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HYL Selection of Architectural Design Works 2018 - 2022 Portfolio by Ho Yen Liang
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Design Statement The portfolio consists of selected researchoriented undergraduate academic works, work experience and architectural design competitions, varied from different sizes with target users from the Malaysian urban community, such as public building Performing Art Centre, City Lobby SocioCultural Exchange Centre, Children Learning Capsule along with others. The design engages people through the means of conceptual and contextual form and spaces manipulation; contemporary landscape composition, insightful spatial poetics; playful and pragmatic solutions in architectural translation. This is to achieve a comprehensive and holistic design that could ensure the well-being of users; generate a capacity for storytelling; to uplift their way of living, working and playing.
Selected Works
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3 - 7
Sem 6 / 2019
II
8 - 11
Sem 5 / 2019
III
12 - 14
Sem 4 / 2018
IV
15 - 18
02/2021 - 01/2022
V
19 - 23
06/2021 - 07/2021
VI
24 - 26
02/2021
VII
27 - 29
03/2020 - 07/2020
The Social Album The Archive
Play - Share - Bond Uniqlo&Retail B.O.H
VinFast Global Showroom Rumah Lapis
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The Social Album
Tutored by Ar. Teoh Way Keat E: twka.info@gmail.com P: +60126076832
The Social Album Year 3, Semester 6 Final Design Studio Project (Individual) Year: 2019 Site Location: Johor Bahru City, Malaysia Building Area: 3000 m² Typology: Socio-cultural Centre The project calls for designing a ‘City Lobby’, which will re-engage the city’s local population and visiting tourists. A quality public place and building where its architecture can create great opportunities to strengthen people’s connection. The project addresses earlier studies on the sociocultural issues related to the architecture of Johor Bahru, namely: Ethnicity, Demography, and Identity.
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The Social Album
The infamous Johorean’s national spirit, the “Bangsa Johor” has instigated a strength in union, solidarity, unity and multiracial harmony, whatever you call it, the people of Johor feel proud that they were protected under one umbrella irrespective of race, ancestry or background. However, the coexistence of these communities in JB has been taken advantage as people tend to be more parochialism instead of focusing on the bigger picture of the city itself. Thus, the design intention of the City Lobby is to remove this misinterpreted boundary of division between these
Communicate
Conceptual and Diagrammatic Spatial Sketch
three communities on site, allowing an intermix of social and cultural differences to foster a strong sense of community not just within their four walls but beyond them as a socially luxurious commodity towards an inclusive culture which values diversity. A place where people of Johor Bahru celebrates the diversity of coexistence, a hearth for positive social and cultural exchange amongst one another, ensuring the state of harmony and appreciative act on the differences and similarities of people.
Connect
Collaborate
Backlane View Towards Front Elevation
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It is the foundation of the unintentional meet ups with different people of different cultural background, and that the spaces could house a sharing atmosphere of local city dwellers, tourists, visitors and transient users.
The Social Album
The city lobby played a role in fostering a symbiotic relationship called interdependency, between the multiracial community through creating permeable boundaries, which allowed people to communicate, collaborate and connects. Design articulation of spaces revolved around a ‘common ground’ for the communities to share, shared spaces of common interests articulate through path-space relationship and overlapping of spatial identities.
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Co-Working Space Interior Render
Start-Up Space Interior Render Final Render from South Perspective
Node Formulation
Animating the Edge
Inviting Public Space
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The Social Album
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
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The programmatic spaces overlapped each other to form shared spaces of the city lobby. These shared spaces are articulate through the in-between spaces like courtyards, pocket and breakout spaces and collaboratories.
The Social Album
The building itself is responding to the surrounding to the social and cultural context of the site, which revolves around food, art and market activities. The surrounding landscape and edge is animated according to the food nodes, Tan Hiok Nee heritage street, back lanes and open green spaces around the site. The open ground floor space is to welcome and invite the locals and tourists on site to the community space below where the artisan retail space is proposed to promote the local art and culture by local artists as they are lack of platforms to express their artistic sensibilities.
Heart of the Atrium Render
Roof Garden and Theatre Render
Exploded Axonometric - Interdependent Relationship Between Spaces
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Final Render from the East Perspective
The Archive
Tutor: Ms. Indrani Vanniasingham P: +60122036691
The Archive Year 3, Semester 5 Final Design Project (Individual) Year: 2019 Site Location: Kajang Old Town, Malaysia Site Area: 1300 m² Typology: Performing Art Centre The project is about improving the spatial and social qualities of an urban node within the Old Town of Kajang. The urban issue being the city that is ‘displaced’ in its spatial character and social quality. The local Chinese and Indian cultural groups are needing a ‘place’ for transforming the urban young towards a revival of indigenous performing arts, mainly dance and music. The Kajang Art Centre (KAC) is a place for learning the performing arts with a public space impact to the existing community.
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The Archive
Urban Gap of Liveliness Kajang is deemed as a displaced city, due to its development and modernisation over time, locals tend to move out leaving shophouses to be bare and some may remain running but not for long. As a result, many parts of Kajang has now been displaced by modern development, street as public space has been displaced by vehicles and routes leading to old shophouses, were fragmented by new buildings, creating urban gaps between the old and new identities of Kajang. Kajang is now a place where people only visit for its famous Kajang Satay and daily necessities, lacking the vibrancy and liveliness in the city itself.
Colourful Differences
Collective Memories
Resonance of Life
Space-Time-Program Research Diagrams
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There is a little bit of history in all of us and if we can connect it all together, then it will come to life.
The Archive
Refocus of the Collective Memories Art & Time The Kajang Art Centre invites the people of Kajang to a place where the community could experience the variety and diversity of Kajang. Locals and many visitors should visit its uniqueness and the art centre is intent to become a dominant catalyst to bridge the gap between both sites through the universal language of art, to be appreciated by the community. Kajang Art Centre could show a commitment to the creativity and stories of Kajang, it is a bold and pioneering stance where the process of how people engage and transit through time and art making is the key to intervene the urban issue. There is a little bit of history in all of us and if we can connect it all together, then it will come to life.
Node Formulation
Path-Space Relationship
Public Realm
Urban Wall
Social Gathering Space
Cafe / Extension of Local Eateries
Central Atrium
Contemporary Dance Studio
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Searching for cultural, social and historical values from the existing community and weaving them into the Art Centre, for different users at different time.
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Fusing the Transition of the Present with the Faded Past Local community needs a beneficial attractor, to provide opportunities for different users to interact through sharing of information, adopting memories and learning historical ideas from the old, while the art centre act as an art learning platform, such as the art of performing, culture, and social, inviting the new, to participate in these vibrant experiences together with the community.
Sectional Perspective
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Play - Share - Bond
Tutor: Ar. Ari Methi E: ari@architectam.com
Play-Share-Bond Year 2, Semester 4 Design Project Group Members: 1. Aaren Neo On E 2. Lock Tian Jiun Role: Design lead in conceptual research and final presentation graphics production Year: 2018 Building Area: 50 m² Typology: Playscape, Children Learning Capsule
Axono Render of the Children Learning Capsule
This brief proposes to design a Children Learning Capsule by using 3 numbers of shipping containers within a given area. Safe, simple-to-use, and secondary re-purposed materials can be used together. The capsule accommodates a set of proposed activities designed to instill among children a sense of learning through play and the appreciation of sustainability through the application of reusable materials.
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Play - Share - Bond
Interplay between the object and the child makes his total world — play. Their current forms of amusement are heavily relied on electronic gadgets. The design intention is to enable children in physical bonding and interaction with others, through a shared moment or memory experienced through playing. Children could create their own memories from the time spent playing with friends and families.
Plan
Rear Elevation
Front Elevation
Up-cycle the Past
Celebrate Unique Moments
Recreate with New
Reconnect & Explore
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Play - Share - Bond
Section Interplay between materiality and programmatic response
Folded Panels
Imaginary Battlefield
Be a Wheel
Tyre Climbing
Sand Pendulum
Monkey in the Middle
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Uniqlo&Retail / KHSiew Architect
Uniqlo&Retail Roadside Store KHSiew Architect Year: 2021 Site Location: Taman Anggun, Rawang, Malaysia Site Area: 7900 m² Typology: Commercial Roadside Store
The proposed scheme is to encourage permeability and walkability around this commercial centre of Anggun Garden in Rawang. This is the second roadside store proposed for the Client of Uniqlo retail store. The main Uniqlo retail was accompanied by a stand-alone retail store, which the design intended to be as transparent as possible to the surrounding landscape, acting as a temporal node for the public to visit and take a break at the F&B restaurants and cafes as proposed.
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Uniqlo&Retail / KHSiew Architect Anggun World Masterplan
The site was located at the hearth of Anggun New Town, where it is surrounded by commercial, institutional, residential and recreational typologies. The proposed site was enveloped by the Anggun World future masterplanning, where intended to foster a sense of community there via strong connectivity and walkable linkages. A well-planned landscaped and pedestrian-friendly town planning could build a liveable and socially inclusive neighbourhood. Linkage
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Uniqlo&Retail / KHSiew Architect
The brief of Uniqlo&Retail roadside store was fairly simple, to carefully design and maximise accessibility and spaces to everyone, enabling a social-shopping experience, irrespective of their age, gender, and disabilities. The roadside store is located adjacent to Anggun City Commercial Shoplots and Aeon Shopping Mall, where all three shopping districts are connected via permeable pedestrian linkages. Developers envisioned the young community of Rawang New Town to be established as a liveable, healthy and sustainable city. Instilling the living, working and playing lifestyle into the urban development is the primary focus.
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Uniqlo&Retail / KHSiew Architect
Uniqlo Roadside Concept Store
Roadside Thematic Retail Store 18
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B.O.H
B.O.H Back of House We Miss Restaurants! Design Competition Group Members: Sak Kar Wai (Ryan) Vivien Ng Su-Qi Role: Design Research and Production in Graphics Presentation Year: 2021 Site Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Typology: Commercial
The brief calls to design a restaurant where it can be in any sizes and any locations, focusing on how a restaurant should serve and invite the community to dine in, creation of a pleasurable place for people to enjoy each other’s company while dining in amidst the pandemic. We dwell into the possibility of designing a place where people can enjoy stories crafted for you by culinary artists, stimulating senses via gastronomy.
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Back of House, the name is originated from the
contexts of the site and main component of the scheme: a kitchen tucked within a row of southeclectic shophouses located on a back lane. It is abutted to an alley which is rejuvenated into a vibrant realm for arts and cultural events known as Kwai Chai Hong (鬼仔巷), alongside other artisanal restaurants, bars and cafes. The location for B.O.H is handpicked by the chef with great interest in the genius loci of the site as a food alley, as well as Kwai Chai Hong as a memory lane that brings people back to the golden times in the 1960s, because he enjoys telling stories via food.
B.O.H
For a place with three distinct roles to play – a state-of-art kitchen, a dining place of reminiscence, and a bespoke culinary event space – the brief calls for a flexible design that can regulate the usage and circulation of the space with ease. Yet the greatest challenge lies in the narrow footprint. With only 87 m² on the upper floor, we looked into kitchen equipments – which are required for all three occasions – as elements to shape the space while retaining the original conditions of the shophouses.
Backlane Shophouses Frontage
Site Context
Kwai Chai Hong Entrance
Kwai Chai Hong Courtyard
Site Culinary Programs
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B.O.H
On the ground floor is a lounge that welcomes guests before they are brought to their seats, which is also a pantry for them to enjoy exclusive collections of wines after the courses, as if they are visiting a friend’s house. It is also open as a tea house during tea time for those who would like to grab a light refreshment after touring the alley.
Pantry
Ground Floor Programs
Lounge
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B.O.H
The existing balcony overlooking the alley is turned into a 20-pax alfresco dining space for people to enjoy scenic wall arts and installations created by local artists. On the inside, the cooking counter is designed as a chef’s table that sits another eight guests. Behind the table is a fridge and chiller, reinterpreted as ingredient displays that serve as a colourful backdrop. Further behind is a set of golden sliding doors that forms a ‘secondary shopfront’ to control circulation from the floor below. On top, a structure with integrated mechanical and electrical services connects the doors and the displays to form an entrance foyer, and extend over the table as exhaust hood to complete the kitchen-cum-dining-cum-event space.
Alfresco Dining Balcony
First Floor Programs - Culinary Lab
First Floor Programs - Event Space
First Floor Programs - Chef’s Table & Alfresco Dining
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Alfresco Dining
Chef’s Table
Dining Foyer
Chef’s Table Cooking Counter
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VinFast Global Showroom
VinFast Global Showroom VFDC 2021 VinFast Design Competition Group Members: Sak Kar Wai (Ryan) Vivien Ng Su-Qi Role: Design Research and Production in Graphics Presentation Year: 2021 Site Location: Vietnam Typology: Commercial
Premium Vietnamese car maker, VinFast has launched an international competition to design a global showroom for its upcoming electric vehicles set to launch in year 2022, with the aim to expand its market worldwide, starting from New York and Canada. A showcase that offers a curated experience to engage with the brand’s products, services and values. 24
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VinFast Global Showroom
Ground Floor Plan
Conventional Showroom
The New Global Showroom
A sales environment and linear experience.
A curated dealership space fluid, the continuous movement narrate the essence of the brand to connect with the buyers.
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VinFast Global Showroom
Reception
Texture Display Corridor
The proposed scheme imagines the showroom as a curated environment to showcase the design, craftsmanship and motto of the brand: one that is smart and innovative, with a touch of luxury. Taking cues from the VinFast fluid logo, the global showroom comprises of V-shaped walls that effortlessly carve and generate various display zones to exhibit the vehicles, their components and accessories in style, providing an immersive experience to engage with the brand and its products. We wish to revisit the conventional norm of dealership in the automobile industry. We believe one needs to know not just the final product, but the parts that make up the whole as well, in order to appreciate the beauty.
Automobile Parts Display
Spatial Programming Shaping the spaces with element synthesised from the logo.
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Rumah Lapis: A Layered House
Final Render of the Layered House from East Perspective
Rumah Lapis A Layered House KLAF 2020 Malaysian House Competition Group Members: Sak Kar Wai (Ryan) Role: Design Production in Graphics Presentation Year: 2020 Site Location: Malaysia Typology: Residential
In today’s context where house is turning into a multifaceted site whereby daily activities – live, work and play – take place, Rumah Lapis explores methods to create spaces within a dwelling that are permeable and flexible to celebrate vibrant living. The house is designed for a multi-generational family from the 70s to 00s. To encourage interactions between family members, the programs are organized to enable fluid movement between spaces, generating spontaneous activities among family members from one place to another.
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Rumah Lapis: A Layered House
Conceptual Research Diagrams
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Two modes of living: Retreat and Pavilion dwellings
Rumah Lapis: A Layered House
Living in a melting pot, the beauty lies in cultural diversity, where one can assimilate a variety of festivities, delicacies and arts. The Pavilion and Retreat mode of the house act as an extension of main communal activities to niche social activities, creating vibrancy of movement and seamless transition between the indoors and outdoors. The landscapes around the house acts as a fabric for celebration of events; daylight, rainwater and wind to orchestrate the spaces, elevating well-being of the family; a soft boundary between spaces.
Vibrant Living
Festive Dining Moments
Central Lounge
Netflix Times
Tropical Retreat Living
Retreat Mode Diagram
Pavilion Mode Diagram
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