Bachelor of Science In Architecture (Part I) Portfolio by Gan Shan Hong

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SHANHONG GAN |

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2014 - 2017

As an architect you design for the present with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown.

– Norman Foster

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Space + People = Place Space is important in an architecture. It shapes many masterpieces and give a great Experience for people. But, I strongly believe that space isn’t enough anymore for future. Space that engaged community is called PLACE. This is the core concept that I practicing throughout my BArch in University Malaya.

Place is where a space is not just function as giving people to experience, but it let them use, let them shade, let them shelter, let them secure, and let them communicate with each other. It make the space become alive and not just the nice looking ‘monument’ space.

To me , Architecture is not just about science and art, is about the community and lifestyle.

This portfolio summarised my reflection in the field of architecture, first years at University of Malaya, Malaysia. It glimps over the past 3 years.

This portfolio comprises the process of my enlighten and challenge that I keep promoting to create architecture, to experience architecture based on empiricism.

~ Shan Hong Gan

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ShanHong Gan Phone : +6017-4040988 Email : amirugaru@gmail.com Address : 253-A Taman Pulasan , 05400 Alor Setar, Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia

education

competition

2014 - 2017 Bachelor of Science Architecture

2017 International Built Environment Undergraduate Research Competition (BEURC) / top 10 finalist from University of Malaya Team

2013 - 2014 Malaysia Matriculation Program

2016 Youth Dome in Steel / Open Design Competition / represent University of Malaya for 2nd round competition

2009 - 2012 Malaysian Certificate of Education (SPM) at Kolej Sultan Abdul Hamid.

2014 I-CITY Facade Design Competition / participant

experience

skills and strength

at University of Malaya.

at Kolej Matriculation Pahang.

2017 Internship at Harmonious Architects & Planners / taiwan / Project: SuAo Bus Station

- asisting design architect to design and produce working drawing - site visit and supervising - Preparing design presentation and reports - asisting design architect to produce render drawing for competition

2016 Commision Model Maker / Buddha Main Prayer Hall

2016 Songkhla Field School Program

/ Thailand / Participant / Collabration with NUS and RMVTSJ

2016 Measured Drawing in Songkhla

/ Thailand / Team leader/ Collabration with NUS and RMVTSJ

able to speak well and write in various languague - English - Malay - Mandarin - Hokkian - Cantonese Fair and passionate in design Experience in profession - design presentation drawing - technical drawing - good model making skills

2015 Measured Drawing in Malay Collage Kuala Kangsar / Ipoh / Team Leader

Well skilled in -visualised skills, -presentation drawings -photo-realistic renderings Skilled in various type of software - Autodesk Revit - Autodesk Autocad - Autodesk Ecotech - SketchUp - V-Ray Render - Adobe Photoshop - Adobe Lightroom - Adobe Indesign - Adobe Illustrator - MicrosoftOffice

research thesis Building Infomation Modeling of Exam hall in University of Malaya / specialised in construction phase / Autodest Revit

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CONTENT ACADEMIC | SELECTED PROJECT 1

T3 Technology Incubator

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When Heaven is Full of Toys

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Music In The Park

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The Ally Bookshop CAffe

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Mah Meri Cultural Centre

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Library and Gallery For Architecture

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Sleeping Dragon

Downtown Johor Bahru, Johor Downtown Johor Bahru, Johor

Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur Kuala Kangsar, Ipoh

Pulau Carey , Selangor

University Malaya, Lingkungan Budi, Kuala Lum

Forest Research Institure Malaysia, Jalan FRIM, Kepong, Malaysia.

WORK | INTERNSHIP 8

HARMONIOUS ARCHITECTS & PLANNERS

SuAo Bus Station SuAo, Yilan , Taiwan

TECHNICAL DRAWING | SELECTED PROJECT Measured Drawing 1

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Measured Drawing 2

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Working Drawing

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Construction Drawing

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Malay Collage Kuala Kangsar, Kuala kangsar, Perak.

168 Shophouses, Nakorn Nai, Songkhla , Thailand

Music School , Project 2 , TTDI

Harmonious Architects & Planners SuAo Bus Station, SuAo, Yilan, Taiwan

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OUTBOUND PROGRAM | PARTICIPANT Songkhla Field School Outbound Program

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Book Publishing “ People + Place “

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2016 , Nakorn Nai, Songkhla , Thailand

2016, NUS Singapore , Melacca

COMPETITION| PARTICIPANT Youth Dome In Steel , Open design Competition 2017 ,Kuala Lumpur

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MODEL MAKING| SELECTED PROJECT Buddha Main Prayer Hall

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Biography

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2017 ,Kuala Lumpur

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A C A D E M I C | SELECTED PROJECT

T3 TECHNOLOGY INCUBATOR 2017, JALAN DUKE, JOHOR BAHRU, JOHOR

T3 is an organisation that help to accelerate small medium enterprise in global that related to technology. The aim of the incubator is to support and fund those idea that using techonology to improve environment, reduce global environmental issue. T3 also work as a plateform or bridges from the founder to the local communities. We enhance and share knowladge to each other.

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SITE ANALYSIS

DESIGN IDEA

ISSUE

Idea of flexible and is used as the main idea to design a space that share with activities. It also tackle the problem and uncertainty of future and allow the changes due to time. Flexiblity is apply to whole building as one of the stratergies of sustainablitiy.

The gentrification of JBCC make JB old town become less economics opputunities . Youth now no longer stay in JB old town but they move into bigger city such as Singapore and etc. However some old town shop that remain there is getting expeled by the era since the digital revolution had started.

On the other hand, world is concern about environment issue where sustainable is no longer enough to make better environment.

The issue of Deforesation and global warming is cause by the need of energy in daily life. Technology is used to destroyed environment more than preserved of improved.

Hence, the mission of the incubator not only provided the place for youth to accelerate the idea of technology to improve environment but also act as a plateform of locals and technologies.

CONCEPT SHARING Is a place where boundaries bewtween technology and environment are blured by sharing knowladge between locals and professionist, idea between skills.

LANDMARK NEARBY

GREEN NODE

ECONOMICS OPPURTUNITIES

landmark nearby are high commercial shopping mall which gentrified the JB old town and make the community hard to maintain the old shoplot economics

There are some green node within 1000m around our site but the distance is too far for the communities of JB old town.

Our site is has a biggest economics opportunities due to several projects around JB -NUSAJAYA -FOREST CITY DEVELOPMENT -Bullet train from China to Singapore -Singapore -Cargo port at Pasir Gudang

FUNCTIONAL BOX The design start with putting a box into the site and being setback align with the shoplot and UTC oppesite.

SOLAR ANALYSIS

VIEW ANALYSIS

PEDESTRIAN ANALYSIS

SERVICES AND CAR ROUTE

PRIVACY ANALYSIS

COURTYARD The courtyard is been carved out to maximised sinunlight and the floor plate is reduce to increase ventilation.

DIVERSE Block that facing Jalan Ungku Puan is taken out to let high concentrate pedestrian diverse into the building.

NODE The building is stilled up to give back the ground floor to community activities.Park is created to celebrate the community and become another green node.

CORRIDOR To advoid direct glare from west and east sunlight, the space is offset in and creating corridor to block the direct glare and it gives reflected daylight to space inside.

roof plan & site plan

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2nd floor plan INCUBATOR \ WORKSHOP

SEMINAR \ PRESENTSTION

Incubator is a co- working space that let founder to work and discuss with tutor while workshop is place for them to craft the idea.

The seminar is needed to give knowladge input for founder. Is about lecture how to manage and expand the entreprise.

Incubator is located at the central of the space, opening toward south and north daylight and advoid glare and heat from east and west

The space needs a large and multifunction space that could suit two small seminar or one big seminar or presentation.

east elevation

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DINNER \ SHOWCASE GALLERY Dinner is an event held to improve bonding between each other and showcase gallery is where founder showcase their product.

Ground floor multipurpose is an open space where the nature around is been borrow into the space

south elevation

3rd floor plan

Basement 1 plan

SHOWCASE

DEMO DAY

Showcase is the biggest event for founder where they present their idea and product and company for public and ready for feedback.

Demo day is the day where founder are need to present infront of entrepenur and demostrate it to get fundingfor startup company

The space is all used both multipurpose and cross function space. Ground floor multipurpose is for bigger product.

Due to different type of technology producy, the space required is different. Softwate and IT are in indoor while the bigger machine and AI are at outdoor open multifunction space.

west elevation

Basement 2 plan LANDSCAPE \ OPEN PARK The landscape is use to cool down the building and also act as a spread out space for people to hang out and rest. It also act as green node for the JB old town where people can spend timethere.

A triangle water pond is placed at the middle, cutting the path into two and allow people see the nice perspective of building while approching.

north elevation

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multipurpose hall

TRANSPARENCY CONNECT SPACES AND ACTIVITIES BY VISUALLY

Multipurpose hall A/ Lecture by eminent person can seen by public who hang out at couryard.

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office lobby

multipurpose hall

section of incubator and workshop A CORE SPACE WHERE IDEA MEET EXECUTION

A square space of generating idea is merge with a ractangle crafting worksop and creating a intersection space where providing space for discussion

adminstation office

Incubator

section y-y

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central courtyard

BY OVERLAPPING UNUSED SPACES TOGETHER AND MERGE IT TO BECOME CENTRAL COURTYARD PLACES Central courtyard is where knowladge is speread to local communities through highly flexible of spaces and become a non official community gathering mode.

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night exterior perspective

“IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP GENTRIFICATION, BUT WE CAN OVERCOME IT BY CREATING FUTURE” Local communities can visit incubator during night for public lecture about technology.

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model:multipurpose hall and courtyard

model : exterior view

model : multipurpose hall

model : caffe and central courtyard

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outdoor jungle playground

“PLAY IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF RESEARCH”

At the park under the llibrary , kids can bring their toys down and play around the building. Kids will saw toys all above their head when they look up.

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A C A D E M I C | SELECTED PROJECT

WHEN HEAVEN IS FULL OF TOYS 2017, JALAN TRUS, JOHOR BAHRU, JOHOR

When heaven is full of toys, dolls are like clouds surrounding you, cars and robots are with you and ready for your commands to attack monster, swords and shields are your weapon to defend your own fortress, get your teamate and start the adventure. Be brave, be confident, the force is always be with you.

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“DONT CHOOSE TOYS FOR KIDS, LET THEM CHOOSE WHAT THEY LIKE”

Toy librery is located at the elevated floor like a castle on the cloud. Kids can get their toys and play wherever they want and they can run and jump anywhere they like .

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STORY OF SITE The site is surrounded by old shoptlot where and been seperated with big, wide, heavy traffic road. KIds have no more place and green garden to play, so they turn into playing toys at own house. Since toys are not fun playing alone, so they start to play digital game, such as Ipad or Iphone. Slowly, they lose their very pure imagination about this world . The idea of Toy Library in this site is to save this situation.

Imagine every kids is boring playing toys in their own house alone. how about there is a place let them share their toys and can play by each other ? So they start to gather the toys together and build their own playground.

CONCEPT Create is the core concept for the library.

Kids are going to build and create their own adventure using the toys.

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Toy box is located at the corner junction of Jalan Trus and Jalan Dhoby and slightly higher than street.

It raise above the ground and invite community flow into the site as well as the ventilation.

The centre of the building is been void out to create a central sky light . Since the toy box is transparent, the silhouettes will formed on the ground to create curiosity .

In stead of typical shelving to store toys, how about a platform where toys are store in toy box and kids are easily reached.

The light chamber is placed on top to bring the chimney effect for the building and also solar distributor that collect sunlight and distribute to every part of building as sustainable feature.

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front elevation

Lower Ground plan

Second Floor plan

left elevation

right elevation

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sectional perspective

“ Imagination is what adult lack of”

Designing a space or a building for kids really need imagination. This toy library is imagination of kids playing in a different dimension of world where have heaven, underground and jungle.

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Spatial Space zoning

Multipurpose hall

main wall section

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outdoor garden facing classrooms

“ Stop awhile and listen to music”

This site is a good space to slow down the locals hectic lifestyle. Stop while and have a good lunch with some music, then continue your journey.

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A C A D E M I C | SELECTED PROJECT

MUSIC IN THE PARK

2016, TAMAN TUN DR ISMAIL, PETALING JAYA The project is a music school where located in the hectic and boring city. The concept is Breath where creating a park for the urban around the context. Lifted the school above the ground and hide into the trees. You will hear some music while resting in the park.

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sectional perspective during concert

“ Urban is like an organism ,they need lungs to breath too “

Music school is designed like a lungs for the context urban to act as the brething space. Locals community can come and rest at the places and enjoying music.

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auditorium

site plan & roof plan

caffe

Ground floor plan

classroom

First Floor plan

Second Floor plan

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A C A D E M I C | SELECTED PROJECT

THE ALLY BOOKSHOP CAFFE

2016, KUALA KANGSAR, IPOH

Creating an ally as the memory of the locals about the ally local foods stall. A strong axis is cutting through the cafe and become the void that welcoming local to go into the cafe.

perspective of pedestrain walking in ally

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sectional perspective of activities

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A C A D E M I C | SELECTED PROJECT

MAH MERI CULTURAL CENTRAL 2016, PULAU CAREY, SELANGOR

Let the tree become the timeline of history, is the concept of this project. Tree is where the mah meri people believe where the spirit would stay. By remaing the old tree, the building is build surround it and let all the space celebrate the tree. A long corridor is surrounded the central space like two wings and the community activity is happening inside the wings.

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model : theather

model : office toward central

model : office toward central

model : exterior view

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A C A D E M I C | SELECTED PROJECT

LIBRARY AND GALLERY FOR ARCHITECTURE 2015 UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA, KUALA LUMPUR

In a campus of university, architecture is a course where easily forgotten by everyone and it is the most space consuming course in university. How about a gallery for architecture student ? so that they can final presentation, portfolio, and store their project into the gallery and become a life and spacial library for archtiecture students and other people in future.

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model : 2nd floor

model : structure column

model : ceiling structure

model : exterior view

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A C A D E M I C | SELECTED PROJECT

SLEEPING DRAGON 2015, FRIM , SELANGOR

Is a house for a kung fu master who do not want people to visit his house. These house is full of challenge and obstacle where is designed only a master of kung fu can easily pass through.

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model : exterior view ( back elevation )

model : exterior view ( front elevation )

model : exterior bird view

model : exterior view (west elevation )

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W O R K | INTERNSHIP

HARMONIOUS ARCHITECTS & PLANNERS

SUAO BUS STATION SUAO, YILAN , TAIWAN

Su Ao Train Station is a small bus station for a 10 000 people city. It located at beside of the train station. The brief is to design the bus station in relation with the train station. The landscape between the two building is where will be the pavilion space for future use.

My role is to build the 1:50 model of whole site and checking the construction detail on site. I also responsible to render the plan for the magazine and competition purpose.

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model : bus station

model : taxi stand

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O T H E R | SELECTED PROJECT & PUBLICATION

TECHNICAL DRAWING Measured Drawing 1

Malay Collage Kuala Kangsar, Perak

Measured Drawing 2

Shophouse In Songkhla, Thailand

Working Drawing

Music School , TTDI, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Construction Drawing

Harmonious Architecture & Planners

SuAo Bus Station, SuAo, Yilan, Taiwan

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MEASURED DRAWING 1 Address : Malay Collage Kuala Kangsar east wing hostel Year done

: 2016

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MEASURED DRAWING 2 Address

: 168, Shophouse, Na korn Nai, Songkhla, Thailand.

Year done : 2016

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WORKING DRAWING 1 Project : Music School , Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Petaling jaya

( 2nd Year , 2nd sem studio project ) Year

: 2016

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CONSTRUCTION DRAWING

20M計劃道路

Harmonious Architecture & Planners

9120

2358

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750

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665

645

595

變電箱

800

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1050

919

2746

2457

2527

3013

640

1050

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590

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2105

高層標記點+105

375

250

90

330

750

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Year done : 2017

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: SuAo Bus Station, Yilan Taiwan - Plan, - sections - details

5659

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Project

道路中心樁C560+34

12M計劃道路

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4670

150

2281

室內高層+178

TEL

03-9329063

WEB

www.harmony-arch.com

PROJECT TITLE

DRAWING TITLE

SCALE

A3-1/600

DATE

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SHEET NO.

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O T H E R | PARTICIPANT & PUBLICATION

OUTBOUND PROGRAM 2016 Songkhla Fieldschool Program collabration with NUS and RMUTSV

“ People + Place” Book Launching and Exhibition 2016 / 16, Tun Tan Cheng Lok , Melaka

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2016 SONGKHLA FIELDSCHOOL PROGRAM Is an outbound program held by National University of Singapore, collaboration with University of Malaya and Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya, Songkhla.

The main activities is that we doing mapping on the heritage street. Go deep into the culture and community of Songkhla. Listen to their story about how they love this place.

The second activities is that we are doing measured drawing for one of the shophouse there. It was a 200 years shophouse and full of historical value.

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PEOPLE + PLACE BOOK LAUNCHING AND EXHIBITION After the field school program in Songkhla, we then travel to NUS for further production for the measured drawing.

We composed all the story that we had in Songkhla in a book and bring to Melacca to launching, as well as publishing the measured drawing .

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C O M P E T I T I O N | SELECTED PROJECT

OPEN DESIGN COMPETITION Competition Organised by Project name Year done

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: Youth dome design competition : MSSA : Johor Youth Club : 2017

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O T H E R| SELECTED PROJECT

MODEL MAKING - BUDDHA MAIN PRAYER HALL thesiss project 5th year 2016

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model : buddha main prayer hall 46

BUDDHA MAIN PRAYER HALL 2016, Pudu , Kuala Lumpur

Design by Angela Phang , Thesis Project.

Scale : 1:50 Size : 1000mm x 6000mm x 500mm My role as a commision model maker.

model : front elevation

model : hall during sunrise

model : exterior view

model : making process

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SH.G

photography

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BIOGRAPHY Story about architecture and me For me, the best part in architecture is the challanges that we are designing the details for the form and the space of the buildings. Architecture become an intresting subject for me when learning is not from book anymore. We see, we observe, we touch, we feel, we smell materials from all over the world and trying to compose it into a good melody of space.

I am 22 years old, graduated from Bachelor of Science of Architecture in University of Malaya. I love photography, sketching, caligraphing. I am passionate, self-driven, hardworking and willing to learn.

I love nature, and nature always inspired me. Same goes to architecture.

Nature always my inspiration when designing. All the project that i had done is under one core idea which is community. Building is like a big tree and there always have lifes on the tree like ants, birds, snails, which is like people who are using it.

During my final year of Bachelor of Architecture studies, my mentor , En Wan Azhar (CODA)and Pn. Aty Rosemary (University Malaya) who really teach me to strengthen my idea and concept.

~ ShanHong Gan

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