UCL/NUS/UBC/USYD M.Arch Application Portfolio from Keyu Deng 2021

PORTFOLIO OF KEYU DENG U S YD ADP BDe s .Arch

PREFACE

I have always believed that architecture is more than just buildings. I believe though at its roots, architecture exists as a structure for physical environment, it is also a magnifier for social factors, a voice for a type of culture, and an apparatus for issues that we are facing together. The portfolio contents both my academic work and art piece, is a showcase of my understanding and investigation about architecture.

TABLE OF CONTENT

01

THE “MELTING ” AND THE “UNMELTED” sydney public performance and exhibition space / September, 2021 02

URBAN OASIS

public swimming pool design / February, 2021 03

REVER SIBLE DESTINY

multifunctional building design / February, 2020

04

T A W A STREET HOUSE ALTERATION A ND A DDITIONS architectural professional practice / September, 2021

05

THE ROARING LIGHT

installation artwork / September, 2020

06

Other Works 2017 - 2020

W O RK EX P ER IE NC E

ARCHITECT ASSISTANT FTA Design Company (Shenzhen)

May 2021 - August 2021

Comes up with a unique design proposal for clients.

Participate in the entire design process.

KEYU DENG

BARTENDER

ARCHITECTURE DESIGNER

Coffee Art School (Sydney)

Futian District, Shenzhen blyuki831@gmail.com +86 15013830731

April 2020 - Jan 2021

Manage the stock of materials and train the bartender trainers.

Teaching the theory of wine cocktail making

TUTOR & CONSULTANT Youcai Educational Institution (Toronto)

Feb 2017 - July 2018

yuki7chestnut Tutoring Calculus, Physics, and teaching fine art Organize lesson plans Study abroad application service

PROFILE E DU CA T IO N H I ST O R Y To be an innovator and I enjoy challenges and look forward to opportunities where I will be able to assume more responsibilities.

Ultimately, I’d like to be a successful architect, focusing on people-oriented and green design, and constantly work hard to improve myself.

SKILLS Graphic Design Skills

Problem Solving

Creativity

Leadership

Bachelor of Design in Architecture

Feb 2019 - Dec 2021

The University of Sydney Undergraduate in architecture design.

Successfully accomplished all courses WAM 78.7 90+ for studio courses, and was the student representative

High School Diploma (Honor)

Sept 2015 - June 2018

Holy Names Catholic High School/ GEA high school in Canada - Academic Excellence in Chemistry, English, and Mathematics - Awarded the leadership prize in 2018 - Awarded the design prizes and badminton competition 3rd place

01 THE “MELTING ” A ND T H E “UNM ELTED ” Sydney public performance and exhibition space (Academic Studio Design -Individual Project) Time: September, 2021 Instructor: Emma Justine Anderson

By examining the meaning of floating theatre, where the roles of people and art are tied closely through the acts of viewing and moving, I have reframed the conception of spatial experience for performances. Establishing a dynamic entity which the architectural structure and contents metaphorically depicts the Sydney Coastal cultural identity through three principles: space, nature and technology. These accompany visitors on an emotional, tactile and visual journey, combining aesthetic and functional codes with those of innovation and sustainability. And my proposal reimagines the ruined cities and embodies the idea of dying architecture in the collective imagination.

The design is trying to present a metaphorical image showing the vanishing of the coastal city and melting icebergs by combining the solidity of an architectural mass and voids of mesh structure. It is like a body in suspension that levitates between consciousness and unconsciousness, between the material and immaterial world.

The dedicated structure demonstrates its monumental characteristics as melting,destroying, and fading. Moreover, the building provides a solution to digest greenhouse gases and a warning statement for the in-danger coastal city, it is actually fighting against destruction by digesting the greenhouse gases. Therefore, it is unmelted. The resulting design provides an internal coherence that is striking with different performing arts, resonating with the generous public space, and create a dialogue between the site and the city.

The floating theatre is one of Sydney's new cultural landmarks as Sydney strives to develop itself as a global maritime center. ”The melting and unmelted“ located at Mrs. Macquaries Point allows people to travel through the Royal Botanic Garden and CBD. The site (Coastal line) is already registering significant human disturbances to ocean ecology-extensive fish farming, power stations, factories are the embodiment of our environmental vulnerability and urgency of the crisis.

The project is designed as a public space conceived for exhibitions and performances, on the western edge of the Sydney domain, as a dividing line between dense urban environment and the landscapes. It is overlooking the Sydney opera house and Harbour bridge.

CONCEPT -THE POETRY OF ABSENCE In this space, the poetry of absence reminiscent people of the melting icebergs and the loss of nature. The design is intended to raise awareness to the issues of global warming and marine environmental protection, while Icebergs bring a surprising and refreshing image to this hustle-bustle subtropical metropolis.

ABSENT MATTER

COLLAGE

MATTER

ABSENT MATTER Transparent architecture is pure structural essence, expressed through the lightness of the material and the use of iceberg archetypes, the base is its opaque imprint. The two elements are complementary and present one as negative of the other.

The diagram at the left depicting the chronological timeline of a building's deterioration and the "melting" image.

CONCEPT -THE POTOTYPE OF THE ARCHITECTURE

The use of wire mesh and the study of transparency delineate the space of Absent Matter, the representation of a mental projection, a filter and form through which to recount the mutual interfusion of the cultural landscape and the physical environment, both natural and built.

A direct consequence of work in the field that weaves together transparency and the surrounding environment, the theory lays emphasis on a creative will that triggers an ongoing dialogue with space and history, and projects the sculptural object into a new temporal extension: what has faded away, or never existed, lives again in a time that is not its own. -The city might be drown one day?

The language that transparency carries with it has the capacity to weave in space something that is not there; it renders the negation of matter plastic and reveals the result of an absence, and hence the abstraction of reality and its visual identity without references in time.

ORGANIZATION PLAN

THE NARRATIVE PATH OF MONTAGE The way we see human activities and performers is quite similar to how we watch different scene in the movie, this inspires the design of different expierimental space. There are different types of performance hold in various spaces.

Open Space/Pavilion/Viewframe

Improvisation/ Podium

Submerged Walkway Meditation Space/ Showcase

Main Stage -Dance Path

Floating Plaza: Open Space Uderground Exhibition/ Performance Art

SOUTH ELEVATION

MEDITATION PAVILION

NORTH ELEVATION

MAIN STAGE

UNDERWATER STAIRS

ROOFTOP PERFORMANCE SPACE

MATERIAL TRANSFORMATION The material is transformed by CO2 through carbon-philic resins, which is air-captured, so the building is actually fighting against destruction by digesting the greenhouse gases. Employing such a material allows air capture of carbon dioxide and the resultant production of a solid construction material capable of supporting load. Channeling its properties, we propose a theatre that self-propogates, the required ingredients for material propagation are supplied through the scaffold, while its actual pattern of growth is defined by environmental factors.

galvanized steel wire mesh frame tubes traforms philic-resins from underground dissolved carbon dioxide reacts with the minerals in rock to produce carbonate, which is stable over a long period of time and can be used in construction. Transformed material will be bonded on the frame to form hard enclosed wall. concrete panels made in mold, and additives with marble dust aggregates and natural oxides walls with infill system secondary structure electrical and special mechanical system

Co2 conversion to building materials We use the Earth's natural process of storing CO2, which is called mineral carbonation or weathering. Dissolved carbon dioxide reacts with the minerals in rock to produce carbonate, which is stable over a long time.

MATERIAL & CONSTRUCTION

dry fixing concrete wood plates cork panel corrugated sheet metal ceiling in plasterboard panels supporting columns with tubes that transfers philic-resins prefabricated concrete panels for underwater flooring water-resistant membrane

the rooftop podium stage with beautiful frameworks is for public art and improvisation.

Anyone can come and perform, therefore, anyone can be the audience, and anyone can be the performer.

Meditation pavilion and public performance space provides a generoud open space for the public.

The ceiling of theatre provides acoustic design by the waveshape installations

The glass back-screen will lift up after finishing a performance, and then people can see and hear the music from ice plaza, which is not far from the audience. So, this design enhences the relationship between inside and outside and impress the visitors expierences.

The floating path allows people who walk on it enjoys the flow of waterwave.

The underwater restuarant are located upon the underwater gallery, allows people look down to the exhibition.

it consisting of two elements: an architectural base, which contains all the functions and services, and a transparent structure made of metal mesh, with an iconic and climatic function, which constitutes the shading of the open spaces of the pavilion.

Each interior spaces creates unique experience. The darkness provides disguise and the materiality cohere the spirits of public architecture. Furthurmore, in these undeground spaces, people can have more immersive experiences, the manager can hold any exhibition about marine exvironmental protection, which is a space gives the visitors different narratives based on the way they choose to go through.

02 URBAN OASIS Public swimming pool design (Academic Work - Individual Work) Time: February, 2021 Instructor: Cristina Aranzubia

The URBAN OASIS – a place for exercise, relaxation and entertainment in a club-like atmosphere operating from 5am till Midnight bringing the restorative qualities of water to a dense urban area with a mix of swimming, floating, eating, drinking and relaxation.

The design aims to integrate nature into the urban area, expressing the feature of “growing” in the structure. “Round Sky and Square Earth” is a philosophical thought in ancient China, and it is a manifestation of the theory of yin and yang. The sky and the circle symbolize movement; the earth and the square symbolize stillness; the combination of them is the balance of yin and yang, and movement and stillness complement each other. Among them, water is an element that balances yin and yang and stimulates vitality, bringing humanity and nature together.

On the other hand, It brings the indigenous Greenland back to the site, raising people’s awareness of environment preservation. The essence of the”urban oasis” is the landscapes. The existing plants are moved to the rooftop so that clusters of vegetation can build a natural screen, releasing stresses. And it provides shading and direct sunlight for people to avoid excessive sun exposure. Imagine you sit in a hot-spring bath in a grove fragrant with leaves and moss.

Located between two subuerbs, Surry Hills and Redfern, the scheme featured as public space but hidden in the busy urban area. The vernacular architectural language is traced from neighbouring entity that brings diversity to the site.

Besides, consideration of the local Australian beach culture and lifestyle is embodied in introducing public landscape and outdoor swimming pool.

Natural Self-Purification of Water

CONTEXT The people traveling around the site are mainly residents, passengers on the train and tourists who live in the Harbour Mill Hotel. The Ultimo Center and terrace houses are known as heritages. The site is the only relaxation space the locals can take a breath from.

The benefits of rooftop gardens is they positively affect the Urban Heat Island effect in the city.

Bioremediation and Phytoremediation are ecological infrastructures to improve water quality. It also improve visitors' experiences quality by providing oxygen. Accounting for these factors would enhance the thriving of the Environmental potential context in a sustainable urban landscape.

Section A

Section B

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

1. Reception & Foyer 2. Stairs 3. Ticketing 4. Foyer 5. Female Changing Room 6. Male Changing Room 7. Staff Room 8. Multifunction Room 9. Storage 10.Therapy Pool 11. First Aid 12. Office 13. Sauna Room 1 14. Sauna Room 2 15. Bakc Entrance 16. Outdoor Pool 17. Fountain 18. Garden/Park 19. Gym 20. Lobby 21. Cafe 22. Bar 23. Sloping Ramp 24. Meditation Space

0m 5m

ROOF PLAN 1. Entance from train 2. Side Pond 3. Outdoor Pool 4. Park 5. Cafe 6. Foyer 7. Skylight Opening

50m

SECTION A

SECTION B The shape of the architecture is designed as a "growing" pieces out of the ground. And the funnel-shaped columns are represented as some sprouting trees, which supporting the "folding" land on their top. In addition, the fluent shape of the roof, connecting to the park, allows people travel to the roof garden easily. And visitors walking from the higher cliff at the residential side can expediently walking down to the site by the slopes.

03 REVERSIBLE DESTINY Multifunctional building design (Individual Academic Work - awarded the 1st place of studio course 2020) Time: Febuary, 2020 Instructor: Jason Dibbs

During 2019 - 2020, Australia experienced a national wise bushfire, and millions of people became homeless and have been experiencing depression due to the uncertainties of life. Many people have been burned by the fire. I realized that their mental trauma still needs to be healed even if the body is healed. The site is located at the CBD of Sydney, where crowds of people pass by. The “reversible destiny” is a proposal trying to establish a vital and metabolism architecture for people to look forward to the future.

Therefore, the architecture is designed as a para-functional “machine”, combined with recycling and reusing clothes industry and mental therapy center, in order to heal those victims emotionally. At the same time, the funds made by the industry can support the mental health program. Moreover, re-spun and recycled fabrics are not only significant to environmental protection, but also of great social significance to the spiritual reconstruction of fire victims.

The mental therapy center focuses on meditation and art therapy, which is participating in the refabrication of the cloth industry. A wide-open space and facade structure with green plants promote emotional health and enhance self-awareness. The organic structure divides the building into rational spaces and it is expressing biological growth. The form represents the cell division and fabric texture, challenging and stimulating the senses of the refugees.

They are given the unlimited possibility to discover the change in bodily perception, which would lead to changes in consciousness.

SITE ANALYSIS:

Lack of Space for small-scaled Urban Greenery/Environmental-friendly Factory

Demands of Plants

Demands of Activities

REIMAGINATION

Mental Therapy Center & Cloth Recycle Industry

Bush Fire Burned Area in 2019

Site Picture

THE SITE AND THE FACT

The site is in the historical area of central Sydney and surrounded by apartment, office building, hotels and many small restaurants and cafes, but there are limited greenery and activities that cheers people up. Urbanization and heritages swallowed all the vatlity and making people even more anxious. Thus it is important to bring a mental health center to urban life.

anger

As the right figures shown, refugees and their clothes are destroyed by the disasters.

In fact, their mental health is shattered in the fire as well. Therefore, we need a factory that can rebuild their soul in a therapeutic way of reweaving fabric.

Whatsmore, the thread, and fabrics are freely shuttled over the Voronoi structure.

The soft texture of the material is a part of art therapy, which embedded into the architecture. Breeze floats gauze, elegant and practical; soft and strong are the words for the streamy sheer. People enjoy the fairyland atmosphere in the building and experience relief.

joy

love

fear

sadness

CONCEPT MODELS: FABRIC & VORONOI STRUCTURE Rooftop Garden Meditation Space

Greenery Voronoi Fcade Reflections

Mental Health Consultation

Art Therapy

fabric weaving

Cafe

Main Entrance Lobby

Textile Machine Car Lift

THE PROGRAMS AND THE SYSTEM

art therapy

healing

$$$ products

reuse & remake

The interior spatial arrangement is a reflection of the different fabric texture. The shape of eachh voronoi elements are calculated to the most efficient spatial use.

communications

original facade

layers collect clothes

framework

vorovoi volumn book appointment/donate clothes

The shape of voronoi allows reflecting sunlight from a different angle. And people who walk by can be attracted to it. According to the equilibrium of forces at the node in space, the structure has higher stability because all branches have equal proportion and stress.

The building is a fusion of recycling programs and mental support. The visitors can do handcraft with fabrics and some can work as formal members from the industry. Making art pieces stimulates the unconscious conscious and the process itself has healing power. It arouses innermost thoughts and a feeling of being needed by producing.

04 TAWA STREET HOUSE ALTERATION AND ADDITIONS Architectural professional practice (Academic Work - Selected Work) Sydney/Group Project: Research with Tiffany Liu (5%), Complete individually by Keyu Deng (95%) Time: September, 2021 Instructor: Robert Chan

This is coursework that requires students to rebuild a townhouse for a family in Sydney. The renovation of the existing house is in line with the local council requirements and resident’s complaints. The proposal aims to redesign the demolition of rear space of the dwelling to create a more spacious living space for the family, reduce wall from the entrance to the living area for achieving better circulation, ventilation, improve space usage and achieve transitional space resulting from improved permeability. Moreover, one of the dominant targets is incorporating green roofs, with installation of new water harvesting systems and solar panels for sustainability and contributing a better connection with the environment.

Inspired by Oscar Wilde, We often only appreciate nature and seldom consider coexistence with it. The concept design of alteration and addition of the house allows a more proximate connection to the environment. In that sense the house is outward looking, able to be tuned to prevailing characteristics. But also the house will be inward looking, to be complex and rich enough for clients to live a fulfilling life within its enclosure. The main concept of bringing nature elements into living space and embed environmental sustainability design into the house, achieving net zero carbon lifestyle.

SITE ANALYSIS & EXISTING HOUSE PLAN

LEGEND @1 Site Boundary Existing House Accessment Wind Noise Slope Vehicle Movement Pedestrian Setbacks Building Height Zone12.5m Conservation Area Possible Privacy Issue

Site location: 1 Tawa Street, Ashfield, 2131, NSW. (Lot 3 DP 16828) The site is approximately 1 kilometers North of Ashfield Train Station and 7.8 kilometers west of Sydney CBD, it provides an area of approximately 372.7m2 and is developed a single storey brick residential building, attached with an enclosed garage at the rear of the house. The plot is attached with adjacent plot by fences. This site is not located within a Heritage Conservation Area (HCA).

LEGEND @2 CP BW CF TP W/D

Concrete Path Brick Wall Colourbond Fence Tiled Path Window/Door Tiled Roof Grass/Lawn Concrete Path Tiled Path Relative Level Tip of Gutter Setback Dimension Site Boundaries Land Dimension Required Setback Existing Setbacks Accessibility

Mid Winter-June 21, 9 am.

Mid Winter-June 21, 12am.

DEMOLITION PLAN Mid Winter-June 21, 3 pm.

LEGEND @3 CP BW CF TP W/D RT MS

EXISTING HOUSE ELEVATIONS

DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Orientation: Faing to the north west so that the living space get the maximum sun in the winter.

Concrete Path Brickwork Colourbond Fence Tiled Path Window/Door Roof Tile Metal Sheeting Setbacks Site Boundaries Reserved Wall Demolished Wall Demolished Room Demolished Roof

SHADOW DIAGRAMS

Building Height: Lowered level of the additional area to maintain ceiling height requirement, while satisfying the slope of the original site.

Longitudinal Circulation: Creating a more fluent space for the family, reduce interior walls for better circulation, ventilation.

Mid Winter-June 21, 9 am.

Continuous Circulation system by providing the ‘the great room’and courtyard This space unites the living, kitchen and dining areas as a series of intimate, interconnected spaces.

Hugged by a long, low concrete datum that offers rest place.

The proposal includes: - An alteration and new roof addition to an existing single-level residential house, for a family of four, with two kids.

- Improve the amenity of the residences with a better living experience. Improve courtyard quality, and provides visual connections through open space.

- Incorporating green roof and water-reuse system for environmental sustainabile design.

Mid Winter-June 21, 12am.

Sloping Green Roof: There is a new playground on the rooftop with sloped roof as the slide for them.

Void Space: To increase the volumn of living space and provide better air ventilation and allow more natural light.

Visual privacy issue solved with timber louvres on street side, in order to create private inner space with better lighting.

Mid Winter-June 21, 3 pm.

Proposed Shadow Diagram

PROPOSED GROUND FLOOR PLAN

AREA CHART

PROPOSED CIRCULATION PLAN

PROPOSED ORGANISATION PLAN

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABLE DESIGN Remaining most of the previous walls and roof

Heat from rooftop Natural ventilaredirected to heat tion in summer interior during winter through thermal loop

Green roof provides thermal mass and plants biofiltration.

The endemic plants on roof provides biofiltration for the rainwater.

Then transfered to rainwater tank.

Ground cooled during summer using geothermal loop (dump heat into ground) Cool summer breeze

Ground heated during winter using geothermal loop

Rainwater harvesting from roof re-used for pool and plants. The water is natural-plant purified

Preeuropean Waterscape

Wetland South Sydney Landscape Landscape Footprint

Banksia Serrata Grevillea Fililoba Ornamental Grass Vriesea Warmingii Regular Garden Plants Pennistem Setaceum Rebrum Sage

LEGEND @4 CP BW CF TP W/D RT MS

Concrete Path Brickwork Colourbond Fence Tiled Path Window/Door Roof Tile Metal Sheeting Accessibility Site Boundaries Land Dimensions Required Setbacks Roof Ridges Retained Brick Walls Proposed Walls Existing Roof Tile Landscape Area Tile Path Gutters

Restoring Indigenous and Endemic Landscape The Green Roof is covered large areas with native heathland plants, most of which are endemic to the area. The native plant species play an extremely important role in relation to ecological connectivity and create a sanctuary for the native fauna and residents in the area. Reducing some of the out-of-play ground areas, and adding the native landscape will be more sustainable with a reduction in water and fertilizer use in these areas. Ideally, the endemic plants recall the re-imagination of indigenous homeland whilst drawing visitors closer to the local nature.

PROPOSED ROOF PLAN

LEGEND @5

Natural Lighting

Tree provides shade from harsh midday sun

D

Door

W

Window

RT

Roof TIle

FRL

Finished roof level

FFL

Finished floor level

FCL

Finished Ceiling Height Proposed Glazing

Large doors on north side allow winter solar penetration

Proposed Brickwork Proposed Roof Tile

SW ELEVATION

NE ELEVATION

SECTION 01

Stormwater Treatment Greywater Treatment Rainwater Treatment

WATER MANAGEMENT

SECTION 02

Water Natural Filtration System

Extensive Green Roof System Details 1. Uses native plant species 2. 50.8mm-76.2mm enginneered soil for 4:12 slopes- to be applied under supervision of soil supplier 3. Less than 15IBS/SF live loading - roof is designed and constructed 4. Planting mat to be attaached to the standing seam matal roof with low VOC roofing adhesive seal with approved sealnant.

5. Bottom end trim are overlap grow mat so no ends are exposed 6. Drainage holes are provided

SECTION 03 ROOF DETAILED MATERIALS

RENDER IMAGES

05 THE ROARING LIGHT INSTALLATION ARTWORK (Selected Individual Work - artwork for exhibition) Time: September, 2020 Instructor: Mimi Tong

The sculpture represents an over-lighting phenomenon and provokes everyone to protect the night sky from light pollution. (Light pollution is the exacerbated presence of artificial light in the night environment caused by obtrusive use of light.) The main material-glass, represents products of rapid industrialisation. The act of breaking expresses an anxiety against it. The sharpness presents a harmful side and advantage side of both the glass and overdeveloped-industrialisation. I have made a deadly atmosphere by damaging the glass, reassembling it and freezing the exploding moment. This spatial arrangement is inspired from Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View by Cornelia Parker. The performance allows the audience to witness the dazzling reflection and to feel the depression. My work aims to demonstrate the specular glare results in misuse of glass and excessive illumination in order to criticize the aesthetic culture of the industrialized West.

A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms.

06 Select ed O ther W orks Selected Competition Works Individual Work - Swimming Pool Time: September, 2020

Awarded 1st place of render and digital modelling competition of USYD

Handmaking paper model, 2019

Handmaking paper model, 2019

Sketch 1, 2018

Sketch 2, 2017

Sketch 3, 2018