe/Restaurant 3. Administration 4. Info Centre / News agent 5. Museum History of Railway 6. Tunnel entrance 7. Residential tower 8. Retail 9. Retail

Metropolis Plan

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SWISS PAVILION: Student Accomodation

Re-design of a chosen 20th Century building into a building suitable for 21st Century with consideration and focus on Inclusive Architecture.

The new student accomodation design focuses on accessibility and on the comfort of all users of the building. The access pathways were moved to the outside so that the ramps could serve as balconies and pleasant spaces to meet and talk to people besides being just an accessible ramp for wheelchairs. Details of the design from the kitchen designs to the handrails and door handles were designed for ease and comfort of use for the users (from the least to the most abled-bodied person).

Pavillon Suisse, 1930 Paris, France Architect: Le Corbusier

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Entry Auditorium Accessible Toilet Cafeteria Rear Access for Café Kitchen Fire stairs Courtyard Student Lounge/ Common Room Disabled Accommodation Single Room Ground Floor Toilet Landscaping Fire Stairs Laundry Room Storeroom Pavement Alternative Access Balcony Café Void Library Entrance Floor Bridge Family Apartment Double Apartment

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Ground Floor Plan

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First Floor Plan

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Terrace Library Upper Floor Bridge Toilet and Shower Facilities Machine Room Loading Zone Bike Area

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Second Floor Plan

Basement Plan

Section B

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Circulation moved to the perimeter allowing ramps to stay at 1:20 gradient for wheelchair accessibility.

Southern Facade

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Room Detail: Kitchenette

Room Detail: Study

Room Detail: Bathroom

Notes regarding the kitchenette detail:

Notes regarding the bathroom detail:

- Drawers and cupboards under the sink are on wheels to be manoeuvred for ease of access and use

- The basin can be moved up and down as comfortable for the user

- Handle to open top cupboards are lower for ease of access for the user and also serves as a place to hang towels

- Shower screen door can be opened electronically by pressing the button adjacent with an arrow

- There is a handle (grab bar) around the edge of the kitchen table which can also be used to hang towels Notes regarding the study detail: - Drawers under the table are on wheels to be manoeuvred for ease of access and use

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Curved like the shape of a hand resting; not supposed to be used as a grab rail

No gap for entrapment to occur

Notes regarding the drainage detail: Controls flow of water Controls temperature of water

- Two separate levers are used; one to control the amount of water and the other to control the temperature of the water.

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- Rubber is used on top of the stone panel underneath to prevent slipping in the shower.

Timber panels

Handrail Detail

- It is designed so that the drainage of water is between the two gaps between the stone panels to provide an even surface for the user.

Travertine Rubber Travertine panel

Door Handle Detail Night/ Lights Off

Day/ Lights On

Drainage Detail Section

Photoluminescent aluminium strip

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Bridge

Library

Cafeteria

Auditorium Hallway

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ART GALLERY + SHOP + HOUSE

Design of an art gallery in Newtown which has a shop and a house for the artist or curator.

Chuck Close is an American artist who became well known through his photorealistic artworks. The subject matter of his portraits would become the photo rather than the person photographed.

In that same way, the design of the art gallery would be sculptural where the subject matter of the architecture becomes the sculpture. Through the idea of the way photos frame certain views, frames are used sculpturally to define pockets of space. The undulating walls, ceiling, and floors created by these shifting frames means that the changing frames of space can be experienced visually as well as by movement and touch. It can also be felt by the contraction and expansion of the spaces.

Through these experiences, you are guilded from the large gallery to the smaller galleries upstairs which then lead you into the shop fronting King Street.

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Initial study of a possible form for the way spaces can be created using the idea of the frames. These frames can also form the furniture in the spaces and the landscape outside the building.

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Study Model

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Site Plan

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Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

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3 MILE ART GALLERY + STUDIO Art Gallery and studio design for artist-in-residence at Lightning Ridge in regional Australia

The landscape and environmental conditions of Lightening Ridge had a large influence on the design of the art gallery and artist-in-residence living areas.

Vegetation and sandstone rubble was spotted around in the vast landscape; even the rare bodies of water found were spotted in the landscape. Imitating this pattern observed at the site and around Lightening Ridge, the design protrudes and reveals itself intermittently on the surface. The hot conditions meant building underground was beneficial as it kept temperatures inside the spaces comfortable without using air cooling technologies like air conditioning that used alot of energy and resources.

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Site Plan

Plan

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Plan section through the model

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Model of the design integrated with the site

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3pm Noon 9am

Summer sun penetration

3pm Noon 9am

Winter sun penetration

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Note: Grey represents the shaded areas. Orange and blue areas represent where the ground/land is cut.

Water Reticulation Plan Section

East Elevation

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Entrance to Gallery Artist’s Studio

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LIVE WORK HUB

A mixed-use building with live work apartments on a narrow site with a focus on environmental and sustainable design

The Live/Work HUB is a mixed-use building that not only responds to the site and environment, but to the people who will be utilising the space. Instead of having the work space provided inside an apartment like in most contemporary home/work style apartments, it is semi-public to achieve the ambience of an office. Like in an office, social interaction between other people which will be working around you is encouraged by the open plan and shared spaces.

Going to work in the Live/Work HUB is only a few steps away from the door to the private living quarters of the apartment, negating the need to travel to work either by car or public transport to get to an office that is on the other side of the city.

By night, the “home� office space transforms into an informal entrance space for the apartments. This is possible by the movable furnature and secure shelving system which act as a wall after work; closing down the large working spaces that are not used.

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Live/work apartments Office

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LEGEND Yellow Retail; entry from Anzac Parade Blue Office; entry from Middle Lane Red Live/work apartments; entry from Harbourne Lane Circulation

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PV water collector Toilet

Watering plants

Blackwater Tank Shower and hand basin

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Laundry Greywater Tank

Equalisation Tank

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Laundry

Greywater Treatment

2000L Stage 1: Fill and drain process

Polishing; Filtration and Disinfection Fresh water

Stage 2: Fill and drain process

Water Plan

FACTS + FIGURES Total PV Output: 39371kwh per year Additional power required from the power grid with power needs of the building: 35630kwh per year

Total Embodied Energy: 995750.2MJ Average Water Capture: 257651L per year Water needed from main water supply to fufil building needs: 673464L

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Summer Summer sun angle sun angle Winter sun angle

140mm Depth of shading required which minimises sun penetration and solar radiation in summer

Winter sun angle 220mm Depth of shading required for the larger window

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Appropriate lighting for the office spaces and apartments are achieved at table height (700mm). The lighting is also very even throughout the spaces.

Natural Lighting Long Section

Yellow arrows: Natural lighting sources Blue arrows: Ventilation paths

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Red arrows: Movement of pneumatic lift

DIMINUENDO: Softening the Barrier in Communication

A language and music school in response to the language barriers faced for the Chinese communities in Australia Set at West Ryde which is central to many large Chinese communities in Sydney, this architectural proposition was in response to the language barriers which they faced, both for the Chinese people who have been in Australia for generations who have forgotten or never learnt Chinese and for new Chinese migrants where English is their second language. According to a study conducted in the West Ryde area, almost 70% of migrants thought that language was the biggest issue when first arriving.

To address this issue, a music and language school was proposed with spaces for performance, learning, and creating, to generate interest and understanding of the culture. As a universal language, music helps break down cultural barriers and it has been

scientifically proven that there is a link between language and music learning where overlap between the two exists mainly on the syntax and tonal aspects.

In the proposition, occupants of the music and language buildings are encouraged to interact and share knowledge through the placement of circulation and common space. Learning spaces for language and music are placed together to allow the spaces usually utilised for a specific function such as a music studio to be interchanged and used for its spatial and acoustic properties. A poetic approach was utilised to inspire the overall form and organisation of the design that linked the site to the proposed functions of language and music by using water cymatics – patterns and forms produced in water by sound vibrations.

Castle Hill Epping Chatswood Parramatta

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Parramatta Auburn Existing largest population of Strathfield people not fluent in English

Largest amount of migrant recent arrivals

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The rhythmic and tonal qualities of both english and chinese are utilised to produce the initial form where chinese is comparatively staccato to english.

+ Level of the heritage shop heights are maintained to define the public suburban street domain and allow the heritage buildings to remain important on the street level.

Circulation connects all the individual building spaces along the length of the site to allow for ease of access and encourage social interaction.

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Space Usage Distribution

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Language School

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Concert Hall

Recording Studio

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West Ryde Station Entry

East Elevation

Concert Hall Entry

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Intermission / Foyer Space

25mm Timber external cladding 25mm Cavity Water-proofing membrane 50mm Rigid Insulation 50mm Steel Decking 150mm Secondary I-beam 600mm Glulam beam Girder

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Section through Language Centre and Music Studios

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SPATIALISATION SKETCHES

Sketch studies of the built environment with the aim to capture the sense of space and understand composition and relationships between built forms.

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Suburban Street, Broadway

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Hyde Park

Coogee

Pedestrian Pathway, St. Leonards

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CHARCOAL DRAWINGS

Drawings exploring the changing perceptions of femininity throughout time as reflected in the society’s contemporary artworks.

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Reconfiguring Femininity, 2008 Charcoal on paper, 118.9 x 84.1 cm

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CAD DRAFTING

Some drafting examples using AutoCAD

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WORK DOCUMENTATION

Ballin and Associates selection of documentation for a project prepared in coordination with the architect

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