LIM YU HENG
EDUCATION
2015 - Present
Content
02031993 Singapore yuhenglim@gmail.com +65 94230643
National University of Singapore Bachelor of Arts in Architecture
2010 - 2013
Singapore Polytechnic Diploma in Architecture (merit) GPA: 3.96/4
2006 - 2009 2000 - 2005
ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS
2013
Bowen Secondary School Hougang Primary School
SIA Parametric Modelling Design
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02
Certificate of Merit
2012 2011 2010
EXHIBITIONS
2016
BCA Green Sparks Competition Certificate of Merit
03
URA Challenge for Urban Built Environment Director’s Honour Roll
Diploma in Architecture
04
NUS City Exhibition Design Showcase
Selected Work: Rebirth
2015
Gillman Barracks Art Week Selected Work: ConverGence
2013
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2013 - 2015 November - September 2013 May - October 2011 April - July
Singapore Polytechnic Graduation Show Selected Work: Urban Sanctuary
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07
Singapore Armed Forces (National Service) Air Warfare Officer
CLKA Architects Architectural Assistant
W-Architects Architectural Intern
SOFTWARE SKILLSET
Modelling & Drafting Simulation Graphic Language Proficiency Special Interest
05
Rhino (Grasshopper), AutoCAD, Sketchup Autodesk Flow Design Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, Artlantis, V-ray, English (Main), Chinese (Basic) Photography, 3D Printing, Travel
Apparition
Arts & Cultural Hub
Rebirth
Craft Museum
Euphonious Pavilion
ConverGence Artist Retreat
Fluidity Bench
Urban Sanctuary Cultural Centre
Photography
Apparition Arts & Cultural Hub
The site is sandwiched between two distinctive regions of Holland Village and One North. With the presence of the fragmanted difference within the precinct, the site presents a potential for the project create synthesis between these distinctive plots through the means of a common ground. With the presence of existing street cultures, variant groups of audiences as well as a fragmantation, the common ground could be further developed into a community through experimental art forms. The experimental art manifests itself throughout the formalization of the architecture in which the architecture takes on the role of the host to facilitate these experimental street art but yet ,at the same time, respects the existing urban site elements. The architecture speaks of an ephemeral structure or an architecture that is in process which is transient in nature. The structure acts as a parasite that latches onto the urban structures to signify a sense of place for street art to flourish. An architecture that could be referred to a ghost (architecture) haunting the site as a host for experimental art forms.
Circulatory Routes There are two distinct circulatory routes to cater towards the public as they are circulating through the site. These routes are separated into the categories of Public Circulation and Intimate Circulation. The Public Circulation bridges the amenities and programmes located at the periphery of the site in an attempt to provide a quick access as well as human flow into the project site. Intimate circulation could be referred to a second tier of interior circulation which is a self-containment of users that deviates from the Public circulation. Programmes are allocated to sustain the interior circulation.
Architectural Expression The architectural intervention attempts to retain and amplify certain existing urban elements of the site in which how the graffiti wall is retained and further extended through the site as a form of a visual spine. The formal expression is a manifestation of the rustic qualities of the site and suggests a scaffolding structure that is cloaked with a veil of a safety debris netting. Enhancing the cultural transience.
Rebirth Crafts Museum
The project explores the crafting process of wood block pieces which serves as guiding parameters for the implementation of the crafts museum in Jalan Besar, Singapore. The interpretation of wood block craft reflects directly on the spatial sequences and tectonics developed. Sequential progression of the museum is experienced through the medium of replacing, layering and expansion enforeced with the manipulation of natural light. Jalan Besar is seen as a basin of traditional, old shophouses and public housing surrounded by pockets of new condominiums. In addition to being a populated industrialized zone, the commercial strip along Jalan Besar appeals mainly to food, beverages as well as dodgy bars. This mixture of demographic inspires a strategy in creating a space for social convergence. An interest is drawn towards the rustic qualities of the backlane alleys of the site in which the project attempts to reform. The craft museum coupling with workshop, cafeteria, temporary exhibition space enables new forms of enriching the perception of backlane alleys as well as to strike a congenial effort in gravitating towards a nodal gathering space in a quiet corner of Jalan Besar. Such is an effort to enrich backlane communal spaces and to generate opportunities for local communities.
Architectural Expression As an initial intent to re-interpret existing rustic qualities of Jalan Besar, the facade of the Craft Museum replicates the silhouette of the shophouse front through its corten steel perforations. The materiality selection of the facade relates to its industrialised surroundings of steel works which is apparent throughout the stretch of Jalan Besar road.
Euphonious Pavilion
The project serves a series of experimentation to concretise the intangible acoustic parameters into tangible architectural forms. Music is selected as a driver and influence to a folly situated within Fort Canning Park, Singapore. The pavilion is harnessed through the deconstruction of the music piece into various parameters such as intensity and volume. These parameters are re-translated through the variation of voids, circulation and column sizes as a means of enhancing the journey through the folly.
Deconstruction The music piece given in the brief is analyzed and deconstructed into a series of parameters in relation to the sound intensity, speed, and volume. These acoustic parameters are re-translated into architectural parameters which are in terms of height, natural light, spatial volume.
Architectural Intent The architectural pavilion attempts to strike a congenial effort in gravitating towards a central space filled with pockets of interstital spaces to facilitate buskering and music activities. These spaces are created through the interpretation of the parameters drawn from the music piece. The variation of column sizes as well as voids demarcate the different spaces.
ConverGence Artist-Scientist Retreat
The project situated in Gillman Barracks, Singapore, seeks to understand and to analyze two different type of users (Artist/ Scientist) in order to create an architectural form that attempts to find a synthesis. An thorough analysis of the different art forms vs different scientific research is broken into parameters in order to find a amalgamation of the two distinctive users. The project is situated the back of an obsolete military barrack in which the project aims to reconstruct its interior as a form of adaptive re-use into labratory and art gallery. These intervention manifests further into re-interpretating a back-of-house into a new residential paradigm.
Fluidity Tropical Bench
The design is inspired from the community spirit and lifestyle of living in a Kampung. Set against a tropical climate, the bench seeks to be flexible, porous and free-sprited. With reference to community spirit, our bench is meant to be interactive, to explore different sitting postures. The bench itself is in a passive state and requires one or more person to rotate to another position to explore another form, therefore fostering human interaction. The sunken curvature profile of the bench is based on the actionreaction response when a user rests on it. The interactivity of the rotating bench was inspired by the Rattan Baby Chair which has multi-functions. It is a chair for babies to sit during meal times and the horizontal bracing between the legs serves as the baby’s food table. When rotated, it becomes a stool for a normal adult to sit. Therefore, we thought our bench could be interactive whereby people rotate the bench to discover other seating postures.
Urban Sanctuary Urban Cultural Centre
The project is formulated towards the idea of the creation and realisation of a sanctuary in the midst of a vociferous urban environment. Situated within the heart of Orchard Road, Singapore, the site is tucked away from the main shopping districts and presents an opportunity for the realisation of the concept. The architecture is designed with two distinctive blocks that creates hosts different programmes for different types of users transiting through the architecture. The facade corresponds to the surrounding site as an effort to merge and intergrate with the urban environment.
Photography
"Providing the ground for perception and the horizon of experiencing and understanding the world"
Architectural studies throughout the years have transformed my approach towards photography as it has synthesized my perspective of reality with the fictionized realm.
The Eyes of the Skin (2012)
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