LYDIA FOK PORTFOLIO
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Architecture and Sustainable Design * personal artwork
selected works 2014 - 2017
CV Singapore: +65 9128 1772 lydiafjl@gmail.com
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Languages Fluent in English and Mandarin (spoken & written) Skills AutoCAD Rhinoceros Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign Microsoft Office Laser cutting Revit and SketchUp DIVA and Vray for Rhino Education Singapore University of Technology and Design(SUTD) 2016 - 2017 Architecture & Sustainable Design (ASD) Pillar Master of Architecture
Singapore University of Technology and Design(SUTD) 2013 - 2016 Architecture & Sustainable Design (ASD) Pillar Bachelor of Science (ASD)
Hwa Chong Institution 2011 - 2012 EESIS scholarship holder
Work Experience Swan and Maclaren Architects Pte Ltd 2016 Internship Signage design Architectural tender drawings Landscape tender and design
Surbana Jurong Consultants Pte Ltd 2015
Internship Authority related waivers Designing elevation facades and precinct structures for HDB flats Designing community living rooms for HDB flats
Space + Dimensions Architecture 2014 Internship Sketching CAD drafting Physical models
Objective Seeking a job position as a junior architect Co-Curricular Activities Hyde Park Library London Competition 2017 Participant
Young Architects Competition 2016 Lighthouse Sea Hotel, participant
Teaching Assistant 2015
Architectural Science & Technology (Sophomore course)
ASD Camp 2015
Orientation Group Leader
SUTD Open House 2015
Architecture & Sustainable Design (ASD) - Helped supervise for design workshops - Involved in preparing for workshop
11th Sino-Singapore Undergraduate Exchange (SSUE) 2014
Cultural exchange and Networking programme - The sole tertiary exchange programme initiated by the Governments of Singapore and China - Only 50 students are selected from across the 4 universities each year - Self-created t-shirt design was selected from among submissions from all participating universities as the t-shirt for SSUE 2014
SUTD Freshmen Orientation Committee 2013-2014 Committee member, Welfare and HR
CONTENTS
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JOO CHIAT ROAD URBAN LIVING residential | parametric | urban
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INDUSTRIAL SHELTER 12 construction | detail | materials
MODERN ART MUSEUM 18 civic | urban | sustainability
INTEGRATED COMMUNITY HUB 24 civic | landscape | co-location
CULTURE & LEISURE CENTER 28 sustainability | civic | urban
GENERATIVE CASTING 34 construction | detail | parametric
SPATIAL JOINTS 38 construction | detail | materials
LIGHTHOUSE SEA HOTEL COMPETITION
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HYDE PARK LIBRARY LONDON COMPETITION
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mixed-use | urban
civic | system
JOO CHIAT ROAD URBAN LIVING Term 6 | 20.103 Architecture Core Studio 3 Tutor: Oliver Heckmann A residential project that requires the design of a housing estate that has programs benchmarked at 70% residential, 15% commercial and 15% communal. The design proposal should encompass the concept of highdensity habitation, with a focus on strategies taken to achieve ‘DENSITY’, ‘DIVERSITY’ and ‘CONNECTIVITY’. My design was an attempt to create a semi high-rise residential estate that embraces and incorporates the rich history and existing housing typologies in Joo Chiat. The design is my interpretation of what I believe to be modern yet blends in with the surrounding buildings. The urban mapping as well as the unit typologies have been crafted based on parametric systems.
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1 The point where two masses meet serves as the entrance point
2 The space where two masses meet serves as a spill-out space
An entrance setback from the main circulation path, gives a sense of privacy
There are smaller, more private spill-out spaces and larger, public spill-out spaces
Core Commercial on 1 & 2 floor, residential above Residential
Community on the busier commercial side of Joo Chiat road
Community on the more private residential side of Tembeling road
4 Cross passage and possible access routes through site from the urban context
Master Plan
Model
INDUSTRIAL SHELTER Term 7 | 20.111 Sustainable Design Option Studio 1 Tutor: Manuel Der Hagopian (group8asia) A project to design a pavilion in Oerlikon, Zurich, Switzerland as part of an existing development in the area by group8asia. The pavilion should ideally have a strong identity and linkage to the heritage and culture of Oerlikon. My design concept was ‘CONTINUITY’, in the sense of life as a neverending, repeating, cyclical loop. No matter what stage of life we are in, we are continuously learning and growing through reflection, experience and as we age. Each project is required to have a narrative on which the form and function of the pavilion is based upon: A narrative of how, through a game of hide and seek with her daughter, a mother finds back her childhood fantasies living in industrial Oerlikon. “Ah Mommie! You found me! How did you find me so fast? I thought you would never find me if I hid in this corner! Did you see my shoes peeking out from behind the wooden timbers? ...Or did you hear me sneeze? I really tried to hold it but I thought you wouldn’t hear because the other kids were laughing so loud! But it was a lot, a lot of fun! Come and sit here with me Mommie. The sun makes you warm and toasty and if your curl up your legs, it feels like we’re in our secret hideout! Mommie? Could you tell me that story again please? The one when you were tiny like me and Grandpa worked at the old steel mill and nailed together a playhouse for you?”
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Articulation Space
Master Plan
night/exhibition scenario: night/exhibition scenario: more morevertically verticallypositioned positioned canvas that could act as canvas that could act as projection screens
projection screens
residential
day/market scenario: day/market scenario: more horizontally positioned more horizontally positioned canvas that could act as shelters canvas that could act as and greater visual connection shelters, forspace, greater across the allowing whole event with perhaps one or two vertical visual connection across canvas that act as banners the whole event space,orwith adverts perhaps one or two vertical canvas that act as banners or adverts
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main road
main open event space small private spaces
main covered areas open areas
areas with benches standing areas
stainless steel,L-L-joint stainless steel, joint 1300mm xx345mm 1300mm 345mmx 25mm x 25mm stainless steel, head boltbolt stainless steel,hexagonal hexagonal head 110mm diameter, 350mm long 110mm diameter, 350mm long charred (shou sugi ban)
charred (shou sugi ban) IPE wooden beam IPE wooden beam 450mm x 450mm x 4500mm 450mm x 450mm x 4500mm corner-bridle joint corner-bridle joint canvas, lightweight, white canvas, lightweight, white stainless steel, stainless steel,hook hook
stainless steel, bolt stainless steel,hexagonal hexagonal head head bolt 150mm diameter, long 150mm diameter,70mm 70mm long
Joinery Two types of joints hold the structure together. The corner-bridle joint with steel reinforcement are found where there are cantilevers and the pure corner-bridle joint is found anywhere else. Material steel
canvas
wood
1) Form & Flexibility The pavillion was created through an abstract tessellation of the articulation and it forms a continuous loop, much like the mobius. While the part of the loop that snakes on the ground act as seating, the part that lifts off the ground forms potential programmatic spaces. Canvases can be hung on the hooks to provide shelter, dividers and the like to suit the event of the day. 2) Green Almond trees have very short-lived blooms, in fact just a mere 21 days. This highlights and emphasizes the restart of a new life cycle, which ties in with the concept of continuity. These blooms have been strategically placed in corten steel movable planters as, similar to charring which stops and preserves the life of wood, weathering steel prolongs its life.
MODERN ART MUSEUM Term 8 | 20.112 Sustainable Design Option Studio 2 Tutor: Marco Volpato (Volpatohatz) A project to design a Modern Art Museum located at the promontory at Marina Bay. Situated at the South of the Marina Reservoir, the promontory is currently an ad-hoc events space surrounded by commercial skyscrapers and high-end residential towers. However, it is a much less frequented area compared to the North of the reservoir where tourists spots such as the Esplanade and The Float@Marina Bay reside. As such, this Modern Art Museum serves to activate the Southern region of Marina Bay. My design concept was a massing form that fans out into the water, strengthening links between the museum and the rest of the Marina Bay Area, while directing air flow and views in specific directions.
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1 Strengthen links between museum and rest of Marina Bay Area through a massing that fans out into the water, bringing visitors even closer to the activities happening in and along the banks of the reservoir
2 Respecting the existing urban grid resultant of the careful planning by Singapore’s urban planners to create Singapore’s iconic waterfront destination. The extracted gridlines determine the extent of fanning out as well as orientation
3 Responding to neighbouring green through a continuation of the adjacent lawn into the museum’s central courtyard. Each building mass and void directs views towards a certain region of the Marina reservoir, allowing for sweeping views across the entire reservoir.
1 Floor Plan
Interior Render
Exterior Render
INTEGRATED COMMUNITY HUB Term 9 | 20.501 Sustainable Design Option Studio 3 Tutor: Pauline Ang A project to design a Community Hub in Woodlands central that integrates the library, sports and park typologies. With the given 4.3ha site, this studio sought to challenge conventional building typologies that see the co-location of various facilities, to rethink the changing roles of such facilities as well as to intensify the experiences such public spaces can offer. My design concept was to create a multi-level experience. Hence each building mass can be entered from a lower and higher contour, bringing the people through a journey of discovery both within the building and outside. The form of the masses were generated from a circulation-driven unofficial grid drawn across the site. This grid also determined the location of the outdoor event plazas which were designed to provide for visual diversity. Hence when occupying anyone of the plazas, users enjoy a spatially rich experience of being able to view activities relating to the sports, park and library all at once.
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CULTURE & LEISURE CENTER Term 4 | 20.101 Architecture Core Studio 1 Tutor: Aloysius Lian To design a cultural and leisure centre in an urban context, that is OneNorth area in Singapore. The design has to take into consideration existing slope and trees, surrounding amenities and traffic flow. Materiality and enclosure are to be explored and incorporated into design. My design was to take advantage of the existing serenity and privacy of the site while allowing users of the centre to truly enjoy nature (the wind, sun and surrounding trees) by designing an entirely naturally ventilated building except for the lecture theatre. The programmes are designed such that the cafeteria is the main social space and users can choose to retreat into more private spaces that radiate from the center cafeteria.
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male toilet
female toilet
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design shop
exhibition
library/reading space open space
Cafeteria: Heart of the building
Circulation
Model Louvers of varying densities form the facade of the naturally ventilated building
GENERATIVE CASTING Term 5 | 20.212 Digital Design and Fabrication Tutor: Stylianos Dritsas Group members: Lydia Fok, Dieu Jing Hui A pair-work digital design and fabrication project that challenges us to create a high rise building massing and cast the model in cement. The cement massing must fit within the maximal envelope of 100 by 100 by 300mm at 1:1000 scale. The project also requires us to explore the limits of cement as a material. The design uses cube modules to create various programmatic spaces within the high rise building massing that falls within the maximal envelope.
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Programmatic Diagrams
cube module
Computational Logic Grasshopper code
spatial compartmentalization
programmatic spaces in white
conducive and exclusive environment for the respective programs
VS non-programmatic and ciculation spaces in grey
Massing options
Creating final massing
Chosen massing that provides a continuous flow of spaces with minimum number of cubes
Making perforations in a 9 x 9 x 25cm box, which is the within the maximum boundary
Final massing with the voids demarcating the programmatic spaces
Exploring cement as a material
cement
styrofoam
paper
plastic
glue
cardboard
SPATIAL JOINTS Term 5 | 20.212 Digital Design and Fabrication Tutor: Stylianos Dritsas Group members: Lydia Fok, Rachel Tan A pair-work digital design and fabrication project that challenges us to create 3-dimensional joint from wood and aluminium. This project puts to test our skills in laser cutting, water jetting and wood work. The design is based off the concept of interlocking. 38
Concept Diagram Forces push against each other in a complete round, providing stability
Diagonal
Tooth to attach to vertical. Helps to keep centre plate horizontal. Tooth to attach to other centre plate
Horizontal
Complementary holes for both pieces to slide into each other
Complementary holes for both pieces to slide into each other
Vertical
Two different types of joints were used; a complementary subtraction sliding joint and a tooth-hole joint. A combination of these joints help to stabilise the structure as the forces travel one full round, pushing against each other
Plan
LIGHTHOUSE SEA HOTEL Young Architects Competitions (YAC) Group members: Lydia Fok, Shireen Yeo A competition organised by Young Architects Competition (YAC) that requires the conservation and transformation of the lighthouse of Murro di Porco located in Syracuse, Italy. The design should showcase and tap on the potentials of coastal building, such as the romantic and picturesque qualities of the context/site. My group consisted of myself and a fellow colleague. The concept of our design was ‘Outdoor Living’ which was achieved through the method of exploding enclosed cuboid spaces. Given the lovely and scenic outcrop of land that the lighthouse stands on, we wanted to break the boundaries between the said ‘indoor’ and ‘outdoor’ to give our hotel residents a unique and comprehensive experience of what the place has to offer.
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Restaurant + Pool (New addition) Chapel/MPH (Conserved) Spa (New addition) Cafe (New addition) Lighthouse + Lobby (Conserved) Family unit (New addition) Twin unit (New addition)
Concept Diagrams
Outdoor Living
Feel like one is entering an enclosed space
Extension of Concept in a Typical Unit Layout
Feel like one is outdoors when inside the space
Massing Method: Fragmentation
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Master Bedroom + Enclosed Shower and Toilet + Landscaped Outdoor Hot Tub
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Dining Area
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Kitchen + Adjacent Vegetable Garden
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Kids Bedroom + Enclosed Shower and Toilet
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Living Area
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Fragmenting Mass into Faces 1
Adjusting Thickness + Dimension to better fit the type of program
Addition of a secondary filigree material to ‘sew’ the solid fragments together
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Family Grand Suite The floor plan design of the residential units (family and twin suite), are the base plans that were carefully designed with the concept of ‘Outdoor Living’, appropriate circulation and space allocation in mind. These 2 plans were used as modules that were adapted and tessellated to produce the floorplans of the other programmatic spaces such as the spa, cafe etc. The floor plan of the twin suite is essentially a variant of the family suite, with the exception of the children’s room.
Spa The existing terrain of the site is made up of naturally existing Tufa limestone. And our design proposal attempts to bring this landscape into the building construction itself. Hence, the walls are made of limestone that have been treated differently to create a more unique spatial experience. For example, smooth limestone is the base material while rough limestone is used for instances where we try to invoke a more ‘outdoor’ atmosphere.
HYDE PARK LIBRARY Archasm Competition Group members: Lydia Fok, Shireen Yeo A competition organised by Archasm that requires the design of a library in Hyde Park. The design should challenge the form and program of the conventional library while encouraging a reading culture among the public. My group consisted of myself and a fellow colleague. The concept of our design was to firstly, bring the user through the milestones in the library’s history and secondly, for the library to act as a social mediator and condenser. Hence the library can be categorised into future, current and past from the ground up. The design which incorporates the system of donating books and a sprawling ramp, intends to bring users through a journey of discovery by means of present-day chance encounters and people’s past experiences.
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Traditional Library
Current Library
Future Library
consists of the traditional row layout of shelves interspersed with formal seating area as a way of acknowledging the historical importance of this architectural typology
on top of knowledge sharing and provision, to also make the library a welcoming, community-centric place where people encounter others from all ages and walks of life through this book donation system
the use of modern day technology such as video screenings, 3D visualizations that help facilitate the sharing and gaining of new information as well as inspire new ideas
Donation of books that the donor would like other readers to enjoy. The donor is encouraged to leave a note, or the like, sharing what they liked about it, how were they inspired or even guiding advice on how to read the book
The donated books are sorted based on genre using the dewey decimal system as practiced in libraries today, and then given the respective colour band The books are attached to matching coloured strings and hung down from an atrium. Library users can browse as well as choose to read some of these books and the messages left by the previous owners
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