2018-2021 Architectural Portfolio Lucas Lam

PORTFOLIO 09/27/2018 - 06/10/2021 A summary of projects undertaken during my 3 years bachelor class.

Year 1 Building Project

Programme Bicycle Repair Shop, Isle of Dogs, England

Motion on operating a Bronson Bike in elevation 1:10

Bicycle route of Isle of Dogs 1:5000

The map above point out the cycling route in and around Isle of Dogs, I also ride along the route and taken pictures around. You can see the building height increase by moving closer to Canary Wrath.

This shows the “urbanrural” aspect of the site with the contrast between the flat Greenwich and tall CanaryWrath.

Motion on operating a Bronson Bike in plan 1:10

Plan Drawing 1:200

This is a study on the motion when opening a Bronson Bike to understand how people interact with bikes and how many spacey will the action takes.

Elevation Drawing 1:200

Year 1 Building Project

Bicycle Repair Shop, Isle of Dogs, England

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Final design model

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Year 1 Building Project

Bicycle Repair Shop, Isle of Dogs, England Drawings

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Year 1 Building Project

Bicycle Repair Shop, Isle of Dogs, England 1:50 Models

Year 2 Instillation Project The sound of Ice Melting

This project’s narrative is to bring a replication of an ice floe into London, giving a sense of urgent on the whole problem. Letting people be in a room with the ice while listening to the amplified crackling sound when an ice melts. This is down to the messenger, the narrative and the stories to awaken the public, if not we will never have a chance of winning.

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Year 2 Instillation Project The sound of Ice Melting

The results shown that the speed of the sound travels have changed each time it passes through the ice. Comparing 5th loop to the original feed, we can clearly sees gaps have appeared at what originally a smooth change of frequences. This is due to the fact that sertain frequencies travels faster through ice than and compacting them into notes, this effect will increase the larger the ice is, so by constantly blasting sound into the ice, we can see the change in size via the decreasinggaps from the sound waves.

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Recording sound wave passing through ice :

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Year 2 Instillation Project Animation

https://vimeo.com/640467369

Year 2 Building Project Hokutolite Mineral Laboratory & Museum Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan

Perspective render from the platform across the building, where bay-passers will see when the waterfall when not in use.

The project is a laboratory and museum dedicated to the cultivation of Hokutolite mineral, sited in the Beitou district in the north of Taipei city, Taiwan.

The mineral was first discovered by Japanese geologist Yohachiro Olamoto in 1905. It was named after the Japanese name for Beitou in Taiwan, making it the only mineral to be named after a Taiwanese location. The mineral, barium sulfate, was harvested for industrial uses and the development of therapeutic hot-spring baths. Although the mineral is radioactive, barium sulfate is non-toxic due to its insolubility. Water from the spring is claimed to have health benefits. The mineral takes a long time to form and due to over-mining it can no longer be found in Beitou.

The proposal is sited next to a natural stream in Beitou. It is surrounded by hot spring hotels and easily accessible from Xinbeitou Station on the Taipei Metro. Water from the stream is artificially pumped to recreate a hot spring to encourage the growth of Hokutolite on the tectonics of the roof. The proposed form is inspired by studying the molecular structure of the mineral and personal photogrammetry of the topography during site visits.

Visitors to the proposed building can view the mineral formation on the mesh surfaces of the roof by looking up from inside. Natural light that permeates into the interior spaces will change as the mineral slowly builds over time. An addictive process, similar to 3D printing, inspired the form of the joints for the geometry of the building.

As the process is slow, a series of pre-recorded films form an important part of the exhibit in the museum. The sped-up films are projection mapped onto the ceiling of the gallery so visitors can experience a simulated mineral growth during their short visits. It is hoped that visitors will better understand the essence of the natural landscape in the local area that brought them there.

Animation of the Hakutolite forming process on the roft top

Year 2 Building Project Hokutolite Mineral Laboratory & Museum Premises:

Brief, Site Context:

The design ambition of this project is to create a design on the site reflecting the uniqueness of the geological and typology of Xinbeitou.

Moreover, the design of the building aims to recreate the Hokutolite and provide places for visitors to have more understanding and recognition of the Hokutolite. The building also aims to provide a research space for furthermore study on this stone and the related knowledge, leading to a less destruction way to extract it without affecting the local hot spring business.

My building project is a response to a brief of confronting changing environments and negotiating tilts and shifts. Through a typology study of Xinbeitou, I identified key features of my design ambition. Which is the special geological identity of near a hot spring which brings with a byproduct of the Hokutolite.

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Volumetric: The amount of space required for each space varies. The most volumetric and open area is the exhibition area of the building. Sufficient access and circulation path leading visitors entering and leaving the Exhibition Area is an important design criteria.

At the same time, the Research Lab needs to maintain privacy and cannot be disturbed by visitors. Therefore, the Lab is located at the floor above the Exhibition Area with isolated circulation route of which specified for staff only with security locks.

The souvenir Shop however do not require as much space as other since it is not the main focus of the program but rather act as a income source for the facility.

1:1250 plan of xinbeitou Diagram explaining the location of my site nationally, regionally and locally.

Hokutolite forming Process Plan 1:100

In order to create a roof the truly reprecents the Takis of the site, I used the previous photo scaned taki river bed as a guidence for the form, then I rebuild the mesh into a lower poly version and chosen the part near the elevation drop of the mesh and exagerated the eltidued for the roof of the building. Using the Taki form also helps with the waterfall that I wanted to added to truly meet the condition of the formation of the Hokutolite.

Andesite with a rough surface settle at the riverbed.

Due to the erosion of the acidic hot spring water, the andesite started to whitening.

The cracks and surface of the andesite start to collect Jarosite.

Hokutolite crystal began to form on top of the andesite.

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Year 3 Instillation Project Boundary of Human & Wind Interaction Dungeness, Uncertain Boundary

The proposed ‘site boundary’ with in the project is the boundary created between the interaction of the Lady Launchers and Dungeness’ wind flow.

The site, Dungeness, Kent, England, is unique for being formed predominantly of flint shingle. It also holds a large area of low-lying land, which means most wind flow from the Southern Sea is not disrupted by the what contains natural within the site but by human themselves and their product.

The Lady Launchers are chosen due to their over one hundred years tradition of launching lifeboats. They a part of the Dungeness history and are constant effected by wind when they were in service.

The project explores on how to represent and visualize the boundary through computation tool and modelling tools, turning the uncertain boundary in to comprehensible concepts. Tools are created to turn the simulation in to lines forming a virtual facade around the launch ladies.

Inside these façades are low air pressure areas displayed as shadows cause by the obstruction. By extracting and solidifying these negative geometries marking out thresholds formed by the occupation of the Lady Launchers. These is then superimposed back into the site combining both realities, the negative past and positive now.

Year 3 Instillation Project Concept: Wind Flow Simulation

This part of the script is to control the intensity of wind represented by the number of points project on the boundary.

This part of the script is to control the direction of wind, filling the whole boundary.

This part of the script is to merge all lines and determine how far the line will decade. With this parameter added we can also control the time frame that we want to capture.

This part of the script is to determine the area and boundary of each obstacles and deflect the line.

This part of the script is to determine how the line fill in the lower intensity space via the simulated wind speed and the boundary of the sabbaticals.

Year 3 Instillation Project Concept: Wind Flow Simulation

Left 1: As cube is not aerodynamic enough, most air were deflected outwards and when other air particle tries to flow back to the low pressure space vigorously. This is indicated by the tangled line at left.

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Left 2: Exploring the negative geometry formed from the interaction between wind flow and obstacles.

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The wind flow that interacts with the launch ladies shows a clear view of what is happening within the scene. The isolated interaction lines also forms a virtual landscape of how human interaction affects the changes of site.

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How angled cube interact with wind in Perspective

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Year 3 Building Project

Wind Sculpture: Negative Space Wind Speed: 26.4 kmph Wind Direction: 22.2degree NNE Time Frame: 1.0 s Threshold By extracting and solidifying these negative geometries creating thresholds formed by the occupation of the Lady Launchers

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Year 3 Building Project

Wind sculpting Tools Animation

https://vimeo.com/557038860

Year 3 Building Project Dungeness RNLI Museum England, Kent, Dungeness

Designing space through simulations

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The project is a RNLI museum that aims to educate and remember the public about the lifeboat history of Dungeness, the site, and how the locals work together to save lives.

The site, Dungeness, Kent, England, holds a large area of low-lying land, which means most wind flow from the Southern Sea is not disrupted by the terrain.

The site at which this place sits was chosen strategically for the program, on a local scale, the site sites next to the original NO.1 RNLI Station that serve from 1826 to 1939. It is also sitting at the tip of the Dungeness, making it the closer to wind that the lifeboat uses to experience during service.

The complex of the project is created with the wind simulation tools that was created in project 1 and by using recreated historical scenes Dungeness to sculpt the wind. Allowing the project to explores on controlling wind with the structure of the museum to recreates historical scenes, allowing visitors to not just learn the history via informational text of images but also with the sense it with touch.

The threshold created within these simulations will then be altered to fits the function of the museum.

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Year 3 Building Project Dungeness RNLI Museum England, Kent, Dungeness

Dungeness]is a headland on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland. It shelters a large area of low-lying land, Romney Marsh. Dungeness spans Dungeness Nuclear Power Station, the hamlet of Dungeness, and an ecological site at the same location. It lies within the civil parish of Lydd.

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Year 3 Building Project Research of site history

Dungeness Lifeboat ‘RNLB Charles Cooper Henderson’ was one of nineteen RNLI lifeboats which served in World War Two in the evacuation of approximately 338,000 Allied Soldiers from the beleaguered beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27th May and 4th June 1940.

The tradition of Lady Launchers continued at Dungeness for over one hundred years and only ended in 1979 when the station operated its first lifeboat launched from a carriage and operations moved to the station’s current location on the beach.

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Modeled RNLI lifeboat

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Creating geometry through simulation

Creating geometry through simulation

Year 3 Building Project Design Method Exhibition Hall 1

Using the tool created in p1 to sculpt the exhibition hall with the Charles Cooper Henderson class lifeboat

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Year 3 Building Project Design Method Exhibition Hall 2

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1. Main Museum Slope Entrance 2. Staircase to Circulation Bridge 3. Circulation Bridge 4. Lifeboat Exhibition Hall 5. Lifeboat Replica 6. Entrance to Lady Launcher Exhibition Hall 7. Lady Launcher Exhibition Hall 8. Lady Launcher Audio Chamber 9. Office Entrance 10.Office Storage 11.Office Space 12.Toilet 13.Manager Office Space 14.Meeting Room 15.Rest Room 16.Timber Plank 17.Timber Frame 18.Shingle Slope Entrance 19.Beam 20.Glass Pannel

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1. Main Museum Slope Entrance 2. Staircase to Circulation Bridge 3. Circulation Bridge 4. Lifeboat Exhibition Hall 5. Lifeboat Replica 6. Entrance to Lady Launcher Exhibition Hall 7. Lady Launcher Exhibition Hall 8. Meeting Room 9. Balcony 10. Shingle Slope Entrance

Year 3 Building Project Front Door Render

Year 3 Building Project Wind Fin Render

Year 3 Building Project Dungeness RNLI Museum Animation

https://vimeo.com/556769480