architecture portfolio 02

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DESIGN 02

PROJECTS 13 January - 03 February 2014

P04 Man | Scale + Context - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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0.5 week 0.5 week 3 weeks NUS Drawing Prize 2014 Entry

Anthropometry Studies Site

Kiosk Intervention

P05 text { space } architecture - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Acquiring Language Interpreting Text Spatial Translation

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PROJECT 04

Kindle Kopi Kiosk

Man | Scale + Context The design and placement of a retail kiosk along Selegie Road.

This one-man kiosk will have an enclosed area of no more than 12 sqm which will be secured at the end of business hours Site: Prinsep Link Pinsep St. Junction

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“Man is the measure of all things” - Sir Kenneth Clark 7

PHASE ONE

Anthropometry Studies

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- Anthropometry Study 01 A push-cart along Jalan Malioboro,Yogyakarta: RITUALS Anthropometry leads to rituals which in turn affects our operation. Compact in size, this cart is able to fully maximize the area within and around itself. Its highly systematic organization allows every store item to be within easy reach for a swift operation.

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- Anthropometry Study 02 A Lehesan along Jalan Malioboro,Yogyakarta: PERCEPTION OF COMFORT Man defines comfort with anthropometry. This drawing depicts such individual subjectivity which causes different perceptions of comfort. In Indonesian Lehesans, it is a cultural norm for one to dine seated on the floor and sodas served in tall glasses. With foreign visitors, the experience may not be as comfortable.

Elevation of Selegie Road Street

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PHASE TWO

Site

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Plan of Prinsep Link, Pinsep St. Junction

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Above: Section A-A | Below: Section B:B

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Site Plan: Behavioral Patterns

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“Design addresses itself to the need” - Charles Eames 23

PHASE THREE

Kiosk Intervention

Notes on Design Imperative -Sparse and continuous seemingless circulation.

-Design must complement the circulation flow.

-Kiosk as a static point in the middle this motion.

-Porosity, Lightness and Options -Create a conducive environment to isolate.

- Design should allow one to enter the space without any obligations. It should allow one to have a sense of privacy and allowing one to empty their minds and be static.

Operative Verb (Experience) To empty, to chill, to smoke

Unseen Conditions on Site Cultural and Historical Value: Prinsep Street - A Jewish quarter until the late 20th century - Named after Charles Prinsep - Nutmeg plantation behind Sofia hill

Metaphoric The nutmeg seed: A fragment of History -Seed: Promise of future (Idea of growth) -Past, present and future in concurrence.

-Idea of a seed pod, a sense of individuality.

Programme: Kopi (Coffee) -Morning: Office and student crowd -Evening: Alcohol bars open for social gatherings -Coffee to complement service around area - Allows one to take a break

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Concept

A: Parti Models in 1:50 B: Process Development 1 in 1:20 C: Process Development 2 in 1:20

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Site Modelling in 1:50

Final Model in 1:20

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Light & Porosity

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-Final Note33

This project brings one closer to having the savoir-faire of a designer. We were being tasked to propose a 12 sqm kiosk in the precinct site. This demands a deep understanding of the site and discipline to react to the specific needs. Simple and logical solutions should be developed.Thus, we have learnt how site and context sets the design parameters and concurrently how anthropometry is being integrated into the design process as a tool of paramount importance.

Man | Scale + Context

PROJECT 05

room #4

text { space } architecture Argubly the room or its approximation is the most basic unit of an architectural space. How it is defined, enclosed and what elements are used to do this, is architecture. Beyond the room are other rooms. The interactions between rooms and together as a whole constitutes the narrative of the space. It becomes the rationale of the architecture. This rationale may be driven by use, purpose or as an expression of an idea. Its entirety when cogent and coherent is what we call an architectural language.The use of “language� is not coincidental elements to construct space. Both utilise language that is articulated by syntax, detail and conventions. The narrative of a book is akin to the narrative of the architecture. The imaginings that are detailed in a narrative way may evoke a space directly.Yet in Architecture, the imaginings are not substance until fixed in a construct.

This project aims to make a bridge between the text made by the author, the space it suggests and the architectural language of various canonical architects. The bridge device is the physical making of the space. Making use of architectural language, the imaging of the author is made real.

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“The visitor is so placed that he is without the means of making coherent his own experience. He is made the subject of diametric excitations; his consciousness is divided; and, being both deprived of and also offered an architectural support, in order to resolve his predicament, he is anxious, indeed obliged – and without choice – to enter the building” - Colin Rowe, Mathematics of the Ideal Villa

CHAPTER 1(A)

acquiring language | Le Corbusier’s Oeuvres

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Villa Stein de Monzie - 5 Points of Architecture

A: Pilotis, floors and walls | B: Personal interpretation of Villa Stein

“a floor can be a horizontal wall while a wall can be a vertical floor”

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The Monastery of La Tourette - Promonade Architecturale

C: Gradual transition | D: A spatial narrative

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interpreting text | Ideation “New York was an inexhaustible space, a labyrinth of endless steps, and no matter how far he walked, no matter how well he came to know its neighbourhoods and streets, it always left him with the feeling of being lost. Lost, not only in the city, but within himself as well. Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutatory emptiness within. The world was outside of him, around him, before him, and the speed with which it kept changing made it impossible for him to dwell on any one thing for very long. Motion was of the essence, the act of putting one foot infront of the other and allowing himself to follow the drift of his own body. By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal, and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere. New York was the nowhere he had built around himself, and he realized that he has no intention of ever leaving it again.� - Paul Auster, City of Glass pp. 2-3

Perspectival graphic facilimie

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CHAPTER 2

spatial translation | Weaving

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3-Dimensional Translation - Intepreting Text

Concept Model E: Labyrinth and the garden F: Redefining floors and walls

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3-Dimensional Translation - Narrative to Language

G: Explosion in a box H: Square modules I + J:Volumetric aggregation K: Basic symmetry L + M Establishing grid

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3-Dimensional Translation - Failed Spatial Attempts

N: Around a centre - Wrong scalar reference O: Demarcating spaces - No sense, No langauge P: Machine for a narrative - No narrative Q: 1:10 Section in Cardboard - Too much corbusian imitation

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Prior to translating the text into space while borrowing Le Corbusier’s language, ideas of centrality, ramps, floor levels, unconventional spaces and living machines were being experimented - and failed.

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R: Redo. Redo. Redo. Language + Text + Space

Succeeded Iterations & Integrations

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Process Development

S: Process development 1 T: Process development 2 | U: Process development 3

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Process Development

S: Process development 1 T: Process development 2 | U: Process development 3

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Final Model: Sections + Elevations

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Axonometry: Light & Composition

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-Final Note61

A space is like a narrative, unfolding in every turn, every step. Every subsidiary detail matters. Initial ideas were drawn and one would have to translate what is in the mind formally into space, with an order, to create and retain that experience. I have learnt how it is of paramount that one does not lose sight of their unique design objective during the process.Valuable lessons were drawn and this project serves as dĂŠclencheur to our creative journey ahead. text { space } architecture

Portfolio 02

Works from AR1102 Design 02 V: NUS Drawing Prize 2014 Entry: Beyond a room (Conceptual Section)

By LIN Derong | A0111169M Under tutelage of Dr. Lilian CHEE | Studio 05 AY13/14 Undergraduate Year 1 | Semester 2 Department of Architecture | National University of Singapore | 2014

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