ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO MENG LEONG
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UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
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2018
EDUCATION
WORKING EXPERIENCE
2015 - 2018 UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE - BACHELOR OF ENVIRONMENT
2018 - 2018 SJB - ASSISTANT DRAFTER
2017 - 2018 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - AA VISITING SCHOOL MIAMI
2015 - 2015 VENETIAN HOTEL MACAU - RETAIL
2012 - 2015 GUANGDONG COUNTRY GARDEN SCHOOL - ALEVEL
LANGUAGE
REFERENCE
MANDARIN
ROBYN POLLOCK
CANTONESE
- STUDIO TUTOR
ENGLISH
- ROBYNSPOLLOCK@BIGPOND.COM
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STUDIO WATER
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AA VISITING SCHOOL MIAMI
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STUDIO FIRE
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STUDIO AIR
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OTHER PROJECTS
BOATHOUSE STUDIO WATER 2016, INDIVIDUAL PROJECT
SITE ANALYSIS
Studying from three inspiring Japanese architectural masters, Toyo Ito, Sejima Kazuyo and Ryue Nishizawa, this boathouse design utilized and explored their ideas of transparency, lightness and organic circulation.
MASTERS’ METHODOLOGY main traffic circulation along the bank yarra river precious grass lawn high density urban area site boundary
SENDAI MEDIATHEQUE, TOYO ITO, 2001
OKURAYAMA APARTMENT, SANAA, 2008
ASSEMBLE PRIVATE PROGRAMS AND LOAD BEARING ELEMENTS INTO CYLINDRICAL SPACES TO CREATE HIGHLY OPEN PLATFLORM
ORGANIC COURTYARD SPACES AND CURVILINEAR WALLS ENCOURAGING DYNAMIC CIRCULATIONS AND EXPERIENCES
With the concept of creating close and dynamic interactions with the surrounding environment of Yarra river, the building applied the organic shape like an undulating ribbon with part of the structure tilted up gradually and cantilevered over the water. The undulating topography of the internal spaces and green roof provides the visitors the sense of walking on a natural landscape, and the structural lightness with the massive uses of glass ensuring a great visual transparency, which maximumly introduced external environment to the interior and blurred their boundary.
FORM FINDING
1. OPEN VIEW AND ACCESS TOWARD RIVER BANK
PLAN
[D]
2. APPLYING THE CONCEPT OF COURTYARD
[C]
[F] 3. FINDING ORGANIC SHAPE WITH SERIES OF CIRCLE
4. DEFINE SIGNIFICANT FORM
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5. LIFT UP PARTICULAR STRUCTURES FOR EXTERNAL CIRCULATIONS
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6. DEFINE FUNCTIONAL SPACES A. KIOSK B. CAFE C. RESTAURANT D. SPIRAL STAIR E. BOAT STORAGE & MAINTENANCE F. STAFF LOUNGE
ORIGINAL SITE 7. DEFINE LOAD-BEARING STRUCTURE AND PRI-
NEW SITE
G. OFFICE
8. ADDING ACCESSIBLE GREEN ROOF
WEST ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
NORTH ELEVATION
EXPLODED VIEW
ANALYSIS
TRAFFICABLE GREEN ROOF
COURTYARDS
LOAD-BEARING WALL
COLUMNS & EXTERNAL ENVELOPE
STRUCTURE
PRIVATE
OPEN
WATER WAY
PROGRAMS
EXTERNAL CIRCULATION
DINING CIRCULATION
ROWING CIRCULATION
VIEW OF YARRA RIVER
UNDULATION
SPIRAL STAIRCASE INTERNAL ENVELOPE
CONCRETE FLOOR SLAB
SPECIAL STRUCTURAL BEAM
WALKING PATH
SOUNDS OF VESSELS AA VISITING SCHOOL - MIAMI
2017, GROUP PROJECT
GROUP MEMBER: MENG LEONG (concept development, digitial design, visualization, fabrication) 40% JIAYI CHEN (concept development, visualization, fabrication) 30% YI CHU (digitial design, visualization, fabrication) 30%
HOLLOW PIPES
FLOW
ITERATIONS This biomimetic sculpture piece is an experiment on the future instrument. It is designed to encourage the player to enter a meditation mood of listening to their own body, which potentially helps he or she escapes from the noise and hypocrisy of modern society. The shape of the instrument is inspired by human vessels. As the player inhale and exhale into the mouthpieces, airflow from the inner body will travel through the pipes as running bloodstream. The vibration it produced and the sound generated in the sharing chamber resonate with the natural flow in the human body and bring out the inner rhythm.
MOUTH PIECES
SHARING CHAMBER
3D PRINTING/MESH ANALYSIS
INTERFLOW STUDIO FIRE
2018, INDIVIDUAL PROJECT
SITE PLAN
CONCEPT DIAGRAM
MUTUAL INFLUENCES
INVITING PUBLIC
PROGRAMS ALLOCATION
SUNKEN STADIUM/PRESERVE OPEN GREEN SPACE
CONNECT COMMUNITY WITH SCHOOL
This project draws inspiration from the mutual influence between the Unversity High and its surrounding community in term of programs, finance, culture and urban context. It invites the public to enter the campus by providing facilities that are lacking in the community and allocates them close to the main street. The circulation from external to interior spaces is designed to provide various experience with changing spatial volume, undulating flow, and various inhabitable spaces, encouraging multiple forms of social interactions between different groups of people.
STRATEGIES
CONTNUOUSLY VARYING SPATIAL VOLUME
UNDULATING FLOW THROUGH OUT LEVELS/ZONES
VARIOUS INHABITABLE SPACES ALONE CIRCULATION
BASEMENT TWO
PLAN
BASEMENT ONE
GROUND FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR FIRST FLOOR
DETAILED INFORMATION
SKYLIGHT
CONCRETE BEAM
EXIGENCE CIRCULATION
COMMUNITY INTENDED
USUAL CIRCULATION
SCHOOL INTENDED
STADIUM
CONCRETE COLUMN DOUBLE-SKIN FACADE
SKYLIGHT
CIRCULATION
PROGRAMS
CANTILEVER STANDS 2M TRUSSES MULTI-FUNCTIONS STAIRSCASE CANTILEVER SEATS
LIFT/ FIRE STAIRCASE
STANDS/STORAGE
SECTION AA
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GTEC
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SECTION BB
AETHER SYSTEM STUDIO AIR
2017, GROUP PROJECT
GROUP MEMBER: MENG LEONG (digital design, visualization, fabrication) 50% MENG YAN (concept development, visualization, fabrication) 50%
PLUG-IN: MOSQUITO FLOW SELECT CURVE FROM HUMAN BODY
SUCCESSFUL ITERATION ONE
FORM DEVELOPMENT ONE
FORM DEVELOPMENT TWO
FABRICATION PROTOTYPE
SKELETON OUTCOME
FUNDAMENTAL CASE STUDY: BIOTHING SEROUSSI PAVILLON
FINAL OUTCOME
SUCCESSFUL ITERATION TWO
PLUG-IN: SHORTEST WALK MIMICKING LUNGS
LUNGS OUTCOME
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT Studio Air discussed the theoretical and methodological transition in architecture design. It explored the innovating design tool that utilizes parameter in integrating multiple disciplines into the process of design. With the topic of wearable architecture, this project called Aether System is a biomimetic external skeleton designed and fabricated with parameteric tools. It enables people to install artificial lungs, which can protect their original pair of lungs from the damage of air pollution while maintaining fashionable in a dystopian future.
SCENEARIO
633.00
TECHNICAL DRAWINGS
6.00
BLOOD TRANSFER
CUSTOMIZATION 550.00
ARTIFICIAL LUNGS PROTECTED BY THE EXTERNAL SKELETON
REPLACING LUNGS
STRIPS OF THE SKELETON INSERTED INTO THE BODY
AIR TRANSFER
INSTALLATION PROCESS
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FABRICATION
LUNGS The lungs possess a complicated and delicate shape, which is hard to fabricate by hand. The technique of 3D-printing was applied In their production.
CHEST Our product is designed to penetrate the skin and connect to the skeleton. To present this concept in the physical model, we decided to create a curvilinear structure with the technique of folding and teeth in the representation of a real human chest.
EXTERNAL SKELETON Utilizing the fabrication method of laser cutting with pre-designed rabbets. polypropylene strips were inserted into two circular frames, which were bolted with the chest.
OTHER PROJECS CONSTRUCTION DESIGN
2016, INDIVIDUAL PROJECT
SITE TECTONIC 2017, GROUP PROJECT
GROUP MEMBER: MENG LEONG (digital design, visualization) 70% XUEMING FU (visualization) 30%
SUPER STUDIO 2017, GROUP PROJECT
GROUP MEMBER: MENG LEONG (concept development, visualization) 33.3% JINGYI ZHANG (concept development, digital design, presentatipon) 33.3% YUTINGH YANG (concept development, digital design) 33.3%
SKY GRAVEYARD This project looks into the fact that people living in large cities are facing great mental treats and high suicide rate. It aims to raise the concern about this issue and discuss the potential solution by bringing the symbolization of death into the energetic city context in a futurist scenario.