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Kwan Wai Hin

Singapore University of Technology and Design

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HELLO, I’M KWAN WAI HIN! EDUCATION MAY 2018 - PRESENT

Bachelor of Science (Architecture and Sustainable Design) Singapore University of Technology and Design

WORK EXPERIENCE MAY 2020 - SEPT 2020

Research Intern @ SUTD Digital Manufacturing and Design (DManD) Researched and Assisted in the design of a pavillion

Architectural Intern @ Yogiaman Tracy Design

Researched on facade development Assisted in developing architectural drawings for a mixed-used building

ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE MAY 2019 - PRESENT

ASD Representative

Act as the bridge between pillar staff and students Guide the direction of the pillar for issues pertaining to academics and welfare MAY 2019

Orientation Group Leader

Facilitated a group of 30 students for SUTD’s yearly orientation AUG 2018 - AUG 2019

Vice President

Adminstrated Club Activities and led Muay Thai Team

TECHNICAL AND LANGUAGE PROFIENCY Rhinoceros 6 Grasshopper Revit

Open-Foam Enscape/V-Ray Adobe Creative Suites

Model-Making 3D Printing Laser Cutting

English Chinese Cantonese

PROJECT EXPERIENCE JAN 2021

ARCHIFUTURE (DIRECTOR)

Plan and Direct a 3-Day Event for the Pillar Responsible for curating the entire event DEC 2020 - PRESENT

CHIHULY Undergraduate-Research-Opportunities-Programme (STUDENT LEAD)

Lead a group of 5 students to design an Acoustics Installation for DALE CHIHULY event that will exhibited at Gardens By the Bay JAN 2020

Architecture-Teaching-Opportunities-Programme 2020 (DIRECTOR) Architecture Outreach Program Lead a group of 26 students to conduct a 3-Day Workshop for JC Students JAN 2019

Architecture-Teaching-Opportunities-Programme 2019 (MEMBER)

Architecture Outreach Program Conducted welfare planning. Received positive feedback from post-programme review Facilitated a group of students. Received award for best design May 2018 - Jan 2019

PULAU UBIN Undergraduate-Research-Opportunities-Programme (Member) Ministry of National Development Singapore Acquired knowledge about Rural Architecture in Singapore Involved in a workshop to ideate and produce a site model for implementation at site 63C JAN 2018

PARK-PARK Undergraduate-Research-Opportunities-Programme (Student Lead) Urban Redevelopment Authority Singapore Lead a group of 9 students to recreate a space for 3 community groups for Parking Day Featured on The Straits Times and Lian He ZaoBao SEPT 2018 - DEC 2018

KAMPONG Undergraduate-Research-Opportunities-Programme (Member) Housing Development Board Singapore Involved in site research for HDBs across Singapore Acquired knowledge about Social Architecture Analyzed site research to study human interation in HDB Spaces

COMMUNITY WORK SEPT 2018 - DEC 2019

Love Your Living Environment Youth Challenge (Member) South West Community Development Council (CDC) Granted $10000 for project implementation Liase with West GRC Council and Minister Patrick Tay AUG 2018 - AUG 2019

Beyond Singapore (Volunteer)

Volunteered weekly at “Make & Play” design session

COMPETITIONS NOV 2018

STAAS Seat Design Competition (Team Leader)

STAAS Engineering Aerospace Singapore Awarded 2nd Place Prototped a seat design that revoluntionize aircraft economy class seats

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2021 Superdiversity: A Place of Healing (Housing Studio) Chihuly Acoustics (UROP)

2020 Revisiting Tanjong Pagar RailwayStation (Studio) Cideng (Internship) Knitted Skins (Internship) Theatre of Machinery (Studio) Kinetic Artifact (DDF)

2019 Differentiated Dimensions (Studio) Constructed Grounds (Studio)

2018 Park-Park (UROP) Pulau Ubin (UROP)

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PROJECT A PLACE OF HEALING

A Place of Healing Superdiversity

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Concept Diagram

1:10 Ramps that enables circulation throughout levels

Unit Plans

Typical FloorPlan

Series of Offset Operations to obtain habitable areas

Development of Slabs and Columns

Development of Program Spaces

PROJECT A PLACE OF HEALING

Situated directly Kallang Basin, The pace of living in Singapore is generally fast and stressful. This project is catered for those who might need to take a break away from the hustle and bustle of the city and slow down their pace of living. Situated a distance away from the important districts nearby, it aims to isolate and bring joy to the residents through interation with nature and interation with other people in a safe and protected environment.

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360 Renders

PROJECT A PLACE OF HEALING

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Chihuly Acoustics SUTD Installation at Gardens By The Bay

PROJECT CHIHULY ACOUSTICS

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Chihuly Acoustics

Tubular Bells

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”

With eyes closed and a deep breath, slowly immerse yourself in the soundscape and let your mind be spirited away.

From commonly small, indiscreet chimes hung in a circular fashion that are confined within their small spaces comes an experience that is allencompassing. Striking the chimes produces peaceful, homely notes that permeates that the whole Understorey, creating a melodious blend with background sounds from its lush, green surrounding, blurring the boundary between Nature and men.

This installation, Tubular Bells, serves to create this juxtaposed, yet harmonious experience for the visitors. It allows one to feel minuscule relative to something nostalgically small, creating a sense of immersion and disengagement within an expansive urban reality, leading one to delve further into the nature of Gardens by the Bay.

PROJECT CHIHULY ACOUSTICS

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Revisiting Tanjong Pagar Railway Statio Urban Analysis

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PROJECT TANJONG PAGAR RAILWAY STATION

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Concept Diagram

Extruded block from plot that is determined by the shortest width of the plot in the north-south direction.

Addition of ramps that gradually lead to the tip of the building. 2 blocks are divided to allow the ramps to reach the maximum height.

Height of the building and the angle of the ramp is altered to allow comfortable access.

Sides of the 2 blocks facing each other is cantilivered upwards, where the distance between blocks is the largest at the base of the building.

Additional platforms are added at certain junctions for comfort and rest for people travelling up along the ramps.

PROJECT TANJONG PAGAR RAILWAY STATION

Bifurcating the massing for interweaving ramp connections throughout the building. The rooftop ramp starts closer to TPRS and continues along the building.

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Concept

Revisiting Tanjong Pagar Railway Statio Designed a pavillion to display artifacts in a pop-up museum, and to draw attention to the newly open station

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PROJECT TANJONG PAGAR RAILWAY STATION

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DIAGRAMS

PROJECT TANJONG PAGAR RAILWAY STATION

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Unreal Render

PROJECT TANJONG PAGAR RAILWAY STATION

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PROJECT TANJONG PAGAR RAILWAY STATION

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Cideng 30

A Mid-Rise Mixed-Used Building with a fin-facade that is planned and built in Indonesia, Jakarta

PROJECT CIDENG

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RENDERS

PROJECT CIDENG

RENDERS

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Knit Patterned Flow Pavillion A Spatial envelope formed by discrete knitted panels.

PROJECT KNITTED SKINS

Research Lead: Tan Ying Yi Photo Credits: Lee Tat Lin

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Render

PROJECT KNITTED SKINS

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RENDER DIMENSIONS

PROJECT KNITTED SKINS

EXPLODED DRAWING

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PROJECT THEATRE OF MACHINERY

Theatre of Machinery (Studio) This project explores the need to mechanize rituals of today for future generations with the study of Torajan’s Funeral Rites (Aluk To Dolo). The handling of bodies is delicate and of key importance, hence their motion and moments of maintenance are essentially a performance.

In the post-apocalyptic world, technological advancements have allowed such processes to be effectively mechanized. With the use of machinery to move bodies, the technical space of a performance theatre Is brought forward and transformed into a performance stage. The Theatre is designed to challenge the existence of OpenAir Theatres and question theatres that exist within an enclosed space.

Built within a canyon with towering landforms, the spaces of the Theatre are carved out within the landforms within reference like the Petra Jordan. The higher floors of the Theatre act as technical spaces for the bodies whereas the ground floor behave as the functional space for visitors of the Theatre. Beams are constructed to support the cantilevering spaces and they cross and overlap to create an interweaving structure. Encapsulating the Theatre are Structural Rings. Firstly, they support the performance by allowing bodies to dynamically move across the theatre. They also behave like an enclosure that separates the theatres spaces from the outside world.

Visitors of the Theatre will cross a threshold to experience the spaces within the theatre. At the center of the Theatre, it is the functional space where visitors can choose to sit flexibly anywhere as the performance will encapsulate them as well. When the Theatre is not in used, it acts as a sculpture within the barren-dry canyon.

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DIAGRAMS

PROJECT THEATRE OF MACHINERY

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Kinetic Artifact

PROJECT KINETIC ARTIFACT

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Axonometric Perspective Concept The concept design of the kinetic artifact was adapted from the idea of an optical illusion. The artifact

The concept design of the kinetic artifact was adapted from the idea of an optical illusion. The artifact aims to use patterns toan use patterns todeceptive create antoimage that is deceptive to the observer. toaims create image that is the observer.

Reconstucting pattern based on circular geometry

Creating a 3D Optical Illusion Effect with Rings Source: https://static.vecteezy.com/system/resources/previews/000/158/196/non_2x/vector-psychedelic-optical-illusion.jpg

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Pattern Variations Pattern 1

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Top View

Isometric View

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PROJECT KINETIC ARTIFACT

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Connecting Motor to Mechanism

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Differentiated Dimensions (Studio)

PROJECT DIFFERENTIATED DIMENSIONS

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The museum is designed with the concept of dimensions where three different planes exist vertically. The needs of the museum are divided differently across these planes.

The centre plane is big and spacious, allowing flexibility for partitions to be constructed to cater for different artworks.

The top plane houses a living space for art production and the lower plane is an open public space.

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Constructed Grounds

PROJECT CONSTUCTED GROUNDS

An exercise working on the generation of a constructed volumetric land form. A continuous landscape where transitions from sheltered to a burrowed space appear, to clearly de-emphasize the architecural object and integrate the architecture within an extensive landscape design.

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Axonometric Perspective

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PROJECT CONSTRUCTED GROUNDS

Top View

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Park-Park

A 100-Balloon Cloud Dome that was exhibited during Parking Day 2018.

PROJECT PARK-PARK

This colourful dome articulated a space for community programs to occur.

Through variations in shapes, a meshing was created to form the net frame where balloons were attached to form this structure.

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The Balloon Canopy

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PROJECT PULAU UBIN

Pulau Ubin

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Programme (UROP)

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Model

Floorplan

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PROJECT PULAU UBIN

Floorplan

Front and Back View

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Exploded View

Roofs have large overhangs that help to reduce the radition around the house.

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Wood is a good insulating material that conducts less heat into the building.

Full length windows and doors allow ventilation across the house.

GROUND The gaps between the wooden planks used for flooring brings air into the interior.

Stilts lift the house above ground to avoid flooding.

The gap between the ground and the floor helps to catch strong winds.

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thank you

kwan_wai_hin@hotmail.com