Ng Xing Ling Selected Works
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curriculum vitae
i walls st udio project ii lines st udio
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iii float st udio
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iv membrane st udio project v
the butterfly bridge co mput at ion p roj e c t
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triangles
inst allat io n
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living on the fringes of a city v ideo
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co mpet it ion
a house that grows
ix misc.
int er nship wor k
about
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education
2017-Present Singapore 2014-2017 Singapore Jan 2017 United States May-Aug 2015 China 2012-2013 Singapore
experience
Jan 2018 Singapore
Sept-Dec 2017 Singapore
Ng Xing Ling +65 9688 7696 xingling.n@gmail.com issuu.com/ngxingling
Singapore University of Technology and Design Master of Architecture Expected Graduation: August 2018
Singapore University of Technology and Design Bachelor of Science (Architecture and Sustainable Design) Summa Cum Laude
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Winter Independent Activity Program
Participarted in ‘Making Spaces with Light’ workshop
Zhejiang University Asian Leadership Programme Temasek Junior College GCE Advanced Level
GS3: Metadata Graduation Show Exhibition Design Team Member
Part of the exhibition design team for the SUTD ASD Graduation show at National Design Center
WY-TO Architectural Intern
-Worked extensively on realistic renderings for competition entries -Created graphics, diagrams and drawings (hand-sketch and digital) for client presentations -Assisted in design development including digital drafting, modelling and rendering for a variety of projects ranging from exhibition to interior refurbishment works
Jan-Apr 2017 Singapore
Singapore University of Technology and Design Teaching Assistant for Architecture Core Studio II
Jun-Aug 2016 Japan
junya.ishigami+associates Architectural Intern
-Assisted in preparing course materials -Provide guidance on ideas, technical and representation skills
-Assisted in making physical models of varying levels of detail (from sketch models to final model for competition submission) -Generated illustrations and digital drawings for competition entries -Assisted in digital modelling of a geometrically complex restaurant from a sketch model
curriculum vitae
awards
2017 2016-2017
Board of Architects Award Keppel Awards of Excellence Top Student in ASD Junior and Senior Cohort SUTD ASD Core Design Certificate of Merit
2015-2017 2015 2008-2017
skills
digital
SUTD Honours List for Freshmore, Sophomore, Junior and Senior terms Asian Leadership Programme Scholarship Fully funded overseas exchange at Zhejiang University ASEAN Scholarship
Rhinoceros / V-ray / SketchUp / Revit / Cinema4D AutoCAD / Vectorworks / Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign / Premiere Pro / Lightroom Grasshopper / Python / C# Diva
physical
Model-making / Laser-cutting / CNC cutting / Waterjet / 3D Printing Hand-sketching / Painting
language
English / Mandarin
walls
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Core Studio III, 2016 Instructor: Calvin Chua You Jin Duration: 11 weeks
This project aims to challenge the convention of urban living in cities such as Singapore by presenting an alternative way of living through architecture. Located right beside Farrer Park MRT, the district is rather dense with buildings housing different programmes, leaving limited open spaces in the area. With the aim to open up the plot to increase the amount of open spaces, this project includes multiple levels of open spaces inserted in-between residential units to encourage interactions. Concept of dwelling differs from one individual to another. Different people have different needs and wants in his own house. Thus, instead of providing a fixed plan for different types of people to live in, the concept of a ‘house’ will be reduced to ‘a combination of rooms’. Breaking up the normal convention of a house, a room can be considered as a house as long as it suits the individual’s needs. As a result, interaction and circulation spaces are created in the center. Shear walls are used to demarcate the spaces and the rest of the walls are flexible so users are able to combine rooms or change the configuration based on their needs.
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concept d i a gra m
A house is no longer a fixed type with specific number of rooms but rather a distinct combination of rooms with varied functions chosen by the indvidual himself.
neutral floor
mixing per floor
mixing across floors
occupanc y
The different units are flexible in terms of occupancy. Inhabitants who choose to occupy fewer rooms would share the communal spaces with the rest of the inhabitants staying in that floor or in the 3-floor module.
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ci rcul at io n
lift as vertical circulation / bridges as horizontal circulation
p rogra mmat ic dist ribu t i on
s t r u c t u r a l a x o n o m e t r ic
communal / commercial / residential
shear walls / circulation core
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unit floo r plans
There are three main unit floor types which are differentiated by the floor area. The configurations of the shear walls adopt similar patterns on all three types while the partition for the rooms are individually crafted to suit the needs of different family sizes. All the types have communal areas on the outside of each rooms to promote interaction between the neighbours.
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fl oor p l a n level 3
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s e cti on
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roof 1 2
extensive green roof garden protective laywion layer vapour barrier 200mm reinforced concrete floor false ceiling 300mm services duct with pipes and wires
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operable partition hinged partition with linked panels suspended from overhead tracks balustrade stainless-steel square profile tubes load-distributing slab 70mm 30mm sound insulation layer 200mm reinforced concrete floor concrete balcony ledge
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lines
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Core Studio II, 2016 Instructor: Yvonne Tan Su Zen Duration: 6 weeks
This project asks for a design of a satellite SUTD building in the intersection of Bras Basah, Orchard, Prinsep and Handy Road. The building houses various programmatic functions such as flexible event spaces, lecture theatre, classrooms, cafe, and exhibition spaces. Using light as the inspiration of the project, lines are used as the tool to investigate the relationship between light and shadow and the effect it has on spaces created. These lines are translated through rules that governed the whole project. Having an open plan with a minimal amount of doors, the lines are used as a source of demarcation between spaces. The varying distances between the lines also create interesting play on visibility.
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transition line
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building typologies
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circulation to all buildings
circulation to schools
sit e analy si s
A transition line which highlights the differences between the two plots on both sides is observed. the geometry of land and building typologies differ on both sides. Day and night activities as well as circulation are plotted in analysing the site.
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s i te p l an
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f l o or p l an level 1
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pers p ecti ve sect ions
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float
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Core Studio I, 2015 Instructor: Jackson Tan Duration: 4 weeks
This project asks for a space for culture and leisure which houses exhibition gallery, cafe, library and lecture theatre in an open and natural space in Tampines, Singapore. This project aims to maintain the vastness of the green space in between the tall commercial buildings in the surrounding. Walls create physical and visual barriers that might seem daunting at times. hence this project aims to remove the physical wall and replace them with thin columns instead. This allows visual porosity and creates visual breathing ground across the site as the public is able to view what is happening both inside the building, as well as across the building. The different programs are rotated to open up the views and are layered at different heights as a response to the topography on the site.
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co n c e pt di a gra m
Walls are replaced with thin columns as structural elements to allow visual porosity. The arrangement of the columns suggest different uses in different spaces.
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sit e an a l ysi s
programs (shopping malls) / programs (office towers,banks) view from the site / view across the site
sun sh a dow a n a l ysi s
1pm / 2pm 3pm / 4pm
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f l o or p l an s basement
s ecti on s with column details
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level 1
level 2
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membrane Sustainable Option Studio II: Urban Hinterlands, 2017
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Instructor: Calvin Chua You Jin Partner: Neo Xin Hui Duration: 13 weeks
č†œ/Membrane is a project for the Chinese villages. The urbanisation of Chinese rural villages often take only one form, tabula rasa--flatten and rebuild. As a result, the character and form of these Chinese rural villages are lost in the process. The thesis argues that a more sensitive approach can be taken by the government to preserve the character and form of these villages instead of a tabula rasa. Upon such understanding, the thesis aims to relook into the potential and possibilities of the existing infrastructure in the village while preserving its form and character.
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The site that the project is investigating is Deng Tang Cun (登塘村) which lies near a main highway and is located near the entrance of a newly developed highway called the Jiu Long Da Dao (九龙大道). Deng Tang Cun consists of densely populated residential houses accompanied by equal proportion of agricultural and horticultural land. In the Chinese rural villages including Deng Tang Cun, buildings with only floor slabs and structural walls are not an uncommon sight, resembling the domino house designed by le Corbusier. The Domino house which was first designed by le Corbusier is a housing prototype consisting of horizontal slabs and pilotis that reduced the building to its minimum. It creates an open floor plan chinese domino structure which allows flexibility to the users. dominos in china rural villages usually only the first 1-2 floors are occupied, leavingthe theChinese top floorsdominos vacant are usually However, empty, or are only occupied on the first two floors, leaving the top floors vacant. This unusual sight is a result of exploitation on the land as the owners get money from the government once the land ownership is transferred back to the government’s hand. It also signifies prestige among the community where the number of floors seem to be proportional to one’s status. This results in a series of unused spaces at the top floors of these domino housing, which could be transformed into a usable communal space for the villagers.
nese domino china rural villages e occupied, leaving the top floors vacant
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g ro u n d f lo o r p la n the buildings still remain as single volume
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ro o f p la n the buildings are read in clusters
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To create this diversity of spatial conditions for varying programmatic needs, varied threshold levels are introduced while preserving the form of the domino. These threshold levels include the staircases, mesh facade around a single block and movable walls on the inside. The new facade system acts as a skin with varying degrees of permeability that is constructed by its inhabitants, giving rise to unexpected moments and encounters. An additional layer of boundaries within the domino will start to redefine the visual and spatial boundaries within the domino. Flexible folding doors that follow the column grid and flow along the columns allow for varied activities to occur depending on the space usage required.
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t o p /b ottom cluster model 1:100
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top cluster model 1:100 bottom detail model 1:10
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As the entire village will be built in multiple phases, the villagers are able to still stay in the village without having to move out. For life to continue and not be disturbed is one the ways in which sensitivity is displayed through the implementation of the project.
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the butterfly bridge Material Computation: Advanced Topics in Geometry and Matter, 2017
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Instructor: Sawako Kaijima Group members: Bryan Lim Wei Guo, Kwang Guochuan, Ryan Chee Wei Shen, Shobha Narendran Duration: 4 weeks
The design intention of this project is to provide a second layer of vertical circulation by introducing overhead pedestrian bridges on the intersection between Orchard Road and Cairnhill Road in order to reduce the foot traffic across the four points. Using topology optimisation from a set of inputs to derive the most optimised form, the bridge is panellised into triangulated panels of varying material thicknesses. The different thickness corresponds to the stiffness factor at each node of the bridge.
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circulation load
support regions
el evati on
stiffness factor
maximum deflection 9.095mm weight 11800 tonnes
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triangles Making Spaces with Light MIT Independent Activity Module, 2017
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Instructor: Dina El-Zanfaly Partner: Jeannie Teo Yan Ting Duration: 3 weeks
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Triangles is an interactive installation with panels that will change its colour continuously when touched. It is made up of 23 pyramid modules in either wooden or polycarbonate frames with tracing paper. The materials are cut using the CNC machines. The LEDs are placed inside the pyramids, such that the light is diffused through the tracing paper. The lights are programmed using five Arduino boards to make it interactive.
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living on the fringes of a city Social Architecture, 2017
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Instructor: Chong Keng Hua Group members: Toh Hui Wen, Neo Xin Hui Duration: 12 weeks
According to the urban planning in Singapore, the Tengah area has always been planned for agriculture usage to support food sustainability in Singapore. However, in recent years, there have been plans revealed by the government showing that the Tengah area will eventually be redeveloped into a residential estate, and thus the farms located there will soon be a thing of the past. In order to understand this farming culture before it disappears, our study aims to document the social life that occurs in the Tengah area not only within the farming community but also how these spheres of influence can extend out to the public as well.
w a t c h i t h e re :
http://tiny.cc/fringesofcity
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a house that grows
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Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition, 2017 Partner: Neo Xin Hui
The theme of the competition is "House of Dimensions". Dimensions of a house often refer to the three-dimensional qualities of a space. This is a house that has a fourth dimension in the space--time. Featuring a space defined by four independent walls, the space changes with time as seeds grow into small plants which eventually lead to a land of forest. This is a house that tells the story of a girl who as the living participant of the house becomes part of the house as she grows, giving rise to the very quality that makes the house a house -- life.
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shrub land, year 10
young forest, year 30
mature forest, year 80
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misc.
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Work done during an internship at WY-TO Singapore
This briefly highlights some of my work done at WY-TO which involves designing an experiential exhibition to showcase the financial work done by Bank Indonesia, and multiple competitions such as a Science City in India and a Children's Festival at the Gardens by the Bay.
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OVERLAPPING LAYERS
SPATIAL ADAPTATION
6. VIKRAM SARABHAI - PH CAL MODEL EXHIBITS
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1,3 Childrens Festival at Gardens by the Bay Singapore 2 Abdul Kalam Science City in India 4 Museum of Bank Indonesia Exhibition 04
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