portfolio Siew Moon Chow, M.Arch
architecture + design l selected works 2009-2012
SIEW MOON CHOW Phone: +61438238813 (Australia) smoon.chow@gmail.com Email: Address : 815/585 La Trobe Street Melbourne 3000 VIC AUS Nationality: Malaysian http://be.net/smchow Website: Availability: April 2013 onwards
work experience January 2011 February 2011
jas Architects Pty Ltd, Malaysia | intern Participated in early design stage of Sabah Library tender & Design Documentation of a private residence in Kota Kinabalu
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exhibition/ acknowledgement
EDUCATION 2011 -2012 master of architecture | avg. distinction University of Melbourne
November 2012 November 2011 July 2011 July 2009
bachelor of environments (architecture) | avg. distinction 2008-2010 University of Melbourne
skills
involvement AUGUST 2012 sona super studio 2012 | participant SONA Super Studio is a 24 hours student design competition across the country. Students are to form team of three to deliver a 3 minutes presentation at the end of the session. jULY 2011
MELBOURNE OPEN HOUSE 2011 | volunteer Tasks including guiding and informing visitors alongside other volunteers
and lecture series 2010 | organising committee MARCH AND is a student run lecture series held weekly at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and NOVEMBER Planning in University of Melbourne. The lecture series invites speakers from the profes- 2010 sion to speak about their work. Tasks including communicating with speakers, scheduling and designing weekly publicity poster. MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY CHINESE THEATRE GROUP | publicity crew MARCH Melbourne University Chinese Theatre Group is a student run theatre group, producing two NOVEMBER chinese speaking shows a year. A publicity crews’ tasks including speaking to the public and 2009 students in order to promote the show, selling tickets and organising show venue alongside other crews.
gradex 2012 | Thesis 'Deconstructing the wall' eyes exhibition semester 2 2011 | Master design studio work 'The Platform' eyes exhibition | Master design studio work 'St Kilda Hotel' eyes exhibition | Undergraduate design studio 'The Water House'
AUTOCAD | SKETCHUPt PRO | VRAY | RHINOCEROS | GRASSHOPPER | FIRST RATE ADOBE SUITES ( PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, INDESIGN) | Microsoft office | model making | laser cutting
language fluent in ENGLISH (IELTS band 8), Chinese Mandarin and Chinese Cantonese moderately fluent in Malay, Indonesian and japanese
other art+design | architecture, amateur photography, graphic design, fashion and textile others | badminton, swimming and travelling
reference steve hatzellis | guest tutor at University of Melbourne, director of HATZ Architecture email: steve@hatz.co | contact number available on request jeremy wolveridge | guest tutor at University of Melbourne, director of Wolveridge Architects email: jerry@wolveridge.com.au | contact number available on request
content deconstructing the wall 1 thesis 2012
the aquaponic platform 13 master design studio 2012
the platform 25 MAster design studio 2011
alternative experience 39 sona super studio 2012
the weather gallery 51
undergraduate design studio 2010
water house 59 undergraduate design studio 2009
Architectural documentation 69 applied construction 2011
DECONSTRUCTING THE WALL A MULTICULTURAL CASTLE TERM: MASTER THESIS STUDIO, 2012 STUDIO LEADER: WARWICK MIHALY ------------------------------------------------------Studio Synopsis: the studio asks students for a translation of castle in modern days Australia. The castle is a fortified structure dating back to Middle Ages, serving primary purpose including protection, prison, barrack, market place and residence. Nowadays however, we do not have feudal system, nor catapults, nor the need of lookout. What and how would these traditional castle be translated in modern Australian context. The studio asks students to consider two key things: 1What, in contemporary Australian culture, is worth protecting? 2And from what threats is it being protected? ------------------------------------------------------------Melbourne is a multicultural city. Early research of the studio through online survey however shows that this diversity is not truly embraced. Cultural groups remain isolated of each other due to lack of shared interest and activities being discovered. Having the aim to protect cultural inclusiveness from isolation, a multipurpose building located at the Peel Street and Franklin Street is introduced as a modern translation of medieval enclosure and concentric castles. The project's immediate response to this issue is a castle that explores the common denominator of all cultural groups' food, aiming to encourage interactions between them. A series of programs that ranges in privacy: culinary school, community kitchen, hydroponic garden, dormitory and night market are inserted within and in between unique layers of walls that regulates and connects, surrounding a central courtyard.
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Two survey investigating interaction and understanding across cultural groups in Melbourne and founding shows that there is an apparent lack
The project proposes a multiuses building that aims to tear the wall hindering true understanding between cultural groups
Site selection based on criterions: accessibility and frequency of visiting by all culture groups
Site response, as an extension to Victoria Market and Flagstaff garden 3
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THE AQUAPONIC PLATFORM FARMING AND SOCIAL HYBRID Term: Master Design Studio, 2012 Team Credit: Siew Moon Chow, Haw Ping Yap Studio leader: Justyna Karakiewicz & Steve Hatzellis --------------------------------------------------------The Aquaponic Platform is a critique of Melbourne's intense increase in populations, to be doubled at 2050 in one of the Australia Bureau of Statistics projection. There is a possibility that this rate will surpass the rate of food production and Melbournians would suffer from hunger. Besides, with this sudden increase in density, social interaction has evolved into its most complex and intense ever. Public spaces where the relationship of the community is knitted will have to be revolutionized into space that maximizes quality as well as quantitative factor. Traditional top down approach in designing public spaces such as parks and squares, its reductiveness and monofunctionality is no longer adequate to accommodate Melbournians need. The Aquaponic Platform aims to utilize this interstitial space as an opportunity to reassess the relationship between programs of different genres following this intense increase in density and population in the city. The project combines aquaponics farm allotments and recreational spaces that seem incompatible conventionally, in the same space. The aquaponics allotments will be owned or rented by city dwellers, whereas the recreational space will be set its purpose as a result of bottom up self organization amongst the occupants of the allotments as a community. Emergent, where the behavior of the whole is much more complex than the behavior of its parts, an effect of multiplication instead of addition is anticipated. With this new kind of typology, it might generate excitement and anticipation like never before.
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PROGRAM AND DISTANCE ANAYLYSIS
concept vertical urban farming vertical farming to increase food production following increasing population and density
complex adaptive nature of human interaction public space needed to be designed based on ‘event’, temporal and adaptive to cater for emerging need
Delaunay tri26 angulation was used as the basis of digital tessellation for every points stay conected with each other and it avoids skinny triangles.
Analysis of functions of building in the city
The Aquaponic Platform hybrid of urban farming and public social space 15
People in public social space self organises in a way similair to mold organising itself around food source
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CREATIVE RESEARCH: THROUGH OBSERVATION: SWARM BEHAVIOUR WITHIN CROWD DURING STREET PERFORMANCE study on human self organisation behaviour
Street performance at southbank promenade in a weekend afternoon
Analysis of the swarm behavior of the crowd through stret performers as an attractor agent
1. Pedestrians moving with random vector
2. The existence of attractor agent starting to stimulate swarm behaviour of the subjects
3. Subjects start to ock, in general towards 4. Subjects performs swarm behavior , which is the direction of the attractor. governed by 3 basic rules :(1)Cohesion-Fly toward the centroid of the local subject; (2)Seperation: Keep a certain distance away from local subject; (3) Alignment: Align velocity vector with subject of immediate surroudings
5. Subjects moving at random vectors after the performance ended.
LEGEND Attractor - Street performer 17
Unexited subject - Pedestrians moving randomly ( no swarm behaviour)
Excited subject - Pedestrians showing swarm behavior 18
NODES COtMMUNAL SPACE
UPPER FLOORS AGRICULTURE SPACE
GROUND FLOOR COMMERCIAL SPACE
the aquaponic system
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The aquaponics system
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AGRICULTURE ALLOTMENT
CIRCULATION/ GATHERING SPACE
GROUND FLOOR SUNLIGHT ANALYSIS VERTICAL CIRCULATION/ RAMP
TYPICAL FLOOR SUNLIGHT ANALYSIS
solar analysis
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN typical floor plan TYPICAL FLOOR SUNLIGHT ANALYSIS 21
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TIME
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WTH PARAMETERS
Growth parameters
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TRANSPORTATION DENSITY
PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC
DEMAND/ POPULATION
GROWTH THROUGH TIME
growth in time and parameter perspective l gathering node and aquaponic farm
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THE PLATFORM temporality and permanency in apartments TERM: Master design studio, 2011 STUDIO LEADER: Marjan Cehovin ------------------------------------------This project is fundamentally a critique to current practices of residential planning. Inflexibility and banality in housing design, short sightedness in town development that build only to cater instant need has causes issues including blind densification in Melbourne CBD and housing glut in the growing fringe suburbs. Furthermore, the fixated house planning has forces us to live nomadically, as one faces growth or inevitable changes in life such as marriage, having children and aging. Questions such as "Could there be an alternative to this residential planning myopia?" "How can an apartment be a permanent home?" were asked. The value of this project is experimenting with modularity and kit-ofparts to provide flexibility that caters the changing need of the society and individuals. In urban scale, detachable pods can be installed and removed to render the project with adaptability to accommodate needs in facilities that comes with development of North Melbourne. On an individual scale, extension pods of 1.5m and 3m module can be attached or detached according to preference and need, to basic apartment units of 3 dwelling typologies: single floor, south facing and north facing duplex, designed based on 6.3mx 8.4m structural grid. In the light of adaptability, internal partition are segregated from its load bearing structure and services running along structural walls, to allow adaptability in space transformation and possibility of joining adjacent units.
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The project is located at North Melbourne, an inner city suburb. Following the growth in population and North Melbourne Development Plan, North Melbourne is shifting from a industrial precinct to a medium density suburb. 5 years
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apartments with alteration possibility to cater occupants’ need
typical apartment
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north facing duplex
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south facing duplex each approximately 100m2
COUPLE
COUPLE WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
COUPLE WITH GROWN UP
AGED COUPLE
THREE GENERATION
Living/ dining space Service space Room Green space/ terrace
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kits of parts for individual apartment extension
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commercial communal green space main pedestrian entrance
apartment detachable community pod
solar cells roof top garden
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esd detail
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programmatic distribution
1-200 ON A4 35
west elevation 36
detail section
perspective l arden street 37
DETAIL SECTION 1-5 ON A3 38
ALTERNATIVE EXPERIENCE ARCHITECTURE BEYOND PHYSICALITY AND MATERIALITY Term: SONA Super Studio Competition 2012 Team Credit: Siew Moon Chow, Justin Tan, Yee Von Low -----------------------------------------------Proposal: The project questions how we perceive architecture and our environments? Questions such as 'is physical materiality the only we can perceive our environment?' 'is architecture limited to only built forms?' We approach the subject and the production of future achitecture as a broad and curious field that oscillates between representation and reaslisation, experience and expertise. The project proposes that architecture as an experience of multisensory and multiperspective, where physical realm is overlapped with the synthetic realm that is reconstructed based on rules and physical reality. Question: With the current stretching of architecture into new territories we can observe a concurrent and perverse retreat into architectural primitivism, limiting architecture to corporeal materiality. How will architects engage with the fast future while affirming material reality? What is your radical proposition for future culture, architecture, environment, and thought? SuperStudio 2012 requires you to materialise a future for architecture while engaging with the present. Entrants are asked to eschew objectivity and immerse themselves in a new critical practice. SuperStudio 2012 asks you for your personal architecture. ------------------------------------------------SONA Superstudio is a 24 hour Australian and New Zealand nationwide design competition that aims to refurbish studio culture, lay foundations for creative design solutions and assemble networks between students and the profession. Students are to work in team of three to prepare a 3 minutes presentation to deliver their idea or solution.
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THE WEATHER GALLERY Term: Undergraduate Design Studio 2010 Studio Leader: Catherine Duggan ------------------------------------------Located at the Docklands, The Weather Gallery aims to encourage weather and environmental awareness amongst Melbournians through its exhibits as well as its architecture. A home to various form of climate themed art work including sculpture, paintings and performance, the gallery is composed of two distinctive parts, the closed and detached from the climate, in contrast to the open and susceptible to weather, interchanging as one move across the gallery. The project outcome is ultimately an explorative one, as a result of a series of experiments with media in early studio sessions, than a prescriptive one.
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perspective l corridor 57
perspective l performing space
perspective l gallery
perspective l from site 58
WATER HOUSE Term: Undergraduate Design Studio 2009 Studio Leader: Jeremy Wolveridge ------------------------------------------The Water House was designed for Tracey Bialek, the founder and managing director of Ripple Products. Her passion about water saving and her enthusiasm on the environments has inspire the project to explores the pleasure of experiencing and living with nature in an inner city suburb (Fairfield). The Water House is composed of a pavilion containing a home office or study room and a main house, seperating from each other. A short distance of travelling from one to another gives Tracey and her family a dose of nature from day to day. The main house and pavilion has also double height glazing towards the east, that ensures maximum pleasure of river view and privacy.
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1. The house is cut into two, a home office pavilion and the main house
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2. Greenery was placed in between to allow a daily dose of nature for the family in the inner suburb 3. The pavillion and main house are shifted sidways 4. ...to allow maximum view to the river
concept physical model
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first floor plan
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perspective l first floor living area
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perspective l dining
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perspective 67
physical model 68
ARCHITECTURAL DOCUMENTATION Term: Applied Construction 2011 Studio Leader: Andrew Lyons -----------------------------------------Selection from a series of detailing drawings for University of Melbourne Architecture School as per Denton Corker Marshall's proposal, as part of university construction subject submission.
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