Chen Meifeng
11/12|SEM01
Part I
Site: The National Museum of Singapore
From the first light captured through a pinhole camera, through abstractions comes a model representing the Genius Loci of the National Museum of Singapore
The Curious Path | Pinhole Photography
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Light, Time and Image
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Light, Time and Image
The Curious Path | Pinhole Photography
Ebb and Void | Pencil Sketches
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Light, Time and Image
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Light, Time and Image
Ebb and Void | Pencil Sketches
Trace | Line Drawings 6 Light, Time and Image
Trace | Line Drawings 7 Light, Time and Image
Light through Cuts | Models
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Light, Time and Image
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Light, Time and Image
Light through Cuts |Models
The National Museum of Singapore | Photography
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Light, Time and Image
Light through Cuts |Model
Just like a flower, light from the glass-stained windows of the dome blossoms and ebbs down the curved walls. It suggests colour though represented in monochrome, as one is reminded of a psychedelic daisy upon looking up to the skylight.
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Light through Cuts | Model
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Light, Time and Image
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Light, Time and Image
Light through Cuts |Model
The experience of a space can only be truly felt with a sense of scale in relation to the user. Therefore the exploration of how a space can be crafted can never be separated from measurement of the human body.
Between the New and the Old | Sectioin
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Measurement, Body and Form
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Measurement, Body and Form
Between the New and the Old | Plan
The beautiful stained-glass windows around the dome highlights the class of the museum being a place for the arts. It is an art installation by its own and is thus chosen to be the Genius Loci of the place abundant in white finishes.
Genius Loci | The Dome 18 Measurement, Body and Form
Between the New and the Old | Geometric Analysis
The old wing constructed with the Golden proportions while the new extension gives due respects by aligning with the former.
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Line Cut Model | Geometric Analysis
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Measurement, Body and Form
Radial Isosceles | Model 21 Measurement, Body and Form
A personal space for a hideout from the hectic city life, where every tcorner is a new challenge to navigate and explore.
Secret Hideout | Model 24 Method, Component and Space
Secret Hideout |Model
Entrance to the space is through a small hole that requires the user to crawl through. Though the shape suggests something like the peep-hole of a door, It is almost impossible to catch a full glimpse of the space just by looking from the outside.
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Overly-steep steps were inspired by those in the grand stands of a stadium - they pose as a deterrence to outsiders from this private space, yet creates a challenge for the user to engage himself in.
Secret Hideout | Model
The steps increase in steepness as the user progresses up.
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Secret Hideout |Model 27 Method, Component and Space
Circulation within the space is linked by steps and stairs of different heights and gradients.
Secret Hideout | Model 28 Method, Component and Space
Secret Hideout |Model Materiality
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Slabs of the steps protude out to the facade.WW
Secret Hideout | Model
Proportional grooves into the exterior walls create not only a minimalist pattern but also to allow natural moss and ferns to grow in over time.
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Secret Hideout |Model
In between spaces of the interlocking steps hold voids that connects to another part of the whole space.
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Secret Hideout | Darwing 32 Method, Component and Space
Secret Hideout | Drawing 33 Method, Component and Space
Part II
Site: Singapore Botanic Gardens
Skeletal forms expressing connection and structure
Compression, Interlocking, Canopy | Pencil Sketches
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Opposition, Joint and Detail
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Opposition, Joint and Detail
Compression, Interlocking, Canopy | Pencil Sketches
Natural Walkway |Space 38 Opposition, Joint and Detail
Natural Walkway |Space 39 Opposition, Joint and Detail
Skeletal Frame | Wood Model 40 Opposition, Joint and Detail
Skeletal Frame | Wood Model
Grooves are cut into each wood piece so to make joints as clean as possible. The sticks are stacked upon each other to form columns and the resultant gap inbetween 2 pieces allows for the frame to fit exactly. The weight of the roof makes the structure stable.
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Planar Volume | Cardboard Model 44 Modules, Geometry and Composition
Planar Volume | Cardboard Model
The interlocking pattern of roots is applied to the joining of layers in this model. “Branches� extend downwards and grow around the structure, strengthening and forming one whole walkway.
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Plane and Frame | Combination Model 46 Modules, Geometry and Composition
Plane and Frame |Combination Model
The planar volume is made up of repeating modules of organic lattice that are woven with a thin strip of wood. The curvature of the plane also shows how the volume seemingly blends into the structure in all directions.
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Plane and Frame | Combination Model 48 Modules, Geometry and Composition
Plane and Frame |Combination Model
The compressional element of the frame is illustrated through the alternating strips of wood that crisscrossed to form a support down the centre. A narrow space is also created in the process that holds an interesting shadow effect.
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Plane and Frame | Darwing 50 Modules, Geometry and Composition
Plane and Frame | Drawing 51 Modules, Geometry and Composition
Crochet Skin | Model
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Skin and Mass
Crochet SKin | Model
A crochet piece is made from a single strange of yarn; a pull from anywhere will result in the distortion of the whole net. The use of this material is to put emphasis on how tension and compression works when a stretchy material is pulled over a curved surface.
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Crochet Skin | Model
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Skin and Mass
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Skin and Mass
Crochet Skin | Drawing
Crochet SKin | Darwing
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Skin and Mass
Mass | Plaster Model
Mass - heavy, monumental, and definitely lacking in light. Rooms of varying heights with skylights were made to play on the effect of light : a low ceiling will give a diffused light while a high one will only show a stark shaft of light coming straight from the heavens above.
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Crochet Skin | Model
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Skin and Mass
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Skin and Mass
Crochet SKin | Model
Mass | Plaster Model
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Skin and Mass
Fin Special thanks to
Tutor RIchard Ho Friends of Studio 10 Year 1 Semester 1 This portfolio would never have been possible without them.