summer chan | design portfolio

summer chan

architectural / graphic designer

selected works

2021-2023

bachelor of architecture and environments ‘22 the university of sydney

summer chan

architectural / interior / graphic

sydney, australia designer

summerchan.designs@gmail.com

+61 432 669 226

EXPERIENCE

Graphic Design Intern

Studio Gaxa (Interior and Building Design)

Mar 2023 - May 2023

• Assisted in the development of the design concept, layouts, and mock-ups based on the project requirements and brand guidelines

• Collaborate with the design team to create visually appealing and effective designs and branding for client, including logos, business cards, menus

Intern

Eprocure Design PLT by Evan Chin (Interior Design and Procurement)

Feb 2023

• Collaborated with senior designers to develop design concepts, interior design solutions, mood boards, and presentations for client meetings

• Attended site visits and assist in monitoring project progress, resolving design issues, and ensuring compliance with design specifications

• Supported administrative tasks, including maintaining project documentation and quotations, and managing sample library

Media Coordinator

Sydney University Design Society (SUDA)

June 2022 - Dec 2022

• Oversee the creation, create and publish social content on all social media platforms

• Analysed trends, data and insights regarding marketing content

• Respond to inquiries on social media platform and liaised with team to resolve respective problems

UNMUTE Student-Initiated Exhibition Coordinator

The University of Sydney

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

• Initiated, organised, designed and executed a student-led exhibition

• Liaised with participants, student organisers and university staff to prepare materials and exhibition panels

Architecture, Design and Planning Student Representative

The University of Sydney

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

• Represented student body through active communication with the University’s staff concerning student’s university and campus life

• Welcomed and assisted new students during Open day and Orientation

EXPERIENCE

Bachelor of Architecture and Environment (BAE) Student Representative

Sydney University Design Society (SUDA)

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

• Represented BAE students in official faculty society of the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning

• Communicate and negotiated best interest for BAE cohort

• Assisted with operating events

Administrative Assistant + Graphic Designer

Jonathon Han & Associates (Corporate Finance Advisory Services)

Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

• Provided administrative support for the Office such as managing an active calendar of appointments, preparing presentation slides and administrative documents, organising confidential files, arranging travel itineraries, planning company events

• Communicated, organised and attended meet-ups with clients, prospects, colleagues and management on behalf of the manager

• Created visually appealing and effective designs for print and digital media, including but not limited to designing manager’s portfolio, invitation cards, brochures, flyers, social media graphics, videos and client presentations.

EDUCATION

The University of Sydney

Bachelor of Architecture and Environments (BAE)

•WAM85

Academic Awards

2021 Dean's List of Excellence in Academic Performance

2020 Dean's List of Excellence in Academic Performance

REFERENCES

Katherine Koulizakis

Director | Founder of Studio Gaxa

Matthew Mindrup

Associate Professor in Architecture | Program co-Director of the Bachelor of Architecture and Environments

SKILLS

English (Native)

(Conversational)

01

momento

a Sydney Oral History Library in an Alleyway Capstone Project

Year: 2022

Type: Haptic Environments in Architecture

Tutor: Matthew Mindrup

Role: Individual Work

An oral history library is a space for the community to learn about significant events from the past through storytelling, and to bring that history and lessons forward with them in the future. To remember, describe and convey the memory across, storytellers use gestures, paintings, artifacts, location and their immediate environment as prompts. Through designing the acoustics, olfaltory and or luminous qualities of the oral history library, the spaces aims to be a prompt for the memory experienced by the storyteller to become present.

Conceptualisation

The first task of the project is to select a city from Italo Calvinos book, Invisible cities to gain people were physically connected by strings. By the time the city is filled with strings that one and the supports to remain standing. Then, they will find

These postcards explored the concept of impermanence; everything from cities to our relationship to places, people, things and our memories of them does not last. Postcard 3.0 explores the act of longing for memories, and searching for the truth in our past; a journey of reflection that is supported by an oral history library. However, like all postcards created, it also inspires and alludes to the form, circulation and haptic environment in the design.

POSTCARD 1.0: ERSILLA, THE ABANDONED CITIES

POSTCARD 2.0: VISITING MEMORIES

Conceptualisation : Postcards

gain inspiration. I chose the city of Ersilla, a city where citizens relationship to places, things, one cannot walk through the streets, the citizens will dismantle their houses, leaving the strings find another place to rebuild the city of Ersilla once again.

Similar to the building and rebuilding of Ersilla, Postcard 4.0 represents how our histories and memories are constantly being forgotten to be replaced by new experiences. It demonstrates a linear circulation path, a journey of moving from darkness to light. In the context of an oral history library, it can represent the journey of enlightment, the pursuit of truth, and bringing the past (history) into light (present/ future). This idea is meaningful to the function of the space, where communities come together to learn about significant events from the past and bring that history/lessons forward with them in the future.

Conceptualisation : Souvenirs

The second task of the project is to expand the conceptualization work and begin the generation of the form through model making. Used as an abstract projection of the space, they are meant to inform a fundamental aspect and or quality of the haptic experiences in the proposed library.

Utilising the previously developed concept, the souvenirs explore form and circulation in depth. Taking an abstract approach, souvenir 2.0 and 3.0 attempts to represent the past informing the present, informing the future. With metal strips stacked onto one another to form a 3-dimensional collage, the bottom pieces support and inform the position of the pieces on top.

The final souvenir takes the site into consideration; adding two threshold which represents the surroundings of the alleyway.

By penetrating through these thresholds, this souvenir suggests the infiltration of solid and empty voids adjacent to the alleyway where the organisation of the programs and circulation path on one side affects the other side. In other words, instead of objects only lining up vertically, elements also affect other elements placed horizontally. This creates a souvenir that consists of individual elements separated by thresholds yet interconnected through their alignment.

Site and Design

Building into the turbine hall takes advantage of the significant contrast offered by the site, enabling an open, cold, shadowed, echoey, static space to be juxtaposed against a tight, warm, bright, airy alleyway.

The aim of the design for an oral history library is to enable the experience of each program to be meaningful to the space, and to be memorable so that the histories and lessons learnt are brought along with them into the future. ‘Momento’ can be interpreted as a journey of enlightenment through the learning of the past in an oral history library.

As one circulates from the scalffolding in the turbine hall to the programs in the alleyway, they will be engulfed by the alternating haptic experiences with light. This enables their senses to be refreshed and stimulated with every new program visited, prompting a more impactful and memorable experience of the space and the history involved.

Utilising a light filtering system in combination with carefully chosen materials, and architectural technologies, light intensity has been designed to further instil the concept; providing with a sense of enlightenment as one travels upwards towards the light. Starting at the ground level with minimal access to illumination, visitors gradually progress to the top of the cliff; eventually arriving at an exit flooded with an abundance of natural light and ventilation. Combined with a heightened elevation and a good visual insight of the ground below, visitors are granted with a metaphorical representation of the pursuit towards enlightenment.

CLEAR GLASSFROSTED GLASS

The scalffolding structure in the turbine hall acts as circulation space and supporting facilities for the Oral History Library; containing programs such as office rooms, object storage, recording studios and a library archive.

Alterations

and Additions in Residential Architecture

Design Development within Regulatory and Practice Management Framework

Year: 2022

Type: Alterations and Additions in Residential Architecture

Tutor: Kathleen Tonkin, Michael Mossman

Role: Collaborative Work in a group of 2

Using the understanding of fundamental principles in key regulatory requirements, site and local practice case studies were investigated to be applied to this architectural design project.

This project is a small scale residential alterations and additions that is practical yet suitable for the client. Following AShfield LEP 2013 and Innerwest DCPs, an SEE and DA form was prepared.

Drawings

The property is located on the corner of Tawa Street in a R2 Low Density Residential dwelling is 1-storey detached bungalow, with two bedrooms, living spaces as well as garden to its heritage characteristics, the northern brick façade facing the Tawa Street with proposal to demolish the rear end of the building and some interior walls and an addition

Drawings

Residential Zoning, with two immediate neighbors on its east and south façade. The existing garden beds lining up the boundary and a garage on the rear end of the property. Due with a balcony and tiled pavements will be maintained. Below are the drawings for the addition of a brick structure extending the living areas towards the rear of the property.

Black Box Theatre for the Serpentine Pavilion, London

Exploration of Materials and its A�fects on Architectural Spaces

Year: 2021

Type: Materials in Architecture

Tutor: Vladislav Trofimov, Dr. Simon Weir

Role: PROJECT A THEATRE | BEYOND THE REFLECTION: Individual Work

PROJECT B FOYER | AMISDT THE GARDEN : Individual Work on Chanika’s established theatre form, materials and concept

PROJECT B: FOYER PROJECT

QUEEN CAROLINE’S TEMPLE

PRINCESS DIANA MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN CAR PARK

COLICCI CAFE

A black box theatre is a performance space that is pitch black; one that enables the audience to fully submerge themselves in the environment within.

The challenge for this brief is to design a seemless transition space that transports visitors from the bright luscious greenery of the Kensington Gardens to this nuanced darknesses of the theatre. One that acts as a long threshold, and a processional ascension to the elevated spiritual hearth of the divine mystical theatre.

Focusing on materials, this project explores its transformation, evaluation and creative application in terms of environmental, structural and aesthetic performance.

PROJECT A is individual and involves designing a black box theatre. PROJECT B works on refining a student’s PROJECT A, adding a foyer to the theatre with considerations to its original form, materials and concept.

Any space that celebrates art is a space that encourages reflection; whether provoked are on current events, crisis or controversial debates. The architectural regenerate not only the reflection of external affairs but

whether it be past, present or future. Often times, reflections or thoughts architectural form and materials implemented in this theatre aims to articulate and but a more intimate and internal form of self-reflection.

This descending circulation extends and dramatizes the transition from a public open spectacle to an intimate, enclosed black box. Views of Kensington Garden steadily becomes a darkening walkway with literal reflections of self and others present in the space. In a poetic and performative manner, the transition space ends right under where it started; alluding to the act of reflecting on the past, or on progress and coming full circle.

Chanika’s theatre is an exploration Of Chiaroscuro in visual juxtaposition through the use of various materials changes are made to the theatre,

THEATRE

THEATRE

OPEN FOYER

CHANIKA’S ORIGINAL FORM

NEW FORM;

REDUCED HEIGHT FOR THEATRE, INTRODUCE SUNKEN OPEN FOYER UNDER THEATRE

Amidst the Garden

in architecture where there is a strong emphasis on materials under manipulated lighting conditions. While theatre, this concept is carried forward.

The foyer sits below ground level and takes the form of the theatre above. Its lack of enclosing walls and accessibility enables the space to be a public shelter and point of activation within Kensington garden. On top of acting as a casual public resting area, it also provides an opportunity for facilitating community gatherings, public performances or provide commercial retail services.

The exploration of a single material in the foyer, concrete, creates functionality in this abstract playground where stairs becomes the ceiling and floor edges becomes seating. Additionally, by continuing the material from the theatre to the foyer, the lower ground structure integrates cohesively to the theatre designed by Chanika above.

the odyssey

Lookout Tow r y Coo Cl � s, Dolp ns Po nt

Architecture Technologies in Moderately Complex Building Systems

Year: 2022

Type: Architectural Technologies

Tutor: Brian Novato, Dr. Paolo Stracchi

Role: Collaborative Work in a group of 2

This project explores architectural technologies, construction materials and structural typologies with a coherent architectural form and image for a small 4m by 4m by 12m self-selected site.

Hanging by the edge of Coogee cliff, the Odyssey of Life is a contemporary look out tower in which visitors can navigate through the ups and downs of life in architectural form. Separated into 3 main floors with visitors arriving on the middle ground, one will be able to explore the higher or lower ground - symbolizing the choice to view any situation we experience in life positively or negatively.

This concept is further elaborated with structural elements and choice of materials, enabling the top floor to be bright, airy and open while the bottom floor remains cold, dark and enclosed. The physical journey one must take to transition between floors are engaging- consisting a mixture of ramps, stairs and ladders - and unpredictable, encapsulating the journey of life itself.

REINFORCED CONCRETE PLATFORM AXONOMETRIC DETAIL

LOUVRES AXONOMETRIC DETAIL

MESH CURTAIN SECTION DETAIL

Graphic Design

Designing Brand Identity for an Italian Restaurant in Sydney City, Cucina, including mood boards, logo, business cards and menus.

Mood Board

1st Prize Winner for Architecture, Design & Planning (ADP) Student Life Logo Competition, The University of Sydney

Wilkinson Building (G04) School of Architecture, Design and Planning 148 City Rd, Darlington NSW 2008 (02) 8627 1444 adp.studentlife@uni.sydney.edu.au

Photography

Hand Drawings

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