Architecture Portfolio: Mawee Pornpunyalert

POR TFO LIO

I was born in Thailand. At a young age, I moved to Australia where my passion for architecture was sparked by the contrasting architectural styles and urban grain between the two countries. I was intrigued by how the space is shaped by the place, and in return, how the place shapes our lives. Since then, I began my journey as a place-maker.

From having lived in 4 countries, I believe that the core essence of architecture is placemaking.

2020- 2022

Technical University of Delft

Delft, NL

Masters in Architecture

Degree Classification: TBA

2016- 2019

University of Sheffield

Sheffiled, UK

BA School of Architecture

Degree Classification: 2.1

2013 - 2015

Concordia College

Adelaide, Australia

MAWEE PORNPUNYALERT EXPERIENCE

GRAPHICAL SKILLS

Illustrator

Photoshop

SketchUp

Indesign

Revit

AutoCAD

Vectorworks

Lumion

After Effects

South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE)- 95.6 ATAR

LANGUAGES

November 2022 - Present

Makers of Sustainble Spaces (Junior Green Designer)

Netherlands

Care home - Reikerhof

Confidential project - Department Store & Experience Center

July 2019 - August 2020

Chapman Taylor (Junior Architect)

Thailand Residence & resort - Hyderabad Jayasom

EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENTS

Mixed use - Xiong’an Intercity Station

Education - Chengdong Elementary School

July 2018 - August 2018

Atom Design (Architecture Intern)

Thailand

Highend residence- Chewaheart Sukhumvit 62/1

Large scale residence - LIFE Ladprow

July 2017– August 2017

Re Group (Architecture Intern)

Thailand

Small scale landscape - Nichada playground Office design - Asian Tigers Mobility

May 2016– June 2016

Tierra design (Architecture Intern)

Thailand

Large scale residence - The Tembusu

20 June 2013 – 30 June 2013

Russell and Yelland architects (Architecture Intern)

Australia

Work experience

2018 - 2019

Sheffield School of Architecture Student Ambassador

University of Sheffield International Student Ambassador

August 2018

River Kwai International Half Marathon 2018

6 th place in Age & Gender Group

May 2018

The Jordan Reid Model Railway Fundraising Project

1:76 Sheffiled train station model

November 2015

SACE Merit Award

Outstanding achievement in Media Studies

October 2014

Australian Music Examination Board Merit Award

Grade 7 Piano for Leisure

Graanmarkt is a ond life to a former Maastricht. The to revitalise and

The project responds role of food in the topic of food and to being a part space that acts the medium of food

Note: Pink refers to the

GRAANMARKT

FACTORY FOODHUB

Site Location : Maastricht, Netherlands

Date: 2022

Type: Public // Renovation

Status: Graduation Project at TU Delft, Urban Architecture Studio

a renovation project of a foodhub which gives a secformer clay factory located along the River Maas in project is a part of a larger masterplan that seeks and bring urban life to the underused waterfront.

responds to the problematic issue of the diminishing the urban life, and contributes to the research in the and space. It aims to reintroduce food activities back of the urban life, while providing an inclusive public as a place for cultural and social exchange through food and space.

the new elements while green represents the existing.

Working with in a team of three, we have seeked to revitalise and bring urban life to the underused waterfront strip through connectivity, cultural activities, and activation points.

URBAN STRATEGY

We have undensified the former factory quarter in the Northern part to make room for urban life, while densifying the Southern part which is currently empty and bleak.

We have proposed to pedestrianised the boulevard, introduce a tram line and bike lines, and create arcades as access points to circulate flow to the waterfront.

As we have considered our buildings to be a part of the public realm, we have put considerations into how the our schemes bleed out into the landscape . Where we have introduced pockets of public spaces breaking the linearity of the waterfront.

FROM A CLAY FACTORY TO A FOOD HUB

The existing structure has 4 distinctive spaces: the Northern hall, the Southern hall (Silos), the Western hall, and the intermediate hall. The differences run in the different types of construction which influence the interior as well as the exterior fabric.

The intermediate hall is removed stability, parts of the Western give way to a new structure, are removed to bring limelight

removed due to the structural inWestern hall is also demolished to and the mass above the silos limelight to the silos.

The new mass is set back to create a welcoming entrance and it builds to the same height as the existing hall. The existing structure is left unclimitaise to retain the existing fabric both on the inside and outside, while the newly built cooking school is a fully climate zone.

FROM SILO TO MARKET: ENCLOSED TO FLUID

Situated at the heart of the existing structure are eight 11x11m enclosed concrete silos which go 4m underground and 8m above ground level. Distinctive about these silos are the sculptural starshaped columns and corners.

The exterior facade have smaller opening with new delicate concrete frames fitted in to the robust silo walls to create contrasting reveals. While the interior walls have larger openings exposing the cultural columns. But to retain the geometry of the silos without disrupting the flow, the parts of the silos at a higher level are retained.

To retain ries of Beams on ground

Since the silos tell story of its industrial past, they are treated as a heart of the structure and turned into a market space. But to transform an enclosed, bleak, and industrial-scale space into a porous, public and, fluid space, alterations have to be made.

retain the verticality of the silos, a seof mezzanines and voids are added. are added to support floor plate ground floor and mezzanine floor.

Food is used to activate and bring urban life to the underused waterfront.

FOOD & URBAN LIFE

While the main entrance is located along the waterfront facade, the building has multiple access points which aids the flow of people and food. The set back entrance, SE and NW silos, and stepped landscape which project out of the building serve as a threshold transitioning spaces for food activities to bleed out, creating a vibrant waterfront.

Note: Pink refers to the new elements while green represents the existing.

The space answers to the concept of collective dinning and opened kitchen where the lines between production and consumption are blurred.

PRODUCTION & CONSUMPTION

An average urban dweller has become very detached to the process of food production: from farm to plate. Having an opened kitchen allows for transparency in food production as well as the direct communication between producers (farmers & chefs) and consumers.

Food stall with seatings deck

COOKING & SOCIAL BOND

Often, the kitchen is a cramped space with the sole function of producing food. The layout of the cooking class counters allow for two people to cook together, and the generous demonstration counter at the front can also be utilised for bigger groups. The generous space accommodate for food production as a social activity.

At the Graanmarkt cooking school , food production spaces are designed to accommodate cooking as a social activity .

Communual cooking

TU Delft collaborated to offer a studio issue of seasonal Dhaka.

Working as a team natali River into ter, rather than housing typologies, the fluctuating an open frame spaces and welcomes of these responds

Weaving Waters al garment comunity. through providing generation opportunities, for development ship.

WEAVING WATERS

Site Location : Dhaka, Bangladesh

Date: 2021

Type: Mixed-use // Work & Live

Status: TU Delft, Global Housing Studio

collaborated with the Bengal Institute in Bangladesh studio which focuses on housing in response the seasonal flooding in the extreme delta landscape of

team of two, our vision is to ‘weave’ the Karinto the site, encourages living alongside wathan against it. Where we have proposed a new typologies, an amphibious housing, in response to water level. Our design is characterised by bamboo structure which emphasises outdoor welcomes adaptation and appropriation. Which all responds to the local climate, resources, and culture.

Waters is a mixed live-work complex for traditioncomunity. Our aim is to empower the artisans providing affordable housing, work spaces, income opportunities, sense of community, and workshop development and continuation of traditional craftsman -

Located in the Delta, Dhaka experiences seasonal floods every Monsoon season. Our strategy is to reverse landfill, and work with water rather than against it.

The site (black dashed line) is originally a wetland, but due to land fill in the last decades, the site has been filled. The practice is problematic as it causes flooding to worsen as the water has no designated area to flow to. Our proposal is to reclaim waterways, and wetlands which flood completely in the Monsoon season.

Proposed reclaiming former waterways & wetlands - Dry Season

Water is ‘weaved’ on to our site, of which is utilised in garment production. To tackle the constant rising of water levels, we have adopted amphibious structure which is an alternative flood mitigation that allows an otherwise ordinary structure to float.

TYPE 1 - AMPHIBIOUS

30 x dormitories

30 x 1-bed units

30 x 1-bed expanding units

30 x 3-bed units

TYPE 2 - STILT A

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DWELLINGS

DWELLINGS/ HECTARE

The structure offers a variety of unit types: two shared dorms, four 1-bedroom units, and two 3-bedroom units.

LIVE

SOCIALISE

Generous semi-outdoor spaces are communal spaces where most social activities occur.

WORK

The ground floor is dedicated to garment work spaces. Jamdani weaving is Bangladesh’s intangible heritage which requires indoor and outdoor spaces to produce.

The local’s way of life was the key driving force to the generous shaded semi-outdoor spaces of the amphibious structure.

The bamboo structure floats on the buoyant foundation while being anchored by the extending posts.

T he bamboo structure rests

Our climate strategy is to work with vernacular methods: passive ventilation and shading to deal with the heat. The raised structure, cross openings, and semi-detached slanted roof draw the air through, and the large overhang in the roof, and vegetation provide shading.

Bamboo superstructure

Buoyant Foundation with extending post

Anchored Foundation posts

allow to

Baraheque (mud rendered) walls

Bamboo roof trusses

Metal sheet roofing

rests on foundation posts Bamboo superstructure: steel connections

build higher with bamboo.

Mud plaster wall Bamboo structure

Corrugated metal roof Laminated bamboo floor

MATERIALITY

The material pallet is of local and renewable resources. Bamboo is a fast growing plant which can be used for both structural and ornamental elemetns of the design. The materials respond to the tropical climate where bamboo and mud walls provide porosity and thermal comfort.

Types of woven & porous bamboo screens

Architecture helps contribute to health question of access range of factors

‘Well’ housing project prived ward in room units, four It aims to create thriving using the nect, take notice,

The design centers healthy and vibrant

CONNECT

helps shape the quality of our environments and can health and happiness. Health is no longer simply a access to medical treatment but it is determined by a factors related to the quality of our built environment.

project is located in Burngreave, an economical deSheffield with health issues. It offers eight 1-bedfour 3-bedroom houses, a gym and a community garden. create a healthy environment for living, socialising, and the guidelines from New Economics Foundation- connotice, keep active, keep learning, and give.

centers around the green courtyard which becomes a vibrant centre for the residences.

Site Location : Sheffield, UK

Date: 2017

Type: Community housing // Well-being

Status: Sheffield School of Architecture

The site is on a 3m slope with 2 contrasting fronts which are both accessible. The lower end consists of public functions while the higher end (North) is residential. The site receives an of sunlight with overshadowing from the West.

of the site (South) efficient amount

Burngreave is a ward in Sheffield which is documented as an economically deprived area with poor health ratings. To tackle this, Well aims to create a healthy environment for the community.

Percentage of chirldern in reception year (4-5 years old) who are

Percentage of chirldern in Year 6 (10-11 years old) who are obese

Green space

Sun path

Wind direction

Pedestrain flow

Health function

Death rate per 100 000 people Smoking attributable conditions

Death rate per 100 000 people Alcohol attributable conditions

North Elevation (Higher)

The site strategies aim to create a balance between public and private, work with the sloped landscape, as well as optimising avalible sunlight.

PUBLIC & PRIVATE

The public interface is located at the front of the site, the more public end.

CONNECTION

The public structure is raised to create a connection between the residents and the public. It also raises the roof to align it with the neighbouring building.

ENTRANCE

The entrances face the street with a small garden as a threshold.

PRIVACY

The courtyard layout shields the residents from the busy streets. All entrances are at the front with the back facing to the green courtyard

LANDSCAPE

Stepped arrangement allows all residents to have a view of the city.

SUN & WIND PATH

By raising the public interface structure, it receives sufficient sunlight and it allows the flow of wind into the courtyard.

Note: This floorplan is cut at the level of upper part of the site (North). Hence, The bottom 3 units show the first floor.

The 5 factors that promote well-being are carried through into the design. The courtyard is a place where people can ‘connect’, the gym to ‘keep active’, the public allotment to ‘give’ back to the community, the optimal learning environment to ‘keep learning’, and the roof top to ‘take notice’ of the beautiful city.

Chengdong Elementary 5.45-hectare site ment Zone.

The fundamental biophilic design colours to brighten ences, and dynamic approach.

The architectural local context, surface movement town. An expression tural form creates and the landscape.

Together in a cept stage where translated the

Chengdong Elementary School

Site Location : Wuxi, China

Date: 2020

Type: Education/ Biophilic

Company: Chapman Taylor

Status: Concept Stage -

Competition won

Elementary School is a non-profit school on a site located in the heart of the Economic Develop -

fundamental elements that informed the design concept are design for a calm and peaceful environment, vibrant brighten up the spaces and improve learning experidynamic spaces to embrace the interactive learning

architectural design language draws inspiration from the both man-made and in nature: from the dynamic movement of Lake Taihu to the urban grid of the anicent expression of native elements in the modern architeccreates a smooth transition between the buildings landscape.

team of 5, I took part in the research and conwhere I did some research into the local context and findings into design concepts.

Revit

Award : Winner of the Urban Design & Architecture Design Award in the “Educational Architecture Concept” category

Photoshop Illustrator

COURTYARD AS THE HEART

The layout & massing are extracted from the Huisuan Ancient town where masses are courtuards which serve as the heart of the community.

Huisuan Ancient Town Urban Grid Extract Layout

As the classrooms and circulations face the courtyards, they become a place of exchanges, interactions, and intersections.

arranged to form

Courtyards Formation

The buildings are anchored by the concepts of biophilia. The aim is to facilitate the learning process by reducing stress, aiding concentration, enabling creativity, fostering self-discipline and promoting student and staff engagement.

Classrooms

Multi-finctional Classrooms

Administation

Library

Auditorium

Parking

Indoor Sports Hall

Cafeteria

Collaborative Spaces

BIOPHILLIC

The biophilic elements are embedded in the design of the architecture as well as the landscape: stepped green landscape, timber louvre facade, curved forms, pockets of green, series of green roofs, and atrium and classrooms with natural light. As the classrooms have two-prospect, it maximises natural light, cross-ventilation, as well as views to the green.

Stepped green landscape

Green roofs & Landscaping

Situated in Amsterdam dential building care-home for

The landscape project is to create health of the elderly. ducing stress and

Not only that Reikerhof fort, but will also a place to sit with

The landscape water management, nicipality’s Puccini

Working in a team selection, visualisation,

Reikerhof

Site Location : Amsterdam, Netherlands

Date: 2022-2023

Type: Healthcare/ Care-home/ Landscape

Company: Makers of Sustainable Spaces

Amsterdam Nieuw-West district, is a 9-storey resibuilding and care centre which will be renovated into a inpatient elderly.

design of the project is crucial as the aim of the create a place for the physical and psychological elderly. Nature has proven health benefits in reand pain, and improve overall satisfaction in life.

Reikerhof will be a place of ease, peace, and comalso be a vibrant place that bring people together: with relative or a place to meet neighbors.

deisgn aims to promote local biodiversity and management, as well as compiling to the Amsterdam muPuccini method, landscape guidelines. .

team of 3, I took part in the design process, plant visualisation, product selection, and product inquiry.

Status: On-going Photoshop

SUNLIGHT CONDITIONS

The site has very different light conditions, The South receives full sun all year around North part of the site is heavily over shadowed. This hugely affects the plant species

around while the species selection.

Plants and paving materials are used to navigate and orchestrate circulation, as well as provide zonning

The main entrance to the facility is marked by an eye-catching planter at a small round about with a Tilia Cordata, which is chosen due to its tolerance to shades. The pedestrians and cars circulation path are identified and navigated using different pavings.

CONNECT

The landscape integrates itself into the public realm, connecting the side street to the made road and drawing the public through the landscape. Paving is used to distinguish the semi-private courtyard to the public walkway.

SECTION

The green layer consits of a wide variety of different height, flower colour, flowering period of perennials, shurbs, and trees. This results in a landscape which produces flowers most of the year as well as a landscape that promote ecology and biodiversity.

PUCCINI METHOD

The landscape builds up with high shrubs and trees in the center. Following the Puccini method, the tree is set back from the facade more than 3m and from the bike-lane more than 0.5m where the crown of the tree is more than 2.5m high.