Bits and pieces: Architecture portfolio

Architecture Portfolio

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2017 by lai jia yi

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profile

profile

profile: Brinley lai jia yi Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus Bachelor of science (hons) in architecture jiayiminie@gmail.com http://jiayilai.wixsite.com/jiayihaha/blank-q17v5 Malaysia

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table of comtent

table of content pg. 10-19 tolkien’s house beach house

pg. 20-31 the mines we grow visitor interpretation centre

pg. 32-41 the living archive urban infill library

pg. 42-55 the oasis urban farm + kitchen hub

table of content

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prologue

prologue:

Architecture as storytelling.

Architecture itself is a storybook, it engages metaphoric thinking while describing architecture.

The story unfolds as we can no longer see a building from a distance, but we are close enough so it begins to envelop our senses. We are beginning to interact with it. Everything comes alive. In bits by pieces, the narratives of the spaces emerges identity and connect the users and the context.

prologue

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prologue:

How to tell story in a building?

We can often find buildings that tells nothing about its value, and I find it important to break away this practice. As an architecture student, I believe a good narratives could be convey when the designer herself truly understand the story behind the context and its people, we will then visualized the message into something

perceptible. If success, an architecture could influence how people act and how they feel. It acts as a catalyst that led by the same in-born empathy into parallel concepts. People explore, interpret and finally come to understand them with a same sensory systems, and that makes a community united as on internally.

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tolkien’s house

tolkien’s house

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chapter 1:

story between a novelist and his land of peace

tolkien’s house Type : Beach house.

Users : Novelist. J.R.R Tolkien.

Program : Beachfront Retreat.

Coverage: 120sqm.

Location : Portdickson.

Date : 2015.04

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tolkien’s house

tolkien’s house beach house

tolkien’s house

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Axonometric Drawing Scale: NTS

Tolkien’s house resembles the story of the novelist, J.R.R Tolkien. In contrast with the story illustrated from Tolkien’s novel, his personal life was quiet. There is no place in the reality that could have offers him the

life that he had been imagined in his story.

However, a question comes to my mind as I started off the project: Wouldn’t it be great for him to inhabit in a story?

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tolkien’s house

Ground Floor Scale: NTS

The proposed site is a secluded oasis surrounded by trees and the sea, which is a perfect settings for the nature-lover like Tolkien. The design of the building

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First Floor Scale: NTS

embraced and blends into the sea of nature, the forms of living that harmoniously blurs out the nature and man-made elements.

Site Plan Scale: NTS

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tolkien’s house

tolkien’s house

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In order to translate the concept, Tolkien’s House uses series of timber made beams and columns to push and extend the spaces. The adaptation of trees as a part of the building soften the existence of tolkien’s house in the middle of oasis. The lights diffuses through the leaves, the glass and the timber beams and creating a spiritual atmosphere into the building.

West Elevation Scale: NTS

East Elevation Scale: NTS

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tolkien’s house

The Exploration

tolkien’s house

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The Outcome

By using the physical attributes built up by an architecture, and a little bit of his imagination, the Tolkien’s House can do magic. Living in this inhabitation becomes a fun experience to explore as it gives Tolkien the opportunity to shape his own utopia, making the overall process more alive than ever.

Section A-A’ Scale: NTS

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mines we grow

mines we grow

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chapter 2:

between a history recollections and those who are left

the mines we grow Type : Visitor Interpretation Centre.

Users : Community in Sgi Lembing Program : Interactive displays.

Coverage: 477sqm.

Location : Sungai Lembing Date : 2015.08

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mines we grow

mines we grow

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mines we grow visitor interpretation centre

Sungai Lembing, a town which was known by its position as the famous tin mining town, has now falls into the status where they have to sustain themselves through tourism business. And hence, building a

VIC becomes one of the opening reception to celebrate this conversion. However, how does it brings up the value to not just the tourist, but also the remaining locals?

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mines we grow

mines we grow

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South Elevation Scale: NTS

Between Brutal and Contextual

The presence of the proposed VIC ‘mines we grow’ has a utilitarian appearance. The strategy is to strengthen the bold image to provoke images for brand enhancement, celebrating the new elements in the neighborhood. While being brutal at the same time, the building features the element such as carefully scaled building

in order to follow suit the neighboring building; as well as embracing the height of terrain by expanding the roof. To further enhance the strategic signifier at the same time being contextual, timber columns are used as a continuum from the streetscape.

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mines we grow

mines we grow

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Evokes Common Language

The staggered relationship between brutal and contextual design has evolve a narrative that express the connection between the old and new conversion in Sungai Lembing.

The Outcome

Streetscape

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mines we grow

mines we grow

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Ground Floor Scale: NTS

First Floor Scale: NTS

Guided by the vertical strips, the landscape integration roof gives an interactive appeals that engages interaction between users and the building itself. Dramatically appeals the occupants’ emotions and minds throughout the journey.

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mines we grow

Feelings of the past are rooted in our conscious, hence the building is design to embrace the sensuous connection of the occupants and the building. Coming into the building internally, the occupants are constantly guided by the daylights coming

down to the void that goes into the lower ground floor, suggesting an analog to come across the ramp. The lights bring the power of visual and senses across the exhibition hall, creating the atmosphere that derive the process of remembering.

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the living archive

the living archive

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chapter 3:

story between different levels of community

the living archive Type : Urban Infill Library Users : Locals and tourist Program : Archive Library Coverage: 800sqm.

Location : Jln Tun Hs Lee Date : 2016.12

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the living archive

the living archive

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the living archive urban infill library

No longer silent, futsy and reserve for solitary study, the urban infill library design to blends with the vibrant characteristic of the community in Jalan Tun Hs Lee, where

people are encourage to preserves and share the distinct memory and heritage of Petaling Street.

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the living archive

the living archive

Ground Floor Scale: NTS

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First Floor Scale: NTS

North Elevation Scale: NTS

Records, Archives and celebrates

The proposed library is nurtured by the belief that everybody has a story to tell, it records, archives and celebrates the unique sense of the spot by reintegrating the habits of living to create a dynamic archive.

South Elevation Scale: NTS

Second Floor Scale: NTS

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the living archive

the living archive

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Sectional Perspective Scale: NTS

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the living archive

Incorporates common language The intriguing about this library appears to be the center void that connects different spatial quality into one constant space. The absence of space incorporates the traces of actions and communication between different levels. The presence of void also breaks up spaces into intimate scale, enhancing interaction.

The library uses columns and extend it across the building organically, engaging the context and content to ensure a continuum between five foot walk way into the building, as a part of mechanism to capture the human movement.

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the oasis

the oasis

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chapter 4:

story between different fragments of urban tissue and how they coexist.

the oasis Type : Kitchen Hub + Urban Farming Users : Social Neglects and the communities Program : Food Hub that enhances local economy Coverage: 1800sqm.

Location : Jln Hang Kasturi Date : 2017.7

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the oasis

the oasis

urban farm + kitchen hub

the oasis

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The effect of city development has created many unused land in Jalan Hang Kasturi, particularly the one on proposed site,

which is located at the convergence of three destination; River of Life, Central Market and Kasturi Walk.

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the oasis

the oasis

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Ground Floor Scale: NTS

Controlled logic within chaos

The concept of The Oasis is to create a controlled logic within this chaotic environment, a building that remain volume to create public space so that streets is made permeable in different degrees depending on the context.

First Floor Scale: NTS

Second Floor Scale: NTS

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the oasis

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Urban Farm+Kitchen Hub The Oasis is proposed as the mixture of urban farm and kitchen hub that produce and distribute food within the local community. The proposed program aims to enhance the local economy by creating green job for the poor minorities, and hence they get to coexist and receive mutual change together with the effect of urban renewal.

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the oasis

the oasis

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The balance between two geometry

Discovery process from the entrance

The building is design as two diametric opposites of two geometry; long stretch of rectangular plan that is built as an extension of intimate street life, and the circular plan as signifier that strengthen and stabilize the relationship between building and building and building to context.

When one is walking up to the building, they will found themselves forced under the low roof that capture the view of the courtyard spaces.

It induces movement through narrow passages and through one another volume, encouraging a discovery process.

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the oasis

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Perceptible spaces

Intersection of spaces

Over the stretch of building, there are many threshold for people to simply loiter, meet or carry out discussion. Diverse view, space and relationships are all captured within the continuity of whole strip.

The diametric opposites of two geometry results in unique urban quality space that enabling ongoing interaction between upper and lower, the collective and individual, the accidental and the design.

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the oasis

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Between the void

Smoothen the transition

The void has silultaneously separated and connected the space. It has created a diverse place where space for one and many would synchronously coexist by means of a void.

Terrain with Gentle slopes is built along the Main road towards Kasturi Walk. It narrows down while spiralling inwards, enable a smooth corner free circulation towards the informal plaza. As pedestrian walks along the terrain, the appearance of Central Market is slowly exposed.

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epilogue

epilogue

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epilogue:

values i‘ve learned.

Throughout my architecture part 1 schooling, I’ve learnt that each of the architectural project requires a new understanding of thinking. We Architects serve to collect the new stories we learnt about, the culture of a particular place, in

words and architecture. Then we compel stories for new readers, new opportunities and new ways to anchor to people’s culture and experience. The narratives embodied in architecture is an expression that helps people to rethink the concepts around them.

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