Delace Koh 2023 Portfolio

DELACE KOH EN QI

ABOUT MYSELF

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

2020-2023

2016-2019

WORK EXPERIENCE

2019-present

ACADEMIC AWARDS

I am Delace, currently pursuing a Diploma in Design (specializing in Architecture). Some of my hobbies include film photography and drawing.

Architecture is a strong form of art. It is like a monumental artwork, an expression that depicts the world, as who we are in the past and present. As small as we may be in this world, I hope to design spaces that make this world a better place.

“Architecture is like trying to make the world a little more like our dreams”

-Bjarke Ingles

Ngee Ann Polytechnic Diploma in Design Specializing in Architecture

Bartley Secondary School

Cambridge “O” level Certificate

Tea Barista, Chicha San Chen

3 Months Internship, Benoy

Certificate of Commendation

Year 1 Semester 2 Project: DBS 4D Website-Making

-Under Top 5 selected website concepts

Distinction for Design Studio 1.2, 2.1

Edusave Merit Bursary Award

One Holland Village MILL

Public Art Bench Design Competition

-Top 10 Finalist

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

AutoCAD, Revit BIM Modelling

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe XD

Rendering

Microsoft

Final Year Project: Beatty Valley (Finale)

Design Studio 6 | 2023

Final Year Project: Beatty Valley (Interim)

Design Studio 5 | 2022

SENSORY MEDITATION

Design Studio 5 | 2022

SEA NOMAD

eVolo 2022 Skyscraper Competition Entry

KALLANG SEGAR MASTERPLAN

Design Studio 4 | 2021

JA HOUSE

Design Studio 4 | 2021

PERANIIKA

Design Studio 3 | 2021

WAI TOWER

Design Studio 3 | 2021

Design Studio 2 | 2020

Beatty Valley (Finale)

Year: 2023

Category: Community Centre

Beatty valley is an urban farming community centre that aims to cultivate a supportive community through urban farming. Over the years as the pandemic hit the country, problems that were often overlooked surfaced and became a worry to many. Work-life balance and food security.

In a survey conducted, 65% of Singaporean respondents feel more stressed since the pandemic and have expressed a desire to make some changes to achieve better overall work-life balance. How might we balance work, live and play within an environment and is it possible to have overlaps in them?

Singapore is known for its variety of street food and local cuisines, but many may not know it faces a persistent challenge — food security. Due to lack of natural resources, Singapore imports more than 90% of its food from more than 170 countries and regions.

With the country vulnerable to many external headwinds, the government launched the Singapore Green Plan 2030, aiming to build up our Agri-food industry’s capability and capacity to produce 30% of our nutritional needs locally and sustainably by 2030.

Whereas Beatty Valley, estimates to produce 1540 tonnes of food a year, with only 5450 sqm. It is possible through maximising surface areas such as facade and roof top, using a more efficient and sustainable farming method: hydroponics.

Work, Live, Play

CARE Care for Environment: Nature-based activities (farming)

Care for Culture: Event, Exhibition

Bond through food: Community Kitchen, Cafe, Farmer’s Market

Bond through learning: Event, Workshop, Library, Exhibition

Bond through friendship: Interest group

Restore the Mind: Workshop, Community Farm

Singapore Green Plan 2030 ‘30 by 30’

Beatty Valley (Interim)

Year: 2022

Category: Community Centre

Over the past few years as the pandemic hit the country, some communities fall apart due to the lack of support within the community. For this site particularly, businesses have closed down, the once vibrant streetscape can no longer be seen.

How might we recover from the pandemic so that the community can be more resilient and vibrant?

The Urban Valley aims to push forward the “30 by 30” goal, to build up our agri-food industry’s capacity to produce 30% of our nutritional needs loccaly and sustainably by 2030. This sheme would also set up a support system, in terms of food secuirty and mental wellness.

As the site is surrounded by high-rise residential and office buildings, The Urban Valley beomes a meeting place that brings together food start-ups, researchers, chefs, and residents, enhancing the concept of “Farm-To-Table”.

The building uses natural material like cross- laminated timber, to enhance the sustainability of this project and allow maximum flexibllity. Public spaces such as plaza, farmer’s market, community kitchen and lounge can be rearranged for different purposes.

Process Drawings

Sensory Meditation

Year: 2022

Category: Community (DFMA)

Action Word: Meditate

Level 17 Unit 02

The key to embodying mindfulness practice is to turn into a keen observer.

Using the five senses (sound, smell, sight, taste, and touch), it would allow one to be grounded in the present moment and can enhance their experiences with the world around them. Appreciating the five senses also help slow down and live for the moment.

With a total of 4 distinct module, each module challenges the extremity of each sense- sight, feel, sound, scent and taste, where those little spaces would allow them them to find their own comfortable space to be in. Ultimately, this scheme aims to allow occupants to find comfort and experience detachment from thoughts and feelings.

Sea Nomad

a Travelling virtual Tourist attraction

Year: 2022

eVolo 2022 Skyscraper Competition entry

Category: Sky Scraper

The year is 2053 and the world is faced with yet another pandemic. “We have been through Covid, we can handle this.” people pray, hoping to never relive an age of isolation. But, just as fast as people’s hopes rose, the world sank. The new pandemic dubbed The Deviant initiated a worldwide lockdown; borders closed, families separated, cultures divided. It was just like last time…

The Sea Nomad proposes an attraction that transcends borders, free from the shackles of pandemics. Currently, tourist attractions are bound to a country’s border. How might we create an attraction that could move to other places to share their cultures and experiences? Using Singapore as a point of reference, the Sea Nomad replicates the country’s attractions through a hybrid of natural and virtual experiences. As it travels to other countries, it allows others to experience Singapore without having to actually travel. Likewise, other countries can dock their Sea Nomads to allow Singaporeans to experience the world outside. Like a traveling circus, the attractions come to you instead, preventing the spread of disease.

Inspired by the diverse aquatic life surrounding Singapore’s waters, the shape of the Sea Nomad glides through water like a stingray with a protective shell emulating the horseshoe crab. The top half of the Sea Nomad houses Singapore’s natural attractions like the Botanic Gardens.

KALLANG SEGAR MASTERPLAN

Location: Kampong Bugis, Singapore

Year: 2021

Design Studio 2.2

Category: Masterplan

Our vision for our master plan: smart, sustainable and sentimental. Being smart With efficient automation of power and remote healthcare services for future generations of ageing Singaporeans. Sustainable With energy-efficient buildings with car-lite surface that preserves nature. And sentimental By creating new memorable experiences while celebrating historical cultures that bond communities.

JA HOUSE

Location: 33 Jalan Isnin, Singapore

Year: 2021

Design Studio 2.2

Category: Terrace House (DFMA)

With a central void stretching from the ground to the roof, the corridor around the courtyard forms a circular circulation loop at every level of the house, allowing one to slow down and view the different ongoing daily activities, which in turn encourages more social interactions among the family members.

This feature of the house would serve as a reminder for the family to stay in the moment and appreciate the present, and the bustling conversations among family member & guests fills up the central void thus giving life to the house.

PERANIIKA

Location: Lombok, Indonesia

Year: 2021

Design Studio 2.1

Category: Community Centre

Organiika is located in Lombok Indonesia, and their mission is to educate local farmers on the organic farming methods that can help to support local communities and increase health quality. Some of the problems faced at the site are animal intrusion and lack of acceptance of the new farming method among the locals

Peraniika’s aim is to create a sustainable community centre that incorporates co-existence between human and nature, such that it aspires the visitors to adopt the organic farming method. The word “Peraniika”, is a combination of the word “permanent” and “organiika” as the knowledge gained from this centre will be permanent to the visitors.

As Organiika practices permaculture, the site is located right in between zone 3 and 4 where there is an overlap between human and nature activities. This then creates an opportunity for the community centre to accommodate nature instead of deterring them.

WAI TOWER

Location: East Nusa tenggara province, Indonesia

Year: 2021

Design Studio 2.1

Category: Water Tower

East Nusa Tenggara province is one of many places that experience water shortage and low accessiblity to clean water. Many villagers, mainly women and children, have to travel several kilmeters to fetch water from terrain everyday.

Wai Tower is a water harvesting system, where rain, fog and dew condenses against the mesh and trickles down the funnel into a reservoir at the base of the structure.They are constructed using locally sourced material. The walls are made from panels of plaited bamboo, or wooden coconut leaf, a whole bamboo culms contitute the floor and the roof is made of dense thatch of alang-alang grass, tied with coconut leaf to battens made from saplings.

The design was inspired by the Traditional Sumbanese house. Essentially square shaped, internally there are four main pillars and each are symbolically carved differently to represent its own ancestral spirit. Built based on Marapu cosmology, it has three levels - the bottom is the place to keep livestocks, the main central level is for people and everyday activities, and the top level in the tall roof is where the Marapu reside.

PARASITE

Location: Ngee Ann Polytechnic Blk 52

Year: 2020

Design Studio 1.2

Category: Pod House

The programme designed for this pod is Human Library, a place for people to come together and interact face to face. This serves as an opportunity for sociable people to constantly interact with one another despite being quarantined. The structure of the pod symbolises a tree. The journey from walking up the spiral staircase to look at the owners’ memories, to reach the top to talk to the person in present, and then leave through the bridge, gives this pod a sense of life and growth.

Part 1 Iteration inspired by Water Lily

OTHER WORKS

Model Making | Hand Sketches | Pottery

AS LONG AS SKIES ARE BLUE