PANG XIN HUA Portfolio
Academic works 2013 - 2016
Contents
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Play School | Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
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Urban Living | York Hill
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Plug-in Space | SUTD
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Singapore Visitor Centre | Orchard Rd
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Transcendence - Minimal Surface | SUTD
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D-Stress Canopy - FEA generated Principle Stresslines pattern | Not site specific
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Ar(t)chitecture - Architecture for Art in HDB community | Jalan Kukoh
Play School Ho Chi Minh Vietnam
Course: Option Studio , Term 7 | Instructor: Vo Trong Nghia
This kindergarten is located in a tropical climate city, Ho Chi Minh, which ranks the lowest in green density among the asian megacities. The intention of this design is to create a school where children are encouraged not to stay in their classrooms but to escape and have fun in play spaces where they learn through free play. The facade not only allow for natural lighting and ventilation, it also soften the barrier between the classrooms and the play spaces for the children to run out of the classroom anytime. The wooden louvre facade allow vines and crawlers to
grow on it, and together with the plants in the planter boxes on the front facade, they help to filter the air and also to block off rain. As for the play spaces for the children, they are found on every level. They are designed to be seen clearly from the classrooms so as to get them out to learn skills through interacting with other children.
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Director room STUDY
Play Lands ( Indoor Gym | Courtyard Stage | Balcony | Sunny Island | Greenland )
Classrooms ( 2-3 | 3-4 | 4-5 | Art room | Music room )
Services ( WC | Storage | Lift )
KIDS
Site Plan
Concept STUDY
Scale 1:10 000
Enclosure | Wooden Louvres Classroom to play space transition
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KIDS
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Facade for enclosure
Play Lands
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Natural Ventilation & Lighting
4-5
Classroom
Changing facade for natural lighting and ventilation
Natural Ventilation & Lighting
Classroom Boundary types
Play Lands Classroom
PLAY
Management ( Admin office | Infirmary | Teacher room | Facade for Director room ) enclosure
Facade for enclosure STUDY
KIDS
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South Elevation Scale 1:200
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Building Mass
Play spaces
Classrooms
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Management
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STUDY STUDY KIDS STUDY KIDS STUDYPLAY KIDS PLAY KIDS PLAY PLAY
Classroom Classroom Classroom WC Classroom WC Classroom WC Classroom WC Classroom Classroom Natural Natural Ventilation Ventilation Natural & Lighting Natural Ventilation & Lighting Ventilation & Lighting & Lighting
Facade Facade for for Facade Facade for for enclosure enclosure enclosure enclosure
Play Lands Play Lands Play Lands Play Lands 4-5 4-5 4-5
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01 2-3 year-old Classrooms 02 3-4 year-old Classrooms 03 4-5 year-old Classrooms 04 Art Room 05 Music Room 06 Indoor Gym 07 Admin Office 08 Teachers Room 01 09 Director Room 12 10 Infirmary 11 Kitchen 12 Storage Room 13 Courtyard Stage 13 13 14 Balcony 15 Sunny Island 16 Roof Garden 04
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Level 2 2-3 classrooms 01 2-3 classrooms 3-4 classrooms 02 3-4 classrooms 4-5 classrooms 03 4-5 classrooms Art room 04 Art room Music 05 room Music room Gym 06 Gym Admin 07 office Admin office Teachers’room 08 Teachers’room Director’s 09 room Director’s room Infirmary 10 Infirmary Kitchen Kitchen 0211 Storage12roomsStorage rooms 1213 stage Courtyard Courtyard stage Balcony14 Balcony Sunny 15 island Sunny island Greenland 16 Greenland 14 14
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Urban Mapping
Urban Mapping Scale 1:50 000
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York Hill, Singapore
Course: Core Studio , Term 6 | Instructor: Kee Wei Hui
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Urban Living
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Land Use mapping
Site Analysis
Land A Use Civic and Community
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Existing corridor lighting condition Land Use mapping
Land Use Civic and Community Commercial Education Healthcare Hotel Mixed-use Residential Religious Utilies Bus stop New massing terracing MRT station
Commercial Education Unit CC Healthcare Hotel Unit Mixed-use Residential Religious Type 1 | Single-height Utilies Community centres: A: Tiong Bahru CC Bus stop B: Kreta Ayer CC MRT station C: ?
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This block of residental block aims to bring communal living right to your door step. Generous pockets of communal spaces are shared among 2-3 units. For larger communal spaces meant for bigger groups are found at the nodes of major circulation paths. Community centres: A: Tiong Bahru CC
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corridor space
Type 2 | Double-height corridor space
Site Analysis
1:500
Terracing away from existing block
1:500
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Urban Mapping Urban Mapping Storey Plan
Facade Design
Scale 1:2000
Model
Communal spaces are scattered horizontally and vertically. 2 types of communal spaces: - Private (shared between 2 units) - Public (meant for large groups) 1:10 0001:10 000
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Land Use mapping
Community centres: A: Tiong Bahru CC B: Kreta Ayer CC Community centres:C: A: ?Tiong Bahru CC B: Kreta Ayer CC C: ?
Site Analysis Site Analysis
Section Scale 1:500 Level 12
Religious Bus stop Utiliesstation MRT Bus stop
MRT station
Level 6
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Unit Plans Scale 1:250
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Detail Scale 1:100 9m
Louvre Facade Wooden Decking Concrete
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Plug-in Space Green courtyard @ SUTD, Singapore Course: Core Studio , Term 4 | Instructor: Pauline Ang
This dynamic, parasitic-looking building is designed to house an exhibition on the top floor and a mini naturally ventilated theatre space on the third. The cicada-wings inspired faรงade is created to keep the building naturally ventilated by the dominant north-wind. The porosity of the faรงade also does not deprive the users on the existing school building of the view of the green courtyard.
EXISTING CORRIDOR
EXISTING CORRIDOR
EXISTING CORRIDOR
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
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Elevations Scale 1:200
West - Sunrise view
East - Sunset view
Singapore Visitor Centre Cairnhill Road
Course: Core Studio , Term 5 | Instructor: Keith Goh
The Singapore Visitor Centre is revamped to connect the future underground access with the ground level crowd. At the same time, it is serves as a resting area for tourists to continue being immersed in the bustling city atmosphere while taking a break at the second floor’s grand stairs. On a bright sunny day, the building is natually lit, while in the night, it will appear as a glowing gem.
Site Analysis
Shaw House A
Study of the treatment of buildings’ entrances at the junctions
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Wheelock Place
ATang Plaza
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ION Orchard
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Lucky Plaza B
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Tong Building
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Paragon C
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Ngee Ann City
Knightsbridge
Mandarin Gallery
Concept The Heeren Mandarin Gallery
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Orchard Shopping Centre
Orchard Building
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Orchard Gateway Emerald E
Orchard Gateway
This Minimal Surface design aims to connect spaces by inducing curiosity to peep through the translucent separater, in this case is the glass curtain-wall. The Rhinomodelled form is optimised by the software Rhino-Kangeroo and this optimised surface is then pieced together by the module which we ultimately chose.
Transcendence Trandescence
Minimal surface along corridor @ SUTD Course: Digital Fabrication, Term 5 | Instructor: Stylianos Dritsas Minimal Surface along SUTD corridor
Modules Generation
Course: Digital Fabrication , Term 5 | Instructor: Stylianos Dritsas Group Project
Form Modeling
Production Process
D-Stress canopy A canopy pattern generated from FEA
Course: Material Computation , Term 7 | Instructor: Sawako Kaijima Group Project
This canopy’s structural system is formed by abstracting Principle Stresslines which are generated from a Finite Element Analysis (FEA) simulation. Input boundary conditions and constraints are similar to that of the actual scenario.
Larger force magnitudes on the diagonals
Larger force magnitudes on one side x
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FEA Simulation Study
Varying magnitude and direction of outwards pulling forces Boundary conditions: - Centralised support - Outward pulling forces
Translation from Digital to Physical Prototype To test it physically and observe how re-enforcing a material using the abstracted Principle Stresslines differ from a normal grid enforcement.
Fabric without reenforcement
Grid pattern on fabric (one sided)
Abstracted Principle Stresslines pattern on fabric (one sided)
Abstracted Principle Stresslines pattern on fabric (two sided)
Chosen FEA pattern and Process of Abstraction
Original p. s-lines
Secondary p. s-lines
Two chosen boundary conditions and their Principle Stresslines by FEA
Method to match the two panels
Primary p. s-lines
Abstracting lines with constant distance apart
Final Abstracted Principle Stresslines pattern
Ar(t)chitecture Jalan Kukoh, Singapore
Course: Thesis , Masters Term 2 | Instructor: Calvin Chua
This thesis objective is to propose different types of architectural facilitation of socially engaged art projects for the community through intervening at commonly found typologies within a HDB neighborhood.
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linear arrangement with greenery on one side
New concepts of art JOSEPH BEUYS: “Every man is an artist.� parallel arrangement with courtyard
self-actualization
artist
social sculptor
social transformation
7000 Oaks
ALLAN KAPROW: three-sided arrangement with elevated podium
life
three-sided elevated enclosure arrangement
art is the momentary experience that was felt by the participation of the viewer within their own life.
art
blurring boundary between art and the environment
Yard 1961
Impacts of socially engaged art
Asian society: not about existing as an individual but to deeply integrate withe the group
art therapy help build individual ego
a non-authoritative environment would be an effective approach
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art as a medium to bridge the differences between individual and the collective
sense of belonging
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Physical platform for bottom-up approach & Both individual + group art production spaces
tackled social issues: - high unemployment rate - teenage pregnancy - drug trafficking
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tackles social issues
Rick Lowe Project Row Houses
operational system: engages external helping hands
Rick Lowe Project Row Houses
- artists - schools - community groups - religious groups - voluntary welfare organizations
Engages external helping hands at a deeper level
concluding the different types of art production platforms for various existing programmes
Site analysis Research & interviews
uncle tokmat's house
a. T, S
teaches small groups of children life values
mdm elva's house
b. helps her neighbour and is part of the RC committee
mdm elva's house
b. S
helps her neighbour and is part of the RC committee
senior activity centre
c. P, S
meals provided and light activities planned
student care centre student care centre
d. a space for learning and play
uncle tokmat's house
senior activity centre
a. teaches small groups of children life values
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meals provided and light activities planned
T, S
a space for learning and play
Programmes & Spatial organization
small enclosed pods of spaces for small group activities or individual use
short section BB’
different volumes of spaces for any form of art exhibition and open group activities
short section CC’
open plan space for little shops set up to spill over onto the remaining roof space
short section DD’
Programmes & Spatial organization
Three different types of spaces designed for the production and appreciation of art. Each respecting the context in which it sits.
screening:
the peoples' art
Long section AA’
T,P (classrooms, studios)
S, T (exhibition space, performing platforms, crit space)
TEACHING storage loading dock
services washroom classroom
crit space
PRACTISING
SHARING studio performance theatre
S (open space for temporary stalls set up)
3D sculpture wood ceramic glass
Programmes & Spatial organization
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Level 1 floor plan
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screening:
screening:
the peoples' theart peoples' art
screening:
the peoples' art
respecting existing columns layout and creating pods of studio spaces for art production
bridging the two programme spaces with a series of staggering floor plates, creating varied volume spaces
big open space with a observation deck for management to oversee events happening
Programmes & Spatial organization
Level 2 floor plan
Ground level floor plan
Axonometric diagram three different context with three different strategies to create spaces for art production and appreciation.
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