Architecture Portfolio 2020-2023 [Patricia Tanadi]

PATRICIA

2020-2023

TANADI

EDUCATION

2020 – Present Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Bachelor of Architecture

Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

SKILLS

Indonesian Language – Native Speaker

English Language – Advanced

COMPETITION

2022

Yearning To Breathe

International “Biophilic ‐ Urban Residence” Design

Competition’s participant

EXPERIENCE

2022 – 2023

PATRICIA TANADI

Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

2022

183 5113 2528

tanadipatricia@gmail.com

linkedin.com/in/patriciatanadi

ABOUT ME

Detail-oriented undergraduate architecture student who is passionate to learn more and willing to seek every opportunities in the architectural field.

2021 – 2022

Coordinator of Multimedia and IT Division

Part of Suzhou Indonesian Student Community under the organization of Perhimpunan Pelajar Tiongkok Indonesia

Architectural Assistant

Summer internship at XJTLU Design Research Centre

School of Design Student-Staff Liaison Committee

Undergraduate year two student representative of the Department of Architecture for Design School

2020 – 2021

Department of Architecture Student-Staff Liaison

Committee

Undergraduate year one student representative of architecture module for the Department of Architecture

Chinese Language – Upper Intermediate

01 Small Urban Buildings

Public and Private Spaces

Living Pillar (2023)

Living pillar is a multipurpose architecture project based in Luosibang urban village in Suzhou, China. The idea of this project is to create a minimalist living area amongst the public facilities. A small living space with the size of 3 x 4 meter is purposed to preserve the existing residential area by shrinking the space. The people that live inside those living pillar will then contribute in the community by giving their service.

Inside this approximately 2400m² urban project, it contains some programmatic functions such as educational facilities, welfare center, urban mediation space, and public amenities.

DESIGN PROCESS

ORIGINAL BUILDINGS AND COURTYARDS ADDING ACCESSES TO THE COURTYARD MORE ALLEYWAYS FOR BETTER CIRCULATION

MINIMIZING THE EXISTING RESIDENTIAL ADDING LEVELS TO THE BUILDINGS CONNECTING WITH BALCONIES

02 Design and Building Typology Residential

Cannaville (2022)

Located at the North West part of Cannaregio, Venice, Italy, Cannaville is a floating community with area approximately 17000m² consisting of 9000m² residential area and 3000m² communal area. Due to the slow rising of sea level, Cannaville has a one level higher platform to minimize risk of flooding. Nevertheless, the residents of Cannaville are still able to enjoy the sea through several accesses leading to the level below. An amphitheater is also available for the people who want to have a relaxing day by sitting near the sea and enjoying the sunset view.

This project was also participated in “Yearning To Breathe” Design Competition

MASSING DIAGRAM

SINGE BLOCK MAIN ACCESS IN THE MIDDLE

DIFFERENT AREAS FOR COMMUNAL AND RESIDENTIAL WITH COMMUNAL BEING CLOSER TO THE MAIN ACCESS

ONE LEVEL HIGHER TO MINIMIZE THE RISK OF FLOODING

AMPHITHEATER AND SIGHTSEEING PLATFORM TO GIVE INTERACTION WITH THE SEA

SECONDARY ACCESS IN BETWEEN RESIDENTIAL AREA DIVISIONS

RESIDENTIAL UNIT ARRANGEMENTS

RESIDENTIAL UNITS

TECTONIC DIAGRAM

RENDERING IMAGES

Hospitality Architecture

(Coffee Shop)

Café MEMOIR (2022)

The building is located at the center of the plaza at the South Campus of XJTLU in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. It is a small-scale hospitality architecture of coffee shop, which contain 6m two stories of circle-shaped building and a total area of approximately 300m². Entitled “Café Memoir”, the project is based on a concept of continuity and related to the seasonal changes. The goal is to let the customers experience continuity by implementing it in the way of circulating the café and receiving a different record of experience every time they visit the coffee shop at a different season.

Sun acts as the time of the day.

Morning sunlight give motivation for people to start their journey and enjoy a glass of morning coffee. Afternoon time when the light is getting dimmer means nature is telling people to be more relax and enjoy the rest of the day with a cup of hot chocolate.

Site Analysis

Wind is interesting intangible aspect that can affect people’s desire.

Hot wind blown in summer makes people craving for a glass of iced coffee. Cold wind blown in winter makes people searching for a cup of hot latte.

Concept Diagram

Started with a simple circle, then creating another circles for the ramp that circulating around the building, with one moved slightly to the right, therefore penetrating the building. Simple cylinder is the main shape of the building, with several openings to support the penetrating ramp, and sloped roof to catch the wind coming from East.

Technical Drawings

Translating design ideas into plan, elevation, and section hand drawings at 1:100 scale with dimensions. The media used is A2 tracing paper, with pencil and drawing pens as the tools. The shadow was made manually by rubbing pencil’s charcoal scribble with hand.

Digital Model of Café MEMOIR

Made using Rhinoceros 3D software, the main cladding material texture is smooth metal sheet to give out neutral atmosphere. All the ramp is continuous and purposed to invite interested people to this public coffee shop pavilion. There is a small seating area present at the vey back of the building for customer to enjoy outdoor shaded area above the small pond, and many staircase seats along the .west side ramp. The coffee bar is located at the terrace on the east side of the building which act as a reward for the people after their journey of going through the long ramp. Nevertheless a staircase shortcut is also available directly from the ground floor to the terrace coffee bar.

Structural Details

The building main structure type is light frame structure, with steel as it’s main material to make it sustainable and recyclable. Overall, the structure is dry structure with no concrete involved. The foundation is an elevated deck platform, because the building is located on top of a small pond with a canteen located inside the building underneath.

04 Small Scale Architecture

(Residential + Commercial)

House for Veterinarian (2021)

The site is located at Jiangnan area in Suzhou, China. Nicknamed “Venice of the East”, Suzhou is widely know for its riverside landscape with quiet and natural surroundings.

The area of the house is 300m² containing 50% of public spaces and 50% of private spaces. The unique client is generated by ourself, in this case is a down-to-earth veterinarian who suffers from unhappy childhood problems. The spaces are designed so that the character has a work station as a vet and also a pet grooming area with wide backyard that has small manmade river flowing in the middle. Several small ramps for cats are circling and penetrating the building, and a slide designed only to be used by the character is present in the center. Bridges for human and animals are cutting in the middle of the building to act as a shortcut passage.

Site Analysis

Generating site analysis for climatological and physical conditions as well as tangible and intangible interpretations that will be used when designing the building. The task was done fully hand drawn at 1:1000 scale on A3 paper, later scanned and photoshopped to join all the site analysis result on the first picture.

Technical Drawings

Translating design ideas into plan, section, and elevation hand drawings at 1:50 scale. The media used is A2 tracing paper, with pencil and drawing pens as the tools. The shadow was made manually by rubbing pencil’s charcoal scribble with hand.

Physical Model 1:50

The three-story building is located at the perimeter of a river with small walkway separating the two elements. At the east side of the building, there is a neighbouring house indicated by the transparent acrylic model. Overall, the model was built using thin PVC board and balsa wood stick, for the glass element, thin acrylic sheet was cut to fit the model.

05a Structures and Materials

(Bridge)

Folding Tesselation (2023)

The project of “folding tesselation” is a 27m arch bridge structure with the base structure being composed of folded tesselation structures inspired by origami, the folding is done in order to create a more reinforced structure using less materials.

Initially, several study models were created to analyze the strength of the folding structure and to decide how many rows and what size of the panel should be for the bridge to approximately sustain the load. The first study model was made of paper and was tied with metal wire underneath it to hold the shape of the bridge. However, the span of the bridge is too short. The second study model was made from a thin PVC board to imagine if the boards are a timber / engineered bamboo plank in real life. This model introduces us to the hinge joint, followed by the ability of the fold to open and close. The third study model was made of thicker paper and was folded with various sizes to determine whether any different size was needed for the bridge to be more vital. However, these variations are unnecessary. Lastly, the final model was made of wooden boards, which were laser cut and assembled using metal wire to represent the hinge joint.

Physical and Digital Model

Overall, the 1:50 scaled physical model was built using wooden boards that have been laser cut. As it is a project for structure module, therefore, the model should be load tested. The structure is able to sustain load up to 10 kilograms. For the digital version, the model was built more detailed, with the structure frame.

05b

Structures and Materials

(Canopy)

Retracting Origami (2023)

Some existing canopies that are available on the project site (Luosibang, Suzhou) are made out of wooden frames and has no cover for the rain or shade for the sunlight. In order to improve this, inspired by the retractable canopy case study, “retracting origami” is created.

At first, the idea was to have nature-like effect on the canopy by adding many intertwined bamboo stripes and to gave transparency to the canopy. However, this idea is later omitted, instead, the canopy will use translucent material such as the polycarbonate sheet to provide the transparence. Moreover, the same herringbone tessellation folding pattern was used so that the canopy can have the same design language as the bridge, but later it was simplified into basic folding pattern.

After that, some physical and digital study models were made in order to find out the right geometry and size of the canopy and figuring how the retracting mechanism will work. Originally, the canopy was double sided, but later become just one sided canopy to make the canopy more versatile. Finally, the canopy has curvy edges to make it look more organic and not looking too rigid.

Plan and Sections

The view of the canopies being placed on the project site and having various condition when they are opened and closed

Joint Details

1. CANOPY – COLUMN CURVED RAILING SYSTEM

2. POLYCARBONATE SHEET FRAME AND HINGE

3. CANOPY PULLEY SYSTEM

4. ADJUSTABLE POLE

5. POLE CLAMP

6. TENSILE MEMBRANE

7. COLUMN – FOUNDATION CURVED RAILING SYSTEM

8. CANOPY FOUNDATION

05c Structures and Materials

(Tower)

Tower of Truss (2021)

By selecting a choice of structural types and a material to create a building with dimension 4m x 4m x 8m, which later be translated into a digital model and physical 1:20 model. The digital model should be detailed along with joint types and tension compression understandings, meanwhile the physical model should be load tested with several books. The choice of structure is lattice and the material is steel, the physical model uses 5mm balsa wood stick to represent thin lightweight of steel material. Meanwhile the digital model was built using Rhinoceros 3D.

Physical and Digital Model

Overall, the 1:50 scaled physical model was built using five millimeters balsa wood glued to the shape. As it is a project for structure module, therefore, the model should be load tested. The load used contains fifteen thick books weighing almost four kilograms. For the digital version, the model was built more detailed, with the joints and steel material textures present.

06

Early Year Projects

Other Studio Works (2020-2021)

A gallery of other work projects that were done in earlier year, entitled Folding Pavilion and Sequence of Spaces