Thien n Tam Selected works 2017 - 2019
Resume Tran Thi Thien Tam Contacts: +65 90521215 (Whatsapp) | Email: thithientam_tran@mymail.sutd.edu.sg
EDUCATION Singapore University of Technology and Design Bachelor of Science, Architecture and Sustainable Design Magna Cum Laude ASEAN Undergradute Scholarship
Zheijang University Summer Exchange Program Chinese Landscape Planning and Design Asian Leadership Program Scholar Excellence Award
St. Andrew’s Junior College GCE Advanced Levels Distinctions in Mathematics, Geography, Economics and Project Work Jacob Ballads Award
WORK EXPERIENCE Future Cities Laboratory Junior Research Assistant • •
Assisted in researching on urban forms and mapping for publication of the Tanjong Pagar Synergy Project Assisted in designing exhibition set-up and presentation materials, including 3D-model, Augmented Reality Prototype and drawings for the Masterplan
Everest Education Academic Intern • •
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Assisted in conducting Debating Class for students aged 15 to 17, English Language Course for students aged 5 to 7. Developed Study Guides for the Model United Nations as a part of SuperKid Summer Camp 2016 on global issues and their contentions.
OTHER ACTIVITIES Archipelago cities - Pathways of Urbanisation for Java Charrette Participant • Contributed to the discussion about urbanization future in Java in the next 50 years and developed a proposal for urbanization pathway to achieve the projected future.
Architecture Outreach Program Workshop Instructor • Developed and conducted basic visual coding (Grasshopper) workshop to Junior College Students through a simplified urban design model
Urban Habitation Symposium Student Participant • Visualize utilisation of vacant public spaces in public housing estates.
Le Xa Kindergarten, Participatory Design and Workshop Student Designer • Collaborated with students from National University of Civil Engineering (NUCE, Vietnam) and CapitalLand to conduct a community workshops to investigate and design a proposal for a 1500 meter-squared kindergarten courtyard and playground • Developed details and construction drawings, construction completed in May 2018 • Awarded SUTD Humanitarian Award (2019)
Content SKILLS Adobe Suites InDesign Illustrator Photoshop Premier Pro CAD - 3D Modelling Rhinocerous AutoCAD SketchUP Rendering Lumion Computational Design Grasshopper Python GIS/QGIS/ Mapping Fabrication Laser Cutting 3D Printing • SLA • Additive
Strong
Intermediate
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PASIR PANJANG POWER DISTRICT Rejuvenating Industrial coast
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OCCUPYING THE LIMINAL Speculating Mekong Delta 2100
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PERSONALISED PUBLIC HOUSING CONSTRUCTION Bridging the Dichotomy of PPVC
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1 FINLAYSON GREEN Tower for the New workspaces
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CYPRESS COUNTRY PARK Designing a walk in Nature
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#ACTIVATE Quick ideas for under-used public spaces in HDBs
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LEXA KINDERGARTEN Designing for Underprivileged community
Languages English Vietnamese
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PASIR PANJANG POWER DISTRICT rejuventation of an industrial past Option Studio 2 - Year 4 Project duration: 5 weeks Tutor: Jackson Tan Collaborated with Odelia Tan, Tan Hui Yee, Wu Kai Role: Project Ideation, visualisation and presntation
SITE STUDY
Pasir Panjang Power District was the first civic project of Independent Singapore to provide electricity for the island during its early years of industrial development in 1950s and 1960s. The Power Station is part of the industrial corridor along the Southern Coast, awaiting redevelopment. Under increasing housing pressure and expanding need for places of lifestyle and entertainment, the Southern Coast was planned to become the extension of the Central Business District as well as the continuation of Marina Bay to form a continuous coastal promenade. The site is currently a separate entity of its own: cut o from the Business Park by large highway infrastructure; from the rest of the coastal region by the Labrador Park and Keppel Terminal. In the near future, however, the site will be surrounded by new residential developments; its heavy industrial infrastructures poses challenge to the transformation.
6 | Pasir Panjang Power District / summer 2019
DESIGN STRATEGY
Integrating Connection
Hybrid infrastructure
Social Innovation
Connecting between the Power District with the adjacent sites, creating a seamless Southern Waterfront lifestyle promenade.
Extend ‘gangway’ infrastructure within and outside of the main station to enhance connectivity and a web of circulation cum activating site wherever it reaches.
Specific design of interaction between infrastructure and site for unique and varied visitor experience.
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mini event space
library kiosks
Space for active lifestyle The Bridge becomes a part of an active lifestyle as it passes through the sports complex. Junction of a bridge is combined to become a cycling track, a running track as well as spaces for gathering and sports watching. The Bridge promotes and brings active life to the everyday commute.
park & gathering space
cycling & running track gym basketball courts
Commercial and Entertainment Corridor The Bridge brings cyclists and pedestrians through a variety of experiences. Passing by the artists’ studio, the makerapace’s test bed and the art corner, they get to observe creative makers working and occasionally participate in several workshops organised by the creative makers there.
8 | Pasir Panjang Power District / summer 2019
sheltered sports arena indoor sports hall
Immersive experience Passing by a green house for urban farming, cyclists and pedestrian can choose to stop by and walk in a ‘maze’ of smaller bridges among the urban farms. Farm-to-table is also offered here as a novel experience for both visitors and frequent users of the site.
Rest-stop and Retail Users pass by retail areas, F&B and a variety of public spaces positioned along the Bridge. These activities add to the vibrancy and activeness of the community living on site as well as visitors of the site.
cycling path
farm-to-table dining
explore urban farm
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OCCUPYING THE LIMINAL
Investigating Climate Change on Mekong Delta Option Studio 1- Year 4 Project duration: 12 weeks Tutor: Eva Castro Collaborated with Nabila Larasati
Mekong Delta
16 | occupying the liminal / spring 2019
Deltas exist in a liminal space of water and land, embodying a wetland condition that forces its inhabitants to negotiate the fragile balance of the rising sea, the river surges, and shifting sediments.
Mekong Delta is one of the many deltas facing this threat. Home to more than 17 million people, it is a key region for rice production, contributing more than 50% of Vietnam’s production. Mekong Delta over the past century, has been transformed into a productive machine with intensive network of canals, high dykes and sluice gates.
Despite their harsh conditions, the strategic location of river deltas is the meeting point between networks of overland and maritime trade routes, they are the key to many of the major civilisations in the world. Moreover, their abundantly fertile soils and annual flood pulses serve as productive centres for the agriculture industry. Today, more than 500 million people in the world live on river deltas. Yet the human occupation of deltas is often a matter that lacks tact and sensitivity. Cultivation practices and settlements impose networks of canals, dykes and sluice gates to control the forces of the sea and the river, creating a mostly static and predictable condition fit for the convenience of habitation as well as production. Meanwhile, groundwater extraction to cater for these practices is causing land subsidence, rendering the infrastructure we put in place useless.
Current Conditions
SLR +0.5m
Yet in the increasingly dynamic changes in the Delta’s aquatic forces are throwing this manmade system o balance. PROJECT AIMS
A circular sustainable system for new forms of agricultural and processing
Site of intervention
SLR +1m
SLR +2m
Advise a narrative for an action plan to live on Mekong Delta as the Sea Tonle Sap
Migration to Safer Grounds
Can Tho
LOWER MEKONG
Tra Vinh
Establishing new infrastructure
SLR +3m
SLR +4m
New Societal and cultivation patterns emerges
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CULTIVATION - ELEVATION
Oyster Bags
Seaweed
Fish farm
18 | occupying the liminal / spring 2019
CULTIVATION - PLAN Seed Node (Oyster)
Oyster Farm Oyster cultivation 100 oysters/bag 500,000 oysters per 500 meters of farm
3m
4m
Seaweed Farm
Seaweed 0.5 tonnes per 500 meters of farm
3m 3m Seed Node (Oyster + Seaweed)
Harvesting pond
Grouper Fish Farm
Rearing pond 4-5 months
Harvesting pond 6-7 months 1500 kg yield/pond
5m
12m
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PHASE 0
PHASE 0.5
PHASE 1
PHASE 0
PHASE 0.5
PHASE 1
Oyster production: 100%
Oyster production: 100%
Oyster production: 30%
6 acre - 7.5 mil oysters
30 acre - 37.5 mil oysters
9 acre - 3.7 mil oys Seaweed production: 36%
10.8 acre - 250 Fish production: 33%
9.9 acre - 10 ton
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PHASE 2
PHASE 3
PHASE 2
PHASE 3
Oyster production: 30%
Oyster production: 30%
4 acre - 2.5 mil oysters Seaweed production: 36%
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5 acre - 3 mil oysters Seaweed production: 36%
5 acre - 1200 kg Fish production: 33%
6 acre - 1500 kg Fish production: 33%
6 acre - 6 tonnes
8 acre - 8 tonnes
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Shipping dock Processing centre Harvest unloading dock
Farm
Settlement 3: Settlement 1
Settlement 3:
600 people 18 acres = 15 million oysters
400 people 12 acres = 5 million
Settlement 2:
600 people 18 acres = 15 million
22 |occupying the liminal / spring 2019
800 people 60 acres = 50 million oysters 2 main processing centres 18 satellite farms
Settlement 1
1200 people 90 acres = 75 million oysters 3 main processing
Settlement 2:
1200 people 90 acres = 75 million oysters
Oyster farm
Oyster farm
Oyster + Seaweed farm
Fish farm
Settlement 3:
800 people 20% oyster 26% seaweed 54% fish 60 acres = 50 million oysters
Settlement 1
1200 people 30% oyster 36% seaweed 34% fish 90 acres = 75 million oysters 3 main processing
Settlement 2:
1200 people 30% oyster 36% seaweed 34% fish 90 acres = 75 million
Settlement 3:
800 people 30% oyster 36% seaweed 34% fish 60 acres = 50 million oysters
Settlement 1
1200 people 30% oyster 36% seaweed 34% fish 90 acres = 75 million oysters 3 main processing
Settlement 2:
1200 people 30% oyster 36% seaweed 34% fish 90 acres = 75 million
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PHASE 1 Migration
PHASE 2 Establishing infrastructure
Tonle Sap
Can Tho
LOWER MEKONG
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Tra Vinh
PHASE 3 Occupation and Network
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PERSONALISED PUBLIC HOUSING CONSTRUCTION framework for customisable mass housing Capstone Project- Year 4 Project duration: 6 months Mentors: Lee Wai Fong (DP Architects - Industry Mentor) Chong Keng Hua (Academic Tutor) Collaborated with Ariel Lim, Michelle Gouw, Joshua Tan Kyu, Lyvonne, Zhi Min Role: Ideation, Researcher, Compilation and Visualisation of Research, Designer for Interactive part of the exhibit, Editor of the Exhbition Booklet (Manual)
RESEARCH
Customisation Process
Unit Layout Room sizes
40% BTO Flat allocations rejected by buyers
A new customisation step is added into the buying process. Buyers can now purchase their own tailored flats.
Balcony types Door/ Window Positioning Ceiling Heights External Appearances 0
Percentage of satisfactory response upon allocated HDB flats Source: HDB Survey
Single Loaded
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20
30
40
50
60
70
100
Apartment size
Project Survey on aspects of HDB apartment buyers wish to customize
Bridge + Facilities
Double Loaded
Bridge - Point block
Linear Corridor Decentralised lift core
Layout
Pearl Bank Apartments Punggol Waterway terraces
Linear Corridor Centralised lift core
Balcony
HDB Block 410, 411, 412 Skyville @Dawson HDB Block 95A Sky Habitat
Pinnacle @Duxton Sky Habitat LEGEND Lift Fire exit / Staircase Linear Corridor Lift core at the end
Apartment entrance HDB Block 13
HDB Block 435C
Common circulation HDB Block 8B
28 |Personalised Public Housing Construction / spring-summer
Common facilities
Amenities
DESIGN - SIZE
Redesigning PPVC Structural System to allow better customizability
Freedom to choose flat size
A basic unit of a flat is constructed with 3 structurally idential modules sized 3m x 9m. Each has two corner equiped with service shaft. This allows the buyer to allocate their service-dependent functions any location they wish to on the flat layout.
Multiple units of a flat can combine to enlarge the flat size to fit large families, growing families. The flats can also be broken down into smaller units to sell as the family gets smaller.
Simplex Plus
Simplex
Duplex
Complex
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DESIGN - LAYOUT
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Kitchen - Dining Room
Bedroom - Toilets
Living room - Kitchen
Toilets - Dining Room
Dining Room - Toilets
Living room - Bedroom
Toilets - Living Room
Living Room - Toilets
Kitchen - Bedroom
Kitchen - Bedroom
Kitchen - Dining Room
Kitchen - Staircase
Bedroom - Corridor - Bedroom
Layout Flexibility With built-in service ducts and structural elements, the scheme allows home buyers to opt for many dierent combinations of room functions.
Void - Bedroom
30 |Personalised Public Housing Construction / spring-summer
DESIGN - LAYOUT
Simplex
Simplex Plus
Complex Personalised Public Housing Construction / spring- summer | 31
DESIGN - BALCONY A variety of balcony options
Variation of styles and functions
To accomodate different lifestyle of the home owners, balcony additions play an important role since it gives space for relaxation, hobby as well as extension of the private space. A variety of balcony additions is therefore provided to meet these different needs.
The balconies are designed to meet different needs and preferences. Buyers can mix and match between functions and sizes.
Variation of sizes Built-in structural elements allow different sizes for balcony attachments:
7.2 m
7.2 m
7.2 m
4.8 m
1 Planter box
4.8 m
4.8 m 2.4 m
2.4 m
2.4 m
Vertical Railing
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Horizontal Railing
4
Glass
2.4 m 2.4 m
2.4 m
2 2.4 m
2.4 m
2.4 m
2.4 m
4.8 m
5
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Room Extension
7.2 m
DESIGN - BALCONY
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DESIGN - AMENITIES Deck Levels
Amenities according to needs Dierent types of amenities are spread out in the builidng to accommodate dierent preferences with regards to common facilities. Young families might opt to live nearby playgrounds and daycare, young professionals and students might prefer to live near laundry facilities and study rooms for daily convenience. Mean while, families with elderlies might prefer more quiet locations near gardens.
Level 5 Store & Laundry Room
garden
function gym
function garden elderly exercise corner
study
Level 9 Playground & Childcare
playground community centre
store
34 |Personalised Public Housing Construction / spring-summer
childcare laundry room
DESIGN - EXHIBITION
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FINLAYSON GREEN Office Tower
Building Information Modelling- Year 3 Project duration: 8 weeks Mentor: William Saputra (ARUP) Collaborated with Michelle Gouw, Kar Wei, Kun Role: Ideation, creating BIM model building and aiding in visualisation.
Site Plan The tower is positioned to face directly North. Traffic enters from Robinson Road (North West side of the tower) and exits along Finlayson Green Road (North-East side of the tower). The scheme aims accommodate work spaces for a diversity of working styles and environment, as well as encourage interaction between different types of workers. The tower is divided into 9 clusters; each cluster has a co-working floor on the first level, two subsequent levels with a view to the co-working garden space and another two full office floors. The secondary circulation leads connects the co-working floor to the permanent office floors, allowing more dynamic movements and interactions. The clusters are rotated as it is stacked on one another, giving each cluster its own targeted views and environments.
38 |Finlayson Green / winter 2018
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CYPRESS COUNTRY PARK Designing a walk in Nature
Landscape Planning and Design - Year 2 Project duration: 5 weeks Collaborated with Caleb See, Tan Hui Yin, Dion Tan, Tan Shao Xuan, Choo Ee Pin Role: Helped with ideation of Masterplan, design public treetop walk
PARK MASTERPLAN
42 |Cypress Country Park /summer 2017
TREE-TOP WALK WAL LK DESIGN Observation Deck
Seating Area Walk path
Resort view
Valley view
Waterfront Height Valley view
Waterfront Height
Sunrise view
Meadow Sunrise View
Waterfront Height Forest View Forest View Dam Cafe
River View Cypress Park
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#ACTIVATE
Visualing HDB’s “leftover” spaces Urban Habitation Symposium - Spring 2019 Project duration: 2 days Collaborated with Shawn Lim, Ryan Teo Role: Participant, visulisation of vision
#ACTIVATE THE VOID-DECK Void decks are open spaces on the ground level of many of Singapore’s public housing estate. The voiddeck, its being a void, is a space that holds potential for common facilities and community projects. The condition of void decks being dark and the space where the residence’s infrstructure appears obstructive discourages healthy usage. My proposal extends these infrastructure into blocks that can be used as seatings, where as its configuration induces socilaisation.
46 |Urban Habitation Symposium / spring 2019
#ACTIVATE THE CORRIDOR HDB’s corridors are either underutilized or filled with residents’ personal belongings. Neither of these are healthy usage of the shared spaces. My posposal turns corridor railings into reading corners as well as place where residents can display their indoor plants. The lobby is extended and becomes common living room, where neighbout-to-neighbour interacঞon can happen more frequently.
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LE XA KINDERGARTEN Design for community
Independent Project, Spring- Summer 2018 Project duration: 6 months Collaborated with SURGE Groupe, Captial Land, NUCE (Hanoi) and 12 other fellow student designers Role: Member of design and partipatory design workshop team
PROJECT TIMELINE
Site Investigation and Community Engagement Jan- Feb 2018
I was involved in planning and conducting the Focus group discussion between relevant parties of the project.
Design Development and Documentation March- August 2018
With a group of fellow students, I worked through revisions of the construction scheme and documented materials and details for construction.
Construction
May 2018
I worked with CapitalLand Volunteer Group and fellow student construction team on site to put together recyled tyres to create a new landscape for the playground.
50 |Le Xa Kindergarten /summer 2017
DESIGN ITERATIONS
FINAL DESIGN Tyre mountain + Planter Area Sand Pit
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Loose Play Element Tyre Domes Waiting Area
-300.0
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