5 Projects.
Zuliandi Azli
5 Projects. is a compilation of selected work over the course of professional work and education at the University of Western Australia and the National University of Singapore.
5 Projects. form a personal position towards architecture. One that stems from type & typology, abstracted through form & figure, and construed through tectonics and materiality. Each project is an attempt to react to contemporary issues of the city and hinterland in thoughtful ways. Representation of these projects are deployed through the act of drawing, physical models and image making.
5 Projects.
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Building for Co-Working Masterplan with a Forest Theater in Balestier Market for Semarang Workshop for China & Sri Lanka
01 A Building for Co-Working
The building is a concrete shell, punctured through structural ciruclation cores. As the digital begins to pervade through the 21st century, access to goods becomes fluid, to the point that existing modes of get disrupted. The advent of sharing platforms also provide private sectors with unprecedented market mechanics, enabling the seamless commodification of life. Indeed, these are the hallmarks of the shared economy. If the building is meant to house participants of this new shared economy, how can it charge the workings of this new phenomena? The building’s objectives are twofold. The first, is the mediation between old and new or local and global whilst responding to the immediacy that the flanking rail corridor presents. The second, is to act as a urban condenser responding to the demands of an increasingly relevant shared economy. To meet these objectives, a series of four strategies is suggested: creation of public space, functional flexibility and strategic circulation.
Blinds and Projector Screen
Books
Company Logo Post Its
Post Its Motivational Poster Filing Lamp Synthetic Plant Table Announcement Board
Recyclable Bag
Computer Printer Table
Table
Carpet
Fan
Duck
Curtains
Curtains
Lighting
Plant Flowers
TV Console
Dining Recliner
Sofa Set Pillows
Drawer
Multimedia
Carpet
Same, same; but Different: Domesticity Reworked Vignette, A3
Unit Type Study Model, 1:50, PVC & Mirrored Plywood
Unit Type Study Floorplan, 1:50, A2
Elevation of the Co-Working Building Vignette
Building and Surrounding Context Composite Site Plan, 1:200, A1
Alternating Open & Closed Floor Slabs Model, 1:50, PVC, MDF & Plaster
Alternating Open & Closed Floorplans Floorplan, 1:100, A1
Circulation Cores traversing through varying levels Perspective Section, 1:50, A1
02 A Masterplan for a Forest
The masterplan offers ways of negotiating between city and hinterland through formal operations. As strategy, a series of phased reactions to the surrounding urban environment was developed. This provides a framework for collaging intentions on site. As requisite, the collection begins with a series of block typologies that are suitable for the tropical context. Relationships between the forest and city is formulated through the most banal series of arrangements that lead to a complex composition. The masterplan is a sum of parts informed by a collection of typologies that is stitched by linear zones into a cohesive whole. As a sum of its parts it offers a multitude experiences, yet in the background is the recurring 50:50 dialectic between forest & city. The notion of the forest city as mere merging of the forest with the city should be reconsidered. Both take space, more often than not, at the expense of each other. How can these seemingly polar opposites come together? The districts are a linear progression of clusters that progress from the existing industrial area towards West Coast Park. The Gardens act as a productivity buffer and site of economy. Parks and Recreation allow for activities within the green areas. The Forests of contemplation offer an immersive spectacle into the forest.
Phased intentions of a Forest Masterplan Masterplan, 1:1000, A1
Phased Strategy of a Forest Masterplan Masterplan, 1:1000, A1
Atlas of Typology of a Forest Masterplan Isometric, 1:1000, A1
Types of Configuration for the Forest and City Isometric, 1:500, A2
Types of Scenarios for the Forest and City Vignette, A1
Forest as Rooms Vignette
Forest as Rooms Drawing Set, 1:200, A1
Forest as Patio Vignette
Forest as Patio Drawing Set, 1:200, A1
Forest as Facade Vignette
Forest as Facade Drawing Set, 1:200, A1
03 A Theater for Balestier
A theater for Balestier is an addition of strategic circulation pathways and a figural concrete shell. 8 Jalan Ampas as a Place of Contemporary Cultural Production. Counter position to the Cathay along orchard road, consumption of cultural production and the history of cultural production. This location has the potential to be a productive space that is an actual machine for the production of contemporary culture bringing the building into a new phase, in an attempt to chart a narrative that looks to its past for its future. The Film Production compound is an anomaly within its surrounding context of mid tier condominiums, a temple, a nursing home, and some conserved shophouses. Yet, it is also an anomaly because its sealed off, abandoned and left for dead. Herein lies the latent potential to transform the compound in to a found productive space.
Collection of Previous Histories of Jalan Ampas Analagous Map, Varying Scales, A1
Collection of Studio Spaces and Support Functions Model, 1:200, Card
Collection of Studio Spaces and Support Functions Worm’s Eye District Plan, 1:100, A1
The New Production Studio The New Production Studio
The New Theater Model, 1:50, Card
The New Theater Floorplan, 1:50, A1
The New Theater Model, 1:50, Card
The New Theater Floorplan & Axonometric, 1:50 & 1:100, A1
04 A Market for Semarang
The architecture is a thickened roof that consolidates civic functions. A paradoxical figure emerges, one that is composed of the heavy volume of the administrative floorplate and the fragmented roof form, reminiscent of the grain of surrounding context. The roof aggregates in hopes of appearing as a friendly neighbour, borrowing grain and geometric values of the urban block. Insidiously, the open space serves as a means to the agenda of the market police to secretly keep market vendors in check. The single volumnious floorplate consolidates the governmental power facilitating the continuous underside. In elevation, the singular inhabitable roof is picture hovering above the open space. A towering minaret pierces through the layers of sneakiness - the only uncontested space. Irregardless of status, they are all forced to come together to pray 5 times a day to reprent for their sins for being so sneaky.
Collection of Previous Histories of Pasar Johar Analagous Map, Varying Scales, A1
The New Market in the Urban Fabric Model, 1:200, Card & Foam
The New Market and its Kit of Parts Exploded Sectional Oblique, 1:200, A0
Atlas of Mockups Model, Various Scales
The New Market in the Urban Fabric Worm’s Eye Axonometric, 1:200, A0
The Alun-alun & The Minaret Vignette
The Minaret in the Market Worm’s Eye Axonometric, 1:100, A0
05 A Workshop for China and Sri Lanka
The workshop is a big roof consolidating smaller fragmented urban rooms. The architectural thesis is about the modes and methods of architectural production in a climate that is both tropical and increasingly neo-liberal. The consequence of this inquiry, is to understand the ways in which architecture should be produced. Is there room to infiltrate a kind of prima materia consensus that has long preceded the developmentalist approach toward architecture in the tropics? More importantly perhaps, it looks to set up and formulate an understanding of practising architecture in the contemporary context of the modernist metropole within the framework of the market economy. The project is demonstrated through a building which serves as a workshop for collaboration between Chinese construction workers and Sri Lankan craftsmen & labourers. The metaphor for fruitful exchange does not remain at the level of the building’s function but is reflective in its construction process, down to the level of how two materials meet.
Collection of Previous Histories of Sri Lanka Analagous Map, Varying Scales, A1
Provocation of Sri Lankan Craft and Chinese Construction Digital Painting, A2
Referential Figure of the Monument Digital Painting, A2
The Workshop, Model, 1:200
The Workshop Worm’s Eye Plan, 1:100, A0
Composite Section through Brick Kiln Sectional Oblique, 1:50, A0
Composite Section through Workshop Sectional Oblique, 1:50, A0
Composite Details 4 way Axonometric, 1:30, A0
Composite Details 4 way Axonometric, 1:30, A0
Sri Lankan Beam meets Chinese L Section Mockup, 1:1
Sri Lankan Beam meets Chinese L Section Mockup, 1:1
Sri Lankan Beam meets Chinese I Beam Mockup, 1:1
Sri Lankan Beam meets Chinese I Beam Mockup, 1:1
Sri Lankan Frame meets Chinese Precast Concrete Mockup, 1:1
Sri Lankan Frame meets Chinese Precast Concrete Mockup, 1:1
Sri Lankan Timber Beam meets Chinese Mild Steel Mockup, 1:1
Sri Lankan Timber Beam meets Chinese Mild Steel Mockup, 1:1
Atlas of Mockups Mockup, 1:1
Curriculum Vitae
Zuliandi Azli b.1991 e zuliandi@live.com m +65 8195 8001 w cargocollective.com/zuliandiazli www.gambar.studio
Academic 2016 - 2019 National University of Singapore Master of Architecture 2012 - 2014 University of Western Australia Bachelor of Design (Architecture) Professional 2017 -2018 Pencil Office Assistant Designer 2017 - 2018 National University of Singapore Graduate Student Researcher 2016 - 2017 MVRDV Assistant Designer 2016 - 2017 Leyk - Wollenberg Architects Assistant Designer 2015 - 2016 ETH Zurich, Future Cities Laboratory Research Assistant 2015 - 2016 SMAR Architects Assistant Designer
Competitions & Publications 2017 Urban Breeding Grounds ETH Zurich, FCL Magazine 2017 Additive Munfacturing: Tropical Envelope S.Arch Conference Paper 2016 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam Reclaiming Backlanes 2016 Reclaiming Backlanes World Scientific Publishing References Pencil Office Mr. Erik G. L’heureux erik@penciloffice.com MVRDV Ms. Wenchian Shi wenchianshi@mvrdv.nl Leyk-Wollenberg Mr. Dietmar Leyk Architects dietmarleyk@lwa.eu ETH Zurich Mr. Marcel Brulisauer brulisauer@arch.ethz.ch
Professional Work
01 Landshut Masterplan
02 Landshut Work Loft
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Client: Location: Area: Firm:
City of Landshut, Bavaria Landshut, Lower Bavaria, Germany 40 hectares FACE 2050
City of Landshut, Bavaria Landshut, Lower Bavaria, Germany 0.2 hectares FACE 2050
03 JTC Industrial Re-Use
04 Hofgut Capsule Hotel
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Client: Location: Area: Firm:
NUS - JTC Singapore, Singapore 0.4 hectares National University of Singapore
05 American Express Centurion Gala
06 Tainan Axis
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Client: Location: Area: Firm:
American Express Gardens by the Bay 0.07 hectares FACE 2050
City of Hofgut, Bavaria Hofgut, Germany 0.2 hectares FACE 2050
Tainan Council Tainan, Taiwan 10 hectares MVRDV
07 Seoul Skygarden
08 Nanjing Masterplan
Client: Location: Area: Firm:
City of Seoul Seoul, South Korea 20 hectares MVRDV
09 Evian Spa Client: Location: Area: Firm:
City of Nanjing Nanjing, China 35 hectares MVRDV
10 Reclaiming Backlanes Evian Spa Doha, Qatar 0.3 hectares Leyk Wollenberg Architekten
11 Guggenheim Helsinki Client: Location: Area: Firm:
Client: Location: Area: Firm:
Client: Location: Area: Firm:
Research Grant by NRF Emerald Hill, Boat Quay, Singapore 0.5 hectares Future Cities Lab - ETH Zurich
12 Torbay Hill House Guggenheim Helsinki Helsinki, Finland 1 hectares SMAR Architecture
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Torbay Hill Council Torbay Hill, Albany 0.2 hectares Finespun Architecture