Ngoc Lam Portfolio

NGOC LAM Architecture Portfolio 2019

NGOC LAM (Gem) Skill 3D modeling

2D modeling

Physical modeling

Other

Rhino Grashopper Revit SketchUp

AutoCad Photoshop Indesign Illustrator

Handmade Lazer-cut

Microsoft Office Suite

Vietnamese Native

English Fluent

Chinese Beginner

Languages

Interest

Contemporary dance (5 years) Extra-curricular activity beside academic training and currently in Creative Performance Dance Class for 3 years in Dance City, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Award 2014

Award for outstanding academic achievement University of Architecture in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Contact ngocbaolam0802@gmail.com (+44)7756722269 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Quan Hong Nguyen Sawadeesign Studio, Vietnam Senior Architect mobile +84 909 337 132 email hongquannguyen412@gmail.com

Shaun Young Northumbria University Lecturer mobile +0191 227 4831 email shaun.young@northumbria.ac.uk

Education 2016 - present

Northumbria University, United Kingdom Barchelor of Architecture (Hons) First class

2013 - 2016

University of Architectecture in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Finished 3/5 years degreee before alter to architecture degree

Work experience Jul - Sept 2018

MIA Design Studio, Vietnam Architectural Intern Conceptual and schematic design, presentation set, 3D and physcial model MIA 15th year anniversary pavilion, Vietnam Tabanna Resort, Indonesia The Idea Field in MIA Concept Studio, Vietnam

2013 - 2014

University of Architecture in Ho Chi Minh City (UAH), Vietnam Docterial Thesis - Research Assisstant Work under pressure with high demanding Survey and map making by AutoCAD and Photoshop Document editing, book translating by Microsoft Office Suite

2012 - 2014

Communications Photography, graphic design, video making and website for highschool annual competition Team player and ommunicate with people via social media Work with deadline and co-operate with team memeber for the best product by Photoshop, Proshow Producer

Activity Aug 2018

Top 20 Beach Cinema Competition Cyprus School of Architecture

Dec - Jan 2018

The Unbox Volume Zero Competition

Oct 2017

Northumbria Study Trip, Rome, Italy

Apr - May 2016

The Oxford House Art Competition Shortlisted for final exhibtion

Community service Sept 2018

Northumbria Fresher 2018 Participate in Fresher Week Team

Aug - Sept 2017

British Red Cross Office Assistant for Mobilities Aid Service, Newcastle, United Kingdom Receive phone call and deal with varied situations Manage documents and equipment by Microsoft Office Suite

2014 - 2015

Vice President of Social Activity Club Student Union in UAH, Vietnam Fundraiser Organise voluntary campaigns, charity activities and annual events

ACAD WORK (1-8)

COMPETIT PROFESSIO WORK (9-11)

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Personal Technique

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Recent projects Water Museum

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The home of forgotten stories

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3rd year

3rd year - Final graduate project

Past projects Story of the binder

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Past - Present - Future of Newcaste upon Tyne

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Story of the Coal

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1st year

1st year

2nd year

Photo Joiner Create from many distant pictures

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Drawing 1:50 Ink on tracing paper

THE FACADE Drawing as A Way of Study

Generating a house facade by redraw an model making. Using tape measure and laser tape for physical measuring, this practise help better understanding of a building proportion, structure and material by a simple facade study.

DURATION

November - December 2016

LOCATION

High Bridge Street

MATERIALS

Photo, Paper, Color, Ink

SKILLS

Photography, Orthographic drawing, Model making, Rendering

Model 1:50 Card and draft board, paper, plastic and watercolor

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Scuptural works Exporation of shapes and materials

This is a hands-on project to study the pottery making process through clay from basic shapes to composing art piece under varied themes.

DURATION

2015

LOCATION

Vietnam

MATERIAL

Pottery Clay

Orthographic Models Exporation of shapes and materials

The main purpose of this pratice is to record building and exist structure in a city parK.

DURATION

2015

LOCATION

Vietnam

MATERIALS

Pottery Clay, Paper, Acrylic Colors

The river origins from Calleton Fell and intake a part from Gosforth Lake.

He use nature to build nature. From the rock source of Blackberry Craggs, he used it to construct the whole system and adjust the flow of water.

The river was built with weirs and ponds system step-by-step to keep the movement of water.

The Waterfall was the pride of this park, a picturesque view was an intention of this landmark that Armstrong had ever made.

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“When the river is the soul of the garden and it reflects the sky following us”

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STORY OF A RIVER A study of Armstrong’s Ouseburn river

s were used to not he pattern of the river musically.

The river partly flows underground Ouseburn and finally join on the River Tyne.

Lord Armstrong was a genius of Newcastle. His ambition is to make a park as natural as possible.

And the Ouseburn river flows into Amstrong’s Park was his masterpiece. With the background of a hydraulic engineer, he built the river with weirs and ponds system to keep the fluidity of water like a rhymth of a beautiful song.

DURATION

1 weeks (3rd year)

LOCATION

Jesmond Dene, Newcastle, UK

MATERIALS

12 x A2 paper, watercolor, thread, leaves, UHU glue mix white correction pen

SIZE

1680 x 2800 mm

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WATER MUSEUM Keep the Living memory alive

Inheriting the study from Story of water, this project is a series of landscape interventions to celebrate Armstrong’s river and the forgotten stories which relating water in Jesmond Dene.

The water museum is an extension if the river and also recalls the hydraulic power engine that Lord Armstrong used to design.

DURATION

Septemer - December 2017 (3rd year)

LOCATION

Jesmond Dene Newcatle upon Tyne, UK

AREA

440m2

MATERIALS

Cast insitu concrete, glaze, steel

SKILLS

Rhino, AutoCad, Photoshop, InDesign, Hand-drawing

Site Study Size: 420 x 1188mm

St. Mary’s Well

St. Mary’s Chapel

Main Museum

Ouseburn river

Starting from the Well to the Chapel and the river is the final destination.

This large-scale drawing illustrates the journey through the choosen site where series of interventions is supposed to be made - the well, the chapel and the main building. The idea for the proposal museum settling next to the riverside which could be flooded sometimes. The river is emphasized by how it is made - the riverbed and the surrounding landscape.

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Main Museum

Material Experiment The pracitise of using wax to create texture and possibly spatial quality

Up-Side-Down River

Flip Under- water surface This touchstone model inspired by Armstrong’s river.

The idea to make this model is “using water forming water”.

The on-water surface is what people observe of a river flow around many stones but the under-water surface is river bed stones structure that people rarely see.

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The Grotto The British borrowed Italian garden technique of using varied material mixture to make rough and free standed structure

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Programme 0. Pedestrian access 1. Lobby 2. Reception + Gift shop 3. Exhibition 4. Gallery 5. Court yard 6. Shallow pool (7. Underground outdoor exhibition) 8. Toilet 9. Cleaner store 10. Staff room 11. Plant room 12. Bin store (13. Pier) 14. Fire exit

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“They first walk pass through bushes and trees to reach the the riverside”

“After the encounter the museum, they follow the pathway to the nearby hydraulic power plant”

“The welcoming exhibition space open their view to the river”

“Walking through the inner courtyard to the pier of memory - looking back to the stone of apparition near the waterfall”

“There is a chance for a moment of walking down to the river to the underground exhibition space which introducing all stories of the river and underground springs”

“This moment is also the reflection from the idea of the Up-side-down model ”

The Well The Chapel

Banqueting Hall

Ouseburn River

Story Drawing Size: 594 x 1188mm (A0)

The aerial drawing illustrates how the connection and collective history between the ruins and the entire Dene.

“Landscapes and places store memories, they save traces of lives long gone... To me, landscapes are historical documents” (Zumthor, 2018)

“This is the first step to the whole new approach of Jesmond Dene Museum in the next project”

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JESMOND MUSEUM The Home of Forgotten stories

This project is a continuation of the story from the

DURATION

January - May 2019 (3rd year)

AREA

3184m2

LOCATION

Jesmond Dene Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

MATERIALS

Cast insitu concrete, glaze, steel

SKILLS

Rhino, AutoCad, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrylic painting with digital editing render

Water Museum

and expands the museum from water to the entire Dene. The idea is an openair museum where the landscape is a historical document and all collective memory stored in a walled garden with rooms inside allowing the story to be revealed. The project is complex as it integrates not only architecture but also landscape architecture. The Medieval Age gardening principle is a key element to generate 6 gardens.

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“Have you ever known a place which is just the renmant of the past and all beautiful, missing stories were written only on paper?”

St Mary’s Chapel Well A (covered) St Mary’s Well

Banqueting Hall

Well B (covered)

“Landscapes and places store memories, they save traces of lives long gone...

To me, landscapes are historical documents” (Zumthor, 2018)

Programme

Generally, the principle of these gardens learned from the Italian Medieval Walled Garden and in combination with varied garden from East to West depends on the specific story requirement on each site.

Each individual garden formed by:

Floor - varied in term of material

Wall - precast wall panel with different surfaces treatment for exhibition display.`

Architectural Object - Functional space Water garden - 375m2

Silence garden - 740m2

Apparition garden - 125m2

The underground water flows upside down from West to East.

The water is the consistent element that exists along the story and these series of room align to that direction.

The walled garden gives the visitor a chance to understand the past through the translation of architecture. It shapes the present by the way of the past.

The low level walled landmark as a labyrinth telling story of the slipper chapel. This garden is under the chapel of religion. It recalls the story of the slipper chapel and the pilgrims’ journey to the rock of apparition by integrating 3 gardens in the Middle Age: - Hortus Conclusus - Labyrinth - Japanese dry garden Memory garden

Park

Silence garden

Tea garden

Water garden

Apparition garden

River garden

Tea garden - 1200m2

Memory garden - 600m2

River garden - 144m2

The British used to bring tea from China and started to grow tea since then. The British and Chinese people has common tea tradition but in two different unique culture. This garden uses Chinese landscape notion to establish culture connection within the tea garden with the British.

The memory garden is the garden of celebrating people in the Dene.

The story vanished over time but what they did remains. This the moment to remember them.

Because the story is the fragment of memory and no story is crystal clear or well-recorded, the garden is a maze of memory, a maze of columbarium.

This is the extension of the river telling the story of the river construction (weirs, damps, waterfall). It also a terminal of the underground 3 spring of 3 marked well in the Dene (St Mary Well, Well A and Well B). An underground walled garden with ramp lead people going up and down.

- Chinese garden - Walled gardedn with plant beds

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Water Garden

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Silence Garden Tea Garden Apparition Garden River Garden

“From personal and emotional observation to architectural moment

The long corridor is the metaphor of the underground water runway.

It is a dark and narrow path but lighted up by the sun and the blue sky above is the reflection of water. The sky is the moving water which is observed along in the Ouseburn riverside.

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Water garden Intention

The underground water flows upside down from West to East. The water is the consistent element that exists along the story and these series of room align to that direction.

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2. Room of memory - Exhibition

3. Room of life - Baptism pool

4. Plant room

5. Garden with TPO trees

The well is the story of holy water which is said that it can heal people as a miracle which no medicine can do.

However, the Holy well is just one of many wells in the Dene and there is a doubt that the origin of St Mary’s well are maybe the two wells in the site of the chapel (well A and well B).

However, the Holy well is just one of many wells in the Dene and there is a doubt that the origin of St Mary’s well are maybe the two wells in the site of the chapel (well A and well B).

The well is been told as blessed by God because even in winter day, the water of the well still warm and there was a cloud above the water.

Many people come to the holy well to take away the water as a source of curing water.

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Silent garden Intention

The walled garden gives the visitor a chance to understand the past through the translation of architecture. It shapes the present by the way of the past. They enter the chapel by either the path of the prayer or the path of pilgrimage. The garden store stories of what made the Dene well known in term of religion and create an area for contemporary religious activities together with the St. Mary’s well.

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Chapel dowsing site

The covered well A

Underground water runway

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1. Room of ruin

2. Room of memory - Exhibition

3. Room of silence - Pray room

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Apparition garden Intention

This garden settled above the covered well B which recalls the story of “the slipper chapel” - the St. Mary’s Chapel and the pilgrims’ journey from there to the rock of apparition near the waterfall.

“They will walk 7 rounds on the sand of the labyrinth to reach the centre which metaphor for over 700 meters from the chapel to the Rock of Apparition made by the pilgrimage with bare feet.”

Tea garden Intention

This garden is the dialog between the Banqueting Hall and the landscape. The Banqueting Hall located is the most picturesque place in the Dene, facing the other half of the park. The ambition is to borrow the beauty of the landscape into the garden and pull the structure out.

The landscape border becomes a visual component of the garden.

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1. External garden

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3. Lobby

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Silent garden Intention

This garden is the dialog between the Banqueting Hall and the landscape. The Banqueting Hall located is the most picturesque place in the Dene, facing the other half of the park. The ambition is to borrow the beauty of the landscape into the garden and pull the structure out. The landscape border becomes a visual component of the garden.

Silent garden Intention

This is the extension of the river telling the story of the river construction with the Grotto (weirs, damps, waterfall). It also a terminal of the underground 3 spring of 3 marked well in the Dene (St Mary Well, Well A and Well B). An underground walled garden with ramp leads people going up and down.

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BOOKBINDING KIOSK Story of the binder

This project focuses on design principle based on human anthropometric and characteristic of a specific job.The kiosk designed exclusively for one person to use in daily or weekly basis.

The historic Old Town Wall

The historic Old Town Wall

DURATION

November - December 2016 (1st year)

LOCATION

Newcastle Old Town Wall Stowell Street, Newcastle, UK

AREA

9 m2 footprint

MATERIALS

Gluam panel and glaze

SKILLS

Hand model, draw Render with marker Adobe Photoshop

Design area

Design area

Data Base

HEIGHT

ARM SPREAD

ARM REACH

FURNITURE PREFERABLE SIZE

The deisgn process started with client personal measurment for the exclusive kiosk that prefer only one user.

Concept

Composition

My clinent is the bookbinder.

Their bare hands and books are his accompany.

Book edge

Hand wrap

Sketch

Model

Ground Floor The Hard-binding With the advantage from allocating on the ground floor, the hard binding work supposed to have fressh air on order to maintain good condition for long hour working place.

The Old Town Wall

Wall storage

LOAD STATION ORDER/ DELIVERY

Milling Glue space Cover nipper Letter machine Binder

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3. Storing

“A cloudy day around bookbinding shop”

Basement The Soft-binding This is the soft binding plan with basic required machines to do the job. Due to the modest area, the design focused to creat as much as storage as possible for books, papers and tools.

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Sink

Shelves Storage

Prep-table Storage

4. Soft-binding

Staircase Storage

5. Washing hand

6. Reading book

“He starts his everyday by going to the abnormal kiosk in the historic wall�

Concept

The idea of connecting the Past - Present - Future.

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THE URBAN ROOM Past - Present - Future of Newcastle upon Tyne

There is a call in UK for an urban room of each city where the past, present and future can be inspected. In this project, the main idea is creating an urban room concept in Newcastle Town Wall, Stowell Street.

DURATION

Febuary - April 2017 (1st year)

LOCATION

Newcastle Old Town Wall Stowell Street, Newcastle, UK

AREA

200 m2

MATERIALS

White concrete and glaze

SKILLS

Hand model, draw Render with ink, pencil, marker Adobe Photoshop

Future

Present

Past “Lift up the present to reach the sky of FUTURE”-

“Form future from the present”

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“What we see now is the PRESENT”

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Past “The castle ditch belongs to the PAST”

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Basement 1.Multi-functional room Conference room Workshop for all ages 2.Coffee bar and food 3.Kitchen 4.Main office Ground Floor 5.Outdoor free viewing area 6.Semi-outdoor viewing and activity Level 1 7.Newcaste historic exibition 8.Projection and lab room 9.Artist residential area

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Viewing from level 1

Walking from ground to level 1

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Artist residential area for artist in 6-month-living period

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THE CANVAS WORK Story of the Coal

The Ouseburn industry history stopped in where the Canvas Works has been located for century.

The ascendant understands the Canvas as a part of industrial working area. The descendant believe it could become an inspiration space for the new generation. Composing a place for dwelling’s live art life and public attraction is the aim of this design proposal.

The Canvas Works

DURATION

October - December 2016 (2nd year)

LOCATION

The old Canvas Works Lime Street, Newcastle, UK

AREA

200 m2

MATERIALS

Glulam and steel structure, mansonary and glaze

SKILLS

Revit, Sketchup, AutoCad, Photoshop, InDesign

In 19th century, this place used to be a canvas works which made sailclothes for steam boat tranporting coal for Newcastle. The left brickwork is under-construction for Ouseburn project.

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OUSEBURN The Ouseburn was known as the Coal Transportation Area for Newcastle via Victoria Tunnel to River Tyne.

HISTORY

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Preserve the exist STRUCTURE as the past of Ouseburn.

PRESERVATION

Coal was the major material for Heavy Industry in Ouseburn.

After Heavy Industry, the Light Industry took place and the Canvas Works was a part.

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Using ART as a key element to educate the community about Ouseburn. history.

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Inspired by the transformation of the COAL microstructure in COKE (next generation of coal) used in industrial period.

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Level 1 6. Art studio 10. Multi-functional room 11. Main office

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Support area Staff area

Repro room Workshop

The solar reduced roof

The inserted Glulam frame

Gutter connected between old/new

Multifunctional room Exihbition Receiption Cafe

Operation office

Wall connected between old/new Glass Glulam Brick

1. Structure Preservation The preservation method of the Canvas Works is using Glulam structure assembled inside and gently connecting with new building by glass panel outside.

58 Simulating light condition of Light Studio in the highest summer sun angle 58 degree in Newcastle and the sky seeing roof structure.

2. Memory Preservation The preservation stategy in this project is the approach of art to introduce the community how the Ouseburn used to be. Drawing and paint the old Ouseburn scenery and life is the main activity of this studio occured weekly. All art works will be exibited in Main exibition daily.

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ACADEMI (1-8)

COMPET PROFESS WORK (9-11)

IC WORKS

Studio Paviliton

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Mount Pavilion

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Beach Cinema

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Online Publication Set

Design Concept

TITION + SIONAL

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THE IDEA FIELD The Landscape Architecture

The extension of MIA studio aims to unbox what is so-called “design studio”. An outdoor studio is an ideal place for designers to freely express themselves in the field where is full-filled by imagination and grown by sketches of their own.

Apart from formal indoor workshop, an open space for meeting between client and architect is expected to occur in this atmospheric landscape architecture.

ARCHITECT

MIA Design Studio, Vietnam

ROLE

Architectural Intern

DURATION

July 2018

AREA/BUDGET

130 m2 / 20.000 USD

CLIENT

MIA Design Studio

STATUS

Complete in August 2018

SCOPE OF WORK

Rendering, Presentation set for online publications

SKILL

Adobe Photoshop, AutoCad, Sketchup

Foundation

70x140 mm steel beam

Pavement

20 mm macadam

Plantation Bamboo tree

Concept

“From rock and soil, the mountain was made by as a statement of natural beauty”

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MOUNT PAVILION MIA 15th year Anniversary

From rock and soil, the mountain was made by as a statement of natural beauty. This pavilion demonstrates for the studio growth where design notion focuses on basic elements of nature connecting architecture. The visitor is guided to walk through past to the present of design studio’s remarkable moments and accomplishments.

This pavilion is made by over 3000 rocks and strings.

ARCHITECT

MIA Design Studio, Vietnam

ROLE

Architectural Intern

DURATION

August - September 2018

AREA/BUDGET

50 m2 / 30.000 USD

CLIENT

MIA Design Studio

STATUS

Concept idea

SCOPE OF WORK

Conceptual and schematic design, 3D model and render

SKILL

Rhino, Grasshopper, 3Ds Max render with Vray, Adobe Photoshop

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CYPRUS SCHOOL O TOP

The story of the seaside scene is minimizing and giving place for the feeling of lying on sand to watch movie. The sand surface is emphasized by a wavy surface. Inspired by the shell shape, this beach cinema is east-facing which focus for cine activities occurred near sunset until night.

Open Space Beach

Enclosed Space Framed beach

Touch Walk on sand

Exaggerate Touch Of Wave Lay on wavy bench

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DURATION

August 2018

LOCATION

Cyprus Beach

STATUS

Concept idea for live project

CONSTRUCTION

100m2

MATERIALS

Pre-cast concrete

SKILLS

Rhino, Grashopper, AutoCAD, Photoshop, InDesign

Plan

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“Thanks for your time viewing my profolio.

It is my honour to present this.�

(Ngoc Lam)