Daniel Joseph NUS B.A. (Arch) Year 1 Portfolio

PORTFOLIO

DANIEL JOSEPH | YEAR 1 2022-2023 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE | B.A. ARCH

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PORTFOLIO | CONTENTS

ABOUT CONTACT

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CURRICULUM VITAE

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SELECTED WORKS EISENMAN HOUSE II

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ABSTRACTING FROM PRECEDENCE

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SUN & SWEEP

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CONTACT d.britelitjoseph@gmail.com +65 8522 9755 @DanielBJoseph (tele)

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DANIEL JOSEPH | CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION & WORK EXPERIENCE APRIL 2022 - JUNE 2022

QUEN ARCHITECTS INTERNSHIP & JOB SHADOW

AUG 2022 - MAY 2023

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ARCHITECTURE (CDE) 1ST YEAR

COMPETITIONS AND SHOWCASES APRIL 2022

MILL BENCH DESIGN COMPETITION PARTICIPANT

MAY 2023

NUS-BOA ACCREDITION EXHIBIT SHOWCASE OF Y1S2 WORKS

MAY 2023 - PRESENT

INTERNATIONAL BUILDING DESIGN COMPETITION PARTICIPANT

JUL 2023

NUS ARCHIVAL 2023 EXHIBITION SHOWCASE OF Y1S1 & Y1S2 WORKS

PROFICIENCIES RHINOCEROS 3D 3D

GRASSHOPPER SKETCHUP

2D

AUTOCAD ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

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ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR ADOBE INDESIGN

RENDER

ENSCAPE 5

EISENMAN HOUSE II

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HOUSE II EXPLORES FORMAL PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE IN POINTS, LINES AND PLANES TO RECONCEIVE PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE AND THE PROCESS OF GEOMETRICAL TRANSFORMATION. MOREOVER, EISENMAN PLAYS WITH THE AMBUIGUITY OF SUPPORT ELEMENTS IN HIS SCHEME, INFORMING NEW UNDERSTANDINGS OF FORM AND POETICS.

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HOUSE II II HOUSE DESIGNED BY NEW YORK ARCHITECT PETER EISENMAN, WHO IS KNOWN FOR HIS ECLECTIC AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS AFFILIATED WITH DECONSTRUCTIONISM. HOUSE II WAS PART OF A SERIES OF TEN RESIDENTIAL CONCEPTS, WHERE ONLY FOUR WERE BUILT DUE TO THE UNCONVENTIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY NATURE OF THEIR SCHEMES. THE HOME ELUDES ANY SENSE OF SCALE, DESIGNED TO LOOK MORE LIKE AN ARCHITECTURAL MODEL THAN A LIFE-SIZED HOUSE.

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MASSING STUDY MASSING STUDYAND AND TRANSFORMATION TRANSFORMATION THE FUNDAMENTAL VOUMES OF HOUSE II CAN BE EXAMINED AS HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL EXTRUSIONS OF MASSINGS. FURTHER TRANSFORMATION OF THESE VOLUMES GENERATES THE FINAL FORM. FINALLY, PLANES OF INCREASING LENGTH INTERSECT THE FINAL VOLUME, BREAKING UP THE INTERNAL SPACES.

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AMBIGUITY IN STRUCTURE AMBIGUITY IN STRUCTURE EISENMAN EXPLORES THE CONCEPT OF POINTS, LINES AND PLANES IN HOUSE II, CREATING AMBIGUITY IN THE HIERACHY OF EACH ELEMENT IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE HOME. THE SYSTEM OF COLUMNS AND WALLS EITHER SUPPORT THE STRUCTURE TOGETHER, EACH SYSTEM ACTS INDEPENDANTLY, OR ONE SYSTEM MERELY GIVES AN ILLUSION OF SUPPORT. 1. HERE, BOTH LINES AND PLANES SEEM TO HAVE EQUAL PLAY IN SUPPORTING THE STRUCTURE. 2. WHEN SEEN FROM CERTAIN ANGLES, LINES SEEM TO BE THE SOLE SYSTEM OF SUPPORT. 3. PLANES, WHEN VIEWED FROM THIS ANGLE, GIVES AN ILLUSION OF SUPPORT DUE TO ITS DOMINANCE IN FRAMING THE VIEW.

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ABSTRACTING FROM PRECEDENCE CARTESIAN AND TOPOLOGICAL STUDIES

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PRECEDENCE STUDY | CARTESIAN MILL OWNERS’ BUILDING | LE CORBUSIER

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MAIN GRID LINES

STRUCTURAL PILOTIS & PLANES

DISPLACED GRID LINES

PARTI WALLS CREATED BY DISPLACEMENT

EXPLODED ISOMETRIC

COMPRESSED GRID

DISPLACING GRIDS IN THREE DIMENSIONS THE EXPLORATION BEGAN WITH A STUDY OF CARTESIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ONE OF LE CORBUSIER’S LATER WORKS WITH THE MILL OWNERS’ BUILDING. HERE, DISPLACEMENT AND RECONFIGURATION OF THE 9-SQUARE AND 4-SQUARE GRID BECAME AN EXPRESSIVE FEATURE OF THE BUILDING, CONFORMING TO THE MODULAR MAN AND THE ARCHITECTURAL PROMENADE DESIRED. IT IS CLEAR THEN THAT THE ARCHITECT HAS MASTERED HIS UTILITY OF FORMAL PRINCIPLES TO ACHIEVE GEOMETRICAL AND FUNCTIONAL HARMONY IN HIS SCHEME. FURTHERING THE EXPLORATION, THE 9-SQUARE GRID IN 3-DIMENSIONAL SPACE WAS ABSTRACTED TO POINTS, LINES AND PLANES, RESEMBLING THE MAISON DOMINO. EXTRUSION OF LINES CREATED A LATTICE WITH AN APPARENT GRID ON EVERY AXIS. DISPLACEMENT OF THESE GRIDS ON EACH AXIS WAS THEN EXPLORED CREATING PLANES THAT CUT THROUGH SPACE AT CONTROLLED ANGLES, SIMILAR TO REM KOOLHAAS’ INVESTIGATIONS. THESE PLANES WERE THEN TAKEN AS PLIABLE AND CURVED TO DIFFERENT CONFIGURATIONS OF DISPLACEMENT, COINCIDENTALLY PARALLELING TOYO ITO’S BAROQUE AND TAMA ART MUSEUM RESPECTIVELY. THE THOROUGH STUDY GAVE DEEP INSIGHT INTO THE CONFIGURATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF A SIMPLE GRID TO ACHIEVE VARYNG SPATIAL QUALITIES.

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PRECEDENCE STUDY STUDY | | TOPOLOGICAL TOPOLOGICAL MORIYAMA MORIYAMA HOUSE HOUSE || SANAA SANAA MODULARITY & EXPERIENCE

2000

SYMMETRY AND

REGULATING PRINCIPLE

GEOMETRICAL HARMONY

B E

C

A D

G JJ

F H

I

PLAN

A LOWER LIMIT IN SIZING EACH MODULE IS ESTABLISHED AS SANAA’S SCALED HUMAN FIGURE’S DIMENSIONS. EACH MODULES IS THEN CREATED THROUGH EXTRUSIONS OF THIS BASE LOWER LIMIT, DEPENDING ON THE DESIRED ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE.

ISOMETRIC

NUETRAL SPATIAL EXPERIENCE

D

G

I

VERTICAL SPATIAL EXPERIENCE

H

B

E

HORIZONTAL SPATIAL EXPERIENCE

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F

A

LOWER LIMIT

EXPLORATION THROUGH PARTI MODEL

FOLLOWING THE THREAD CONCEPTUAL SIMILARITIES WERE FOUND IN THE FUKITA PAVILION BY RYUE NISHIZAWA. AN EXPLORATION OF SPACE RELATIVE TO THE HUMAN SCALE AND THE ABSOLUTE LIMITS OF HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL SPATIAL EXPERIENCES WAS CONDUCTED THROUGH PARTI MODELS OF THE PAVILION. THE UNASSUMING LAYERING AND FOLDING OF STEEL PLATES, WHEN ASSESSED FURTHER, REVEALS AN AVERSION FROM SOLID LINES WHEN POCHÉD AND TRANSITIONS BETWEEN SPACES OF INFINITE POSITIVE/NEGATIVE VERTICAL EXPERIENCES OF SPACE. AN UNDERSTANDING OF SPATIAL EXPERIENCE AS A PERCEIVED AND CONTROLED ARCHITECTURAL QUALITY WAS GAINED THROUGH THESE EXPLORATIONS. AN EMPHASIS IS ALSO PLACED ON THE INCLINATION TOWARDS VARIETY IN THE TOPOLOGICAL SCHEME TO ACHIEVE AMBIGUOUS AND NON-HIERARCHICAL SPACES.

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SWEEP & SUN SCALE | PRECEDENCE | CONTEXT

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EXPLORING & ABSTRACTING THE LANGUAGE OF SWEEP A HOUSE FOR TWO PEOPLE - THE AIM OF THE STUDIO WAS TO SYSTEMATICALLY PRODUCE TO ACHIEVE THIS END, TAKING A FORMALIST APPROACH TO ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN. FROM THE PRECEDENCE STUDIES CONDUCTED, INSIGHT INTO THE FORMAL PRINCIPLES THAT INFORM THE CARTESIAN AND TOPOLOGICAL EXAMPLES WERE GAINED. AS SUCH, THESE IDEAS COULD BE IMPLEMENTED, ADAPTED OR EVOLVED INTO OUR HOUSING CONCEPTS. WE FOLLOWED THIS WITH STEREOTOMY AND POCHE EXERCISES TO GAIN A BETTER GRASP OF DYNAMIC MATERIAL FORMS AND PROCESSES SO AS TO UNDERSTAND AND REGULATE ABSTRACT GEOMETRY. THE RESULTING PARAMETERS WOULD ALLOW FOR STRICT CONTROL OF A GEOMETRIC ACTION THAT COULD GENERATE HABITABLE SPACE BASED ON SITE AND PROGRAMME CONSIDERATIONS. ‘SWEEP’ AS A FUNCTION AND ACTION WAS SELECTED TO GENERATE FORM. THE SIMPLE ACTION OF SWEEPING A FOAMCUTTER THROUGH BLUE FOAM WAS ANALYSED. RULES WERE ESTABLISHED FOR THE MOVEMENT OF THE CUTTER THROUGH FOAM CUBES WITH A 9-SQUARE GRID ENGRAVED ON EACH SURFACE. SIX TYPOLOGIES OF DISTINCT FORMS WERE FOUND, EACH WITH UNIQUE SPATIAL PROPERTIES.SUBSEQUENTLY, POCHE DRAWINGS WERE MADE USING PRINTBLOCK AND CHARCOAL AS A MEDIUM TO ATTAIN A STRONG UNDERSTANDING OF THE GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF SWEEP IN PLAN AND SECTION VIEW. THE POTENTIAL OF SWEEP TO MANIPULATE LIGHT THROUGH RECEPTION AND REFLECTION WAS ALSO DISCOVERED. THIS SERVED AS THE KEY DRIVER OF THE EXPLORATION OF FORM THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT.

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DEPTH OF DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT UNDERSTANDING & REGULATING GEOMETRY UNDERSTANDING & REGULATING GEOMETRY

SAME SIDE (POSITIVE)

ADJACENT SIDE (POSITIVE)

a

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a: SMALLEST OFFSET DISTANCE

PLAN b

reflection angle, r

b: LARGEST OFFSET DISTANCE c: DEPTH OF MODULE

c SECTION

solar altitude, z

EXPLORATION THROUGH ITERATION AND GROUPING

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c

OPPOSITE SIDE (POSITIVE)

OPPOSITE SIDE (NEGATIVE)

ADJACENT SIDE (NEGATIVE)

SAME SIDE (NEGATIVE)

PROGRAMME MATRIX PROGRAMME AS SPECTRUM PROGRAMME MATRIX PROGRAMME AS SPECTRUM

TO DINE BRIGHT TONE

SOMBER TONE

TO PREPARE

TO ENTERTAIN

TO REST TO SLEEP

TO NAP

TO SWEAT

TO CLEANSE

TO EXERCISE

TO PLAY

TO CULTIVATE PARTIAL SUNLIGHT

TO STORE/HIDE INDIRECT SUNLIGHT

DEGREE OF REFLECTION

DIRECT SUNLIGHT

2.1

7

3

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2.1

2.1

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2

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8

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REACTING REACTINGTO TOSITE SITE

PLOT AT KAMPONG GLAM CREATING GRID TO INFORM SITE CONDITIONS DATUM HEIGHTS

0m

1.5 m

3.5 m

5m

7m

11 m

JANUARY

MARCH

JUNE

SEPTEMBER

MODULE NO.

MOMENT TO REACT

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9 AM JUNE, REFLECT TO #5

11.0 m

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9 AM, JAN REFLECT TO #8

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9 AM, YEAR-ROUND

7.0 m

5.0 m

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2 PM, JUNE

3

10 AM, JUNE

3.5 m

THE PLOT BETWEEN KANDAHAR AND BAGHDAD STREET WAS CHOSEN AS THE SITE FOR THIS PROJECT. WITH THE INTENTION OF REACTING TO THE SITE’S LIGHTING CONDITIONS, SUNLIGHT HOURS WAS ANALYSED ON SITE TO ACHIEVE THE APPROPRIATE POSITIONING OF SCALED SWEEP GEOMETRY. A GRID IS EVOLVED FROM THIS ANALY1.5 m

SIS WHICH INFORMS CRITICAL CHANGES IN SITE CONDITIONS ACROSS HEIGHT, GENERATING

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3 PM, SEP REFLECT TO #4

DATUMS. THROUGH ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTION, THE PRE-EXISTING SITE CONDITIONS CAN EITHER BE ENHANCED OR MODIFIED TO ACHIEVE THE PROGRAMMATIC REQUIREMENTS.

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0.0 m

4

NIL

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12 PM, JAN

ITERATION AS PROCESS CONSIDERING BOTH SITE & PROGRAMME

ITERATIVE MODEL 1 UP TO THIS POINT, EACH MODULE HAS BEEN ASSIGNED A PROGRAMME USING THE MATRIX. MOREOVER, SITE HAS BEEN ANALYSED AND DATUMS HAVE BEEN EXTABLISHED ACROSS HEIGHT. THUS, THE MODULES CAN BE COORDINATED ON SITE AND COMBINED AT THEIR RESPECTIVE POSITIONS. SEVERAL ITERATIONS OF THE RESULTING STEREOTOMIC MASSINGS WERE CREATED THROUGHOUT THE DESIGN PROCESS. EACH EVOLUTION GAVE INSIGHT AND CLARITY TO THE BASE CONCEPT, REVEALING BLINDSPOTS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE DESIGN.

ITERATIVE MODEL 2

ITERATIVE MODEL 3

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FORMWORK PROTOTYPE 1

MOVING AWAY FROM STEREOTOMY FORMWORK AND ASSEMBLY EXPERIMENTS WITH THE INTERNAL FORMWORK WERE CONDUCTED TO TRANSFORM THE STEREOTOMIC FORM TO HABITABLE SPACE. WAFFLING WAS FOUND TO BE THE MOST ACCURATE METHOD TO RECREATE THE COMPLEX GEOMETRIES THAT WERE COMPUTATIONALLY GENERATED. IN LINE WITH THE CONCEPTUAL GROUNDINGS OF THE DESIGN, EACH WAFFLE LAYER CORRELATES TO A DATUM HEIGHT WITH A SUBSTRUCTURE CONNECTING EACH UNIQUE MODULE. NON-DIRECTIONAL DOWEL STRUTS WERE USED AS THE SKELETON OF THE WAFFLE. EACH DOWEL MEMBER WAS PRECISELY POSITIONED SUCH THAT THEIR SEPERATION LIE WITHIN A DOMAIN THAT ALLOWED FOR EASY ASSEMBLY OF PREFABRICATED PANELING. A PANEL CLADDING WAS THEN FASTENED TO THE WAFFLE ON THE SIDE CORRESPONDING TO THE ANGLE OF DIRECT SUNLIGHT REFLECTION. AS SUCH, THE DESIRED MANIPULATION OF LIGHT USING SWEEP WAS ACHIEVED.

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9 AM, YEAR-ROUND

9 AM, JAN REFLECT TO #8 9 AM JUNE, REFLECT TO #5

12 PM, JAN

3 PM, SEP REFLECT TO #4 10 AM, JUNE

2 PM, JUNE

GUIDING GEOMETRY

INTERNAL FORMWORK

11.0 m

7.0 m

5.0 m

3.5 m

1.5 m

0.0 m

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

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6

A

+3.5 m

+5.

2

0.0 m

PLAN @ PL +5.000 m

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PLAN @ PL +1.500 m

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PLAN @ PL +3.500 m

SUGGESTED PROGRAMME: 1 GARDEN 2 EXERCISE SPACE 3 KITCHEN & PANTRY 4 DINING 5 GUEST 6 WC B

7 STORE 8 BEDROOM

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+3.5 m

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2

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4

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10

SCALE 1:50

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A 8

.0 .0 m m

4

+1.5 m

B

5

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PLAN @ PL +7.000 m

PLAN @ PL +11.00 m | SCALE 1:100

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+11.0 m

+7.0 m

+5.0 m

+3.5 m

+1.5 m

SECTION A 0.0 m

+11.0 m

+7.0 m

+5.0 m

+3.5 m

+1.5 m

0.0 m

NW ELEVATION

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+11.0 m

+7.0 m

+5.0 m

+3.5 m

+1.5 m

0.0 m

SECTION B | SCALE 1:100

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FINAL MODEL SCALE 1 : 50

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SPACES IN FOCUS TESTING LIGHT QUALITY

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DANIEL JOSEPH

YEAR 1 B.A. ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO