This project is a Gateway building for educational purpose located in UQ. As a university building in the modern time, Gateway is set out to accommodate flexibility, corporation, and technologies that aids the students in learning. What I want to achieve is to design a building that interacts with its site and users, as well as to encourage the interaction between the users, users andbuildings, users and site. In the meantime, in persuit of sustainability and energy efficiency, the building is designed with passive air conditionining in mind.
ViewBalcony:out ot front court Communal Area Break-out area
Northeast-facing outdoor terrace: -Facilitate campus circulation
-Reciprocate to Sir Llew Edward Building
Northeast-facing outdoor terrace: -Provides stairs as seatings
-Provides dappled shades with trees
Roof-top terrace: View out to front court Communal area/external tutorial Break-outbooth area
West Elevagtion NTS
Twisted Louvres Detailed Plan at Level 1 - 1:10 @ A3
This is an adaptive reuse project that reimagines what a car park structure can be and its potential relationships with the ever-expanding urban infrastructures in Brisbane. The concept of this project is to create a social condenser, which has the potential to break down the social hierarchies that exist in and around Spring Hill, Brisbane, and form a new community that activate the area into a lively place. The existing structure consists of concrete columns and waffle floor slabs. The slabs are mostly (3/5 of the total floor area) inclined by 15 degrees to the ground, and the floor to ceiling height inside the existing structure is low (2.1m). This design scheme proposes three programs ‒ childcare, art gallery and rock climbing gym, in addition to the given dominant program - night market. The spaces and functions are curated with the effort to mitigate the constraints presented by the slopy floors and confined space, which involves creating double-height by carving out floors (28% of the total floor area), additional floors (15%), and also to celebrate these constraints with suitable functions in certain areas.
Street View Back Entrace
Waffle Floor Slab Metal Sheet Roof
View Towards Astor Terrace & City Laneway
Melbourne has long been enjoying the benefit of having a cultural and art precinct situated in the Southbank area since the early 20th century. This is enviable for many other cities because most major cities had to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to transform the urban environment and to establish such precincts in the late 20th century or the early 21st century. These cities include Hong Kong and Brisbane, etc. Melbourne art precinct, however, has been receiving critiques against its urban and architectural design. The critiques point out that Southbankʼs ability to offer cultural feasts is not well communicated by the urban fabrics or architecture. The precinct is intimidated by frontal, austere, and long-spanning building facades (including that of the National Gallery). The problem is exacerbated by the lack of open public space and permeability.
The project, therefore, starts with seeking ways of morphological response to the problems that the precinct is facing. As a national art gallery, the building will be capable of accommodating art exhibitions and events, drawing people to appreciate arts. But also equally important, it should be able to enrich how the precinct can be experienced.
Bus Routes Tram / Railway
South Melbourne
‑ Vastly residential
‑ Retail and groccer
‑ Leisure and sport precinct
‑ Parklands
Southbank‑Foodand beverage
‑ Hotels
‑ Theatre
‑ Tourism
‑ Arts Precinct
‑ Education (Uni of Melb)
Melbourne CBD - Food and beverage - Shops, retails, malls, etc. - Education - Office
Melbourne Park - Sport facilities - Entertainment - Sport tournament - Tourism
Entry threshold area with low head height Space becomes open and vibrant with art and museum store right after passing the threshold area
Ramp as circulation path and cavases for exhibition area, where lighting are tightly controlled, allowing for video installations light
NGV is set out to contribute to the transformation of the Melbourne Art Precinct. The city-scale concept is derived from the study of the urban morphology around the site area, which is to create a set-back, softed edge in order to revive the pedestrian spaces that are currently plagued by buildings that are built to the edges of the boundaries. The curved surface of the proposal frees up the site edges, reclaiming open public spaces on the street. It also takes away the feeling of rigidness around the precinct. This form factor informs, and is translated into the buildingʼs internal spaces and circulation paths. The internal public spaces are of fan shapes,extending inwards from the curved building edges, providing sufficient spaces for the visitors and art exhibitions, and the inner edges of the fan shapes become primary circulation paths. To take this strategy further, continuous spiral ramp in the middle of the circular public space is proposed to facilitate vertical circulation, as well as to provide unorthodox scaffolds for the curations of the contemporary art. To resolve the conflict between the maximum ramp steepness (1:14) and the required floor-to-floor height in the exhibition spaces (7.5 m), the circular floors are split in halves and are located in a sheared position vertically, in this way it reduces the strain from travelling from floor to floor while maintaining sufficient head height.
This research project aims to reconstruct ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2011 by devising a detailed design solution for the properties presented in the project, namely form, structure and materials etc.
This is a group project, with my individual objective being optimising form and structures. The parametric tools utilised in the 3D solution and analysis includes Kangaroo 3D (for form-finding and circle packing), Karamba 3D (for structural analysis) and Galapagos (for form and structural optimisation)
Max
Resultant
Resultant
The height of the structure
but the magnitude of an upward load acted upon it. The shape changes as the load chages.
The a diferent The below
Note
This is a parametric component. The form of the resultant geometry can be manipulated by a set of numerical
under a given direction and magnitude of a load.
Note
This an the the the of
Triangular base geometry AngleChamfered angle
Visualised tension/compression map model
Visualised displacement map model
Any one or the combination of the parameters minimised
A series of iterations gernated by Galapagos from which the designer can select a near-optimal combination of the genome parameters input.
Free-form mesh of shell to analyse
The load map updates automatically with the changing of mesh input.
Selected input to be optimised
This is an advanced component that simulates the distrubution of stress on the shell under given load cases and the magniblue indicates tension stress (positive usage). The higher intensity of the colour on the surface indicates a greater amount of
Galapagos settings
This is an advanced component that tests a tremendous amount of input combination to achive a set goal. Since it is impossible to achive the component to run within to get the best result possible.
This project is a Gateway building for educational purpose located in UQ. As a university building in the mod ern time, Gateway is set out to accommodate flexibility, corporation, and technologies that aids the students in learning. What I want to achieve is to design a building that interacts with its site and users, as well as to encourage the interaction between the users, users andbuildings, users and site. In the meantime, in per suit of sustainability and energy efficiency, the building is designed with passive air conditionining in mind.
ViewBalcony:out ot front court Communal Area Break-out area
Northeast-facing outdoor terrace: -Facilitate campus circulation
-Reciprocate to Sir Llew Edward Building
Northeast-facing outdoor terrace: -Provides stairs as seatings
-Provides dappled shades with trees
Roof-top terrace: View out to front court Communal area/external tutorial Break-outbooth area
This is an adaptive reuse project that reimagines what a car park structure can be and its potential relationships with the ever-expanding urban infrastructures in Brisbane. The concept of this project is to create a social condenser, which has the potential to break down the social hierarchies that exist in and around Spring Hill, Brisbane, and form a new community that activate the area into a lively place. The existing structure consists of concrete columns and waffle floor slabs. The slabs are mostly (3/5 of the total floor area) inclined by 15 degrees to the ground, and the floor to ceil ing height inside the existing structure is low (2.1m). This design scheme proposes three programs – childcare, art gallery and rock climbing gym, in addition to the given dominant program - night market. The spaces and functions are curated with the effort to mitigate the constraints presented by the slopy floors and confined space, which involves creating double-height by carving out floors (28% of the total floor area), additional floors (15%), and also to celebrate these constraints with suitable functions in certain areas.
Street View Back Entrace
Waffle Floor Slab Metal Sheet Roof
View Towards Astor Terrace & City Laneway
Melbourne has long been enjoying the benefit of having a cultural and art precinct situated in the Southbank area since the early 20th century. This is enviable for many other cities because most major cities had to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to transform the urban environment and to establish such precincts in the late 20th century or the early 21st century. These cities include Hong Kong and Brisbane, etc. Melbourne art precinct, however, has been receiving critiques against its urban and architectural design. The critiques point out that Southbank’s ability to offer cultural feasts is not well communicated by the urban fabrics or architecture. The precinct is intimidated by frontal, austere, and long-spanning building facades (including that of the National Gallery). The problem is exacerbated by the lack of open public space and permeability.
The project, therefore, starts with seeking ways of morphological response to the problems that the precinct is facing. As a national art gallery, the building will be capable of accommodating art exhibi tions and events, drawing people to appreciate arts. But also equally important, it should be able to enrich how the precinct can be experienced.
Bus Routes
Tram / Railway
Entry threshold area with low head height Space becomes open and vibrant with art and museum store right after passing the threshold area
Ramp as circulation path and cavases for art
Exhibition spaces are configurable, equipped with struc tural support, and has sufficient natural light
Underground exhi bition area, where lighting are tightly controlled, allowing for video installations and light shows
NGV is set out to contribute to the transformation of the Melbourne Art Precinct. The city-scale concept is derived from the study of the urban morphology around the site area, which is to create a set-back, softed edge in order to revive the pedestrian spaces that are currently plagued by buildings that are built to the edges of the boundaries. The curved surface of the proposal frees up the site edges, reclaiming open public spaces on the street. It also takes away the feeling of rigidness around the precinct. This form factor informs, and is translated into the building’s internal spaces and circulation paths. The internal public spaces are of fan shapes,extending inwards from the curved building edges, providing sufficient spaces for the visitors and art exhibitions, and the inner edges of the fan shapes become primary circu lation paths. To take this strategy further, continuous spiral ramp in the middle of the circular public space is proposed to facilitate vertical circulation, as well as to provide unorthodox scaffolds for the curations of the contemporary art. To resolve the conflict be tween the maximum ramp steepness (1:14) and the required floor-to-floor height in the exhibition spaces (7.5 m), the circular floors are split in halves and are located in a sheared position vertically, in this way it reduces the strain from travelling from floor to floor while maintaining sufficient head height.
This research project aims to reconstruct ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2011 by devising a detailed de sign solution for the properties presented in the project, namely form, structure and materials etc.
This is a group project, with my individual objective being optimising form and structures. The paramet ric tools utilised in the 3D solution and analysis includes Kangaroo 3D (for form-finding and circle pack ing), Karamba 3D (for structural analysis) and Galapagos (for form and structural optimisation)
Max
Resultant
Resultant
The height of the structure
but the magnitude of an upward load acted upon it. The shape changes as the load chages.
The data output updates altomatically when a diferent mesh is selected for analysis. The meshes illustrated below are analyse
Note
This is a parametric component. The form of the resultant geometry can be manipulated by a set of numerical inputs.
under a given direction and magnitude of a load.
Note
This is an advanced component that simulates the deformation of the given and the magnitude of
Triangular base geometry Chamfered Angle Chamfered angleVisualised tension/compression map model
Visualised displacement map model
Any one or the combination of the parameters minimised
A series of iterations gernated by Galapagos from which the designer can select a near-optimal combination of the genome parameters input.
Free-form mesh of shell to analyse
The load map updates automatically with the changing of mesh input.
This is an advanced component that simulates the distrubution of stress on the shell under given load cases and the magniblue indicates tension stress (positive usage). The higher intensity of the colour on the surface indicates a greater amount of
Selected input to be optimised
Galapagos settings
This is an advanced component that tests a tremendous amount of input combination to achive a set goal. Since it is impossible to achive the component to run within to get the best result possible.
