m.c jeff lei_ portfolio 2014//
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meng chong jeff lei_ portfolio 2014// [852] 9791 1513 mcjefflei@gmail.com
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contents_
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academic_ [ adaptive urban textile ] [ psychiatrist’s house ] [ ctgu water centre ]
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professional_ [ Jilin Vanke Development ]
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installation arts_ [ R’evitaLight ] [ false green ]
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product designs_ [ false green LIGHT ] [ peel ]
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sketches_ [ ancient China ]
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m.c jeff lei mcjefflei@gmail.com
[852] 9791 1513 9 Lung Wah Street, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong
education_ The University of Hong Kong -
Master of Architecture
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Bachelor of Architectural Science
present
Ryerson University - Toronto,Canada
2013
experience_ HKU - Hong Kong
fabrication shop assistant - -
April 2014 - present
Supervise and assist students on the proper usage of the laser cut machines (Universal Laser X2-600, YueMing 80W CO2 Laser.) Maintain all machines in working condition and resolve any malfunctions if it is within my ability.
studio thomas&guinevere - Toronto studio intern -
Create and manage all visualization renderings for art installation pieces
ACO - Shanghai
intern architect
June - August 2013
- prepared conceptual drawings for multiple projects including hospital and mix-use development - responsible for overall site planning and urban design of a mix- use development with the understanding of the client’s need and the time constraint of the construction process - worked closely with a diverse group of colleagues in both Mandarin and English - executed designs and ideas with the understanding and adaptation of local culture
Ng Architect - Toronto
intern architect - - -
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December 2013 - present
May - August 2010
Used AutoCAD and SketchUp to prepare architectural drawings and 3d renderings for mid-rise office tower worked with architect to design the interior of a cottage renovation Closely followed architect during every stages of the projects, including site analysis, conceptual design, and meeting with clients and contractors.
curriculum vitae_ abilities_ Softwares -
AutoCAD,AutoCAD 3D, Rhinoceros, V-ray Grasshopper, Ecotect Analysis, Google SketchUp, Lumion, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator
Others -
Hand sketching, oil painting, drafting, detail and construction drawing, 3D printing,operating laser cut, CNC router, wood works, arduino
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English, Cantonese, Mandarin.
Languages achievements_
Nuit Blanche
2013
China Three Gorges University Collaboration
2012
Ontario Wood WORKS!
2010
Raison d’être Student Exhibition
2008
Website Design - overall creative designer of company image
2012
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desiging and fabricating an installation art work for 2013 Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
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3 weeks collaboration exercise with local Chinese students to design a proposal for new university facility
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Competition Finalist with $2,000 prize
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designed and fabricated 2 lamps for Art Square Gallery and Cafe
freelance_
volunteer_ St. John Ambulance Division 333
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organized and lead a group of young first aiders for a 3-days camping trip. Assisted and managed charity fundraisers.
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Macau and Canadian duo citizenship practiced wing chun and aikido enjoys biking, fishing, snooker love traveling, sketching, photography
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personal_
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academic_
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adaptive urban textile_ M.Arch 1 Tom Verebes parametric studio
This project questions the validation of China’s urban eradication to achieve “modernization”, and attempts to formulate a method, an adaptive urban system that could withstand this trend of urban eradication. By analysing precedents of MEGABLOCKS and the grid structures of different cities in China, metric information would be translated into parameters for parametric design proposal.
TIAN JIN CITY
TIAN JIN CITY
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target block location
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target block location
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NEW VS. OLD TYPOLOGIES
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existing orthogonal grid
existing building typologies
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_new grid proposed by city
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_to accommodate greater traffic flow and sub-division of blocks
new typologies by city_
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_orthogonal grid superimposed onto the site
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_the grid as the base points for new developments adaptive urban textile_
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ad building typology logic shortest connection_ A
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longest connection_ A
D
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The conceptual design derived from our instinctive reaction of the current urban condition of our site. The endless amount of traffic producing a cacophony of noises that demands human to give way to the machines; speeding and rushing through regardless of pedestrian safety, and imprisoning us into a city block. The city grid became a jail for human guarded by killing machines.
1. The design is to propagation the site with fundamental units, or building typologies to form an open-ended collective urban fabric, in attempt to create an intricate and adaptive urban space through the repetitions and connective relationship of these fundamental units.
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residential
institution
commercial
office
void_
residential
institution
office
commercial
office
connectivity_
residential
institution
commercial
commercial
height_
institution
office
residential
size_
pattern typology
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2. Much like the production of a piece textile, the repetition of interlacing fibre could create unlimited amount of patterns that contour and adapt to local conditions and parameters. 3. After analysing the programming and desire density of the site, the design aims to connect the 9 blocks as a whole while creating subservient but yet distinctive urban space. Liberating human from the imprisonment of the vehicle grid and provide highly charged space formed by the collisions of the units.
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possible building forms
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3. by simple repetition and layering, the 3 fundamental pattern typologies could create a wide range of variations suited for different local caharacteristics.
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pattern systerms _moire layering
the rules used were DENSITY
_layering 1.
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CONNECTIVITY
1. + 2. + 3.
REQUIRED SURFACE AREA
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TIAN JIN CITY
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target block location
master plan [public corridors as the tree
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trunk, connecting the branchs of different programs]
1:5000
1:20 000
[this plan provokes a new radical development model, questioning Air Right and the sequence of constructing a MEGABLOCK.]
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psychiatrist’s house_ a sactuary for the damaged soul of a psychiatrist where he/she could resolidify themselves.
a psychiatrist’s job is to observe, absorb, and guide the patients to the path of recovery, to help them realize much of the problems and fear are nothing but illusions that constraints them from moving on. Many of the patient’s problems are transferred to the psychiatrist themselves, so a sanctuary is needed to resolidify their damaged souls, a place for the psychiatrist to recover, away from the public. The house itself will encapsulate the virtue of a psychiatrist, to be considerate of the site and its neighbor, and finding new possibilities within the constraints.
illusion confinement
fear
constraints opportunities paths
psychiatrist’s job_
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ina Spad
Ave.
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site_ skinny site
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Rich
31m 3m
neighbor building elevation_ [The façade of the adjacent
building restricts the height of the development, thus, a compromise must be made. The 1400 1400mm space in between the 1600 windows is adequate for 2300 vadditional programming.]
alley
spadia ave.
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front elevation_ slanted roof [A simple gesture, to capture
spadia ave.
maximum northern light, while not entirely blocking the neighbor’s view to the sky]
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1st flloor plan
OTA
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1 bike storage 2 threshold 3 mechanical 4 game room 5 lounge 6 lap pool 7 indoor garden
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1:entrance 2:bike storage 3:mech/laundry 4:game room 5:lane pool
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2nd flloor plan
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OTB
1 living room 2 vertical garden 3 kitchenette 4 dinning 5 bookshelves 6 re-solidification 7 washroom 8 WLC 9 master bedroom 10 ladder
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alley
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spadia ave.
south section_
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living room
living room
living room
bedroom
bedroom
bedroom
guestroom kitchen washroom library resolidification garden swimming game room stroage mechanical
guestroom
guestroom
game room
game room
resolidification
resolidification
swimming library garden mechanical kitchen washroom stroage
swimming library garden mechanical kitchen washroom stroage
LIGHT yes
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swimming library garden kitchen washroom
living room
resolidification
bedroom
game room
guestroom
guestroom
game room
bedroom
resolidification
swimming library garden mechanical kitchen washroom stroage
living room
LIGHT
mechanical
DARK
stroage
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intensive roof planters
vertical garden
living room section_
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olivetti_ carlo scarpa
stair section_
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top_ [left_ shower section] [right_re-solidification section] bottom_ [left master bedroom section] [indoor garden section]
next page_ [top_ kitchenette section] [bottom_dinning section]
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top_ [kitchenette] bottom_ [library/hidden stair]
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top_ [re-solidification room] left_ [master bedroom]
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ps ctgu water centre_ 2 week exercise with local Chinese students to develop a master plan for the university
The goal of this proposal is to maintain the existing landscape by integrating a water system into the sloped site and develope a complex for the advance study of water science. The recyclable water system will provide water for and facilities and experiments, to maximize the use of the natural terrain.
parti_ [Main inspiration for this master
plan was the rice patty. Its shape and its relationship to the mountain terrain.]
water system diagram_ [to use the site as an open book
Digital Centre Digital & Centre Administration & Administration
to show case the different related to water Centre Centre for Study for of Study Aquatic oftechnologies Aquatic AnimalsAnimals science] N N and Phytoplankton and Phytoplankton
MECHANICAL MECHANICAL
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master plan_ [1+9: digital centre + administration_ 2: centre for water testing and analysis_ 4: centre
for study of matter migration in water basins_ 5: research centre for aquatic animals_ 6: centre for study of phytoplankton]
Digital Centre & Administration
Centre for Study of Aquatic Animals and Phytoplankton
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ct An individual assignment to design a Centre for Study on Matter Migration in Water Basins
Similar to the site, the building is designed to expose students to the facilities with the artificial rain as the core. Students and faculties are separated but still connected through a bridge and exposed hallway
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PhD
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PhD students
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PhD students
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Master students
first floor plan_ [1: artificial raining area_ 2: water filter_ 3: control room_ 4: student gathering area_
5: loading area_ 6: outdoor stairs with planted area_ 7: outdoor pond_ 8: sediment handling lab and other_ 9: water tank]
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second plan_ [1: artificial raining area_ 2: master students_ 3: associate professors_ 4: green roof]
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third floor plan_ [1: artificial raining area_ 2: PhD students_ 3: bridge_ 4: associate professors_ 5: kitchen_
6: meeting room]
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ct radiators
radiators
air condition
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hot air exhaust from the top
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professional_
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jilin vanke development summer internship in ACO Shanghai, worked with team to plan and develop a mix-use complex
The project was to plan and design a mix-use complex in the heart of the Jilin Vanke development. The complex includes 4 residential towers, 1 SOHO tower, 1 office tower, with commercials and public spaces. The design language derived from the local cultural activities. Jilin experiences long and cold winters, but people embraces the natural occurrence of frost and celebrates each year with Light and Ice Festivals.
massing_ [with consideration
to sunlighting, views, and circulation]
6号地 7号地
8号地C区 （委托项目用地）
8号地 （D区) 10号地 13号地 16号地 17
Jilin Vanke development_
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site plan_ [responsible for site
analysis and urban planning]
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jili
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Render courtesy ACO Shanghai_
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jili
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Render courtesy ACO Shanghai_
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Scarecrows Studio Intern for Toronto based installation artist, Thom Sokoloski
The Scarecrows was a large-scale public participatory water installation that allows residents to donate glass bottles, filled with their precious memories for the Scarecrows to watch over. Constructed from reclaimed wood and recycled materials, the three effigies float on the lake, unaffected by civilization and time.
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All the Artists are Here An installation piece commisioned by Art Toronto
A grandiose representation of all the artists participated for the 2013 Art Toronto Convention, with interactive QR code of all the artists information embedded in their photos. The piece is to make visible of the often invisible artists, to allow the public to see the geniuses behind the works.
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installation_
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revitaLight installation art for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2013
An interactive installation that contains vertically rising windmills that contrasts the horizontality of daily movements in the city. It is to be a playful and a delightful art work that acknowledges your existence in this vast city.
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basic assembly_ [MDF base, VIVAK tubes,computer
fans, aduino]
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location_ [campbell house museum]
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false green personal installation art
The notion of “green” and “sustainable” has become a tread, but often they are not entirely understood by the general public, the end users. We even tend to consume such products while lying to ourselves that green is better.
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False Green challenges such notion by contrasting nature with “biodegradable” green straws. ‘Planted’ all across a snow field, the green straws simulate natural grass growing out of earth, but the artificial material reminds one how unnatural it truly is.
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false green light Savaged from the latter project, False Green Light reuses the straws for the installation to give the material a new identity, a beacon of green light in the darkest hour.
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peel The design derived from simple curiosity and habit, how we are attracted to light and the process of finding the source. Peel utilizes the tensile strength of paper and the solidity of wood to create a fluid and dynamic form that encapsulates the mysterious dual property of light.
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china thank you Dr. Zaiyi Liao.
During the summer of 2012, a group of 16 Ryerson Architectural Science students traveled to China for a month of aboard study to investigate and observe the historical architectures in China, and compared to the fast expanding surrealistic development of contemporary China.
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right top_ detail studies [a close study on the defensive
design of th wall as well as the drainage system.]
left_ great wall of china [Badaling, non-accessible part of the great wall]
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top_ hanging temple
[Shanxi province, close to the city of Datong. ]
right_ ancient city of Pingyao
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[street life.]
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