Portfolio (Bachelor) Tan Hsuan Lin
01 People, Matter & Space Group Project :
5 pax
type : Pavillion location: None date: 2014.08 size:
12.5 cu.m
“how do we perceive scale in an architectural space?
One long standing approach is to view architecture from the perspective of human scale. Alain writes “one of the laws of architecture is to make scale perceptible”. How do we perceive scale in an architectural space? Architecture is almost always built for humans. This suggest that the human body can be taken as an absolute standard of measurement for describing spaces, as high or low, narrow or wide. Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man is a classic example of this approach. In this first project, we had the opportunity to explore the relationship between space and matter. Our user is a petite girl, 150cm tall who loves to take photo. Driven by her perpetual passion of love for nature, we seek to create a pavilion that captures the magical, lively and ephemeral splendidness of nature.
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The structure is compose of ø200mm paper tubes. It is reusable, recyclable, solid, strong and most importantly beautiful in its own rustic unembellished minimalist beauty. A perfect coherent to nature’s beauty that dwells in its simplicity.
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Chair
Lounge Chair
Tripod Stand
Floor Plan Scale: NTS
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The paper tubes morphs from floor into furniture and structure. Their notion become increasingly ambiguous and their function reciprocate as the user interacts with the matter in space.
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Tripod stand Chair Lounge Chair
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The canopy is compose of translucent polycarbonate, gifted with subtle layering effect. As though standing amongst a forest with dappled, flickering light that filters through tress canopies under light breeze.
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Roof Plan Scale: NTS
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02 People & Nature Individual Project type : House location:
Port Dickson
date: 2015.03 size:
150 sq.m
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“how can we make architecture akin to the nature? This is a retreat house proposal for a blind client. The site is set facing the beach front and backing a forest. Our living environment is compose of a mixture of the nature and the surrounding man made. The nature is beautifully simple yet diversely complex. On the other hand, architecture order is crudely robust, rigid and frail. How can we make architecture akin to the nature?
The house is placed at the end of the winding sunken journey through the forest. It is almost invisible as it is immerse amongst the trees. If you were walking through the path, you gradually sense the thinning of the forest before replacing by a beach front overlooking into the horizon.
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beach house
Design Methodology
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1. SPATIAL SEGREGATION Creating subtle floor difference for each functional zone within the given footprint of the house (150sqm)
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2. SOLID & VOIDS Puncturing the house with extg footprint of the pavilion to create sensual relationship
3. SPATIAL CONTINUITY Seamlessly connecting these functional zones resulting in an open ended circulation
6. JOURNEY FROM THE PAVILION Linking the pathway with ramps, creating a journey from the pavilion to the house
6. A LIVING ARCHITECTURE Creating a house built over water changes its overview with the rise and fall of sea levels, Hence, resulted in a ‘living’ piece of composure that changes with time
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4. TAKING SHAPE Molding form of the building by engulfing trees on site
Front Elevation Scale: NTS
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GF Plan
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1F Plan
Scale: NTS
An open plan wrapped around a series of curved walls defined by the void (shape of the picnic pavilion) Functional spaces are being intuitively defined against the concave walls. Difference in floor levels as spatial recognition feature for the blind client.
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Roof Plan Scale: NTS
Light penetrating at strategically positioned place (start, mid & end of ramp). Difference in ceiling height to create spatial hierarchy
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03 People and Community Individual Project type : Public location:
Sg. Lembing
date: 2015.08 size:
450 sq.m ; 2 stories
“ The city is empower by the presence of people. How do we create spaces that enhance the sense of community�
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This is my first building designed for the public. Sungai Lembing is a tin mining town located in Kuantan, Pahang. In 1880, the British set up a tin mining industry. The village developed rapidly from then onwards. In 1986, the underground mines were forced to close down due to collapse of world tin prices. Many lost their major source of income. Hence, majority of the younger generations had to relocate to the nearest city to seek for an alternative source of living. The older generations that choose to stay back considering their memories with the place had to sustain life through commercial and food business.
For the last decade, the town starts to see its new opportunity through tourism in their natural attraction and historical remnants. During my site visit, it wasn’t the natural attractions nor the historical remnants that attracts my attention. It was the journey of walking through a quaint village, a rare experience that can’t be obtained in the city. It felt as though the dying tin mine settlement are once again revived by their charm of a village. Imagine if all of the people of the village left for the city to seek for a better living, the village perhaps might not have had a second chance in surviving. People & Community
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SITE IMPRESSION
A river cutting across,disconnecting the village from their town, connected by a 100 yrs old hanging bridge. Houses, closely arrange in a terracing typology behind the landscape, faintly discernible from opposite. Thus, created different hierarchy pockets of intimate spaces within.
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A morning market set up only during the weekends from 8am - 12pm, providing a platform for the villagers to sell their local produce to the tourist. Beside it is the local food court where both villagers and tourist seeking for deliciously nostalgic & localize Sg. Lembing’s cuisine over a cup of kopi.
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A hawker selling famous Sg. Lembing toufu dish inside the only wet market in the whole village. Hikers stopping over for local breakfast before and after the hike from Bukit Panorama (another tourist attraction.
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Characteristics of the village
house build on terrace
house interconnect by lanes
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living closely connected to nature
nostalgic / intimate village
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Design Methodology extg’ slope
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extg’ landscape that has been excavated
Proposed terracing landscape inspired from the sight of village houses and as a notion of giving back to nature.
Pods as a representation of houses encompassed private spaces. They are tilted at an angle to enveloped an open space.
A transparent encasement over the pods as an impression of preserving the village
Thus, creating an inverted plan that encourages continuous flow of spaces and activities.
Site Plan Scale: NTS
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GF Plan
Scale: NTS
Intimately crafted in between spaces loosely defined by placement of solids and differentiation in floor levels. They offer the visitors full freedom on their situatedness, and their appropriation with space. They are at the liberty to choose between various possibilities and find pleasure in just wondering. If you have 100 people walking, you will find 100 different path.
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1F Plan
Scale: NTS
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Internal Roof Plan Scale: NTS
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Terracing landscape inspired by the village’s housing typology and as a notion of giving back to excavated ground.
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A clear view of the ‘house’ encase within a soft and permeable facade. A reminder for everyone to cherish ‘the village’ before it turns into a ‘miniature’ of the ‘snow globe’. Visitors from inside observing the village activities happening outside or perhaps the opposite. A paradox.
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At night the solids seems to be more prominent under the presence of lighting. The usage of fairfaced brick finish on the solids creates a contrasting effect which differentiate them even more with the muted finish of the in-between space
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The building opens up itself gradually towards the green field. In the evening, villagers gather on the podium, some set up their stalls while others having picnic while watching the kids playing football at the green field, enjoying every moment as the day passes by.
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04 People in the City Individual Project type : Public location:
Kuala Lumpur
date: 2016.08 size:
3000 sq.m ; 3 stories
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“how would one envisage architecture in a constructed cityscape� The site is a rare urban threshold framed by the compact colonial build-ups surrounding central market. The condition inspires an opportunity for a subtle architectural intervention to envisage a physical and cultural re-connection between central market and the city.
The proposal frames a transitional platform to encourage cultural appreciation and progression through dialog and guided interpretation. The building extrusions are restrained along the edges of the triangular site whilst inclining towards the central basin to form an urban terrace that invites the pedestrian flows and frames the silhouette of the central market
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Masjid Jamek
Bar Council
Agro Bank
Central Market Annex
Klang River Viewing platform towards river
Bridge to Daya Bumi
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access to river front blocked by LRT embankment
Bangkok Bank Building
Kasturi Walk
Sin Sze Si Ya Temple
Central Market
historically significant building
Hong Leong Bank Building
the only access to riverfront
Geo Hotel
to Pasar Seni LRT
riverfront beautification project initiated by the government People in the City
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Site Condition
CM Finance district Daya Bumi
Mix use commercial district
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Pasar Seni bus station Pasar Seni LRT
1. STRATEGIC LOCATION Surrounded by 3 different districts. Situated along the main road, in front of a historically significant tourist attraction of Malaysia, Central Market (CM) and the river of life project.
2. High accessibility and visibility from main road and Kasturi Walk
Blocked view Site Central Market
Kasturi Walk
LRT Embankment
3. VISUAL OBSTRUCTION Chaotic environment in a tightly constructed urban site. Foliages and advertisement boards interrupt complete view of the building
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Blocked view Site
4. LOW VISUAL EXPOSURE 3 out of the 4 views are blocked LRT embankment isolating river from the site
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bank Medan Pasar
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CM shop
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shoplots
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5. MOVEMENT PATTERN Site situated along a strong linear streetscape
What could be the potential future for our under utilized plaza?
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POTENTIAL SOLUTION 1. Capitalizing on the only exposed facade 2. Strengthen the visibility and importance of Central Market 3. Create another network of strong pedestrian streetscape by connecting between CM, river and the surrounding context 4. Attracting incomers from the main road (Jln Tun Tan Cheng Lock)
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Design Methodology
Proposed highest build form location to preserve visual corridor of Central Market
CM:14m
LRT:5.6m
shop:9.7m
Adjacent smaller blocks conforming to surrounding building height added to frames the urban plaza
Tapering the form to encompass the site carving out a plaza
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Terracing build form to open up the plaza towards the sky and creating a more approachable build form
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A build form with vertical wall, floor, and roof as enclosure would disconnect the relationship of building and its surrounding. As oppose of the if the ground transform into the wall gradually, where the building would have a continuous gradation from ground to building, it would create a more approachable interaction between people & building
Blurring the lines between architecture and landscape by integrating the building with the central plaza. Thus intuitively carving out a sinuous ‘valley’ that softly channels pedestrian towards Central Market and the river.
Form frames the frontage of Central Market and access to riverfront thus creating a gateway
A portion of the program is moved underground to reduce build-up area on the ground
Connecting & open up basement to ground
Carving out the entrances from Kasturi Walk and Pasar Seni LRT
“Architecture needs to be dissolved into the landscape in order to be in harmony with the place that it is made” (Kengo Kuma). Layering the building facade to soften the build form
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Legend 1. drop off 2. plaza 3. painting space 4. cafe 5. foyer 1 6. lounge 7. locker room 8. storage 9. kitchen 10. toilet (M) 11. toilet (F) 12. toilet (OKU) 13. transformer room 14. HT switchgear room 15. store 16. loading & unloading bay 17. bin ctr 18. pump room 19. hand woven craft studio 20. wau making studio 21. jewelery & accessories studio 22. resource center 23. foyer 2 24. store 25. security rm 26. toilet (M) 27. toilet (F)
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Legend 1. foyer 1 2. amphitheater 3. foyer 2 4. tourist center 5. wood working workshop 6. batik workshop 7. pottery & ceramic workshop 8. storage 9. back of house 10. toilet (F) 11. toilet (M)
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1F Plan
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Legend 1. demo workshop 1 2. foyer 3. demo workshop 2 4. conference room 5. theatre 6. pantry 7. terrace 8. artist residence 1 9. artist residence 2 10. management office 11. toilet (F) 12. toilet (M)
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2F Plan
Scale: NTS
Legend 1. terrace 2. river of life gallery
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A prominent drop off channeling arriving visitors into the building. On the surface, the public plaza as the holding area for the arriving pedestrian en-route towards Central Market
Legend 1. drop off 2. plaza 3. foyer 1 4. amphitheater 5. foyer 2 6. tourist information 7. batik workshop
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Solar Analysis
West side shaded by Daya Bumi (36 Stories) from 4:30pm onwards
The shortest side of the facade are facing the morning sun to minimize solar heat gain and to maximize on the amount of daylighting entering into the into the building . Although the longest side of the facade are facing the evening sun, it is shaded by surrounding building (Daya Bumi) from 4:30pm onwards. Service core positioned at sun exposed facade to block direct solar heat penetration into the building 58
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Wind Analysis
ENE wind blocked by adjacent shophouse
Evaporative cooling from river
In Malaysia, the prevailing wind predominantly comes from South and East-Northeast (ENE) direction. However, ENE prevailing wind are blocked by adjacent shoplot. Hence the site solely dependent on the south prevailing wind to dissipates heat and adds indoor thermal comfort. South West and West prevailing wind channels evaporative cooled air from the river to the site.
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Sustainable Design Strategies
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service core positioned at exposed facade to block direct solar heat penetration into the building.
The interior adapt similar terracing design language as the central plaza. The result is a spatially and visually permeable interior space.
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sun angle @ 7:30am 10:00am
louvers cover 50% of sun. Air gap between louvers and window create buffers to prevent direct solar heat gain into the interior
sun angle @ 7:30am 9:00am
Overhang reduce solar heat gain into the interior by an hour
Detail A
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Louvers, air gap and overhang reduce heat penetration into the interior
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Biocell system to introduce greeneries to basement
Improving air quality Turfgrass converts carbon dioxide to ovygen through photosynthesis
Reduce heat gain A lawn is 30 degrees cooler than asphalt or rock and 15 degrees cooler than bare soil
Detail B
Scale: NTS turf gravity channel drainage system
The central plaza is exposed to sun throughout the day. Hence, it is covered in turf lawn to reduce solar heat gain.
Stormwater management & pollution filter Turfgrasses filter stormwater excess and reduce sediment and pollutants from entering water bodies. Turfgrass plants also redirect the flow of water, slowing it and allowing more water to be absorbed by the soil, which aids in preventing soil erosion and flooding
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Construction Detail
Typical Wall & Facade Section Scale: NTS
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stack effect
daylight & wind
Detail C
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Enabling stack effect by creating gap between parapet wall and truss capping. Daylight and wind enters through lovering facade enables 100% naturally daylighted and ventilated terrace.
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GF
Main crowd attracting facilities
West Wing
Common facilities targeting common public
Pasar Seni LRT
Riverfront
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Artist in residence & admin office
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The makers studio where craft work that doesn’t require workshop space are situated. It features an open plan layout that encourage unobstructed flow of activities and interaction.
East Wing
Private facilities for administrative purposes and to supporting traditional craft men
circulation above ground
Legend 1. drop off 2. lower ground floor 3. maker’s studio 4. east wing lobby 5. artist in-residence 6. lounge 7. west wing lobby 8. cafe 9. demo studio 10. theatre 11. conference room 12. river of life gallery
fire escape route
circulation below ground
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Roof
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A dedicated gallery that portray the development of the River of Life project with view towards the riverfront
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Spaces that promotes traditional craft. It features a platform for tourist to make personalize souvenirs using traditional craft techniques.
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Program Strategy
CM Annex
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strengthen art & craft core
The proposal is intended to become a soft extension of CM with an experiential learning center for traditional arts and craft. It serve as a stage for skills demonstration and dialog among craftsmen while providing a platform for visitors to be involved in the craft-making process. Together with CM, CM Annex and Kasturi walk, the center aims to become a new catalyst to strengthen, expand and promote awareness towards Malaysia art, culture and heritage value. The building blocks are categorized into 2 main purpose: West wing - Common facilities targeting tourist user group East wing - Private facilities for administrative purposes and to supporting traditional craft men
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Cafe Lounge
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ROL gallery Demo Studio Conference Room Theatre
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East Wing
Plaza
Artist residence Resource ctr Marker’s studio
Amphitheater Tourist Center Workshops
Daya Bumi
Link to CM
Central Market
historically significant building
Kasturi Walk
shophouse
shophouse
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Visually & spatially permeable spatial hierarchy. Visually apparent structural system as ornament
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Creating an alignment between the entrance to the site and Central Market, it imparts a significance both to the distance object and the viewer, linking the viewer to Central Market.
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terrace leading towards amphitheater
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Form framing the gateway to riverfront
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