A R C H I T E C T U R E
P O R T F O L I O
2016 an extract of portfolio
by Shing Yi Lee
Application as a Part II Architect
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CURICULUM VITAE THE CARNERY : A CITY RANCH Final Master’s project | Universiy of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom FORENSIC VEHICLE DISASSEMBLY Fouth year Master’s studio project | Universiy of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom GRASS HOTEL Zlg Design | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia LANTERN HOTEL Zlg Design | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia RAW CUISINE STATION Final Degree’s studio project | Taylor’s University, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia THE 9-SQUARE MATRIX First Semester design project | Taylor’s University, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
SHING YI LEE
25th January 1992, Malaysia. +447591895710 shingyi_92@hotmail.com Flat 4D, Devonport House, SE10 9JW, London, United Kingdom LANGUAGES Native- English, Chinese Mandarin, Malay Elementary- Cantonese, Hokkien, Indonesian EDUCATION
SKILLS
Masters in Architecture, RIBA Part 2 University of Greenwich, London. September 2014 - July 2016
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Adobe After Effects AutoCAD Rhinoceros SketchUp 3D Max Z Brush Microsoft Word Microsoft PowerPoint
Bachelor of Science in Architecture (Honors.) Taylor’s University, Malaysia. (Second Upper Class) January 2011 -December 2013 Foundation in Natural and Built Environment Taylor’s University, Malaysia. CGPA: 3.51 of 4.0 (Distinction) January 2010 -December 2010 Malaysian Certificate of Education - equivalent to GCSE Bandar Utama Damansara (4) High School, Malaysia. (10As) January 2008 -December 2009 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY ZLG Design, Malaysia Assistant Architect February - July 2014 I.DEA Architect Internship February - March 2013 Artist Kids Store Art Teacher and Sales Advisor Summer 2011 KSKA, Arkitek Internship July 2010 PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS / ACHIEVEMENTS Dean’s List Award Recipient Taylor’s University 2013 SABD Student Association President 2011/12 Associated Board of the Royal Schools Music Grade 8 Piano and Grade 8 Theory of Music 2010 SPM High Achievers’ Scholarship Award Taylor’s University 2010 Interschool Choir Competition First runner up 2009 School Cadets Vice President 2009
2012 Paper entitled ‘The Application of Traditional Malay Elements in Modern Museums of Malaysia’ published in the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Technology Development
THE CARNERY : A CITY RANCH ________________________________________ Tutors Simon Herron & Suzanne Isa Project Idea of ranch is a locus of human innovation. This ranch embraces the cutting edge breakthroughs in genetic engineering (cultured meat) and recreates the idea of ranch in the city. Meat prior to the industrialization of the farm has always been an object of luxury. This project attempts to return to the pre-modern idea of meat production that relates to opulence, exclusivity, rarity and the scarce. Hence reinstating this fact, this place would be funded by the ultra-rich who can afford this sort of produce and dine in the tasting house which is located on site. The highest quality of cows are displayed as a vitrine of reverence on site; an idealized romantic place of what is no longer possible in the future. However they are not there only for its nostalgic purposes but are also being cultured for its genes to be grown into a piece of steak in the laboratory by scientist. This project looks at the zeitgeist of meat industry and reimagines a new ranching model for the future because it is coming to a point whereby it is proven inefficient and morally reprehensible to have cattle ranching at a large scale and these sorts of produce is no longer going to be seen as acceptable. This ranch has three main spaces which are the tasting house, the bovine sanctuary and the carnery. By placing these programs together, it becomes a speculative industrial model that drastically shortens production-consumption chain line, which is a detriment in the current industrial model. Meat production methods go from secretive to a celebrated one. Design Notion Like flesh and bones, hard and soft, the project is a meeting of two opposites. The enlightened intellectualism of the Grid meets the carnal expressionism of the Clump through a composition of layering and collage. Cultured meat is a phenomenon that is the very idea of progressive technology encountering the nostalgic ranch.
The Farm House Extracted
THE BOVINE FIELD Rather than seeing what would be expected of a scattered herd roaming upon the swaying greens, the purveyor finds each animal grazing calmly upon elevated platforms, gridded into an array. This suggest the cows’ elevated status beyond an object of barbarous slaughter - they must now be subjects of intellectual appreciation.
THE TASTING HOUSE Opulent dining for the connoisseur: The dining area is a most personal, intimate and opulent setting. It stages the penultimate indulgence of enlightened consumption.
THE CARNERY:THE PRODUCTION HALL The Carnery is the alchemy lab of meat production. Cattle cells are cultured and grown to precision in this laboeatory. The sophistication of biotechnological fabrication achieves its peak culinary expression under the provision of specialized generic gastronomist.
CITY FARM AERIAL VIEW It is like a meat cathedral celebrating a new era of meat production. Static impenetrable houses a constructed landscape and makes interior what is exterior. The project is a garden inside the machine of London.
FORENSIC VEHICLE DISASSEMBLY ________________________________________ Program: Automobile Renewal Facility
Tutors Simon Herron & Nicholas Szczepaniak Project The perceived value of a vehicle is often highest in the first half of its life cycle, a period associated with stages of manufacturing, purchase/delivery, and active service, while declining rapidly as it undergoes model phase-out, inactive use and finally storage and salvaging. This project is an ‘automobile renewal facility’ for MINI that aims to actualize the automobile ‘end-of-life’. The program strives to extract value (both economical and ecological) out of aging MINI automobiles by eliminatingthe entropic loss inherent in current practices of wholesale generic scrapping - through a precise disassembly (demanufacturing) of components down to its constituent parts. The project speculates that the recovery of value in this phase is able to sustain the procurement of a new vehicle at minimal extra cost – thus suggesting a new paradigm of sustainable, perpetually renewing car ownership from chore to lifestyle; from obligation to gratification. The MINI brand embodies spontaneity, wittiness and being a stand-out. The project seizes the imagination of the public in the form of a ‘visionary nostalgia’ through a strong urban presence. Formal and material choices capture the agile, in-the-moment, and on-its-feet spirit of the MINI brand.
MINI INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT ____________________ Urban Design Strategy In this diagrammatic planning, each circle indicated with specific facility represents one tower. Each of them takes up 700 metre square. and is 30m in diameter. Each tower of facility respects the urban grid within the proposed field.
PHASE 1
Due to the nature of the program, it is proposed to the client to begin the development with the main program which is the Disassembly Tower and the Showroom. This also act as a prototype to the whole urban strategy.
PHASE 2
Main pathway, roads and infrastructure are introduced. As the program and community grows, new facilities such as residence and hotels are added, in a small scale.
PHASE 3
Car Dismantling Tower Showroom Main Storage
Services Information tower/ Museum/ Offices Motel
Residences Power station Carpark landspace The vision of the entire MINI industrial district development with fully equiped facilities is illustrated as below. Areas in phase 1 can be seen that is partially dismantled, suggesting that by that stage of development, as a response to technology, the tower adapts and changes accordingly.
MICROCOSM 1. A personalized disassembl-motel celebrating quirk farewells and opulent nostalgia 2. THe Mini Disassembly City inscribes a realm where lifestyle eccentricities and material sustainability are revered on a quintessentially equal footing
GENERAL ARRANGEMENT GROUD FLOOR PLAN
1. Entrance 2. Depollution Floor 3. Conveyor Belt 4. Material Silos 5. Loading/unloading bay 6. Car park 7. Material Storage 8. Patternoster 9. Rail (for car body) 10. Tour lift 11. Facade 12. Maintenance ladder
Building Construction Overall exploded isometric view
PART 1 Roof Construction Skeletal preparation for ETPE pillows installation. Customized structure is supported by the columns within which are lied together down to the foundation of the building. The overall tension and compression of the building allows part of the roof to be cantilivered. Middle structure is constructed with steel truss with services running within.
Independently-operated pneumatic retraction arm set
Retractable translucent fabric
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Retracted position
Relaxed position
Part detail of facade assembly
PART 2 Visitor Tour Elevator System A set of three screw-drive bubble elevators affording visitors a 360-degree experience of the renewal facility as a theatrical performance of vehicle disassembly.
PART 3 Operable Curtain Envelope System Building envelope as a series of discreet operable curtain sets, independently moved by pneumatic actuators that can be tuned to respond to one of several criteria: environmental (solar angle / rainfall angle), time, or custom movement instructions.
PART 4 Tower and Floor Construction Typical beam and column construction. Columns as primary support, beam as horizontal support, transferring load to column structure. Structure is tied back to building structure within. Columns are made of steel and cladded with chrome. The beam on top is strategize to offset from the column, allowing facade to cover the column structure when it is fully covered.
Detail facade assembly section
GRASS HOTEL KUALA LUMPUR Location
Golden Triangle, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Brief
Proposal for a signature hotel in the heart of the city Project Type
Conceptual design, design development and construction Status
Ongoing Roles/Responsibilities
Design development drawings Facade development Grass is envisioned as a signature, landmark hotel development to complement the client’s already extensive portfolio of hospitality and entertainment assets. Its primary design challenge lies in manoeuvring its rather tight site resulting in a pure, slender massing block on top of which there were ample opportunities for facade development to take place.
Plans and section
Fabric as an abstraction of facade
LANTERN HOTEL KUALA LUMPUR Location
Petaling Street, Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Brief
Renovation of an existing shop building into a budget boutique hotel Project Type
Construction Roles/Responsibilities
Assist in amending building construction drawings/ Interior design and drawings/ Hotel identity design Sited inside the heritage zone of Kuala Lumpur, Lantern hotel is a budget boutique hotel of 2300 sqm. The brick facade design allows natural light and ventilation into the corridors and courtyard of this budget hotel. The center of the roof was hacked open to make way for a centrally lit daylight courtyard.
RAW CUISINE STATION
Location Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia Area 1,800 m2 Project Type Final Bachelors Design Project Tutor Ari Methi It begun with the identification of the social and physical qualities of the local community. The physical traces of the existing neighbourhood gave rise to the evidence of their unhealthy eating habits. Eating is a simple yet significant act which takes place every day for everybody -one of the fundamental elements that all individuals need in common. The region of Old Petaling Jaya is a mature urban settlement - it is high time that the community be aware about the importance of eating the correctly. The site is located off Jalan Universiti, facing the Federal Highway and opposite a reknowned public hospital -Universiti Hospital. Conducting in-depth research and interviews gradually lead to the birth of the building program -the Raw Cuisine Station, a simple architectural project that aims to shift the the mindset of the local community towards food consumption whilst challenging the stereotype of healthy eating. With respect to the busy young adults, elderly folks and the many students that make up the neighbourhood, they stand as the right crowd of people to approach. The impact of the project is not limited introspectively only to activities that take place within the building, but the idea of reaching out through distribution services and ancillary activities are also key to the program; these are akin to invisible vessels which will bring impact to the people of the vicinity.
Site analysis vignettes
Massing narrative
Spatial diagram
Design brief
Elevations
Section A-A
THE 9-SQUARE MATRIX Collision Project Type First Semester Design Project Tutors Noryati Hussein This project explores the abstract collision of a pure geometrical shape - circle. Envisioning and interpreting the collision between particles of a matter and translating it into a spatial experience within the boundary of 9 square matrix. The model portrays the expressions of before, during and after a collision phenomenon - representing the contrasting experience of tension, calamity and their in between.
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SHING YI LEE shingyi_92@hotmail.com