SHAWN LAM DESIGN PORTFOLIO
Shawn is a second-year NUS Archi tecture student. His passion in design is to create meaningful works that intrigue and evoke emotions. He believes that architecture is about carving out spaces that inspires. He is interested in creat ing human-centric spaces that positively connect people and communities.
EDUCATION
The Architecure Society (TAS) Education Director, 2021 - Present
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o Attained grade 7 for HL Economics & SL Chinese B, and grade 6 for HL Physics, HL Information Technology in General Society, & SL Mathematics
o Achieved A* in Art & Design, Economics, Physics, & Computer Science, and A in Biology, Chemistry, & Mathematics
> Dispatched and aided with the technical troubleshooting for the 2020 General Elections E-registration devices
> Designed several html newsletters to facilitate with informing grassroot leaders on various ways they can help bolster community interactions during the pandemic Yangming Old folks’ home, 2017
o Achieved 39 points
o Expected Date of graduation: May 2025
> Assured and maintained SAF regulars and NSF proficiency requirements within the institute
Freelance Graphics Designer & Film Producer, Jan – Aug 2020
> Co-ordinated and acquired training resources - spaces, equipments, ammunitions, vehicles, drivers, transportaion and medical equipment & staffing for active and re-service batallion training exercises
> Organised community events, such as a film festival, to encourage student interest in the arts
Taipei European School, Aug 2007 – Jun 2018
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> International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma, Jun 2018
> Planned events of student interest through collaborative efforts, such as a Joint Career Fair conducted with SUTD Architecture’s student body (SUTDIO)
PHONE +65 96471460
SAF Infantry Training Institute Training & Co-ordination Specialist, Oct 2018 - Jul 2020
TES Student Council Executive Member, 2016 – 2017
> Helped successfully raise funds to purchase new media equipment and make improvements to studying areas within the school
TES Varsity Football Team, 2016 - 2017
o Participated in various tournaments in Taiwan and abroad
Volunteer Experience People’s Association, 2020
HL - Higher Level, SL - Standard Level
> Produced various videos and graphics works to help raise funds to build new homes in Cambodia
SHAWN LAM
> Co-ordinated and campaigned for a physical NUS Architecture Open House, conducted under strict Covid measures, to welcome and interact with prospective architecture students
> Rejuvenated the school’s media team into an editorial team that produces biannual student-based magazine that provides students a platform to show off their talents, provide media coverage, and maintained socialmedia pages to disseminate school related news
> Initiated and led the first Architecture and Landscape Architecture (AKILA) Freshmen Orientation Programme that maximised the opportunities for the freshmen to forge new friendships with their batchmates and seniors while following strict Covid restrictions
National University of Singapore (NUS), Aug 2020 - Present
TES Editorial Team Director & Founder, 2017
> Bachelor of Arts in Architecture
Shawn believes in giving back to the community with design works and has produced and led numerous projects with this aim. He currently pursues this interest by serving as an executive com mittee member of The Architecture So ciety (TAS).
> Entertained and provided company with the elderly residents Tabitha Cambodia Project, 2017
> International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE), Jun 2015
NexWave Telecoms Technical Officer, Jul 2020
In his free time, Shawn enjoys cycling, photography, and Lego.
Work Experience
> Supervised operations and debugged malfunctions at the institute’s IPPT electronic fitness testing centre
> Tailored & conceived customized digital content to assist with delivering each client’s personal message
> Elevated student welfare and community bonding by planning and organising a variety of events and projects such as discos, a haunted house, and food sales
> Assisted with the distribution of masks and with the support grant applications for people whose monthly income had been affected by COVID 19
EMAIL shawnlamjy@gmail.com
PORTFOLIO
Each subject is graded on a scale from 1 (lowest) to 7 (highest)
Woodlands Drive 14, Block 517, #10-231, S730517
Extracurricular Activities
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> Initiate and organise activities to support and sustain an active and supportive education environment in NUSArchitecture Community such as through an Academic Feedback session held on Zoom with the lead tutors from all B.Arch and M.Arch cohorts which discussed students mental well-being and education challenges Events Director, 2020 - 2021
> Spearheaded programs that encourage the upbringing of new leaders & talents
tinyurl.com/Shawn-Port-Jan22
CONTENTS ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS ORTHOGRAPHY,PANTHEONORDER AND GEOMETRY STATE COURTS INTERIORITY AND EXTERIORITY ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN MEDIATINGURBANTHERÉUNIONBRINGINGTOGETHERREHABTHEURBANLANDSCAPE WITH THE THERMAL COMFORT OF PEDESTRIANS JARDEN DES PAIN SHOPHOUSE IN DUXTON HILL ARTHOMEMATERIALSIRIUS&TECTONICS2.0GALLERYATMAPLETREE CITY II SUNDAY NIGHT WITH SPRING FLOWER COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN THINKING FILM PHOTOGRAPHYGRAPHICPROJECTSDESIGN 3020146242634 423848
PANTHEON
The plans, elevations, and sections of Pantheon were studied and an alysed for ordering principles - grid, repetition, rhythm, axis, symmetry, and geometry. From the section drawing of the building, it can be ob served that there is symmetry, repetition, and rhythm in the composition of the interior detailing in the domed rotunda. The roof coffers are ob served to be aligned in symmetrical and repetitive order centred around the central oculus. The lower levels of the interior show that the corin thian columns and alter are positioned in a rhythmic order composed of triangular and semi-circular shaped decorative roofs. The building is observed to be placed on a north to south axis. There is symmetry on the exterior when observed from the front. The building’s plan incorpo rate ordering principles as well. When the columns of the building are solely extracted, geometrical compositions are discovered.
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ORTHOGRAPHY, ORDER AND GEOMETRY
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The perspective drawing constructed was derived from looking at the various spaces passed by when entering the building. The serial draw ings on the left show the forms observed from moving from the exterior and interior. The serial movement explores the building’s composition and geometry with a primary focus on the main atrium space. The building’s form & atrium are the key areas focused on the final drawing.
The perspective drawn in the final perspective drawing was chosen to depict the atrium’s geometry and the spaces that surround it on the various levels of the building. The drawing breaks down the sequence and circulation of users in the building.
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INTERIORITY AND EXTERIORITY
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The final form is a cantilevered structure composed of aggregated clusters that form three distinct circulatory levels. The cantilevered form allowed for the creation of a park at the bottom level and two upper habitable levels. The upper levels forms a unique circulatory and spatial composition made of a myriad of pathways and communal spaces that encourages community interaction by increasing the chance of resi dents meeting one another in these areas.
THE BRINGING TOGETHER
The concept of the project was driven from the study of a unique shape derived from nature. The particular shape studied was an octahedron deformed by the fibonacci ratio. The unique geomety was studied for all its possible permutations and its aggregation to develop a cluster form. This was then broken down into habitable apartment spaces. From there, the module and cluster circulation was studied and developed into a functional form.
RÉUNION
The overall design aspires to be a reunion of the kampong spirit and modern city with a community-oriented design that reflects the unpar alledled properties of the unique geometry studied.
The cluster design was then applied according to the site features. The site has very few residential developments and is surrounded by many modern high rise glass buildings that look inanimate. If we look back into the past, there used to be many kampongs that are located within and around the ‘town’ area. As such, the project was inspired to reunite the lively kampong spirit into the modern city of Singapore.
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REHABURBAN
Traffic islands are unshaded, transitory spaces where people want to spend as little time as possible, due to poor thermal comfort during the day. Usually made of concrete and surrounded by asphalt, the surfaces have high emissivity, therefore absorbing a lot of the sun’s energy in the daytime and releasing it as heat throughout the day. With ground temperatures reaching up to 44 degrees in the day, long waits can be nothing short of biological torture. Thus, the project aimed to redesign traffic islands to prioritise pedestrian thermal comfort.
MEDIATING THE URBAN LANDSCAPE WITH THE THERMAL COMFORT OF PEDESTRIANS
In the course of our research, we came across a junction which was well-used and thermally comfortable because of the shade and evapo transpiration of trees. There are many benefirts to a tree, it improve both air and water quality by absorbing intercepting particulates, re leasing oxygen, reducing ozone levels, and reducing soil erosion; plus, they increase the biodiversity of the space by providing a habitat to secondary organisms such as birds, ferns, and orchids. Best of all, trees do not need much space to grow so long as there is sun, water, and some Ultimately,soil!
after researching widely, we realised that trees is the perfect solution in the long term. The only issue is that trees take time to grow. Therefore, the project’s intervention is to provide an intermediate solu tion that emulates some of a tree’s ability to provide thermal comfort, with a rapidly deployable, unobtrusive, and safe to use form. Once the tree has grown, the intermediate solution can be removed and shifted to a new location to spur on the rehabilitation of a new island. In time, the island will become a space that people actively choose to go to, a net benefit for the local environment and pedestrians.
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a second thought, the space becomes one that people actively choose to go to. The intervention can help renew our traffic island into a desirable space for all.
A DESIRABLE SPACE
Beyond the performative aspects of the design, the intervention imbues the traffic island with a sense of identity and comfort. In contrast to the once-transient space that one would actively avoid and pass by without FOR ALL
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SHOPHOUSE IN DUXTON HILL
Likewise to how Henri’s Libraries were the Gardens of Baby lon for Books, the building’s aim was to be a temple for bread - a paradise that one can bake and live in perfect harmony. This is produced through the blend of nature, as well as well thought spaces which were designed with the client’s schedule of acco midation, and with a central focus on the central oven’s chimney.
Life in the building revolves around the central chimney which interlaces the public and private space with a double helix stair case. The unique structure allows the two spaces to ineract with one another while stay ing seperate.
JARDEN DES PAIN
Henri Labrouste re-intepretated classicism in a unique manner, in which he took a step further to combine classicism and 19th Century innova tion. His distinctive style utilises the buildings scale and context to atalyse create impactful spaces. The extent of these effects were studied and applied to the site at Duxton for a bakery.
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MATERIAL & TECTONICS GROUP PROJECT
The projact explored the concepts of modularity and parametricism with wood sticks for a pavilion and bridge structure. An innovative mod ule, composded of six interlocking sticks, formed the invidual modular components of both structures. The module takes advantage of the tension and compression forces within a module to form a strong com ponent that can be connected with one another at the six corners of the module. The unique design was the result of comprehensive studies made with the material choice and reviews on existing strcutural sys tems.
The pavilion, situated in front of SDE3, can be seen as a gateway to the rest of the faculty. Here, we wanted to introduce a space for guests and students entering or leaving the building. The shift ing transparency of the structure draws people into the space, while sufficiently secluding and shading them while inside.
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The concept of the gallery begun by looking at its intent, which was to meet the needs of the users of the space and the two sculptures. As the two primary artworks are forced into this space, a focus was placed upon the needs of the sculptures.
The Acrobat’s maker did not specify how the work should be particu lary displayed. The work suggest fluidity, movement., and transforma tion from one state to another. As such, the space around the Acrobat focuses on its attributes with amphitheatre that allows the work to be viewed from all angles and at varying heights.
While for the Reclining figure, Henry Moore had pre-determined that the most ideal site for his work was in the rolling hills of the english countryside with long views against the open sky with fields of grass and a few trees. The site of the gallery did not have these qualities. Thus, the design attempts to morph the nature of the space closer to the ideal setting for the sculpture. While doing so, it is conscious of the realities of the site. Hence a sense of artificality is maintained in the visual and interactive elements of the gallery.
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The space was designed to meet the needs of the sculp ture while maintaining a constant awareness to the reali ty of the site in which the works have been forced to call home.
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Every Sunday evening my grandma tunes in to Channel 8 to watch what is supposedly the greatest epic of our lifetime - 春花望露 (Spring -Flower). The show is about the family affairs of several families which are followed over the decades. The controversial events are often small domestic affairs between these families. Each episode of the show is an hour-long and contains many long dialogue scenes. I often find watch ing these shows with my grandma very sluggish and repetitive. How ever, I find the corresponding interaction between my grandma and the show fascinating. Throughout an episode, my grandma would be mak ing comments to express her feelings towards a certain character. As such, I was interested in mapping the interaction between my grandma and the show. Through observing my grandma watch the Taiwanese soap opera - Spring Flower, I collected data on her interaction with the show. Data points on her facial emotion, body posture, sound, and ver bal reaction were collected and coded into a form through methodical, systemical translation in rhino.
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Four curves were picked to be developed into physical forms. They were selected based on the key focal points of the show and the amount of interaction my grandma had with the show.
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ZRAC
Zrac explores the dynamic relationship between our emotions and body language. The film reflects this relationship through a micro lens on the physical motions of a hand. The film examines a small fragment of one’s body to show how expressive limited movements can be. Through the technique of green screen and manipulation, this relationship is animated out in the tinyurl.com/ZRAC-filmfilm.
SHORT FILM
MUSIC VIDEO
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The music video is a reflection on the experience of a one sided relationship. It tells the story of a beaten up and depressed girl hallucinating about the person she loves. The visual narrative ventures goes from reality into fantasy to emphasize the exhilarating feelings experienced by the girl. This state is further accentuated by the the heavy contrast in colour between segments. The film ultimately does not aim to define the emotions experienced, rather it tries to resonate with nostalgic experiences of tinyurl.com/dontcallback-musicvideorelationships.
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STUDENT MAGAZINE
PEAK
In 2016, Shawn took the initiative to revamp his high school’s Media team by founding a new school editorial team (TES Editorial Team). With the mission to engage students with student life at the school via digital media, Shawn and his team have done various community-based projects and services. This includes a quarterly Student based maga zine, school news dissemination through social media pages, providing live coverage of sports games and performances, running school-wide writing, arts, and film competitions, and helping to provide media cover age for school events. The team is now one of the largest clubs in the school and it provides students with a platform to show off their talent in writing, art, and media. Shawn has also helped ensure organizational sustainability by running training programs for various roles in the team to bring up new leaders and members for the team.
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This series was taken in response to a series of terrorist attack on France in 2015. The series serves as a reflection of the human psychological impact of these events by exploring the themes of vulnerability and desolation amidst chaos.
PHOTOSHOOT
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This series was taken to help promote two brands - PEAK & TES Edi torial Team. The shoot attempts to blend the brands in an urban context by utilising the city as a frame.
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BRAND CAMPAIGN
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YOSEMITE VALLEY
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JADE MOUNTAIN ASCENT
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