08/2022 Architectural Portfolio_Faye

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

REGEN

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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