Thea Teo Portfolio (September 2021) by theateo

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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

REVIT SKETCHUP PHOTOSHOP

PREMIERE PRO LUMION MICROSOFT OFFICE

Issuu https://issuu.com/theateo

Other various events as Student Leader

Plus 65 Design Pte Ltd Freelance Sales Interior Designer

INDESIGN

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ theateo

NP DE Society Sub Committee June 2016 - February 2017

AUTOCAD

+65 9728 1752

NP DE Society Main Committee February 2017 - Febraruy 2018

Work Experiences

ILLUSTRATOR

thea_teo@hotmail.com

NP DE Society Vice-President February 2018 - February 2019

Skills

Phone Email

Leadership Roles

July 2021 - Present

Make-A-Wish Interior Designer March - July 2019 November - December 2020

KYOOB Architects Pte Ltd Student Intern August - November 2018

Other Skills DRAFTING QUOTES SALES EXPERIENCE

Amazon Warehouse Associate, Ambassador & Team Support July 2020 - August 2021

Contents

home comfort

the window

cestive

the plankditure pavilion

culture dream (stories) storeys

work experiences

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.

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.

Abuser

Victim

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

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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“Stay together but not together” was their overall idea, which brings to the main aim of investigating the in-between spaces between the individuals and family while giving them the comfort and privacy they desired. Detailed designs were needed to investigate the spaces in-between the individual spaces. They helped to bridge the access points and circulation within the house. They were inspired by several precedents, with references to the family’s original house and part 1 of the project. There were applications of ramps, brickwalls and decorative blocks. With many explorations on these detailed designs, came about preferred and suitable outcomes.

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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

single person unit

single comfort unit

the window GSA September - 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.

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.

Textile 1 process

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 furniture 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

Textile 2 process

Mock-up window material testing

A1 window process/layers

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.

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

Deconstructing; breaking down into simpler structures

Allow users to experience spaces under structures

Include key feature of festivals and rituals: burning of offerings

Enhancing main feature by working with verticality/ elevation

Support and framework gives more stability and completeness

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STORAGE 2

PRAYER ROOM 3

EVENTS / FOOD AREA

OFFICE / STORAGE

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EVENTS / FOOD AREA 6 7

BOUNDARY LINE

PRAYING AREA

EVENTS / RITUAL SPACE

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1ST FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:500

GALLERY

OUTDOOR LION DANCE PRACTICE AREA

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OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATRE

PROJECT STUDIO

RETAIL OUTLET

COMMUNITY SPACE

LINE

02 B

2ND FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:500

BOUNDARY

OUTDOOR F&B

EVENTS AREA / FLEA MARKET

CRAFT WORKSHOP AREA

03 B

3RD FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:500

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4TH FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:500

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MULTI-PURPOSE SPACE

5TH FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:500

ROOF PLAN SCALE 1:500

the plankditure pavilion NP April - 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.

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 NP April - 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.

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

Make-A-Wish Freelance March - July 2019 , November - December 2020 Make-A-Wish is a children’s charity organisation that grants the wishies of children with critical illnesses. I am proud to have worked with them for 2 room makeovers. Through this experience, I learnt how to work with an organisation, come up with my own quotations, source out for furnitures as well as run my own site. These opportunities also allowed me to touch on my software skills to produce the best results for the organisation, the children and their families.

Project 1 Current Room Conditions: Bedroom:

Playroom:

Mood Board for Playroom:

Design Proposal

3180

TROFAST shelf and boxes slotted in

Foam mat area

2200

2540

2200

2540

2200

2540

2200

MAMMUT stool

35mm padding

MAMMUT table

Foam mat area

2200

600 2540

2200

600 2540

2200

600 2540

2200

MAMMUT stool

35mm padding

MAMMUT table

MAMMUT stool

3180 Soccer beanbag

Current room on LV 1 with

intended: Current room on Lv 1 - Table and chairs - 2 Beanbags with Currentintended: room on LV 1 with - Storage for toys intended: -Exclude: TableBall and Pit Chairs - Table and chairs - 2 Beanbags -2 Beanbags - Storage for toys -Exclude: Storage for toys Ball Pit Exclude: Ball Pit 1970

330

MAMMUT stool

Ball pit Soccer beanbag

MAMMUT stool

space w/o shelf + cupboard Space w/o shelf + cupboard

space w/o shelf

space w/o shelf + cupboard

1970

330

1970

2750

Cupboard

330

Existing cupboards wall padding: pink (shaded stripe) green (shaded) yellow (empty)

Ball pit

1970

600

1970

space w/o shelf Space w/o shelf

2750

Table space

330

600

1970

600

330

Existing cupboards

TROFAST shelf MAMMUT and boxes slotted in stool

Total: 95 mats 1970

2540

3180

600 2540

3180

Total: 95 mats

wall padding: pink (shaded stripe) green (shaded) yellow (empty)

330

600

3180

Finalised playroom @ LV1

- Table and chairs Finalised Playroom: - 1 Beanbag -- Storage Tableforand toys chairs Finalised playroom @ LV1 - Ball Pit -- Table 1 Beanbag and chairs - 1 Beanbag -- Storage Storage for toys for toys -- Ball BallPitPit

330

1970

2750

330

2750

Cupboard

2750

2750 DRAWERS FACING

Toilet

MALM bed

3420

Cupboard 3420

Table space

Toilet

DRAWERS FACING FACING

MALM bed

FACING

MALM drawer

BOSTRAK wardrobe

3420

Foam mat

Toilet 3420

Foam mat

Toilet Cupboard

3420

Toilet 3420

Toilet

Cupboard FACING

Current bedroom on LV 2

Current bedroom on Lv 2

Foam mat Option 1 - assuming pull-out bed is same size as current - removal of table Option 1 - reduction of cupboard size because of - assuming pull-out bed is same size as bed length current - provision of foam mat - removal of table - reduction of cupboard size because of bed length - provision of foam mat

Option 1: - Assuming pull-out bed is same size as current - Removal of table - Reduction of cupboard size because of bed length - Provision of foam mat

Foam mat

Cupboard

Option 2 - assuming pull-out bed is same size as current - removal of table Option 2 - provision of foam mat - assuming pull-out bed is same size as - change orientation of bed and cupboard current - removal of table - provision of foam mat - change orientation of bed and cupboard

Option 2: - Assuming pull-out bed is same size as current - Removal of table - Provision of foam mat - Change orientation of bed and cupboard

Option 3 (Option 1 + Option 2) - assuming pull-out bedCupboard is same size as current - removal of table Option 3 (Option 1 + Option 2) - 2 smaller cupboards placed in L-shape - assuming pull-out bed is same size as can help to cover the jutted wall current - removal of table - 2 smaller cupboards placed in L-shape can help to cover the jutted wall

Option 3 (1 + 2): - Assuming pull-out bed is same size as current - Removal of table - 2 smaller cupboards in L-shape to cover jutted wall

MALM drawer

Finalised Bedroom @ LV 2 - New Storage bed (150 x 200 cm) - Removal of table - New wardrobe (80 x 50 x 180 cm) Finalised Bedroom @ LV 2 - New drawer (40 x 48 x 55 cm) - New Storage bed (150 x 200 cm) - Removal of table - New wardrobe (80 x 50 x 180 cm) - New drawer (40 x 48 x 55 cm) FACING

BOSTRAK wardrobe

Finalised Bedroom: - New Storage Bed (150 x 200) - Removal of table - New wardrobe (80 x 50 x 180) - New drawer (40 x 48 x 55)

Final Result Bedroom:

Playroom:

Project 2

Current Room Conditions:

Mood Board:

Design Proposal

X2 BURHULT/ SIBBHULT 59X20 CM

X3 BERGSHULT/ GRANHULT 80X20 CM

SOLSKUR

LED strips can be added for them to easily find their items

NISSEDAL

X2 KULLEN Carpet + Pillows from MAW

Curtains can be draped up over chair to create a fort LOBERGET/ MALSKAR

Custom-build NAVLINGE corner desk Velcro curtains under table - can be easily taken out and washed/kept

Fairy lights under desk

MICKE Desk storage

Final Result

KYOOB Architects Pte Ltd Student Intern August - November 2018 Through my 3-months internship programme by NP, I was honoured to have the chance to intern at KYOOB Architects Pte Ltd. With the guidance of the supervisors and teams, I was able to improve my software skills and learnt many new things like construction drawings, tender documents, authorities submissions, GFA verification etc. I was also given the chance to go to sites to check on the renovation works and took part in designing a boundary wall. Overall, my 3-months internship with KYOOB was very fruitful and it helped me to apply what I had learnt, back in school.

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