Year 1 + 2 Portfolio

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ArchiAndrew Architecture | Ngpillows | God

2nd ed 18 |2 |2018

Scaled Drawings shown are not to scale, they are only shown for illustration purposes

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Contents

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Introduction Personal Projects

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Year 1 Enfloaping Aftermath SpirIal Tale of Two Houses Mobius Strip VSE: Participatory Design

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Year 2 VSE: 3dsmax BIM Shootout 2017 Research and Review (RR) Individual Design Response (IDR) Schematic Design Response (SDR) D.C Submission B.P Submission Detailed Design Response (DDR) ES Active Sustainable Systems Final Design Review

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“It’s not about the distance, it’s about the development”

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I n t r o

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Hi I’m Andrew and I’m an individual, passionate about architecture. I’m now currently studying in Singapore Polytechnic to pursue a diploma in Architecture (also known as DARCH).

I loved 3D modelling on computers, especially replicating existing buildings and skyscrapers. Being keen on details, i have the patience to intricately draw buildings on paper, and also replicating them in models. ​ This book is my work portfolio which showcases architectural work that are both personal and assignments-based.

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Personal Projects

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What better way to kindle a fire for architecture, than to draw? The pencil and paper are the bread and butter for any design.

In the initial days i appreciated 3D forms.

That drove me to sketch, trace and draw various kinds of drawings on the A3 drawing block paper. It develops patience, trains one’s eye for detail, and cultivate steady hands for accuracy, least should one turn to the eraser, or correction tape, for refuge.

3D expression on paper is not good enough. My spatial recognition needs to be developed further in making models.

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Digital modelling offered another avenue of exploring forms and spatial visualisation, while being free of cost. Various software are being used, such as Solidworks, Gmax and TinkerCAD. In Gmax, the software is being used to create some of my works which then can be exported to the game Simcity 4, through several plugins and programmes attached to its builder kit. This is my foundation of knowing rendering, textures, night lighting and modelling with efficiency - to achieve a realistic - looking model while lowering memory count.

Solidworks is another software used by product designers. The parametric - approach formulates my beginnings of knowing the in and outs of the software, its capabilities, and visualise routes to achieve desired results of the design.

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Enfloaping

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A gateway for architectural beginners, Unlocking the Fibonacci’s Cryptex establishes the need for a design driver. From an A2 trace that showcases dismantled components in a dishevelled manner, students identify design drivers that best literally represents what is showcased from a 21cm square snippet of the trace. Once so, a sculpture of sticks and planes is created to best represent the drivers. Whilst fabricating the cryptex, students are learning the ropes of the basics of life in architecture school- model craftsmanship, documentation, lineweights, computer modelling, and presentation skills. ​

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Enfloaping is an amalgamation of the two design drivers- enveloping, and floating. Floating is achieved through the suspended volumes that has been held up by intersecting planes, and lines in the form of sticks. Long planes encase the volumes by creating an implied space themselves. The cryptex works when stood upright, however when overturned, the design drivers are not evidently seen. Thus students face the challenge of sustaining the evident look of the drivers in all elevations, instead of being fixated on a single cryptex’s orientation

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Aftermath

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Aftermath starts the ball rolling, to learn what it means to interpret meanings through abstraction. In a series of 21 images, students figuratively derive the purpose of such images by studying the techniques used to convey such figurative meaning- colour, proportion, positioning, camera view, sensory mood of the place the image’s taken, and so on.

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SpirIal

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The Primer builds upon information and work that has been done from prelude studies 02. Primer 2 tasks the student to design an experiential narrative, which can be in the form of a memorial, or even a library. In prelude studies 02, one studies the phenomenology of images, and how it plays a role in evoking emotions and feelings. Hence, students are to translate what they have learnt into a 3-dimensional experience, based on 121 square metres of land. ​

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The project inspiration comes from the life of Mr Eter Foo, an unsung veteran war hero that sacrificed much of his livelihood while constantly lived on the edge. His life journey, can be summarised in a spiral. A spiral that dips into the ground, signifying how his life and the conditions around him, start to hit rock bottom. But even in the midst of the valley of death, the spiral slopes up at a gently gradient, and finally resurface to signify the end of war sufferings.

Hence the project is designed based on user experience, enriching the adventure of one circulating through this additional masterpiece of the Changi Chapel Museum.

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“Forgiveness is all we need, and all we need to give�

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Tale of Two Houses

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Tasked to compare between the designs of two distinct houses, House VI by Peter Eisenman, and Bishopsgate House by CSYA, the study analyses the different approaches taken by the architects.

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From design methodology to materials and finishes, we gained insight into the work of the architects and make the judgement call - critique the work for the successes and the failures.

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The differences in design methodology is reflected in the design of the structural systems. Bishopsgate employ a rather conventional approach of aligning structural members to its space planning. House VI on the other hand, disrupts spatial planning with columns, and beams which some plays no structural purpose.

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Mobius Strip House

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The house is designed for a landscape designer. While a designer, the client too is troubled by the stresses of his work. Henceforth, i derived the metaphor of continuity to be used in my house design, based on the client’s works, and it’s no coincidence that for our cohort’s site is in a rural setting, facing much landscape.

The Non-Good Class Bungalow, is located at the hillside of 5 Canterbury Road, facing scenic views of nearby plains, Kent Ridge Hill Park, and even a hidden plant nursery. Much of the site, reminisces a Malaysian-type environment, a rare find in Singapore. Hence the site context is appropriate for a landscape designer to embrace, opening up room of opportunity for the client to de-stress, at the same time, imagine and daydream over possible landscape works over the site while simultaneously take pleasure in the site surroundings.​

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Part of the house project introduces us to architectural detailing. There the basics of R.C Construction, waterproofing, detail joinery, and surface drainage, is being practiced.

Detail B focuses on the facade of building, which zooms at a slanted balustrade design. This is also joined with diagonal aluminium fins to complement the design language.

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Detail C focuses on the ground detail, where principles of ground waterproofing is shown. This sectional detail cuts through an intersection of where the aluminium fin meets the ground. The reflective pool has a raised glass edge to conceal the raised plinth of the aluminium fins, while providing a scupper drain to collect access water.

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Participatory Design

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The VSE module emphasises much on the involvement of the community in design thinking. Participatory design zooms in on one’s analysis of the given site, identify the lack of student involvement inside those spaces, and come up with 1:1 prototypes to test our solutions. Throughout the module, the student is tasked to engage the public over their opinions of the spaces, which requires unique methods to attract their attention.

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3dsmax

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BIM Shootout

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As part of BCA’s Productivity week, the competition aims to test skills and knowledge on identifying inter-disciplinary clashes, and on modelling proficiency in Architecture, Structural and MEP categories.

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Clashes, modelling, accuracy, must be done within 2 hours.The speed run requires mastery of modelling skills in Revit software.

All these helped me to successfully attain a 2nd place in the Nation BIM-Shootout Competition, organised by BCA.

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Research and Review (RR)

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We’re thrown with a need to study precedences with their approaches to site, user context, the architects’ influences, and driving forces that gives rise to the design. The challenge is to apply some of these lessons into our design of the 24 storey dwelling at Rochor.

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The Colonnade by Paul Rudolph presents a tectonic of shifting floor plates that creates new spatial experiences in units while responding to climatic conditions. Amanora towers creates a typology of mountains and valleys like form, while punctuating the masses with communal spaces, which is probably first of its kind of public housing in India.

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Aside from studying structural systems, analysis of climatic conditions, materiality, site context and design methodology, and compliance to authorities codes are done. This is a critic of the designs of these high rises.

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The studies culminated into application to site.

With rochor naturally a busy area buzzing with traffic, it is at the area of transition between the residential areas and the CBD. To add to the challenge, Rochor is a site with continuous change. The recent closure of the thieves market, to the future demolition of Rochor Centre to make way for the North - South Expressway, are examples of the loss of genius loci. This risk any loss of local identity when physical space are removed.

Future architecture must be solutions to the problems of tomorrow, and create new site identity, when there’s tabula rasa.

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Individual Design Response (IDR)

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The challenge begins with starting the own massings needed in response to the site in macro terms. Attention to sun path, vistas, site nodes and circulation, and compliance to codes is necessary.

As my concept is based on vertical farming, spaces are created for farming to be conducted.

Initially, the sky terraces are thought to hold conventional soil - based farming, however further research reveals that plants does not need to be grown on a large horizontal plane.

Voids are introduce to separate the unit stacks from each other. Similar to the scoops employed in Amanora, it’s intent is to establish visual connectivity by having a line of sight to the sky terraces along corridors. Communal Stairs are also proposed to circulate these voids to encourage farming activity.

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Schematic Design Response (SDR)

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Further development on the vertical farming concept creates a more realistic farming proposal. Crops can be grown on trays similar to Skygreens’ rotating rack system, hence i suggest that a similar system be proposed as part of facade development. These crops can be grown inside glass containers to prevent theft of crops, while allowing sunlight.

A comprehensive mechanical system is developed to close the loop for farming in a vertical setting.

While the concept is not new, what work needs to be done is a detailed workout of the concept, which may include a calculation on profits and a study on possible crops grown.

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In ensuring that our designs comply with relevant building codes, this puts a cap on design opportunities, yet ironically can establish new opportunes. Development Control (D.C) ensure the design can comply on a macro scale, from URA’s compliance to GFA and Site coverage, to Npark’s provision of planters.

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“God is in the Details� - Ludwig Mies Van De Rohe

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Details either align with the concept to complement the whole, or it serves as a jarring juxtaposition that breaks the harmony of the whole. This detail exercise places focus on Precast ReinforcedConcrete construction, creating the desired slab profiles and certain Pre-Cast Panels that integrates with structural elements. Interior design is also explored and expressed through the renderings of a bathroom and the communal terrace.

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This final aspect of the year - long academic project, focuses on clarifying the precast construction details of various concrete componenets. The rotating rack system is further developed to host a realistic mechanical system within its covers, while dealing with the other issues that bothers the design of the system, such as irrigation, support, and levelling of trays as the system rotates. Like a mini ferriswheel, the technology developed by skygreens, has the potential to embed such system in a residential development. Not only it gives a possibility of having a moving facade in the building, but it also provides an efficiency in farming that traditional plot - based farming is unable to provide.

This concept goes against BCA’s regulation of prohibition of moving facades in buildings generally, which is a measure for public safety.

Work still remains over guaranteeing the safety of such rotating system being incorporated into a residential highrise, as well as minimalising impact of its operational presence upon residential units and the residents themselves. However if successful, such proposal will spearhead progress in sustainable architecture.

Additionally, architectural spaces in the development is further refined to further support the operation of farming and farmingrelated logistical activities. For instance, the roof level is further detailed to incorporate intensive gardening. The roof’s Sanitary Discharge and Rainwater Downpipe Stacks are incorporated to have night lights to utilise its presence while providing night lighting for growth of seedlings at night. Sky Terraces now have at least a communal kitchen facility, that supports preparation of produce, or host small gatherings among neighbours for the crops that’s been harvested. Communal fish pond facilities exist to provide ideal nitrate water necessary for irrigation.

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Andrew Chew

@archiandrew

Chewandrewwj@gmail.com

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