Bartlett Part II MArch Application Portfolio

The Bartlett School of Architecture APPLICATION PORTFOLIO

Roman Tay Yao Yee NAME

MArch Architecture PROGRAMME

20119229 STUDENT NUMBER

Architecture is the conversation between my vision of the world and the natural environment. My perspective in architecture is constantly evolving as my education and experience progresses. The three selected academic projects demonstrates my learning journey that highlights the output of creativity through architecture. The selected work enclosed in this folio presents the aesthetic aspects of architecture which is unpredictable beyond form, content, order and science.

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Super Tightest Brunswick, Inner Suburb Semester 2, 2019

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Learning Frontier 3 Arden Macaulay, North Melbourne Semester 1, 2019

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Unbound Yarra River, Abbotsford, Australian Suburb Semester 1, 2018

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Casual Studio Site Chronography Drawings 2017 - 2019

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Office work Architect & Interior Designer Firms January 2018 - July 2018

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Super Tightest Brunswick, Inner Suburb Master Studio, RMIT Individual Work Semester 2, 2019 Studio Leader: Graham Crist & Thomas Muratore

This design studio affirms the upside of hyper density, consolidation and smallness; a very rare yet powerful tool of the architect - distributing space. It affirms the role of design in radically improving our footprint. The concept of distributing space was demonstrated through three projects utilizing different themes and content.

Project 1 takes through the Melbourne Recital Centre as the precedent and twisted into a shape such that it retains its ornamental quality on the façade. The program mainly focuses on three principles: recycle, reduce and reuse. Paper shredding service as recycle, a library for exchanging books as reuse and a cafe promoting using own coffee cups as reduce. The site is located right beside the library in Brunswick. The complete boundary is set to 5 by 30 meters and is located in the middle of the lane way while the pedestrian lane remains on both sides.

The second attempt of the project is a coffee plant that consists of 12 programs in one building: office, house, school, clinic, factory, farm, waste and recycling, energy, shop, market, gallery and pub. The main idea is to make every program exists in one space to promote interaction and practically as one multi-functional space bounded in a tight space. The Institution of Foreign Language is the precedent and its site is located at 275 Victoria Street with 10 by 34 meters width boundary in the junction of commercial and residential areas.

The last attempt is using the void of the building as the porosity to squeeze the solid in the building to narrow down the interior space as represented by tightness. The theme is a brewery with 12 programs in one space that includes: office, house, school, clinic, factory, farm, waste and recycling, energy, shop, market, gallery and pub. The site is 10 by 10 meters width and located in between 282 and 367 Albert Street in Brunswick. The idea contradicts the existing Saigon House’s concept, where the exterior space is in the house-shaped and the interior space is out of the house-shaped space in the building.

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Perspective climbing on ladder

Interior circulation physical model

Project 1

Exterior form physical model

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Water Tank Collects water from the rain through the plant 水槽 雨水から植物を通して水を集

Souvenir Store お土産店

Workers Capsule Hostel ワーカーズカプセルホステル

Barista Class バリスタクラスt

Coffee Peeling Machine コーヒー剥離機

Coffee Bean Dryer コーヒー豆乾燥機

Pub Place where serve coffee cocktails パブ コーヒーカクテルを提供する場所

Sitting Area 座る場所

Coffee Vertical Farm コーヒーバーティカルファーム

Storage ストレージ

Coffee Roaster コーヒーロースター Lift for harvesting 収穫用リフト

Cashier レジ

Coffee Roaster コーヒーロースター

Vertical section perspective/垂直断面の視点

Project 2

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Project 2

Perspective interior impression

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Clinic and office クリニックとオフィス

Water tank 水槽

Wheat planting greenhouse 小麦を植える温室

Empty beer bottle storage 空のビール瓶の保管

Attic 屋根裏

Shop and market ショップとマーケット

Beer whirling and cooling machines ビール回転機

Beer filtration ビールろ過 Keg storage 樽貯蔵

Goods Entrance グッズの入り口 Pub パブ

Beer storage ビール貯蔵

Beer boiling machine ビール煮沸機

Beer mashing and lautering machines ビールマッシングとローターマシン

Vertical section perspective/垂直断面の視点

Project 3

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Project 3

Perspective impression

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Design Process Development Project 1 Twisted substance

TWIST

Waste & Recycling BUILDING PROGRAM

Melbourne Recital Centre Precedent

Flat Ornamentation Result

Project 2 Lego reassemblage

Fitting 12 programs into the building

REASSEMBLE Office, House, School, Clinic, Factory, Farm-Food Production, Waste & Recycling, Energy-Microgeneration, Shop, Market, Gallery, Pub BUILDING PROGRAM

Institution of Foreign language Precedent

Chunk Interior Result

Project 3 Exterior squeeze

Fitting 12 programs into the building

REARRANGE

Office, House, School, Clinic, Factory, Farm-Food Production, Waste & Recycling, Energy-Microgeneration, Shop, Market, Gallery, Pub BUILDING PROGRAM

Saigon House Precedent 12

Porosity Result

Design Concept

Research & Composition Project 1 Mixed used space concept Mixed used space concept RECYCLE

REUSE

REDUCE

Paper shredding

Book exchange

Reusable cup Paper recycle machine & plant

Save space

Promoting Literacy

Flexible delivery

Book donation

Decrease forest destruction

Higher efficiency

Pulp shredding process

Project 2 Fitting 12 programs in one space office

pub

school

harvest

market gallery

clinic

shop

house

wash process

farm

factory recycle

ONE SPACE energy

wash process

The concept of tightened spaces in project 2 is to allocate 12 programs into one space: office, house, school, clinic, factory, farm-food production, waste & recycling, energy-microgeneration, shop, market, gallery, pub. Coffee acts as the central theme for each program and facilitates the potential connection through various interactions between the programs.

Project 3

roasting process

Coffee bean process

The balcony as an exterior with squeezed interior and fitting the 12 programs in one space flipping idea shop exterior

interior

private courtyard

pub recycle

factory

exterior

interior as squeezed single space

interior interior

interior

school

exterior

interior

interior

energy

clinic

office

exterior exterior

market

house

Saigon House Precedent

Contradicted Concept

farm

gallery

Saigon House contains a number of house-shaped rooms as the interior and the semi interior as the private courtyard, which creates a house in the house concept. The concept behind project 3 contradicts the current design of Saigon House, where the house-shaped room acts as the exterior to squeeze the interior, creating an interior that bounds into a single space with 12 programs: office, house, school, clinic, factory, farm-food production, waste & recycling, energy-microgeneration, shop, market, gallery, pub. Brewery is the theme of the building.

For example, farming wheat, factory making beers, bartender classes and the entire space acts as a gallery etc.

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Learning Frontier 3 Arden Macaulay, North Melbourne Lower Pool Studio, RMIT Group Work Semester 1, 2019 Studio Leader: Patrick Macasaet

The studio was a workshop of generative and typological experiments investigating how contaminations and transformations of diverse typologies can assist in re-imagining formal, spatial and organizational architectural elements for learning environments. It focuses on what architectural possibilities could be generated through the procedure in terms of architectural propositions in this specific way of working to open up design conversations for the development of RMIT’s Urban High School.

The proposal aims to address the needs of school to suit the population growth of the Arden Macaulay precinct in the next few decades, thus having the ability to grow, evolve and adapt to the future developments became a key element of our project. The Multiscale learning village addresses such concerns through the independent quality of the villages of each year level, which allow for learning clusters to be built or upgraded without causing significant influences to the campus operation, integrating transition spaces between clusters to allow for the expansion of the learning village.

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Perspective entrance impression

Perspective aerial

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Year 7 village

Year 8 village

Year 10 village 16

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Legend 1 General Practice Classroom 2 Collaborative Classroom 3 Science Laboratory 4 Art Studio Space 5 Makerspace / Flexible Workshop 6 Multimedia Technology Zone 7 Flexible Open Classroom 8 Individual Learning Pods 9 Student Recreational Lounge

Ground Floor Plan

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Teaching Kitchen Teaching Garden Performance Space Interview / Council Space Breakout Space Outdoor Learning Space Small Learning Zone Courtyard Meeting Room

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Offices Computer Lab Lobby Tearoom Female Toilet Tearoom Female Toilet Male Toilet Services

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Learning Program Research Program arrangement

Special Facilities

Flexible Learning Space

Art room

Learning

Recreation

Workshop

Home Economics

Science Labs

Gym [FOR EXAMPLE]

7040m2 [Approx 22%]

Sporting Facilities

Outdoor Spaces

[FOR EXAMPLE]

9600m2 [Approx 30%]

Office

Meeting Room

Reception

Kitchen

Administrative Office

[FOR EXAMPLE]

2560m2 [Approx 8%]

Toilet

Lift

Storage

Locker

Fire Escape

Circulations/Utilities

[FOR EXAMPLE]

4800m2 [Approx 15%]

Informal

Recreation

Social Spaces

[FOR EXAMPLE]

3200m2 [Approx 10%]

Precedents for Learning Environments

Teaching Spaces

Casey Grammar

Elizabeth Blackburn School of Sciences

Dandenong High School

Presentation Spaces

Collaborative Teaching Space/ Group Learning

Learning Settings

[FOR EXAMPLE]

4800m2 [Approx 15%] Integrated studies and learning space between the two

Speciality Facilities and Social Space Program

Outdoor Learning Space

New Learning Mode

Civic Space for Learning

Older Students

Younger Students Open and Flexibility

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Formal Learning

With an in-depth study of programmatic qualities, it was analysed that certain subjects were required by different levelled students. This evolved into each village having an individualised programmatic scheme tailored for their specific focuses and needs at their level.

The proposition focused on the development of individual students and widening choices of opportunities for learning throughout the growth of the student levels. Within the individual villages, a taxonomy of different learning modes have also been implemented. The individualised learning setting created, aims to facilitate different learning opportunities to take place.

Facade, Ornament & Identity Development Facade Research [RMIT] Year 10 - Concrete/Steel

Year 8 - Timber

Year 9 - White Aluminium SHIEL ST

YEAR 7 - TIMBER + GREENERY

YEAR 8 VILLAGE

ARTIFICIAL TERRAIN

YEAR 11 VILLAGE

FUTURISTIC

POSSIBLE GYM GALLERY / EXHIBITION SPACE

CANTEEN 02 & FOOD TECHNOLOGY

SHIEL ST

Year 10 village raw/industrial

Lecture Theatre

Year 9 village

Year 7 village

porosity

green

Year 8 village artificial terrain

MACAULAY RD

STEM lab Technology spaces & workshop

Year 11 village futuristic

Possible gym Canteen 02 & Gallery/Exhibition space/Performance Food Technology Hub

Canteen 01

Library

Research village 2

Research village 1 RMIT Connect Year 12 village sculptural

Art & Design Hub Robotics/Fab lab/Heavy workshop

Pickup/Dropoff

MACAULAY RD

Year 12 - Mix material

Transition Point

Admin + Research Village

Year 7 - Timber & Greenery

To create a connection between RMIT Precinct and RMIT Urban high, the proposal also incorporates façade qualities of the iconic buildings especially the ones along New Academic Street that suggest RMIT’s excellence in architectural and sustainable design. Walking around the city campus, one can discern that each RMIT building has its own identity. They do not try to blend themselves within the context, yet they try to build connection in their own way. The proposal works on this premise to incorporate that episodic changing formal quality of RMIT city campus to generate the unique experience that can only be found in the RMIT Precinct.

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Experiments Fusion & Design Development Individual outcomes & Remix combine individual outcome

Open Sesame

Reappopriation: Campus Version

Multiscaled Learning Open Sesame + Reappopriation: Campus Version

combine individual outcome

Transition & Variety of Spatial Quality

Growing Micro-Villages

Growing Micro-village

Transition & Variety of Spatial Quality + Growing Micro-village

combine individual outcome

Civic Infrastructure

Civic Porosity

Flexible Intertise

Civic Infrastructure + Flexible Intertise

Experiement Remix & Design Development

Multiscale Learning Village

Multiscaled Learning + Growing Micro-Villages + Civic Porosity

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chunks cleaning - 25%

openning gesture modification - 48%

isolated departments & quality cleaning - 66%

The Multiscale Learning Village is an urban high school proposing a learning environment designed around a student-centred pedagogy. We propose an urban learning village, where independent learning clusters are formed for individual year levels and facilities. Through having series of learning clusters and grouping students according to age, it enables flexible and specific learning settings and resources to be provided more effectively and for the different environments to adapt to individual needs of the students. The proposal seeks to address different levels of needs through the design encapsulating an interrogation of different scales, taking into consideration the micro to macro scale in its design.

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Year Program Analysis Year level categorised

transform

transform

transform

Year 7 village green

Year 8 village artificial terrain

Year 9 village porosity

transform

transform

transform

Year 10 village raw/industrial

Year 11 village futuristic

Year 12 village sculpture

The disposition of the villages was informed through the site analysis and operated on the concern of safety for the students. This culminated with the placement of the younger student villages, including years 7, 8 & 9 being positioned in what we’ve analysed as the more secure side, surrounded by residential building whilst year 10, 11 and 12 are located closer to the commercial side, allowing for more freedom and connection to the community, instilling a deeper level of responsibility into the older students. There are a series of specialised atriums which act as nodes which promote movement throughout the whole campus, allowing for students to interact and congregate whilst also creating a hierarchy within the campus composition through its formal disparity.

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Unbound Yarra River, Abbotsford, Australian Suburb Lower Pool Studio, RMIT Individual Work Semester 1, 2018 Studio Leader: Damien Thackray

A studio that introduced us to a site-specific design approach - the agency of site - with an emphasis on exploring the relationship between architecture and landscape. We explored a set of ideas at the intersection of river landscapes and urban conditions, and investigated new opportunities for mutual connection that stitches the two together across more meaningful everyday cycles of inhabitation and use. The site has a dynamic condition located at Yarra River that is subjected to daily tidal fluctuations and seasonal flash flooding. Taking consideration on the context of the project, we had the opportunity to work with and re-purpose existing infrastructure and light industrial building stock, and design new fit-for purpose architecture.

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Perspective impression

Combined further study drawing23

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Chronography drawing

Chunk physical model

Concept depicted physical model 1

Concept depicted physical model 2 25

Perspective aerial

Perspective on kayak 26

Secitons

The flood event is used as a means of bringing architecture and design thinking into contact with the dynamic forces of natural phenomena and the potential of working with the agency of time and change. Rather than describing the flood event and the flux of the river landscape as a natural threat to be controlled and mitigated against, we questioned what could be the architectural intervention to inhabit such a dynamic and shifting landscape.

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Casual Chronography Drawing Studio Site Personal Individual Work 2017 - 2019

Chronography drawing is an outcome that is produced from a trajectory and memory as a personal perspective after going through the site visit and observation. It is a unique design process that the outcome is taken from the individual’s perspective then transfered to an architecture with potential qualities.

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Codex Cardigan Terrace, RMIT City Campus Semester 1, 2017 Studio Leader: Anna Johnson

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Necropolis II Flagstaff Gardens, West Melbourne Semester 2, 2018 Studio Leader: Amy Muir

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Super Tightest Project 1 Library Courtyard, Brunswick Semester 2, 2019 Studio Leader: Graham Crist & Thomas Muratore

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Super Tightest Project 2 275 Victoria Street, Brunswick Semester 2, 2019 Studio Leader: Graham Crist & Thomas Muratore

01 - Codex - Chronography drawing 29

02 - Necropolis II - Chronography drawing 30

03 - Super Tightest - Project 1 - Chronography drawing

04 - Super Tightest - Project 2 - Chronography drawing 31

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Employment & Internship Work Malacca, Malaysia Architect & Interior Designer Firms January, 2018 - July, 2018

In early 2018, I worked remotely for 5 months at an architecture firm based in my home country, Malaysia. My main task involved a Bungalow design project, in which I co-drew the professional architectural drawings with my supervisor, Mrs Tan. I supported my supervisor by amending the minor errors on the drawings prior to the finalized work. This experience has imparted me with practical knowledge and skills in drafting a professional drawing.

During the 2018 winter break, I interned at Novenas, an interior design firm based in Malaysia. My main task during the internship involved a project designing the interior of the Infineon company where I was responsible for rendering the conference and control rooms. In contrast with my remote work, this internship involved more three-dimensional drawings and renders. This was beneficial as I got to learn and experience first-hand on rendering programs such as 3D Max & Enscape.

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Roman Tay Yao Yee +61478664222 romantay8@gmail.com