name
Cheryl Lim Jia Li
phone
+65 91141545
cheryl_limjl@mymail.sutd.edu.sg cherylljl@gmail.com
website
https://issuu.com/cherylljl
EDUCATION Master of Architecture Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
September 2017 - August 2018
Bachelors of Science (Architecture and Sustainable Design) Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
May 2014 - August 2017
WORK Housing and Development Board (HDB) Architecture Intern Building Research Institute Centre of Urban Design and Development
September 2017 - December 2017
Xcube Architect and Solutions Architecture Intern
May 2016 - July 2016
Sirusti Portals Media Pte Ltd Photographer | visitandexplore.sg
July 2016 - September 2016
OTHERS Tay Chay Bing Study Award 2015 and 2016 2015 Landscape Architecture Summer Program ZheJiang University | 15 weeks ASD Graduation Show 2017 Head of Logistic | 8 months nEbO Youth Entrepreneurship Symposium 2013 Organising Comm Head of Logistic | 9 months JJC Entrepreneur Club 2012- 2013 Exo Comm Chief Financial Officer
SKILLS Rhinoceros Google SketchUp AutoCAD Revit Lumion Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Grasshopper Python DIVA (energy simulation) QGIS
Architecture is simple language pushed to its limits. The following projects seek to unify design with simple elements and language. One language that transcends through different scale to form a elegant solution. Because simplicity, when pushed to its limits, becomes complexity.
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URBAN HINTERLANDS
LANDSCAPE URBANISM masterplanning
architecture design
content
03 P O R O S ITY architecture design
04 FABRIC exhibition design
Selected Works 2015-2018
05 GREENLIVING energy simulation
06 OTHERS reseach + photography + other interests
01 URBAN HINTERLAND a V i l l a g e i n T r a n s i t i o n
This project aims to explore an alternative development approach instead of the currently practiced tabula rasa method. We propose an additive method of development through connecting two existing developments. This connection is manifested in the form of a connecting infrastructure which will promote walkability between the two villages and enrich the lives of the villagers by serving as a space with amenities, social spaces and economic opportunities. We envision the 2,500 inhabitants to be the working population within this infrastructure during the day. In addition, this intervention is designed to accommodate both rural conditions as well as future urban developments.
Site GuangZhou Knowledge City
Typology Infrastructural Architecture
Year 2017
Theme Urban Living
Advisor Calvin Chuao
The hinterland is an area which is not easily defined; it is the transition between rural and urban and thus comes with its unique set of conditions. In rapidly developing countries, such as China, they are generally the next parcels of land to be developed. In our site visits as well as research conducted, it is found that the urbanization of the hinterlands in China generally follows a tabula rasa method where existing villages are demolished to make way for the new urban masterplan. Villagers are then relocated to high-rise resettlement apartments around the area and thus have to adapt to the new urban way of living. However, we felt that this method was far too destructive and disruptive to the villagers’ way of life and we sought to explore an alternative development approach. We took the approach of an additive measure and sought to connect two existing villages with a connecting infrastructure. This promotes walkability between the two villages, an aspect of connectivity commonly overlooked in urban connectivity of masterplans, as well as enrich the lives of the villagers by being a place where they can have access to more amenities, socialise and even work. Through our intervention, the villagers can get accustomed to the benefits of urbanisation without needing to abandon their way of living. Our intervention takes the form of a sheltered walkway that curves in response to the different programs that takes place beneath it as well as carves out open spaces as preserves them for use by the villagers. The walkway changes its width in response to the programs it hosts and the programs are bounded by sheer walls that change in length to accommodate different programs. Some examples of how the infrastructure adds on to the lives of the villages include a gymnasium built next to an existing school to serve as a sports hall extension, connections to the train exits as well as bus stops, as well as safeguarding a plot of land as a park for recreational use by the villages.
1. Connecting the villages
2. Lifted up to provide shelter and to preserve the green visual appearance the existing orchards
This intervention takes the form of a sheltered walkway that curves in response to the different programs that takes place beneath it as well as carves out open spaces as preserves them for use by the villagers. The walkway changes its width in response to the programs it hosts and the programs are bounded by sheer walls that change in length to accommodate different programs. The walkway curves in response to existing bus stops, villages and schools to provide an extension of space such as sport hall extension or town hall to enrich the villagers current living.
3. Curved responding to current site conditions and to link to existing bus stop
4. Lift up the shelter to house different programs and push down to give access to the ground floor
To minimise the impact of the infrastructure, which would take up agricultural land, the agricultural land would be replaced on the second level of the infrastructure, which provides a secondary circulation path as well as pavilions and is connected the ground via gentle sloping ramps. It also forms a green belt and it is envisioned with the future developments that this green belt will serve the urbanised area as a breathing green park and may even be continued as a series of green belts in the future. We found it of importance to designate the 2,500 habitants as working inhabitants along our intervention, for in our research, we realised that many of the young people leave the villages in search of a better life in the city, leaving to overcrowding in the cities and shrinking villages. However, we postulate that the root of this problem is that the young people have not been shown that working in the villages is a successful model. Thus we hope to provide economic opportunities through our intervention to encourage the young people to move back and revitalise the villages.
02 LANDSCAPE URBANISM With fertile alluvial soil brought by the rivers and an existing export-oriented road network, there exists a nonexploited potential for Lal Bakaiya Watershed to become a thriving agricultural hub. However, this potential is still unrealised, as of today, due to excessive flooding that disrupts the lives and livelihoods of the people, and the lack of a robust productive system. Thus to improve the people’s lives, there is a need for an infrastructural system that can manage the rivers, harness them as generative resources and remove the settlements from the flood risk zones. For the Lal Bakaiya watershed to grow further into an agricultural hub, a robust productive system needs to be implemented, with networks linking each step of the productive system to the next. To become a sustainable model for growth, phasing development needs to be planned for, to account for agricultural and industrial development, and the resultant population growth. The strategies that we will employ to achieve this River Braiding, Plateaus Formation, Agriculture Phasing, Programmatic Allocation, Road Development, Residentials
Site Nepal | Lal Bakaiya
Typology Masterplanning
Year 2018
Theme Landscape Urbanism
Advisor Eva Castro
Agricultural Hub Our agenda for a multi-layered urbanism is predicated on the development of a robust infrastructural and productive system as the main support systems through which higher agendas for political and social transformations could materialise. As such, there is a need, first and foremost, to secure the lives and livelihoods of the people by developing an infrastructural system that can manage the rivers, harness them as generative resources and relocate the settlements in flood risk zones. For the Lal Bakaiya watershed to grow further into an agricultural hub, a robust productive system needs to be implemented, with networks linking each step of the productive system to the next. To become a sustainable model for growth, phasing development needs to be planned for, to account for agricultural and industrial development, and the resultant population growth. The strategies that we will employ to achieve this vision are: social COMMUNITY COOPERATIVES SYSTEMS
communal ownership of land, productive resources and end products
COMMUNITY COOPERATIVES common ownership of land and productive resources
infrastructural
PRIMARY DRIVER OF LIVING & PRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS river management and road networks
productive
infrastructural
TERRAIN & ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE
PRODUCTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE & RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
political
economic
MODES OF SUBSISTENCE CROPS
PRIMARY INDUSTRY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
PRIMARY DRIVER OF SELF SUFFICIENCY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT intensification of agricultural production and development of secondary industries to support the move toward tiertary industries
education
SELF USAGE CASH CROPS generation of surplus
TIME
productive social
COMMUNAL EXCHANGE INDUSTRIAL CROPS LOCAL / GLOBAL EXPORT
economic
MEANS FOR COMMUNAL DEVELOPMENT
SPACE
incremental expansion and diversification
education
ENABLER OF SOCIAL PROGRESS transition to a knowledge base economy
SECONDARY INDUSTRY MANUFACTURING
PRODUCTION OF HIGHER VALUED GOODS
AUTONOMY
EXPANSION MODEL & SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
TIERTARY INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE
self-sufficiency PRODUCTION OF POLITICS, CULTURE & KNOWLEDGE
SOFT POWER
HARD POWER
ideology
economics
Topography
Slope Analysis
Elevation Field
Surface Run-off Along river
Flood Risk
Existing Settlements
Indexing Despite the huge potential for an agricultural hub, the socio-economic status of people living in the area is still relatively low. This is due to the fact that while the river brings fertile soil when flooding, the floods actually causes a lot of damage to existing villages as well as croplands. Thus, in order to improve living conditions, we must look into controlling the floods while still harnessing the agricultural potential of the river.
Lal Bakaiya river Bagmati river
Satellite Image
Flood Risk
River Timeline over 20 years
2010
2017
2003
2013
Flood Plain timeline over 20 years
2010
2017
2003
2013
River Braiding The higher the sinuosity of the river. The more likely it is for the river to further deviate from its course and flood. Points on the river whereby the tangent vectors starts to increase in its rate of change of direction are used as possible opening points on the river. These points are where water is re-channeled towards a new path.
Diversion Point Clustering
River Briading
Plateau Treatment
River Braiding
Proximity to River
Plateaus Formation (Phase I)
Proximity to River
Proximity to Roads
Plateaus Formation (Phase II)
Two criteria were selected: proximity to rivers and roads, in that order of importance respectively. The new plateaus had to be close to the rivers, as high-value and low flood-resistant crops were planned to be planted on these new plateaus, and the river was to be used as a source of irrigation. Roads had to be nearby, for easy exporting of high-value crops and goods from the processing factories, as well as imports of goods for the residents. With these two criteria in mind, the proximity of existing topography to rivers and roads within 1km were indexed. With the overlay of the two proximities, the priority of soil infill for the existing topography can be established. Once the priority of soil infill is established, due the proximity of existing topography to one another, the existing topography will be merged together. There are two main scenarios for the merging of existing topography through soil infill. Scenario A is when the nearby topography is of the same size, while Scenario B is the nearby topography is made up of one large one and a few small ones. The diagrams show the steps taken for each scenario for soil infill to achieve the final form.
Scenarios for plateau treatment
Overview of Plateaus Formation
LEGEND
Programmatic Arrangement / Spatial Adjacency Productive System Our urban agenda is to push beyond the mere optimisation of the system. However, there is a need for certain degree of efficiency in every productive system in order for it to be sustainable. Therefore, our primary focus is to increment and intensify production system to achieve autonomy and economy before moving to production of knowledge. Our programmatic allocation is closely related to the spatial adjacent where we studied the process and the spatial relationship of the productive system. In the example of rice, the rice wetland is spatially related to the pre-processing facilities by 280m, to the milling factories to 400m and to the social market by 400m.
River
Rice
Maize
Lentil
Soybean
Potato
Sugarcane Bamboo Elephant Ginseng Garlic
Minimum wage Farming plots 5000m2
4200m2
6300m2
650m2
5000m2
PHASE I FOOD SECURITY
MAIZE 4000 m2 15 workers
max 280M
600 m2 --/ workers
max 400M
max 400M
500 m2 15 workers
PROCESSING 5 m2 min 125000 m2 300 workers
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1000 m2 --/ workers
cash crops
ax
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POTATOE 800 m2 15 workers
max 280M
600 m2 --/ workers
cash crops
x4 ma
SUGARCANE 2000 m2 15 workers
max 280M
500m2 300m2
PHASE IV PHASE II HIGH-VALUE CROPS DELICATE CROPS
crops to achieve sustenance
RICE 5000 m2 15 workers
2000m2
2000m2
max 350M
600 m2 --/ workers
max 60
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SOCIAL MARKET 500M max
BAMBOO 1000 m2 25 workers
max 200M
600 m2 --/ workers
SOY BEAN - m2 15 workers
max 280M
1500 m2 --/ workers
GARLIC - m2 15 workers
max 350M
1500 m2 --/ workers
max 350M
100 m2 --/ workers
GINSENG 600 m2 15 workers
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max 400M
500 m2 15 workers
max 150M
RESIDENTIALS
1. Slope Analysis
4. Programmatic Allocation of Farms, Pre-Processing and Milling Factories
7. Road Development
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1km
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N Nepal-India Border
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5. 200m Radius from Milling Factories to determine placement of Social Market
Pre-Processing Factories
8. Road Syntax on Frequency of Use to determine the Primary Roads
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EDUCATION
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SERVICES
INTRODUCTION OF DELICATE CROPS + FERMENTATION INDUSTRY + RESIDENTIALS
EDUCATION
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LEVEL FOUR + FIVE PLAN (PHASE IV) AGRICULTURE FARM (GINSENG) AGRICULTURE FARM (INTERCROP)
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INTRODUCTION OF HIGH VALUED CROPS + PROCESSING FACTORIES + RESIDENTIALS
EDUCATION
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03 POROSITY C o l l e c t i v e L i v i n g
Porosity is a housing concept that address the challenge of creative living in a increasing smaller units and dense environment. Located in Kallang, it is envisioned as a residential hub to house a community of artist, both foreign visiting artist and local artist, to collaborate and share their works. The project uses an “urban block” strategy across different scale of the project to define public and private spaces. Continuous spaces in between the blocks form the communal spaces where social activities can spill out into. At a massing level, activities from galleries and commercial spaces spill out to the public area on the ground floor. At individual building level, the living, social and working space spills out to the common “corridor”. At unit level, this fluid volumetric spaces continuous to form the living space. This integration of personal and communal spaces facilitate a smooth transition from public to private homes. Site Kallang | Sim Ave
Typology Mixed-use Housing
Year 2016
Theme Urban Living
Advisor Ermmano Cerilo
Typical Storey
Second Storey
SITE ANALYSIS The figure and ground at different level different was studied. The black blocks define different activities different communal activities. Surrounding the site are a diversity of the residential blocks. Bordered by three completely different housing blocks- shop house, post war HDBs and modern HDBs gave rise to completely different spatial conditions.
Ground Storey
MASSING STUDIES
1. Existing Circulation
2. Variation of enclosed mass
3. Variation of height relative to surrounding building
4. Porosity blocks formed
PLANS
ground level plan
level two plan
level five plan
roof plan
POROSITY ATAT DIFFERENT SCALESCALE POROSITY DIFFERENT
AGGREGATION AGGREGATIONOFOFUNITS UNITS
FLOOR Floor plan ofPLANS red building OF (red) ONE TYPICAL BLOCK (RED)
Massing The massing strategy was to use different the blocks, including the neighbouring shop house and HDBs blocks to define different spatial quality for the activities to spill out to. Blocks are designed to enclosed different spaces for the spill over of activities on the ground floor. Each unit will also have a view of one enclosed ground level area. The commercial and art gallery are located on the first floor. On the ground floor, the relationship between the urban blocks and the communal area inversed. The communal areas now form the enclosed for the collective art gallery.
COMMUNAL ROOFTOP ACCESS
RESIDENTIAL
Every tower has two different units layout. When placed together they form a shifting effect and allow load to be effectively transfered downwards.
ART GALLERY
COMMERCIAL
PROGRAMMATIC ALLOCATION
GROUND FLOOR PLAN STRUCTURAL + CIRCULATION
AGGREGATION OF UNITS
UNITS The units follows the idea of a continuous volumetric space. The blocks in this case becomes fixed functions that house bedrooms and toilets. The resulting continuous space houses a small pantry and storage area. Each units has a clear view of its unique enclosed space on ground where a range of spill over activities is held. (Perspective on the left)
UNITS TYPES
SECTION
FACADE DETAIL
04 FABRIC MAKING FABRIC-LIKE SURFACE OUT OF RIGID DOWELS We wanted to create a flowy, fabric-like structure that hangs vertically down. We are using the above-mentioned strategy to integrate this smooth, fabric-like structure and the rigid rods to realise the structure we have in mind. Hence, small segments of lines are used to create the curvature in the structure. We were drawn by the natural beauty of the site and would want to respond to the site by introducing a hanging installation that mimics the creepers while blending in with the hardscape (i.e columns and beams) towards the softscape (i.e grass, shrubs and wooden platform). The presence of light fixtures help amplify the natural beauty at night, where the space lights up and shadows are being casted.
Site
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Typology Installation
Year 2016
Theme Digital Fabrication
Advisor Stylianos Dritsas
CONCEPT CREATING CURVES FROM STRAIGHT LINES
Straight lines can show the property of curves when they are segmented into shorter lines and then arranged to form curves. This strategy is used by us to form curved lines for our structure out of the rigid wooden rods.
MAKING FABRIC-LIKE SURFACE OUT OF RIGID DOWELS
We wanted to create a flowy, fabric-like structure that hangs vertically down. We are using the above-mentioned strategy to integrate this smooth, fabric-like structure and the rigid rods to realise the structure we have in mind. Hence, small segments of lines are used to create the curvature in the structure.
CODE EXPLANATION
Creation of diagrid on surface
FABRICATION Wooden dowels + customised 3D-printed nodes
FEATURES
05 GARDENLIVING E n v i r o n m e n t a l A n a l y s i s
Singapore is located very near the equator, thus we experience a tropical climate. As a result, we experience relatively hot and humid throughout the year and a high rainfall and precipitation levels. Public gardens are often underutilized in Singapore. Plants and vegetation brings about many health benefits to people and soften the hard landscape of our increasing dense urban living. Our project hopes to tap on the existing green, continue the green and provide people with a comfortable green space. Our design intention is to creating an outdoor garden space that is windy on most of the days and is well-shaded and cool. This concept extends into the commercial and retail region thereby encouraging interaction between its residents. The idea of green spaces extends into residential homes. All units have its own private balconies and residents are able to continue the green into the comfort of their own homes.
Site
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Typology Mixed-use Housing
Year 2016
Theme -
Advisor John Alstan
FINAL MASSING Wind Analysis | Air Flow
MASSING DIAGRAM
1. Optimum massing for both shading and windflow based on previous experiements
SOLAR SHADING ANALYSIS Average solar shading in a year
WIND ANALYSIS December Wind North-East Wind Wind direction 25 ° Wind Speed 4.25m/s
2. Height variation is introduced with relation to surrounding buildings
3. Blocks are lifted and broken down to encourage air flow. The ground floor and sky level is opened public circulation.
4. The commercial spaces are dispersed throughout the ground floor to give a very open circulation.
June AM (0700hrs - 1200hrs)
June PM (1230hrs - 1900hrs)
FINAL DESIGN SHADOW ANALYSIS December AM (0700hrs - 1200hrs)
December PM (1230hrs - 1900hrs)
DAYLIGHTING POINT ON ILLUMINANCE Residential Units | September 1200 | Mean Illuminance: 1193.44 Lux
DAYLIGHTING UNIT A
DAYLIGHTING VISUALIZATION
September 1200 | Mean Illuminate: 1193.44 Lux
Bedroom | September 1800
Unit A Room Layout
Living Room | September 1800
RESEARCH - CARBON FIBER AS REINFORCEMENT IN CONCRETE
2. Drawing of Support
Similar to previous prototype, each beam is divided into five layers, where each layer has different support conditions. The selection of layers are bounded by a rule that keeps it under simply supported category, which is two/more supports that are located on both sides of the beam. The different support locations are based on the gradual shift of support throughout the layers. Referring to the library that has been established, this second prototype of simply supported beam was constructed out of layers selected, with the aim to have the simpler fabrication method by choosing as many from smaller number of sets of magnet as mentioned previously.
3. 2D TopoStruct
1. Variables
Layers of the beam with tension lines based on 2D Topology Optimisation
LIBRARIES OF SET OF MAGNETS
06
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RESEARCH+COMPETITION+ PHOTOGRAPHY+OTHERWORKS
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INITIAL MAGNETISM FABRICATION
1. Arranging magnets with various strengths on the location
2. Bridging with iron filling in small quantity to create fine lines
3. Creation of stress line of the first layer
4. With the magnets still in place, pour resin
Setting template for iron filings
Filling in the iron filings into the template
Arranging pair of magnets on two different sides of the mold based on the general pattern of the tensile stress line
Directing iron filings with a point magnet to give a general direction
Pouring in a 4mm layer of resin
Let it cure for approximately 30 minutes
Repeat the whole process for the next layer on top of the previous layer
The build-up of layers during the process
Support Condition
28_43
0_21
name
Cheryl Lim Jia Li
phone
+65 91141555
cheryl_limjl@mymail.sutd.edu.sg cherylljl@gmail.com
website
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