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Natalie Cheung is a fresh graduate in masters of architecture from the National University of Singapore. Her architectural work, “Seam” has been accredited RIBA President Medal Silver Award and her thesis work “Authoring Nature” will be exhibited in the International Exhibition of Architecture Graduation Design. Away from her drawing hole, she finds herself expanding her interests in publication editorials, film photography and ceramics. As an outcome from listening to hours of podcasts from 99% invisible, Natalie is now inspired to explore of the subtleties that make up our everyday - those that are seemingly overlooked but make up a significant structure of life. The collection of her work, can be found on instagram under the hashtags #nataliecheung_arch and #natterypottery
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P O R TFOLIO + OTHER WORK Š 2017 by Natalie Cheung All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the author herself. Unless specified, all images and content are created by the author of the portfolio.
2011 - 2017
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Accolades
Professional Experience
International Exhibition of Architecture Graduate Design 2018
WOHA Architects
Taiwan for thesis project: “Authoring Nature”
Riba Presidents Medal (Silver) The Royal Institute of British Architects for RIBA project: “The Seam”
Deans List
National University of Singapore 2014 - 2015
CityEx Exhibition 2018
URA + National University of Singapore 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
CityEx Exhibition 2015
URA + National University of Singapore 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
CityEx Exhibition 2014
URA + National University of Singapore 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
CityEx Exhibition 2013
URA + National University of Singapore 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
CityEx Exhibition 2012
URA + National University of Singapore 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Editor-in-Chief for Paperspace
Paperspace Publication, The Architectural Society 2012-2016
Editor-in-Chief for NUS Yearbook 2015
Year-out Internship, 2016-2017 Drafting, Design, Graphic Design Layout and Curation, Simple Massing on Revit, Involvement in Tender/ Submission, Project Management and involvement in existing winning Competition Schemes. Refer to attached for detailed descriptions.
Genome Architects and Design Consultancy Internship, 2015 Drafting of carpentry works, Design of ventilation blocks, 3D Modelling on Rhino, Graphic Design Layout, Photoshop and production of renders for Interior Design.
LAUD Architects Internship, 2014 Drafting, Design of Room Layout, 3D modelling on sketchup.
Research Assistant under Dr Joseph Lim Research Assitant, 2013 Studies on facade, Development and build of 1:1 scale model, 3D modelling on sketchup with real-time information.
Broadway Malyan Intern, 2013 Model Making, Render and Photoshop of MasterPlan, 3D Modelling.
Hyphen Architects Architectural Designer for Freelance, 2017 Generation of Design Ideas , 3D Modelling and Drafting
National University for Singapore 2014-2015
Editorfor NUS Yearbook 2014 National University for Singapore 2013-2014
Technical Skills Revit - Basic AutoCAD Rhinoceres 4.0 Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Premier Pro VRay Sketch-Up
Education
Other Experience Stage Design for Esplanade Freelance for Illuminate Production, 2017 Generation of Design Ideas, Realisation of Design to Stage and Production.
“1st /2nd Architectural Forum” Graphic Design Freelance for Poster Design, 2016 & 2017 Professor Cheah Kok Meng
Furniture Design Freelance for Kult Magazine, 2015 Mr Terence Yeung, Interior Design Lecturer in SOTA
Publication / Articles ‘ A Humble Home’ / ‘Strangers of a City’ Article, Paperspace
Masters of Architecture
National University of Singapore 2017-2018
Bachelors of Architecture National University of Singapore 2011-2017
A Levels
Jurong Junior College 2010
Comfortable Punishment An Article on Prisons and Punishment Published Journal, Dr. Jeffrey Chan
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SEAM FOR LIVING Artist Residence and Co- Living
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LOOK! THE ESTERO BEYOND Re-attaching the neighbourhood to Estero through Livable Systems in Guayaquil, Ecuador
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IN A WORLD OF OUR OWN Navigating Memory and exploring Organic Living in the City
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SMALL SIGNIFICANCE Designing for Public Imagination and Expanding Influence of Artist, Ng Eng Teng
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ANULI The design of multi-faith space in Africa, Senegal Tanaf
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RIBA President Medal Nomination Exhibited at CityEx 2014, URA
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SEAM FOR LIV I N G
Studio Neo Sei Hwa of Ten Architects Technique + Tectonics | Yr 3 Sem 2
Wall as connector between park and city Artist Residence and Co-Working Space in Labrador Park, Singapore
An exploration of the use of clay + rammed earth as building material to provide for a comfortable micro-climate building within Singapore’s Urban Park.
Massing gradually opens up to reveal more of its surrounding tropical forest as it grows away from the urban front of labrador park and into the dense vegetation.
The design began with the exploration of materials: clay + soil to form a material personal and unique to the historically rich coastal location of Labrador Park. The exploration in the use of clay focuses on the folding techniques of the alternation between interior and exterior walls of clay upon centering it on a potters wheel.
Material Study
Taking inspiration from the primitive methods of storing and cooling food in a botijo vase. Layers of a seamless rammed earth wall is used with a similar idea of passive cooling. This designed with the intention of producing a comfortable micro-climate and provide a guiding cooling touch of it walls as you journey through and climb the hill. Using material personal to the site and ground would create a wall that would draw attention to the details of its surroundings.
A seamless wall cuts through the dense forest to act as a visual and physical guide from the entrance of labrador park to the top of the hill where majority of its historically rich elements lay, commonly by-passed by park-goers. The wall aims to slowly assimilate people from the urban environment into nature while allowing them to retain their sense of comfort.
Concept
The cooling physical touch of the rammed earth wall and interpersonal play on intertwining interior and exterior spaces, slowly assimilates a common city dweller to stumble comfortably into the dense forest of Labrador park and finally into nature. As the wall approaches the top of the hill, it parts to an opening for look-out points towards a panoramic view back out to the park.
Entrance hall
Exit look-out point
Artist Residence
Details together with its accompanying materials are designed to bring an emphasis to the monumentality of the wall. This emphasis is made where floor slabs are elevated away from the wall to allow light to illuminate the rammed earth walls through slim skylights along its edges.
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Studio Dr. Oscar Carracedo Climate + Territory | Yr 4 Sem 2
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LO O K ! TH E E STE RO B E YO N D Re-attaching the neighbourhood to Estero through Livable Systems Urban Planning in Guayaquil, Ecuador
A Group Work Project with Sarah Lee & Andrew Teo
BLUE & GREE SPACES Legends
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An indepth analysis into Guayaquil reveals a dense grid of towns divided and connected by large water systems termed as the Estero. The river in study, Estero Salado is largely polluted and floods its riverside housing seasonally.
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The homogeneity of the city’s grid structure has been broken apart by the river, creating anomalous heterogeous patterns in the urban fabric. The site is thus an urban patchwork that has to be rejoined and mended.
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Urban Voids The voids in the city are spaces which disrupt the urban tissue, leaving it incomplete or with undesirable areas that do not positively contribute to the surroundings of users. Urban Voids may also refer to spaces that have little to no permeability and are thus unable to perform in the social realm.
A. Estero as an Urban Void Estero is a divider between the communities around it. Gradually being infilled by garbage and human waste, the estero has become a forgotten resource and amenity. The densely packed informal settlements along the Estero’s banks create streets with dead ends, preventing views and access to the estero.
B. Large Institutionalised Schools as an Urban Void Large Institutionalized Schools typically create urban voids when they occupy an entire cell in the grid structure. These become containers of spaces that the public cannot access or use.
Existing Poly-Centric Placement of Millenium Schools Students in Ecuador generally walk to school. Having a poly-centric model of Millenium Schools benefit only those who stay in close proximity to the school and deter those who stay further away due to distance.
Existing School
Access to education is limited.
Proposed relocation of School Proposing a new Millenium School model anchored along the Estero By anchoring Millenium Schools to the Estero that runs the length of town, Puerto Liza. The effect of the Millenium Schools are furtherreaching. Access to education is higher.
Proposed Social Housing on School Plot
The ‘Staple’
Staple to Staple
An injection of a staple that is terminated by a school and the Estero is inserted through a series of housing blocks to faciliate a movement driven from deep within the neighbourhood brought out to the Estero, a common trait in town.
Our prototype should be flexible, adaptable and replicable along different sites around the Estero. This also includes allowing the ‘Staple’ to be multiplied at various areas to encompass more facilities and undergo constant development.
Prominent functions (Plug-Ins) will be anchored within the building blocks to interact with the existing neighbourhood and as a pull factor out towards the Estero.
Thus the prototype is not an end product but a building block in the non-finished process. Larger catchment area of benefts
The Staple is not an end product but a building block in the non-finished process.
Impression of Housing Strategies and Landscaped Areas
The result is the insertion of revitalised urban generators within a large circuit network that connect to major vehicular roads.
Impression after Street Revitalisation
The proposed masterplan is the creation of two school communities at each terminus of Estero Puerto Liza that bridge more connections both at the macro and micro scale.
Impression of Millenium Schools next to Estero Puerto Liza
Proposed Masterplan
Typology A
Typology B
Typology C
Typology D
Typology E
Typology F
Existing Residential Unit + with Car
Existing Residential Unit + without Car + with Fence
Existing Residential Unit + without Car + without Fence
Existing Residential Unit + with Shop
Existing Corner Residential Unit + with Shop
Existing Corner Residential Unit + with Blank Wall
Street Sidewalk is less than 2m
Street Sidewalk is more than 2m
Street Sidewalk is less than 2m
Street Sidewalk is more than 2m Urban Conditions Street Typologies
Typology G
Typology H
Typology I
Typology J
Existing Corner Unit + with Fence
Existing Corner Unit + with side Entrance
Existing Empty Corner Plots
Existing Non-Vehicular Street
Instead of revamping an entire street, pockets of plug-ins are designed to suit the existing conditions studied. Businesses are revitalized and housing fronts are activated to bring about a bustling street life that acts as a pull factor that draws one from constantly walking within the neighbourhood to walk towards the Estero and their schools.
Commercial Street Facing
Vehicular Street Facing
Pedestrainized Street Facing
Inner Courtyard Facing
Urban Conditions Incremental Social Housing A family’s pride in Ecuador belongs in the personalization of their own house. It is an approach in which the governments fund the construction of basic skeleton of the house; A square plot with space for a garden, structural exterior walls, kitchen and toilet. Leaving both the interior partioning and use of house front space to the residents.
Typology A is facing a commercial street. Typology encourages expansion of shop along this street.
Typology B is facing a pedestrainized street. Typology could also cater to the development of a commercial front.
Typology C is facing an inner courtyard space. Typology allows for expansion of house.
Typology A.1
Typology A.2
Typology A.3
Typology B.1
Typology B.2
Typology C.1
Ground Floor
Ground Floor
Ground Floor
Ground Floor
Ground Floor
Ground Floor
Possible Option: Commercial Activity + Open Front yard.
Possible Option: Commercial Activity touching boundary.
Possible Option: Ground level Shop Space.
Possible Option: Large Commercial Front.
Possible Option: Commercal Front + Bedroom.
Possible Option: More bedrooms for a larger family.
2nd Floor Plan 3rd Floor Plan
Housing Plots and Units were designed in squares to allow for maximum flexbility in the randomization of Typologies. The plan above shows Typology A, B and C fitted together to form an incremental housing strategy that work together and yet are personalized to suit individual families. An open landscape offers a shaded area for a congregation of neighbourhood residents and a landmark to a homoegenous city grid. With each of The ‘Staple’ marked by an open landscape, it is an inviting and welcoming gesture to the start of a revitalised urban street.
Highest Recognition in Master Project Studio | Yr 4 Sem 1
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Netherlands, Eindhoven UOT Studio Mark Hemel of IBA Architects
Navigating Memory and exploring Organic Living in the City Dementia Care Village in Amsterdam, Netherlands
This project challenges the norm of an inward-looking dementia care centre typology and an exploration towards visual cues as natural wayfinders in facilitating independence and regaining normalcy in dementia living.
Publication: “In a World of our Own” Research on Dementia + Interviews with Dementia Patents in Netherlands
In A World of Our Own?
The phrase implies a curious, nearly contradictory set of meanings when applied to dementia-friendly design. The word ‘world’ implies a sense of freedom while the phrase ‘our own’ suggests a certain exclusion from outside society. There is therefore a paradoxical relationship, where the illusion of freedom must be maintained while in reality keeping patients safe and secure from their tendency to forget. To understand and design for this paradox by trying to reconcile the freedom of the patient with the guidelines dementia design require, is thus the aim of this project and ongoing research.
Circulation Space
Courtyards
Staff Areas
Residential Areas
Windows / Light
Routing
Dementia Village in Weesp
Plan
Architects: Molenaar & Bol & VanDillen
Family Clusters
Elderly Heathcare Building in Spain
A study in existing care-extensive typologies reveals long corrdiors and inward looking units that create hostile environments. Existing dementia care homes create environments that encourgae dependent care for patients in which their condition could deteriorate. Active Core
Architects: Julien de Smedt Architects
Branching Clover Structure
Architects: Areal Architecten
Doughnut
Group Home in Noboribetsu
Elderly Care Campus in Mayerhof
Psychiatric Hospital in Helsingor
Architects: Brullet Pineda Arquitectes
Architects: Sou Fujimoto
Group Homes
Hannekes Boom, a Cross-roads of Networks A Cross-Roads, A Centre Piece Hannekes Boom, an active core in the centre of Amsterdam. Shopping districts, Young Cafes and Commercial / Residential boats along the river form a socially rich and diverse neighbourhood that line the waterway.
“ Allow visual access and overview. Because of the degeneration of their brains, people with dementia cannot mentally represent spatial situations that they cannot see directly. Therefore, all places relevant to them should allow for visual access, and it should be possible for them to oversee their entire immediate living environment. “
Comparing a Rectillinear Form vs a Curvillinear Form from a patient’s point of View.
Gesine Marquardt, Wayfinding for people with dementia
Verticality of the City
Bullseye Urban Morphology of Amsterdam
Characteristics of Dutch Terrace Housing
Curvillinear Form
Process Drawings
Process Drawings
Dementia Living in a City An integration, instead of isolation, of Dementia Care within the city. This design explores the next step in urban typology away from existing dementia-care ones that are bounded from its surroundings. Through integration, patients can feel like active participants in a city’s community and the nuances of a bustling city life.
Centres are mostly always institutionalized, bounded up by walls and encourage a lifestyle that is dependent on their caretakers. Not only does this facilitate loneliness and depression, it causes the conditions of their illness to degrade more. Situated in the busy city centre of Amsterdam, Netherlands, the design has to tackle the problem of noise from the nearby railway track and high human traffic while taking into consideration the well-being of the patients in the centre.
The Dementia Care Village is made up of cascading levels of small individual houses coming together, elevated a storey above street level, to form an intimate environment. The elevated street-scape forms the main circulatory element that connects the small houses. The design incorporates visual cues that act as natural way-finders to facilitate independent walking that improves the conditions of the patients. At certain points, the elevated street-scape transitions into a bridge over voids that open up to the street level below. Connecting both elderly and the busy city.
Concept
Waterfront Promenade Public Space under Dementia Care Village
First Floor Plan Private Level Dementia Care Village
Visual Stimuli A Step by Step Naturally Occuring Process
Step One Distinguish Centre Point
Step Two Distinguish Landscape
Step Three Distinguish Colour
Step Four Distinguish Personalised Door
A lift from the ground level brings the patient through the centre of the building and acts as a starting point to the step by step process.
Landscapes can be easily distinguished by landmarks and anchor points marked through both site and landscape design.
Introducing pastel colous to the facade improves visual stimuli and access. This pastel cmbination makes the facade distinguishable from its surroundings while providing a palette of soothing, calm tones to the building.
Doors help to act as memory objects to trigger memories of their own homes making the identification of their new houses easier
Elevation A - A’.
Form helps to disperse noise from neighbouring railway track
Cascading terraced housing open lower levels to more sunlight and facilitate the flow of wind.
Dementia Care Village Keeps patients within an open but safe boundary while retaining a connecting to the city.
Public Level
Section A - A’.
Releases and retains space for multi-function public use.
A low-bush acts as a barrier to prevent 3rd Stage Dementia Patients from wandering beyond their rooms on the first floor.
A curvilinear corridor allows the patient to have an immediate view to his / her room from the lift core.
While the boundaries are indicated by a soft boundary, these rooms still retain a panoramic view out toward the sea.
low wall preventing 3rd stage dementia patients from wandering beyond their boundaries
Residential Residential: 2nd Stage Dementia Patients 2nd stage dementia
2nd/3rd floor
patients Residential:
Residential 3rd stage dementia 3rd Stage Dementia Patients
1st floor
Perspective Corridor along the Waterfront
Dementia Patients are able to walk dementia patients are able to along the waterfront freely without walk along the waterfront a care-taker having of a freelythe and worry without assistance patient walking out of a compound.
Perspective Along the waterfront
Perspective on Second Floor View from the Lift Core
Perspective Serial Vision of Corridor
patients town centre Living Retail & Communal Town and Amenities andhouse amenities
View on Private Level toward Housing Cluster showing cascading house terracing and views down to public space below
A design that empowers dementia patients, retain their independence and sense of normalcy.
View on Public Level showing fluid public space for bikers and children and a connection with patients from the Dementia Care Village above.
View along Corridor
View of Patio Space between rooms
Waterfront Promenade Public Space under Dementia Care Village
Overall Perspective Dementia Care Village
Exhibited at CityEx 2013, URA
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Studio Chaw Chih Wen of Hyphen Architects Urban + Mobility | Yr 2 Sem 2
Designing for Public Imagination and Expanding Influence of Artist, Ng Eng Teng A Local Museum in the Heart of Joo Chiat, Singapore
“ Museums used to stand for something old, dusty, boring, and barely relevant to real life. Those kind of places still exist, but ... the more sucessful ones have changed out of all recognition.” - Jack Micklethwait, Editor of ‘Temples of Delight’ in the Economist.
Dementia Living in a City An integration, instead of isolation, of Dementia Care within the city. This design explores the next step in urban typology away from existing dementia-care ones that are bounded from its surroundings. Through integration, patients can feel like active participants in a city’s community and the nuances of a bustling city life.
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Site Anlaysis and Diagrams The curatorial document aims to emphasize the preseneec of these maquettes by playing about the distortion of space; the vastness of the space plays on the small-ness of these sculptures, making them seem smaller than it is. As the visitor moves up these levels, the museum slowly reveals its journey to overlook museum overall.
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with Brian Khoo, George Fung and Kate Lim May 2017 | Jury: Kengo Kuma + Others
Architecture for Introspection, Spirituality and Divinity. The design of a Multi-Faith Space in Africa, Senegal Tanaf
Like how the Griot sits in the Centre of the crowd, telling stories to help us understand ourselves, we hope the space would be able to be a landmark in Tanaf to help us understand and accept one another. With this, we came up with an architecture which is guided by the design of multifaith spaces that is influenced by the cultural importance of storytelling in the African community across different regions.
The circulation within Tanaf is mostly organic. Tanaf’s main road branches off from a national road, with a semi regular grid forming along the branch before splitting out organically across the landscape; a characteristic of African communities,.
Kaira Looro, Architecture of Peace With the theme of Kaira Looro and the analogy of greetings of good wishes, prayers and peace as presented in the brief, the concept of mutual understanding takes on another dimension of not only being able to empathise, but also encompass the gracious ability of being able to take a step beyond empathy to pass on a gift of heartfelt well wishes to another party, be it stranger or friend. With this, our understanding of Kaira Looro has to first and foremost, involve the understanding and interaction of the community as the foundation of the design. With this, we looked into the history of the country, culture, religion, and the unique characteristics of the region itself to inform our architectural design. With this, we came up with an architecture which is guided by the design of multifaith spaces that is influenced by the cultural importance of storytelling in the African community across different regions. An Understanding of Differences, A Gathering of Similarities How does one create a space to accommodate to groups of vastly different people, but yet still retain a sense of neutrality? There is a need to identify and balance the similarities between different spaces of religion with the neutrality of a space, but at the same time still retain the core characteristics of a space which makes it suitable for a place of worship.
What makes this more complex is the cost and manpower factors involved in the design, as a majority of multifaith spaces are often found in more modern context of spaces, from airports and shopping centres to prisons and government buildings, and such spaces are very often a collection of blank rooms with minimal markings to demarcate any kind of specific religious affiliation? While it is a space that embraces all, it fails to respect the sacredness of religion, relegating it to hidden storage boxes and unmarked walls. However in the context of region and the surrounding nature of the place, it was clear that a blank box would not do. A multireligious space in Tanaf would have to not only embrace the many different people of faith in a community, but also limitation of construction and the urban fabric of the community itself in order to become a familiar part of the daily lives of the people. After all, we also wanted it to double up as a kind of city hall; a space for possible meetups and activities within Tanaf and the region, focusing beyond just religion alone. The architecture in this case would be a physical manifestation of the intentions of such a multireligious space within a community. Among the physical characteristics of a multireligious space, we identified what we felt were the most important ones within the context:
Anuli is the idea of a space which can be shared among people of differing creed and religion, a physical manifestation of mutal understanding between one human and another,
Located where the original mosque was, it sits at the centre of the main road where the structure would come to represent the Heart of Tanaf. The multi-faith architecture is a circular form to break down the strong axial assocations of various reglious spaces, and reinterpreting it in a more neutral aspect in the form of an oculus location on the roof, which attains its sacredness through one’s own interpretation of the form and the atmopshere it creates. The encircling walls, maintains a degree of privacy yet remains fully open; instead of a door, a long corridor leading to the interior; a transition space of reflection as well as a buffer from the outer surroundings. Frames at varying eye levels bring in light and allow passer-bys to engage in other communities through listening and peeking in.
The Location, The Axis and the Boundary.
One is not compelled to stay or go, but rather linger.
An Understanding of Differences, A Gathering of Similarities Anuli represents a space where the community enables the architeture to become a physical representative of the understanding which helps to bring people together. The multi-faith, multi-use aspect of the architecture involves the different religions and communities coming together in maintaining the same space, and in this manner, the only way the space is able to manifest itself as a significant and sacred one would involve the genuine good will and intention of the different communities maintaining that space together, where each group’s action and care for the space is a tangible form of blessing wished upon others, like the words “Alma Kaira Siyaa Laa�.