NUS B. Architecture Year 2 complete

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

TIMOTHY OU B. A R C H Year 2

TUTORS Teh Kem Jin Tiah Nan Chyuan Esther Wong

CONTENTS

Individually, I tend to see situations and opportunities through an objective lens. I feel that taking a step back to view a situation allows for the mind calm down and process complex information more readily. I feel that this objectivity allows for me to make decisions with a clear and composed mind, being constantly aware of my actions. My working frame of mind can very technical and rigorous. I like to understand the issue from a wholesome and complete view before taking the next step forward.

I believe in collaborating with motivated individuals that share different ideas, working together to challenge each other in the hope to create and innovate. I value opinions and appreciate bouncing off ideas one another to spur each other on during times where it may feel that we have completely exhausted all possibilities. In the second year of architecture school, I realised how the design process can become very draining due to the immense pressure from your tutors, the lack of sleep and food and the limited potential of your own individual capacity. I am very thankful for the invaluable studio mates that I have been surrounded with, making me realise the importance of teamwork in the field of design.

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C O M P E T I T I O N - KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP

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C O M P E T I T I O N - RETROFFITING A TROPICAL FACADE

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D E S I G N - COMMUNITY MUSEUM

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D E S I G N - M U S I C I A N’s D W E L L I N G

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D E S I G N - M A G I C I A N’s D W E L L I N G

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C O M P E T I T I O N - KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP

This was a competition intitated by the IDEA committee to explore the possbile solutions to the refugee crisis that has impacted many people around the globe.

The brief assigned to the competition was to design a marketplace for kakuma camp, located at the northern part of Kenya. The title of the competition is called place and displacement - a marketplace in refugee settlements.

Our group adopted a sustainble approach that placed importance on the wider social-economic system at large. Our proposed scheme sees the transition of a fast growing plant - bamboo from a plant into temporary shelter and then into the final architecture through participatory design. The metobolistic transition between each stage is essential in creating a long term, bottom up solution. The final architecture was not the primary focus of the scheme, but rather to tackle the social and economic needs of the refugees.

Team members: Nijel Hong, Kevin Chandra, Rahmat Khairudin, Timothy Ou Supervisors: Ng Sanson, Junko Tamura

Credit: Nijel Hong

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C O M P E T I T I O N - RETROFFITING A TROPICAL FACADE

This project explores the adaptation of increasingly outdated B2 industrial buildings (heavy manufacturing and warehouses) in Singapore by retroffting the facade.

Stemmed from a 3D printing assignment that ensued the exploration of facade design through additive manufacturing, we project the future efficacy of such technology to allow whole facades to be printed on site. Retrofitting improves natural ventilation and day-lighting levels of interior spaces, creating a new course for industrial buildings that have the ability to change according to performative outcomes, ensuring sustainbility.

Through the manipulation of hyperbolic arches - strucutrally rigid but flexible we experimented with the form of the facade, ultimately creaing a facade that can reach pre-determined performative index.

Team members: Nijel Hong, Kevin Chandra, Mary Koh, Ong Wen Yiong, Hogen Oswald Salim,Timothy Ou Supervisors: Florian Schaetz

C O M P E T I T I O N - 3D P R I N T E D M O D E L

C O M P E T I T I O N - INTERIOR SPACE

C O M P E T I T I O N -JOINERY SYSTEM

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MODULE TO SLAB

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MODULE TO DOORHEAD

B C C Detailing credit: Oswald Hogen Salim

GROUND DETAIL

C O M P E T I T I O N - FUTURE PROJECTION

Construction phase

Projection of how construction is carried out while previous facade is being taken down

Rendering credit: Kevin Chandra

The future

Future projection of on site 3D printed/ retrofitted facades

0 3 D E S I G N - COMMUNITY MUSEUM The planar form of the architectural intervention aims to integrate with the existing HDB as a circulatory non-space for the community. The gallery spaces are fragmented around the building so as to build movment through the various allocated programs. A large emphasis of the design was placed on the definition of what a community is. This created a spatial guide for the intervention to respect the past and present memories of the site. The exercise of any future developments ought to be sensitive to the particular site.

The simplified architecutral vocabulary of simple planes and walls accentuate the materiality and strucutral in a subtle manner. This planar architecture allows for a structural system that reduces the need for a post-beam construction. This emphasizes the quality of walls and the architectural value that it possess.

Design 2102: Individual project Supervisors: Teh Kem Jin

D E S I G N -INITIAL SITE ANALYSIS difficult to integrate with the existing community cr aw fo rd st re et

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scale 1:1000

D E S I G N - D E F I NI N G

A COMMUNITY

Shared accustomed space

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Shared accustomed space

D E S I G N -CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

fragmentation

of memory through time

past

infrastructure & ameneties

communal nodes

pathways

present

conversations

architectural interventions

future

voice & influence

D E S I G N -VIGNETTE

D E S I G N -PARTI EXPLORATION

D E S I G N -ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPM ENT Fragmentation Langauge The fragmentation of this pure form occurs on two stages. The first is the systematic division of the square into a 3x3 grid. This draws in contrast to the organic fragments that fall off from the intersection points of the grid.

Fragmentation manipulation

Planes and Structure

The first level of fragmentation starts to oppose the 3x3 grid, developing primary and secondary spaces within the confines of the square. The second form of organic fragmentation continues to fall off from the larger volumes.

The final scheme parti is a proposal that integrates the planar langauge of fragmentation with the strucutral qualities of walls. The planar elements create primary and secondary zones areas of compression and release. This creates a sense of movement through the intertwined spaces

Architectural parti

Fragmentation and Structure This parti explores the strucutral potential to continue this idea of fragmentation. It takes the central circular nodes as an anchor point for poles to penetrate down to the lower floor. This poles start to create a langauge of fragmentation through tectonics expression.

Sectional sketch

Strucutral plan

Final architectural form

D E S I G N - P R O C E S S of O R G A N I S A T I O N

D E S I G N -FINAL DRAWINGS Section 3 Unloading bay

Toilet

Toilet

Toilet

Director’s Office

Store room

Artist workshop

Meeting Room

Section 2

Bedroom

Art archive space

Multipurpose hall

Living room

Roof Garden

Outdoor Gallery

Outdoor workshop Museum shop

Gallery

Section 1

Gallery

Toilet

Indoor workshop

Toilet

Outdoor workshop

Roof Garden

Gallery Entrance lobby

First floor plan

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Cafe

Roof Garden

Second floor plan

Toilet

D E S I G N -KEY SPACE

Scale 1:35

D E S I G N - C O N S T U C T I O N D E T A I L S of K E Y S P A C E

Detail 2 - Suspended ceiling

Scale 1:10

Detail 3 - Green roof with eaves

Scale 1:10

Detail 4 - Green roof connection to false ceiling

Scale 1:10

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Detail 1 - Foundation to suspended oor

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1 Sectional Perspective

Scale 1:25

D E S I G N -OVERALL MODEL

Frontal perspective

Plan view

Western elevation

D E S I G N -CONSTRUCTION

Second floor

First floor

MODEL

D E S I G N -CONSTRUCTION

DETAILS

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D E S I G N - M U S I C I A N’s D W E L L I N G

Design 2101: Individual project Supervisor: Tiah Nan Chyuan

JOHN CAGE -TOTEM ANCESTOR INITIAL READING Totem Ancestor is a contemporary piece that features sounds coming from a prepared piano.

The unique sounds that emerges creates a complex mix of layers that induce a variety of confused feelings towards this piece.

My parametric reading of this piece of music allowed me to form a hypothesis between the relationship of the rhythm and the intervals of each note relative to the next. Spatially, I translated this relationship between a sense of disorder within an ordered framework, through the use of a datum.

My emotive reading of totem ancestor engaged with feelings of being entrapped, however, with a strong sense of direction. I felt that this feeling of being trapped was closely related to the dissonant intervals, musically referring to minor second intervals. However, I felt a strong direction leading out of this trapped spaces.

Parametric - Rhythm and Accents

Parametric - Dissonant Intervals

Emotive - Entrapment

Emotive - Entrapment with direction

FINAL DRAWINGS

SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

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D E S I G N - M A G I C I A N’s D W E L L I N G

Design 2101: Individual project Supervisor: Esther Wong

G I L L M A N B A R R A C K S - M A G I C I A N’S D W E L L I N G

SITE ANALYSIS Visual exposure

With a colored lens of looking at Gillman Barracks through a couple’s perspective, I evaluated the chosen site according to the following variables:

Level of exposure

- Private zones with concealed areas - Greatest number of factors that heighten the sensory expereince. i.e. spontaneous junctions, terrain, elevation, lighting

Level of accessiblity

Degrees of privacy

Fenestrations of Block 5 Sensory rich areas

Romantic Hotspots

Base Plan

Spontaneous junctions

Light changes

Terrain changes

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CARD MAGICIANS-DAN AND DAVE DnD practicing a card flourish Dan and Dave Buck are brothers who have pioneered an entire new form of card magic. Their humble roots begin at a young age and have perfected the technical skill of sleight of hand.

Their mastery for the art has evolved since, and has become one that uses their sleight of hand mastery at its core.

This new art form coined as cardistry, has sparked a frenzy of amateurs all over the world to learn this new art form. Cardistry is essentially juggling with cards. It is highly technical and requires hours of practice.

DnD branding As they became more popular became more popular, the commodification of their private lives into a brand, DnD began. They started to venture into other forms of merchandising, heightening their public image.

Due to the extroverted nature of the art form, there was this public front that I tried to capture in the dwelling.

Private areas within public zones DnD performing a ‘spring’ This idea of how a public space could inhabit a private space, and vice versa, emerged. Bluring the boundaries between what constitutes as private and public. This idea, combined with the site analysis of public and private zones, became the starting point for my intial concept.

ADDRESSING THE SITE The overall concept looked towards the existing circulation routes and proposing an intervention that was semi hidden in the terrain. This formed the starting point to think about public and private zones around the site.

Immediate Site

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Circulation spine

Visual Privacy

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Concept sketches

Concept model

FINAL DRAWINGS

Second floor plan E-W Section

Block 5

N-S Section

Block 1

First floor plan

Immediate Site plan