WORK VOLUME 2014-2019
孙忠义 JOHN SNG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ARCHITECTURE FIRST CLASS HONOURS DEANS LIST
JOHN SNG
sng.chong.yi.john@gmail.com
EDUCATION NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE M.Arch + B.A. Architecture 2013 - 2019 ETH ZURICH Semester Exchange 2015 - 2016
AWARDS LEE KIP LIN MEDAL & PRIZE, BEST GRADUATING STUDENT AWARD 2017/18 AKZO NOBEL MEDAL, BEST STUDENT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 2017/18 BOARD OF ARCHITECTS PRIZE 2013/14 2014/15 DEANS LIST 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 NUS DRAWING PRIZE 2014 TANGLIN CLUB COMPETITION 2019
SOFTWARE AUTOCAD SKETCHUP ADOBE SUITE 3D RHINOCEROS ARCHICAD (BASIC)
EXPERIENCE REX . NY BIG . NY SOU FUJIMOTO ARCHITECTS . TYO DP ARCHITECTS . SG ARC STUDIO + URBANISM . SG
Works 2014-2019
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SLOW LAND | REVEALING THE INTANGIBLES Land Expansion Scenarios . Southern Islands
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A RESOLUTION OF FEAR Regenerative Columbarium . West Coast
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COMMUNITY: PROXIMITY & SCALE HDB Typology . Toa Payoh
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INTERFACE: FOOD CITY Liveable Industry . Tuas
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A REFERENTIAL TIE Reconciliating Perspectives . Balestier
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SYMBIOTIC REHABILITATION Urban Market System . Bologna
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TEMPLE OF THE SENSES Sensorial Experiences . Fort Canning Park
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EAST SIDE COASTAL RESILIENCY BIG . New York
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XY TOWERS Concrete . Singapore
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FOLDED LANDSCAPES Pavilion for Film Festival . Zurich
i SLOW LAND | REVEALING THE INTANGIBLE LAND EXPANSION SCENARIOS OFF SINGAPORE’S SOUTHERN COAST
Nominated for National Cheng Kung University Gradshow, Taiwan 18/19 Alan Tay
Singapore is synonymous with Land Reclamation. The engine of growth hardly rest. Its territorial expansion, mainly through landfill has altered its geographical boundary to such great extent that is hardly recognisable within a short span of a few decades. Landfills have also displaced, make inaccessible, inevitably erasing our collective memories of the coastline affected. The thesis wishes to examine and address these conditions through speculations using alternative means of land creation. On the premise of a hypothetical, slow land formation process using Biorock technology, a new strip of land is constructed on steel rafts anchored to the seabeds with structures strengthened overtime by substance formed by electroaccumulation of minerals dissolved in seawater. Biorock building processes are commonly deployed to grow engineering underwater structures and marine ecosystems. When the new land consists of platforms rather than landfill and when its anchorage to the seabed takes such a long time to be established, five scenarios were imagined to take advantage of these conditions.
THEME 1: LAND + TERRITORY | BLURRING
Charles Lim
THEME 2: LAND + ECOLOGY | ERASURE
Sim Chi Yin
THEME 3: LAND + SEA | DISPLACEMENT
5 THEMES SURROUNDING LAND CREATION Land expansion has taken predominantly issues of technicality and economy. Very much an engineered process, this thesis sought to look at an alternative perspective through a more architectural lens. It is concerned with the visual perception of such a large scale operation and how it ties with context and the challenges faced when the sea becomes less accessible. Expounding on this is the concern of not only our perception of this process, but our perceptions of the Sea, and how we are being slowly numbed into accepting whatever that occurs on the coast.
THEME 4: LAND + PEOPLE | MARGINALISATION
Charles Lim
Charles Lim
THEME 5: LAND + IDENTITY | OBLIVION
THEME 1: LAND + TERRITORY | BLURRING VS INDICATIVE How many of us have drawn the shape of Singapore as kids? It was interesting to see how, for many, that image did not tally with the present outline of Singapore. Slowly, we are losing that ability to recognise the shape of our country. With this new technique where the extent of reclamation is no longer inhibited by the depth of the seabed but by the sovereign boundaries and the sea routes, one can consider a scenario where the limits of expansion are definitive and the land grows inwards rather than out.
REVERSAL GROWTH
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THEME 2: LAND + ECOLOGY | ERASURE VS CULTIVATION Typical sand reclamation is highly disruptive, whatever that existed prior to that has to make way. However, can we imagine an edge that grows? Reefs and Mangroves are rehabilitated, as the land is growing. Over time, they form a defensive layer which would protect the inland.
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A marine education centre overlooks the mangrove farm and takes this opportunity to reconnect people with ecology. As Singaporeans become normalised to a seawall, now one is able to access various stratas of ecology.
THEME 3: LAND + SEA | DISPLACEMENT VS DEPENDENCE Land has traditionally been associated with a horizontal separation with the Sea. But islands do need water. The Southern islands are resupplied via boats every 2 weeks, with water being stored in these water tanks. As such, I would like to imagine that water and land could co-exist.
DEPENDENCY A desalination plant is developed to produce water for the islands. But beyond utility, it aims
Displacement of the Sea occurs typically during reclamation, denying us an abundant source of water. Desalination plants are to to goproduce furtherwater and celebrate this new relationship with this water. goers iswould visit through the water developed for the islands, but beyond their utility, newResort relationship celebrated recreation.
desalination park, where water cleaning processes are rethought as recreational ones. Filtration pools, aeration jacuzzis, distillation baths. The tempest of the sea, the saltiness of the water and even the mist, are characteristics of the experiences felt through these spaces.
THEME 4: LAND + PEOPLE | MARGINALISATION VS EMPOWERMENT People who define the land are the construction workers. They come from afar, to create land for us, and then be pigeonholed in less than desirable environments. Why not allow one to level the playing field, a waterfront dormitory that houses the workers and the farmers.
INCLUSIVE A series of camouflage techniques are developed to treat the interface between resort-goers
Is Land use purely for the rich? What if the people who built our land, construction workers, are given the opportunity to live taking cues from the images of the Singapore Sea. Fromthe theperception air, the dormitoon theand Sea.the Howworkers, would resort goers react? A series of camouaging techniques changes of dormitories.
ries are akin to ships of the sea, and their organisation allows for the hiding of density through the linearity. Furthermore, goods from surrounding farms are sold, creating an acceptable perception of the dormitories, and at night, the floodlights are filtered to provide a night light show!
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EXTROVERTED SURFACE: MANGROVE REGENERATIVE PARK
ii A RESOLUTION OF FEAR: SPACE AS A DEVICE FOR PERCEPTION REGENERATIVE COLUMBARIUM IN WEST COAST
Spring 15/16 Nominated for RIBA Presidents Medal Tutor: Rafaella Sini Raymond Sim
50 years on and Singapore faces a crisis of insufficient land. The notion of territory becomes even clearer as contestation between varied programmes result in social rejection. This is where a neccessary architectural form, the columbarium, becomes a sensitive point of conflict. This project aims to tackle this issue by questioning the influence of space. Is space able to mediate fear? Can a columbarium be situated near a residential housing district? Through visual experiences, it proposes an opportunity to allow people to reassess their fears by providing an ironical vision: happy, populated spaces that encourage exploration and extroversion, in hope to remove the stigma of the columbarium and allow co-existence. By utilising views of activity and familiarity, an architectural device is explored to allow a reflective columbarium for mourners and a regenerative park for park-goers to intertwine spatially. This project provides a new visual perspective for a commoner on a columbarium, hopefully changing a stigma within communities.
VIEWS OF FAMILIARITY: BANDED FILTRATION GARDEN
A NATIONAL ISSUE: GET THE DEAD AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE! Analysing the changing locations of after death facilities shows a concerted effort to consolidate them and place them away from major towns. Translating this would entail in this project, at a smaller scale, the placement of the columbarium at the river mouth.
RIVER MOUTH: SOCIAL & ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS The Columbarium proposes the reconnection of a swamp to the sea, and latches on the lack of a mangrove experience in the existing park to provide social reconnection to nature.
A NARRATIVE ON THE POTENTIAL OF SPACES TO REDUCE FEAR The sensitive nature of this project provides an opportunity to tackle emotions through architecture. Therefore, a sequential narrative was developed to recreate an experience that would provide familiarity & comfort for commoners (in the midst of the dead) and yet a solemn place for mourners(in the midst of activity).
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Varied Environments of familiarity to tackle fear
Tackling spatial transitions from the view of an outsider
An extroverted platform that binds the columbarium’s heterotopias.
Vertical associations & Juxtaposition: experience comfort above the urns
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ENTRANCE PLAZA 410 m2
COLUMBARIUM 970 m2
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MANGROVE WALK 350 m2
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SCREENING PROGRAMME An enveloping circulation that wraps the columbarium with a layer of extroverted and explorative spaces, providing a screen of privacy for both mourners and the public.
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AXONOMETRIC: SOCIAL & ECOLOGICAL SHIFTS The Columbarium will work in tandem with the rebuilding of the mangrove, creating ecological connections to the sea by opening the swamp. It taps on nature’s tranquility yet diversity as benefits for mourners and visitors respectively.
VERTICAL IRONIES: SPATIALITY OF PATH VS POINT This strategy utilises similar elements to create 2 ironic spaces suiting both mourners and commoners. The mangrove trees, undivided, lose their individual centrality and become an edge creating a non-static environment for parkgoers. However below, the niches serve at obstructions, creating a centrality that provides individuality, resulting in appropriate pockets for mourning the loss.
SECTION: INVERTED PROGRAMS Based on basic architectural strategies: Point vs Path, Centrality vs Edge, Light, the columbarium creates a juxtaposition of spaces, allowing park goers to experience nature without the fear that tags along with having urns below.
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MOURNERS : NATURE & ISOLATION Beneath lies the funeral halls and prayer rooms. These spaces utilise the decrease in depth of view to provide privacy and isolation, critical elements necessary in mourning the dead and practicing self-reflection.
LEVELS AS VIEWING STRATEGY
PLAZAS + BIRDWATCHING CABINS
FROM CANAL TO EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS ON ECOLOGY !
SOCIAL SPACES CAMOUFLAGE THE DEAD BELOW !
BANDED FILTRATION GARDENS
iii COMMUNITY: DIALOGUE BETWEEN PROXIMITY AND SCALE HDB TYPOLOGY PROPOSAL IN TOA PAYOH
Spring 17/18 Dr Cho Im Sik
This project proposes a typology that focuses on 3 types of communal spaces that vary in proximity and scale. i) Immediate communal space on the same level, meant to discover neighbours and use gardening and consistent rituals to build relationships. Placed in proximity, it encourages usage by overcoming the inconvenience of going downstairs. ii) A dedicated space for people to meet through the pursuit of common interests. Rather than an existing tension between a void and a programmed space, an elevated plaza provides an opportunity for privacy and interests to be maximised. iii) A porous ground floor. Rather than multiple void decks of singular hierarchy, an accumulation provides a wider spatial range to work with, creating tall volumes for events and celebrations. Secondary voids are used to bleed into peripheral open spaces forming possible links with other blocks. These three spaces are successive, tackling community building in its multi-scaled dimension, allowing one to engage in relationships based on the complex needs of the community.
Where is the Community ?
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The typical block results in an abrupt encounter on a single level, creating multiple engagements with minimal meaningfulness.
Alternatively, community is created at multiple levels. In smaller pockets with various objectives for greater effectiveness.
CONCEPT: PROGRESSIVE FAMILIARITY + MEANINGFUL ENCOUNTERS From individual levels, to the block and lastly the precinct, each type considers proximity, rituals and unique interests to encourage residents to be engaged at different levels of community, from more private conversations to large gatherings, from the mundane to the annual occasions. Spaces for the multi-faceted opportunities to build relationships
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GENERATIVE DIAGRAMS OF TYPE A , B & C COMMUNAL SPACES The design evolves from existing organisations, and aims to optimize their postive aspects. It does not aim to encourage communal living to the fullest, but find the optimal balance between the individual’s comfort, community and densification needs of Singapore.
SECURITY , PRIVACY , VOLUMES & ENGAGEMENT Staggered mini plazas of various capacities aim to provide immediate spaces of desirability. From now on, one does not need to go to the void deck below, elevated decks provide ventilated, litted spaces for activities. These are offset vertically to ensure privacy for adjacent units.
VERTICAL STRATIFICATION A gradation of volume and specificity defines this project. In considering that a community takes on multiple forms, and it’s physical(e.g. noise) effects on adjacent units are sensitive topics, a vertically-layered system was chosen to provide 3 horizontal planes a degree of necessary immediate discontinuity.
INTERSECTING ARCHIPELAGO
BRIDGING URBAN FARMS & RESIDENTS
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INTERFACE : FOOD CITY FOOD INDUSTRY IN GUL CIRCLE
Fall 17/18 Centre For Liveable Cities Tutor: Rene Tan Michael Koh
This project aims to explore fresh approaches in layering residential uses over an industrial programme. As the growing population causes the government to expand the residential plots into the Western Industrial Area, ‘Food City’ emerges as a microcosm that is configured to allow it’s food factories to co-exist with it’s social, commercial and residential spaces. Taking Gul Circle MRT station as the main node, a masterplan is firstly developed. By pushing the heavy industries along an L-shaped Hazmat route, a central plaza is formed. An open space for parks and communal activities, the axial plaza is aligned with ‘liveable plots’ that are open to residential and commercial usage. Driven by the lack of proper amenities in Tuas, Food City itself acts as a ‘meal’ gateway to the masterplan. Visitors to the western industrial area are greeted with eateries and markets within the complex as they emerge from the MRT station. An interface that allows people to have their meals when they enter and before they leave.
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URBAN FARMING: SCREENING POLLUTIVE INDUSTRIES The Food City shall embrace an entire system: Farm to Table. Inspired by a meal, industries are organised based on degree of pollution. Farming stands out as clean, and provides an opportunity for a green screen, to buffer residents from the industry. However, beyond buffering, residents need to embrace the industry as a whole, as the project aims to utilise a common ground between the aspects of living and that of food production.
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DISCONNECT + CONNECT 5. DISCONNECT + CONNECT
HORIZONTAL ORGANISATION
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BLEED 2. BLEED
FARM TO GROUND 6. FARM TO GROUND
VERTICAL ORGANISATION
MERGE TO PLAZA
SEE + LEARN + SUPPLY
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DISCONNECTING BUFFERS 7. DISCONNECTING BUFFERS
VERTICAL + HORIZONTAL ORGANISATION
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CONNECTING INTERVENTIONS 8. CONNECTING INTERVENTIONS
A NEW STEPPED HYBRID ORGANISATION
SLANTING FOR FARMS + PLAZAS
ENGAGEMENT OF RESIDENTS
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MACRO + MICRO FORM GENERATION The issues drawn from the programmatic study highlights the development of the project at two scales: a macro scale that proposes a buffer and connecting sytem for liveability, and at a micro scale, the creation of an efficient hybrid organisation to house the 4 industries.
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GATEWAY PUNCH Plan Level 2
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VIEWING TUBE
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UNIQUE INTERVENTIONS THAT UNITE Though the Industry operates on a model of efficiency and linearity, it’s spatial model is not suitable for living. A set of unique interventions promote liveability by embracing various narratives, from that of a museum to a herb dome, allowing residents to find meaning in living within the food city.
INTERSECT Plan Level 5
AXONOMETRIC A complex that is efficiently split by the ramp-up system, utilising the transport of goods as a buffer. Urban farms shield the residents, while commercial and communal spaces are linked to the industry
THROUGH THE CANYON l SOCIAL BUFFERS
FOOD CITY A gradation of liveability. From the manufactoring process to the market place, the spatial qualities transform from the linear and process driven, to the centralised and narrative-driven.
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A REFERENTIAL TIE RECONCILIATING PERSPECTIVES IN BALESTIER
Autumn 14/15 Tutor: Gyn Kong
Significant developments for the past decades within Singapore has presented an unresolved transition to mediate between differing housing typologies. The need for conservation coupled with the growing number of high-densed developments, creates a conflict. A Referential Tie aims to provide logical transitions from Shophouse-styled architecture to highrise residentials, and between them, the many differing programs that at present, only serve to function as exclusive entities.
SELF-DEFINED + REFERENTIAL JOURNEYS With 3 angles to approach the experience of ceramics, a visitor is granted options and line of sights that are constantly shifting. Depending on the movement, one shall experience the program through 3 scenarios: time, colour or type.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR VISUAL INFLUENCE The linearity of a shophouse street brings opportunities for an architeture to reveal visuals sequentially while walking or even on public transport.
ASSESSING BALESTIER’S DUALITY/INCONGRUENCE For the project to seamlessly allow a reconciliation between two typologies, a visual coherence of activity and a respect of the shophouse typology were 2 main concerns to integrate the site with both it’s ends.
CONTEXTUAL ORGANISATIONAL GRID Spatially, the datums of the interior are generated from key external axialities: Balestier Rd & Whampoa Dr.
PROGRESSIVE SPATIAL & PROGRAMMATIC OPERATIONS With the key considerations from site influences to the ceramic curatorial, a series of operations were made to organise the programme and generate the form of the project.
THE TIE Juxtaposed with 2 typologies, the architecture shall define smooth transitions, granting a permeability that carefully transcends history(shophouses) with modernity(HDB).
SPATIAL OVERLAPS & REFERENCES The horizontality of the narrative is bounded by the verticality of the fins which not only provides visual cues but also programtically joins the spaces above and below. Visual connection is granted to spaces and the environment outside, granting an experience that is never purely of a subject but truly referential.
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SYMBIOTIC REHABILITATION URBAN MARKET SYSTEM IN BOLOGNA
ETH Zurich . Autumn 15/16 Tutor: Prof. Brillembourg Prof. Klumpner Katerina Kourkoula Hannnes Gutberlet
STUDIO SUPERMERCATO explores the possibilities of expanding the rehabilition provided by the well-known San Patrignano group in Italy. Drug-rehabilitation has long faced the issues of societal integration. Inspired by the beliefs and operations of San Patriganano, SYMBIOTIC REHABILITATION aims to create a market system that redefines the daily habits of grocery shopping, yet athrough its program, allow the rehabilitation of a homeless crisis in Bologna By identifying areas of need, flexible symbiotic structures utilise existing resources and leftover spaces to create an Urban Supermercato. These satellites would in turn be assisted by the homeless in an exchange for shelter, and thereafter create a sustainable model for the market and it’s social ideals.
CONCEPT: TRANSLATING SAN PATRIGNANO’S DUALITY San Patrignano currently operates on a belief to enable many with varied skills, yet living communally as part of rehabilitation. This notion of integrity yet individuality has been translated programmatically through a central nucleus which services satellite markets that work within the leftover spaces of Bologna.
CATALOGUE OF TOOLS - COMPONENT SYSTEM
URBAN MARKET SYSTEM Varying forms emerge as a response to the existing spatial circumstances of leftover corners and alleys. These satellites sell goods of need within their localities, with housing provided above. These responds to the duality of the concept, with major goods movement and dining oriented towards the central site.
REACTIVATING LEFT OVER SPACES The alley of Vicolo Urbaga has been reinvigorated with wine selling, coupled with the formal continuation of the porticos, ultimately adding activity and meaning to a left over space.
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TEMPLE OF THE SENSES SENSORIAL EXPERIENCES IN FORT CANNING PARK
Spring 14/15 Tutor: Tay Yanling
This project was based on the idea of translating the abstract, and using the result as a datum for the creation of a folly within Fort Canning Park. Through the analysis of a given piece of music, Part Six of the Playlist for an Extreme Occasion (composed by Vijay Iyer and performed by the Silkroad Ensemble), ideas of disjointedness, contrast and perception would manifest itself in built form. Along the parameters of music, the given parameter of water would provide a means of stringing together the individuality of the sounds found in the music. This would be further translated in a progression of experiences that would culminate in an abrupt ending. Subsequently, these concepts would be translated to the context of the site: Terrace Green, Fort Canning Park. As tourists and locals visit the site, the folly would take on the role of the moderator. It would provide, as inspired by the abruption in the music, a temporal tool to organize views, eventually presenting a contrasting experience that would ultimately question the visitor’s purpose in being there.
QUANTIFYING THE ABSTRACT: PART 6 OF THE PLAYLIST FOR AN EXTREME OCCASION The Silkroad Ensemble paved the way for this project. Vijay Iyer, the composer, would use this final piece in the playlist to plant the question of imagining music. By building up, adding and subtracting, and in it’s fullness, silence the orchestra, the listener is forced to create endings of his own. Music defined by listeners.
Abruption
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Vortex of sounds into the mono
Individual Instruments
Cyclical to centre
Music & Water shall flow
EXTRACTING MUSICAL FORMS Form creation hinged on 2 qualities which were crucial to the instrumental piece. The build up and the anti-climax.
RETHINKING THE ANALYSIS Defining the abrupt ending as concieved by the music, through a narrative of water flowing through paths of different instruments. Gravity would define time, water would flow towards a full orchestra of sounds.
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SOUND TO FORM Giving form to sound. A basic shape would be translated with the individuality of each instrument. Pitch, directionality, progression and sustainance.
CELLO PERCUSSION HIGH VIOLA PIANO
VIOLIN SHENG PERCUSSION BASS TAMBOURINE
PHYSICAL INDIVIDUALITY OF INSTRUMENTS With the forms generated, to create water movement that would mimic the nature of that particular instrument.
AXONOMETRIC: WATER INGRESS
TRANSPARENT VIEWFINDER. TO SEE THE ENDPOINT.
THE INITIAL WATER HOLDER. 4 ROUTES ARE CREATED FOR THE FOUR PAIRS OF INSTRUMENTS.
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A BUILD UP OF MUSIC THROUGH WATER With routes generated from the sounds, the different introduction timings form an orchestra of networks for the water to flow, capturing visually the architectural aspects generated from the movement of water. It ends with the abruption intended by Vijay Iyer, a paradox of 2 endings
FINAL MODEL PART 6 OF THE PLAYLIST FOR AN EXTREME OCCASION A build up of individuality creating a unified sound, ending with a paradox of water flow.
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CONCEPT OF ORGANISING MONUMENTAL EXPERIENCES With the preceeding study of the musical piece, the idea of abruption is carried forward to this phase. This added with the numerous monuments that throw the environment of the plateau in a frenzy, the Folly shall act as organising tool, revealing views as time passes, ending with an abruption that will question the park’s use as a place of Tranquility & Recreation or History & Monumentality.
FORM PROGRESSION
SPATIAL PROGRESSION
Inspired by the musical model in phase I, the build up of experiences is signified by the rectangular massing. It transits thereafter to a curve form that would mark the last experience.
A development from the initial form, progressive spaces are created for the specific programmatic requirements. These individual spaces would drive the cones of vision that explore the site.
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A CYCLICAL & SENSORIAL JOURNEY A build up of individuality creating a unified sound, ending with a paradox of water flow. A cyclical series of sensorial experiences that abruptly changes just before the final space, inspired by precedent water models.
Collaboration with Max Moriyama + Taylor Hewitt
EAST SIDE COASTAL RESILIENCY COASTAL DEFENCE IN NEW YORK
Fall 16 Project Leaders: Jeremy Alain Siegel Simon David Nicole Pasarella Team: Max Moriyama Taylor Hewitt Jonathan Hein Nandi Lu
This project was driven by the destructive effects of Hurricane Sandy that surged lower Manhattan, New York City. It proposes the redevelopment of a Big ‘U’ that acts as a coastal infrastructure to protect the city contained by it. In this phase of the project, the focus hinges on the East River Park, a 2.2km stretch along Manhattan’s eastern edge that encompasses numerous green spaces amongst civic plazas and sporting facilities. With a landscaping vision in mind, and walled infrastructure to keep the water out, a revitalised East River Park is developed. The notion of pockets of program, and termed as “Archipelagos” is envisioned to inject energy and vibrancy that revitalises the park when it isn’t used as a means of flood control. Connecting the park are 3 critical ingress points for residents from the rest of the city, by which 3 bridges are re-created. They would be designed to bring the park’s experience beyond the edges of the park, into the communities adjacent to it.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS
FEEDBACK “IT’S HARD TO SEE THROUGH THE CHAIN LINK FENCE AT AN ANGLE AND IT’S NOT WELL LIT AT NIGHT OR IN THE MORNING SO THERE ARE ALOT OF ROBBERIES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BRIDGE ”
“GET US IN THE MOOD FOR A PARK! YOU CAN’T SEE THE BRIDGE FROM BACK HERE”
“CYCLISTS TRAVEL FAST AND THERE ARE COLLISIONS WITH PEDESTRIANS”
E10T
H ST
“IN A WHEELCHAIR IT’S EASIER TO GO TO 23RD ST TO CROSS WHERE IT’S FLAT AND THERE ARE NO RAMPS”
“SEPARATE BIKE LANES IS A GREAT IDEA! ”
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T
“THE RAMPS ARE TOO STEEP ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BRIDGE AND THE SWITCHBACKS ARE NO GOOD FOR WHEELCHAIRS”
“PEOPLE PARK THEIR CARS AND WASH THEM ON E10TH ST. IT FEELS LIKE NO ONE IS AWARE OF THE PARK ACCESS” FDR DRIVE
+ PEOPLE & RESILIENCY INFRASTRUCTURE The overarching objectives of the project is to revamp the East River Park, improving it’s vibrancy and usage, along with adding the neccessary infrastructure to protect it against future storms. 12‘
12‘
5%
12‘
50‘
15.5‘
12‘
50‘
15.5‘
5%
5%
15.5‘
5%
BRIDGE DESIGN PARAMETERS Integrate Park & New Infrastructure Demands
50‘
NYCHA Maintenance Area
E 10 ST 8'
EXISTING
+24.5'
+7.0'
+23.0'
+7.0'
+6.7'
+7.4'
Hydrant
x 11.8'
8'
Property Line
Sidewalk
Service Entry
NYCHA Maintenance Area
Hydrant
Vehicle
Sidewalk
Parking
8'
19' +7.4'
15'
Vehicle
Parking 8'
14'
Sidewalk
Service Entry
Hydrant
E 10 ST
x 16.8'
+5.8'
+5.8'
+7'-0"
+7'-0"
E 10 ST
E 10 ST
15.5‘ Considering community feedback and analysing the usage of the existing bridge has led us to narrow down the design parameters to the need for universal access, bike lanes, straight construction and sensitivity to sub-surface utilities.
17'
5%
Property Line
15.5‘
50‘
PROPOSAL
BRIDGE AS AN EXPERIENCE The new 10 st Bridge acts as an experiential connector to the park, formally aligning to the round-about and providing vantage points along main axes. Wider widths and seating provide cyclists and the elderly a more comfortable experience.
EXISTING
BERM AND PARK ARRIVAL
1:20 RAMP CONCENTRATED AT SOUTH EDGE OF E. 10TH ST.
A NEW BRIDGE
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XY EXPLORATIVE VERTICAL STRUCTURES IN CONCRETE
Spring 2015
Team: Bertrand Tan Jireh Lee Eugene Chan Phye Phyo
With concrete as the medium of construction, a tower of human height was to be created. Our team envisioned a tower that would be modular, utilising a stacking configuration. However, as a challenge, we wanted to create modules that were not stable by themselves, but relied on each other to eventually create a standng structure. Through brainstorming, testing with scaled physical models and finally, an exploration of the potentials of concrete, the XY tower was formed, by which two modules would form an interdependent inner and outer ring.
INITIAL BRAIN STORMING 8 OPTIONS:
THICK X
THIN X
CROSS
INVERTED PYRAMID
PHIZZ
PLANE
H SPIRAL
H STACK
ITERATION 01:
MODULES U + Y
ITERATION 02:
MODULES Y + T
INTERLOCKING CARDBOARD MODELS With a preliminary configuration of two diagonal modules, paper models were used to test the stability and make fine-tuning to the plane angles of the form. Eventually both the Y modules from separate models were selected as they would require less concrete.
1. Basic Module
2. Interlocking structure in opposing directions
3. Stable Facet of 4 Modules
70° 70°
Inner
Outer
4. Transfer of load + Inner and Outer rings
FINAL MODULE The final stable configuration required 12 external short ‘Y’ modules with 6 internal long ‘Y’ modules. for a single level of 2 rings.
Weak Areas Glass Fibre Wire Mesh
CONCRETE The preparation of the concrete required the testing of the cement and addition of other materials to provide sufficient strength, which included wire meshes and glass fibres.
Assembly of Tower
XY
x FOLDING LANDSCAPES PAVILION FOR THE ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL
ETH Zurich . Autumn 15/16 Team: Alfred Pun Jireh Lee Alana Tam
Folding Landscapes is a project that dwells on the experimentation and exploration of structural folding to articulate spaces for a pavilion. A cinema is developed for the Zurich Film festival, with a succession of three spaces: the ticket office, the indoor cinema and the outdoor cinema. Utilising both digital and physical models, the products of brainstorming are tested for kinematic stability and structural behaviour, and continuously adjusted to ensure the original intentions for the narrative and it’s views are maintained. The final iteration culminates in the creation of a gill structure that emerges from the walls of the venue, with openings oriented along the axis sequentially. The Folds act as a single medium that performs various purposes, from shelter to wall to seat.
INITIAL GEOMETRY - INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS The initial spaces were developed via the manipulation of triangle surfaces to suite the individual characteristics of each space. The ticket office was to have a skylight to mark the beginning of the narrative, while the indoor cinema would require a concave enclosure and the outdoor cinema a convex plaza.
LOADING CONDITION 01
LOADING CONDITION 02
FINAL
ESTABLISHING CONNECTIONS Using Karamba3D as an analysis tool, various support conditions were simulated for the points that met the ground. Eventually, the final configuration utilised the wall as a lateral and vertical support.
DRAWINGS
ASSYAFAAH MOSQUE: ABLUTION TO MEDITATION NUS Drawing Prize 2014 1st Prize: Hand Drawn Category
UNBUILT LONDON: VIEWING MODERNITY AA London Summer School Collage