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

PORTFOLIO

DANIEL JOSEPH | YEAR 1 2022-2023

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE | B.A. ARCH

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

SKETCHUP

AUTOCAD

GRASSHOPPER 3D 2D IMAGE

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

ADOBE INDESIGN

RENDER

ENSCAPE

EISENMAN HOUSE II

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.

HOUSE II

HOUSE II

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.

MASSING STUDY AND TRANSFORMATION

MASSING STUDY AND 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.

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

PRECEDENCE STUDY | CARTESIAN

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.

PRECEDENCE STUDY | TOPOLOGICAL

PRECEDENCE STUDY | TOPOLOGICAL

MORIYAMA HOUSE | SANAA

MORIYAMA HOUSE | SANAA

MODULARITY & EXPERIENCE

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.

NUETRAL SPATIAL EXPERIENCE

VERTICAL SPATIAL EXPERIENCE

HORIZONTAL SPATIAL EXPERIENCE

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

SWEEP & SUN

SCALE | PRECEDENCE | CONTEXT

DEPTH OF DEVELOPMENT

UNDERSTANDING

REACTING TO SITE

REACTING TO SITE

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 ANALYSIS WHICH INFORMS CRITICAL CHANGES IN SITE CONDITIONS ACROSS HEIGHT, GENERATING DATUMS. THROUGH ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTION, THE PRE-EXISTING SITE CONDITIONS CAN EITHER BE ENHANCED OR MODIFIED TO ACHIEVE THE PROGRAMMATIC REQUIREMENTS.

ITERATION AS PROCESS

CONSIDERING BOTH SITE & PROGRAMME

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.

FORMWORK

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.

PROTOTYPE 1

SECTION A

FINAL MODEL

SPACES IN FOCUS

TESTING LIGHT QUALITY