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Hanyi birthday: 01. June 1996 nationality: Singapore email: han.yi@dhs.sg location: Singapore website: https://hanyi-design.wixsite.com/hanyi
Flexcity The sharing city of Chinatown
Academic Design Group work Spring 2020 (Year 4) National University of Singapore Tutor: Zhang Ye
How does a city work? How do we share our resources with the rest of the city? How do we move, live, play, work, earn, and make in this city? This is a project about systems and urban planning, managing an urban area of more than 10,000m2 and a population of more than 5,000 residents and vendors. Our vision is to redevelop Chinatown in the next 10 years to be a completely self-sustainable sharing city. In collaboration with Tsing Hua University and DP architects, this project is to be looked at from a perspective that is futuristic, economical, and imaginative.
Programmatic Master Plan
Master Plan
Site infrastructure implementation
Site infrastructure implementation
User Consideration
User analysis
My intervention in this project is concerning the living spaces, integrating the living spaces with flexibility and sharing system. Redesigning 16 existing HDB blocks and introducing 7 new ones. The topology of the residential units is as shown in the bubble diagram, the spirit of sharing is shown on many levels, crosssharing of living spaces, balcony spaces, corridors, facilities, and the infrastructure that is implemented through out the city. The strategy of redesigning also starts out from the smallest unit of a living block to verticle blocks, and to horizontal cluster distributions.
Each block is designed for A&A, following the original building configuration and layout, dividing into various modules and combinations suitable for each residential complex. These building modules have their access to common space via every third level using a Skip Stop mechanism. This creates more community spaces and more rooms for residential living. The residents are also sharing common living rooms and balcony spaces with one another. Elderly rooms are specially designed for them to not walk up and down any stairs. Some apartments are also designed for more affluent buyers needing more privacy, catering to all kinds of potential residents.
Co-living Strategy - Modules
Each residential module is made up of 4 appartments ranging on two floors connected to a common corridor. Each apartment have 3 rooms, one room is dedicated for the elderly. Each unit type is then joined with the adjacent module forming shared facilities such as the common corridor spaces, balconies, and common kitchen with each other. These modules further align to form a whole corridor.
Co-living Strategy - Side Modules
Each block type on site is rigorously designed to fit the original plan and structure of the building. Flexible spaces is introduced to the end blocks to provide urban farming and pod-integration.
Residential Blocks Side Block Mid Block Lobby
Side Block Mid Block
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Flexi Space Core
Mid Block
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Side Block Mid Block Lobby
Side Block Mid Block
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3F Cluster Lobby
Side Block (UF) Third Floor
Third Floor
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Third Floor
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Second Floor
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First Floor
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Flexi Space Core
Mid Block
Third Floor
Side Block (UF)
(Corridor)
3F Cluster Lobby
Side Module Mid Module
Side Block Third Floor
Side Block (UF)
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Third Floor
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Side Module Mid Module
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Block 34
First Floor
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Second Floor
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Block 8
First Floor
Block 52
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Block 52
Block 51
Block 8
First Floor Block 9
Third Floor
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Block 9
Second Floor
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Block 10
Third Floor
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Block 52
Block 51
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Block 8
OT 1 (Community Kitchen)
OT 7 (Garden)
Block 34
Block 8
OT 1 (Community Kitchen)
OT 7 (Garden)
Block 34
First Floor
Co-living Strategy - Corridor
Each level presents a customisable flexible space, empty from the begining, and slowly customised by the residents collectively, forming desired configurations. Some examples are shown here. A maximum of 7 Pods can fit into this space. These pods are also used in the rest of the city to provide flexibility in retail, learning, and transportation.
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Lobby Strategy
Community Kitchen Lobby
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Connecting to various differing grounds, podiums and gardens, the lobby strategy of each of these connections are different, accomodating the different type on site and also giving flexibility in terms of execution of similar block units. The lobby volumn is a double story space, consisting of convinient shops, common lounges, waiting area, letter boxes and community kitchens.
The New C-Building A redesign of the Tsinghua’s C-building
Academic Design Pair Work w/ Thomas Cabai (ilt) Winter 2019 (Year 4) Tsinghua University Tutors: Li Xiaodong Martijn de Geus
The brief allows us to rethink the existing C-shaped building on campus. It is a place with a huge variety of activities and it has a dire need to express that diversity. Our strategy was to express the inside to the outside by altering the facade. This way, the dynamic qualities of the space can be shown through minimal intervention. More spaces are then created and the landscape is opened up to allow more porosity.
Overall landscape layout design
Site plan before intervention
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New back
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RENDERINGS
Counselling Bridge
Walkway to TaoliYuan
Back Facade View
Lecture Hall View
SPATIAL COLLAGE
Counselling Block
Lecture hall
Z O N N I N G M O D U L E S
F L O O R P L A N A X O
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We had a lot of fun trying to interpret what people will think of our new building, at the same time featuring the spatial elements that we deem important.
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As a part of a pitch to real clients considering to renovate the actual C-building, we see this as a move to engage the client more and to show our considerations for the users.
Together Alone A solo journey of hydrotheraphy in a public space
Academic Design Solo Work Spring 2019 (Year 3) National Univeristy of Singapore Tutor: Wu Yen Yen
The project explores the idea of being alone in the public realm, putting into perspective the concept of threshold and personal space. The architecture is designed to be explored alone, at the same time it continuously questions the idea of aloneness through different type of curated spatial experiences. The journey ends with a leap from the second floor into the pool, offering visual connection, which is also consistently presented in the architetcure in many forms.
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
FINAL DESIGN
Front Elevation
Side Elevation
Section A
Section B
Frozen Conversation A pedagogy in space
Academic Design Solo Work Spring 2017 (Year 2) National Univeristy of Singapore Tutor: Swinal Samant
In this project, the ways of architecture as a pedagogy is explored. "How can architetcure teach about climate change?" was the question in mind when designing the museum. The architecture was built across a river that have its water level fluctuate 3 meters across seasons. The museum is dedicated to the teaching of rising sea level and its detrimental effects. In response to that, spaces are designed to be engulfed in water, making it more difficult to cross and to nagivate. The curated difficulty offers an experience for the museum goers on the actual effects of the problem of rising sea levels.
SECTION A - A’
SECTION C - C’
O UTD O O R PLAYGROUND/RES T
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE CUT PLANT OBSERVATION DECK RESTING AREA
CENTRAL COU R T YARD INFORMATION CAFE
S E A L E V E L CH A N GE GA L L E RY
PLANT OBSERVATION DECK
SECTION B - B’
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Section B
Section C
Non-architecture works
The Body+ Campaigns A movement on Body Positivity
A self initiated Campaign With Shirin Keshvani and Sonia Arumuganainar
Spring 2018 and Spring 2020
Two separate campaigns executed two years apart. Intensively intimate photoshoot with 16 individuals each and talking about their relationship with their bodies. It's inexplicable because you see things no one else sees, you want things you can't have, you have things you don't acknowledge, people say things that don't matter. Ultimately what we found out is we all have a story with our bodies, and we can all afford to be a bit kinder. I conceptualised and executed the two campaigns as a designer, photographer, and curator.
"I can (now) rationalise that all bodies are different and different is good. Back then, my mentality was that if you're not that (ideal) then you're the problem, not society. While you can rationalise that, those problematic thoughts keep creeping back from time to time." time."
“I guess it never escapes me, the idea of having a good body. It still follows me around but I'm not ashamed of it.” it.”
“Now I'm definitely trying to not fit in anymore. I'm trying to normalise the difference, if that makes sense.� sense.�
Curios Magazine design Editorial and cover page design
A College Thought Collective With Design team and Editorial Team
Spring 2018 - Spring 2020
An annually published creative magazine, collective works poems, proses, photographs, art, and design. With the intention to advocate the accessibility of art, poetry, and literature, graphic editorial design plays a huge part in reaching our audience. Every issue has a different theme, selection of works, with different authors and curation team.
2020 issue cover page
2019 issue cover page
MAROON I drew a sunset in your blood. There is beauty aside from you: Your metaphorical death; How you wore the same color of my cheeks / of your lips. I drew blood from a beating heart, masochistic for a setting like this sunset in my stomach; You rose in the darkest shade, canopy of a colder beach. Left my mind ashore, stranded in this yearn. You color / you consume me.
Title of Work Name of Artist Year
: Eat Away : Margaret Tan : 2002
Hosted by:
Singapore
Performance with chocolate, in collaboration with Stephan Dabazach, Head Pastry Chef, Hilton Hotel Singapore Chocolate, a confectionary culturally gendered as feminine, with connotations of richness, wickedness, excess and indulgence, holds both edible and moral dimensions. Its ambiguous and viscous nature, clings and attaches in a sensual yet threatening way. Chocolate is a liminal food with potent abject qualities, where meaning collapses. For what is at the borderline or indeterminate is potentially dangerous because it disturbs identity, system and order. And if the most significant borderline is that which separates the inside from the outside of the body, the Self from the Other, the act of eating is therefore significant of crossing boundaries. At one level, the work speaks of our consumption of stereotypical gender images and subverts this through the breakdown of these images in the body. At the aesthetic level, this work seeks the participation of the audience and aims to reintroduce to them their other senses–touch, taste, smell–which have traditionally been negated in their encounter with art.
Ease Illustration Commission For blogs, campaigns and online education
A Women’s Contraception Start-Up https://www.ease-healthcare.com/
Commission artist
2020 Summer - Present
Ease is a digital health startup focused on making access to sensitive health services more convenient, affordable, and inclusive. The team is made up of doctors, activists, and creatives on a mission to raise awareness about sensitive healthcare issues like sexual health and develop solutions to make taking care of yourself a simple and empowering experience. I was engaged as a commission artist creating editorial art and comics for blogs and campaigns.
hanyi 2021