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P O R T F O L I O
T R I N H P H A M
HELLO!
EDUCATION
VOLUNTEERING
2015-2018
Bachelor of Environments, University of Melbourne, Australia. [First Class Honours]
2016
Student volunteer for Pholiota Unlocked exhibition, Melbourne School of Design
2017
Winter course, AA Visiting School in Seoul, Korea
2016
2014-2015
Foundation Studies, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, Australia
Volunteer for Conservation Volunteers Australia
2016
2011-2014
Luong The Vinh High School for the Gifted, Vietnam
Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity Melbourne
WORK EXPERIENCE 2016-2017
Student Freelance Samraj Project & Design Over the scope of 8 months, I was involved in a Cranbourne North residential design for building permit application. I participated from initial design phrase to preparing technical drawings including floor plans, sections, render, and elevations, etc. This job offered me a holistic understanding of the standard process of building permit application as well as AUTOCAD skills and ability to contact different consultants for information such as land survey, landscape and energy rating.
TRINH PHAM Bachelor of Environments Major in Architecture University of Melbourne -----Phone: (+61) 435 767 055 Email: tpham22914@gmail.com
EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS 2018
MSDx Studio Fire Exhibition, Melbourne School of Desgin
2017
Melbourne Global Scholar Awards
2016
MSDx Digital Design and Fabrication: 2nd Skin Exhibition, Melbourne School of Design
2016
Studio Water Exhibition, Melbourne School of Design
2015
Trinity College Design Competition on Environmental Awareness, First Prize.
SKILLS Autodesk AutoCAD Autodesk Revit Mcneel Rhinoceros 3D Grasshopper 3D 3Ds Max Sketchup Vray Lumion Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Adobe Acrobat Reader Microsoft Office Word Powerpoint
REFEREES Raju Mazumdar, Studio Tutor, University of Melbourne, Australia raju_mazumdar@yahoo.com.au Sarah Huiseung Song, Studio Tutor, University of Melbourne, Australia huiseung.song@unimelb.edu.au
DOCUMENTATION
STUDIOS
DIGITAL DESIGN & FABRICATION
APPENDIX
URBAN DESIGN
STUDIOS
TAKE A BRAKE! STUDIO FIRE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE THIRD-YEAR CAPSTONE STUDIO, 2018 TUTOR: SARAH HUISEUNG SONG PROJECT TYPE
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING EXTENSION LOCATION
UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL 77 STORY STREET, PARKVILLE, MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA SOFTWARE
RHINOCEROS 3D, V-RAY, AUTOCAD PHOTOSHOP
Take a brake! is a critic of current pedagogical system that suggests monotonous and passive learning environment, questioning its appropriateness in contemporary social context.
Locating in at the corner of the site, the building is connected to the existing VCE building of UHS in order to activate the new site, which used to be an outdoor sport oval that was not actively used by students.
The project, located within University High School complex in Melbourne, seeks an architectural language that encourages students’ inidividuality and creativity by transforming conventional learning environment into interactive and innovative “play grounds”.
Spatially arranged into three consecutive zones called Sense, Logic, and Identity (representing three stages of play), the school could be conceived as an interactive playground where students are constantly exposed to different learning environments that encourage learning through engaging with spaces, furniture and challenges their conventional way of studying.
Learning by playing and actively engaging with the surrounding environment is an important pedagogical tool, which enhances ones’ critical reasoning and flexible adaptivity in current fast-changing society.
SENSE
LOGIC
IDENTITY
SENSE X LOGIC
UPSIDE DOWN
SPHERE IN THE BOX
ILLUSIVE SWIMMING POOL
CLUSTERED CLASSROOM
IMAGINATIVE TUBE
SENSE X LOGIC X IDENTITY
SENSE X CIRCULATION THE WORLD BEYOND
THE TRANSFORMER
Traditional leaning spaces are reimagined and collided in the way that brings out the playful elements hidden within
Students and teachers are also the elements of surprise. Each individual’s daily activity is the enhancement to the dynamic of the school.
No explanation is better than experiencing the journey yourself...
STUDIO WATER UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE SECOND-YEAR ARCHITECTURE STUDIO, 2016 TUTOR: RAJU MAZUMDAR PROJECT TYPE
COMMERCIAL, BOATHOUSE OPEN TO PUBLIC LOCATION
BOATHOUSE DRIVE, MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA SOFTWARE
RHINOCEROS 3D, AUTOCAD, LUMION
THE FLOW IN BETWEEN JOURNEY TO ONE’S SELF-INTROSPECTION
Inspired by Tadao Ando’s design principles, the boathouse design pays attention to the site context where it is located in terms of topography and humans’ experience. The overall form of this boat house consists of pure geometric forms collided and symmetrical arrangement. Having two separate areas: private working space including storage, workshop and office and public area include café, hire counter and restaurant, these areas are arranged in the way that, together with circulation, people can take on a journey to history and self-introspection.
“You cannot put something in new place. You have to absorb what you see around you, exist on land, and then use the knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see� - Tadao Ando
THE SUNKEN LAND STUDIO EARTH UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE SECOND YEAR STUDIO, 2017 TUTOR: HELLA FRANZISKA WIGGE PROJECT TYPE
PAVILION LOCATION
HERRING ISLANDS, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. SOFTWARE
RHINOCEROS 3D, PHOTOSHOP
The Sunken Land is situated on Herring Islands, the island that has witnessed thousand years of formation of Melbourne city, beholding untold secrets of Australian Aboriginal culture. Every meter into the island reveals a mysterious sculpture or art work that implies mesmerizing story of the past. Sunken Land is a juxtaposition of the Modern Melbourne and indigenious history. By stacking and rotating existing footprints of surrounding buildings, the structure represents a collision of Melbourne urban typology that sinks deep into the indigenous land, forming a mysterious space that invites people to explore and experience.
The journey starts from the curiosity towards the rough concerete structure that is barely visible from afar. Discovery of hidden entrance leads to accelerating desire to explore the interior. The ultimately dark tunnel leading into the main hall challenges visitors’ sense of direction and the only way to get through is by touching and crawling, which eventually causes confusion and frustration. Visitors are then striked by the contrasting dark space and the only light source from above. Experiencing immense relief, they then take the zig-zag stair into the “sky”. The journey ends with a calm and zen feeling after discovering a peaceful view of the city.The secret here is the city itself and its dynamism lies in its people who has the power to either enhance or destroy it.
DIGITAL DESIGN & FABRICATION
THE CASCADE IN COLLABORATION WITH SIDNEY SIM & SAMUEL CHOY
STUDIO AIR UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE THIRD-YEAR ARCHITECTURE STUDIO, 2017 TUTOR: MATTHEW DWYER PROJECT TYPE
PAVILION LOCATION
DIGHTS FALLS YARRA RIVER, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. SOFTWARE
RHINOCEROS 3D, V-RAY, PHOTOSHOP
In the near future (2100) where humans have successfully invented technology that protects nature from being destroyed, water is purified and brought back to its pre-civilized stage. The challenging now is to create an infrastructure (particularly a change room) that not only serves its purpose but also acts as a symbol of this relationship, inviting people to partipating in protecting the environment. Inspired by the flows of water at Dights Falls and Ban Pavilion by Orproject, CASCADE is evolved around the concept of anisotrophy, fluidity and transparency, whereby the whole structure is supported by single load-bearing column and slowly growing into a transulent flows of panels that cascade into the river. This is an abstract representation of the water currents and the Dight Falls itself.
The change room is made from network of rectangular polypropylene sheets folded at middle points and connected at predefined locations and directions to generate an almost self-supporting structure that is based on mutifunctional mechanism, transferring from columns into ceiling and wall. Using transparent materials, the project also challenges the idea of privacy, which is conventionally thought to be achieved only through solid, enclosed space. Polypropylene by folding and connecting offer a multi-layered screens that provides high level of privacy, but also playful in the way that people outside can see the silhouetteof users. It plays with idea of insecurity, yet encourages people to slowly merge and become one with nature.
REFLECTION
WITHIN - WITHOUT
THE FLOW
P1-PRIMARY PANEL CONNECTION A
C01-1 G
B
GRID SYSTEM
H
C
I
D
J
E
K
F
L
C01-COLUMN CIRCULAR CONNECTION C01-1
C01-3
C01-4
CC1-COLUMN & CEILING ROTATING CONNECTION
CC1-1
CC1-2
CC1-3
W1- CUVREDWALL CONNECTION W1-1
CC1-4
CC1-5
CC1-6
CC1-7
CC1-8
W1-1
FINALIZED SYSTEM
W2-LINEAR WALL CONNECTION W2-1
W2-2
W2-1/2
POLYPROPYLENE CEILING AND WALLS
COLUMN-FOOTING DETAILS
POLYPROPYLENE COLUMN
GRAVITY FORCE
200mm CHS PROVIDES LATERAL SUPPORT TO POLYPROPOLENE COLUMN STEEL ANCHOR RODS CONNECT EDGES OF COLUMN TO BASE PLATE WIND OR SEISMIC FOCRCE
200mm CHS PROVIDES LATERAL SUPPORT TO POLYPROPOLENE COLUMN
200 CHS WELDED TO STIFFENERS AND BOLTED TO BASE PLATE 10mm STEEL BASE PLATE BOLTED TO PAD FOOTING REINFORCED CONCRETE PAD FOOTING FOOTING IS UNDERGROUND AND NOT VISIBLE
UPLIFTING FORCE
COLUMN IS ANCHORED INTO PAD FOOTING TO ALLOW LOAD TRANSFERENCE PAD FOOTING TAKES COMPRESSIVE FROM COLUMN AND ALSO PREVENT COLUMN FROM UPLIFTING DUE TO WIND
“Dear my children, In the near future,there is no more destruction nor pollution. We swim with no fear of infection nor illness because we are warmly embraced and protected by nature. We come to nature and share the joyful memory�.
DIGITAL DESIGN & FABRICATION UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE FIRST YEAR STUDIO, 2015 TUTOR: JOSHUA RUSSO
inviCLOUD IN COLLABORATION WITH NIK LEE AND HENRIK GREEN
PROJECT TYPE
LOCATION
SOFTWARE
OBJECT DESIGN
MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
RHINOCEROS 3D, PHOTOSHOP
FABRICATION
With the aim of creating a 2nd skin, particularly a sleeping pod for individuals to address their privacy within public space, the structure ,consisting of sectioning and panels and fold systems, generates an artificial cloud pod that allow individual can take a nap in public space without being disturbed by the surrounding. Pursuing the idea of invisibility and lightness, the panels were folded and layered to challenge what is visible and what is not. Surroudning environment cannot observe what inside but users can see what is happening outside through different thresholds.
URBANISM & LANDSCAPING
THE CHOCOLATE BOX
Unit 4: The narrated city, led by Igor Marko
ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION VISITING SCHOOL WINTER INTENSIVE IN SEOUL, KOREA, 2017
GARIBONG-DONG Garibong-dong is a neighborhood of conflicted relationship between Korean and Chinese-born Korean residents. Lack of mutual communication between the community and the government leads from one misunderstanding to another and eventually forms an inclusive area with unwelcoming attitudes towards outsiders. With the aim to solve the aforementioned social issues, the project proposes an interactive platform that allows both sides to confront and voice their opinions, hoping to regain the mutual trust. A chocolate box with series of architectural proposals is the fundamental tool to reconnect individuals and groups. This project is an example of the fact architecuture is not just about building actual structures or objects, but also about proposing tools that solve social issues, bringing people together and creating a harmonious community.
Render by Newman Chow
THIS IS NOT EAMES HOUSE IN COLLABORATION WITH JAMIE TRAN
SITE TECTONICS UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE THIRD YEAR LANDSCAPE STUDIO, 2017 TUTOR: TIMOTHY CAMERON PROJECT TYPE
LANDSCAPE RAMP DESIGN LOCATION
YARRA RIVER, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. SOFTWARE
AUTOCAD, 3DS MAX, PHOTOSHOP
The project reimagines the Case Study House no.8 or the Eames House by Charles and Ray Eames in Melbourne context. Given the steep hill looking into Yarra River, the team aims to recreate neighborhood of California, where the house sits harmoniously into the hills looking over the forests. The house here is separated into two different parts, lower workshop for public access and higher house for the Eames.
The zig-zag ramps designed to bring out the journey from the river into the higher hill, in which visitors walks between the rows of cherry blossoms trees, slowing discovering the houses nesting on top of the hills. Such experiential transition encourages appreciation of nature and the harmonious relationship between architecture and its local context.
“You can’t really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you” - Tadao Ando
THE JOURNEY
CONSTRUCTION & DOCUMENTATION
CRANBOURNE PROJECT SAMRAJ PROJECT & DESIGN POSITION: STUDENT FREELANCE PROJECT TYPE
RESIDENTIAL TWO-STOREY TOWN HOUSE DURATION
8 MONTHS (2016-2017) LOCATION
TULLIANLLAN CRANBOURNE NORTH, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA SOFTWARE
AUTOCAD, PHOTOSHOP
The freelance work involed an residential house design project for a multi-generational family in Tulliallan Estate, Cranbourne North, Victoria, Australia. I participated from design phrase to contacting with consultants and preparing technical drawings for building permit approval. The design is currently handed over to builder for construction. Throughout 8 months, I was closely exposed to the real industry force and gained valuable knowledge on building permit application, working with consultants as well as fostering my software skills. I have also gained new insights in adapting design to clients with different cultural backgrounds.
CONSTRUCTION DESIGN UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE THIRD YEAR CONSTRUCTION SUBJECT TUTOR: JI CHOI
A detailed study of construction system of given case study Western Bace in Melton South by Six Degrees Architects. Through detailed axonometric drawing and physical model at 1:20 scale, the relationship between structural elements was carefully examined with the constant comparison between design intent and construction constraints.
APPENDIX
PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography has been an hobby ever since I was fifteen. Constantly moving from one place to another, I realize the importance of capturing every moment I witness. Each frame holds personal emotion at that exact location, with exact people and exact timing. This hobby eventually teaches me the relationship of architecture within the urban context and how it might affect the way we live our everyday life.
COLLAGE & PRINTING
Trinh H. P. Pham Ph: (+61) 435 767 055 E: tpham22914@gmail.com
t h a n k y o u .