Alyssa Yap: Architecture Portfolio & CV (RIBA PART II)

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A L Y S S A YA P

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malaysian chinese email: alyssa.yzlin@gmail.com contact: (60) 177973379 Taman Bukit Maluri, 52100 Kepong, Wilayah Persekutuan Kualal Lumpur

E D U C AT I O N 2018 - 2 0 2 0 O XFO R D B R O O K E S U N IVERS IT Y ( U N IT ED K IN GD O M)

MA S T E R IN A R C HTITECTURE ( RIBA PART II)

Y E AR 1 SPE CI ALI SATION: IA RD (IN TERN ATION A L A RCHITE CT URE REGENERAT ION & D EV EL OP M ENT )

Y E AR 2 SPE CI ALI SATION: DS4 (ON THE B ORDERS - B ELGRAD E: T URBO CIT IES - F ORM AL AND INF ORM AL CONS EQUENCES )

2012 - 2 0 1 6 TAY LO R ’ S UN I V E R SI T Y ( M A L AY S IA )

F O U N D AT ION IN NATURAL & BUILT ENVIRONM ENT

B A C H E L O R OF SCIENCE ( HONOURS) IN ARCHITECTUR E

COMPETITIONS 2017 E VOLO I N TE R N ATI O N A L S K Y S C RA P ER C OM P ETITIO N

WO R K IN G IN PA IR, W E DESIGNED A SKYSCAPER AIM ED TO SOLVE T H E ISSU E OF L OW L IVIN G QU A L IT Y OF T H E C OM M U N IT Y IN H O N G K O N G .

D U E TO L IMIT E D S PA C E ,W E PROPOSED A SPACE W HICH IS LITER A L LY “ JOIN T ” W IT H T H E EXIST IN G ST R U C T U R E, A SSEM B L ED L IK E A H I V E .

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P R O G R A MME S U C H A S L IBRARY, GARDEN IN THE SKY, CLINIC, AN D ET C A R E PR OPOSED A C C OR D IN G T H E C ON D IT ION OF T H E “ H IVE “ A R E A .

2012 SPART FE ST A RT FE ST IVA L

D U R IN G MY F O UNDATION YEAR, I REPRESENTED TAYL OR ’S U N IVER SIT Y AT T H E SPA R T F EST A R T F EST IVA L 2012. T H E T HE ME WA S

TO D E S IGN A N IMME R S IV E STRUCTURE TO RAISE AWARENESS IN GL OB A L WA R M IN G. A S A T EA M L EA D ER , I WA S IN C H A R GE OF D E S I G N A N D D E V E L OP ME N T OF T H E P R OJECT AND THE PRESENTATION OF TH E F IN A L PR OD U C T.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2016 - 2 0 1 8 JO A R CHI TE CTS |

A SSISTA N T A RCHITECT

TOOK PA R T IN RESIDENTIAL & COM M ERCIAL SUBM ISSION PR OJEC T S ( K M , B P & T EN D ER ) , IN T ER IOR D ESIGN PR OJEC T S.

2015 - 2 0 1 6 JIMMY L I M DE SI G N |

A SSISTA N T A RCHITECT

IN C H A R G E O F EXHIBITION SPACE PLANNING FOR AU C T ION AT M ID VA L L EY

TOOK PA R T IN A THEM E PARK & RESORT PROJECT IN T H A IL A N D

2014 DE SIGN & B UI LT 2 S T OR EY T ERR A C ED H OU S E | F REEL ANCER

( PART NER OF T W O)

Hello, I am Alyssa Yap, a Malaysian Chinese ! I’m a RIBA Part II Graduate designer and a creative seeker. Throughout my academic career, I have discovered a philosophy that entails design as an interdisciplinary and collective effort to resopnd to contemporary needs and future issues. I am passionate, self-driven, hard-working and willing to go above and beyond to design spaces that respond to human needs.

SKILLS A U T OCAD 3 DS M AX SK E T C HUP 3D R H I N OCEROUS A DOB E PHOTOS HOP A DOB E ILLUS TRATOR A DOB E PREMIERE PRO A DOB E AFTER EFFECTS

LANGUAGE

(WRITTEN & SPOKEN)

C HI N ES E (NATIVE) E N GLI SH M A LAY C A N T ONES E

WEBSITE & LINKED IN ZL I N STUDI O h t t p: //yapzhongl in.wixsite.com/ zlinstud io

LIN K E D I N www.l inkedin.c om/in/a lyssa ya p zl

A L Y S S A YA P 叶 凇 伶

马来西亚华裔 邮件 ：alyssa.yzlin@gmail.com 手机 ：(60) 177973379 所在地：吉隆玻，马来西亚

学历 2018 - 2 0 2 0 牛津布 鲁 克 斯 大 学 （ 英 国 ）

MA S T E R IN A R C HTITECTURE ( RIBA PART II)

Y E AR 1 SPE CI ALI SATION: IA RD (IN TERN ATION A L A RCHITE CT URE REGENERAT ION & D EV EL OP M ENT )

Y E AR 2 SPE CI ALI SATION: DS4 (ON THE B ORDERS - B ELGRAD E: T URBO CIT IES - F ORM AL AND INF ORM AL CONS EQUENCES )

2012 - 2 0 1 6 泰莱大 学 （ 马 来 西 亚 ）

F O U N D AT ION IN NATURAL & BUILT ENVIRONM ENT

B A C H E L O R OF SCIENCE ( HONOURS) IN ARCHITECTUR E

招标竞赛 2017 E VOLO I N TE R N ATI O N A L S K Y S C RA P ER C OM P ETITIO N

与同学二人合作，我们设计了“摩天大厦”以解决香港社区生活质量低下的问题。由于香港空间有限的问题，

我们提出了一个与现有结构“紧密结合”的空间，就像一个蜂巢一样。根据“蜂巢”区域的条件，提出了诸如图书 馆，空 中 花 园 ， 诊 所 等 程 序 。 2012 SPART FE ST A RT FE ST IVA L

2012年，我代表泰莱大学参加SPARTFEST艺术节。该主题旨在设计一种沉浸式结构，以提高人们对全球暖化的

意识。 作 为 团 队 负 责 人 ， 我 负 责 项 目 的 设 计 和 开 发 以 及最终产品的展示。

专业经验 2016 - 2 0 1 8 JO A R CHI TE CTS |

A SSISTA N T A RCHITECT

代表公司出差到甲方公司提出设计方案（外观，室内设计，建筑结构）。参与了建筑方案到施工图完整阶段设计

（医院 ， 商 场 ， 公 寓 ） 2015 - 2 0 1 6 JIMMY L I M DE SI G N |

A SSISTA N T A RCHITECT

在 吉 隆 坡 ， 负 责 艺 术 拍 卖 活 动 的 展 览 空 间 规划。参与了泰国度假胜地和主题公园项目的设计阶段以及客 户会议。

2014 DE SIGN & B UI LT 2 S T OR EY T ERR A C ED H OU S E | F REEL ANCER

( PART NER OF T W O)

你好，

我喜欢抽空参观诸如建筑甚至艺术，

我是叶凇伶（Alyssa），马来西亚华裔。

和插图作品之类的展览。

我真的很喜欢设计过程，想要成为一名建筑师。

我喜欢研究其背后的概念和故事。

有时，我喜欢随身携带素描本并涂鸦。

我衷心希望，

我充满了对建筑系的热诚，自我驱动，勤奋工作，

我有机会能够加入您成长中的公司，

并且希望能够不断挑战和超越自我， 设计出满足人类需求的空间。

技能展现 A U T OCAD 3 DS M AX SK E T C HUP 3D R H I N OCEROUS A DOB E PHOTOS HOP A DOB E ILLUS TRATOR A DOB E PREMIERE PRO A DOB E AFTER EFFECTS

精通语言

(WRITTEN & SPOKEN)

C HI N ES E (NATIVE) E N GLI SH M A LAY C A N T ONES E

WEBSITE & LINKED IN ZL I N STUDI O h t t p: //yapzhongl in.wixsite.com/ zlinstud io

LIN K E D I N www.l inkedin.c om/in/a lyssa ya p zl

谢谢。

01 RE-INCARNATING BELGRADE: TREE OF LIFE Narrating Life and Death at Belgrade Fortress In search of personal and national identity, can architecture helps the people see themselves in the new nation?

The multiple layers of memory in the interplay with urban emotional symbolism have a significant role in shaping city identity and its future. Ultimately, architects have a power that politician lack. The idea is to uncover and link lost historical narratives developed through the clues/ findings of myth versus reality particularly through the story of Orpheus who descended to the underworld from the Roman Well (Belgrade Fortress) to retrieve his lover, Eurydice. The aim of this study is to explore or create a new beginning of Belgrade scattered in time and in space. Conveyed through the narrative of a fictional journey from the Myth of Orpheus (love, life and death), the project designs a wedding and funeral procession using the notion of : i. Tree of Life (Roman Well at Belgrade Fortress) ii. Sun path in relation to Spiritual Horizon Oxford Brookes University RIBA Part II Year 2 Project Tutors: Nicholas Boyarsky Jason Coleman Louise Cann

The Convergence of Two Tales, 2020 (A3 Paper Collage)

Map of Myth (A1, Inked Drawing)

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RE-DISCOVERING IDENTITY: A SURREAL JOURNEY

Today, Belgrade still remain as a surreal existence among the Europe countries. All too often, the city – desired by many invaders during the 20 past centuries for its strategic importance, lying at the border between Orient and Occident – has been 40 times conquered, destroyed and rebuilt.

As a result, different architectural layers mingle with modern movements and the search for identity. There comes a time when the spiritual horizon slowly closes when moral principles are lost because moral does not exist without the community.

Turning away from the horrors of the Yugoslav wars and the realities of contemporary politics, these new turbo-sculptures are seen as mere means of promoting tourism or international investment rather than memory. They do not deal with relevant events or figures from Serbia’s more recent history. Belgrade Fortress seems as the most important heritage that kept the local community together yet unable to ankhor their identity as Serbian.

Therefore, the project started discovering a local routes to the Belgrade Fortress and introduced a spiritual journey.

02 Mapping of Visual Axis towards Belgrade Fortress

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Turbo -folk Sculpture in Belgrade, Serbia

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Layers of history underneath Belgrade Fortress, Serbia

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ANIMATION OF THE SITE EXPERIENCE (CLICK TO PLAY)

Belgrade Unseen: Through the Eyes of Orpheus

The animation portrays unseen and imagination as I explored fortress.

Hints and clues pointing the next destination.

It aims to illustrate the mysterious Belgrade Fortress with it’s existing ruins.

ANIMATION OF PROJECT PROPOSAL (CLICK TO PLAY)

02 INSTALLATION: BELGRADE AT WAR The Cycle of the City Destruction - Recovery - Rebirth The concept of the Phoenix is used to resemble the idea of a cyclical process that sees ‘Destruction’, ‘Recovery’ and ‘Rebirth’ as the main stages of regeneration, and ultimately simulating the way in which Belgrade has existed throughout time. The project developed through an exploration of materials that could illustrate these three stages and the installation’s final structure is divided into layers that capture the essence and the traces of each phase. The 20th century was chosen to be the focus for the installation, and the video sequence is split into three different periods of this time: 1) Between WW1 and WW2; 2) During the Socialist Era; 3) The late 20th century Belgrade.

The installation is based on devastating events that have negatively affected the society during these periods, but also on the way people have worked to repair the damage in order to continue to grow.

Oxford Brookes University RIBA Part II Year 2 Project Tutors: Nicholas Boyarsky Jason Coleman Louise Cann

The Moodboard Collage, 2019

EXHIBITION LAUNCHING DAY

Setting up the Exhibition

1914 - 1944 World War I & II

1945 Communist

- 1991 t Yugoslavia

1992 - 2000s Nato Bombing

RE-PURPOSED STRUCTURE

The Rebirth: After the Exhibition

The Phoenix, 2019 The structure is now placed back in our studio used by tutors and students

In case you missed the exhibition ...

Please watch the full installation video here: https://youtu.be/49rtcYoLYRk (Own work)

PROUDLY FEATURED ON OSA (OXFORD SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE) MAGAZINE OSA Official Website https://www.osamag.co.uk/single-post/2019/11/01/Week-6-2810---0111

03 CREATIVE HOUSE: A CREATIVE HUB FOR THE PEOPLE Providing opportunities through creative clustering The project aim to provide a sustainable regeneration and the key players involved in the process. By understanding the needs of the local community and working with key stakeholders, a careful design strategies should have applied to address social deprivation through regeneration. There is emerging evidence that the places where people live are an important factor in determining and sustaining inequalities in health outcomes between individuals. Many studies have suggested a higher level of deprivation is consistently related to poorer health outcomes (Marie, A, Baker A and Fellows, C 2017).

With social deprivation identified as the main issue in Norwich, we aim to improve individual and community health and wellbeing through mixed housing development and art-driven programme, providing opportunities for different communities.

The project scheme focuses on enhancing and reconnecting the existing square and community, while preserving the square’s original identity.

Oxford Brookes University RIBA Part II Year 1 Project Tutors: Matt Gaskin (Head of School) Julia Wedel

Refurbished Elevation of Sovereign House, 2019

ADDRESSING SOCIAL DEPRIVATION Health

Crime

SOCIAL

Employment

ECONOMIC

Living Condition (Air Quality) most deprived

ENVIRONMENTAL least deprived

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The Artists’ Workspace Study predicted that up to 3,500 artists’ workspaces would be lost in the coming five years, with evidence suggesting that many artists would opt to move abroad to cities like Berlin, Dublin and Brussels.

(Artists’ workspace study: report and recommendations., 2014)

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“ Study has find social mobility in Norfolk is some what the worst in England.

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Map showing Index of Multiple Deprivation in Norfolk (Norfolkinsight.org.uk. n.d.).

The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) 2015 is the official measure of relative deprivation for small areas (or neighbourhoods) in England. Map above shows majority of Norfolk are in 10% to 40% most deprived area especially in the Norwich City Centre.

EXISTING CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

The Artists Communities

OUTPOST Studio is located on our site, the Gildengate House at Anglia Square. It is an artist-run studio complex, based in Norwich, committed to providing affordable spaces for contemporary art practitioners in the eastern region. Since its founding in 2010, OUTPOST studios has established itself as one of the largest studio providers for artistic activity in the East of England. The artists are facing issue of displacement in the new development of Anglia Square by Weston Homes which do not include any studio spaces for the existing artists.

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TRADITIONAL PRINTMAKING

Print to the People is an artist led, social enterprise dedicated to the production and promotion of traditional printmaking processes, established in 2009. (Anon, n.d.).They are located right next to Sovereign House in Anglia Square. Similar to Epic Studios, the site of Print to the People has the risk to be demolished in the proposed development of Anglia Square (BBC News., 2019).

Epic Studios earning a reputation as a leading television and digital media centre is located right next to the Car Park building of Anglia Square. The studios is offering 3 flexible studios spaces to host variety of events.

PAINTERS

Art Gallery Painter Studio / Workshops

POTTERY

Ceramics / Pottery Studio Quilting / Textile Studio

TEXTILE

Norwich Makers’ Festival Venue Norwich University of Arts

NORWICH MAKERS FESTIVAL

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NORWICH TWENTY GROUP

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ARTIST

Artist-led activity makes a significant contribution to the cultural landscape in Norwich and has helped Norwich gain recognition. Norwich Twenty Group is a group of artists in Norfolk, England. Stimulated by contemporary art movements, the original group of 14 artists, met in November 1944, they intended to raise standards of local professional art to something worthy of the artistic history of Norfolk, by mutual criticism and appraisal of work.

After 70 years of membership, the group has grown to 90 artist today.

NORFOLK & NORWICH OPEN STUDIOS Norfolk & Norwich Open Studios is run by Norfolk & Norwich Festival as one of its initiatives. The Festival manages Norfolk & Norwich Open Studios in partnership with Norfolk artists and makers. For 16 days each year, Norfolk & Norwich Open Studios celebrates the county’s artists and their achievements by offering them the opportunity to open their doors to the public to exhibit, sell and talk about their work. In 2018 over 450 artists will take part from over 250 studios and venues. 16 Norfolk schools are also taking part, celebrating the exceptional artistic talent of young people in the county.

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TEXTTILES

EXISTING DIGITAL TECH INDUSTRIES

Tech Starts-up Community

Existing Tech Hub Norwich University of Arts

Cambridge Norwich Tech Corridor (South-norfolk.gov.uk., n.d.)

A HISTORIC TEXTILES CENTRE NOW A FAST-GROWING DIGITAL TECH ECONOMY The insurance and financial sector continues to be a competitive strength for the area (65% population works in this sector) despite declines in the UK as a whole. The challenge for Norwich is to ensure that workforce are equipped with the skills to participate in the knowledge economy. Our research shows a need for office spaces: ’Norwich is in danger of losing business investment because of a shortage of good quality commercial premises and in danger of driving away businesses,’ say property agents (Culot, C., 2018 and Tech Nation, 2018).

1523 SYNC NORWICH

POPULAR MEETUPS IN NORWICH

What Norwich startups say is a STRENGTH

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Helpful Tech Community

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Appealing Area

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Proximity to many universities

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NORFOLK DELEVEPORS

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HOT SOURCE NORWICH

What Norwich startups say is a WEAKNESS

Limited Infrastructure

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Access to Techinical Talents

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Weak Transport Links

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Source: Tech Nation Report 2018

AESTHETIC VALUE

Essential and Important Values of Existing Structure

AGE VALUE

Existing building condition

HISTORIC VALUE

Street Disconnection

Magdalen Augustine Festival The Magdalen Street Festival was inspired by the creative communities in the area.

The goal was to highlight the burgeoning creativity and diversity of the street as well as the distinctly sustainable focus of many of the retail and charity stores.

Magdalen Street

Walkability towards Anglia Square and old shophouses

1900s shophouses

Demolished

shophouses

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make way for new highway

Present

Continuity

street

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Magdalen Street

1900s street

Demolished roundabout and shophouses to make way for Anglia Square shopping centre

Present St Augustine Street

“ St Augustine’s Street was once a thriving high street with up to 80 shops and 10 pubs. After years of decline the area is now regenerating with new houses under construction and new businesses taking over some of its long-empty shop premises, all helped by the area’s improved traffic management system. - Stuart Mc Laren, 2012 (Magdalenstreet.blogspot.com., 2013).

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THE CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

“Art Kitchen” as Creative Process

Own Sketch

Own Sketch

THE WORKING TRIANGLE

The idea was inspired by the users movement in a complex space with all the needed tools and equipments organised and necessary storage. As the space being designed in fully functional in a specific way yet users sometimes customised the space with their habits. Therefore, further understanding on what is needed on each artist studios in order to achieve flexibility in space.

PRIVATE COMMON PUBLIC SOCIAL INTERACTION

ALLOW COLLABORATION

EXCHANGE RESOURCES

THE ARTIST STUDIO TYPOLOGIES

The Creative Room Series

The Painter Studio

The Cer

ramic Studio

The Quilting Studio

DESIGN MATERIALITY

Why Ceramic Tiles ? The Brutalist Architecture

RESTORING THE “CERAMIC” RED TILES Arranged along the western edge of Anglia Square, Sovereign House had to address both the ground level of Botolph Street “outside” and the upper vehicle level “inside” the complex. Today the longer of two asymmetrical wings faces Botolph Street with boarded windows and a frothing sea of graffiti against bare in-situ concrete. When occupied, however, a strip of windows addressed the street, and the concrete was faced in red tiles.

(Brown, J., 2013) Sovereign House under Construction in 1968 (McPherson, S., 2012)

EXISTING

RESTORED

COLUM

Existing facade covered with Graffiti, once furbished with cereamic red tiles (Adam X., 2016)

MN / WALL

FACADE

Coloured tiles found inside Sovereign House (McPherson, S., 2012)

FLOORING

Constrasting Old and New Facade Augustine Street Entrance Elevation Scale 1: 300

Exit to St Augustine Street

Bringing back the street connection and walkability Section B - B Scale 1: 300

Exit to Magdalen Street

04 EVOLO INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION The Hives Hong Kong

The project site is located in Hong Kong, which has the highest number of skyscrapers in the world .The urban area of Hong Kong has the highest population and employment density in the world. Measured at block level, some areas may have population densities of more than 400,000 people per square kilometre. As of 2011, there are seven million people for its 1,068 square kilometres (412 square miles) of land. The high price of land in Hong Kong also contributes to its high-density development. Those on low and middle incomes, and even some on high incomes, can only afford to live in high-rise buildings.

Scattered around the island are micro apartments filled with socalled “coffin homes” — rooms of 400 square feet subdivided into 20 or so units, which many inhabitants refer to as “cages.” Some are actual wire boxes. There are an estimated 200,000 people in Hong Kong living in a tiny subdivided units, some so small that a person cannot even fully stretch out their legs.

The spaces are just big enough for one person of a medium-build to lie down. If they need to use the bathroom or cook dinner, they must share a communal space with at least a dozen other people. Families are routinely separated due to the lack of space. Smells are putrid, and there are often bed bug infestations, the South China Morning Post reports.

I n order to solve the issue of low living quality , we proposed to create another space which is literally “joint” with the existing structure, like a Hive. The programme such as library, garden in the sky, clinic, and etc are proposed according the condition of the “Hive “area.

Group with Queena Ler Mei Hui

Refurbished Elevation of Sovereign House, 2019