Architectural Portfolio 2019-2020 by Prisca Kwan

EDUC

2019 -

2014 -

2013

PRISCA KWAN MAY YAN

EXPE

Architecture Graduate of RMIT Johor Bahru, Malaysia

2017-2

http://priscakwanfolio.cargo.site prisca0219@gmail.com

2015 ‘Architecture is the petrification of a cultural moment’ - Jean Nouvel I find buildings and cities attractive especially when I see traces and hints of cultural and social moments. From its finest detail of a building or a place to the fabric of a city, it reflects the social, economic and technological changes of their time. The by-product of a place is never of the architects’ power, but the architecture is decided upon the architects. Whether to preserve or to create; To reserve what is known as heritage and to discard the memory of one. That I believe is the authority and power an architect posses.

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CATION

- 2020

RMIT University, Melbourne Master in Architecture

- 2016

Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus, Malaysia Bachelor in Architecture (Hons) Bachelor Folio Sunway College Johor Bahru AUSMAT (Australian Matriculation)

ERIENCE

2018

Multimedia Engineering Pte Ltd, Singapore Architectural Designer Prepare documents for clients and submittal : Market Research Conceptual design Design proposal Tender documents Detail drawings RDC Architects Architectural Intern Involve in the production of on-going projects : Design layouts | Residential Technical drawings for submission | Residential 3D model iterations | Tower sculptures Participate in CCM & post-stage meetings | Commercial

LLS

Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, AutoCad, Revit, Maya, ZBrush, Processing 3

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Adobe Creative Suite, Enscape, V-ray, KeyShot

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CNC, Grasshopper, Laser Cutting

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English, Mandarin, Malay

EREE Peter Knight , RMIT Thesis Supervisor peter.e.knight@gmail.com Sumi Moe , Former Supervisor at Multimedia Engineering Pte Ltd sumimoe@gmail.com

Selected Projects 1 Hong Kong Embassy : Permanent Impermanence 2 Preston Market : The Third Place 3 Social Housing : Auto-Zoid 4 Nature Appreciation Hub Misc. 5 Market Research : Strategies for Future Built Economies with Hayball Practice Studio 6 ComplexCity DigitalFutureWorld 2020 7 More..

HONG KONG EMBASSY: PERMANENT IMPERMANENCE Thesis Project This project aims to explore the constructive capacity an ephemeral event - a protest to architecture through research studies and testing of drawings and formal translation on site. The architectural proposal takes the form of a Hong Kong embassy- a place that is ceasing to exist. While Hong Kong is not a country of its own, the project proposes an embassy that operates for the exiles to assist Hong Kongers process foreign matters and activism in Melbourne. The project affirms the architecture role that embodies a power, the power to give the ephemeral a status, and the disorder a control.

Protest as an Emergence of an Urban Way of Life The project was inspired by the survival of the aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra. It demonstrates the permanent impact of an ephemeral event. The tent structure defies it’s nature and context despite being continuously dismantled, it still stands before the Old Parliament House to this date

Old Parliament House

King George Terrace

1. The Display of Power through formal & orderly structured floor plans 2. The Process of Ownership through mapping methodology of ‘Dining Disorder’ by Jeremy Till - the process and the leftovers

Site : 205 Collins St, Melbourne, Westin Hotel The site of the project is located at City square in the Melbourne CBD. This site captures the regret of an opportunity to claim its status and presence in the city due to dominance in power during the development of the CBD

1968 A temporary square of grass and paving

The Display 1976 of Power A permanent square by DCM

1990 Over half of the Square was sold for Westin Hot

The projects informs the transformation of power on site. It returns the city square as a public space as a place of expression

The Process of Ownership The architecture shall record the deformation and destruction to the site as a form of protest

1968 A temporary square of grass and paving 1976 A permanent square by DCM 1990 Over half of the square was sold for Westin Hotel 2011 Occupy Melbourne

Sequence

In the form of recording, mapping and interpreting, the the preconceived meaning. It sees the potential for a and patterns of a free-willed movemen

of Events

e HK protest event was recorded in attempt to eliminate architecture to be constructed by transforming nature, nt, disobeying the order to create order.

ACT 1 : Destruction

Sequence of Events Each waves of the protest reveals an impact on the architecture, in its circulation, space and form.

Collective Manifestation The elaboration of the destruction and disorder onto the architecture and context admits and accepts it as an urban fabric. And begins to set up a framework for the objective of the project for restoration...

ACT 2 : After Destruction

1. Misalignment 2. Under Construction 3. Objects of Occupation

Restoration The after destruction leaves the city square in restoration phase. It is in constant a restoration: to signify the constant struggle in repairing the relationship with the authority. The intentional mess reveals an ownership for the entire scope of works and how each fabric has a specific role to play within the project

4. Back Alley 5. Fountain of Peace 6. Facade of Transparency

Peaceful Celebration of Indifferences The restoration of the aftermath of destruction is the final outcome that proposes a reality that arrived at a state of peaceful celebration in the indifferences. It doesn’t try to resolve the tension between both countries but proposes a possibility to it.

1. Interrogation Room 2. Hallway

3. The assembly

The adaptation of new programs established is a response to the demands from the protesters that the government failed to respond.

Preston Market : The Third Place Semester 1, Year 2 This project reevaluates the currency of the future market. It questions the ancient currency that perpetuates the social hierarchies and it’s measure of power and status in the contemporary context. The focus on money, power and status slowly fades and as millennial recognize other aspects that matter. As the Preston Market site is a thriving place with fresh food market at its core, complemented with plans to increase the vibrancy of the precinct, this market proposal is emerging in response to the changing social conditions and the living expectations of millennial. It will be a public place and center of commerce, politics, and culture. A diverse set of programs but with an intention- A place with different sort of exchange that cultivates the identity of the community

Social Condenser The new masterplan eliminates the existing hierarchy in Preston market and reshuffles the programs that promotes a community of collective interest, work, and public culture; and communities of equality and empathy, in which the old hierarchies of class and gender would be

The Third Place The masterplan reveals itself as a third place for locals, commuters and tourist that arrive at Preston. It explores the adaptation of programs between private, semi private and public conditions, and how it sits in its context.

Context Preston market has a prime location that activates different exchanges to happen. It sits between the train station, commercial and residential, it seeks to connect between the residential, commercial and incoming tourist attraction.

Enhance Network

Unlock Boundary

Preston Typology

Studio Studio Public Cafe Public Cafe

Exhibition Classes Retail Exhibition Classes RetailAdmin services Gathering 24 Marketplace Admin services Gathering Playground MarketplaceMeeting Spaces Storage Storage

Gallery Gallery

Workshop Workshop Market Market Courtyard Courtyard Restaurant

Auditorium Auditorium

The masterplan adopts urban language of the precinct. The fine grains at High Street sleeves within the bigger spaces to increase the vibrancy of the market.

Social

Education

Amenities

Administration

Commercial

Social Condenser The entire block performs as a social condenser, connecting the different social typology: the community and the foreigner.

Social Condenser The proposal test the idea of grains to create an aggregate of different land uses and the opportunity of mix and match around the building. Programs with higher human engagement are prioritized to eliminate old social currency.

The Thir

The new market deals with the private - semi-private - pub through the gentrification of the precinct. It searches for the

Public - Public

Residential

Train Station

Public - Private

Transportation Hub Social Education Facilities Administration Commercial

Public Community Social Education Facilities Commercial

Reading Lounge

Workshop

Retail Sale

Public Gathering

Computer Room

Cafe

Gallery

Workshop Cafe

Sale

Retail

Restaurant

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blic relationship as it embraces the incoming population balance between tourism and community lifestyle here.

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on Market (Individual Site)

Private - Private

Community Facility Social Education Facilities Commercial

Pavilion

Commercial

Studio

Gym/ Spa

Classroom

Market

Retail

Restaurant

Services

Social Housin

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millions live without an adequate shelter, this hitecture could produce housing more quickly gital and algorithmic methods

Automation as Design Process Discrete architecture develops design strategies for serially repeating, recombinable sets of generic discrete elements that can be assembled into fully functional and complex buildings

Automation Consequences Auto-Zoid speculates the construction of a housing block designed and built through a system of discrete parts and represented in a housing block – It concerns social, economic and political consequences of a shift towards full automation

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Scale

Discourse : Scale The limitation of today’s typical parts for example a brick is the limited patterns or forms that a brick can collectively produce. A brick cannot form a whole, only a section of a whole; a wall, a pier, a floor. The election of the scale of the part drastically changes the reading of the architecture. The sweet spot for the parts to be in-between the modern building : a capsule home; and oversized structure: the ancient hypostyle.

Parts

Meta-Parts

Hollow

Porous

Direction Change

Mirror Dense

Whole

Elements are not optimised to perform in a unique and singular condition, but respond through their iterative accumulation and recombination to different conditions.

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Prototype 2

Prototype 3

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Slab

Floor

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Ornament

Oranament

Step

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Apartment Lobby Discrete parts are tested with their possible aggregation. The apartment lobby displays the successful aggregation that created a livable space

Core

Apartment

Housing Block

Bamboo Housing by Foreign Office Architects(FOA)

Auto-Zoid

Core

Apartment

Apartment Wall Pattern

By using these parts to create a housing block we looked at the precedent ‘Bamboo housing’ by FOA. A simple housing block design where the core acts as separation between apartments and also the access.

The Loft Through the rearrangement of identical parts differentiation of the whole arises from patterning, to create spaces of habitation.

The Bedroom The automation drives the project with a radical social, aesthetic and spatial agenda.

The Living Parts are autonomous that the spaces produced are defined by the parts rather than the function that was pre-assigned.

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1. Turn buckle with a pull cable clamp 2. Designed shear key 3. Connection plate with C-shaped end holder 4. Connection plate with cables running through 5. 48mm insulator 6. 2mm steel cable 7. 12mm Hard Plywood

1. Foundation and Ground Floor 1200 x 400 mm reinforced concrete strip foundation. 25mm cavity filled with lean-mix concrete up to DPC level. 75 mm rigid insulation. 75mm sand/cement screed with mesh reinforcement. 150x 150 mm steel plates connecting 12mm plywood above.

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Single Element

Branches into multiple element

Elevation Sketch

Children Exploration Deck

Strategies for Future Built Economies Hayball practice studio Semester 1, Year 2

In this studio research, we look for strategies for future built economies. The responsibility to sustain the quality of architecture within our built environment and to service it with the currency of good design intelligence to advance architecture for our future cities. In a group of 2, we explore the project based on it’s context and boundary, system and agency, and form and content. These three tools are tested to its success in designing a market in West Melbourne.

Context The boundary within the context of West Melbourne is explored and defined. As the city grows, the city boundary is expanded and shifted and in some cases shrink as we question its definition. As a result of these movements, new boundaries are constantly created and places are hence redefined. We define the different sorts of boundary, from macro (context) to the market (plot) itself.

Victoria.. Melbourne.. West Melbourne.. King St.. Context

We explored at the morphology of significant buildings, how it has transformed from big chunks of blocks into a more porous and penetrable blocks

First Flinders Station, 1854

State Library,1854

Melbourne Town Hall,1867

City Bath,1903

Federation Square, 2000

Boundary

New boundaries are created with the development of West Melbourne. The different boundaries of West Melbourne helps to understand its spatial relationship to a local or a geographical character.

SPENCER

HISTORIC HILLTOP

STATION PRECINCT

ADDERLEY SPENCER

HISTORIC HILLTOP

Low Rise Mid Rise High Rise

FLAGSTAFF

District

Topography

Transportation

Grid Layout

Mass vs Void

Built vs Unbuilt

Plot

Adjacent Building

System This system of movement responds to the site conditions and creates different levels of engagement and interaction. For this to happen, we developed a system designed in the market as a main concept, that allows modification, replacement or substitution without damaging the initial objective

Jukung Pasar Terapung, Indonesia

Access and Circulation

Permeability Density Distribution

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Digital Future

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The Project entitled ‘Seeding’ utilised a unique lands and a challenging environment. The project runs floc flow along the landscape. As the city fabric covers and building components to alloca

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es World 2020

or a new typology of a city fabric through the lens of looking at the fundamental connection between the behaviours to search for any essence of spatial quality ve been missing.

scape borrowed from Mars, which represent a hostile cking behaviours of agents within the valley and let it d occupy the landscape, we designed different types of ate at its adequate positions.

Location of Components

Solar analysis to determine optimal area for human and non human components to be occupied in our site

Transition

Human

Production

Primary

Voxelised Agent The voxelised agent field with different intensity and directionality shows the different spatial quality of the fabric.

Agent Field Through adjusting the agent speed and flocking behaviours, it results in various sparseness and orientation, which informs the voxel density.

Primary

Production

Primary component consist of human spaces and a power or resources supply for one unit. The Power supply are attached at the back of the human space to provide food, water, and power for the human settlers.

Human components are designed based on the number of occupancy. A base number of 3 allows more units to aggregate and form a larger community overtime

Human Human components are designed based on the number of occupancy. A base number of 3 allows more units to aggregate and form a larger community overtime

Transition Transition zone are the in-between spaces to separate the production and human zone. It creates pockets in the city for human activity and interaction with the new green living organism.

This image records the early human settlement era where human and production space are collectively together

The landscape allows the units to cascade down the valley, having the optimum views and sunlight across the city equally throughout the day. Through playing with different surface sizes and vertical elements on each component, it allows different porosity and density happen in the cluster.