Graduate Architecture Portfolio

梁 雪 瑩 SUET YING (JULIE) LEUNG

GRADUATE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2015-2020

+1-902-8091085

juliesuetying911@gmail.com

Halifax, NS, Canada

RESUME SUET YING (JULIE) LEUNG

梁雪瑩 CONTACT

E-mail / juliesuetying911@gmail.com Phone / +1-902-8091085 Location / Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

LANGUAGES English / Fluent Cantonese / Native Mandarin / Fluent French / Basic

SOFTWARE

WORK EXPERIENCE

AutoCAD Rhino Revit InDesign Photoshop Illustrator SketchUp GIS

FBM Architecture and Interior Design Student Assistant, Halifax School of Architecture, Dalhousie University Teaching Assistant Freelance Designer Studio Brehaut | architecture Student Intern, Prince Edward Island Studio Off Architecture & Interiors Summer Intern (Architectural), Hong Kong

CITIZENSHIP

OTHER SKILLS & INTERESTS

Canada Hong Kong

Photography, physical modelling, Laser Cutting, hand-drafting, flute, travel

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Jan - July 2019 Fall 2019 Summer 2017 Fall 2016 Summer 2014

EDUCATION Master of Architecture Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

2020

Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies Major in Architecture Cooperative Program Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

2017

Bachelor of Community Design Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Completed the first two years (On Dean’s List, Sexton Scholar)

2015

Higher Diploma in Architectural Studies HKUSPACE Community College, Hong Kong

2013

Hong Kong Advanced Level Examinations (HKALE) St. Paul’s Secondary School, Hong Kong

2012

SCHOLARSHIP Bruce and Dorothy Rosetti Travel Scolarship School of Architecture, Dalhousie University

Fall 2019

COMPETITIONS Non-Architecture Competition: Buying Kemeri National Park Observation Tower Top 50 in ‘School Without Classrooms’

Winter 2019 Summer 2018 Summer 2017 3

CONTENT

ACADEMIC WORK

COMPETITIONS

Master Thesis

Cuba Studio

Design-Build Studio 4

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Buying

Co-op at FBM

EXHIBITION

Museum of Natural History 2020

Observation Tower

INSTALLATION

O-School

Nocturne 2018

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MASTER THESIS, DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY

TEMPORARY CITY APPROPRIATION FOR EVERYDAY LIFE IN HONG KONG Location / Hong Kong Supervisor / Sarah Bonnemaison Duration / 6 months, Fall 2019-Winter 2020 Full Document: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/78490

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This thesis challenges the pursuit of permanence in cities and sees temporary and tactical appropriation as opportunities to improve the everyday life of people in Hong Kong.

In old districts of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon with extremely high density, systems of temporary spaces have been developed over the years to accommodate the needs of diverse social groups. However, increasing privatization of public space and severe housing unaffordability disconnect ordinary people from their daily environments and lose the sense of ownership

of the city. This resentment became apparent in the protests in 2014 and 2019.

By exploring the processes and typology of space appropriation alongside the shifting needs of people, this thesis proposes a network through a phone application called BOO! with three typologies that are made of bamboo and other light and collapsible materials. With inspiration from Situationist International and Archigram, these structures add playfulness and rhythms to public space. | Temporary City

BOO! as an user-friendly interface to book places

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SPAWN The ‘spawn’ is the smallest, with each unit used for private gatherings by two to five people. From BOO!, you can find them situating at building scaffoldings located around the city, mostly around development sites. It will be switched to a new place every month.

It gives rooms for solitude and private gatherings with the user groups of young students and professionals.

With these structures extended from the bottom three 10 | ACADEMIC WORK

floors of original scaffoldings on building facades, the closing of the shaded portion indicates vacancy which can be seen from a distance. Once it is occupied, users will open the shades together with a net-like structure that acts as railing for safety. While the extended scaffolding can be erected on-site, the shade portion can be prefabricated and attached to the scaffolding.

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Before

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LARVA One scale up is ‘Larva,’ the appropriation of many alleyways which are often found in older districts. Each station can occupy up to 20 people for varies social activities and they will change locations after two weeks.

Inspired by design-build projects, in larva, the general public will participate in place-making by learning and collaborating with bamboo scaffolders. Since bamboo is light and portable, members of the structure are cut in less than 3 m for easy transportation and erection.

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Joints are designed for the structure to collapse in an efficient way.

User groups for larva are broader than spawn. Elderlies and children will find the structures approachable even without the phone app because they may find one larva near their neighbourhoods. Larva is also a place where various social groups can occupy at different times of the day.

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Before

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4 pm

7 pm

12 am | Temporary City

COCOON At the largest and urban scale is ‘Cocoon’ which can occupy up to 100 people for performing arts such as small concerts and play. One of the key concepts is ‘psychogeography,’ where Guy Debord and other situationists explored the urban environment that emphasizes playfulness and urban drifting in the ‘boring’ environment.

Cocoon appears in irregular time only when there 18 | ACADEMIC WORK

are performances and takes unexpected routes in the coastal area. It is a floating platform that is pulled by a tugboat and tour around the coast in Hong Kong during evenings and nights. The app BOO! would notifys users when there are performances.

Potential sites for the platform includes all eight typhoon shelters around the harbour as well as the Central and Tsim Sha Tsui harbourfront.

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Before

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9 pm

10 pm

11 pm | Temporary City

CUBA STUDIO

RESEARCH CENTRE FOR HERBAL MEDICINE IN CUBA Location / Havana, Cuba, Tutor / Susan Fitzgerald Duration / 3 months, Fall 2018 Cuba, research centre, bamboo, community 22 ACADEMIC WORK

Market

Residences Greenhouse

Research Centre

Flat Garden

Research Garden

Cuba has one of best healthcare systems in the world based on statistics, such as the low infant mortality rate, and the high number of doctor per population.

Among the medicinal practices in Cuba, such as herbal medicine in Santeria (a religious practice), Western medicine is the dominant healthcare in the country.

At the same time, the knowledge of herbal medicine resides within the elderly, mostly women over 60 of age.

The goal of the project is to break the generational gap and share the knowledge of herbal medicine within

Bamboo Garden Community Garden

the common population, especially with the younger generation so it will not be restricted to the old generations and the specialised doctors.

The proposed community centre and herbal medicine research institute not only compliment the existing healthcare infrastructure on site, but also responds to the lack of formal social spaces for all generations in this residential area. The close proximity to school allows students to learn through seeing so that they have a bettter understanding of herbal medicine. | Research Centre

Faculty of Medical Sciences

Faculty of Pharmacy and Food

University Clinical Hospital Revolution Plaza

Site

Havana

Cuba Old Havana

Centro

Revolution Plaza

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Farmers of medicinal garden

Residents

Students

Researchers

Elderly

A Day at the Research Centre Complex

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Bamboo-Concrete Hyb

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brid as Main Structure

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Photo by Michael MacLean DESIGN-BUILD STUDIO

GRIDSHELL DESIGN-BUILD CAPE BRETON HIGHLANDS NATIONAL PARK Location / Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada Turor / Ted Cavanagh, Coastal Studio Duration / 3 months, Summer 2018 Full book by Stephen Verderber, Ted Cavanagh and Arlene Oak: Thinking While Doing: Explorations in Educational Design/Build 28 | ACADEMIC WORK

Left and right Photo by Coastal Studio This project is a nature-themed pavilion that will accommodate a range of events within the National Park campground site. Through working on-site for a three-month semester, I collaborated with students from Dalhousie University, University of Toronto and the University of Arizona.

Having worked briefly on the site two years ago during the two-week free-lab in my undergraduate study, I witnessed the development of the project from the testing of the 1:4 prototype and concrete pouring, to the construction of metal edge beam and the completion

of layers of the wooden grid structure two years later. With the collaboration of the team, we worked on approximately 1600 nodes using jigs and I learnt welding during the process as well.

During the semester on the site, we developed an individual as well as a collective logbook that facilitated learning and record of the design-build process. This hands-on experience provided a chance for us to learn about the process of designbuild, to understand challenges on construction sites, as well as to work as a team.

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NON-ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

MAKE N FIX: THE LAST SHOPS TOPIC: BUYING Location / GLobal Cities Duration / Winter 2019 Participatory consumerism, vertical workshops, make and repair, material cycle, the last solution 30

This is 2040. This is 2019. This is now.

Pollutions reach the peak; Natural disasters come much more frequent; Over half of the wildlife extinct; The amount of garbage on the planet overflows.

All nations agreed to immediately stop all kinds of raw material productions and extractions, at the same time trying to maintain human civilization and to prevent mass panic and the collapse of commercial and social activities.

Among the chaos and intense discussions on whether consumerism should still be supported under such critical circumstances, a new system has emerged and has been spreading exponentially to many regions. It is a closed-loop system to capture the materials and expand the life-span of the products. Through blurring the boundaries between consumers and producers and encouraging people to participate in the production of the products that they wish to buy and repair after purchase, the buyers will learn about the material cycle and workers’ conditions. This last solution in buying will be the hope to reverse the global crisis.

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COMPETITION

MEANDER IN NATURE KEMERI NATIONAL PARK OBSERVATION TOWER Location / Kemeri, Latvia Duration / Winter 2018 Observation tower, nature, modular, accessibility

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Short Boardwalk Long Boardwalk

Observation Tower

Boardwalk

Short Boardwalk

Observation Tower

Long Boardwalk N

What is the role of architecture in connecting the human and the natural environment?

How does the consideration of universal design benefit the overall development of a scheme?

Taking the advantage of being a point of observation and gathering in the Kemeri National Park, the design of the tower aims to evoke different senses of the visitors and their connections with nature. The observation tower composes of an accessible ramp that meanders along the two ‘walls’, leading to two viewing platforms at different heights at both ends.

Once being part of the ocean, historically, the Latvia Kemeri park area had a strong connection to the water. The meandering of the path combines the idea of slowering the visitors’ movement and the subtle reference to a river.

The construction system involves two major materials: locally-sourced oak and steel. Both wood and steel components are designed as modules. The modular design makes transportation and on-site construction efficient and possible even without road access.

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A B C

A Steel B 2.5cm x 5cm Wood Slats C 2.5cm Thick Wood Top-Rail at 90cm and 70cm of height A A Steel Frame (Each unit 1.5m x 1.5m) B 2.5cm x 5cm Oak Slats

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Evolution of Education

+ Private Learning 500 BC

Public Discussion 300 BC

‘Factory’ Model 18th Century

COMPETITION

O-SCHOOL SCHOOL WITHOUT CLASSROOM / TOP 50 Location / Berlin, Germany Collaboration / Ma, Ching Yuet Eloise Duration / Summer 2017

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Community Learning 21st Century

What does it mean to learn in today’s education system?

What promotes a healthy learning environment?

How do children best retain information and gain skills?

Our design is inspired by nature, flexible learning spaces, and the idea of creating an institution that supports the students, staff, and community as a whole.

The natural elements in our design encourage students to learn about nature and gain a healthy appreciation of their surroundings.

The main interior learning spaces are defined by movable bookshelves that can be used to create different sized spaces, depending on the needs of the students. Subjects will not be taught in the traditional way. Teachers will have short lessons with small groups of children throughout the day, and the rest of the time children will be free to work on self-directed projects.

Having no permanent intterior walls or strict syllabi gives the students flexibility to learn from each other, and challenge themselves.

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The building adjacent to the main school building is a space for athletic facilities. A senior center and day care above allows for mixed age groups, which encourages younger students to learn from their elders, and vice versa.

By creating a semi-circular form, we intend to create a space that welcomes the public and encourages the community to utilize the school’s resources, including the library and performance spaces. This design breaks many of the traditional approaches to education, and new methods are explored.

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Main learning area Teacher preparation space Open Kitchen and dining area Greenhouse Large size student and community learning area Learning Area for different group sizes

Ground level

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F

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C D

Basement level

School Day

School Exhibition

Community Performance

Community Gathering Night

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PROFESSIONAL WORK

WORK TERM AT FBM FOULER BOWLD MITCHELL Location / Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Duration / 1000 Hours, 2019

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Established in 1917 in Halifax, FBM (Fowler Bauld & Mitchell) is a leading architecture firm that actively provide a large range of projects, including institution , educational and residential work.

My seven-month work term at FBM mainly involved producing renderings, digital and physical models

to support the development of the schematic designs and preferred development plan and public meetings.

I was fortunate to be part of the planning as well as the execution of two public meetings. The skills and experience that I gained from the interaction and engagement with the community would be crucial to my future career as a designer.

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EXHIBITION

GIVING VOICE DALHOUSIE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE + MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Location / Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, Halifax Duration / Fall 2019 Curators / Dr. Sarah Bonnemaison and eleven M. Arch. students Museum, archaeology, ethnography, artifacts.

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“Artifacts are alive, their energy is palpable.�

This exhibition for all ages is about the energy of museum artifacts. It includes mock archaeological grids, banners exploring the poetics and politics of museum displays, a video of the spaces where artifacts live, and recorded discussions with an archaeologist and ethnographer.

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INSTALLATION

NOMADIC OBJECTS NOCTURNE 2018 Location / Halifax, Canada Duration / Fall 2018 Collaboration / Dalhousie School of Architecture Team

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Nocturne is an annual event in Halifax where art installations and projects are displayed throughout different locations in downtown at night. This year, with the theme of ‘nomadic reciprocity’, our team created a spatial and audio respones to deconstruct the meaning of identities.

We built and connected four modules of the triangular frame in a linear form with 600+ strings tied to the net on top. An audio booth was also set up where participants can create an audio reponse.

Before walking through the tunnel-like structure, participants would choose a wooden label written ‘I am...’ or ‘. .. has changed me.’ They then write or draw their response and attach the label to the strings. As the structure filled up with labels throughout the night, the participants would have a chance to respond to other’s writing or simply to read some of the anonymous answers, creating an intimate connection between community members. This self-organized spatial response to the theme acts to deconstruct the idea of identity while visually representing a collective idea of community.

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THANK YOU Suet Ying (Julie) Leung juliesuetying911@gmail.com +1-902-809-1085