Contents.
01 | Co-hesion! Rediscovering the new ways of connecting: Living and socialising in a (post-)digital era. M.Arch II Thesis Supervisor: Zdravko Trivic, PhD. Year: 2021
02 | Temples of Sustainability. M.Arch I Design Research Studio Supervisor: C J Lim (Bartlett Unit 10). Year: 2020
03 | Balmoral Residences. Winter Exchange Programme Supervisor: Giovanni Corbellini, Luca Caneparo (Politecnico di Torino). Year: 2019 04 | Black Market. B.Arch III Supervisor: Zdravko Trivic, PhD. Year: 2018
05 | Wheelers Atoll. B.Arch III Supervisor: Ar. Hans Brouwer. Year: 2018
06 | Wallace Habitat. B.Arch II Supervisor: A/P Fung John Chye Year: 2017
07 | Lion City Underground. Dip. Retail Hospitality Design (Temasek Polytechnic) Supervisor: Ar. Thomas Tow. Year: 2015
01 Co-hesion! Rediscovering the new ways of connecting: Living and Socialising in a (post-) digital era.
Synopsis: With the rise of technological advancements and the internet over the past few decades, having a constant virtual connection has become a norm for society. As we progress towards utilising digital platforms such as social media as our primary mode of social interactions, it is necessary to maintain physical, social interactions. Without so, there are detrimental effects on our health and well being. With the rising trend of independent lifestyles in a progressively digitalised Singapore, individuals may be able to live independently. However, this would, in return, limit physical, social interactions, furthering a cycle of Singaporeans to be a drift into our virtual bubbles. Communal housing could provide individuals with a choice for independent living while maintaining Real-Life and Face-to-Face social connections in the digital age. As an up and coming smart nation, communal housing should be the dominant typology for individuals. It allows inhabitants to maintain living within individual virtual bubbles while retaining reallife social skills and social life. Using metabolic materials and digital technology such as AR/VR and Holograms, they intend to be a catalyst towards social cohesion. The proposed communal housing community allows for the architecture and community to grow together organically. It plans to become both the underlaying structural foundation and act as a node to the future development of the Greater Southern Waterfront. Site: Greater Southern Waterfront, former Tanjong Pagar Port. Timeline: Phase 1 - 3 : 2025 to 2027. Phase 4: 2027 onwards.
M.Arch II Architectural Design Thesis. Supervisor: Zdravko Trivic, PhD.
Masterplan.
Architectural Phasing.
2025-2027
2025-2027
Co-hesion: PHASE 1!
Co-hesion: PHASE 2!
Construction of spine infrastructure
Open up of spaces for more digital activities!
Workshop
Assembly of activity spaces through VR/AR
Manufacturing spaces Lobby AR/VR Spaces
Availability for occupancy of temporary residential spaces
Proto-Cell discharge zones
CO-hesion: Phase 2
2025-2027
Co-hesion: PHASE 3! Growth of metabolic materials Permenant residential formation
2027 onwards
Co-hesion: PHASE 4! Completion and occupancy of residential spaces Continuous proto-cell growth and repair to support foundation
Furnishing formation
Synthetic polymer continously grows to provide materials for make and repair
Technical Drawings.
Basement 2 Plan.
Basement 1 Plan.
Ground Floor Plan.
Section B-B
Section C-C
Section D-D
Section A-A(1)
Section A-A(2)
Section A-A
Section A-A(3)
Section A-A(4)
02 Temples of Sustainability. What if Singapore is reborn?
Critical Thinking: By re-evaluating everyday necessities to forgo consumerism, the city is reborn. The act of repentance challenges existing public urban and architectural typologies focusing on sustainability that births new social and environmental responsibilities, and a new faith. Synopsis: Through eradicating all shopping malls in Singapore, this project acts as an antithesis of the urban planning condition of mass consumerism – the cause of death of the confrontation against Climate Change. This new typology shall act as a new form of faith, uniting and encouraging Singaporeans into achieving sustainability. By growing and consuming alternative sources of protein such as soy and beans, sustainability is achieved by promoting adoption of non-meat based diets over beef and pork, a category that generates high concentrations of CO2. Having solar panels and wind farming facilities advocate the use of clean energy for everyday activities. Rain water is channeled into reservoirs providing sufficient supply without dependency on buying water from neighbouring countries. With innovative alternatives to food, energy, and water, this project aims to reduce man-made CO2 and nurture and assimilate sustainable living practices into the lives of Singaporeans. Site: All shopping malls in Singapore. Focused on Clementi Mall, Singapore. Timeline: Present - Future. Who & How? Since Singapore’s agreement on the Kyoto Protocol in 2006 to reduce man-made CO2 emissions, ministers and officials decided to implement drastic measures to be selfsustaining and limit the amount of CO2 produced through consumerism. Thus a bill has been passed, allowing the state to fund this project.
M.Arch I Design Research Studio. Supervisor: C J Lim (Bartlett Unit 10).
Basement floor plan.
Ground floor plan.
Water-mist and food distribution plan.
Water storage plan.
Vertical farming plan.
Water compression pump plan.
Tower structural framework.
Tectonics location.
Construction phasing.
Vertical farming tectonic.
Water storage tectonic.
Small spires tectonic.
03 Balmoral Residences. Rethinking Urban Housing in Turin.
Synopsis: According to Hashim Sarkis, curator of the next Venice Biennale, architecture should answer this question: ‘How will we live together?’ The exhibition launch focuses, among various issues, on ‘new households, looking for more diverse and dignified spaces for inhabitation’. This topic appears as urgent today as it was one century ago, when housing became the privileged experimental field for modern architecture. Sustainability, better affordability and social integration, concentration and sharing of space, adaptive processes and variability of structures for greater flexibility over time are among the goals the design field is dealing with in collective housing. Located at the intersection of the rail roads, Balmoral Residences provides commuters with a convenient stopover as well as options for a long term stay. The different housing typologies come to a hamonious mergence in these two parallel blocks set atop a lustrous urban garden. Site: Via Agostino. Turin, Italy. Who & How? Since Italy’s implementation of the dollar homes in rural towns along Southern Italy, many visitors and investors have flocked to those towns inviting a new influx of tourism and visitors. In order to keep tourism a-flow in Turin, Gruppo Torinese Transporti (GTT) has partnered with URBACT and land investors to create a new housing typology that shall revitalise the abandoned railway factories.
M.Arch I Winter Exchange Programme. Supervisor: Luca Caneparo and Giovanni Corbellini (Politecnico di Torino).
Proposed Ammenities: Public Ammenities
Private Ammenities
1. Outdoor Public Garden 2. Gymnasium 3. Restaurant & Bar 4. Commercial Spaces 5. Parking Spaces 6. Parking Patio Seatings
1.Private Accommodations – Long Term (Refer to typology drawing.) 2. Private Accommodations – Short Term (Refer to typology drawing.) 3. Indoor Private Atrium Garden
Ground Level Master Plan Scale 1:500
04 Black Market. A new kind of urban market.
Synopsis: Black Market is a proposed market place within Jalan Besar – along the empty field which once housed the former Sungei Road Thieves Market. The name of the project was to reflect on the roots of the Sungei Road market where merchants used to sell stolen items at the venue. Through intensive research and interviews conducted amongst the residents, it concludes that there was a demand for a formal venue where the former Sungei Road merchants could sell their goods without having to go against authorities. By proposing the idea of a second-hand market place at the former venue, it not only tackles the issue of the buy-and-throw-away culture that has been inculcated into Singaporeans, while also diving into the nostalgic memories of the older generations to be familiar with the concept of the marketplace. With the porposed market, it allows of social integration between all Singaporean locals regardless of social classes, and the indian migrant community who would visit the market to look for cheap or vintage items. With such social opportunities, this project aims to facilitate stronger social bonds through common interests. Site: Former Sungei Road Theives Market, Singapore. Who & How? Urban Redevelopment Authority(URA) Singapore and National Heritage Board.
B.Arch III Design Studio Supervisor: Zdravko Trivic, PhD.
05 Wheelers Atoll. Rethinking Materiality and Construction.
Synopsis: In Singapore, most buildngs are constructed through the use of pre-cast concrete, timber and steel. Could materiality for architecture be explored further using uncommon materials for construction? Through the urban cyclists and their leg paddled vehicles as the protagonists, bicycles are broken down to their nuts and bolts in order to study their construction and joinery methods. Carbon fibre in this aspect is looked as a new material possible to be used for construction. As architecture replicates the concepts behind the modern bicycle, the proposed architecture itself becomes a home for the bicycles. Site: Buona Vista, Singapore Who & How? As the use of Bicycle Sharing are starting to bloom in Singapore, so does the need for parking spaces. Companies such as ofo and oBikes joins in the venture with URA to create a spot for bicycles to be kept neatly in urban spaces – creating a pitstop for cyclists to meet up or rest.
B.Arch III Design Studio. Supervisor: Ar. Hans Brouwer.
FIRST FIRST STOREY STOREY PLAN PLAN
SECOND SECOND STOREY STOREY PLAN PLAN
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Programs Programs
Programs Programs
Prog
1.Bicycle 1.Bicycle Cafe Cafe 2. Bicycle 2. Bicycle Shop Shop 3. Bicycle 3. Bicycle Workshop Workshop & Repair & Repair Area Area 4. Male4.&Male Female & Female Changing Changing RoomsRooms 5. Bicycle 5. Bicycle ParkingParking Pods Pods
1.Bicycle 1.Bicycle GalleryGallery 2. Bicycle 2. Bicycle TrainingTraining Facilities Facilities - Spinning - Spinning RoomsRooms 3. Bicycle 3. Bicycle TrainingTraining Facilities Facilities - Competition - Competition Conditioning Conditioning RoomsRooms 4. Bicycle 4. Bicycle ParkingParking Pods Pods
1.Cyc 2. Bic
SCALE SCALE 1:250 1:250
SCALE SCALE 1:250 1:250
SCA
THIRD STOREY PLAN SCALE 1:250
THIRD STOREY PLAN SCALE 1:250 Programs
1.Cyclists Lounge & Open Multi-Function Spaces
Programs 2. Bicycle Parking Pods
1.Cyclists Lounge & Open Multi-Function Spaces 2. Bicycle Parking Pods
FOURTH STOREY PLAN SCALE 1:250
FOURTH STOREY PLAN SCALE 1:250 Programs
1. Bicycle Parking Pods
Programs
1. Bicycle Parking Pods
1. Single Module
2. Three Modules
2. Eighteen Modules Stacked
06 Wallace Habitat. Glamping the new Camping?
Synopsis: Glamping a portmanteau of glamorous and camping, is described as camping with amenities where there may be resort style of services not usually associated with traditional camping. Glamping has slowly become an ideal type of getaway especially for Singaporeans who wants to camp out and relax. It has become a trend for Singaporeans to go glamping over long weeekends on Indonesian islands such as Bintan or Bali. This project aims to look into architectural design and possibilities for a glamping in Singapore whilst engaging with the surrounding natural environment. The architecture’s form is adopted from observing how nature and the environment comes together through its porousity and curvature. The triangular overlapping form pays homage to how leaves overlap on top of each other as it allows natural lighting to pass through. Taking inspiration from Japanese Zen influences, the design intends to create a comfortable and relaxing spaces in the woods. Site: Wallace Trail – Dairy Farm Park, Singapore. Who & How? Urban Redevelopment Authority(URA) and NParks.
B.Arch II Design Studio. Supervisor: A/P Fung John Chye.
DESIGN PROCESS
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MAHMUD KAMIL BIN ABD MAHMUD KAMIL BIN ABDUL KADIR A0169757H A0169757H 3 - FJC STUDIO DESIGN 3 - DESIGN FJC STUDIO
Timber T&G Decking Raised Timber Decking Joist Measuring 20mm x 140 mm thick Ledger Main Timber Decking with Timber Batten Overlaid to service as Timber Decking Support
DETAIL A SCALE 1:20
Timber T&G Roof Frame Head Track Assembly Sliding System
EPDM Membrane Bolted to Assembly Sliding System EPDM Rubber Waterproofing Membrane; 2mm Thick
DETAIL B SCALE 1:20
250
140mm thick Timber Column
Elevated post base with expansion bolt 421
Fabricated Concrete base measuring 421mm x 421mm x 250mm
DETAIL C SCALE 1:20
DWELLING MODULE AXONOMETRIC DETAIL SCALE 1 : 20
Timber Batten Overlaid to service as Timber Decking Support
Maximum 3 steel plates, each up to 5mm thick Maximum 3 steel plates, each up to 5mm thick
DETAIL D SCALE 1:20
MAHMUD KAMIL BIN ABDUL KADIR A0169757H DESIGN 3 - FJC STUDIO
07 Wallace Habitat. Could Singapore’s local music scene be celebrated through interior spaces?
Synopsis: Up till today Singapore has not been recognised as a music destination. This pushes the local music scene to be an underground movement. Local bands in Singapore are giving their best in order to achieve international recognition by performing through major music festivals and platofrms such as AudioTree live music channel on YouTube. Despite struggles to achieving local success, musicians of heavier music genres are often cast aside. This is partly due to how such genres are looked upon negatively as drug addicts, being anti-religious, or unachievers. With the lack of platform for such musicians to reach out to a mainstream audience, a dedicated space towards such music genres is of utmost priority. This project aims to transform Wheelers Yard into a platform for musicians to reach out to Singaporeans through live performances, selling of their merchandise, and by having a dedicated space for locals to understand the positive messages behind their music. Site: Jalan Ampas, Singapore. Who & How? Singapore Arts Council.
Dip. Retail & Hospitality Design – Temasek Polytechnic. Final Year Project. Supervisor: Ar. Thomas Tow.
First Storey Plan.
Second Storey Plan.
Section A-A’
Section B-B’