KHOR QIU MEI (20175903/1) Year 2 Semester 3
BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design DIIS6214 Interior Strategies 1 DIIS6224 Interior Strategies 2
DESIGN PORTFOLIO
Pop-Up Furniture Concept Store
Site Analysis o Site survey: measured and photographic o Measured drawings o Use and occupancy o Historical and contemporary use o Site location
Design Development
CONTENT
o Volumetric diagramming o Photographed spatial development models
Technical Communication o Plans o Sections o Façade elevation o Axonometric o Lighting plan o Annotated staircase drawing o Finishes layout o Final model
Site Analysis
Hin Bus Depot, Penang, Malaysia.
Site Visit to Hin Depot in September 2020
Activities carried out during the visit,
• • • • •
Meeting building owner Mr. Tan Shih Thoe Building and site survey Video documentation Materiality studies Stores visit
Site Location
Site History The building was built in an art deco style as a centralised repair, maintaince and storage site for the Hin Bus Company. It was a depot for the “blue buses” known as Hin Bus that used to ply the Tanjung Bungah and Teluk Bahang routes. The origin of Hin Bus Depot goes back to 1947, when the depot was built to house and maintain Hin Company Ltd’s blue motorbuses. The blue motorbuses were an integral part of the colonial government’s efforts to restore George Town in the aftermath of World War II.
1947
The bus companies were fragmented and disorganised, eventually facing financial difficulties leading to their closure.
1999-2004
2004-Present
TIt opened its doors with the first exhibition Art is Rubbish is Art in 2014 and this set the depot on a creative path. According to Tan Shih Thoe, who was appointed by the three families to take charge and manage the whole place, they did not have any concrete plans on what they wanted to do with the rest of the space after part of it became an art exhibition gallery. “It grew organically over the years and we find ourselves a hub for the arts and crafts, food and urban farms,” he said. The owners have since expanded the space by acquiring shophouses next to the depot. Today, Hin Bus Depot spreads out over 60,000 sq feet and includes eight shophouses on Jalan Gurdwara.
Stores and Programmes
Stores and Clients Visit
Measured Drawings
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B C
B C
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SITE PLAN FE
ROOF PLAN
HIN COMPANY LTD.
FRONT ELEVATION SCALE : 1 : 100
BACK ELEVATION SCALE : 1 : 100
1947
HIN COMPANY LTD.
SECTION A-A SCALE : 1 : 100
SECTION B-B SCALE : 1 : 100
SECTION C-C SCALE : 1 : 100
Project One Pop-Up Furniture furniture : a piece can be described as an extension of architecture, creating a direct connection between structure and inhabitants, accommodating physical needs and dwelling comfortably in the site.
Client Store - Rumah Kacha Restaurant
Master Plan
My Pop-up Furniture is placed in Zone 3 which called “The Atas” Zone.
Material Palette
Existing Site Phenomena
Triangular Roof and Vertical Structure
Colorful Artwork
Material Palette Speculation
Timber Structure and Mosaic
Physical Model Development
Physical Model 1, 2 and 3
Physical Model 4
Physical Model Development
Model Making Process
Derive from Rumah Kacha which is a Malay vernacular architecture, I extract some elements such as ventilation triangular roof, raised level, long rammed bridge. At initial stages, all the pop-up furniture are looking too bulky and massive. After experiment by making physical models, I discovered that an upside down triangle able to create a more elegant, slimmer and elongated pop-up structure. The final outcome is using timber construction and interlocking system joinery. Physical Model 5
Physical Model Development
2000
Interlocking System
Timber Construction
Models Compilation Photograph
Final Design Sketch
Site Montage
In this site montage, the pop-up furniture is placed next to the client’s restaurant for convenient access to kitchen. Overall, it creates a contemporary local-western atmosphere selling local taste pizza and provides the customers to enjoy seeing the process of making pizza as well as ancillary place for chit-chatting.
Top View Plan
From the top view plan, customers at first step onto the rammed bridge and start order their flavoured pizza, follows up with seeing the whole entire process of pizza making and take out the pizza using shovel together with the chef. Then, they can have a seat after walking down.
Counter Details
Obviouly, it can be seen that there are 3 processes occur in one-stop. Firstly, customers can see pizza menus through electrical gadget provided and make payment by scanning QR codes. Next, customers can enjoy looking the pizza making process. The ingredients and spices are put inside the “congkak”- a traditional Malay mancala game. Lastly, customers can take out pizza together with chef and pick-up in simultaneously. The table top and pizza stove surface are made of mosaic that combine artworks in Hin Bus Depot.
Sectional Elevation
Sectional Elevation
Sectional Elevation
Sectional Elevation
Axonometric Interlocking roof
Counter and timber support structures
Timber rammed bridge and pop-up furniture surface
Rammed bridge, raised level, pizza stove and sitting areas
Plan
2200
600
1500
PICK-UP
ORDER
800
INGREDIENTS DISPLAY IN CONGKAK
1200
PIZZA STOVE
1000 2456
FLOOR PLAN 1: 25
600
500
1700 4000
500
Elevations
4000
600
1200
800
450
450
800
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1200
738
738
2700
2456
FRONT ELEVATION 1: 25
SIDE ELEVATION 1: 25
600
1600
Reflected Ceiling Plan
PICK-UP
1200
ORDER
800
2200
600
1500
750
1000 2456
REFLECTED CEILING PLAN
1: 25
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Project Two Concept Store A commercial space mixes an eclectic assortment of products that curated to promote a particular type of culture and advocates a certain lifestyle.
Hin Depot Building, Shophouses, Service Quarter and Mural Garden of Hin Bus Depot are the Concept Store Site.
Location
The L-shaped areas are the concept store location.
Design Concept
PROCESS MAKING AND MANY ACTIVITIES
VARIOUS SIZES OF TRIANGLES CREATES VOLUME AND SPACES
STACKING AND JOINING TRIANGLES CREATES DYNAMIC CIRCULATION
Deriving from earlier project - “ Pop-up Furniture ”, I observed there are many triangle roof in Hin Bus Depot, therefore I will continue select triangle as my field of study. Besides, my previous project also has many raw process making activities, so I will carry on it and explore with various sizes of triangles and stacking triangles.
Conceptual Development
Abstract Model 1 Inspiration Ideas from this abstract model : o Stacking triangles with various angles can apply in the ceilings and columns o Forms creates circulation for users o Rich depth of visual texture
Conceptual Development
Abstract Model 2 Inspiration Ideas from this abstract model : o o o o
Net walking platform Hanging system Vrious angles of triangle Slanted areas for staicase usage
Conceptual Development
Triangular pyramid
Triangular prism
Abstract Model 3
prism
Triangle shape
Stacking Overlapping rotating
Volume formed
Space
Inspiration Ideas from this abstract model : o o o o
Many activities carry on Stacking triangle Overlapping triangle Rotating triangle
Conceptual Development
Abstract Model 4 Inspiration Ideas from this abstract model : o Too huge o Too modular
Conceptual Development
Front view
Back view
Abstract Model 5 Inspiration Ideas from this abstract model : o Crazy ideas at the centre court, and slowly tones down o Too huge
Activities and Programs
Activities and Programs
Volumetric Diagramming
Building Structure
Due to it is an adaptive reuse project, most of the existing walls and columns I will maintain.
Ground Floor Furniture Layout Plan
A
B’
B
A’
First Floor Furniture Layout Plan
A
B’
B
A’
Roof Plan
Facade Elevation
Section A-A’
Section B-B’
Market
Hanging system is applied in market space. There are one big hanging triangle for event space and the other three for retail purpose selling all the clients’ products. Besides, there are many small triangle platforms surrounded the big triangles. They act as steps to step onto the big triangles as well as kids can play around. Due to adaptive reuse building, the art deco floor pattern is retained. A bright atmosphere can be seen through outside and it is welcoming people to have a glance onto the market.
Staircase
A concrete triangular staircase is the main feature in the concept store. It is surrounded with a central courtyard and side-by-side with gallery and grab-and-go cafe as well as vertical farming. It has two platforms, one is going to cafe first floor and another one is heading to dining area. Sunlight can penetrate into the glass-roofed courtyard.
Grab-and-go Cafe
Grab-and-go cafe is a kind of convenience store cafe, it has different menus in different time period. It has some art deco and local fusion elements in the space. This cafe able to look through pottery workshop and staircase.
Pottery Workshop
There is a centre space for the potter to showcase and easy to teach and look around his students in the pottery workshop. A sharp triangle is portruding to the pick-and-go farm. It enables to dry the pottery.
Pick-and-go Farm
Pick-and-go farm is a community farm. It opens to public to pluck the spices they needed. Besides, diners can pluck the vegetables and send to the counter at first floor for the chef to cook a special meals. Biodynamic farming and vertical farming are applied at here. People at pottery workshop and cafe first floor can look through the farm.
Cafe First Floor
An open triangle courtyard can penetrate sunlight to the plants in cafe first floor. People can enjoy scenery in this cafe. Besides, there is a staircase from pick-and-go farm can reach the cafe first floor or go the counter to send vegetables they have plucked.
Walkway First Floor
This walkway able to see the triangular voids through first floor to ground floor. At the same time, waiter from the cafe first floor will pass by to send the vegetables to the kitchen counter.
Dining Area
There are some triangle voids at the dining area. They are installed with stable nets in order to create some chilling space for the diners. It is also a local fusion atmosphere dining area.
Axonometric
Roof
First Floor
Ground Floor
Building Model
Lighting Plan Ground Floor
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POTTERY WORKSHOP
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EVENT SPACE
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Lighting Plan First Floor
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KITCHEN
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COUNTER
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Staircase Design
PLAN
ELEVATION
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Staircase Details
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STAIRCASE STEP SECTION
STAIRCASE HANDRAIL SECTION
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