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CONTENT
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01 MEDIUM RISE DESIGN STUDIO
12-17
02 PARAMETRIC DESIGN STUDIO
18-21
03 RENOVATION DESIGN STUDIO
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MEDIUM RISE DESIGN STUDIO
W.A. RETREAT MIXUSE BUILDING Semester 2, 2015 Individual Work
The brief calls for a multipurpose building to accommodate a hotel and headquarters for two selected DSIGs and my own architectural practise in 2045, including gallery, seminar rooms and necessary facilities. Location: 113 Batman Street, West Melbourne Selected DSIGs: Yoga Association, National Association of Visual Arts
VIEW FROM ROOFTOP SWIMMING POOL OVER THE ATRIUM
W.A. RETREAT
NORTH EAST PERSPECTIVE
FORM MAKING PROCESS
W.A. RETREAT
Aims to create a space which can lead users to feel like they are living under water and walking in air simultaneously, reflecting on human's irresistible wish to live in unusual space and land resource scarcity. In order to create a space “under water�, the building is designed to incorporate as much water as possible, specially in the facade structure. For the facade, it is a double skin facade system which has a outer layer with PV curtain wall system and an internal layer with a water wall system. Incorporating with the glass bottom rooftop pool, the caustics lighting effects can create the atmosphere that would be ablle to make users think they are under water. And to realize the idea of walking in air, I design the transparent corridor which crossing over the atrium in the first four levels. The system consists of transparent balustrade and solid concrete steps and ramp to secure the load bearing capacity and the transparent balustrade is made of aerogel which is a supermaterial with strong load bearing capacity and transparency. And the building suggests a circulation that travelling from exterior to interior and back exterior and interior again, letting people to fell the fluidity in air.
W.A. RETREAT
HOTEL RESIDENTIAL TYPICAL HOTEL GUEST ROOM
1:50 HOTEL GUEST ROOM LAYOUT
The hotel guest bedroom enjoys highest level of privacy in the building. Users can choose to expose theirselves to the surrealistic atrium via their balcony in the room, which can allow them to "float in air" and "under water" simultenously. Also, the water wall facade is designed to create caustics lighting in every bedroom to emphasize the "under water" atmosphere. Furniture follows the fluidity of the building as well.
W.A. RETREAT
FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:400
CAR PARK FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:400
THIRD FLOOR SKY GARDEN LEVEL FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:400
TYPICAL HOTEL RESITENTIAL LEVEL FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:400
FIRST FLOOR RESTAURANT LEVEL FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:400
FOURTH FLOOR YOGA SEMINAR LEVEL FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:400
ROOFTOP POOL FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:400
SECOND FLOOR OFFICE LEVEL FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:400
TYPICAL HOTEL RESITENTIAL LEVEL FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:400
SECTION A-A SCALE 1:300
W.A. RETREAT-STUDIO FIRE
FACADE SYSTEM
TYPICAL FACADE GLAZING COATING
It is a double skin facade system which has a outer layer with PV curtain wall system and an internal layer with a water wall system, as shown in the typical wall detail drawing. Switchable glazing panels are installed for the water wall system to increase the flexibility between private and open as well as HAVC aspects.
URBAN STRATEGY PROPOSAL
1:300 GROUND FLOOR PLAN
SITE ANALYSIS AND PROPOSAL
Part of Batman Street is taken to recreate a natural centre for the building and surrounding residents, which allows plants to grow over wall to attract people. It is to recall the nature and to create a corresponding interaction with Flagstaf Garden. In the end, it is designed to emphasize and reflect on human's greed over all these 30 years.
W.A. RETREAT-STUDIO FIRE
GROUND FLOOR GALLERY Aim to maximise street exposure to attract public Available for both Visual Arts Association and architectural practise Water wall facade system can avoid direct sunlight from damaging art works.
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PARAMETRIC DESIGN STUDIO
TREE PAVILION Pavilion Semester 1, 2015 Individual Work
The brief focuses on exploring parametric and computational design via Grasshopper and its associated plug-in programs, which leads us to challenge conventional design thinking and social norms. It is facilitated by digital fabrication to foresee innovative design future. Location: Egan Reserve, Coburg, Merri Creek
EAST PERSPECTIVE
TREE PAVILION
Tree Pavillion aims to become an experiement and observation space for surrounding residents and potential tourists to witness how human behavior has interrupted nature. It would show pavilion's impact on embraced trees as controlling and reducing sunlight received by the tree with the specially coated panels.The coating on panels can block sunlight from transmitting through.
STRUCTURAL SKELETON
DESIGN EXPLORATION-POTENTIAL PANEL DESIGN 1-2
TREE PAVILION
CONSTRUCTION PROCESS
SPECIALLY COATED PANEL
DESIGN EXPLORATION-POTENTIAL PANEL DESIGN 3
DESIGN EXPLORATION-FINAL PANEL DESIGN
TREE PAVILION
GRADUAL CHANGES OF EMBRACED TREES Embraced trees are expected to grow slowlier than unimpacted trees at first, then tend to relative obvious height differences. At the end, they would wither away.
PAVILION INTERIOR
TREE PAVILION
WEST PERSPECTIVE
3D PRINT MASS MODEL
The key to computational design is to realize the digital model into practical physical structure which can fulfill load bearing capacity requirement and the key to assemble the physical is the joint. After experiements with prototypes of different joint proposal, the photos show the final potential joint that can achieve required angles.
1:2 JOINT DETAIL MODEL
1:2 CONNECTION MODEL
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RENOVATION DESIGN STUDIO
BLURHOUSE Boathouse Semester 2, 2014 Individual Work
Studio water aims to redesign the existing boathouse in Yarra Bend Park, learning from the outstanding German architect Mies van der Rohe, whose style can be summarised into simplicity, functionality and materiality. Master: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Location: Studley Park, Yarra Bend park, Melbourne
BLURHOUSE
CAFE
CENTRALISED FUNCTIONAL AREA
CAR PARK
REASTAURANT BOATHOUSe WORKSHOP
SITE PLAN SHOWING THE CORRIORS CONNECTING CAFE, KIOSK, OFFICE, RESTAURANT AND BOATHOUS WORKSHOP
STUDLEY PARK ROAD
MATERIAL: AEROGEL AND CONCEPT DIAGRAM
PHYSICAL MODEL AT 1:100 SCALE
Blurhouse emphasized the materiality of cutting-edge material-Aerogel, which is super load bearing capacity and tranlucence. Following Mies' spirit in simplicity and horizontality, Blurhouse is designed to maximise interior space and bluring the edge between exterior and interior in order to propose a new relationship between human and architecture. EAST ELEVATION
BLURHOUSE
CAFE INTERIOR