CV JONATHAN S. PALJOR D.O.B Nationality Email
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28/10/1990 Indian jonathan.paljor@gmail.com
E D U C AT I O N B A C K G R O U N D 2013
BA(Hons) IN INTERIOR DESIGN
GOLDSMITH’S College, University of London; awarded through LASALLE College of the Arts
2012
DIPLOMA IN INTERIOR DESIGN
LASALLE College of the Arts, SINGAPORE
2009
High School Diploma
Woodstock School, INDIA
SOFTWARE SKILLS A U T O C A D , 3 D S M A X + V R AY , R H I N O + G R A S S H O P P E R , M AY A , S K E T C H U P, P H O T O S H O P, I L L U S T R AT O R , I N D E S I G N , F I N A L C U T COMPETITIONS / EXIBITIONS 2012
0CTOBER
Stage Design for ‘Salute to Sinatra’ at Marina Bay Sands Theatre
2012
APRIL-SEPTEMBER
C a r d b o a r d F u r n i t u r e D e s i g n C o m p e t i t i o n f o r Ta m a n J u r o n g C o m m u n i t y C e n t r e .
2012
AUGUST
Wor ks Exhibited for Lasalle Open House Exhibition.
2012
F E B R U A RY- A U G U S T
Singapore Urban Redevelopment Author ity competition for “My Mar ina Bay, My Inspiration” (Finalist)
2011
JUNE
Saturday in Design participant
2010
AUGUST
F i n a l i s t o f D e n i m F u r n i t u r e f o r T h y e H u a K w a n C h a r i t y S h o w o n N a t i o n a l Te l e v i s i o n .
2009
AUGUST
Short Film EXABI for Moving Images and Sound Exhibition.
2009
AUGUST
Collective Wor ks exhibited for Foundational Studies Exhibition.
2009
AUGUST
‘The Cr imson Tide’ installation at Esplanade - Singapore’s Perfor ming Ar ts Theatre
AW A R D S 2009
J I M M Y C A S S I N AT H A RT AW A R D
Woodstock School, INDIA
Woodstock School, INDIA
REFERENCES Xing Wei Ang - PROGRAMME LEADER +65 98622425 - xinwei.ang@lasalle.edu.sg
Nicholas Ooi - LECTURER +65 96181068 - nicholas.ooi@lasalle.edu.sg
Daniel Ayapillai - LECTURER +65 94754815 - daniel.ayapillai@lasalle.
CITY LANDFORMS S E L F M OT I VAT E D P R O J E C T
CITY LANDFORMS
A R C H IT E C T U R E A N D L A N D F O R M AT I O N S
As countries develop, the organization of districts within the
part of how we as humans respond to landscapes around us.
economy, especially that of a business district. Yet currently developing cities are still based on an outdated ideological framework that creates strict physical boundaries between structures and spaces. City Landforms looks at a part of a city that is programmatically diverse and intends to create an architectural typology that consolidates functions into a dense mass while retaining a permeability that breaks down the
can respond to its surroundings by emulating the nature of a
a proposal for a redevelopment of the business district in the city of New Delhi, India based on geological processes of land
through the shifting - be it tectonic shifts or progressive shifts
land form that emulates formations within the landscape while simultaneously responding to the requirements of an architectural construction.
and is know as Connaught Place. It is one of the
processes in creating the architecture by allowing it to create a traversed its surface, understanding and adapting to its various topographic characteristics. For us this behavior is an intrinsic
SITE
in Delhi, housing the headquarters of several busiest Metro Railway intersections. It was once the location of the headquarters of the British, and is an important heritage building in New Delhi. A redevelopment of this area is being proposed as India as a developing nation and is rising at an
while multiplying the corporate space in order for district.
ANALYSIS As the site is in an area of high will look at the human density and movement of the population as a the design. Due to the Intersection
outwards from the center of site and spreads out as commuters and patrons travel to their destinations.
occupy the outer ring. Another factor is the sites historical central business district to the new capital of Imperial India has impacted the area considerably public works departments and Institutions are situated in the area. situated on the outskirts of the site due the sites popularity as a public area.
advantage to the business as it the area.
PROCESS
site, which is then augmented by
represent the shifts of population intensities and the points represent one iteration, radiating outwards process of geological shifting is therefore created in this manner. multiplied to create a mass qualifying the requirements of a height for through the process of erosion to the deformations in the surface. And thus the process creates the PRoCess suRFACe
FORM ITERATIONS effects of the amplitudes in relation to different gradients governed by differnt graph types.
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URBAN EXCAVATIONS A CA D E M I C P R OJ ECT
ANALYSIS Site in Central Business District
Site Location
Current Central Business District
Concentration of Cultural and Social Institutions
Cultural and Social Institutions
Central Business District Future Growth
Central Business District Future Growth
development of certain artifacts within the city that contribute to a
a business district. Due to the concentration of buildings with similar
central Business district is a highly developed area within singapore’s southern geography that is made up of a population of skyscrapers.
becomes more of a multiplication of its site area and loses connection with its surroundings due to the vertical orientation of the building.
brings the Business District closer yet it also creates limitations within its environment due to a lack of socio-urban activity. such areas create a homogeneity and predictability in their environment making it dull activities that take place within the architecture of the area they compose, ignoring the spaces and relationships between the buildings.
Although these areas create predictable environments, such people within such areas are grouped closely within the social clusters of the population and do not allow for the inclusion of various social groups; thus limiting the area further through the homogenization mechanism, which separates the various social strata of the city,
topography of the rest of the city. of the space therefore becomes limited and regulated by the routines
Surrounding Influences
Central Business District
Chinatown & Tanjong Pagar
of its users that have a tendency of moving in synchronized patterns, causing the interstitial spaces that represent the public areas of the city to become over populated or left bare according to the movement of it’s inhabitants. degree, as its autonomy will allow it to use the boundaries that occur
such as a utopian ideal, which the CBD of singapore utilizes. such organizational methods are not natural and simultaneous to our human nature and thus break the interaction and movement of physical and mental bodies.
City Central
CONCEPT & DEVELOPMENT In order for the design to achieve an autonomy and a more transparent relationship with its surroundings it was built upon the characteristics of the human movement around the site. Any movement takes place in a certain direction and can be represented by a linear vector. As the human circulation at the site curves around the building, the movement was captured by visualizing it as multiple vectors that were tangential to were then replaced by rectangular blocks that represented multiple linear passageways that
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BuILDINg.
portion was utilized in order to create a sustained morphing passageway. As the aim was to create a direct relationship between the circulation on the ground as well as a method by which it could continue upwards, the series of passageway blocks stack upon one another translating the movements around the blocks create an intersection with the higher levels the site allows for a new entity to take its place within the structure also breaking the rigidity of -
visually and spatially connected to the surface. A characteristic that most skyscrapers are lacking in.
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STITCHING MASSES
A CA D E M I C P R OJ ECT
PT1METABOLIC HOUSING singapore is a small island in the heart of southeast Asia, and the country’s population has been rapidly increasing over the years. such circumstances have made the city incredibly dense and being a small Island, the county has a limited amount living in public housing it has generated the need for numerous housing developments that make up a large part of singapore’s
Process displaying allocation of points and their cross referencing to derive bridge patters and tower locations.
Jessica D., Ying Ping.
prompted the government to reclaim large amounts of land along the shores of the island.
looks at an alternative solutions to the problem of overpopulation and land to small landmasses off the shore of the mainland in the place of conventional plan that brings into account the future developments of singapore, creating a new urban network for the people living in such areas. It looks at connecting circulation paths from the developments on the mainland to the developments on the island in order to create a cohesive network. A
grid derived through the intersecting of circulatory pathways from one side to the other provides points of concentration which are established as areas for modular an initial value of four blocks connected develops additional blocks are to be connected by bridges act as an adhesive, stitching the two landmasses together. such developments hope to make land reclamation a secondary method for such circumstances.
MODULE DESIGN
was to design a module that would create a module was skewed so that as it multiplied it would shift in the direction of the skew.
on a twisting shape as it grew taller.
PT2 THE OPEN LIBRARY with the idea of how a programmatic shifting can take place through the morphing of a structure. Architecture is often seen as solid space, unmoving and unaffected by human interactions; the structure and program are many times independent of each other, not allowing for one to progressively such limitations by making the program dependent on the structure. accessible through the structure. bridge without disrupting circulation, allowing people to move above library - established on the idea of barter - where users may therefore creates movement and interactions within the premise of which it functions.
study of the design process
ARCHIVE OF ART
A CA D E M I C P R OJ ECT
ARCHIVE OF ART since its independence, singapore has become one of the leading countries with a massive increase in it’s wealth, and has become an economic hub competing with some of the worlds most developed countries. But unlike many of the other developed nations, singapore is still comparatively young and growth has placed it amongst a globally competitive market at such an accelerated rate that the country has barely had time to cultivate and grow its national culture during its period of growth. national Culture, a proposal for an Archive of Art which makes
placed, as a way of adapting and reviving the latent architecture. A structure that combines buildings of different architectural typologies to function as one in order to increase its potential;
at how architectural design can revive and rescue architecture through the combination of the types, as many times developers demolish multiple smaller buildings in order to put up a larger structure.
more contemporary architecture. of singapore, displays and collects Art and other media that a cluster of Buildings located in a prominent part of the city where development endangered the historical buildings in the area. Although many important historical buildings in singapore have been put under conservation and given the
for people to view the work and also allows singapore to preserve aspects of its cultural growth over the years through the collection of works.
FLOORS/SURFACES and spatial discrimination created by such tectonic implementations.
of the building, intersecting with each other at certain points to bring the user through different areas of the building.
on the opposite end travels up to another and the ramp on the second to another. In this way the users travel through the building without intentionally of short walks on different planes. such an application allowed for the space to successfully merge the three surrounding buildings, the archive being placed in the alleyway of the three design for the Archive therefore allows for the public to transition among the three buildings in an almost seamless way.
FIFTEEN
A CA D E M I C P R OJ ECT
A design for a restaurant franchise known as Fifteen, the aim was to base the design around the philosophy of the company which intended to nurture the staff that worked at the Restaurant. rugged to smooth as the structure moves and evolution of the atmosphere. Being under conservation, the facade was to be kept intact while creating an unique and idiosyncratic identity for the franchise and therfore makes bold use of its roof and tripple volume space.
FURNITURE DESIGN C O M P E T IT I O N S U B M I S S I O N S A C A D E M I C P R O J E C TS
BENCh FOR MARINA BAy A bench design for a competition which was part of a collaborative undertaking between the urban Redevelopment Authority (uRA), LASALLE College of the Arts and Marina Bay Singapore. The Project involves the placement of an outdoor bench along the Waterfront Promenade at Marina Bay Singapore. The bench named Drift Wood represents a fragment of a ship that drifts on the Singapore presence as a port city.
group Credits: jonathan Paljor, Li Si yang, Regina Kartika, Ting Sen Ern
oRCHARD GATEWAY
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Competition, was inspired by the fast paced energetic atmosphere of shopping malls in singapore. shopping malls are an important part of the singaporean Lifestyle and have their own robust environment, making them a unique and of the orchard gateway will be an important landmark both physically and in the lifestyle culture of singapore therefore the bench was designed in a manner with roots in both Architecture and Fashion. strip folded to create a piece of furniture that is representing the energetic fast atmosphere.
Competition, singapore the piece looked at the durability of a piece in order to make it last longer. Durability has always been looked upon as rigid and unresponsive, many times the beauty and receptive the process of creating something durable. even the word “durable� sounds crude compared to a word the nature of creating a piece that is both durable is formed using two pieces of bent plywood supported by a welded aluminum frame creating a seamless support.
SELF MOTIVATED PROJECTS
DIMENSIONAL DISTORTIONS dimensional space through the application of a mesh that distorts according to the contours therefore the application of the mesh allows for those variations to be visible.
Photo Collage 150x80cm
FRAGMENTS OF THE CITY within the environment of the city and the different relations that are possible.
the aesthetics and intersections of the Central Business District of singapore.
OBJECT FORMATIONS landscape formations found in Ladakh, India. analyze their shape and movements through not intended to have any function as the form and characteristics of the structure create the possibility of its functions, similar to the manner in which man utilizes the characteristics of an
RECONSTRUCTION
through the reconstruction structure, a mechanism that slowly transforms and reconstructs the raw material
are initiated into its process.
Tectonic Industry Graphite on Paper 60x33cm
In our present day and age a large shift has been taking place in the way we create things. From an era where multiple standardized
the materials for our use through its production of standardized organic, which is never standardized and always unique, with the mechanical, that produces numerous replications of a similar product.
Mined Body Photo Manipulation
Although at times mines are a beautiful sight, they are the symbol of man’s unstoppable minerals for as long as we know; we wound the earth with our machines and leave it scarred and abandoned once they are of no more use. one may question it a necessary the mining of the earth to the human body in order to create an empathic feeling towards the earth as it becomes more relatable through the representation of a human body.
representation from a excerpt by Sverre Fehn
Sverre Fehn, The Skin, the Cut and the Bandage:
about your past. Diagrammatically, we have a person, the visitor, and he is safe. He doesn’t go to hell or to heaven; he is in architecture. Now You work with the horizon or the skin of the earth, and shape it to where it has been landed in time....
DIMENSIONAL WATCHTOWER intended to be a watchtower entering from one dimension to another through a dimensional void. AIthough not divulging much about the two dimensions, it raises questions about architecture and its requirement on other planes of symbol of fear of the unknown. Graphite, Ink on Paper 60x40cm
SKETCHES
SKETCH MODELS