MARIANNE CHING MARIANNE CHING ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO PORTFOLIO
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Full Name Ching Ying, Marianne I have recently graduated from theSuSingapore University of Technology and Design with a Masters degree of Architecture. Nationality I am inspired by our world Singaporean today to create designs that impact the people who come across these creations. Mobile +65 82234577 I hope one day to be an architect that can enable, impact and help people through my designs. Date of Birth 19th April 1996 Email IPERSONAL am an INFORMATION Architectural graduate with a curiosity for all up the Su Ying, Marianne Fullthings name that makeChing design world as we know it.
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Singaporean Nationality I am inspired by people to explore and create designs +65 82234577 Mobile that will leave a lasting impact and impression on anyone 19th April 1996 Date of Birth who comes across them.
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marianneching96@gmail.com Jan 2020 WORKING EXPERIENCE
Sept 2018 Dec 2018 Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Masters of Architecture Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Bachelor of Science May 2017 Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) July 2017
marianneching96@gmail.com Email 2013 - 2014 Saint Andrews’ Junior College My inspiration for design GCE A Levels comes from many forms, as I also have various other 2009 - 2012 Singapore Chinese Girls’ School passions such as touch rugby, EDUCATION Feb 2015 GCE O Levels positive reinforcement animal March 2015 training and music. The University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Singapore 2018 - 2019 different fields that I am active of Architecture Masters in prompt me to have a deeper SKILLS understanding and University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Singapore 2015 - 2018 of our world what drives people within it. Bachelor of Science Rhinoceros 3D / vRay / Adobe CC Illustrator / Adobe CC Proficient Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) Photoshop / Adobe CC InDesign / Sketchup / Podium / Having worked in both LEADERSHIP AutoCAD architecture and interior design Saint Andrews’ Junior College 2013 - 2014 firms, I have a multi-faceted Laser Cutting / Model Making / 3D Printing GCE A to Levels 2019 approach when it comes design, looking at both the Grasshopper / Revit / Blender / Adobe CC After Effects / Basic 2009 - 2012 macro and micro. I Singapore hope to Chinese Girls’ School Adobe CC Premiere Pro Levels never stop exploring GCE andOto 2018 continue to push the boundaries English / Mandarin Language that society sets for designers.
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2017 - 2018 PADI Open Water Advanced Diver / Karen Pryor Dog Trainer Comprehensive / FIT/ Level 1 Coach / ABRSM Grade Rhinoceros 5 / vRay for Rhino / Adobe CC Illustrator / Adobe CCCertified Photoshop Music Theory/ AutoCAD Adobe CC InDesign / Google Sketchup / Podium5for Sketchup 2015 - 2018 Others
Laser Cutting / Model Making / 3D Printing Basic
Grasshopper / Revit
Ramboll Studio Dreisetl Landscape Architect - Designing of multiple projects - Preparation of presentation decks to clients - 3D modeling and grasshopper coding on multiple projects - Project management of mix-used building in Singapore
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Takenouchi Webb May 2020 Interior Designer - Design and 3D modeling of F&B outlet LAANK Interior Design Intern - Project management of F&B outlet Designed multiple Fred Perry outlets Septin2018 - management LAANK Assisted project Dec 2018 Interior Design Intern Compiled material/furniture schedules - Designed multiple Fred Perry Outlets - Assisted in project management ONG&ONG - Compiled material / furniture schedules Architecture Intern Design of Batam Masterplan Assisted CAD- drawingsOng & Ong Mayin2017 Assisted design of upcoming condominium Julyin2017 Architecture Intern project - Design of Batam Masterplan ONG&ONG - Assisted in CAD drawings Architecture Intern Design of extension of private housing Assisted in CAD drawings ACHIEVEMENTS Shadowed and observed renovations to residential condominium 2020
The Igloohome Design Challenge 4th Place
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Singapore Mixed Open Touch Rugby Team Represented Singapore 2019 World Cup Singapore Mixed Open Touch Rugby Team
Represented Singapore at the 2019 Touch Rugby World Cup 2018 ASD Graduation Show Co-Director ASD Graduation Show Director 2017 - 2018 SUTDio Executive Committee Head of Collaborations SUTDio Executive Committee Head 2015 of Collaborations - 2018 SUTD Touch Rugby Captain SUTD Touch Rugby Captain Saints Alumni Band Treasurer
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Unearthed Virtual Art Gallery / 2021 Collaboration with The Spaceless Gallery It was very exciting to be approached by a Paris based Art Gallery to conceptualize and create a virtual art gallery for an exhibition showcasing Aboriginal Artworks from Australia. I worked closely with the gallery to conceptualise Unearthed. The show aims to feature the important works of Aboriginal artists, where their art is a deep representation of their stories and dreams. With the COVID virus still present, many galleries shifted their focus to virtual galleries. The introduction of this new trend allowed us to explore creating settings that would not be possible in the physical world. Therefore, I created the Unearthed Desert. The desert is both a literal representation of their indigenous home as well as a symbol of uncovering their art amongst the sand dunes. Mounting the virtual artworks on clean white concrete walls allowed the works to stand out from the infinite red dunes of the desert. Different times of day were explored to emulate the passing of time that one would experience while visiting a gallery. The exhibition is composed of still renderings as well as a video walkthrough of the desert gallery.
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Anti - Nature YAC Hyperloop / 2020 Team Submission Responding to the Young Architects Competition of 2020; Hyperloop Desert Campus, myself and a few course mates from university decided to enter as a team. The brief was to design a new iconic test base for the future of Hyperloop, the ground breaking transportation of the future. It was to be set in the Nevada desert where there would be enough space to allow Hyperloop to reach its true potential. My team and I were drawn into Hyperloop’s ability to overcome elements of nature by moving through cities and landscapes in an infinitesimal amount of time. The invention of Hyperloop shall ultimately disrupt our perception of time and space, warping the fabric of our perceived reality. The architecture we designed hopes to amplify this contradiction. A monolithic structure on its own that emphasises the push and pull of nature. defying time and space.
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Epitomised in the lab, man creates ideal environments regardless of harsh desert conditions.
Much like the Hyperloop itself, the monolithic figure defies gravity - it is elevated above ground away from the forces of nature.
The ground is warped under the force of the Hyperloop, representing the disrupted fabric of reality, time and space.
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Static: The SedentaryFuture Future Static: The Sedentary Masters Masters ThesisThesis / 2019/ 2019 Professor: Chong Keng Hua Professor: Chong Keng Hua We live in a world where the sedentary lifestyle is rampant and has become the center “problem” of the architects’ design. We design relentlessly to counter this issue, promoting active living and healthy lifestyles. This thesis aims to provide an anti-thesis to our current solutions. What if, instead of attempting to solve the human inactiveness, that is already too far gone, we choose to embrace it and design to accommodate this shift in lifestyle. By challenging the norm of the present society through designing a town that revolves around the people staying static and sedentary, while the world and all its contents moves around them and towards them, I hope to create a new and improved typology of town planning. Design should embrace the constantly evolving world around us, not fight the changes that are already ingrained into our system. By using grasshopper to create a mesh, which possesses the skeletal structure of a 3-dimensional grid structure, this formed the basis of the connective tissue of the entire project. The design consists of three main components that make up the overall system of the town; The Inland Port, Habitation Modules and The Ecology Hubs. They coexist within the mesh and form a new urban typology for efficient towns in pursuit of the sedentary future.
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TOWN PERIPHERIES AND OFFSET SPACE HABITATION MODULES
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CONNECTIVE TISSUE Transport lines that other entities move through from one sedentary point to another
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ASD Gradshow ASD Gradshow 2018 2018 Director Co-Director Every year SUTD’s Architecture and Sustainable Design faculty designs and puts together a graduation show which displays the best works from across the various cohorts studying the course. In 2018, I had the honour of being the Co-Director of that year’s graduation show. Together with my team we designed, curated, and created the graduation show for that year. Through the graduation show, we not only aimed to display the curated works, but we also wanted the design of the exhibition to tell a story about the Architecture faculty at SUTD. We wanted to use an array of raw materials for our exhibition skeleton. Thus the frames were made of copper rods, which were pivoted using stacks of plywood that would act as tables. The copper frame would hold up the project posters of the different designs. We also designed and 3D printed the joints that were used to hold all the copper rods together.
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Interior Design Takenouchi Webb / LAANK / Freelance 2020 / 2018 / 2019 I have always felt a deep-rooted connection to interior design, it has an integral intimacy with the users of the space and creating that relationship has always felt very purposeful to me. Prior to the pandemic, I was working at Takenouchi Webb, focusing on F&B and hospitality projects. I was mainly focused on a new creperie along Telok Ayer that has since opened. I was also able to gain more interior design knowledge through my previous internship at LAANK and since then I have picked up freelance work for various companies as well as some personal projects. Interior design vastly differs from Architecture design, the focus becomes much more user centered and one has to have a feel for how their clients and target audience are meant to feel when they live, dine or walk through the spaces. Being able to dive into the micro elements of design has been extremely enriching, every detail counts and nothing can be hidden in these spaces.
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Bambeats Bambeats Overseas Exchange Project Overseas Exchange Project / 2016 2016 This project challenged us by pitting us against the issue that traditional bamboo crafting is becoming a dying trade. We were tasked to find unique and interesting ways of redesigning products with bamboo in order to bring new life into the traditional bamboo crafting industry and improve its prominence within society today. I was inspired by the unique qualities of bamboo to be both strong and rigid as well as soft and flexible. By using these qualities and taking a popular item such as portable speakers, I decided to design and build a speaker that showcased the organic and versatile nature of bamboo. Before we began building our prototypes, we had a one week bamboo course with a shifu in a bamboo village. He taught us how to farm as well as traditioanally process the bamboo by hand. Following this, we then returned to the village for another week with our designs and proceeded to farm and build our prototypes ourselves.