p o r t f o l i o by trungdinh
Contents Laneway CafĂŠ, 2016
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Cubism, 4x4x4, 2017
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Inveresk Campus Facade Renovation, 2018
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Liverpool Jazz, 2018
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About me
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“ My building was always designed to complement and harmonize with its surroundings and the adjacent developments. It was always meant to be a part of a built environment with the flow of people and buildings with other uses in proximity ” Kengo Kuma
“ I don’t believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind ” Tadao Ando
“ Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life ’’ I.M.Pei
“ When a building is erected, it belongs to the place it is standing on but no where else, where it turns to a mirror reflecting the place’s people, culture and nature through a careful selection of forms, materials and architecture styles ” Personal architecture philosophy
Laneway CafĂŠ, Design Studio, 2016 Genders Lane, Launceston, Tasmania
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Located between historic buildings belonging to the classical styles in the CBD of Launceston, Genders lane, a long narrow alley, appears to be sunk into the darkness between damp tall brick walls what make the lane less attractive to pedestrians, especially at night. The design consists of two approaches: accommodating a vibrant urban café without blocking the existing building openings and also keeping the alley working as an access way. For these reasons, curved timber frames and a glazed roof system are employed to allow daylight through the building to the ground level and cast a dynamic shadow pattern onto the alley’s walls. Inspired from the process of the coffee follower in bloom, the chain of curved timber frames is slightly changing through four main spaces: single seating, group seating, coffee bar and dining space upstairs. The project was my very first experiment with lighting, shadow play and modular structure which became integral to my later designs in other projects.
St Andrew’s Kirt
Civic Square Launceston Library Town Hall
Retail and Commercial Office and Bank Hotel and Residence
Cubism, 4x4x4, Building Technology in Design, 2017 Devil’s Gullet lookout, Mersey Forest, Tasmania
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The aim of the design is to build a man-made structure that stays in harmony with the spectacular rocky landscape of Devil’s Gullet. From outside-in, the structure is an experiment of employing contrast elements such as dark and bright, solid and hollow, simple and complex. For instance, despite being covered by a simple 4x4x4m wooden skin, the inside interior was derived from the site contour lines in order to form a cave-like internal space that directs visitors from a short narrow room to an open-air space looking towards the cliff landscape view.
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The structure is comprised of contourlike plywood sheets stacked up vertically and supported by eight timber columns and steel cables for suspension, which lets the light levels inside change during different times of day. Everyday, when the sun is at a very low angle at dawn or sunset, the interior turns to a masterpiece of art where visitors are surrounded by contoured bands of orange light created by the beams of the sunset’s light glancing through the gaps between the plywood sheets.
Inveresk Campus Facade Renovation, Building Technology in Design, 2018 Inveresk Campus, Launceston, Tasmania
Originally a train workshop for the railways, the existing building was adapted to the new School of Architecture and Designed by firm Six Degrees, however, after many years, the building now no longer meets energy efficiency goals because of its full-height glazed wall causing heat loss during cold winter days and excessive solar gain when the sun is shining. The new adjustable louvred faรงade offers a consistent aesthetic that allows the internal spaces access to adequate sunlight during daytime whilst it also can be shut down at night to let the building sleep. Inspired from the Chinese folding fan, the window louvres can be moved up and down to adjust the room light level depending on the outdoor weather and sun position. When fully opened, the louvres change the look of the faรงade by adding a third dimension which in turn casts shadows from these forms.
240mm Timber stud wall insulated by polyurethane rigid foamed aged insulation (R 3.5) and 25x70mm Cypress Pine cladding 50x50mm Timber batten fixed onto existing concrete beam 750x1820mm Existing structural concrete beam 50mm Insulated plasterboard (R 3.5) Timber window head installed on the inside edge of stud wall 17mm double glazed glass (U-value 2.7) 25x70mm Treated Radiata Pine movable louver system 17mm double glazed glass (U-value 2.7)
Timber window sill 290mm Existing timber joist floor Sarking membrane overlaps flashing 750x1820mm Existing concrete beam 200mm Timber stud wall insulated by polyurethane rigid foamed aged insulation (R 3.5) Vapor barrier running until window head 15mm Wood-based panel 3mm Plaster finish 50x120mm Window lintel
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Liverpool Jazz Student Exchange, 2018 Ropewalks Sq, Liverpool, England
Surrounded by historic and heritage listed buildings in the center of Liverpool, Ropewalks Square is a tricky site for a modern Jazz club that is required not to break the classical theme of Bold street but also bring a sense of Jazz back to the city. Jazz is random, unpredicted and never the same, thus a Jazz building needs to reflect the properties of the music. The building is defined by a curved, wavy, full-height glazed wall that is a result of the distortion of the adjacent classical buildings. The three rows of glass panels overlapping each other are a reinterpretation of conventional rectangular windows and the three prominent black-painted steel beam bracings that cross the glazed faรงade stand to visually connect to the classical cornices of its neighbours.
The four-story Jazz club offers various spaces including a main dining and performance space on the second floor with mezzanine while all studios and practice rooms are located upstairs. A six-meter-wide indoor lane in the ground floor keeps up the traffic connection between Bold and Wood Street whilst offering a temporary shelter for pedestrians in the bad weather of England. Material choices are selected to reflect the qualities of Jazz and classical architecture at once, regarding the curved front façade, highly reflective tinted glass is employed to transform the whole façade into a giant mirror that reflects any change of sky color, clouds and pedestrians’ activities on street to make the building never be the same, like Jazz. On the other side, the selection of brick for the walls on ground level and white paint for the upper levels is to present Piano Nobile, a classical principal applied in large buildings.
Roof and skylight
Third floor: Studio, Practice rooms, meeting rooms Second floor: Temporary flat
First floor and mezzanine: Bar, Dressing rooms, dining area
Ground floor: Indoor lane, Practice rooms, reception
Steel frame structure
Curved glazing panel
0.42mm Zinc roof sheet
120mm Rockwool Batt Insulation for Roof Second glazed curtain wall for thermal purpose (2x18mm double glazing) 30x240mm Stainless steel beam used for bracing 19mm Custom curved glass panel in various sizes supported by steel structure 420x470mm Reinforced concrete encased steel beam
30mm Floor finish 120mm Polyurethane rigid foamed aged insulation R 3.5 200mm Concrete slab
40x120mm Floor joist used as spacer for insulation
40mm Rigid insulation 102.5mm Brick cladding 180mm Stud wall 350x350mm Concrete foundation 120x120mm T-shaped steel vertical beam (column) to support glazed curtain wall
(+61) 490 355 112 trung.dinh@utas.edu.au www.linkedin.com/in/trungbaodinh https://issuu.com/trungdinhbao1994
Trung Dinh
B. Environmental Design
education
workshops
Jan-Jun, 2018 Student Exchange at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England
Dec, 2017 Vietnam Bamboo at the University of Tasmania. Role: collect, sketch and analyze bamboo structure precedents.
2016-2018 Bachelor of Environmental Design at the University of Tasmania, Australia 2012-2015 Bachelor of Architecture at Hanoi Architectural University, Hanoi, Vietnam
publications
July, 2017 Furniture Fabrication at the University of Tasmania. Role: team leader, graphic designer.
awards
work experience
competitions
2018 Rory Spence Traveling Scholarship 2017 Dean’s Summer Research Scholarship 2016 Tasmanian International Scholarship
2016-2018 Part-time waiter at Lam’s the best grill, Riverside, Launceston
Super Studio, 2017. 2nd prize at school level. Role: Design contributor, physical model maker
architecture skills
volunteering
travelling
Hand sketch
Sep, 2018 Launceston Open House. Role: Tour guide
Vietnam the whole country
Model making Revit
2017 Part-time kitchen hand at Franco’s Italian Restaurant, Launceston
Rhinoceros
languages
Vray rendering
Vietnamese native speaker
AutoCad Photoshop InDesign
Singapore Singapore city Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Australia Sydney, Hobart, Launceston, Brisbane, Newcaslte
English fluent speaker
England London, Liverpool, Leeds,
Japanese beginner
Birmingham, Manchester Wales Chester, Conwy, Rhyl