CONTENT 01 ACADEMIC PRACTICE Year 01:
THE GLASS CHIMNEY HOUSE
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Year 02:
THE SUNSPACE DORMITORY
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Year 03:
SCHOOL OF CONNECTIVITY
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Academic practice 01:
DA + DD DRAWINGS
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Academic practice 02:
MODEL MAKINGS
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02 PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Project 01:
BELCONNEN ART CENTRE
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Project 02:
MUSWELLBROOK ENT. CENTRE
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Project 03:
COOGEE BEACH CENTRE AWARD DRWAINGS
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ACADEMIC PRACTICE
Year 01 Project:
THE GLASS CHIMNEY HOUSE As a year 1 bachelor project, the project brief outline gave students the freedom to freely choose the client, create their own narrative and design a house for the client base on these concepts. The client that I chose for this project was Vladimir Ashkenaz, one of the best pianist famous for performing Chopin’s music. The design concept came from mobius strip and its shape as a metaphor in our daily life: most of the people is repeating their routine day after day, and this is reflecting in the sequence of the function space in a living house used by their owner everyday. It is like an endless loop and keep repeating until the end of ones’ life. It can be a bit horrifying to think like that, but sometimes people have their way to escape this routine, whether it be a long vacation, a new develop habit, a surfboard or an artboard. It can be anything other than the basic behaviors that keep a human survive, it can be intangible or tangible, and sometimes its can even be part of the architecture that the owner is living in. In this case, it can be a music room that is holding a grand piano.
Circulation diagram when no one is occupying the glass chimney.
The compose of the ‘mobius strip’
Following this concept, I decided to give different priority to space that hold daily routine and space that help people ‘escape’ the routine. To signify this difference, all the living space such as bedroom, living room and canteen were placed in a way that mimic the shape of mobius strip, while the music room taking the shape of a glass chimney is located at the centre of the strip, disconnected from the outer ring (and the daily routine). A playful part of the design is that a link mechanism has been added to the door of the music room. When changing the state of open or closed, it will affect the state of other doors in the living space, therefore slightly change the circulation, so that when the pianist enter the room, he not only escape the routine, but also change it.
Circulation diagram (green strip) when the artist (red strip)enter into the glass chimney.
The Mechanism
Exploded axonometric of the living space
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Year 02 Project:
THE SUNSPACE DORMITORY The site is located close to University of Sydney, it’s facing Abercrombie Street and is currently used as a carpark. The project is to design a student dormitory to accomodate students from Sydeny University, with focus on HVAC and passive design strategy to achieve indoor environment comfort while minimising energy cost. From site analysis one of the issue or opportunity of the site is that there is not much musical instrument practise space around uni, and it is discouraging for music student or music lover to find space to practise musical instrument in their spare time. Therefor, the main goal of this design is not only to provide accomodation for student, but to also create small communities in which students can practise with others and share their love of music, which can help them improve their skill more efficiently, and more importantly, to give them the sense of belongings. To achieve that, the dormitory is divided into two main parts: private living area and share practise area, which is accessible to both the student living on site and other music lovers living outside the dormitory. Clear seperation will be set between public space and private space. The guideline of the design is greenstar criteria, simulation result from sefaira has been used to improve the design of building shape ,orientation and material choice; Psychometric chart generated from sydney weather file is also used as guideline for passive strategy.
Living Area Green Wall
Glazing + Trombe Wall
Sunspace Facade Design
Space Allocation
Public Area
Final Design Shape
Angled roof to allow additional shading provided by overhanged eaves during summertime, while clerestory will enhance indoor light quality
Adjusting building height to allow low angle sun in winter
The environmental response of the design will be to aim for low energy consume, low energy cost, low peak hour electricity demand, at the same time achieve overal thermal comfort for occupants. This is explained in the passive strategy diagrams and detail sections. Sunspace played the most important role in this design, not only does it act as buffer space between indoor and outdoor, which provides more options for indoor environment control, but it also acts as small common area for student to meet and interact with each other, which is lacking in most of today’s flat and dormitory.
Dividng mass for better ventilation and daylight
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PASSIVE DESIGN STRAGEGY
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WALL SECTION DETAIL 01
WALL SECTION DETAIL 02
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Year 03 Project:
One of the main issues the site has is the existing brick wall that enclose the factory area and blocking off access. The site is not welcoming to any community member, it does not provide any community facility or open public space, and this huge area ends up of being isolated and thus hindering social connection. Considering the site is against the O’dea Researve to the south, its huge potential of bringing community member together was missed.
SCHOOL OF CONNECTIVITY Education is the foundation of community and the framework of our society. As such, the buildings which house our educational facilities should be at the heart of our community, designed to offer suitable spaces for the community to congregate, interact and collaborate. The concept of the design is to improve the social sustainability of the surrounding community as well as focus on students’ heath and learning performance. The site is currenlty used for industrial purpose and does not possess any historical significant architecture. The redevelopment of the site is a great opportunity to not only provide more teaching facility to local student, but also give back retreat space and community facility for the neighbourhood. Instead of building a fence that surround the site like traditional school, the objective of this design is trying to improve permeability and create a open school space with share facility. This is achived by seperating students key learning space (classroom) from community, while still providing facility that student and community member can both access (e.g. browing room and workshop). The building are mainly circular form, on one hand it is symbolising the welcoming and inclusiveness of the campus, but it also facilitate centralising vertical circulation. As all the student spaces are elevated to second floor and above, the centralise circulation can be easily lock down in off-campus time to prevent vendalism while still ensure the 24/7 share facility able to function.
PERMEABILITY
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SPATIAL DIVERSITY
ACCESSIBILITY
Access Route There are two main types of access route for the school, one is mainly for community access and the other one is for school access. The design decision is based on the different characteristics Cardign Ln and Denison St has: Cardign Ln has lighter traffic and is mostly used by pedestrian, therefore it’s suitable to place community entry point there; while Denison St is more busy and it’s suitable as access route for Parents to lift up their children. The main school gate and carpark are also located there. Direct access from the O’Dea Reserve is also created to connect the new green space with the Reserve.
Active Frontage
Base on the traffic pattern, it is suitable to place the active frontage facing Cardign Ln as an attraction for pedestrian. This includes community facility that is not operated by school and is only one way access by community, such as clinic, cafe, etc. (darker red colour); and share facilities operated by school such as library and tech bar (light pink colour).
Greenery The main school buildings are surrounding the inner open green space, which is accessible for both students and community member, and thanks to the new direct access route, the green space can be considered as an extension of the O’dea Reserve. The roof top gardens at level 3 however are more exclusive and are mainly used by students, though the vegetations are still contributed to the street view of Cardign Ln.
Civic Square The curvy facade of the archtecture not only diversify the space, it also create the ‘Yin’ and ‘Yang’, the part that stepping forward become active frontage while the setback become civic square and open space for community. These space along with share facilites help activate the street and attract pedestrian flow.
MASTERPLAN
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SECOND FLOOR PLAN
DAYTIME ACCESS DIAGRAM
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
FUNCTIONDIAGRAM
NIGHTTIME ACCESS DIAGRAM
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
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Year 03 Professional Practice Project: Terrace House at Alice Street
Academic Practice 01:
DA + DD DRAWINGS (Academic)
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Year 02 Architecture Technology 2: House of Celebration
Academic Practice 02:
MODEL MAKING A selection of the models I made during three years of bachelor degree, hand made & via laser cut. Main material list: balsa wood, bass wood, birch wood, box board, corrugated cardboard, screen board.
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PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Professional Practice 01:
BELCONNEN ART CENTRE This is a design competition project for a commertial performance and art centre located in Belonnen, sitting by lake Ginninderra. There is already an existing theatre located on site, so this project involved demolition, renovation and extendsion works. The building shape is extended and redesign to fit with the flow of existing building shape, with attention to the existing context and the view (Lake Ginniderra).
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This project was led by one registered architect and one project manager, and was drafted by three architecture staffs including myself. I was involved in the design of auditorium, roof shape, and gallery space, and drafted the building floor plans and sections with my colleagues. I completed the drafting of site plan, reflected ceiling plan and roof plan on my own, and also modeled the 3D Sketchup site model and all the interior spaces by myself. The render images created by artist were based on the perspective views I captured in Sketchup.
Professional Practice 02:
MUSWELLBROOK ENT. CENTRE This is another design competition for commertial performance centre BHA have entered this year. The masterplan of this project is to create new connection between future civic square and existing civic square, with the design intention of creating active frontage facing brook street. The facade is designed as brick arch wall, reminiscing and echoing the existing railway bridge to the south of the site. I was involved in the redesign of the interior layout to meet with clients requirement, and the design of the brick facade. One thing worth mentioning is that the whole drawing sets and 3D models is completed by just me and another colleague within a very short time frame. I was responsible for the drafting of most of the building floor plans, perspective sections, site plan and interior 3D modeling.
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Professional Practice 03:
COOGEE BEACH CENTRE AWARD DRAWINGS At the beginning of year 2018, I was given the opportunity and challenge to prepare the drawings for 2018 Architecture award competition. Coogee beach centre was one of the two attended projects submitted by BHA, both of the award drawing sets are completed totally by myself. After seeing the site photo and the initial design sketch, the drawings are created with the idea of minimalist which is the design concept of this project, but still providing adequate information about the context, texture and different design layers. This project has been nominated the 2018 WAN Waterfront Category awards
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