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Photo: Liangzhu Museum, Hangzhou, 2019
CONTENTS
01 BEYOND THE LIVING MACHINE | 2020-2021 Experimental 17, AA
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02 DOMAIN GALLERIES | 2018 Design Studio 3B, USYD
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03 RWANDA CHAPEL | 2019 YAC Competition Entry
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04 BALMAIN BOAT-BUILDING AND SAILING SCHOOL | 2017 Design Studio 2B, USYD
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05 SANCTUARY BEACON | 2021 Beebtreeders Competition Entry
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06 BETWEEN WALLS | 2022 YAC Competition Entry
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APPENDIX | SelectedWork Projects
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“I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky.”
- LebbeusWoods,War and Architecture
01 BEYOND THE LIVING MACHINE 2020-2021 Inividual Project Experimental 17 / Architectural Association, UK Tutors: Kyriaki Kasabalis & Mark E. Breeze
This research studio primarily uses film to reimagine how we live today and tomorrow. Technological transformations, migration pressures, soaring land costs, increasing environmental challenges, and most recently a global pandemic have fundamentally changed our relationship with shelter. While these everchanging conditions are affecting people far and near, their impact remains extremely local and idiosyncratic, signaling new modes of living, working, playing and connecting with each other.This housing proposal attempts to restructure the existing property market, and seeks a balance between standardisation and customisation of the notion of home. To embrace the onging consumer culture, domesticity is reduced to a single product. Using film as an experimental methdology, the new domestic scheme explores minimal dimensions and high density living in the urban context of London Kings Cross. The existing railway system of St Pancras station will be utilised as the primary experimental ground of the project. The mix of demographics and diverse housing needs will be met through a new era of digital and product-orientated agency.
The ‘house’ as an universal transportable device
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Domesticity within standadised modules
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Filmic exploration of domestic spaces
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Interchangeable Programmes
Standard Module Catalogue
Typical unit generation from interchangeable modules
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User customisation of individualised homes
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Verticaldensificationabovearailwaystation
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STEEL FRAME TO CLT PANEL DETAIL
Technical assembly of standardised modules with hybrid CLT core
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02 DOMAIN GALLERIES 2018 / Inividual Academic Project BDES3027 Design Studio 3B / University of Sydney Tutor: Lachlan Seegers
Located near the boundary between Sydney’s CBD and the Domain park, the Galleries is a microvillage-like event space designed for the city’s public art, talks and events. Informed by Jorn Utzon’s design strategies, the Galleries is composed of various C-shaped units strategically placed onto a 2x2 metre grid system. Each module is designed to apply scale and direction its immediate spaces, determinating territory and boundaries, in a both physical and psychological level, to create intimacy between architecture and the body. This multi-layered event space will become a new cultural and social centre in the city, a transition from the hustle and bustle of the man-made towards a curated landscape.
1:50 physical model detail
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Form generation
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Designated for events, festivals and performances, the proposal is a hard playground that lays foundation for flexible superstructures. At each event, temporary elements can be added to the site, promising tailored designs for functions of all sorts.
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03 RWANDA CHAPEL June, 2019 / Competition Entry Young Architects Competition / Rwanda Chapel Partners: Jake Qin,Winston Liew
The village of Rukomo is situated in the remote uplands of Rwanda, a country still recovering from tragic events happened in the recent history. The new chapel for the local Clarian community and the nearby residents aims to provide a space for their daily prayers and gatherings, a place to reconcile and to forgive. The dispersal of the three spatial programmes allows visitors to venture deep into the lush landscape, through subtle changes in the ground slope, before entering the final pavilion. Like Moses exodus into God’s land, the chapel journey intends to heal and lead its people towards the divine.
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Dispersed spaces along the journey - from Ordinary to the Divine
Dispersed spaces along the journey - from Ordinary to the Divine
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Traditional Church
Rwanda Chapel
The traditional church encloses a sacred interior realm from the
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undisturbed, tranquil and lush wilderness is all there is. Here in rural Rwanda, the sacred ritual of church is translated into a simple pathway venturesa deep into interior the lush green landscape. The traditional churchthat encloses sacred realm from the immersed the fascinating worldly Minimal outside architecture surroundings. It no inlonger suits the wilderness site, if the creates intense spiritual experience.
undisturbed, tranquil and lush wilderness is all there is. Here in rural Rwanda, the sacred ritual of church is translated into a simple pathway that ventures deep into the lush green landscape. Minimal architecture immersed in the fascinating wilderness creates intense spiritual experience.
The main pavilion is designed to be multifunctional, utilising components that are affordable and can be easily assembled.
The main pavilion is designed to be multifunctional, utilising components that are affordable and can be easily assembled.
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04 BALMAIN BOAT-BUILDING AND SAILING SCHOOL 2017 / Inividual Academic Project BDES2027 Design Studio 2B / University of Sydney Tutors: Matthew Mindrup, Heather Cappie-Wood
Located in the historical site of Mort’s dry Dock (now Mort’s Bay Park), the boatbuilding and sailing school is orientated on the historical values of the harbour site - the once the infamous Mort’s Dock. The significance of the site’s archaeological remains inspired the design of the underwater acrylic tunnel through the dry dock, which exposes a past that is almost forgotten. A concrete walkway connecting the dock to the main school building enables a close experience to the constanly changing sea level of the site. The last phase of the design is constructed entirely out of treated timber for its tactility and lightness. Elevated from the surface of the water, the structure adapts to the position of the existing concrete piers. The overall scheme expresses the transition of time in space, through the juxtaposition of the past, present and the future.
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05 SANCTURY BEACON September, 2021 / Competition Entry Beebreeders Architectural Competitions / NZ Romantic Cabin / Result: BB Student Award Partner: Jake Qin
Sanctuary Beacon is the jewel on the pristine land of Waitakaruru. A coincidentally simple geometry. A box of light. A space of nuanced pleasures. It is a design that revisits the idea of an open-plan-in-natural-scenery from the modernist architectures, such as Philip Johnson’s Glass House and Mies’ Farnsworth House, and channels their idealist notion of dwelling in nature with advanced technologies into a contemporary take on the human-nature relationship. At Sanctuary Beacon, one is not separated from nature with a harsh layer of glass, but offers an intricate set of experiences where nature is diffused, reframed, enhanced and muffled, bringing a true serenity to reconnect with the loved one.
Aerial view / an elevated beacon
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metal roof sheet standing seam
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150mm CLT roof
150x75mm box gutter free-stand shower for two wood fireplace
2x25mm MULTIWALL double polycarbonate with 100mm cavity
water self-sufficiency unit 120mm 5 ply CLT dressed finsh
polycarbonate bi-folds
DUNE ® semi-recessed bath CLT flooring wood post on 125 dia. metal screw pile foundations
electricity self-sufficiency unit
gravel underfloor area
timber retaining wall
Exploded axonometric / the pre-fab manual
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Design visualisation / the new romantic
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MARKET OF LAND
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NEW ROMANTIC
The cabin form addresses itself as a happy marriage between a bespoke response to the foliage within the orientation of the building site and the simplest geometry, the triangle. Pointing 15 degrees east of North, the triangular shaped cabin opens diagonally towards the prime view of the Firth of Thames, engaging the immediate foliage to frame a view of the distant scenery. A soil platform raises the building above the canopy of existing trees, enabling almost panoramic outlook of the landscape.
The design at its foundation was to test the potential of advanced construction system of mass timber. Paired with light-weight cladding material of polycarbonate - also a sheet material solution - our scheme massively reduces cost of both time and budget, as most of the building structure can be prefabricated offsite while the on-site cladding work requires minimum labour. The absence of concrete and large glass glazing also contributes greatly to lifting the environmental burden such a building project inevitably brings. The carbon spending of cross-laminated timber (CLT) is much lower than that of steel-frame or glass achieving the same design output.
As the 19th century Romantic poets enjoyed journeys of wandering the wilderness, Sanctuary Beacon pronounces a program of contemporary reinterpretation. Visitors to the cabin are offered a temporal release from the crowded city, as in the density of population here is barely one person per acre. Hence, the design plays out openness to surrounding nature as well as limiting the expansiveness of the structure for a cosier enclosure, a bay of relaxation that warrants a sense of absolute safety to be enjoyed with the loved one. The landscape of the site is beautifully framed by the dining space windows while rest of the surroundings become a blurred light-painting, offering romantic seclusion with a hint of magical ambience.
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Interior visualisation / an elemental experience
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06 BETWEEN WALLS March, 2022 / Competition Entry Young Architects Competition / Riyadh DreamVillas / Result:Third Prize Partners: Zekun Qin, PeiyaoYu,Weiqi Xie
The concept begins with the fundamentals of architecture - the making of shelter. Away from wind, heat, and storms, a home provides a sanctuary for human life within the formidable wilderness, especially in the Arabian desert. For centuries, people of the geographic region have developed an architectural tradition of building with unapologetic thickness and solidity to maneuver the transfer of heat. The proposal learns from these climatic responses and seeks to celebrate the bravery of living inside the lifeless territory through a strong architectural language following a tight grid. The monumentality and mathematical precision of the parallel walls manifest the inconceivable act of resilience in choosing to inhabit the uninhabitable.
Conceptual diagram of site intervention
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Aerial view / life between walls
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Interior visualisation / an elemental experience
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Selected Work Samples
Architectural assistant at KASAWOO /Visualisation of housing project
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Selected Work Samples
Student designer at JCA Architects / 3d modelling & fabrication of decorative components
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