ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
( SELECTED WORKS ) by Xin Ying Choo
I grew up in one of the smallest Island in Malaysia- Penang, also known as “The Pearl of Orient�. The architecture in Penang has reflects over 150 years of British presence on the island and adapting local cultures and elements has create a unique and distinctive architectural styles. The cultural adaption across times has developed my interest in architecture where architecture is neither buildings nor forms, but built environment that is completed by the users.
Content
1. Stacking City 2. Maribor University 2112 3. Skinnic Melbourne 4. Student Housing CBD 5. Agro- Housing Future 6. Housing Castlemaine 7. Microcosm 8. Fitzroy Horizontal Fashion Museum 9. Morewell 2-in-1 Stadium 10. Flagstaff Library 11. Fitzroy Community Hub
to be continued ...
My portfolio will demonstrated various ways of approaching architecture and a series of drawing styles and skills.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name
: Xin Ying Choo
Date of Birth : 15 February 1990 Mobile
: 0425897118
: xinyingchoo.90@gmail.com
Address
: 3205/200 Spencer Street, Melbourne 3000
University Education
: Master of Architectural Design RMIT University
Skills (years)
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6
Autocad
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Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign
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Rhino with V-Ray
Language
Rhino with Grasshopper Sketchup Digital Project Microsoft Office Revit Physical Model Making
: Proficient in (spoken and written) English, Mandarin, Malay, Cantonese, Hokkien
Participation : 2012 Transiting Cities: Low Carbon Futures Projective Networks Design Workshop 2011 Urban Futures Workshop Ref : http://www.urbanfutures.net/ workshop-2012 (Microcosm) Competition
: Venice Architecture Biennale Australian Pavilon 2012 (shortlisted)
Work Experience
: Telechoice Melbourne Central (June 2012- November 2012) Parkson Gurney Plaza, Malaysia (January 2008- February 2008)
Referees
: Bern Na (Telechoice Melbourne Central Manager) Ph: +61420871688 John Cherrey (RMIT University Senior Lecturer) Email: john.cherry@rmit.edu.au
“ Urban densities and evolving building techniques have affected the mixing of functions, piling up atop another, defying critics who contend that a building should ‘look like what it is’ (Steven Holl and Joseph Fenton)
STACKING CITY A VERTICAL DISPLAY OF A SERIES OF EXISTING BUILDING COLLECTIONS EXPLORING A NEW HYBRID CONDITIONS
With the consistent increasing populations within Melbourne CBD, where density is predicted to be double by 2030, and the importance of education sector in the knowledge economy, my project aimed to establish a new urban identity of a future model of a vertical city through stacking typology, continuing city line at A’Beckett Street. The idea of Stacking City will be a collective of memories of the existing city fabric, featuring series of collective buildings that will be stacked and explored in ways that plans exist as sections, maintaining its present conditions and cooperating with learning environments. The future learning environment display has focus on overlapping organisation, informal spaces and bridging of spaces where learning should happen at anytime and anywhere. For example, RMIT has been its leading role of establishing a future learning environment maximise its advantage of central city location and intergrading the campus physically around the city, allowing students to learn and experience the living city, whereas traditional learning model such as Melbourne University where services such as bank, post office, theatre, cafes are located within the campus. Melbourne University can be defined as a hybrid functions within the blocks whereas RMIT is hybridising the city. My interest lies in generating a new hybrid conditions on buildings should look like what it is, maintaining its purpose and allowing university to emerge itself as a living city. The outcome of the stacking city will be the inception of illustrating a new mode of continuing city where the city is reflected vertically.
Living within campus
work in campus
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campus as playground
living the lifestyle
The idea of the future learning city.
Exploration of mass volumes of programs in selected site.
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The proposed Stacking City has explored plans of existing buildings as sections, where the buildings should look like what it is.
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Stewert Street will continue the trajectory from the CBD, and grathering place between Building 80 and the proposed Stacking City.
Large void to increase the interactions of interior and exterior. Large corridors to encourage social activities.
Public space between stackings to allow users to embrace the architectural of different preception.
Reading rooms are transformed to learning corridor to enhance learning and social activities.
The existing study area is transformed into circulation path that links the floating library.
MARIBOR UNIVERSITY 2112 AMPLIFICATION OF MERGING SPACES ACROSS LEVELS TO ENHANCE INTERACTIONS AND LEARNING PROCESS
Maribor University aims to explore the processes of applying nature’s behavioral pattern ( volcanic eruption ) in creating dynamic interesting spaces. The process begins with researches regarding to types of volcanos eruption, rates of eruptions and the processes of eruptions. Further that, self- rules are added and rates of eruption is established and apply to the modules. The project has explored a series of application either from the sectionally or horizontally. The final scheme has been set up in a series of points that is projected from the surrounding urban blocks at site. Also, the outcome has cooperate with the terrain mapping at the surrounding to increase the intensity and creating more interesting quality spaces. The idea of future learning environment also been applied to create intergration of learning environment within levels. For example, one may experience the gallery view through the learning lab, to be able to enjoy the atmosphere of 2 environment at the same time. The process of applying the behavioral pattern to design has clearly amplified the condition of the environment of intergration between spaces levels of the project and bring the future learning environment into a whole new level.
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Rules and Application from Process (Volcanioc Eruption) Various typology of programs are set up and experiments with the percentage of eruption process
Further Exploration of Process Breaking off the ground level from the basement
Additional Layers to Increase Quality of Intensity Generation of terrain mapping from the maribor map
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Cooperating with Terrain Mapping to Adjust the Programs Before Process Application The level of heightfield is experimented with various strength to generate the program mapping
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Further Exploration of Terrain Mapping The terrain set up a base point before starting the process and also act as the ending point of generating pathways
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The open roof digital room overlooking the gallery above or vice versa.
The wide corridor encourage informal learning activities to occur.
The open roof library act as the central hub within the university.
Large gathering spaces to hall various university events.
SKINNIC MELBOURNE EXPERIENCING CITY IN ALL PERSPECTIVES
Skinnic Melbourne is a 64 storeys high residential tower project located at the edge of Melbourne CBD, with living concept of obtaining 2 city perspective of the city within an apartment unit. Also, the colour scheme of the tower is driven by the colours adapting from the surrounding site.
The increasing residential apartments in Melbourne CBD has derived the new preception of lifestyle where residents obtain small living area, the developer has to develop small area and making most living areas out of it. However, my design encourages great living area and maximising the land usage as well
FORMS GENERATION Each of the form is generated through a series of floor plans where each units contained two perspectives and is arrangedn through a series of explorations to allow the form embodies the icon as an edge tower. The final scheme chosen consist a series of breakdowns and the sides of each corner to emphasis the voids and breakdown
COLOUR SCHEMES ADAPTION The colour scheme of Skinnic is adapted from its surrounding site, containing 67 screens type. Elevation B
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The living area that maximises the city view providing great living pleasure for the residents of Skinnic Melbourne.
STUDENT HOUSING CBD PROPER MODERN LIVING FOR STUDENTS
The concept of ‘Student Housing CBD’ is to create a comfortable zone for residents in the apartment. The main aim of the project is to explore the understanding of concrete structure and planning scheme, challeging the planning limitations and following design guidelines based on BCA Class2.
Ground Floor Plan
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AGRO- HOUSING FUTURE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE LIVING THAT ADAPTS DENSITY ACROSS TIME
Agro- Housing Future is a project that deals with suburb’s urban growth engaging with surrounding programs through sustainable approach and advance solutions, based on affordable living concept. The concept of sustainabiliy is to reduce region waste, increase efficienct and food independence contribution through educating people skills and strengthen the community between residents. The idea of a continuos educating loop is generated on ground floor to enhance the participation of local community and serving as example of agro- housing. Agro- housing is a architecture prototype where the building is supported by a steel frame structure that allow individual units to be plug into the frame. Also each unit is design in flexible ways to allow expansions ranging from one bedroom unit to three bedroom units when necessary.
Conceptual Diagram
Vehicle Access
Extention of existing childcare centre
Planning with voids to allow expansion
Area zoning
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Units Expansions Diagram
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Flexible Space Vegetation Corner 1 Bedroom Unit 2 Bedrooms Unit 3 Bedrooms Unit Void Car Space
The megastructure that supports the increasing housing units
Vehicle access
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Section indicating the central vegetable farm to encourage residents and visitors to grow their own greens.
All living area overlooking at the central farm.
Warehouse at ground level that is flexible to adapt function. For example, AgroHousing will host market monthly to allow residents to sell the organic vegetables as well as encouraging people to lead a healthy lifestyle.
The residents harvest their own organic vegetables.
HOUSING CASTLEMAINE INTERGRATING SURROUNDING CONTEXT IN VARIOUS ASPECTS
Housing Castlemaine has explored the context intergration with the surrounding existing contents.The aim is to define the boundary of Templeton Street and Hargraves Street to create a relationship and engaging the surrounding context in heights, volumes, materiality and boundary. From the site analysis, my interpretation towards the site that it has a very dynamic landscape creating dynamic degree of fall. Also, the laneways between buildings is interesting in providing glimpse of layers of frames. In consideration to several urban issues with the surrounding, Housing Castlemaine has not only engage to the surrounding context and also layering in public, semi public and private space. The idea is translated through the wall between public and semi-private area zone. The diagram display shown the relationship of the height and urban blocks with the surrounding context. Therefore, a series of exploration aiming to defining the boundary of Castlemaine, through a series of diagrams towards the proposed planning and section.
Diagram A displaying the height projection with the surrounding context
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Diagram B displaying the boundary relationship with the surrounding
Diagram C displaying the height projection with the surrounding context
Diagram D displaying the height projection with the surrounding context
The framing of Continue Education from Templeton Street
Community courtyard framing St Mary Church
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House Type 1 ( Family Housing)
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House Type 2 ( Single/ Couple Housing)
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Entrance of the house framing the surrounding social context
Walking into the living area
Kitchen that frame the community garden
Bedroom adressing the materiality in relationship with the surrounding
MICROCOSM UNIFIED THE DIVERSITY, CHALLENGING SCALES AND VOLUMES, ALSO PRESERVING THE PROGRAMS, CULTURE OF GOLDEN GAI
Micro-Urbanism is a project that unified the diversity in Golden Gai, challenging scales and volumes, also preserving the program, essence, culture and atmosphere of the existing area. The project enveloped with a density distribution across levels that creating a situation where small volumes, tight spaces are grouping at lower level and large volumes, big spaces are grouping at higher level. By creating a height relationship of the surrounding area, it has act as the center point between the shrine and tower. The existing hierarchical path has generated the programs and circulations of the project. The public and private areas are defined across levels, by grouping public program at lower level and private program at higher level. The programs include: Public – restaurant, café, bar Semi- Public- retail, gallery, studio, office, museum Private – residence, theatre, gym & fitness The project contains a network of access points and a continuous flow through the structure, both logical primary circulation in the center and secondary circulation in and along the exterior. There are also numerous entry points for efficient access of shop owners and customers as well as residents. There is also visual communication across the levels to creating experience for people to move across the transition of spaces and levels. The level of detailing of the appearance has also defined the programs across the levels where the shops and retails appear in rich details and the residential and theatre has simple detail. In conclusion, Micro- Urbanism has challenge the logical way of scales and volumes grouping across levels that giving Golden Gai a whole new appearance but also maintaining the busy and tight atmosphere.
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FITZROY HORIZONTAL FASHION MUSEUM EXPRESSING ARCHITECTURE THROUGH FASHION
Fitzroy Fashion Museum aims to explore the process of context intergration for transforming fashion into architecture. The design is inspired by fashion accessoriesheels, deriving from various collections such as Ninna Ricci’s Fall and Winter 2009, Alexander Mcqueen’s Spring Summer 2010 and Salvatore Ferrangamo’s Rainbow Platform 1938. Also, precedents such as Sanna’s Rolex Centre and Metropol Parasol are take into consideration for its free flow circulation studies and the complex structure as my design consist of irregular forms through a mixture of the Ninna Ricci’s heel and Rainbow Platform. Arthenon Garden is located within the fashion streets and next to a community flats. My aim of the project is to create a high end museum but it has taken up a large area within the garden, therefore the space and circulation has to be well- designed in order to provide the main users of the garden which is the residents of the community flat an alternate space. The next step is to create a series of plan studies and form experimentations. They have to be explored at the same time, as they are interrelated. The final outcome has cooperated with various elements from structure to program and to the circulation within exterior and interior.
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NINNA RICCI’S FALL WINTER 2009
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SALVATORE FERRAGAMO 1938 RAINBOW PLATFORM
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MATRIX OF IDEAS (FASHION MUSEUM)
SANAA ROLEX LEARNING CENTRE EXISTING FOLIAGE MAPPING
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Horizontal Fashion Museum consist of 2 levels where the main entrance is located at the corner of Brunswick and Gertrude Street where the alternate entrance is located within the Courtyard. This exploded axon has shown the structure within the museum. ( having the steel panel and frosted glass attached to the steel frame) The façade is design partly transparent to create a relationship of the people and the environment within the interior and exterior. Green space is very important within Arthenon Garden, the project also aims to maintain as much greenery as possible. Therefore the museum contains green space within the interior.The courtyard space has provide an alternate space that is taken away from the residents in the community flats and the park’s visitors. Overall, my project has cooperated with a series of elements and through a series of process. It has been planned and transformed the area step by step. Form experimentations and plan development are the key point throughout the process design as they are inter- related, the form of the museum is very extreme, therefore, the circulation of the exterior and interior and together with the surrounding have to be well-planned for site engaging purpose and creating a sense of comfort for the people within the surroundings as it has clearly stand as an iconic building. UNDULATING ROOF
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Reception Area with preservation of existing plants
A walk through fashion display featuring 80’s fashion
Fashion Runway where ground level exist as platform and spectators sit at the sunken seating area.
A series of experimental models thoughout the semester exploring the transformation of shoes into architecture.
MOREWELL 2-IN-1 STADIUM PROGRAMMATIC REPOSITION ALLOWING INDOOR AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES TO COEXIST IN A STADIUM
Morwell 2 in 1 stadium has explored them programmatic reposition in Morwell thus creating a better interaction between human and environment. According to the site analysis, there has been lack of access to the site. It is located far from the railway station, lack of commercial area and is surrounded by the residential area. Therefore the surrounding area is re-transformed to improve the connectivity and networks of the selected site. The idea of the stadium design is to extend the circulation from the existing bowling centre. The stadium also consist of indoor and outdoor activities with indoor badminton court and outdoor soccer field. Also, the stadium is designed consisting of exposed structure having the concrete and glaze attaching to the steel frame and all of them area supported by the primary structure. The area can be transformed into a free use space if there is no match held and residents are allowed to use the area freely. This flexible transformation may not only create a better relationship between the residents and also appreciation to the environment.
Field Retail shops/ stalls Serivice spaces Circulations
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View from indoor stadium that allows spectators to view badminton match and soccer match at the same time
View from outdoor stadium that allows spectators to view soccer match and badminton match at the same time
A soccer match atmosphere
FLAGSTAFF LIBRARY MERGING SKIN DESIGN TOGETHER WITH STRUCTURE OF THE BUILDING
Flagstaff Library aims to explore process of skin design and blending structure as part of the design. The first approach towards the project is to explore various design fields such as industrial and architecture to generate ideas for the skin design. I’ve chosen to derive my ideas through some projects such as BENCH from BOOKHOU design, CH2(Council House 2)by DesignInc and Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito. The design of Sendai Mediatheque has blended structure into design. The columns of Sendai Mediatheque has not only act as the main supporters of the building but also contain function as well such as contains elevators and 4 carry the duct and wires. For my design, I am inspired by layers and contours. Therefore, I did some tracings as contour studies in order to have a better understanding of the dynamic lines formed and areas to adapted from. Later, I’ve created a series of lines that inspired by contours and layering them onto the primary steel structure. After that, the skin is further refined, having the gaps between the lines filled in to create an illusion of dynamic light filters.
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Finally, Flagstaff Library consists of three levels, having the skin design attached to 2 sides and another full- transparency on another two sides. The intensity of the light filters are in depend of the program in within. For example, it is more intense in privacy area compare to public area. The skin has act as the secondary structure, that is mapped to timber supporting frame together with the glass faรงade and supported mainly by the steel portal frame.
FINAL SCHEME
Overall, it requires a series design and refine process and the outcome has created a spatial rhythm binding the public space, activity spaces and individual spaces with the area creating networks between the interior and exterior within the library and garden.
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FITZROY COMMUNITY HUB CIRCULATION MANIPLUATION TO IMPROVE CIRCULATION OF FITZROY NORTH
Site analysis is very important in this project, therefore it had become my first approach. Fitzroy North has very good networks and packed of residential, industrial and commercial areas. However, the selected site is less dense and has been surrounded by capital city trail and residents area. Also, precedent studies such as MOCA Cleveland by FOA (Foreign Ofiice Architect) is taken as reference. The museum design has improve the urban revitalization of Clevelends. The way of the geometry of the museum has created a bold icon for the site. It is designed in such way as it is inspired by the site’s triangular geometry at the intersections of the street, and all the morphing of geometrical and slopes has derived the design to such abstract form. The next stage is to explore strategy for the design concept through a series of massing studies. My strategy towards the design is to create a dense space by linking all surrounding streets such as Holden Street, Park Street and St George Road to a centre point. After that, a series of diagrams is created together with the refinement of plan studies in
order to refine the circulation within the exterior and together with the interior before reaching the final outcome. The diagram has shown the surrounding context around the site such as the residential and commercial area, the surrounding street and pathway and by linking them to a centre point from 3 direction. The plan has shown the programs are divided into 3 areas having the entrance from three direction. After a series of plan refinement process, has lead to the final outcome. Fitzroy Community Centre consist of three different entrance, creating a free flow circulation allowing visitors to enter from all sites deriving from the idea of street linking to centre point. It also consists of an undulating roof with the solid one as the building and the free exposed structure as the entry point from streets. Overall, it requires various process and different stages throughout the design either from site analysis to massing studies, plan developments and refinement. Therefore, process has act as very important tool in creating an outcome that has totally transformed the area.
Site Analysis
Site Strategy
Massing Studies
Ground Floor Plan
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Section B
Reception Hall
Central Courtyard
DETAILS STUDIES a series of detail studies is explored using the existing precedents
HEIDI EDUCATION CENTRE BY O’CONNOR + HOULE
CONTOUR HOUSE BY BKK
PHYSICAL MODELS A selected range of physical model that I developed throughout the architecture years at RMIT University ranging from laser-cutting machine, 3D printer and manual hand-cut.
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