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SANCTUARY OF HEALTH
SIZA’S BOATHOUSE
DELIVERABLE
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ZEN PARADISE
ARMOR-D
FOSSILIZED HABITAT
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C-BEE-D
CONSTRUCTION DESIGN
MISC.
01. The Sanctuary of Health The capstone studio explores a new typology of the community health centre and marries the community to a centre that breaks free from conventional healthcare architecture. Community Health Centre
Academic I 2019 Architecture Studio: Fire Tutor: Ahmed Sadek
The design addresses the patient’s perspective in healthcare typologies, which are daunting and disconnected from the community. This architecture responded by integrating healthcare and community spaces, abstracted with the architecture of spirit, body and mind. Spiritual spaces aim to knit the patient group with the community, the body activates the neighbourhood with physical health and nourishment while the mind supports the mental health of patients and visitors alike. To maintain the permeability and local character of Carlton, a veil of brick controls privacy and the atmospheric quality of the spaces. Together, the programs work holistically as the sanctuary of health, a social model of health inspired by the needs of the community in Carlton.
Carlton Community Health Centre
Spiritual Hall
Community Dining Hall
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
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02. Siza’s Boathouse Siza’s boathouse sits graciously at the water’s edge of Yarra Bend, inspired by the modern and poetic language in Siza’s work. BOATHOUSE
Academic I 2017 Architecture Studio: Water Tutor: Sarah Kahn
Studying the contemporary work of the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, his works portray architecture in the form of poetry. Simple yet resonating with the form of the landscape, Siza is a master of capturing views of architecture using frames. The project aims to borrow the architecture language used by Siza and translate it into the design of the new Studley boathouse. The project aims to transform the existing boathouse into a site for weekend recreation, evening riverside dinners, and a wedding gathering place. The journey to the boathouse is highlighted with Siza’s poetic gesture, creating moments that capture the natural context and water of Studley Park.
i. An approach is a fundamental gesture to experience architecture. The journey becomes more apparent when views and cinematic experiences are framed at the specific moments of architecture. ii. Floating boathouse inspired by contemporary style of Alvaro
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Composition White-washed concrete
Visual Connection Ribbon window at eye-level
Response to site
Timber flooring
View framing
Boat hire and jetty
Pier foundation
Light and geometry
The restaurant invites one with a play of geometry, space and light inspired by Siza’s contemporary interior. Viewed from the strip window, the cinematic flow of rowing boats and the mellow waves of Yarra Bend becomes part of the atmosphere.
The patio and waterfront between the two blocks form a courtyard that descends gradually towards the water. The bending gesture reflects the movement of water at Yarra Bend while also articulating the notion of embracing nature.
03. Deliverable Intended to be a small gathering place in Japan for the victims of the disaster and their children, the ‘Home for All’ provides a place of comfort where the disaster-stricken victims who have lost their homes can talk, eat and live closely with one another. HOME FOR DISASTER REFUGEES
Competition I 2018 Shelter International Architecture Design Competition 2018: Home for All Team: Chun Yu Ng Ariel Bintang Hasibuan Jiayi Chen
Architecture has long been bound by proximity to society, making it inclusive only to those who can reach it, i.e. architecture is not reaching out. This condition leaves many regions which are not served by ‘home-for-all’ to be anxiously waiting for their turn. Thinking beyond, isn’t this the opposite of ‘all’? ‘Deliverable’ is a proposal that intends to reach ‘all’ of Japan; an architecture that reaches to places longing for communal spaces. It aims to deliver the home for all along the Japanese coastlines that are vulnerable to frequent attacks from tsunami and earthquake. The module could contract to the size of a container and be moved to different sites affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, staying in a region for a span of months for people to enjoy, after which it would relocate again. The module could expand to morph into a stage and interior space for summer, but also contract to become an intimate space in winter. This ability would also allow for regions with tight spaces to be catered to. The architecture adapts to different contexts while maintaining its character for the people. In the future, more permutations will roam around Japan, inhabiting spaces that were left behind, so that everybody can enjoy architecture, either for a meeting space, performance, activity, or just a quick chitchat with the neighbours.
Expanded form
Stairs stored
Safety board closed
Modules split
Parcel form for transport
Delivered to areas in need
When the retractable stairs are pulled out, they become an outdoor amphitheatre for kids and family to gather for evening leisure or special Japanese occasions.
The warm touch from the interior recalls traditional Japanese life, designed to deliver comfort to the disaster-struck refugees who lost their homes. With modular and minimal arrangements, the interior space can easily be modified into a living space for family, tea room for the elderly, learning space for the young, weekend market for the farmers, or practice room for festival performers.
04. Zenscape A landscape scheme that incorporates the notion of perambulation, health and zeninspired well-being for a community centre. LANDSCAPE
Academic I 2018 Site Tectonics Tutor: Nano Langenheim Team: Chun Yu Ng Rachel Koh Hui Yuan
The project aims to design the landscape for a community centre by the Maribyrnong river that emphasises the architectural experience. The organic form is derived from the precedent Roberto Burle Marx, famous for his organic manipulation of landscape. With multitudes of nodes and interception, the ramp-scape is designed to guide one down to the river and experience the scenic context, promoting perambulation and the wellbeing of the users of the community centre. Winding through the hilly landscape, this unique experience becomes a major influence on the design of the ramp-scape.
Anchor Park
Therapy Centre
Maribyrnong River
Community House
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05. Armor-D A personal space through digital exploration - Armor-D switches social approach into denial. WEARABLE ARCHITECTURE
Academic I 2017 Digital Design and Fabrication Tutor: Matthew Greenwood Team: Chun Yu Ng Alex Shen Tian-Hong Kaylin Yeoh Yeong Yee
The project intended to design a wearable architecture that represents a defined personal space using digital design and fabrication techniques. Armor-D is a mechanism that explores denial as a representation of personal space; a switching mask that turns social approach into denial. The design of the Armor-D takes a topdown approach by learning the client’s sensitivity and sense of personal space to digitally design the model. Using algorithmic methods such as folding simulations, the tesselation of geometry can easily be controlled. The timber panels and thickened cardboard act as an acoustic barrier that prevents sound from penetrating, while the perforations at the front maintain visual privacy from Kay’s surroundings.
The study of personal space proceeded with the design of a headpiece with a mechanism that switches between an approachable form and the denial form to control one’s response to personal space. In the approach form, audio-visual organs are exposed to socially connect to one’s surroundings. Switching to denial form, the concealed physical responses and acoustic buffer create a personal space only one can enter.
How does one visualize personal space? Essentially, a personal space is seen as an aura-like boundary that encapsulates a person. Using sensitivity as a measuring tool, we could visualize the dimension of the personal space created by our human senses. Through analytical mapping, we could study the threshold of Kay’s personal space which is more sensitive as it gets closer to her brains as it is the centre of all responses.
The avant-garde headpiece is digitally fabricated using algorithmic design and laser-cutting method to form a curved tesselation pattern inspired by Japanese origami. The flexible structure is durable yet enables the head to slide in easily like wearing a helmet.
Fabrication:
Digital Modelling > Lasercut
Materials:
Panels- 3mm MDF Hinges- 1mm black cardpaper + 3 ply brown interior parchment lining
06. Fossilized Habitat As an abstraction of the future habitat of blue banded bees, the image of nature being fossilized delivers awareness of our future environment thorugh parametric techniques. BEE HABITAT INSTALLATION
Academic I 2018 Architecture Studio: Air Tutor:
Jack Mansfield-Hung
The natural habitat of blue-banded bees becomes more vulnerable as nature strips are displaced by the built environment. We are unaware that the loss of habitat of the native bee species is a crisis for the whole ecosystem as they are more efficient in pollination than honey bees. The project ‘Fossilized Habitat’ represents awareness through a philosophy of speculating about the future and what our environment might turn into after the bees species is gone. Using digital techniques, a tree in the CERES park was taken as a test subject for the project. The core of the course is to explore the extent of parametric design to generatively design a habitat for the non-human client. Made possible by parametric control, the fabrication of the designed habitat is also more manageable using 3D-printing and mortar casting techniques, saving time while achieving high accuracy for assembly.
1) Select tree
2) Photogrammetry to generate mesh of tree
3) Develop agent using physarealm that grows around the tree
4) Create isosurface volume using ‘Chromodoris’
5) Create pods using parametriccontrolled script based on the bees population
6) 8mm wide mortar pods becomes habitat for blue banded bees
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The final model is fabricated using a casting method as blue-banded bees live in the mortar. A five-part silicone mould cast technique allows high complexity and accuracy to the final product when assembled together.
07. C-Bee-D Plug-in urban modules inspired by the bio-system, creating a new height for future societies in the CBD. URBAN PLATFORM
Competition I 2017 SONA Superstudio 2017 Team:
Chun Yu Ng Ariel Jansen Bintang Hasibuan Jiayi Chen
C-Bee-D is an urban platform that addresses urban problems such as loss of public spaces, resiliency and homelessness along Swanston Street. The hexagonal modules are designed to serve different programs that account to the needs of the people. The project suspends over Swanston Street with a lightweight semi-permanent scaffolding structure recycled from the construction of Melbourne’s CBD, creating a new public space of elevated ground. The project is inspired by the dynamism of bees that continuously work from hive to hive. Similarly, the heart of Melbourne is becoming more and more busy with the increasing population and other problems challenging the future of CBD. The dynamism of a platform using bee drones allows people to experience a shifting public space as modules are detached and reattached depending on the needs of the society.
Sloping towards Yarra river, the unique topography creates a height difference between the ground level and the new urban platform that elevates horizontally along Swanston street. Dealing with flexible and changing needs of the future environment, the plug-in system allows the urban space to shape more dynamically with interchangeable hex modules that serves different programs to improve the social, commercial and environmental values of Swanston street. Utilizing technology such as flying bee drone as a dynamic urban catalyst, C-Bee-D envisions the future of the everchanging plug-in city inspired by the shifting
Swanston street section
PRESENT
Detailed section at Little Lonsdale St. and Swanston St.
FUTURE
Urban vision of C-Bee-D
Plug-in assembly
08. Construction Design This sectional model of the Elizabeth Blackburn School of Science (EBSS) analyzes the construction methodologies, design intent, material sciences and detailing strategies applied to construct the educational building. CONSTRUCTION & DOCUMENTATION
Academic I 2018 Construction Design Tutor:
Timothy Derham
Project by:
Prior to model making, careful reading of the architectural and engineering drawings helps for understanding the construction process and details of the EBSS. The sectional model intends to represent real-world construction communication and methodologies with a hands-on experience of how the educational centre is built from the foundation to the waterproofing strategies. Using the model as a learning tool, it not only helps to discuss the step-by-step construction methodologies, but also the relationship between the design intent and the feasibility of the construction.
Roof cladding drainage system
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ROOF STRUCTURE
Waterproofing and brick facade
DETAILING
detail veneer
Timber framing, internal partitioning and ceiling system
Lift core foundation and precast concrete panel construction
1:20 Sectional Model of Construction Systems
09. Grasshopper Grasshopper and parametric plug-ins are ways to simplify the modelling process while yielding complex outcomes. Parametric modelling plays with the language of logic and forms inspired by the future of architecture. PARAMETRIC DESIGN
Dinara Kasko’s Gradient Rotation
Stadium Rafflesia
BLOOM Game by Alisa and Jose
Biophile Growth