Design Portfolio
Interior I Spatial I Furniture
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Urban Design The Gateway
4-15
Spatial /Interior The Green Escape
16-17
The Next Green Revolution
18-19
The Chinese Herbal House
20-29
The garden playhouse
30-41
Hide and Seek
42-47
Child ‘Parking’
48-57
Furniture Ulmer stool re-design
58-61
The Gateway
Regional context In a broader context, the site in largely surrounded by Atchison St, the neighbourhood area on Nicholson St, Alexander Ln and the intersection of Shirley Rd, Falcon St and Pacific Hwy.
Neighbourhood context
Located approximately 1.5-2 kilometres north west of North Sydney CBD and nearly 2.5 kilometres south east of Neutral Bay Centre, the site is connected to Sydney’s public transport network through existing T1 North Shore railway and will benefit from a dedicated stop on the soon to be completed Sydney Metro Rail. The site sits in between the 3 major centres of North Sydney, St Leonards and Neutral Bay and proves a unique character of warm village atmosphere and strong community value.
Site analysis diagram
The site includes the proposed Crows Nest Metro Station, which is located about 600m away from the St Leonards train station. It is well connected by bus services transiting on the major arterial route of Pacific Hwy. There are a number of educational and health facilities within and adjacent to the site area. A diverse of community destinations, worship places and sport facilities is presented in the site, including: 1.The Crows Nest Centre; 2.Northside Baptist Church; 3.Northern Suburbs Basketball Association; 4.Northside Conference Centre; 5.The Lighthouse Christian Church; 6.St Michael Greek Orthodox Church; 7.Crows Nest Uniting Church; 8.Woolworth supermarket.
The high topographical points are located in the both end of the site, one near St Leonard Station and another in the road intersection of Pacific Hwy and Falcon St. The low point at RL80.00 is presented closed to the location of the proposed Metro Station which is also known as the old creek line running East-West across the study area.
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Section AA Pacific highway (Regional Arterial Road)
Section CC Clarke Street (Minor Local Street)
Section BB Willoughby Road (Major Local Street )
Section DD Hume street (Neighbourhood street)
Opportunity map
Constraint map
Vision Statement An urban development plan requires a thorough and rigorous vision that will be overarching and guiding all public domain gestures. The Crows Nest development plan will contribute to the rich fabric and complement the charming character of the area. The plan will strongly respond to the surrounding context, stitching together neighbourhood precincts to the proposed Metro development - physically, culturally and historically. The public domain will be human in scale, attractive and engaging with diverse activities and meaningful programs to inhabit and visit at all times.
Place at center
Connected to context
Promoting sense of community
Masterplan
1. Hume St Recreational Park
2. Metro Development
3. Crows Nest Community Place centre
4. Willoughby Place
3D view
The Green Escape
Event Details: Park(ing) day Keong Saik Road/18th September 2015 An annual world-wide event where community transform parking lots into temporary public spaces. A collaboration with lopelab where lopelab will transform 20 parking lots into temporary public amusement park. Greenology is taking one of the parking lots and transform it into a pocket of green in the midst of city. (Internship project, assist in design)
A pocket of green in the midst of the cityscape. Greenology s installation is made out of modular frames cladded with vertical greenery and living art in a variety of interesting forms. Integrated with seating, one can take a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, relax and unwind outdoors amongst the lush greens. While providing greenery, this is also a showcase of urban greening solutions in a rapidly urbanising world.
INTERACTIVE MOVABLE ELEMENTS NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES LIVING FABRIC ADAPTABLE SPACES EXTENDING POSSIBILITIES
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Through
novel
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The Chinese Herbal house
PROJECT STRATEGY Aims to revive the soul of Kreta Ayer Community Centre where it
was once a social
point
patronised by the residents of Kreta Ayer. It can be done through creating a common space which will provide experiential activities which will educate and expose a culture of social gathering. PROJECT BRIEF To propose a Chinese herbal restaurant targeted at the residents of Kreta Ayer to bring back the nostalgic memories through the taste and aroma of Chinese herbs. Designed with a bit of modern touch, a relaxing and Educational place is created for people to interact and learn thus expose a culture of social gathering.
Kreta Ayer Community Centre
Ideation came from how the Chinese pharmacy and Chinese herbal
soup
restaurant
functions. By studying the flow of service from both places, I picked out certain services from each and combines them to become a
two in one place
where it becomes a Chinese pharmacy that serves Chinese herbal soup
Ideation
APOTHECARY CHEST(BACKGROUND) Apothecary
chests,
which
have
numerous pull-out drawers, were used in the Middle Ages in Europe and the Far
East
by
predecessors
of
our
pharmacists and general practitioners. The chests, often wall mounted in shops or carried from house to house, stored medicines, tobacco, spices and herbs
Concept Development
MOVEMENT OF PUSH AND PULL
EXPLORATION OF SPACES
Exploration with the main feature-
Blow-up each individual drawers,
apothecary chest inside a Chinese
each
herbal store. A series of concept
possibilities of creating spaces. What
models using push and pull
about dining inside each drawers?
of
individuals
have
the
drawers. Duplicated two of the same models to create double volume space and two of the sliding
drawers
can
serve as the most important space for dining. The extruding drawers are transparent and people who walk past can see people dining in the restaurant.
Drawings
Models
Legend 1. Translucent paper lamp 2. Timber (furniture) 3. Porcelain tiles 4.Polished concrete 5.Transparent tempered glass 6. Modular carpet tile plus cushion 7. Natural wooden drawers
The Garden Play house
Scheme 1
This project is targeted at residents living in high-rise apartment with a small, compact living space. To introduce pocket of nature space attached to the building, creating a play space and a relaxing space for the residents and using nature to relieve tension level in people who live in small spaces. The project consist of two schemes with the concept that is based on layers
in
space
transparency
of
with
different
materials
and
creating a hierarchy of space with different platforms.
Models
Drawings
Scheme 2
Enjoy different spatial experience at different zones. Mini
spaces
different mood.
that
evokes
Hide and Seek
PROJECT BRIEF
Based on site analysis and observation, the space can be improved to cater to the different needs of the people who utilize the space. Through observation, majority of the seats are taken by students in the afternoon hours, used for studying and tutoring. Based on survey results, most of them suggest to have more seats, including public and private seatings for group studying or spaces catered to individual needs, improvement in lighting and with the addition of WIFI service. Taking the response given by the users who were at the site, I would like to propose a design targeted at the students which caters to studying and dining, introducing flexible and playful spaces with private and public seating areas, proposing modular furniture that caters to the different learning style, be it individual learning or group tutoring/discussion providing a more comfortable and cozy space with the addition of greenery for studying, eating and a place to relax, thus creating a pleasure learning experience for the users.
Furniture design
Child ‘Parking’
Flexible
Honours research project
Playful
Movable
Research question: How can parasitic architecture and design help working mothers to achieve work-life balance?
Child Parking began with addressing the important
With a background in spatial and object design, I draw
issues that impact women and families which leads me to
inspiration from architects-architecture projects with the
investigate the liminal zone (in-between spaces) between
influence of deconstructivism. Exploring Duchamp s
childcare and workspace. Exploring how the liminal zone
revelation of the Readymade which influenced me in
could be designed to ease the life of working mothers
understanding how something could become something
and families. With the multiple roles of a woman that one
else? The idea of using ordinary object that is
has to face, issues begin to surface for families,
disassociated from its customary context and function by
especially for the working mothers who feel the tight
repositioning, reorientation in creating new potential.
squeeze created having to juggle the demands of work and family responsibilities. As such, many felt stress and
Child parking is a project which attempts to introduce
guilty in spending lesser time with their child.
parasitic architecture (an adaptable, transient form of architecture) as one of the possible solutions to tackle
My research then leads me to explore the liminal zone
the work-life balance issue. Instead of inventing new
between childcare and workspace and investigate at the
shapes for architecture, my work appropriate objects
current and other possible design solutions that will ease
with spatial qualities from differing function/as a space
the life of working mothers. One of the option is the co-
for the children and use found objects as interior fittings.
work space with on-site childcare service, it offers a new
By way of analogy, having bus attaching to a building and
opportunity for working mothers to work efficiently and
form a childcare centre is a different new way of
feeling secure when their children are nearby. Exploring
designing architecture. Using North Sydney as a testing
what are some of the other possibilities in designing the
ground, this parasitic structure will be attached to one of
liminal zone to help working mothers to achieve work-life
the office buildings. Parents could bring their child to
balance.
work and get to visit their child during break time and spend more time with their child daily.
Parasitism
Parasitism
Serpentine
Zaha Hadid
constructivism
Deconstructivism De-
Frank Gehry
Lebbeus Woods
Parc de la villette
Architects
Coop Himmelblau
Bernard Tschumi
Assemblage
COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
Gordon MattaClark
Robert Hudson
Artist/ Sculptor
Richard Wilson
Marcel Duchamp
A slice of reality
Michael Johansson
Ready-made
Readymade
Methodology This research is divided into three phases: investigating the important issues
that
impact
women,
movement in space and the readymade driven from Bernard Tschumi and Marcel Duchamp s work.
examining the liminal zone between childcare
and
work,
process
(precedent studies, model making,
I want to explore with readymade in different scales and how these forms
sketches and social experiment).
could
become
the
exoskeleton of architecture or fit My working process involves a lot of
model-making,
with
three-
dimensional forms, it helps me to explore, develop and test how different ideas work, testing with different forms, materials along with
sketches,
photograph
the
models in different angles. The process
works
like
solving
an
equation with [A + B =?]. With close reference to the works of Bernard
Tschumi
and
Marcel
Duchamp, I made a series of concept models and ready-made using ordinary objects based on the key concepts-deconstruction,
into interior space naturally . We Don t always have to build new form, we can always take form what
we
generally
discarded.
Instead of creating new forms, by taking
existing
objects
and
appropriate them from differing function. I m interested in exploring objects with spatial qualities such as the bus, train, ships, airplane. Could these become architecture ? I experimented with double decker bus, breaking it into small sections and manipulate with the form, rotating
and
various ways.
stacking
them in
With our class as a community of practice, students from different background (textile design, spatial design, object design, jewelry design, graphic design) were given a packet of recycled materials to create a play space for children. To test how designers from a different practice would design children s space differently. This social experiment uses daily household items collected from the community, I am fascinated with the colors and different shapes of these found objects. I want to further explore the potential of these found objects in utilizing them into design and the design vocabulary derived from the finished spaces .
Further experimentation with the concept of readymade objects. From large scale readymade objects as the architectural form, I explored with small scale found objects. Using found objects such as the colorful plastic bottle caps, buttons, beads, how these could be used as part of the interior material so that the kids can touch and visualize how these daily found objects can be used in different ways, hence also educating them on the different colors, expanding the possibilities for learning and making learning more engaging. I experimented with the different ways on how these everyday objects could fit into the interior space. Plastic bottles could be used in different ways to create various patterns on wall, stacked up or cut them into small fragments and cast with resin. Testing with the different colors and also experimenting with opaque, translucent and transparent materials that can be used as interior fittings
Material& Spatial exploration
Elevation
Level 1
Level 2
Drawings
Level 3 & 4
Level 1 Plan view
Level 2 Plan view
Level 3 Plan view
Level 4 Plan view
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The Ulmer stool redesign
The Ulmer School of Design was one of the offspring of the famous Bauhaus School in Weimar, Germany. When the Ulm School of Design was first furnished in 1954, the stool "Ulmer Hocker" not only served as a transportable seating furniture, but also as a side table, a portable tray for bookstand tools, and even as a shelf element, or, placed on a table, as a speaker's desk. We are asked to thoroughly research this design classic and develop the skills to make my personal interpretation of this multifunctional stool. My design intention is to create a playful stool using geometric shapes and lines. Introducing two colour tones, the original colour of plywood and staining with vinegar to achieve a darker tone, it creates a contrast between the seating area and the two slotting piece which serve as the stool legs. It's multifunction which can be used as a stool, shelf or a side table. Playing with the positive and negative spaces which creates a visual interest to the user, the formalism of the stool allowing it to be enjoyed from all angles.
Plan
Side view
Front view
Side view
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