Joyce Chin Design Portfolio

Design

Portfolio

Joyce Chin

“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness” - Frank Gehry

Joyce Chin

joycechin2010@gmail.com

A B O U T

M E

I believe that design has the power to attract and communicate. Hence my goal is to use my designs to change how people feel and interact in spaces.

E D U C A T I O N 2022

Completed Diploma in Spatial Design Nanyang Polytechnic

2018

Completed O Levels Hougang Secondary School

A W A R D S 2016

Good Progress Award

2017

Good Leadership & Services (EAGLES)

2018

Good Progress Award

2019

Good Progress Award

W O R K 2021

E X P E R I E N C E

Internship at Baum Project Pte Ltd

S K I L L S E T S English [Spoken & Written] Chinese [Spoken & Written]

CONTENT 01 Emotional Lightwaves Page 1 - 16

02 City of Echoed Remnants Page 17 - 26

03 Discovering the Unseen Page 27 - 37

04 N AT U R A LY Z E S Page 38 - 43

05 INTERNSHIP WORKS Page 44 - 53

06 SKETCHES Page 54- 59

05 MODEL MAKING Page 60 - 65

Au ro r a E m t i o n a l L i g h t wav e s

01 Emotional Lightwaves, where colours are used to promote creativity and learning, as well as regulate the mood and emotions of people in the space.

Integration of Digital Entertainment x Education.

An Innovation Lab that encompasses different learning preferences, and creating spaces where research and open collaboration take place.

SITE | CapitaSpring D I G I TA L E N T E R TA I N M E N T x F I N A N C I A L E D U C AT I O N My goal? To help Singapore grow as a financial hub. But with a lack of financial education, Singaporeans are finding it hard to cope with their financial situations. Hence, I want to use a different medium to engange people to want to learn.

Located in the Financial District of Singapore, housing many banks as well as Singapore Stock Exchange.

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Help their clients keep track of their financial situation

Holds talks to educate to educate the public, as well as workshops for students

Partnering with 7 banks

C R E AT I N G A N I D E N T I T Y When thinking of the brand, I personally found that it resembled another brands logo. Hence I decided to change up the branding for this Innovation Lab, encompassing the different concepts of the space

Diversity

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High-Tech

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I D E AT I O N S

SKETCHES

L AY O U T P L A N

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SUN DIRECTION

PRIVATE PUBLIC

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INTERACTION AREA The entrance that is open to the public, allows people to come together and play with the games developed in this Innovation Lab. As well as consultation areas for the clients.

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CONNECT

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C O L L A B O R AT E

CAFE The Cafe that is open to the public, allows collaborators to come together to share and develop their ideas

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SHARING

T E D TA L K A R E A Housing large talk areas, to cater to their large client base, as well as accomodate a large number of students at one go.

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SHARE YOUR S T O RY WA L L Clients in the space can pen down their stories of their financial journeys and hardships, so that others could learn from it and share their stories too.

LEARNING

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The public can play the developed motion sensor games in this game areas. The space is flexible, such that it can be used as a space for product launches as well.

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INTERACTIVE GAME &

EXHIBITION AREA

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W O R K S PA C E Creating workspaces that cater to the different workstyle preferences, allowing the staff to choose between informal and formal workstations.

Open concept worskspaces that encompasses private booths as well as discussion areas to promote a collaborate work environment.

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CITY OF

ECHOED REMNANTS

02 “A person without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots” by Marcus Garvey.

Excavating the stories beneath the slice where we discover the stories of the past by the remnants left behind to tell the tale.

MY SLICE Studying and discovering the unique traits while walking down the slice, the stories and events that took place while walking down the trail. My slice travels from the foot of Fort Canning to the Church Saints Peter & Paul.

Walking up and down to slice to study and notice something different everytime.

PROPOSED SITE

Fort Canning Centre

After walking through the slice, the proposed site I chose for my design is at the entrance of Fort Canning Centre.

Although most people often visit the other side of place for its landscape and open view, I want to bring people to this side of Fort Canning, leading them to exploring the area and discovering the historical remnants in the area that most people don’t notice.

HISTORICAL

Fort Gate

REMNANTS

C I R C U LAT I O N Battlebox Escape Shaft

AROUND THE AREA

FRAGMENTS

While walking my slice, I realised that the people in the space do not visit the place for the historical elements but instead, see it as a place for photo taking, exercising and relaxing.

Realising how the elements that were left to remind people of the rich history, were being ignored and buried under. Hence, I wanted to create a space that can educate and remind the public about the stories of the past in the space that they’re in.

Expressing how the fragments of the past that were buried with time breaking through the ground and coming back up.

EMERGING 21

E X P L O R I N G F O R M S & M AT E R I A L S

Experimenting with different materials and structures to create unexpected forms. The tension points create a form resembling the sharp edges of the fragment. Playing around with the tensile membrane structures can also create different and unique spaces.

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A PLACE OF

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STORY TELLING

“A place with good scenery” “A place to relax and have fun” but who knew the rich hiSTORY of the very land they’re on?

This seeks to remind & educate the public on past that was left behind.

Showing the stories at led us to where we are today.

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Unknowin

The upper observato to have fu would unknowin storey.

K N O W N T O W H AT L I E S B E N E AT H

O N E I M PA C T S A N O T H E R

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r storey that serves as an ory and a place for kids un, where their footsteps

ngly impact the lower

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SHADOWS Story telling forms by the playing of materials and shadows.

As people journey through the space, they would learn about the flow of events that happened in the slice.

D I S C OV E R I N G THE UNSEEN

03 A journey of discovering and creating different lines and forms by playing with perspectives, and noticing things around us.

DRAW & MIX Capturing the Best Forms

Discovering the different verbs in our homes, taking place in our everyday lives and zooming in to see it in a different perspective. Luring our sense of awareness to the things around us and the actions we make.

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C O LLAG E Making a collage of the different images and greyscaling it to see the lines and shapes formed by the image collage.

ENV ISIO NIN G A simple drawing that was supposed to be of the collage image, we were challenged to envision the drawing as a plan and explore how the city can look like within this plan.

With the section line given, we were to draw a how the section of this “city”.

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THE VIS ION Exploring what we see in the plan and visualise how we can play around with the section of the drawing.

By being imaginative and exploring how the the space can look different as compared to how it simply looked in plan. How the spaces, forms and height can be played with to look different in the section view, while sticking to the boundaries of the plan view.

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D U P L I C A T E S

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Building out a part of the envisioned space from the plan & section drawing.

Duplicating it and modifying it such that it can be joined to look like one structure.

MODULE A

MODULE B Creating a piece that can be combined with Module A, to create endless possibilities

C R E AT I N G E N D L E S S

POSSIBILITIES

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Although SAS is a big data analytical software company, most have not heard of its name. Hence, my goal was to create awareness and promote the software SAS to mainly research organisations, large corporate and government agencies. For them to use SAS to aid in their data analysis & decision making.

Hence, my main goal was to designing a space for people to come together and learn about the company

FUSIONOPOLIS

A research & developement complex located in the business park of Singapore, One North. It houses research organisations, high-tech companies, as well as government agencies.

C I R C U LAT I O N The location where I chose to place my design is at the main circulation spline, the landing of the only escalator that leads people directly from the MRT Station to the various companies that I’m trying to target.

Ensuring that my target audience would be able to interact with it directly.

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Design Circulation

Bar graph nteractive Display

xhibition space aims to inform ducate about the company and em to start using the software eir works. xhibition was designed to different types of graphs from ent angles. When heading ds the exhibit, the structure bles a growing line graph, and walking through the exhibit, ructure would resemble a bar

REFLECT DIFFERENT GRAPHS FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES

Line graph display

NAT U R A LY Z E S 04 Coming together as a team to come up with a design pitch for a aesthetic company located in the entertainment hub of Singapore, Orchard Road.

Layout Plan Observing the site and planning the space according to the client’s requirements and spatial limitations, while fully utilising the full height windows in the space.

Lighting Plan 40

Coming up with the branding for the clinic and their products.

Taking from their main goal of marketing transparency and organic products, we created a logo.

A logo that reflects their main marketing goal of being transparent and organic with their products Showing examples of how the branding would fit their products as well as packages.

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Outdoor Seating

Sticking to the brand’s identity, we decided to use white and light wood as our main theme, while adding some vibrant colours in the furniture to achieve a vibrant and youthful vibe for the younger audience that the company wants to target.

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Reception

VIBRANCY

Waiting Area

YOUTHFULNESS

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internship wo r ks 05 Experiencing, practicing & learning the different skills needed in the industry.

Through my Internship Journey, I was able to take part in Residential, Commercial as well as Retail Projects.

BASIC PLANS Building up the plans, sections & elevations. Honing my AutoCad skills & learning how to present our works to our clients.

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D E TA I L E D D R AW I N G S & E L E VAT I O N S

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M AT E R I A L B O A R D S Bringing together the selected or proposed materials such that the different materials in the space would blend well together.

Making sure it is clear to the client in a single glance.

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VISUALISATION

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COLOUR MAPPING Using Photoshop to propose our designs as well as change the renders in a more time efficient way.

Showing how the materials chosen would blend in with the proposed design.

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SITE WORKS Being hands-on and learning the different steps needed for the projects completion.

Helping the client to visualise their space on site, as well as proposing and finalising the designs.

SITE MEASUREMENT

SITE PROTECTION 52

SITE MARKING

POWERPOINT

MARKING 53

sketches 06 “Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see” by Edgar Degas.

Sketches is the method I often use to communicate and show my ideas. Quick sketches helps as a way for me to visualise, as well as note down the ideas that come to mind.

DYSTOPIAN

CITY Cause of death: The world we created.

Could innovation be disruptive?

People are trapped in the own world they created, and now struggle to fix the problems before everything comes to an end.

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I D E AT I O N & P R O P O S A L

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model making 07 Model making is one of the most direct ways to communicate our ideas, where I get to show a physical visualiation of the whole space, as well as show the different materials, forms and textures at a glance.

T H E

L U X

R E S I

I D E N C E Building up a floor plan from scratch for this residential project and designing the interior.

From the choosing of wallpapers, to the building of furnitures from scratch, learning about the elements needed in designing a house.

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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

Original Image

Model

Playing with perspectives, angles, light and shadows, zooming into details and finding materials that would best express what I am trying to recreate.

Diagrid

Vaults

P L AY I N G W I T H F O R M S & S T R U C T U R E S

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A n d t h e J o u rn e y C o n t i n u e s. . .

Joyce Chin joycechin2010@gmail.com