My Portfolio

Portfolio A summary of selected works for the Bartlett School Of Architecture

JONATHAN WONG ZHERN LIN MArch Architecture Part ii 14069931

Portfolio / 000 / ShenZhen, China

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URBANISATION + CRITICAL REGIONALISM + RESISTANCE

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Working in Shenzhen, China for my part one year out placement as a foreign student has given me an opportunity to expand my architecture and personal experience of China. This paradigm shift of a production market into an upcoming ( largest ) consumerism market of the world, has revitalise the role of an architect.

While working and managing on projects of all scales in the practice ( mainly masterplanning), i often question about the consequence of the rapid URBANISATION have on the local populations. The transition of Shenzhen from a fishing village to an urban fabric has seen numerous buildings done by renowned architects, Arata Isozaki and Rem Koolhaus as such. However, this has led to a lost in CRITICAL REGIONALISM of chinese vernacular architecture.

During my visit to the Shenzhen biennale, UABB ( Bi-City biennale of Urbanism / Architecture ), an urban planner/architect from San Paolo pointed out that the fallout of urbanisation in developing regions. She highlighted that due to this unprecendeted speed of urbanisation in China, an aftermath from its social development and enviroment is imminent.

Therefore, to encounter the current trend of urbanisation, it is prevalent that, we, the new generation of architects, have to be part of a RESISTANCE. To keep and retain, the essence of a cultural heritage from the process of urbanisation.

Moreover, i still ponder upon if the role of an architect and architecture is adaptive and ever becoming ?

Captions 1. Overlooking Shekou, port of Nan Shan district.

2. An open discussion for an 489 acres Masterplan at the practice, WUA, Shenzhen.

3. Apartments build inimately to each other with no consent of building regulations.

4. UABB / OMA’ s workshop on modelling the YingZao Fashi.

5. UABB / The former GuangDong float glass factory.

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Content 001/ Spectrum

Spillage

BA Graduate Project 2012 - 2013 Unit 6 / ATELIER MOMENTARY CITY

002/ Tokyo

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Replay Center

Finalist Archmedium Student Competition 2013

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003/ Sketches Venice + Graz 2012 - 2013

004/ Atelier

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Zero

MSA x ESA x OSA 2012

005/ Knoten

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Wildwasser-Kajak Zentrum

BA Year Two Project 2011

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Massey Winter Garden

National Trust 2011

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Malacca Portuguese Church 2010

008/ Culinary

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School / Restraurant

Diploma Graduate Project 2010

009/ Travel

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Photography

Graz + Tokyo + Venice + Malacca 2008 - 2013

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Spectrum Spillage Contextual Sketch in Northern Quarter, Manchester.

Portfolio / 001 / Spectrum Spillage

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Atelier Momentary City

The agenda Of Atelier Momentary City address how the contempary transformations in economic downturn connect and shapes temporal spatial practice in the city to inform an agenda and programme. Given the territory, the Northern Quarter of Manchester, we explore the particular part of the city to find agendas by looking at the transittion and complementary programmes that formed a vast and complex network. The Atelier focuses on model making, prototyping, and simplexity. Drawing inspirations and precedents from works of Atelier Bow wow, etc.

This unit is ecentric in providing architecture a humanistic approach.

Diagram of Spillage to show sequence of events happening through a moment of transition between formal and informal programme, creating micro temporal spatial practices.

Atelier momentary city derives programme and building agenda from urban observation of networks.

Thus, the network of music was employed through the discovery of Spillage; an urban phemenology.

Spillage is the occurance of formal programmes forcing informal programmes on to the streets.

This event, thus, creates temporal micro public spaces. This micro space is self-generated, a space within a space. Therefore, by mapping the network thread of Trafford College, which is a music network; it lead to multiple leads. These networks; Music Gigs, Music Institute, Ochestra, and Buskers.

However, the aim of tapping into such network was to identify and deploy an Infrastructure.

Interpretation of Spillage

An early extrapolation of the urban observation, Spillage. This axonometric sketch represent the city, and buildings as containers alike. SPILL IT OUT ! Creating micro spatial practices from formal into informal program. These are results of network searching beneath Northern Quarter, found in the social network. Floating like balloons, are speculations made to further the curiosity and question how far could the network be develop.

Initial photography of Spillage of micro temporal practices.

Portfolio / 001 / Spectrum Spillage

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Busker’s Extrapolation : One Man Band

An extrapolation of buskers in the music network of the Northern Quarter.

The sequence of movement shows instruments stripped from the one man band, creating moments of events. However, this moment fades away while he walks further away from his instrument. The language of being able to perform an event in permeance state, but as a moment; is captured from the behaviour of him . This dialectic is instil as part of the programme, incorperating alongside, Spillage.

Portfolio / 001 / Spectrum Spillage

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Spectrum Spillage

This axonometric sketch shows the context of Manchester layered over with the extrapolation of buskers in the music network in Northern Quarter. The trumpet represents sound spillage produced by buskers.

Pipes are taken precedent from the existing rainwater pipe from the services of back piccadily. The trumpets represent sound made from the rainwater , channels back into the city. Buskers are seen floating around, representing temporal micro spatial practices within the network in the city.

Portfolio / 001 / Spectrum Spillage

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Photos / Speculations

Buskers are identify as the network without infrastructure within the urban fabric of Northern Quarter, Manchester.

Therefore, enacting a new network to facillitate multiple busking platforms. This will provide an alternative way to perform and re-introduce the culture of busking in Northern Quarter. This event space not only celebrates the talents but cultivates the multi-cultural behaviour within the network of the city.

Site Emergent Response

Patches of rainwater accumulates near the site, reflected small frames pieces of adjecent facade.

This subconsiously connects the beauty of water and sound to form a space grown from context.

Site Analysis / Network Mapping

Buskers are identify as the network without infrastructure within the urban fabric of Northern Quarter, Manchester. Therefore, enacting a new network to facillitate multiple busking platforms.

This will provide an alternative way to perform and re-introduce the culture of busking in Northern Quarter. This event space not only celebrates the talents but cultivates the multi-cultural behaviour within the network of the city.

“ to find balance between science of water and the exhilarating qualities of experience, consider the many states and transformative properties of the substances a ‘phenomenal lens’ with power of refraction, reflection, spatial reversal and the transformation of rays of light”

Spillage’s Network Nerve

Portfolio / 001 / Spectrum Spillage

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Building Programmes

A busking central to facillitates buskers in the city with an infrastrucutre. An event space to celebrate the culture of busking. Fostering cultural welfare in Northern Quarter, and creating a new network to benefit the existing. The programmes are overlayed above each other, therefore, highlighting a distinct characteristic of kinetic and permeance; vise-versa.

This adopts the ethos of momentary city, being able to loose fit into city network, while be a free-standing infrastructure.

Trafford College

Spillage

Music

Music Gig, etc The Halle Music Institutes Buskers

Sound Spillage

Busking Central

Instrumental Structure Private busker teaching pods

Programme Development

Network finding of hybrid programmes of spectrum spillage draws back to the music network.

Portfolio / 001 / Spectrum Spillage

Spectrum Spillage Iterations

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Early sketch iterations of the infrastructure to show an understanding of tectonics, mechanism, and scale. Each section are a development sketch which iterates through different structural details.

Portfolio / 001 / Spectrum Spillage

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Plans

The auxillary support provides both structural and programme support to the performing podium and education pod floors. Building on the ethos of momentary city, the basement is the permeance part of the infrastructure. Cast in concrete and support foundation of the structure piece above, the basement creates a monolithic language communicating with its playful counterpart. The performing podium is an open space, however a raised platform. It maintains the mediation between public and private space, creating a threshold of formal and informal programme.

Lower Ground Floor Plan/Auxillary Support

Ground Floor Plan/Performing Podium

Upper Ground Floor Plan/Music Pods

Portfolio / 001 / Spectrum Spillage

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Section A - A

Section across Little Lever Street showing the basement auxillary, busking stage, and teaching pods. This section shows the Kinetic and Permeance of the structure; adopting the principle of momentary city, it reflects how it could be loose fit in near future.

Scale : 1:100

Portfolio / 001 / Spectrum Spillage

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Front Elevation along Little Lever Street

Elevation looking across the main event space, pods, and the back support spine for the upper floors. The glazing between the undulating floor creates a continuity with the immediate buildings patterns.

Scale: 1 : 100

Sequential movement

A series of movement showing pods being utilise, lowered and hung to its original position. An iteration of busker’s movement and behaviour, the pods is seen as portable rooms, being able to grow and re-fit into the building/city in the future.

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1. 55mm dia steel gutter 2. 150mm dia steel section 3. 150 mm dia steel section 4. 3900 mm dia rain collector 5. 50mm dia steel holder with 100mm dia steel ring 6. 24mm aluminum PTFE fasterner 7. 150mm dia steel ring welded to ring support 8. Prefabricated steel for Pod support 9. 100mm dia cross section of winch drum 10. 50mm dia steel cable 11. 55mm with 75 mm steel welded to cable 12. 30mm with 65mm steel interlock

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50mm dia HSS 55mm dia HSS 60mm dia HSS 85mm dia HSS with 25mm HSS 25mm x 2900mm timber flooring Sound reflective panels 30mm x 30mm steel bolted to panels Ventilation fins 250mm dia Instrument holder ( figure.1 for detail) 30mm dia copper for sound journey 45mm steel fastener PTFE sheet

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Instrument prototype inner core re-made using unwanted cans and strings

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1 : 50 Detail Section

Portfolio / 001 / Spectrum Spillage

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1 : 50 Fragment Sectional Model

Rapid Prototyping of the auxillary support and hand made musical pods showcased in the MSA Final year exhibition.

Portfolio / 001 / Spectrum Spillage

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The Busking Central

The journey of a busker walking while playing his instruments.

He is on his way to meet up with his fellow buskers.

Site Context Model

A 1:200 sketch rapid prototyping model placed with the site model to show building relationships with the surrounding.

Portfolio / 001 / Spectrum Spillage

Auxillary Support

An underground shell supporting the buskers performance during winter as they dwell to entertain.

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An urban Infill Performing Podium and Pods Busker’s performing space retaining its recurring phantasm through the structural articulation mediating between space and event.

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Spectrum Spillage

The extrapolation of the network of buskers and the city. Each representation shows spillage of the network, e.g balloons are temporal instruments that roams free and fits in pocket spaces in the city buskers’ network. This drawing piece is also displayed on the MSA degree show 2013.

Portfolio / 002 / Tokyo Replay Center

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The Sanctuary

Situated in central Tokyo, Akihabara is heavily driven by Culture. Akiba-kei, the Genius Loci of Akihabara shapes the behavior of the space, human, and enviroment. Therefore, to create a new network of enviroment, is to build a santuary for practicing otaku’s (Individuals with obesession in Manga/Film/Games).

A safehaven shelthered away from reality, allowing otaku’s to indulge in each seperate, yet unique world.

The sanctuary corresponds to the aging and continuity of manga, film, and games in concrete enclosed lower floors. This contrasts the younger and still growing karaoke culture on upper floors, showcasing tectonic dominance over adjacent buildings.

Both of these embody the essence of culture, not of space.

ARCHmedium Student Competition Finalist Entry

http://es.archmedium.com/Concursos /End_TRC/data/images/ylr_heejy.jpg

Portfolio / 003 / Sketches

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Kunsthaus, Graz / 2012

Amazed by the techtonic of the building, this series of sketches are drawn to study the mechanism of each details in the building.

Kunsthaus, Graz Venice, Italy / 2013

A series of sketch to show venice and the craftmanship of each facade and its details.

Sketch from left, San Marco Square,A venetian dock; Rialto Bridge.

Piazza San Marco

Venice Museum

Ponte Di Rialto

Portfolio / 004 / Atelier Zero

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Atelier Zero Chosen to participate in the MSA student team working along side Office Of Subversive Architecture (Karsten Husnek, Bernd Truempler), London and Ecole Speciale d'architecture, Paris.

The Installation themed play and the city. Celebrating the Cultural Olympiad of the London Olympic 2012.

This installation was decided upon by a competition among students team from both architecture school.

For more info on this project : http://www.nwfor2012.com/whatson/atelierzero http://projectofficeatelier.com/ For the timelapse of the build : http://vimeo.com/44487311 http://vimeo.com/44580312

Top left, Nick Elsdon and me presenting to fellow jury Bottom left, Installation build team Bottom right, Overview of Project Atelier Zero

Fabric Of Manchester Sports / Community / Play

Reconnecting the local community, by adopting the fabric of manchester, by reflection mimicry of the contour; making it a multifunctional skin and flexible looking through nearby solid spaces. This is also our team entry for the competition of this build.

Portfolio / 005 / Knoten Wildwasser-Kajak Zentrum

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Graz Knoten Wildwasser-Kajak Zentrum

Graz, Austria is an UNESCO world heritage design city, therefore by asserting a node to tranform the hierachy of Graz. These three precedent taken from the three main node near the Mur River, Kunsthaus, Munisel Island, and Grazer SchloĂ&#x;berg. A similarity of the dilectic of the sports accomodated by this building reflects from the use of tensegrity, mimicing both energy and movement.

By taking advantage of the compact site, utilising Tensegrity gives both light and flexible assembly and dessembly on site.

ETFE stores heat required for heating during winter. However, during summer ventilation could be archieve when dessembly on parts of these lourves like opening settling the structure.

Site Mapping Of Building Hierachy

Nodes representing activity intensity of certain vital spots in Graz. Three nodes are largest being the most significant building. Hence depicting from this mapping, three axis are drawn from each point to create the basic form / perimeter.

Site Photographs / Building Precedents

Snapshots of site surroundings and analysis of significant building node forming the perimeter of building site.

Portfolio / 005 / Knoten Wildwasser-Kajak Zentrum

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1. White water kayak competition, overseeing participants and crowds.

2. Staircase entrance from sports center to indoor reception.

3. Onlookers walking pass the main entrance.

Elevation

scale 1 : 100

Section

scale 1 : 100

Portfolio / 006 / Dunham Massey Winter Garden

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Site location : Dunham Massey

Summer Visit Montage

Winter Visit Montage

Dunham Massey Winter Garden Pavilion

Our site is situated in the winter garden located in the North-East part of the park. It has footpaths setting the borders of a cluster of birch trees creating a flow from both directions. Factors whithin the design process includes the desire to integrate the flow with the immediate natural enviroment, with the aim to create a micro-climate for the visitors and plants through sun exposure and shade. This pavillion draws on the existing relationship between the enviroment of the winter garden - a natural habitat for trees, plants and wildlife. The nature of this intervention aims to draw people of all ages inside its natural enviroment. The shape of the structure itself functions as a way of highlighting the merging of two seperate spaces with clear division between walking path and vegetation areas acquiring an abstract quality within and around the pavilion. The inclusion of plants within the structure was the impetus behind creating a micro-climate which was achieved through the use of vertical and horizontal slats placed to allow the heat of the sun and ventilation to prevent snow from accumulating. Through this the sense of enclosure when entering the pavilion was maintained whilst still allowing the visitor to perceive their presence within the garden as an integral part of the scenery.

Portfolio / 006 / Dunham Massey Winter Garden

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Portfolio / 007 / Integrated Project

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Integrated Project MAX architect is a shadowed company to design and tender an actual church project.

The client, Porturgese settlements located in the heart of the UNESCO world heritage site, Malacca. The team consists of seven architecture students and three quantity surveryers, to deliver the project with a budget of Ringgit Malaysia,1.5 Million ( 273763 GBP ).

I hold the responsibility of being the team leader and the role of the principal architect, which includes, designing and concepting the idea, presenting idea across for each client meeting, managing the company and presenting the final idea to the resident of Porturgese settler.

The design idea for this church build was to be simplistic yet dialectic. However, constraints from the clients were to retain the portugese essence within the facade and overall design input. Precedent from existing Macau Churchs were taken as case studies.

We were shortlisted to propose this idea for the portuguese settlers (client). However, our design won second runner-up agaisnt four other proposals.

Ground Floor Plan

Section B - B

Landscape Plan

1:200 Model

Portfolio / 008 / Culinary school & restaurant

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Site Location : Jalan Alor

Kuala Lumpur / Jalan Alor

Snapshot across street of Jalan Alor

Ground view of shophouses Jalan Alor

Chinese Cuisine Culinary School / Restraurant Diploma Final Year Project The shoplots within Jln Alor and Jln Bukit Bintang is framed by the party wall which direct monodirectional movement that follows linearity of the party wall.

I was interested of having multi motion instead of linearity and monotoneous movement on Site.Which is potrayed from the linearity of the party wall.I will explore by weaving through the two shoplotsby creating new spatial experience.By doing that ,i ought to create more circulation within da microscale of our site.The visibility of my building is high therefore by having four different entrance eases traffice congestion both human and vehicle. As it is sited in the heart of an interesting city center, Kuala Lumpur The idea of Ending the row of shoplots from both main traffic axis , Jln alor and Jln B.B with harmony.While it remineses this historical site and replaced with another to maintaince the landmark statues.Therefore ,having the Continuity of the local shop typology towards this new developed building. With responses to the mass of my site in mircoscale.And lastly to gather all variety of chinese food within the area in this oriental plaza of culinary and restraurant

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Portfolio / 008 / Culinary school & restaurant

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Transformation

The sequential morphing of both shophouse to form a continual space crossing both street. Reconnecting to merge private and public spaces, creating a journey through the process of preparing and cooking.

Left Elevation

Section A - A

Front Elevation

Section B - B

Portfolio / 008 / Culinary school & restaurant

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1. Standing across the street of jalan alor, while looking at the structure.

2. A glaze through the structure during night time.

3. Walking pass the lobby leading into the inner compartments.

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Portfolio / 009 / Travel Photography

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Travel Photography

Venice Arsennale 2013

Graz, Austria 2011

Tokyo, Japan 2009

Malacca, Malaysia 2009

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