architectural design
PORTFOLIO
ZHENGWEI QUAH 511/746 Swanston St Carlton 3053 VIC EMAIL // zen.quah@gmail.com TEL // +614 3339 3995
CONTENT
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NSKILLED LABOURS
GRAD school KOTA JAKARTA RECYCLING ARTS CENTER PRODUCTS + SKILLS URBAN HERITAGE REVITALIZATION - DEC 2012
MELBOURNE HYBRID PRISON
TEARING DOWN THE WALL - JUNE 2012
GOKISO CROSSING REVITALIZATION
LESSONS FROM JAPANESE URBANIZATION - DEC 2011
ULURU VISITOR CENTER
LOOKING THROUGH ABORIGINALS’ EYES - JUNE 2011
UGRAD school SCULPTOR’S STUDIO
GEOMETRY EXPLORATION - JUNE 2009
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
REDEFINING SPACE - DEC 2009
DOLL THEATRE
THE SUMMER OF SEVENTEENTH DOLL - DEC 2010
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KOTA JAKARTA RECYCLING ARTS CENTER
PRODUCTS + SKILLS
URBAN HERITAGE REVITALIZATION - dec 2012
tutor // Amanda Achmadi
JAKARTA RECLYCING ARTS CENTER // URBAN HERITAGE REVITALIZATION
RECYCLING
PUBLIC SPACE
ARTS
// Hybird of Recycling and Art functions
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Jakarta is one of the most populated city in the world. The ever growing population is seen taking its toll on Indonesia’s environment and its people. The city suffers from serious environmental degradation and social imbalance as a result of overcrowding and fewer resources. Located at the north of Jakarta, heritage Old Town is no exception, its past glory as Dutch administrative and business region has now been swallowed by dilapidations and decays. Several efforts had been made in the past to promote the site as a new tourism icon but the effect was less than obvious. It is opined that to revitalize the heritage town, rehabilitation should not just focuses on the preservation of few Dutch architecture legacies, but also the people and environment of the context which provide the overall framework to the heritage precinct. With sequential upgrades to the site as well as its people, the area is expected to undergo natural gentrification. The project therefore proposes a built environment that facilitates the marriage of recycling and arts programs, a hybrid that introduces an economic activity for the unskilled labour by utilizing recyclable and non-recyclable waste. This is an attempt to deal with the social and environmental issues through architecture intervention.
above // Alarming environmental degradation in Jakarta city
above // Urban analysis exploring the relationship between grains size and public space appropriation
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PROGRAMMATIC DERIVATION // HYBRID FUNCTIONS
COMMUNITY RECYCLING AND ARTS CENTER Unlike valued garbage collectors in many other countries who are recognized by its own society, the trashpicking population in Indonesia is somewhat “invisible”. They create a living off consumers’ habits and lack of environmental responsibility. Noticing the deteriorating social and environmental issues in Jakarta’s urban context, this project endeavours to use design and education to protect the environment and reduce poverty. The proposal is creating a hybrid function of COMMUNITY RECYCLING CENTER and ARTS CENTER where the recycling center purchases recycable materials directly from trashpicker without going through middle person and then transforms this trash into beautifully crafted designs/ products which the artist would then be able to either sell it or display it at the center. The aims is to introduces activities design efforts and through recycling finding new ways of using nonrecyclable waste to create fresh products, reduce trash in the heritage precinct and regional areas and provide livelihoods for the poors.
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As the environmental and social issues happen not just to the people on the site, there is a need to have a long term planning to create awareness of the issues. The aforementioned proposal is the very first step of the entire planning.
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Stage 2 // With growing amount of garbage, the recycled materials offer more income, which can be used to improve the housing areas/ informal settlements. Stage 3 // Recycling facility is enlarged and improved, making it a more efficient and hygiene workplace. Growing number of unskilled workers are able to find job in the regions. Similar scheme that embraces hybrid recycling program could be implemented in other regions in response to local function.
RECYCLING Dropoff Center Sorting Facilities Education Workshop
Kids
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RECYCLING ARTS
Dropoff// Center Gallery Exhibition Space Sorting Facilities Information Center // Media Center Education Arts Studio Workshop
ARTS SPACE PUBLIC
Gallery // Exhibition Space Community InformationSpace Center////Board MediaGames Center Open Park Arts Studio Sports Leisure // Football, Jogging Track Informal Stalls
PUBLIC SPACE
Community Space // Board Games Open Park LEGENDS Sports Leisure Class // Football, Jogging Track Low Income Informal Stalls Lower Middle Income Class Middle Income Class LEGENDS Low Income Class Lower Middle Income Class Middle Income Class
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EARLY DESIGN CONCEPT
// COMPOSITIONAL EXPLORATION
above // The early physical model imagines itself as a courtyard volume that is very much similar to the heritage buildings near the site. The transparent volume helps in telling user’s experience in relation to the surrounding context. The seemingly nonexisted volume boundary of the model is translated to the ambiguity of architectural space in further exploration.
left // Enlightened by the urban fabric studies earlier, this physical model is used to explore the connection between the fine grain architecture and the heritage building next to it. The model is not intended to continue the patchwork of the surrounding context but rather to explore new possibility that connect the site in a more subtle and practical manner. architectural design PORTFOLIO // 10
// Early drawings to investigate architectural composition in perspective. architectural design PORTFOLIO // 11
DESIGN PROCESS
// ARCHITECTURE DERIVATION // URBAN ANALYSIS
Staggering landspace
Street experience
Permeability
Urban furniture
Courtyard typology
as an architectural element to provide variety of surfaces for space appropriation.
is defined by the program inside the buildings as well as the width of the street. Human-scale street tends to create denser experience.
ensures the connectivity of space and its surrounding, resulting in a smooth and intuitive circulation.
such as bench and tree tend to attact people. Vegetation also creates cooling micro-climate.
provides informal public space that tends to be appropriated by local population.
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// MIXED GRAINS STRATEGY FUNCTIONAL SPACE OVERLAPPING GRAINS
PUBLIC SPACE FUNCTIONAL SPACE
Mixed grain is a tactic to create an alter-urbanity in sites with underutilized
buildings. it achieves this by accentuating the fragmentation on the ground level to provide more accessibility to the site and overlapping a larger grain on and below the fragmented grains for continuous functional space. The different properties and combinations of mixed grains unleash a
clash of scales, activities, and environmental strategies that can jumpstart an urban condition, offering a better platform for social interaction. Even though the fragmented grains does not noticeably strengthen the existing angular pathwork of the surrounding context, mixed grain strategy essentially connects the surrounding urban blocks that was not connected before with its high permeability.
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1. Sort-out Center 2. Recycling Dropoff Center 3. Artists’ Studio 4. Exhibition Center 5. Recycling Workshop 6. Media Center
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ARCHITECTURE
// SECTIONAL DRAWINGS Apart from the fact that the building facade is made out of recyclable material, the building also features an environmentally sustainable design: ER
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Tree is used extensively on the site as a passive shading device due to the hot and humid climate in Jakarta. The device will also function like a buffer zone to thwart heat entering buildings. It will be able to create cooler micro-climate around the site.
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HOT AIR EVAPORATED
Cooling buffer zone There is a second buffer zone besides trees between outer bamboo facade and the inner glass facade to divert light hot airflow back to the atmoshpere, reducing the heat from entering buildings. Natural ventilation The architecture creates an condusive environment for natural ventilation with ideal floor-to-ceiling height and floorplate width ratio. Besides, the higher roofing will be able to capture winds to enter buildings, a concept borrowed from the ‘wind tower’ of Dutch architecture.
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REFLECTIVE LAYER
BUFFER ZONE
NATURAL VENTILATION
PASSIVE SHADING DEVICE
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ARCHITECTURE
// PERSPECTIVE RENDERS
// LANEWAY BETWEEN GALLERY AND ARTIST’S STUDIO
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// GALLERY COURTYARD SPACE ( FACING MANDIRI MUSEUM )
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ARCHITECTURE
// PERSPECTIVE RENDERS
// DROPOFF CENTER LOOKING ACROSS KALI BESAR CANAL
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MELBOURNE HYBRID PRISON TEARING DOWN THE WALL - june 2012
tutor // Justina Karakiewicz
CITY HYBRID PRISON
// TEARING DOWN THE WALL
Despite prison population and recidivism significantly increasing over the last decade, the incarceration structure in Australia has failed to see advancements throughout the past century and desperately requires innovation and re-imagination. This debate creates an opportunity to rethink the future of prisons design. This is evidently shown through the locations of prisons at the edges away from the city, framing the negative perception that prisoners are transported away akin to garbage.
The thesis attempts to challenge negative preconceived notions of “PRISONS” to re-instil an urban penitentiary type into the city fabric that is desirable, focusing on the prison ‘wall’ and what it means to be in the city? The idea of a prison in the city isn’t
foreign or new; But by putting the new type back into the city, will the architecture play the dominant role it once did historically? How would this proposal for a new prison type change negative perceptions of the prison on a multitude of many levels? This occurs primarily with the prison wall. figure // Location of prisons in Victoria architectural design PORTFOLIO // 24
A ‘Wall’ is defined as ‘a continuous structure that encloses or divides an area of land’. The wall defines the ‘social physic that two bodies cannot share the same place at the same time’. This forces people to remain on their side, primarily for their well-being, which results in the main scenario of having a prison wall. At present, the “prison walls” are located in the outskirts of civilization consists of either a barren tall concrete wall or even just a tall fence as there is very little impact on the surrounding context and people to take into consideration. The new prison wall needs to allow a level of permeability and acceptance to happen between the city and the prison, and can only do so only via a state of trust between the law and inhabitants of the prison and the urban dwellers. Only then, can the intervention start to be-apart of the city morphology, the hidden gem that increases the value of its surrounding properties.
photos // Material system investigation and contextual model.
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BACKGROUND STUDY
// GRAFFITI WALL ANALYSIS
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Based on observations, data collections and mapping and diagram exercises, we can conclude that privatisation, in this case artist intrusion through graffiti, did influence pedestrian’s movement. The speed + colour range + gravitation diagram shows that people is more attracted toward and spend more time looking at brighter pieces of street art.
// Visualization of pedestrian flow to determine starting block of public/ private program for hybrid prison
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SITE ANALYSIS
figure // analysis of surrounding program in relation to walking distance.
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DESIGN PROCESS
// ARCHITECTURE DERIVATION
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Queen Victoria Market; site intervention, rerouting Franklin Street.
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Imaging the site as a field of horizontal strips for horizontal permeability.
the Architecture; hybrid of prison and public (art) program.
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Allocation of the WALLs; engagement with the public.
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‘Bleeding Wall’ as circulation path. ‘Public Loop’ and ‘Spill Out’.
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Insertion of prison programs according to transparency field.
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Shared Space Living Core
Physical space configuration with prison being the core.
Prison theatre; integration of public and prisoners.
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THEATRE
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PUBLICSQUARE PUBLIC PUBLIC
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ARCHITECTURE
// PERSPECTIVE RENDERS
// Public foyer
// Laneway experience.
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// Ambiguous space for art display.
// Site activation during night time.
// Outdoor amphitheatre. architectural design PORTFOLIO // 33
GOKISO CROSSING REVITALIZATION LESSONS FROM JAPANESE URBANIZATION - DEC 2011
tutor // Barrie Shelton
GOKISO CROSSING REVITALIZATION
// LESSONS FROM JAPANESE URBANIZATION
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Gokiso, one of the municipal in Nagoya, is in fact a gradually growing city. Analysis shows that almost 61% of the buildings on Sakurayama-dori are less than 15 years old. Besides, statistic shows that 75% of the buildings in Gokiso are residential premises and the number of households is still continuously growing. This assumes the possibility of more schools for residents around the area. Despite having quite a few libraries in elementary and high schools scattered around Gokiso at the moment, there is no sign of public library in the area. Also, from previous site analysis, it was obvious that there was lack of formal gathering space in Gokiso, where people resorted to having their discussions and meetings in informal spaces such as sidewalks and restaurants. What’s even more surprising is that being at the corner of Gokiso which enjoy the privileged access of subway stations (interchange of Sakuradori-line and Tsurumai-line), there is no any hotel nearby. With the advantage of incredibly high intensity in terms of flows and information, the corner site of Gokiso will be proposed for a new public building. The new building will house a mixed programs of information center, municipal library with a media center, health recreation center which consists of sauna, massage and therapy center, existing restaurants with improved experience over the view of Gokiso corner, hotel and a range of retail stores in the basement level. This building will be a new public gathering space for everyone in vicinity of Gokiso. CROSSING PROGRAM
- it’s been made great use of every possible parking area within the block; - parking pattern of every parking area has been accurately drawn to each individual parking space
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BALCONIES ON BUILDING FRONTAGE
Carpark Religious Education
STREET FRONTAGE NOT PROMINENT - DISCREET ENTRANCE
Retail Health
CIRCULATION
BUILDING FEATURES
EXAMPLE OF BUILDING USAGES: - Low to medium density multi-unit residential
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diagrams // Groupwork on urban and japanese architecture exploration.
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SITE ANALYSIS
// URBAN CHARACTERISTICS
diagram // UrbanBuilding Strip Analysis; Spatial programs along ‘Glocal’ road are color-coded. Comparison Elevation
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Programs diagram // Comparison of buildings’ elevation. Majority are of 2 storey buildings.
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The street on the eastern side has more old buildings (43) than the western side (24). The term of ‘old’ is subjectively referred to building 40 which is older than 15 years old. 100m
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// Urban Crossing Analysis This research looks into various aspect of transportation in the local community, including: Mode of transportation, Parking availablity, Width of pedestrain path/ sidewalk, Intensity of particular transport during different period of time, Traffics directions and ease of manoeuvre. It was concluded that the modes and intensity of the transportation vary in relation to buildings’ functions in close proximity. In addition, sidewalks and street parking plays a pivotal role in urban development as such places has a denser street activities in general.
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TRAFFIC CIRCULATION Data recorded on 29.09.11 at 11 -
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DESIGN PROCESS
// ESTABLISHING BUILDING COMPOSITION
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Narrow strip blocks created from the context.
3 Building is cut to allow more public space as well as sun access..
4 Underground access to retails and subway.
diagram // Red indicates horizontal and vertical circulation.
Hotel Recreation Center
Media Center
Library Cafe and Restaurant
Information Center and Link to Underground Retails
Section AA // Integration of new architecture and existing subway network.
5 Floor plate elevated to gain visual access in favour to public building.
6 Connection between blocks through ramps and stairs . The space will be also used as informal gathering and study place.
7 Perforated hardskin installed on facade to allow glimpse into the building. architectural design PORTFOLIO // 41
Ground Floor Plan 1. Entrance Space (Subway Entrance) 2. Information Center 3. Toilets 4. Cafe and Bookstore
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5. Exhibition Space 6. Hotel Souvenir Store 7. Hotel Lobby 8. Elevator
Second Floor Plan 1. Private Study Room 2. Study Area 3. Connecting Ramp
// West Elevation
Fifrth Floor Plan 1:200 4. Toilets 5. Library 6. Hotel Management Office
Room configuration of hotel.
// North Elevation architectural design PORTFOLIO // 43
ARCHITECTURE
// PERSPECTIVE RENDERS
// Rooftop Recreation Center. Fish Spa.
// Library. Looking at the atrium architectural design PORTFOLIO // 44
// Atrium. Entrance architectural design PORTFOLIO // 45
ULURU VISITOR CENTER
LOOKING THROUGH ABORIGINALS’ EYES - JUNE 2011
tutor // Zhu Jian Fei
ULURU VISTOR CENTER
// LOOKING THROUGH ABORIGINALS’ EYES
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Uluru is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia. Due to its unimaginable size, the annual pilgrimage has seen hundreds visitors engage with the community and witness with their bare eyes the remarkable natural treasure. Worshipped by the Anangus, aboriginal tribes in close proximity, the rock is also a sacred entity and a pride to them. Unfortunately, many visitors do not share the pride; In most cases visitors disrespectfully claimed to have conquered the monument by capturing few photos upon arrival. Some visitors even went to the extent of climbing the rock at the risk of losing their lives with complete ignorance of Tjukurpa, which is is the foundation of Anangu life and society. All this happened because the visitors are deemed not to appreciate or see Uluru rock like the way Anangu people do. Therefore, the idea of this visitor center is to create a platform for visitors to observe the rock through the eyes of Anangu. Building boundary is manipulated and directed to all essential features on the site such as the rock itself, Kata Tjuta, nearby towns and existing visitor center. The strategy is, in response to the theme (Scale) of the studio as well as to mimic the monumental gesture of the rock, to cleverly direct visitors to Uluru and Kata Tjuta rock by employing massively thick rammed earth walls. Visitors will hence be able to learn about the rock through join display and exhibition gallery at the same time of having visual access to the rock. Essentially, the views to the rock will be restricted to one fraction of it to really appreciate every single part of the rock instead of allowing the whole uncontrolled view to it, which makes no different to looking the rock from outside of the building. Having that said, there will be framed views to the rocks to give further emphasis on its sacredness.
// Framing Concept
Uncontrolled object viewing appears less interesting.
Framing an object provides new focus.
Frames allow appreciation towards an object’s details.
Frame could be made more interesting by including surrounding view and increases the viewing pleasure.
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ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT // DESIGN PROCESS
above // Site map analysing surrounding context of Uluru Visitor Center. Mititjuta Yulara Town Uluru
Kata Tjuta Existing Visitor Center
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Even though located in the middle of nowhere, there are still several important places on the site, with the most significant ones being Uluru, Kata Tjuta, Yulara, Mutitjuta and existing visitor center. Hence, to actually allow visitor to be aware of these, the building boundary will be derived from these attraction. The stategy is to draw a circle from the center point of these places and extend to the face of the proposed site. The lines derived is shown on the left.
// ARCHITECTURAL FORM DERIVATON
Building boundary was acquired through vision circles obtained from site analysis.
Building mass was pushed inward when related location(s) is not viewable and puled outward to the direction(s) of the related attraction(s).
Visual conection to Uluru, Kata Tjuta, Yulara Town and existing visitor center was established. It was made a architectural statement to the design.
Massive walls were introduced to direct and force visitors to look at the rocks. The walls were, at the same time, used to restrict the view at certain parts of the building. The walls will be utilized as a place to house building services due to their tremendous thinknes.
Final building mass was achieved with two cantilever platform overlooking Uluru and Kata Tjuta.
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ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS // FLOOR PLANS
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// Environmental Sustainable Design With roof area of approximately 3000 sq m, rain water will be colected in a tank and treated and then used again.
Rammed earth wall, because of its thickness and density, has high thermal mass. It would be applied to block the harsh north and west sun. The wall is cooled down at night due to the huge temperature difference.
Due to consistent wind from east of the site, the design incorperates natural ventilation into the building, by creating more opening on east facade, to achieve environmentally friendly design.
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// Maruku Gallery overlooking Uluru Rock.
// Section AA G // Wiltja Yard
G // Library / Reading Room
F // Joint Display Hall
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// Entrance Hall.
F // Wiltja Yard
G // Restaurant
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ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS
// ELEVATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
Library
Office
Joint Display Hall
Theatre Hall
// East Elevation
Entrance
Market
Maruku Display Hall
Restaurant
// West Elevation
Maruku Gallery
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Kiosk
Theatre Hall
Entrance
Wiltja Yard
// Ramp to first floor.
// Bridge to another side of building. architectural design PORTFOLIO // 57
DOLL THEATRE
THE SUMMER OF SEVENTEENTH DOLL - DEC 2010
tutor // Keith Streames
DOLL THEATRE
// THE SUMMER OF SEVENTEENTH DOLL
‘Summer of Seventeenth Doll’ portrays a beautiful dramatic love relationship. The love started well between the four main characters in the novel. With the passage of time, the love eroded with uncertainties and this shattered the relationship of the main characters after seventeen years. Such twist inspires the exploration of the relationship
between decay of love and architecture. The Site When inspected the site in Carlton, it was discovered that the location was somehow secluded from foot traffic despite the fact it was surrounded by commercial and public spaces such as Elgin Street, Melbourne Exhibition Center, University of Melbourne to name a few. Other than that, despite having historical Victorian Style on the site, the design will not conform to the identical style surrounding because it was deemed overly opaque and bulky. This had resulted Carlton streetscape to be overly dense. They therefore, did not appear interesting or inviting to most people. Hence, with inspiration from sugar cane which is an important element in the play together with simple geometric pattern, the theatre, especially the façade will be a distinctive urban statement to the residents around yet at the same time paying respect to Victorian Style housing in vicinity.
// Exploration of building facade. architectural design PORTFOLIO // 60
The facade was designed in such a way that it would appear smooth and clean from one direction yet chaotic from another direction. A metaphor of love being sugar sweet in the beginning but after seventeen years when looked back, it was all in a mess.
The design of the building leaned towards open/ perforated facade to engage with public and increase foot traffic of the site, increasing the permeability of the site.
In constrast to heavy Victorian style streetscape of the site, the design was to create a relatively open building. Hence, the intensity of the openings decrease gradually towards the west to sure public engagement.
// Building’s elevation.
The facade was inspired by the irregularity of sugarcane, which was mentioned repeatedly in the novel. Besides that, the facade was generated by simple pattern of geometry. architectural design PORTFOLIO // 61
THE ARCHITECTURE
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First Floor Plan 1. Foyer 2. Male Toilet 3. Female Toilet 4. Control Room 5. Auditorium 6. Services Area 7. Patch Panel 8. Dressing Room III 9. Toilet 10. Dressing Room IV // Circulation Diagram
// Section AA architectural design PORTFOLIO // 62
// Section BB
// Theatre
// Foyer architectural design PORTFOLIO // 63
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE REDEFINING SPACE - DEC 2009
tutor // Jeremy Wolveridge
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE // REDEFINING SPACE
Park Crescent is a typical Australian neighborhood which many of the houses portray a strong Victorian style architecture. Acquired the plot just recently, the client intend to build a rather distinctive home. In her statement also, she wants something that responds and blends in well with the context, an architecture which celebrates the surrounding context. As a result, the architecture utilizes the concept of open and enclosed. 4 units that demonstrate contradicting properties with courtyard in between; public and private.Each of them is designed differently that opens up residents to surrounding context accordingly, capturing the soothing view of Yarra River. The concept is also well reflected in the use of distinctive materials such as solid bluestone to represent enclosed and light timber construction for a better openness.
// Front facade architectural design PORTFOLIO // 66
diagram // design process; creating a distinctive experience when travelling down the site.
// Rear facade architectural design PORTFOLIO // 67
THE ARCHITECTURE
// DRAWINGS AND RENDERS
// Ground floor plan
// Section CC architectural design PORTFOLIO // 68
// Living room
// Library / reading room architectural design PORTFOLIO // 69
SCULPTOR’S (H)EARTH STUDIO GEOMETRY EXPLORATION - JUNE 2009
tutor // Robert Davidove
SCULPTOR’S STUDIO
// GEOMETRY EXPLORATION
architectural design PORTFOLIO // 72
The main concept of this Sculptor’s (h)earth studio is Geometry. This concept is inspired by the triangular shape of its context as the form could be clearly seen from satelite image. Due to the close connection between Geometry and Earth, triangle, which is also a geometry, would be a good starting point to keep the designing process going and eventually derive the design of earth studio. As the exploration went in deep, I discovered that by using repetative pattern such as the one applied at Federation Square, a public space located in Melbourne, a building could deliver a heavy sense of geometry. Thus, for this sculptors’ studio, one particular pattern will be created and it will generate the whole design idea of the studio building, including furnitures and their arrangement.
1 // Box
2 // Grid
3 // Intensify
4 // Chamfer
5 // Pattern
6 // Repeatition
// Inspiration; Federation Square facade. 7 // Spatial Response
8 // Site Response
architectural design PORTFOLIO // 73
THE ARCHITECTURE
// DRAWINGS AND RENDERS
// North elevation
// West elevation
// Floor plan
// Section BB
// Section AA architectural design PORTFOLIO // 74
// Exhibition space
// Wet studio
// View into wet studio
// Residence studio architectural design PORTFOLIO // 75
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