Thea Teo | Portfolio Selected Works
Thea Teo
Education Ngee Ann Polytechnic April 2016 - April 2019 DIPLOMA in Sustainable Urban Design & Engineering - ARCHITECTURE
Glasgow School of Art in (SIT) Singapore Institute of Technology
Hello I am a fresh graduate with a bachelor’s degree with honours in Interior Design. I also studied and attained a diploma in Architecture. I am currently seeking for a position in Interior Design for various fields. I believe and want to work with the community to provide unique spatial experiences.
September 2019 - April 2021 BACHELOR OF ARTS IN INTERIOR DESIGN WITH HONOURS
Issuu https://issuu.com/theateo
Other various events as Student Leader
Make-A-Wish Interior Designer
REVIT SKETCHUP PHOTOSHOP INDESIGN
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NP DE Society Sub Committee June 2016 - February 2017
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NP DE Society Main Committee February 2017 - Febraruy 2018
Work Experiences
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NP DE Society Vice-President February 2018 - February 2019
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Leadership Roles
PREMIERE PRO
March - July 2019 November - December 2020
KYOOB Architects Pte Ltd Student Intern August - November 2018
MICROSOFT OFFICE
Amazon Warehouse Associate, Ambassador & Team Support
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July 2020 - present
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ALIVE Brand Experience Brand Ambassador May 2019 - present
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home comfort
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the window
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cestive
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the plankditure pavilion
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culture dream (stories) storeys
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home comfort GSA FYP September 2020 - May 2021 This final year project is about the different types of home comfort one can experience. Home, represents different meanings to different people. Home can be for the individual or with people, some may treat it as a territory or a place of retreat. Some institutions are also regarded as homes because people live permanently in them. Comfort, on the other hand, has various meanings that evolved throughout the years, it can be associated with many different things. Now, when we put home and comfort together, it means something deeper than what we think. People usually do not think of home comfort as something important because we live in it everyday. Only once we are affected by our current living conditions, we start to wonder about the comfort we want to achieve in our homes everyday.
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Part 1: Discomfort Investigating discomfort in a home through the living conditions of physical abuse. We do not know what someone else has to go home to everyday. In Singapore, the rate of domestic abuse has increased by 22% during the circuit breaker period (due to COVID-19). According to the government, Singaporeans need to be more knowledgeable about domestic abuse in the country. Hence, I wanted to explore and investigate whether designing for comfort can be effective for the home with the extreme living condition of physical abuse. Through precedent studies of the films Marriage Story and Parasite, discomfort was investigated in a home through an uncomfortable living condition, namely physical abuse. This was done with the usage of line divisions.
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The line here is an invincible line that separates the physical and emotional space between abuser and victim. When abuse happens, the line is pushed towards the victim’s side, giving lesser and lesser space to breathe. 6
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Part 2: Family Comfort Investigating privacy.
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Continuing from part 1, the house will be taken over by a new creative family. A series of dialogues were conducted with a real-life family, to understand what home comfort mean to each individual, and to know about each person’s preferences on what they would like to have in “their space”. Based on their personal collages, individual spaces were conceptualised based on their wants and needs.
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Part 3: Personal Comfort New domesticity. From the dialogue sessions in part 2, the older siblings of the family mentioned that they would like to move out of their current house to live alone independently. However, due to financial issues and family closeness, they decided that it is best to stay with their parents until they get married and move out with a partner. Bringing in the idea of young adults living alone, affordability, domesticity and fulfilling basic needs and secondary wants, a new domesticity was explored to achieve personal comfort. In Singapore, the government does not allow one below the age of 35 to own or rent a flat alone. However, in other countries like the UK, schemes like the Single Room Rent (SRR) are available for young adults who desire to have their own place. How can this kind of scheme be applied in Singapore to allow young adults to live alone but still under the law? Does comfort have to come in 4 walls/a space itself? Or can it be achieved in just walls? With the main user group to be students and site to be the old Ngee Ann Polytechnic Loft, the method of plan disruption and dissection was used to work and change one unit. 10
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the window GSA September 2019 - October 2019 The window project aims to expand the approach to design processes via creative and iterative making methods. To explore the act of making can start a design process, how to communicate these processes, how to use academic theories to drive ideas and how the making process can become: a repeat textile pattern, speculative furniture and a shop window design.
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Thinking Through Making A practitioner was given to each student to do research on and mine was El Lissitzky. He was an all-rounder Russian artist who was an inspiring and important figure of the Russian avant-garde, helping develop Suprematism. His works greatly influenced the Bauhaus and constructivist movements.
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The greatest takeaway from El Lissitzky was Suprematism which is the art movement based on basic geometric forms such as circles, triangles, rectangles and squares. He also liked to display 3D objects into 2D imagery, and did layering and transparency of objects using different colours. Using these takeaways, a series of intuitive making workshops took place and textile patterns were made. They were further improved to be made repetitive, to produce speculative furnitures and ultimately a window design. Other than a practitioner, a brand is also given to each student and mine was Aesop. The final A1 window design has 3 layers of paint on different materials overlapping one another. When placed against sunlight, light paint colours can be seen darker than dark paint colours. In addition, the choice of colours and materials reflect on colour scheme and philosophy by Aesop. 14
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Mock-up window material testing
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cestive NP FYP May 2018 - March 2019 Transcending utilitarian spaces and rituals into assemblies for shared experiences of a community. This final project provides the opportunity to explore architectural spaces and experiences instilled in the life of a community. Specifically, within the community of the Chinatown locality, the design aims to engage the public’s participation and imagination with a place for partaking, identifying, learning and creating cultural space typologies. The Cultural Centre is the host to a diversified range of cultural events, workshops, performances, demonstrations and essentials to nurture a learning and sharing culture.
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A Cultural Centre to Promote and Celebrate Festivals The project’s site is at an empty slot in between Jean Yip Loft and Kong Chow Cultural Centre (KCCC), along New Bridge Road. This project collaborates with KCCC to provide holistic education and experiences to the users in the Chinatown area. With the extensive pathway from the Duxton Plain Park behind, the project also seeks to draw entry from park-goers into the building as well. Chinatown being a historical estate in Singapore, has a rich history of Chinese festivals, celebrations and rituals. The area is famous for their festivals being well celebrated and such festivals include Chinese New Year, Nine Emperor Gods Festival, Hungry Ghost Festival, Ghost Marriage and Seven Sisters’ Festival. Today, a few of these festivals are not well celebrated and exposed to the public. Bringing the idea of Chinese festival celebrations and the opportunity to work with KCCC, Cestive aims to draw users of all ages to come, celebrate and enjoy these festivals. This is also for the younger generation to learn more about how these festivals were celebrated in the former days, and for the older generation to reminisce the past. Cestive also features a central burning chamber, as burning of offerings is the key feature of most festivals and rituals. 20
Performances like getai are temporary, idea of temporary structures like scaffolding
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the plankditure pavilion NP FYP April 2018 - May 2018 Working together with Cestive, a Cultural Connector is built to act as a bridging portal to reveal and revolutionize the cultural activities at the existing Duxton Plain Park behind the site for the Cultural Centre. This sense of place bridges permanent/temporary events, retails and community activities to the permanence of Cestive by providing a connection between familiar activities, perception, materiality and space that create active physical and social intervention for cultural awareness.
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Design For Disassembly The Plankditure Pavilion is an extension that works in conjunction with Cestive. It is located at an open space that leads to the pathway to the Duxton Plain Park, which will connect to the back entrance of Cestive. This mini urban installation aims to bring the community together to celebrate and acquire cultural awareness. The main congregation space allows cultural activities and engagements to occur. The accompanying cafe provides local Chinese food with the relishing of the appreciable green spaces and pop-up performances. This installation is made out of wood and simple pre-fabricated elements, such as fabric for roofing and glass for walls. Being open right next to New Bridge Road, people are able to catch sight of many views while walking on the pathways. As the frameworks are designed to be easily disassembled, the structure of the main congregation space can be readjusted according to the activities that are ongoing.
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culture dream (stories) storeys April 2018 - May 2018 This project act as a towering platform to reach out to the community and to advocate the spaces where “stories” and dreams are possibly disclosed, developed and thus extended for community participation and bonding. Given a volumetric boundary, the design needs to accommodate selected activites and engage the pubic to be transformed into an interactive community for bonding sessions. The site is a hypothetical Utopian Common Site whereby each student is given a main 18m x 18m allotment and 2 side allotments (with the same measurements) for landscape developments. Other than invigorating individual dreams, the design had to enthuse response with other students’ designs to realise the potential of activities in the areas within.
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The Flip Market Place This project aims to dream for a Communal Utopia that seeks to influence hearts and minds by pursuing multiple forms of the following compulsory involvements and activities: 1. Be introduced 2. Celebrate 3. Circulate + Commune 4. Defecate 5. Eat/Dine 6. Farm/Plant 7. Relax Each student was to design one-of-akind; specific and exclusive space for the Communal Utopia, from a list of selected actions, mine was shop/sell. The Flip Market Place offers the community of all ages to come and not only shop and sell, but to trade and exchange memories. The unique point of the design is that there are flipping of the walls to invite and welcome guests into the Market Place. These walls also serve as tables, chairs, countertops and windows. The colourful building also gives local talents the chance to showcase their passions, through pop-up diner stores, musical stages and flea markets. Other activities include an exchange booth and planting your own plant on the terrace. Not to mention, browsing through shopping catalogues even while in the toilet! 32
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