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)
DEMIC KS
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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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A part from the idea of creating interventions along the St. Mary’s well and chapel, the project focus mainly on the museum building structure.
St. Mary’s Well Grade II listed
St. Mary’s Chapel Grade II* listed
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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
TEST 1 (Failed) Hot wax destroyed the mould and water resistance paper
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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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Floor plan 1. Room of ruin 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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Baptism pool
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
Floor plan 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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Floor plan 1. External garden 2. Glass Tea House 3. Lobby 4. The cafe 5. Public toilet 6. Gardener storage 7. Gardener accommodation and Museum control office (with servant area)
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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
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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. The Old Town Wall
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Shelves Storage
Prep-table Storage
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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
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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”
PRESENT
Past “The castle ditch belongs to the PAST”
PAST
“Recall 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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Level 1 - THE FUTURE Chance to think about the future
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Viewing from level 1
Walking from ground to level 1
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Exibition room
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Project and lab room for daily public visitors
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
1. 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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2. Preserve MEMORY of industrial period in Ouseburn. Using ART as a key element to educate the community about Ouseburn. history.
ART
Concept
Inspired by the transformation of the COAL microstructure in COKE (next generation of coal) used in industrial period.
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9. Maker room 12. Staff room 13. Kitchen 14. Plant room 15. Storage 16. Cleaner store 17. Server 18. Bin area
Level 1 6. Art studio 10. Multi-functional room 11. Main office
Access A. Open space B. Public C. Private
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Art studio
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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MEMORIZING
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Art Studio
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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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
Dranaige Plan
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“Thanks for your time viewing my profolio. It is my honour to present this.� (Ngoc Lam)