Tung Lin Part I
Architectural Assistant Applicant
Content
Play Street Library
Sheffieild children’s library
Alderson Makers’ Village
Sheffield housing project for mature students and apprentices
Mottainai! Garden Market
Hiroshima second-hand market and repair cafe
Canning Dock Press and Archive
Liverpool retrofit printing collective
Personal Work pastel portraits
Children's haven for independent exploration and learning
London Road in Sheffield is an area where take-away restaurants lined the streets. It is an arterial road that links Sheffield city to A61, making it unsafe for pedestrians. However, just behind the row of shops are estates for family-living. The area lacks places where children can safely go and play if the parents are still at work. This library therefore aims to provide study and gathering spaces for children and teenagers.
location: Sheffield
Year 2, 2022
Right top to bottom: Engaging facade that encourages play and peeking. Rendered from cardboard model/ Detailed view at materiality. Rendered from Revit model
Left: Birdseye view axo created from a Rivet model
Mature students and apprentices housing
This is a student-housing project aimed at mature students and apprentices in creative fields who enters higher education later in their lives. This sheme aims to provide a village-like typology and variety in their environment to foster a sense of ownership in the residents (the student themselves and their family) despite the fleeting nature of student population.
location: Sheffield
Year 2, 2022
Left: 1-50 facade model with oak and birch collage/ Right: 1-20 detailed section
Top: view of the courtyard, the SUDs, the studio terraces, and the workshop in the background/ Bottom: north external view vof the village, showcasing the balconies, side entrances and the bike and bin storages
Sectional perspective showcasing the community kitchen, the apartments and the workshop. The variety of housing typologies and shared facilities fosters a diverse residents group and activities
“What a waste!” - secondhand market, repair cafe and civic leisure space
Mottainai! is an expression used often by the older generation in Japan, especially those who experienced post-war scarcity. This secondhand trestle table market and the repair cafe aim to extend the idea of circular economy into the now hyper-consumerist society of Japan by promoting reuse and re-sale. The airy indoor garden space and the pocket park created also provides for the much-needed public space that is lacking in the Hiroshima concrete jungle.
location: Hiroshima Year 3, 2023
Left: 1-100 gf plan showing the interior and pocket park in the south side. Right: east facade showing the proportions
The raised viewing platform is west-facing, and allows for a sunset view over the famed Motoyasu river and the Peace Memorial Park designed by Kenzo Tange.
Left two: 1-20 detailed model, top section of the community space viewing platform
Right top to bottom: sketches of the east and west facade/ view from the west river-side entrance, showing the lift and staircase/ view from the east city-side entrance, showing the entry nook leading to the repair cafe
Printing guild that supports local voices and preserve diverse narratives
Mottainai! is an expression used often by the older generation in Japan, especially those who experienced post-war scarcity. This secondhand trestle table market and the repair cafe aim to extend the idea of circular economy into the now hyper-consumerist society of Japan by promoting reuse and re-sale. The airy indoor garden space and the pocket park created also provides for the much-needed public space that is lacking in the Hiroshima concrete jungle.
location: Liverpool Year 3, 2023
Left images: West (front) facade render, showing the iconic gable and the new cafe viewing platform; west-facing section cutting though the Guild Hall, atrium, artist studio and the planted dry dock/ Right top to bottom: GF plan, airy Guild Hall view and intimate, street-like atrium viewAnti-clockwise from left top: initial investigation on the risograph printing equiment spatial requiments; west-facing section through the outdoor stairs, the artist studio, the atrium, and the Guild Hall; 1-20 detailed section.
To avoid the large carbon emission from the ground concrete slab, and to make the retrofit technically reversible, a floating floor with minipiles is chosen.
These are a few selected images from my environmental and technical strategies. Throughout this project, I have set benchmarks by utilising the LETI guides, RIBA 2030 goals and Living Building Challenge. I established a whole-life carbon review, retrofit envelope+structure strategies, on-site energy generation strategies, water-management strategy, fire strategies, ecological strategies, acoustic strategies and community strategies by consulting literature and by researching into the context.
Left: structural view of the existing structure and load path. I offered some critical/contextual points which informed my retrofit strategy.
Right: my envelope design. One of the originally external wall became internal, which presented a challenge for moisture control and insulation. My approach is to keep the new-build element moisture open, allowing the wall to naturally ventilate. Key junctions in contact with timber elements will be separated with liquid/sheet waterproofing membrane. Thermally, I wrapped the insulation up the wall to mitigate the thermal bridge. Below: thermal zoning, which also corresponds to the activities taking place in each space.
Bottom two images are done based on an older version of the design section
A5 pastel portraits of my friends