PORTFOLIO
2022
Faye, Yee Fei Tan
Part II Architect
CURRICULUM VITAE yeeeefeeeei@gmail.com +44(0)7460698778
Faye, Yee Fei Tan 14/07/1998 Tier- 4 Work Placement Visa valid till Oct 2023 NATIONALITY | LANGUAGE |
Malaysian English, Mandarin, Malay, Cantonese (spoken) French (beginner)
EDUCATION | 2022 - 2020 Architectural Association, London, UK MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part II) 2019 - 2016 Architectural Association, London, UK BA Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part I) 2016 - 2014 Taylor’s College Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme WORK
EXPERIENCE |
2021 Jul - Aug Lin House, Private Commission, Wenzhou, China (Stage 2-3) Assisting in concept, schematic and structural designs for client 2019 Aug - 2020 May Wilkinson Eyre Architects, London Battersea Power Station Phase II Project (Stage 3-5) 2019 Jun - Sep T. R. Hamzah & Yeang Architects, Kuala Lumpur I-Care Palliative Center (Stage 1)
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS | 2021 - 2022
AA Technical Studies High Pass/ Commendation AA Bursary / Scholarship
2020 - 2021
Co-founder and Visual Lead for AGORAx online magazine
2019
AA Technical Studies High Pass for Third Year project
2018
AA Visiting School Bangkok - Curartistry w/ Mark Cousins
SKILLS | 3D Modelling
Rhino 7, 3DsMax, Cinema 4D (NURBS, Sub-D, Polygon, Grasshopper)
Rendering
V-Ray, Twinmotion, Unreal Engine
Drafting
Autocad, Microstation, Revit
Post Production
Adobe CS
Modelmaking
Sculpting, Casting, Wood & Metal Works Lasercutting, CNC, 3D Printing
Other Photography, Photogrammetry
CONTENTS
I II III IV V
Of Darkness and Fissility
Reframing the Slate Landscape of Wales
The Element of Bonding
An Urban Adaptation to Excess Heat
Uprooted Nature
Deformalising the Urban Park
Rest & Recover!
Eco-tourism in the Ghost Landscapes of Murcia
Other works
Work experience, Competitions, etc
Of Darkness and Fissility
Reframing the Slate Landscape of Wales
5th Year Project (MArch) Diploma 17 - ‘Latent Territories’ with Theo Lalis and Dora Sweijd
Proposed Cultural Center in the Slate Landscape
An Enquiry into Placemaking within the Industrial Blemish... on Community, Environmental Externality, Didactic Landscapes
This projects aims to ‘build a clean slate’ between the ‘extractible’ and the non-extractible. In order to reclaim a local sense of place amidst the industrial blemish of North Wales, the project proposes a cultural building integrating photodocumentary practices as a public program. incite public contemplation on manmade land forms as a dire result of material extraction for the construction sector.
Photograph taken during site visit
1:200 Model Building Skeleton (right) Spot-welded wire on CNC-ed landscape, textured
Works exhibited at AA Projects Review’22 (above)
Building with waste slate at the disused Dinorwic Quarry
Experiencing lightness with darkness Slate as Material, Slate as part of the landscape The overall building emerges from the quarried land forms blurring the distinction between the slate tippings and the newly constructed roof. A statement of ‘waste vs resource’ through technical re-invention Sculptural ceiling forms to interiorised space with light wells and openings to the landscape The spaces encapsulate the material expression of slate through its traditional and innovative uses, translating ecoconsciousness of its material extraction into alternative techniques for construction. On site, the project seeks to create programmatic circularity between industrial and cultural landscapes, beyond grounds for picturesque romanticisation and industrial exploits
Caught between the dichotomized landscapes for extraction and consumption, the project proposes a film center as an emerging space for ‘dialectical thinking’.
open cinema / projection space
camera obscura room
Evolving the architectural form of Slate from pitched roofs to tensile roofs Through the proposed tensile network system, the geometry of the roof surface becomes independent from elements such as the rigid wooden frame found in traditional slate roofs. The building’s
Construction Sequence | Sourcing Slate in-situ
form shall rely on the strength and weight of slate stones pieced together onto a continuous surface – one which shelters the landscape
Tech
Video Documentation of Slate Manufacturing
hnical Detailing
Roof-to-ground, Roof-ridge, Cladding and insulation
Section - ground condition and openings according to lighting
Form & Structure
Slate in Suspension: A tensile network of knots, cables and masts
Site Context/ Mapping
Proposed Material System and its formal possibilities
Site Context/ Mapping
The Element of Bonding
An Urban Adaptation to Excess Heat
4th Year Project (MArch) Diploma 3 - ‘The Tenet of Ecology’ with Andrew Yau and Jonas Lundberg
The urban infrastructure of tunnel vents, typically ubiquitous and camouflaged in public, is key to the architecture of subterranean weather generation. They enable whole atmospheres from the depths of the city to be transported and re-circulated. Instead of deeming it as an ‘undesirable by-product’, our cities could harness excess urban heat as a ‘bonding element’ for their diverse, customary lifestyles.
The Valley, the Hill, the Mountain, and the Sky: Heat-driven Social Condensers of Bangalore
The proposed building prototypes evolve the concept of the vent into inhabitable zones within the public realm where thermal shifts becomes the main driver of space. It’s a world in co-habitation with rising temperatures.
Proposed Structure of Traditional Craft and Emerging Ceramic Fabrication
Celebrating both vernacular and emerging ceramic production technology, the design inverts and integrates the notion of the ‘chimney’.
Enclosures of varying porosity begin to form spatial hierarchies - corresponding to the thermal conditions of its locality - the Bangalorean way of crafting, gathering, and bonding with nature
i. Heat Circulation / Flow Chimney Cowls Study
H Type
Double Cap
As urbanisation and urban verticality increase, so does the stagnation of excess heat. The architecture of this project looks beyond principles of cooling, and aims instead for a more dynamic relationship between lifestyle, nature and urban heat energy in the city.
Rain Caps
Gas Fire Exhaust
Bird Control
Terracotta/ Steel for heat endurance
Air lifters
Ventilation
Tapered Effect
Wind-spinner
Anti-downdraught/Winguard
Wind-directional
Application from Research to Design
City Vents Reimagined through photogrammetry and digital manipulation of form
Uprooted Nature
Deformalising the Urban Park
3rd Year Project (BA) Intermediate 11 - ‘Second Nature’ with Silvana Taher, Matilde Cassani
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NT’S PARK, LONDON
As humans and societies progress, the concept of “Nature” becomes ever more complex and blurred. Landscapes evolve from hunting grounds, to productive farmlands, and to pleasurable parks and conservatories. Violence and the act of land deformation are part of a continuous cycle.
The prim and proper ‘Nature’ presented in Rent’s Park is constantly giving the impression an untainted natural landscape despite being ghtly managed and controlled. The practice of reserving’ the landscape, and the ornamention of the tree in the Park entails a very geeric user experience in urban parks, where
plant life is reduced to a single-faceted appearance on the landscape. As a contradiction to the static outcome of Regent’s Park, the project proposes a re-terraformation of the English landscape, to one which embraces ephemerality.
Rather than stressing on the duality of “natural” vs “artificial” and “nature” vs “man”, the project calls for a societal shift to look beyond the superficial mode of presenting landscapes, to embrace them by virtue of their ephemeral qualities.
Man vs Plant Circulation
Breaking out of their traditional arrangements and breaking beyond their ornamental function, moving trees in the proposed canals create a fluid space in which humans and nature interact freely.
Rest & Recover!
Eco-tourism in the Ghost Landscapes of Murcia
2rd Year Project (BA) Intermediate 11 - ‘Toxic Tourism’ with Nerea Calvillo and Manu Collado
Stages of Growth Deposited posidonia as natural insulation for the ghost buildings of murcia
The project provides a series of caravan stops from former architectural wastes that were once miners’ residence. As a critique to the current waste distribution channels, waste harvested through the caravaner‘s journey is localized with the designated station, creating a new typology for tourism that enables a socially-inclusive waste management. The highway of site provides the access and mobility, interconnecting lands of Murcia’s various industrial dumps. From these flatlands slowly emerges a new wastescape, a habitable totem amidst the castaway land.
Battersea Power Station PhaseII Development, Wilkinson Eyre
Stage 3 -4 - Part 1 Project Experience Setting up of Tender Drawings (RCPs, Sections) for the Metalworks team.
City Link Ideas Competition Entry 2020
‘Rotary Bridge’ A collaboration between selected young engineers at BuroHappold and young architects at WilkinsonEyre, the aim was to develop a conceptual design for a cycling/pedestrian bridge in Copenhagen. The proposed bridge translates the motion of pedaling into its retractive floor plate mechanism across the harbour.
Other works
Work experience