Neuman Chow’s ARCHITECTURE
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With special thanks to God, my father, Daniel Chow and mother, Julie Chow for their endless support throughout this journey.
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THIRD YEAR FINAL PROJECT // The Democratic Theatredrome of University High School
THIRD YEAR PROJECT ONE // CERES Pavillion, Parametric Intervention
AA VISITING SCHOOL SEOUL // Garibong Speculative Redevelopment
26 28 SECOND YEAR PROJECT ONE // Transcendental Space of Secret
INTERNSHIP EXPOSURE // Austin Heights School, Drafting & Visualization
CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS & MODEL-MAKING // University of Melbourne, Construction & Model-making Modules
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THE DEMOCRATIC THEATREDROME
The Individuation Theory Applied Into Architecture This project critically investigated the relationship between the effect of spatial experiences and the level of pedagogy effectiveness - attention span & happiness of students. Through this project, I argued that the existing school design of University High School suggests a monotonous environment that generates disinterest and traditional pressures amongst students - which results in lack of innovative thinking and openness in knowledge. The proposal was to create and speculate a new system of school design that involve students to generate formal/spatial arrangements that continually grows with time. I suggested building frameworks of functional spaces to accomodate the highly mobile facade treatment which can be easily transformed, similar to a threatical set changing its props and backdrops.
THE DEMOCRATIC THEATREDROME University High School Extension Proposal THIRD YEAR FINAL PROJECT 2017 Tutor // Sarah Song STUDIO FIRE
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Classroom Framework - ABSORPTION & PERMEABILITY
Stadium Framework - PERFORMANCE
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THE DEMOCRATIC THEATREDROME
Amphitheatre & Atrium - IMMERSION
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Structural Axonometric Drawings
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THE DEMOCRATIC THEATREDROME
The composition was derived mainly from the surrounding site study that influenced the way each programme is being designed from its framework. The factor of external pressure - that encourages a narrow-minded career/pedagogy outlook - that UHS faces like the hospitals, engineering firms and law schools gives student a fixed idea of how they must set out their life pathways. As such I suggested designing an integrated school hub that gives the student an experience of a rich spatial environment by having differential programmic design. The design study uses four of the main school programmes - the theatredrome, the retreat space, renaissance centre and stadium - to generate a rich experiential space. Fundamentally, the classroom is a space where students get to learn and participate as such the framework has to maximize the key principal of ‘ABSORPTION’. This leads me to design a simple steel framework that allows high permeability of movement which enables students and teacher to be flexible in the way they participate and learn. I also included a theatrical floor where assistants can operate the ‘classroom sets’ for a more immersive learning experience. The retreat is a space of full ‘IMMERSION’ where it is the centre of everything. Users get to experience all programmes in their differential richness of facades to be immersed in their own ‘school world’.
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The renaissance centre represents a place where knowledge is borned again - a revival of knowledge. As such I referenced this to design a framework that is more classic, including a concrete post-beam structure with an intention to plant traditional facade treatments on them beit Japanese, Roman or Arabian. The stadium is a place where the focus should be on the game or players performing. As such I designed it to be as simple as possible with materials like mild-red bricks and concrete finishes to not draw attention arround but to the ‘PERFORMANCE’ only.
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Final Section Drawing
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G
I
Plan Drawings &
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THE DEMOCRATIC THEATREDROME
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III
& Illustration
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Using Parametric Tools To Inspire Efficient Change This project uses Grasshopper and parametric design to generate forms and iterations that would best fit the site context of CERES as a shading element. It investigates the efficiency of parametric tools in comparison to conventional design methods in producing the product. This was a two-person group project that follows our own allegory of societal tug-war incorporated into the design.
THE CERES PAVILLION A Parametric Intervention
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THE CERES PAVILLION
THIRD YEAR PROJECT ONE 2017 Tutor // Lindy Hayter STUDIO AIR
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Contextual Study & Colour Palette Experimentation
Contextual Study & Day-Night Study
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THE CERES PAVILLION
The idea was to use Grasshopper to design an single unit-block of construction material - an alternative brick - so that it would be easier and more efficient to generate the overall form later on. We decided to generate a multi-faceted octacube that has hollow ends to ensure its flexibility and also potential to adhere to adjacent unit-blocks. This octacubes were then inputted with parametrics of “Most-used area� to generate its shape in which areas that are needed to be shaded. When a single octacube is deformed, it will also generate deformation on adjacent octacubes which allows the form to react to environmental conditions - in relevance to the societal tug-war, when someone pollutes the environment, all neighbours of the similar environment is affected by their actions. This flexible octacubes also allow this structure to be retractable and foldable - which was the requirement of the project to produce a portable shading element. Instructional Assembly Drawings
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Garibong is a conflicted suburb in South Korea in which the population of illegal immigrants from China are overpopulating the local Koreans. This causes distress in the suburbs with council policies being difficult to be implemented due to the divided opinions of two races. This results in the suburb being notorious in crime rates and bad environmental hygiene. This project was to generate a system in which locals can vote or choose their desired combinations of interventions through a website to solve real-time problems in the suburb. This website was also created to allow the locals to provide suggestive measures of solution for their neighbourhood. All graphics shown were designed and composed by me as a contribution to the team. The project was to design a ‘chocolate box’ of choices for the neighborhood to choose from with the help of door-to-door interviews and brief site study over the course of 10 days.
Architectural Association Visiting School: Seoul Suburban Redevelopment 2017 Tutor // Igor Marko Marko&Placemakers Studio
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AAVS
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Potential intervention perspective
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More on, garibongstories.squarespace.com @humansofgaribong
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Conceptacle - Study model
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TRANSCENDENTAL SPACE OF SECRET
Darkness invokes fear
Lines and colours to invok
The future of experiencing space - transcendence. The brief of this project was to design a place to keep secrets in the site of Herring Island, Victoria. This island that holds thousands of indigenous plant species receives mixed reviews when it comes to a place of relax as there are some people who feels fear and anxiety entering this natural habitat of the wild and the civilized. My proposal was to use these two feelings to create a three step process of entering real rationality through the confusion of senses that heightens vertigo and psychedelic effects that Herring Island can potentially produce. This would be the only way to unlock the secrets being placed in the island - a narrative of transcending yourself into the secret. The project was explored through different methods of representational drawings to express emotion, design and narrative. Not for the faint hearted, only those who succeeds will know the secret. This is the lock to the vault, can you transcend or not?
TRANSCENDENTAL SPACE OF SECRET A speculative project of holding secrets
ke confusion
A state of transcendence achieved
Breaking the bondage of pseudo-rationality
SECOND YEAR PROJECT ONE 2016 Tutor // Scott Woods STUDIO EARTH
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“What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational.”
Georg Wilhem Friedrich Hegel
TRANSCENDENTAL SPACE OF SECRET
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AUSTIN HEIGHTS SCHOOL
This was a project in Austin Heights, Johore, Malaysia, that I managed to participate in during my time of internship with this architecture firm. I was largely involved in the drafting works and visualization of the project with the use of AutoCAD, SketchUp and Rhinoceros 4. I did a few site visits also with the team leading architect for inspection of foundation works. I also attended the site meetings in which consultants discussed on the project details and problems.
Austin Heights School Building Extension 2016 Team Leader: Christopher & Azli Daniel Chow Architects
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LEGEND - EXTERNAL MATERIALS EF01 RFS01
LEGEND
TIMBER CLADDING METAL DECK ROOFING
LEGEND - INTERNAL MATERIALS PB 90
965
900
90
90
792
D G-05
45 x 90 MM TIMBER WALL STUD
D G-06
11 12
FF01
3965
FF02
BE
RO
11 12
12
WATER PIPING SYSTEM
8
SK
DE
1
10 90
SO
W G-01
SITE EXISTING EARTH EXCAVATED
8
222
125 547
10
PLASTERBOARD WALL - P50
BED 2 & BATH 1 PLAN
NAME
11
1:50
DRAWING TITLE
NEUMAN CHOW KAH HENG
N
BED 2 & BATH 1 PLAN SCALE
STUDENT NUMBER
1 : 50
718056
FF01
SELECTED TIMBER FLOOR
FF02
SELECTED FLOOR TILES
FF03
CARPET
FP
FIXED PANEL
DWR
DRAWER
HR
HANGING RAIL
MX
MIXER TAP
BA
VANITY BASIN
BM BMX
BASIN MIXER
SO
SHOWER OUTLET
JH1
JOINERY HANDLE 1
JF1
WHITE VENEER
JF2
LAMINATE - WHITE
5M
0
6
RFS01
7
EF01 RFS01
SAND D G-05
CARPET FF03
D G-06
W G-14
SELECTED FLOOR TILES FF02
EF
SELECTED TIMBER FLOOR FF01
EF
BE
RO
D1
7
5
BOX GUTTER
1400
4
3
TIMBER STUD WALL FRAME + 24.795 CEILING HEIGHT
8 8
5950
1090
PB
JF1
1255
EF01
PAINTED 50 x 50 MM TREATED PINE BATTEN
JF1
W G-14
RFS01
HR
11
JF1
JF1
JF1
PC JF1
PC JF1
PC
HR
WHITE UNIVERSAL CEILING FAN
W G-01
PLASTERBOARD CEILING 11
SL R-07
SECTION LINE CORRESPONDING TO STAGES
NAME
DRAWING TITLE
NEUMAN CHOW KAH HENG UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
STUDENT NO.
718056
TUTOR
MARK LAM
STAGE 12: FINISHING TRADES - PLAN
JF1
JF1
WF01 11
JF1 FP
JF1 FP
DWR JF1
DWR JF1
DWR
DWR
BMX
W G-01
12
BA JF1
JF1
11
JF1
35 x 70 MM FLOOR BATTENS
2
FF02
11
FF03
11
1955
2
1:50 DRAWING TITLE
DETAILED SECTION OF BED 2 & BATH 1 SCALE
1 : 50
0
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1
RIGID INSULATION & WATERPROOF SHEET
90
SECTION A
NEUMAN CHOW KAH HENG 718056
3640
90
NAME
STUDENT NUMBER
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EXCAVATED SOIL
REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB
02 A
12
12 12 12
JF2 JF1 FF01
FLASHING
11
12
SO
BATH 1
JF1
ASSIGNMENT
FLIPBOOK SECTION 2
SCALE
1 : 50 @ A3
SUBJECT
0
5M
CONSTRUCTION ANALYSIS
LEGEND
TIMBER CLADDING
CONCRETE
PLASTERBOARD WALL TILE SELECTED TIMBER FLOOR
FF02
SELECTED FLOOR TILES
FF03
CARPET
5M
FP
FIXED PANEL
DWR
DRAWER
HR
HANGING RAIL
MX
MIXER TAP
BA
VANITY BASIN
BM BMX
BASIN MIXER
CONTROLLED FILLING
EARTH
SO
SHOWER OUTLET
JH1
JOINERY HANDLE 1
JF1
WHITE VENEER
JF2
LAMINATE - WHITE
SAND INSULATION
SARKING - WATERPROOF MEMBRANE
BASIN MIXER TAP
LEGEND - STAGES STAGE 1 Site being prepared for construction. Excavation of existing site. STAGE 2 Concrete slab poured over formwork, waterproof membrane & rigid insulation. STAGE 3 4 5 Timber wall stud framing. First floor voided, ground level becomes a partial dual ceiling height. STAGE 6 Roof rafters and timber framing. STAGE 7 Roof sheathing - Metal deck roofing, cladding EF01 - Timber Roof Cladding Box Gutter embedded within eaves of roof.Skylight Window STAGE 8 9 Sarking, Flashing, Wall Insulation, Window frame and cladding framework. STAGE 10 Window fitting. STAGE 11Flooring, Internal Wall, Services STAGE 12Built-ins, Furnitures, Fittings
TIMBER WINDOW FRAME
METAL DECK WALLING
FLASHING
NAME
DRAWING TITLE
NEUMAN CHOW KAH HENG UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
STUDENT NO.
718056
HOUSE PLAN NAME
METAL DECK ROOFING
FF01
DRAWING TITLE
N
LEGEND - FF&E
7
VERTICAL BLINDS FOR WESTERN SUN ANGLE
W G-02
LEGEND - FLOOR FINISHES
8
JF1
HR
12
GROUND FLOOR LEVEL FFL 20.600
8
PC
JH1 JH1
WALL INSULATION
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BED 2
1130
8
5
SKYLIGHT
+ 24.075 CEILING HEIGHT
10 DOUBLE GLAZED SASHLESS SLIDING WINDOW HARDWOOD 8 WINDOW SILL 9
4
720
11 P50 - PLASTERBOARD
PB WF01
SARKING AND INSULATION TO BE INSTALLED WITHIN ALL ROOF CAVITIES
+ 26.195 CEILING HEIGHT
3
W10FF02
EXHAUST FAN
PENDANT LIGHT
SK
DE
LEGEND - INTERNAL MATERIALS
9 7
355
RIDGE HEIGHT
125MM CAST CONCRETE WALL
EARTH
BASIN MIXER TAP
STAGE 1 Site being prepared for construction. Demolition of existing structures and excavation of site to refit piping system and set out retaining walls. STAGE 2 Pouring of concrete slab on formwork with steel beams - reinforced concrete. STAGE 3 4 5 Timber stud walls - framework of house. Posi-STRUTS, beam to support First Floor framework. STAGE 8 9 Insulation fitting, waterproofing - sarking, and framework for external wall cladding. STAGE 10 Windows and Door fitting. STAGE 11 Flooring, plasterboard fits, services. STAGE 12 Built-in Furnitures, Floor finishes
EF01
26.550
TILED (WATERPROOFED - FIGURE 1
CONTROLLED FILLING
LEGEND - EXTERNAL MATERIALS TIMBER ROOF RAFTERS
+
TILED (CERAMIC TILES ON MORTAR
CARPET (ON SLAB RUBBER CARPE FLOATING TIMBER FLOORING
LEGEND - STAGES
2045
01 A
1
5
W G-02
WALL TILE
LEGEND - FF&E
9
EF01
3177
11
PAINTED 50 x 50 MM TREATED PINE BATTEN
12
OPEN TO ABOVE
4
8
WALL INSULATION
11 12
3
A 02
FF03
BATH 1 11
11
W G-14
BED 2
A 02
10
4
3
LINTEL
1165
900
DOUBLE GLAZED SASHLESS SLIDING WINDOW
10
CONCRETE
PLASTERBOARD
LEGEND - FLOOR FINISHES
90
3826
WF01
2
CONCRETE SLAB BENEATH FLOOR FINISH
FF01 FF02 FF03 FF04
TUTOR
MARK LAM
STAGE 8: WALL CLADDING - SECTION SCALE
1 : 50 @ A3
ASSIGNMENT
FLIPBOOK SECTION 2
SUBJECT
0
5M
CONSTRUCTION ANALYSIS
NEUMAN CHOW KAH HE
1650
01 E
1.3)
750
1050
750
600
FIXED LOUVRE DETAILS
1050
1200
ET PAD)
1000
450
WINDOW DETAILS
R ADHESIVE)
W01
EXTERNAL & INTERNAL HORIZONTAL SHADING FIGURE 1.2
W02
W04 W05 W06
W03
W07 W08 W09
W10
TIMBER OPAQUE FIXED LOUVRE
900
600
875
L01 L02 L03
NORTH-FACING CLERESTORY WINDOWS (LOUVRE WINDOWS)
W04
ENSURE UNOBSTRUCTED VENTILATION THROUGH CLOSED ROOMS
2150 600
W03 D01
W01
W02
SOUTH-FACING CLERESTORY WINDOWS (LOURVE WINDOWS)
FF02 FF01
FF01
W05
L03
FF03
FF02
FF02
ENG
D01
L01 HORIZONTAL LOUVRE SHADING
L02
HWT B
FF04
FF04
FF02
W09
W08
NORTH ELEVATION
E 01
FF04
SCALE 1:100
W06
W07
INTERNAL FACING BRICK WALL
FIGURE 1.1
VERTICAL BLINDS FOR EASTERN SUN ANGLE
FIGURE 1.2
UNVENTILATED 40MM AIR GAP REFLECTIVE [0.03/0.03, E = 0.015] SINGLE-SIDED REFLECTIVE FOIL INSULATION [REFLECTIVE LAYER INTERNAL FACING] HORIZONTAL SHADING ARE LOUVRE BLADES ANGLED AT 29ยบ TO ALLOW MAXIMUM SOLAR GAIN DURING WINTER AND BLOCKS OUT SUMMER SUN TO PREVENT THE HOUSE FROM GETTING TOO HOT. WIDTH = 150MM, SPACING = 112.5MM
POLYESTER/WOOL BLANKET BULK INSULATION R4.0
SARKING & VAPOUR BARRIER [BREATHABLE MEMBRANE]
FIGURE 1.3
TIMBER BATTEN 35X70MM
CERAMIC TILES
EXTERNAL CLADDING TIMBER WEATHERBOARD [INCLINED]
MORTAR SHEET WITH SILICON GROUTS
FLASHING REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB [ON WAFFLE POD] EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE SHEET WAFFLE PODS R1.0 SLAB EDGE INSULATION R1.0 RC SLAB
EXTERNAL WALL DETAIL REVERSE BRICK VENEER
DATE
21.07.2016
STUDENT NUMBER
718056
DRAWING NO.
A3.2 N
SCALE
1 : 100 @ A3 0
SEWER LINE WATER LINE GAS LINE
S
S
S
W
W
W
GAS
GAS
GAS
WATERPROOF COATING [MULTI-LAYERS]
GAS METRE
SITE BOUNDARY
M
EVERGREEN TREE
S
DECIDUOUS TREE
TELECOM PIT
STORMWATER LINE
ELECTRIC POLE w/ STREET LIGHT
VERTICAL BLINDS
GM
WATER METRE SEWER PIT
POWER LINE HORIZONTAL LOUVRES
5M
TERMITICIDE VAPOUR BARRIER LAYER
LEGEND
VENTILATION PATH
These are the series of construction drawings that was produced in the course of 3 years during my study in the University of Melbourne through several modules. The following are also my experiences in model-making and photo editting skills of models.
DRAFTING & MODEL-MAKING University of Melbourne
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MODEL-MAKING
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