Pak HeiJulian Ng Portfolio

ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO Weaving In Wallsend // 2020 -21 Pak Hei Julian Ng

CONTENTS

Refine Work

New Work (Diagrams Produced After Review)

ILLUSTRATED REFLECTION DIARY

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CULTURAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

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3.1 FRAMING ATLAS OF COMMONS READING SITE RITUALS OF CIVIC LIFE

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3.2 TESTING

P. 30 - 59

3.3 THINKING THROUGH MAKING

P. 60 - 65

3.4 SYNTHESIS

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

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ILLUSTRATION LIST

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APPENDIX

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ILLUSTRATED REFLECTION DIARY Looking back on the architectural journey I have been through in these three years, I started to aware of the historical and cultural elements behind the design of a building and notice that I have been interested in finding how architecture could bring positive impact to the community. Within this journey, it enlightens me on a different perspective of architecture, the consideration of design in different scales from the urban scale that how building could relate to the context of the community to small scale of the atmosphere, ritual life of the inhabitants, building materials and construction details.

In the dissertation, I have investigated the potential application of 3D printing concrete, since I have been interested in the impact that new technology could bring to the society. The concept of this dissertation was to explore the needs of technology and potential of replacing the existing construction methods, which I have researched in diversity aspects such as design potential, construction methods, environmental and social impacts. By exploring this new technology in the construction industry, I realised that replacing the existing system might not always be the suitable solution for each project.

Furthermore, the research process led me to think about the environmental impact that could bring from the construction industry and the benefit of reusing materials in terms of concrete application.

Weaving in Wallsend is the studio that I chose in this year, which is a studio focuses on exploring the concept of urban common and investigating the role of architect in the community. Moreover, the studio would encourage us to consider retrofit project rather than building on abandon site, which it stands opposite to my dissertation topic. The significant considerations of the design approach are to design a building that should be related to the community and stand in the perspective of the people in Wallsend.

Previously, I would make experimental models that could help me form my design scheme and the building form of my project, since I think it is interesting to experimenting different form and how the building could respond to the context rather than investigate the context by articles and the local development plan in order to form my design scheme. However, working under the pandemic not only changed my usual working pattern, but also brought me really bad experience in the beginning of this semester, which creating huge difficulties for me to work on the task. This is forcing me to make and experiment different decisions within limited time, so that I changed to sketches and conducted research on articles in order to test out ideas and further explore the site. Although it is not the usual pattern that I worked in the last two years, still I found it is quite interesting and appropriate in the design process, which it would benefit the ongoing architecture education and career.

The other key design concept is to retrofit an existing building, which I would adopt most of the building structures in the building design and convert it as a main element in the building. Based on this core concept within the project, it led me to think more about the structure design of the building and tested out idea within the structural limitation. As architects, we should be aware of the practicability of the design approach, which the fundamental element would be the structure of the building, this project enables me to think more in the structural design of the building and try to keep it as realistic as we could.

Overall, this year is a really challenging year for me, which it would be a valuable and unforgettable experience, these challenges provide other opportunities to explore new design methods and have further research related to the project theme that could design a more suitable building for Wallsend.

Apart from that, the key principle in this studio brought me many new knowledges that I would never think about, and these knowledges would provide new viewing perspective and design concept for my next design project. Lastly, I am so thankful for my studio tutors’ supports and my peers, without their help I would never complete this project, they helped me a lot within this journey, which working with my course mates brings me noticeable improvement in every aspect.

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CULTURAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Since this year only focused on one project, which gave us sufficient times in the beginning of the project to research and form our basic understanding related to the studio brief and the further design process, which I have investigated different which they help me form my current design. In the beginning of framing, I have looked at ‘Rediscovering our shared urban spaces’ in order to form my basic understanding of urban common, and finding potential scheme for the design project. Apart from ‘urban common’, we also discussed about critical spatial practice, which I have looked though the online article that written by Jane Rendell. By reading though text, I could form a rough idea in both ‘Urban Common’ and ‘Critical Spatial Practice’ in the early stage of framing.

In the second stage of framing, we are asked to explore further about Wallsend, which I mainly read the reports released by the North Tyneside Council. In the second design process, I am interested to explore the basic information of the town, such as the population, education level, and the potential issues of the site, by reading through the census provided by the local government. Hence, I am also interested in the history and the proposed development plan of Wallsend, which I am able to find the ‘North Tyneside Local Plan’ that was released by the council in 2017. In these reports, I am able to narrow the potential programme that would be useful for the residents in Wallsend, but also, I gain the basic information about the site and the preference of the local government. Therefore, I decided to design a new town hall and vocational centre that is constructed on top of the existing car park next to the Forum.

In the further design process, I have researched on the typical role of the town hall in the UK, which I have looked at ‘Town Hall – Building, People, and Power’ that is written by Dawn Reeves and Fran Collingham, I found it so interesting to explore the typical role of the town hall in the UK, it not only illustrates the diversity of the contemporary town hall like Doncaster council centre and the ordinary town hall as Manchester town hall. It also illustrates the differences between the town halls in Hong Kong and the UK. Hence, an online article that is written by Jamie Coath has inspired me in the design process, which I have additional awareness on the environmental design, since he pointed out that the typical town hall as Manchester town hall would have concern in terms of sustainability. Lastly, I have looked at the Wallsend town hall Business Centre’s website in order to explore the history and changes of the existing ‘town hall’ in Wallsend.

Lastly, I found an article from Architects’ Journal, which is about a retrofit project relating to the transformation of an existing car park into an artist studio, it mentioned about the building process and the potential concern in renewing a car park that was constructed in the 1960s. Although I found this article in the later design process, the given information was really useful in the final stage design in terms of the structure and waterproofing issues.

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3.1 FRAMING As the first stage of the design process, it is the opportunity for us to explore the studio theme. In Framing, I have started to explore the concept of urban common, and develop our understanding on common by selecing one specific building that fulfill our own definition, we are able to form a solid foundation before we visit the site.

After the exploration of urban common, we began to research further to the site, and developing our own project brief that based on the site visit and the issues that we found in the site.

In Framing, I am able to investigate the concept of urban common, and choosing the suitable brief for redeveloping the civic area in Wallsend.

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ALTAS OF COMMONS As the first research project I did in the beginning of Framing, I decided to explore the Police Married Quarters (PMQ) in order to form a basic understanding of urban common.

In this study I aimed to explore the spatial quality within this building, and how these design could benefit the community. More importantly, what elements of the building could achieve the concept of ‘urban common’. Based on this study, I could apply the elements of urban common into the further design process.

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Fig. 3 The Construction of PMQ (1951)

The Junior Police Clubhouse was established in 1981, which it was converted into a restaurant that sit on the underground greenery spaces.

The Central School was moved to the current location of PMQ.

1894

The central school was occupied by the Japanese cavalry during the Japanese Occupation.

1947

The school building was demolished and redeveloped as a police married quarters

1951

The completion year of the Police Married Quarters, providing accommodation for married police

1981

Historical Background

Fig. 4 The Balcony Space after 2000

The building was left vacant and one of the building turn into the Central Junior Police Clubhouse

2000

The renovation project begin

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These two block buildings are the main development space in the PMQ. It could be divided into two part which is the unit that located on the edge of the building and the corridor space. These spaces are the main focus of this research, which these area could hold verious of activities (Shop, crafting workshop, cafe, common library).

In order to hold large scale events in the PMQ, the central courtyard and the covered spaces on the ground floor would be used.

Covered Space Uncovered Space

Fig. 5 The Corridor Space after 2000

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Spatial Analysis

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Corridor Space

Studio Space

4/F Greenery Space

Movement Diagram

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Although PMQ might not fully achieve the concept of urban common, the high flexibility of the space would be important to a common spaces, which could accommodate various events from different scales and styles. In this diagram, it wants to illustrate the diversity of the space in PMQ, it could hold a bakery, music studio, and exhibition space etc. By designing a high flexibility of space to fulfilling the needs from different groups within the whole community, the flexible space could then be considered as a common space, since the primary element of common space should be able to accommodate most people in the community.

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READING SITE The second research project in Framing is Reading Site, which is we began to investigate the basic information related to the civic centre in Wallsend.

In order to explore Wallsend, we have looked at five different aspects (urban & Physical, Social & Economic, Materials, Historic, Ecological). It would be a groupbase research project that could help us form the basic understanding of civic area in Wallsend.

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Wallsend is a small town that locate between Tynemouth and Newcastle, which has a plentiful historical background, which can trace back to 122 AD, the Romans built a fort near the river in order to provide protection to the roman bridge across the Newcastle. The Romans names the fort as the segedunum fort, which currently it is empty. The name of the town, Wallsend, was not recorded before 1085.

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Wallsend was known as a famous shipbuilding town in Newcastle, before that Wallsend could also link with mining industry since 1835, after the long disputes with the mining industry, it was ceased in 1934.

Meanwhile the first shipbuilding company was found in 1880, which it has launch a few famous such as the HMS Ark Royal, The World Unicorn, and The Esso Northumbria. However, the de-Industrialisation leading to a decline of manufacturing and social disintegration in 1960s, which the economic was seriously affected by then.

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SITE ANALYSIS (URBAN & PHYSICAL) North Site Elevation

Residential Area

Customer First Centre

Car Park

Greenary Space

Residential Area

Car Park

Residential Area

The Forum

Residential Area

The Forum Aerial View

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West Site Elevation

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Leisure Nature

Richardson Dees Park 1:1000

SITE ANALYSIS (ECOLOGICAL)

Leisure Nature

Foreground of Hawthorn Villas & Park Villas, and to the Hallís foreground 1:1000

In Wallsend, the main greenery spaces are location in the north-east area, the large-scale greenery space are formed by the richardson Dee Park (Left) and the Foregrounf of Hawthorn & Park Villas (Right). These spaces provide various outdoor facility such as skate park, basketball, tennis courts. Besides, the location of these spaces are really near to the civic centre in Wallsend, and it provide sufficient greenery space in the town.

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The Richardson Dee Park Plan

The Foreground of Hawthorn & Park Villas Plan

The Richardson Dee Park Section

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Residential Building

Social Facilities

Industrial Building

Commercial Building

Scale 1:2500

Education Purpose

Since Wallsend was famous in shipbuilding before, which the main economic activities (Blue circle) would hold in the south part of the town that near to the river. Whereas the main neighborhood was located in the civic centre of the town (Yellow Circule), since there are shopping centre and different stores sit along the high street, these spaces would be the main space where the community could gather around in town.

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As the last project in Framing, the Rituals of Civic Life was to form further understandings in terms of the building scale and hiding componenet.

In this research, I am able to develop further understings in terms of the construction detail, the building size, and the potential use that might be used for Wallsend. WIthin this stage I began to research on the building in Wallsend, which is the People memorial hall and town hall for the main exploration research.

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RITUALS OF CIVIC LIFE

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RESEARCH - TOWN HALL

RESEARCH - WALLSEND

Doncaster Council Office, United Kingdom Bodø Town Hall, Norway Freiburg Town Hall, Germany

Town Hall Business Centre Memorial Hall People’s Centre

The town hall was opened in the 16th September 1908, which it act as a municipal building by then. However, the local government decided to repurpose the building into a business and conference centre, which was suggested the that the purpose of the town hall were no longer needed.

Fig. Doncast Council Office

Fig. Wallsend Town Hall

Fig. Office Space (Doncaster Council Office)

Fig. Conference Hall (Wallsend Town Hall)

Fig. Freiburg Town Hall

Fig. Freiburg Town Hall Central Space

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The circular design of the building creating huge spaces in the central area, although this area did not design as a courtyard space of the building, placing large scale rooflight in the centre of the building, it could provide sufficient lighting to the lower part of the building. In terms of technical aspects, the combination of photovoltaic cells and thermal insulation leading it to be the first building that could achieve net-surplus-energy standard. Comparing to the typical town hall that have historical facade, which might not in line with the modern standard, the contemporary town hall could achieve higher awareness in terms of sustainability.

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The Doncaster council centre has a flexible design in terms of the building plan layout, which the open plan design could benefit the future rearragement of the purpose of space, this design could provide greater freedom for the council. Hence, the open plan design would be capable to hold different event in the town hall, which could accommodate different scale and purpose events in the town hall, it would be a crucial element for a contemporary town hall to hold diverse activities for the community.

The history of the memorial people’s hall are related to the WWI, which it meant to celebrate the effort and sacrifice from the residents in Wallsend. On the top floors of the building was a huge gathering space that could hold different activities, it also provide a event venue for the community.

Fig. Wallsend Memorial People’s Hall

Fig. Top Floor Gathering Space (Memorial People’s Hall)

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3.2 TESTING Based on the research we have in framing, we began to develop further in our design proposal. In testing, we are able to experiment different design from urban scale to the detail of materials, form, and shape of the building.

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SITE OPTION

DESIGN BRIEF

Greenery Space + External Car Park

External Car Park

Based on the research from framing, the primary design brief of this project is to design a flexible common spaces that belong to the community, who can manage the space. Futhermore, the spaces within the building should enourage interaction between different groups in the community and form greater bondings, so that the building should be able to invite different stakeholders in the Wallsend.

The western side of the forum have a large area of car park space, and greenery area. The location could provide higher design freedom compare to the other site in the civic area

Behind the buildings that face to the main street in Wallsend.

However, there are considerable amount of building around the site.

Cover Car Park

Roof Area of The Forum

Considering the park area around the site, the old structure could be reused, which could achieve better sustainability and renew the existing structure.

Currently, this area could be the loading area for the Forum, which constructing building on top could potentially extend the Forum, and benefit the daily users.

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In order to achieve sustainable design, the project would retrofit the existing car park. Since the oversupply parking area around the Forum, the selection of covered car park would provide largest benefits to the residests in Wallsend.

In Wallsend, the majority of household do not have a vehicle, and the second largest residents only have 1 vehicle, which the covered parking space may not fully utilised.

40% Household that have 1 vehicle

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40% Household that have no vehicle

184 Parking bay provided by the Car Park

Car Park Location Site Location Greenery Space The Forum Customer First Centre

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215 Parking bay provide by the Forum

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SITE ANALYSIS - SHADOW STUDY

SITE ANALYSIS - MIRCO

Since the car park is connected to the Forum, which would have many access methods, and the main access method from the main street would have to pass though the Forum.

Access to Site Main Street (High Street West)

Site Access + Main Street

Since the site is located in the civic area of the town, which both of the car park would suffered from the pollution. It would be important to separate the common space with the street in order to provide higher spatial experienve of the space.

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Noise Analysis

Western part of the site would be the main wind source. In order to reduce imact to the community, the building should limited to the similar height than the surroundings.

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Wind Diagram

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PROGRAMME

PROGRAMME OVERVEIW

Gathering Space

530

Common Area

480

Courtyard

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Cafe/ Restaurant

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Workshop (2)

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Computer Room

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Crafting Room

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Meeting Rooms (5)

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Studio Space

540

Kitchen

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Office Space

550

Town Hall

Programme 1: Town Hall

COMMUNITY

In this design project I would like to design a new town hall for the community in Wallsend, since I think it have limited gathering space that allows holding different kind of activities. The town hall aims to achieve a flexible design that could hold wide range of activites from formal to casual, but also could gather the community into one building, which could enourage various of interestion between the community in order to recover the disintegration in Wallsend.

STUDENT

Programme 2 : Vocational Centre

STUFF

Looked thought the census that released by the local government, which there are a quarter of residents in Wallsend do not have education qualification. Therefore, I decided to design a vocational centre that focus on developing creative industries such as art, craftmanship, or even music, which it target the young adults that age from 20- 28. The vocational centre was aimmed to restore the manufacturing industry in Wallsend.

Qualification Survey

Programme 3 : Common Area Within this building, I would design additional spaces for the community in order to provide higher flexibility. These spaces could be managed and run by the community, which the common space could be changed in the long-terms based on the need of the community. Besides that the common area also aim to provide comfortable space that could bring a second home for the people living around.

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Population Percentage (20- 29)

Office Office Room (3)

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‘Job Prospects’ as the fourth highest concerns from the local community.

Total: 3210 sq. m

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USER REQUIREMENT

DESIGN EXPLORATION - MODELLING

Student

Community

Staff

Studio

Reception

Office

Crafting Room

Ticket Office

Office Room

Storage

Enquiry Centre

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Crafting Workshop Workshop

Ritual of Civic Life Common Space Courtyard Cafe

Exhibition Events Gathering Space

Recycling Workshop

In the beginning of the experiment process, modelling making are one of the methodsto testing out ideas. By making model, I am able to experiment the sense of scale and forming different building design that could sit into the civic area in Wallsend.

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Design Exploration - Sketches

Design Exploration - Sketches

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As the primary programme of the building is a town hall, which I started doing rough and design sketches in order to experiment with the materials and design of the spaces, but also considering the ritual life within the building and experiment different elements thta would suitable for this project.

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Outdoor spaces are one of the elements that I want to design in this building, so that I started to using rough sketches to form the brief design that could accommodate the key elements that I want to have in this building.

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DESIGN EXPLORATION - SKETCHES

1 This idea was to create a slope component that connect two blocks that have different heigh. In order to reduce the mass of the building that could minimise the affect to the low building around in terms of lighting, wind, and building mass.

This idea was to forming a central courtyard in the building by creating two L-shape blocks, which could provide more outdoor space for the building and the community

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3 This idea was to creating a sky garden in the building by placing the new structure on top of the existing car park and place 1-2 metre behind the car park in order to create a sky garden.

4 This idea was to emphasis on using the existing structure, and forming different purpose of spaces by the height difference of each blocks.

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DESIGN EXPLORATION - EXPERIMENT SKETCHES After the design exploration from sketches, I decided to combine the theme from design 1 and 3, which I combined the new building into the car park structure.

Originally, I designed a 6-storey high building as the new town hall for Wallsend. However, I realised that it would bring negative effects for the site in terms of lighting and wind.

After that I started to emphasis on the relation between the town hall and the site, which I wanted the height to kept align with the customer first centre that next to the car park.

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DESIGN EXPLORATION - PLAN

Plan 1

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Plan 4

Plan 2 (2/F) - Illustration from The Review

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Plan 2 (1/F) - Illustration from The Review

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DESIGN EXPLORATION - SECTION Before I have realise the scale of the building is too big, I have experiment the lighting and the layout of the building by drawing rough section. The main idea of the building was to design large atrium that reach to the ground floor in order to provide more lighting into the building.

After I found out the scale issues of the building, I scale down the building by removing the bottom rectanglar block of from the massing and keep the building within 13m high which could stay align with the customer first centre, but also minimise the impact to the building near by.

Section 3

The concept of reducing the mass of the building and inviting the existing car park structure as the foundation was formed in the middle of the design process. However, the depth and low ceiling design of the structure brings considerable negativity in terms of the compressive and dim atmosphere.

Therefore, I thought maybe lifting up the concrete slabe higher would solve the issues mentioned above, so that the further experiment process was to decide which part of the floor slabe should be rose.

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Illustration from Testing Review

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DESIGN EXPORATION - REVIEW PLAN

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1. Reception 2. Common Space 3. Courtyard 4. Sanitation Facility 5. Workshop

6. Gathering Space 7. Storage Room 8. Electrical Room 9. Cafe

10. Studio Space 11. Computer Room 12. Crafting Room 13. Meeting Room 14. Exterior Space

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3.3 THINKING THROUGH MAKING In Think Though Making (TTM), I focused on exploring the cultural representation design that could be suitable for this project.

I have experimented with the relation between the form and shadow, but also the atmosphere that could be generated.

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MODELLING PROCESS

Since the model was to experiment with light and shadow, which I made a box that simulating a atrium space of a building.

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SHADOW

By using baking paper in the model, I tried to create the logo of the foum by hanging on the grid on top of the model.

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3.4 SYNTHESIS After series design experiment in the previous section. The Synthesis, which is the final design stage in our project, we began to focus more in the building detail and finalise the design of our own project brief.

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STRUCTURAL DESIGN - 1:20 SECTION 1.

20 mm Plywood Panel 20 mm Cavity 5 mm Waterproof Membrance 400 mm Thermal Insulation 5 mm Waterproof Membrance CLT Floor Slab 200 mm C

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10 mm Aluminium Plate 5 mm Waterproof Membrance 100 m Thermal Insulation 5 mm Waterproof Membrance 4.

20 mm Concrete Claddings 50 mm Cavity 5 mm Waterproof Membrance 250 mm Thermal Insulation 150 mm Glulam Beam

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150 mm Aluminum Window Frame Double Glazed Glass 70 mm (Glazing; 10 mm, Cavity 50 mm) C 7.

20 mm Timber Flooring 20 mm Plaster 150 mm Thermal Insulation 50 mm Cavity 100/ 200 mm Glulam Timber 300 mm Existing Concrete Slab Conc 8.

100 mm Timber Panels 325 Vertical Hanger Metallic Clip 150 mm CLT Panels

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300/ 300 mm Existing Concrete Columns

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20 mm Timber Flooring 20 mm Plaster 200 mm Thernal Insulation Concrete Slabe (Existing Structure) 400 mm Conc

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10 mm Aluminum Plate 10 mm Aluminum Mesh 50/100 mm Glulam Timber

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10 mm Concealed Aluminum Gutters

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50/ 100 mm Sylomer 100/100 mm Angle

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2000/ 1000 mm Solar Panels

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STRUCTURAL DESIGN (PRIMARY)

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In order to reduce the carbon footprint of the building within the construction process, I decided to use both glulam and CLT timber for the primary and secondary structure of the building. It would place on top of the existing concrete slab and using glulam beamto lift up the east part of the building.

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Gathering Render

Gathering Render

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Gathering Render

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SYNTHESIS PRESENTATION BOARD

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APPENDIX The completed prohect and research

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