Meng leong portfolio

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

[B]

[A]

5. LIFT UP PARTICULAR STRUCTURES FOR EXTERNAL CIRCULATIONS

[E]

[G]

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.