Portfolio by Yvonne Cai

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HYPODERMIC METROPOLIS

04 - 19

HIDE & SEEK PAVILION: SCULPTURE BY THE SEA

20 - 35

PERFORMANCE THEATRE: SYDNEY FESTIVAL

36 - 43

STUDENT ACCOMMODATION

44 - 51

Graduation Research Studio

Urban Research Studio

Digital Research Studio

Sustainable Research Studio

H Y P O D E R M I C

M E T R O P O L I S

Hypodermic Metropolis is an experimental investigation of city inhabitation influenced largely by the individual spaces in which we live at the micro scale. We delve into the core of what it means to dwell in response to a brief prescribing an unconventional bottom-up planning strategy.

user consists of a set of sequences and encounters which make up and activate the networks and systems present in the city, whether it be: live, leisure or work. The synchronization between the two scales are derived from understanding’ living’ as a process of meandering to establish connectivity, depicting our way of life. The apartment exists only as a small piece to the urban puzzle; thus the relationship between the home and the city is inseparable.

The project assumes a process of constant scale shifts to determine findings through a push and pull effect of investigation at the urban macro scale and domestic micro scale. Working from the inside out, that is, at the domestic scale, we apply considerable focus on the single micro apartment to maximise the quality of living. The opposite end of the scale factor – the city; can be viewed as a series of interconnected networks, forming a complex web that relies on relationships between people and places. The daily routine of a

The “hypodermic” application of the project is the injections of these designed microapartments (within micro-towers), integrating the apartment living with urban regeneration schemes in relation to 4 different building typologies: carparking lot, vacant tower site, terrace & warehouse, testing the opportunities to enhance and enrich the experience of living relationships in the growing urban context of Green Square.

Project by Bruce Feng & Yvonne Cai

URBAN FARMS

CO-OP

MARKETS

SOUP KITCHEN

FOOD & COOKING

SECONDARY EDUCATION

PRIMARY EDUCATION

PLAYGROUNDS

DAYCARE

WETLANDS

PARKS

PHYSICAL RECREATION

FLORA & FAUNA

NATURE’S MUSIC

CYCLING

HEALTH

REPAIR & WORKSHOP

WATER COLLECTION & FILTRATION

GYM

SPA

ROMANCE

RELATIONSHIPS

BATHING

DOWN TIME

DANCING

SEXING

DRINKING

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS

TOILET

HOME

in GASTRONOMY COURSES

NETWORKING HUB

LAUNDRY

EATERY

FINE DINING

STRESS

SLEEPING

CREATIVE IDEAS

CAFE

RENT/ MORGAGE

FOOD WASTE

RED LIGHT DISTRICT

SOCIETIES

STUDY PRIVATE

STUDY GROUP

POLICE

RESEARCH

TERTIARY EDUCATION

LECTURES

TEACHING STAFF

MEETINGS

WORK LUNCHEON

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

WORK

INCOME

FIGHTS

$$$ DEMAND

$$ $

SUPPLY

$ $ $ MIN

1. PROGRAMS THAT MAYBE CATALYSTIC TO URBAN REGENERATION.

2. A STRATEGY NEEDS TO BE IMPLIMENTED TO FINANCIALLY SUPPORT THE SCHEME.

3. HOUSING IS USED AS AN INVESTMENT STRATEGY.

4. HOUSING MUST NOT COMPROMISE URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAMS.

5. FLIP HOUSING AND STACK.

6. ALLOWS PROPOSAL TO HAVE THE SMALLEST POSSIBLE FOOTPRINT.

7. STACKING ALSO INCREASE HOUSING VALUE WITH HEIGHT.

8. THE HOUSING ELEMENT CREATES THE DEMAND AND ALSO STAFF FOR THE URBAN STRATEGY.

9. THE STRATEGY BECOMES A MODEL THAT CONTAINS BOTH SUPPLY AND DEMAND.

10. LIKE A HYPODERMIC NEEDLE THAT“INJECTS” OPPORTUNITIES INTO NEW URBAN DEVELOPMENTS.

1. TOWER MASS

2. ADDITIONAL PROGRAM BREAKUP

3. TOWER BREAKUP V1

4. TOWER BREAKUP V2

5. MICRO TOWERS

7. MASS WRAPPED

8. MASS SHIFTED

6. MICRO TOWER VARIATIONS

9. MASS STEPPED

10. INTERNAL PROGRAMMING

1. SITE BOUNDARY

2. TYPICAL FLOOR PLATE LAYOUT

3. ACCESS TO SUNLIGHT

X X 7. TYPICAL APARTMENT LAYOUT

8. SPATIAL DIVISION

4. ABILITY TO CROSS VENTILATE

5. ACCESS TO VIEWS

6. COMPROMISED APARTMENTS

10. COMPARTMENTALISING SPACES

11. CIRCULATION SHELTERING LIVING

12. FINAL REARRANGMENT

X X

9. CULLING SPACES

00 24

MARCH EQUINOX | 7:30AM

MARCH EQUINOX | 1:00PM

MARCH EQUINOX | 5:00PM

SUMMER SOLSTICE | 1:00PM

SUMMER SOLSTICE | 5:00PM

WINTER SOLSTICE | 1:00PM

WINTER SOLSTICE | 4:00PM

2900 1890

7:30AM

5250

2700

WINTER SOLSTICE | 7:30AM

MAX EXISTING BUILDING HEIGHT

BOURKE STREET

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

LVL 2-20: RESIDENTIAL

LVL 01 - HAIR SALON

GROUND : PATISSERIE

AMPHITHEATRE

ROOFTOP: GARDEN

LVL 2-5: RESIDENTIAL

LVL 01 - YOGA STUDIO

GROUND CAFE

PORTMAN LANE

MAX EXISTING BUILDING HEIGHT MA

CONSTRUCTION SECTION | PREFAB CONCRETE DETAIL

STEEL ANGLE WITH LATERAL ADJUSTMENT SLOT PRE-BOLTED INTO PANEL 2MM FOLDED ALUMINUM FLASHING

SCREW THREAD SET IN PANEL WALL BATTENS 30MM @ 500MM CENTRES CURTAIN RAILS EMBEDDED IN SLAB

13MM PLASTERBOARD INTERNAL LINING

OPERABLE WINDOWS DOUBLE GLAZED

THERMAL INSULATION

ALUMINUM FRAMED WINDOWS

3000X3500 PRE-FAB CONCRETE PANEL POLISHED FINISH

2800MM

ALUMINUM BALUSTRADE

1000MM

SCREW THREAD SET IN PANEL 250MM

FLOOR BATTENS 35MM @ 500MM CENTRES FOLDED 2MM ALUMINUM FLASHING MARMOLEUM FLOORING LIGHT GREY FINISH 250MM PREFAB CONCRETE SLAB RAW FINISH

SEALANT WITH BACKING ROD STEEL ANGLE WITH LATERAL ADJUSTMENT SLOT PRE-BOLTED INTO PANEL

TYPOLOGY MAPPING | GSTC REDEVELOPMENT SITE

PLAN | BUY LEARN COOK & EAT

TYPOLOGY MAPPING | WAREHOUSE

PLAN | CREATIVE WAREHOUSE

TYPOLOGY MAPPING | VACANT PARKING LOT

PLAN | URBAN FARM

The Hide and Seek Pavilion is the result of a design build initiative for the Master of Architecture course, taken from the Urban Research Studio completed in October 2013 in conjunction with Sculpture by the Sea. The pavilion was worked to a specific brief, undergoing development of different design options through the study semester as a Catalogue & Information Pavilion. These are purpose built structures used by the Sculpture by the Sea volunteers selling exhibition catalogues.

P A V I L I O N

The project brief was simple in its requirement – to re-design a temporary catalogue pavilion for this years’ October event of 2013, envisaging a structure using innovative construction ideas and methods. Three key ideas were envisaged for the project; for this year to sell as many information brochure/catalogues as possible, to encourage a far greater family orientated event – especially for the younger children to be involved in while playing with the concept of the memories of hide and seek we all remember so fondly from our childhood.

Five of the best designs were shortlisted by a panel from Sculptures by the Sea and the Architecture faculty at Sydney University, from which Hide and Seek was a proposal that was successful, moving into construction.

The translation of these ideas began with a very familiar and warming concept of home and the house. This itself speaks of family and familiarity and the home as an expression to really express personality.

Sculpture by the Sea is a highly attractive festival showcasing the talent by international and local artists exhibited at Bondi Beach along the stretch of the famous coastal walk.

This playfulness of activity and home is a way to use the idea of hide and seek to add another dimension of activity while navigating through the coastal walk.

Project by Yvonne Cai, Anna Wu & Heejung Yoon

FIG 1: INCREASE CATALOGUE SALES

FIG 2: ENCOURAGE FAMILY INTERACTION

FIG 3: HIDE AND SEEK

FIG 4: OVERALL MASTERPLAN OF COASTAL WALK

FIG 5: POSITIVE BUILDING

FIG 7:

FIG 9: SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

4300 mm

DONATION

STAMP

2600 mm

VOTE

4300 mm

3100 mm

FIG 6: NEGATIVE BUILDING

FIG 8: MOBILITY DIAGRAM

FIG 10: TRUCK PARAMETER DIAGRAM

NEGATIVE PART OF BUILDING SHOWN DOTTED

496

540

496

540

496 90X45MM TREATED PINE NOGGINGS 90X45MM TREATED PINE PORTAL FRAME

90X45MM TREATED PINE LINTEL

1200

WINDOW OPENING

1500

720

1500 90X45MM TREATED PINE SILL

2040

6MM INTERNAL LINING HARDWOOD EXTERIOR PLY

WATERPROOF MEMBRANE

6MM EXTERNAL CLADDING HARDWOOD EXTERIOR PLY

90X45MM TREATED PINE FLOOR JOISTS

C 01

3000

1:20 ELEVATIONS

3000

90X45MM TREATED PINE NOGGINGS

PLYWOOD CAPPING BEAM

1574 496

540 45

496 45

5MM STEEL BRACKET FIXING PORTAL FRAME

3000

1:20 ROOF FRAMING

3000

1574

1574 540

474 45

540 45

474 45

1:20 FLOOR FRAMING

1:20 FLOOR PLAN

9MM STRUCTURAL PLYWOOD FIXED TO BEAMS

300X45MM LVL BEAMS 9MM PLY PANELS FIXED TO LVL

WALL CAVITY FOR WHEEL

1:20 ELEVATION

50X90X3000MM CORNER BEAM

PLYWOOD GUSSET - CNC ROUTED - SCREW FIXED

POLYSTYRENE FOAM - ADHERED TO PLY LINING

9MM PLY LINING - SCREW FIXED TO BEAM

45X300X3000 LVL BEAM

1:10 ROOF SECTION

1:20 ROOF PLAN

NOTE: RAFTER SPAN VARYING TO SUIT OPENINGS

FIG 11: PROCESS MODELS AND PROTOTYPING

FIG 12: ON SITE CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALL

A temporal and dynamic performative envelope to cater various styles of acts and performances, in collaboration with Sydney Festival. Theatre in the twist investigates new possibilities of interaction between a performer and a spectator. Putting forward: merging the distinct subjects of the performers’ active stage and the spectators’ static auditorium. This collaboration seeks to fulfil the curiosity and desires of ‘if I were in your position’. The performer and spectator embody two completely contrasting and formally descriptive roles, yet the reliance on each other is inseparable. We seek to allow both worlds to reconnect and experience this interrelationship and allow stage to become auditorium and auditorium to become stage. The formation of space is a series massing of 18 rings – producing a

structural landscape; social interactive space externally and performance space internally. Both spatial zones are definitive of the entity of the rings; also as an enclosure to become the roof canopy. Theatre in a twist also explores the idea of theatre and its’ limitlessness of boundaries at which interpretation and representation are formulated. This space is designed to enhance and expand the spatial planes at which the performer is able to utilise and ultimately bring the spectators closer to the performance. One might imagine, the space as a shared realm of feelings. The theatrical experience is one of a very sensory kind. However what is experienced is beyond what is seen and heard. Theatre is communicated beyond the audiovisual and the space looks to compliment the senses. The atmospheric sense of the space conveys a moody ambience, dreamy yet vividly engaging.

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FIG 13: PARAMETRIC EXPERIMENTATION

FIG 15: LOWER AUDITORIUM

FIG 14: GROUND FLOORPLAN

FIG 16: UPPER AUDITORIUM

A C C O M M O D A T I O N SARDINES ; Compactability, low budget, efficiency and rapid construction are effectively the key components driving this sustainable student accommodation project. Site location is based on Sydney University Campus grounds. The brief opened opportunities to design and delve deeply into the student life; tapping into daily lifestyle and habits of a typical student on an individual level as well as exploring designs accommodating shared living with smaller and larger groups. To design scenarios where students can manage study space, social space and private individual space were design constants. The number of students that could be compacted into the given space was effectively the design parameter determining the level of comfort both individually and as a group. 2M X 3M BEDROOMS: $1668 COST/MÂ˛: $3, 149, 950 CONSTRUCTION: $31, 499 PROJECT COST/BED: 100 TOTAL STUDENT CAPACITY: 18MÂ˛ AVERAGE SPACE/STUDENT: Project by Yvonne Cai, Anna Wu & Robyn Chee

STUDENT APARTMENTS FIRESTAIRS SHARED LAUNDRY ENTERTAINMENT LOUNG GE LOBBY WINTER GARDENS CIRCULATION SHARED KITCHEN

FIG 17: PROGRAMME BREAKDOWN

FIG 18: FLOORPLAN - LEVEL 01

FIG 19: SECTION

1. (PRIVATE ) INDIVIDUAL MODE THIS LAYOUT IS TYPICAL OF PRIVATE STUDY OR SLEEPING MODE. ALL ROOMS ARE CLOSED OFF AND NOISE FROM LIVING SPACES ARE BUFFERED AND CONTROLLED

2. (SEMI-OPEN) SMALL GROUP MODE SMALL GROUP STUDY OR INTERACTION IS ENABLED BY BEDROOMS OPENING OUT COMPLETELY, UTILIZING THE SPACE OF THE CIRCULATION CORRIDOR.

3. (OPEN) COMMUNAL MODE THIS LAYOUT ENCOURAGES A COMPLETELY COMMUNAL INTERACTION - ALL ROOMS ARE ENTIRELY OPEN. THE LIVING SPACE AND CORRIDORS CREATE ROOM FOR SOCIAL BREAKOUT SPACES, MEETINGS AND PARTIES.

FIG 20: FLEXIBLE ARRANGEMENT PLANS

FIG 21: KIT OF PARTS CONSTRUCTION AXO

FIG 22: CONSTRUCTION DETAIL