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CHOU I HSUAN chouihsuan26@gmail.com 65 - 8230 0896

EDUCATION 2012 - 2015

2010 - 2011

Singapore University of Technology and Design Bachelor of Science in Architecture and Sustainable Design (Graduation in Sep 2015)

Temasek Junior College

Cambridge GCE Advanced Level

WORK EXPERIENCE 2014

Passage Projects

2013

Castle Can Fly

2012

Christie’s Singapore

Internship from May to September.

Illustration Artist

Internship at Jewelry Department from January to February.

ACHIEVEMENT 2013

Schneider Electric Go Green In City Competition National First Runner Up

2012

Singapore Youth Festival Art & Craft Exhibition Silver Award

2010

Singapore Youth Festival Drama Competition Gold Award

TECHNICAL SKILLS C# Revit Rhinoceros Grasshopper DIVA

Adobe Indesign Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw www Design Builder

LANGUAGE English Mandarin

fluent, written and spoken fluent, written and spoken

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Between the Leaves Cluster Housing Subterranean Pillar Stone Stepped House Art Works

01 Between The Leaves INSTRUCTOR | Carlos Banon DESIGN | Chou I Hsuan

2015 Site Punggol Singapore Building Area 7000 square meters Use Residential and commercial Structure Steel and reinforced concrete

Between a forest and a city full of skyscrapers, can human find a balance between the two?

Is there an architecture which can involve the forest in a more intimate manner?

Can we enable a new relationship between nature and human that is not spatially seperated?

This project is called Between the Leaves. It is designed to bring tropical rainforest into architecture. Residents are surrounded by the nuances of nature: the infinite curtains of rain during a tropical storm, the swaying of leaves as wind passes through and the scent of trees as it quietly enters its flowing season.

This is an architecture where human grow with the trees over time, with spatial freedom, good deep soil, water and sunlight.

Height Zones Derived From Rainforest Section

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Inter-zone Density Exploration

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Canopy Size : 5 - 40 m Canopy Gap Range : 0 - 10 m

Plan of a Section of Rainforest

Conceptual Model Video

Zone D Emergent Layer

Zone C Canopy Layer

Zone B Understorey Layer

Zone A Floor Layer

Structural Material Distribution Topology Optimization

Exploded Building Volume and Structures

Section 1: 200

Long Elevation

Short Elevation

02 Cluster Housing INSTRUCTOR | Pauline Ang DESIGN | Chou I Hsuan

2014 Site Holland Village Singapore Building area 10 000 square meters Use Residential and commercial Structure Re-enforced Concrete

Shops spread out to the street in the evening.

Holland Village is a vibrant commercial area located on a hilly terrain where shophouses lined themselves along the main roads. In the evenings, restaurants and cafes start to spread out onto the roads, giving a relax, intimate and comfortable outdoor experience.

Seeking to continue this characteristic of the site, Cluster Housing involves six clusters of mix-use housings that brings the street life of Holland Village into residential living by weaving residential and commercial spaces together vertically and horizontally. Ground level consists of shop spaces that inherit either a street-facing garden space or a open air terrace. Level three and above are the residential units. The design provides over 100 residential and 36 commerial units.

Each cluster is zoned into public and residential area with increasing privacy towards the cluster centre.

Tree gardens and smaller greeneries serve as spatial and visual buffer between the public and the private.

Plants also act as shading medium during the heat of the day.

Existing Shop Front and Back Zoning

Proposed Privacy Zoning Towards Centre of Cluster

Walkway Towards Residential Courtyard

Shophouses Massing

Single Axis Shifting

Nodal Massing

Cluster Parallel to Boundary

1 Metre Walkway to Residential Courtyard

Main Roads

Residential Courtyard

Public Green Spaces

Private Tree Garden 06 1

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Site Boundary

Massing

Zonning

View from Holland Avenue

West Elevation

MODULE A

Lvl 1

East Elevation

Lvl 2

West Elevation

Lvl 3

Back (residential)

Lvl 4

Front (commercial)

03 Subterranean Pillar INSTRUCTOR | Sawako Kajima DESIGN | Melissa Lim | Terence Chew | Chou I Hsuan

What is a pillar? Apart from functioning as structural support of a building, pillars are often treated as obstacles to be avoided and hidden in walls. It usually adds no spatial value to the architecture. This project redefines what a pillar can be beyond a mere structural element.

In a subterranean scenario, we want to design a pillar that provides circulation inside, around and through itself. It is a pillar which brings in natural light to underground mrt and carparks, and creates comfortable pocket spaces where plants grow.

Circulation

Support, loading boundary

Lighting

Geometry From Topology Optimisation

Greenery

Introducing Plant Pocket

Support Conditions

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Boundary Conditions

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Top View of Exploration Through Manipulation of Support and Boundary Conditions

DESIGN EXPLORATION + STRUCTURAL STUDY

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Boundary Condition A Creates slim and open branch-like structures that allows maximum circulation. and sunlight penetration.

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Boundary condition B Creates geometries similar to Condition A but with denser top structures. More structure surface captures sunlight.

Boundary Condition C Geometries forced to be narrower in the middle. The structure becomes less branchlike.

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Boundary Condition D Creates partitiopn-like geometry that visually seperates one side of the pillar to another. Large surface available to capture light pattern.

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Boundary Condition E Creates room-like spaces that contains sunlight within. Privacy can be varied and manipulated in the structure.

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Selected Design Elevation & Top View

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PROTOTYPING I + SUN STUDY

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Sunlight

Moisture

1 String of Pearls 2 Sweet Alyssum 3 Pteris ensiformis 4 Cactus 5 Geranium 6 Staghorn Fern Plant Type versus Sunlight and Moisture

Perspective

Elevation

Plant Type versus Elevation

Final Mold Design Scale 1:5

Prototype I + & - Analysis

Prototype II Mold Design

CNC Styrofoam Mold Layers

Casting Cement Layer After Layer

Mold Removal

Elevation Perspective

Top View

004 Stone Stepped House INSTRUCTOR | Pauline Ang DESIGN | Chou I Hsuan

2014 Site Bras Basah Complex Singapore Building area 270 sqm Use Residential Structure Re-enforced Concrete

Existing Structures

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Bras Basah Complex is a mixeduse developement with lower levels (floor 1- 5) designed for commercial purposes and the upper levels for residential usage (HDB). Each existing residential units has an area of 90 square metres. This project brief requires the merging of 3 existing units with each other, keeping the unit’s vertical loadbearing structure, service shafts and accession intact, but otherwise re-design the entire space.

Making use of the generally dark lighting quality of the site, the proposed design seek to play with the effect of light and shadow through careful introduction of skylight and windows. Ventilation is improved through manipulation of vertical slanted walls to direct wind into the units.

Stones steps lead from the entrance all the way to the second floor bedroom, acting as both steps and spatial zones. This is a house that stone and natural light overwelms the senses.

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Level 1 Plan

Level 2 Plan

05 Art Works

Untitled 2011 Ink and Watercolour on paper

City Scape 2011 Watercolour on paperw Alley in Taiwan 2010 Pencil on paper

Untitled I , II, III 2011 Watercolour on metal

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