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Achievements Gold Winner, Best Sustainable Design, IDCS Design Excellent Awards, 2020 Honorary Mention, Best in Retail Design, SIDA Singapore Interior Design Awards, 2020 Finalist, i-D and ARTSTHREAD Global Design Graduate Show, 2020
HE YANG
NAFA Bursary, 2017 - 2018
+65 98951782
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- Website design / rendering / sort catalog and database
Publication, “Decompose & Recompose”, Construction Plus Asia (2021) Volunteer, National Parks Boards Botanic Gardens (2020 - Current) - Landscape design / Nursery management / Conservation Plant / Databasing
Freelance, Landscape architecture design, Rooot Studio (10/2020, 1/2021)
Profile I am 200% agree with Tadao Ando that “I don’t believe architect has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind”
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Education University of Central Lancashire
Decompose & Recompose
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- Spatial design - (2019 - 2020)
- Landscape & Architecture - (2016 - 2019)
- (2013 - 2016)
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diagram
Art tutor (08/2019 - current) - To inspire aesthetic understandings and appreciations / Handcrafting (origami, paper quilling, resin etc) /Art technical skills (water-colour, acrylic painting, sketching etc)
Freelance, Model Maker, OCBC Cycle RC Track, Volvo (04/2019 - 05/2019) - Design track for Volvo in OCBC Cycle RC/ Produce 3d physical model for the exhibition Internship, Overseas Chinese Town Enterprise Co (05/2018 - 09/2018) - To develop and explore preliminary feasibility / Propose conceptual design of urban planning / To coordinate with design firms
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
The Attached High School Of Guangzhou Academy Of Fine Arts
Magnetic Advancement
- Landscape Architecture design / Propose outdoor plan / Produce 3D rendering & volumetric
Software CAD
Participation Exhibitor, NAFA open house, 2020 SILA Student Design Awards, 2019 Exhibitor, ‘Superimposing Spaces’ Exhibition, 2018 Exhibitor, ‘In-process’ Exhibition, 2018 Facilitator, ArKIDecture@ Archifest, 2017 URA RE: BENCH design, 2017
Sketch up Lumion
Living Viridescent
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Photoshop
Interests
Sai Illustrator Indesign Power point After Effects
Drawing
Board Carving
Metalsmithing
Ceramic
Decompose & Recompose - Death is not the opposite of life, but a continuation of it. Individual work Project Year: 2020 / year 4 Site Location: Mandai crematorium , Singapore Subject: Major Design Studio Tutor: Varit Charoenveingvechkit / Kwah Meng Ching
We humans have such destructive tendencies towards mother nature such that even as we die, our rite of passage to the afterlife causes environmental degradation. This project aims to create a new cemetery concept through the “recompose� method, which converts the body remains into the soil. This keeps the entire procession environmentally friendly, while at the same time preserving the spiritual and emotional aspect of a conventional funeral. This space offers the loved ones of the deceased to conduct their final farewell and use the soil to cultivate the plants in the Garden of Rebirth. The whole space through borrow nature scenery to bring a psychology journey for living relatives, that evokes a spiritual connection between the living and the deceased, allowing the living to reach an understanding of mortality in their respective ways as well as to offer spiritual sustenance and hope for the living.
Current Funeral Issue
- Generates Carbon dioxide
Site Map
Site > 52m
- Waste energy
Crematorium
52 - 50m
Cremation
50 - 48m - Land pollution
Land burial
Columbarium
48 - 46m 46 - 44m
- Generates greenhouse gas
Green Area
44 - 42m
Both of the funeral procession methods in Singapore are proven to give a negative impact to the environment.
42 - 40m
Jungle
< 40m
Pool
Objective Funeral Solution
Nee Soon Camp P Departed
Ecological Cycle
Car Park
underground
Circulation
This project creates a new cemetery concept with a method that aims to make funerals more environmentally friendly while also retaining the spiritual and emotional aspect of traditional funeral rites.
Existing Tree
Recompose Method Minimize waste Avoid polluting groundwater and land Prevent the emissions of CO2
30 days
Enriching the earth
Recomposition is a corporate service offering organic reduction, a process which gently converts human remains into the soil in about 30 days. The soil can be used to cultivate new lives.
Location Map
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Site Yi Shun Nature Way Mandai Crematorium Residential Nature Reserve Sport & Recreation Nature Park Reserve Site (Jungle) Special Use Mandai Avenue Seletar Expressway Mandai Road Sembawang Road Lentor Avenue Bus Stop
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Car Park
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The site is located in Mandai crematorium that is nearby Central Catchment Nature Reserve and is a part of Yi Shun Nature Way. This area is far away from the downtown area, with a good ecological environment, therefore, you can see the monkeys and other varieties of species here.
Flourishing jungle around here with an excellent nature view and a water body in the lowest area.
Drop off point Garden of Death Garden of Rebirth
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After converts the body into the soil that provides nutrients for the plants. The plants selected are nectar plants and fruiters as they are able to attract animals and potentially create a thriving ecosystem. This helps the deceased to be reintegrated back to earth through the ecological cycle, contributing to environmental protection via a greener method of funeral rites. Death is not the opposite of life, but a continuation of it.
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Main Entrance
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Service Hall
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Recompose Area
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Soil Collection
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Rest Area
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Car Park
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Sub-Entrance
Psychology journey
Memorise
Contemplation
Move on
For thousands of years, funerals have been meaning for expressing our beliefs, thoughts, and the feeling about the death of someone we love. This area aims to provide a space that offers eo le to memori e ast to nd out the meaning of life and death and offer spiritual sustenance and hopes for the living.
Generative diagram Inspiration
The form of my design inspired by the circle. Death is not just only an end but also a new beginning. And the circle is also like this, any point can be the starting point or the ending point.
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Original site
Use circle as basic form
Raise up the service hall for borrow
Remove some part of the recompose area to opening view nature
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Same language the entrance
Follow the contour line sloping down the recompose area
Increase water body
Add one more entrance, from crematorium underground car park
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The death of relatives and friends is an indelible scar. I hope this space can break people’s impression of the traditional cemetery. When people think about it, it’s not only the pain, but also the warmth and hope. Death is not the opposite of life, but a continuation of it.
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Main Entrance
Immaterial entities
Entrance Compose emotional Calm down
There is a huge acrylic water pool in the center and I’m using the mirror nish stainless steel as the shelter material for the Immaterial entities effect. Those kinds of materials will re ect the surrounding bamboos. This space allows the people to recall memories of the past.
After entering the entrance, people will go through the Garden of Death which is a bamboo forest. when the sun shines on the bamboo leaves, it will cast a beautiful shadow. When the wind blows over the bamboo or animals’ activities, the bamboo will swing and makes a slight sound. It’s a very long corridor for people to calm down and prepare the last farewell.
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Service Hall
Borrow scenery
Borrow Scenery Framing
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Recompose Area
Metaphoric
Organic reduction vessels
A lot of vertical and horizontal lines are used in the whole space to create frame. The sun will shine in from the side and bring people’s attention to the huge window. The window frames the view of deceased and nature together.·
This space expresses the cycle of death to the next stage. Just like the owering plants here, they bloom and bear fruit, then wither and return to the land for fertilizer. Whether it’s plants or people, life goes through the same cycle.
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Soil Collection
Borrow Scenery Meditation Rest
Recompose Area Eternity Vitality Tracing time Change / Same
In this area, people can see the opposite land symbolising hope, it’s just like another starting point of life and it bring hope to us. The cover will block a part of sight to force people looking to the water that re ect the surrounding environment.
This is a lively garden where all life gathers around and make life a meaningful new chapter. I am using limestone for the road material as a metaphor of tracing time. The stone weathers, but life carries on.
Magnetic Advancement Individual work Project Year: 2019 / year 4 Site Location: Plaza Singapura , Singapore Subject: Design Studio Tutor: Varit Charoenveingvechkit / Kwah Meng Ching
Lack of connection or communication with others will result in isolation and loneliness, which will affect health. In this project, the target audience is gamers. There is a positive correlation between gaming hours and social phobia from research. Those people fear of having eye contact and interaction with strangers tend to have poor social skills and become socially isolated due to anxiety. They feel more comfortable sharing personal information online than face to face. Hence, I had an idea to change the game fro online to of ine to alance the real and virtual in a public space. All types of video game console are selling either the digital games online or game cards in the shop. In Singapore, most of the people use Carousel to buy secondhand games or trade them. However, it is not that convenient and secure, because no od wants to find a s ace to la with a stranger and check if the game card is unwounded. This project offers a space for people to exchange game cards and using card exchange as the stepping stone to encourage gamers to go out at the same time, thereby establishing social connection.
Target Audience: Gamer
Objective Play Together
Interact Bridge Stay alone
Make Friends
Dim room Don’t like go out
The relationship between gamer and social phobia
Online
Exchange Game Card
Interaction
f ine
People sharing personal information online are more comfortable than face to face. Hence, I was thinking about how to change the game from online to of ine and how to alance the real and irtual world in u lic s ace his ro ect would li e to create a s ace for eo le to e chan e a e cards he desi n ur ose is to use card e chan e as the ste stone to attract a ers to o out and encoura e the interact with others and hel the to esta lish social relationshi s
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Plaza Singapura Site Analysis Social Phobia Inventory
Site Plaza Singapura
Chen’s Internet Addiction Sacle
Schoole
A positive correlation between online gaming hours and social anxiety symptoms. Gamers who suffer from social phobia are more likely to indulge in the virtual reality provided by online games t o avoid real life face to face social distress.
Orchard Rd
Issue of social phobia
ETC Bencoolen St
Racing Heart
Meet Stranger
Penang Rd Edinburgh Rd
Nausea and Dizziness
Bras Basah Rd
Eye Contact
Selegie Rd Fort Canning Rd Avoidance
Speaking in Public
People with social phobia fearing have eye contact, speaking in public, and talk to strangers that lead them to have poor social skills which in turn would result in social isolation.
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Game shop near CBD area
There are a lot of game shops surrounding Plaza
Age of Game Console (Switch) Owners
Plaza Singapura
2018
Game Shop
Singapura. All the gamers interviewed Indicated
2017
that Plaza Singapura is the best space to buy the
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products related to the game. The largest gamer
Age Group
25 - 29
group is young adults. There are so many schools
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surrounding the mall as well, therefore it is projected
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that young adults will be the potential users.
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Plaza Singapura L7
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Game Store
Human Circulation
Toilet
Lifts
Escalator
Going Up L1
Going Down
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Site Chosen (Atrium Space) L4
he first t e of s ace is for two users to e chan e cards and co unit without e e contact and the can decide to continue to the ne t area or o ac to the entrance he followin t e of s ace will e ore and ore o en t co forta l o ens their heart and easier enhances social interaction
Concept Partitioned Dividers
Plan
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L7 Roof
Without immediate interaction First Space Card Exchange Pod
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Section A’
Second Space Ice Breaker Third Space Interplay Fourth Space Game Theatre
The more central you walk into space the more people you will meet. The fourth space will be in the center, all of the users will gather in here in the end.
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Model
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Entrance Circulation
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Third Space Fourth Space Stopping point Game store
Section A -A’
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Card Exchange Pod / First Space
Ice breaker / Second Space
Textured Glass
Steel Grating
Frosted Glass (50mm X 50mm)
Shelf
Put the game card at the shelf
Rotate the wall together
Get other people cards
Should be two people sit down at the same time to keep the chair balance
Enjoy the space for two person
Oriented strand board
Interplay / Third Space
Game theatre / Fourth Space
Transoarent Glass
Frosted Glass
(150mm X 150mm)
User can define the space by themselves
Provide for two to four person have fun together
At least 3 people have to help each other to pass the level to the second floor
A huge screen on the second floor, the gamer can play together with others, passersby can watch the game in the aisles as well
Living Viridescent Individual work Project Year: 2019 / year 3 Site Location: Marina Barrage , Singapore Subject: Major Project Tutor: Park Hye Young
Marina barrage is an iconic site for Singapore as it plays an important role in our daily needs in water. Despite being iconic and near to the Gardens by the Bay, a tourist attraction area, the designs of the bridge does not attract many people. Over the years, urbanization had separated nature and humans, where they used to be united. Hence this project is to design the linkage where it allows people to get a sense of touch of nature in this urbanized city. The reasons for the chosen site is due to realizing that this bridge was transformed from nature due to urbanization. Hence, It would be better to return this back into the nature yet allowing it to function what it should be. This does not act as just a linkage for humans to walk through, but it also allows humans to feel nature, a place where the wildlife could feel home. With this, it allows one to reconsider the relations between nature and mankind.
Marina Barrage
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Built across the mouth of the Marina Channel between Marina East and Marina South, Marina Barrage, 350m long, is an engineering marvel and an icon of Singapore’s success in sustainable water management.
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The high Spring Tide at Singapore will be on 25 Nov 2018 (height:3.1m 10.1ft).
Introdoction
Extinct in Singapore
7 Plat-headed cat
Sunda Clouded Leopard
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Singapore is one of the most urbanized countries in the world, particularly since its independence from the British Colony in 1965. The urbanization also linked with rapid industrialization, so during that time the government focuses on providing enough public housing and providing employment opportunities for the people. This led to priorities on urban developments that overlooked the preservation of nature and natural habitats, causing to Singapore lose 90 percent of its original forests today.
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Since the 1960s, the government had planned to transform Singapore into a garden city. Until the late 1990s, the government takes immediate and basic measures to help protect the environment. However, Singapore is densely urbanized with a concrete jungle, so the land is limited.
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Indochinese Leopard
Malayan Tapir
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Concrete Jungle
Forest
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Bay East
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The shoppes at Maina Bay Sands
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Marina Bay Sands
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Marina Barrage
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Singapore Flyer
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Flower Dome
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Cloud Forest
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The purpose of the design is to create a juxtaposition space that allows coexistence between humans and wildlife. It is to design a space allowing people to get a sense of Bay Central touch nature in the cit and is also a re e i e ro ect for hu ans his desi n will a e a big contrast between the current situation and future at Marina Barrage. It prompts Super tree tourists to question the divide between nature and mankind in the modern world. This inspires the thought that can help bring about change in their relationship and ways to protect animals and provide more habitable space for them.
For this project, it is to design the linkage that allows people to get a sense of touch of nature in this urbanized city, while at the same time providing for wildlife needs. This way, the Barrage will not only be just an engineering masterpiece, but it also doubles as an ecological park that directs people towards an ecological environment where animals can become more involved.
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Structure of barrage
Tree layer (6m)
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Tree layer (3-4m) 1 .Used water drop element to design a space
2. Explore more spaces with different functions.
3. Create different levels of spaces that allow people touch the water.
4. Divide area for different function
his desi n in uenced by the water deop and sea water wave Staircase
Amphitheater
Rian Garden
Greenary
Water Play Area
Rian Garden Drainage
Existing Plan
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Gate
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The barrage can be separated into two areas, the top is the shelter and pathway for people to cross. There are 8 shelters on the barrage, below the shelter is the base of the barrage, in between are gate, that can open and close to control the water ow
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Since Marina Barrage is an important structure in Singapore and plays an important role for majority, the existing function of the place must be maintained. This brings in the consideration of designing the project without touching the structure under the water. As the new design will be taking up a wider space with a heavier weight than the e istin arra e a oatin structure which utili es anchors secured on the lake bottom as a foundation will be used in these parts to lighten the pressure on the barrage pier.
Low Tide
High Tide
Due to tidal affection, the highest tide would reach up around 2.5m, so by that time the lowest three levels would be closed.
Composite Wood
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High Tide Low Tide
Pontoon Gate Base Anchors
Ground lever
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Choosing different Plant species depends on different environments. The lower three floors will be submerged by the sea when the high tide. Therefore, I chose the plant species that can survive in the seawater.
Amphibian
This design will imitate suitable habitats as far as possible to make it become the kind of environment that animals usually stay to attract wildlife to come.
Terricole
Land plants
Suitable for seaside
Aquatic life
Tree/palm species
Licuala ferruginea
Caryota mitis
Lumnitzera littorea
Gardenia tubifera
Elaeocarpus mastersii
Cyrtophyllum fragrans
assia fistula
Baccaurea ar i ora
Alstonia scholaris
idia densi ora
Clerodendrum laevifolium
Cordia sebestena
Amphiteater
In the middle of the amphitheater, there will be a garden where there are seats provided for people to rest on, through the greenery and the natural to give a space of relaxation. At the same time, there are voids in the middle, where people can look down to see the barrage system, people then can see how this barrage can be work with the water supply and the flood control between the Marina Reservoir and the sea. It provides a new kind of experience and visual enjoyment while watching the water flood created when opening the gate of the barrage.
Water Play Area
Rain Garden
The rain garden is the center of the whole barrage. The rain garden will collect and filter the rainwater ro ide the source of water for the lants on the bridges at the same time provide the environment for the wildlife. It is to bring the visitors a different kind of experience.
Model
At the lowest level of the barrage, which is just the same as the water level, I have designed a bigger platform. These platforms are with the willing started from 30cm high, so the seawater can enter through this 30cm height gap, and it allows people to ste in water durin the low tide to et in touch with water he otters and fishes can enter through these gaps inside the marina barrage, where connected to the rain garden on the top, through the water elevator, you will be able to see otters in the rain garden too.