Mak Yiing Huey Architecture Portfolio
Mak Yiing Huey Master in Architecture Graduate Singaporean makyiinghuey@gmail.com www.issuu.com/yhmak
Education Background
2015 − 2016 2012 − 2015
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Master of Architecture Bachelor of Science (Architecture & Sustainable Design)
2010 − 2011
National Junior College Science track
2006 − 2009
CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School
Professional Experience
Sep − Dec 2015
Intern, Urban Redevelopment Authority Urban Planning & Design Conservation
May − Aug 2014
Intern, CPG Corporation Pte Ltd Studio C & V
Jan − Feb 2012
Intern, Arc Studio Urbanism + Architecture
Professional Skills
Rhino Revit AutoCAD Sketchup Vray Modelmaking
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Grasshopper Photoshop Illustrator InDesign MS Word + Excel
Co−Curricular Activities
2013 − 2015
SUTD Wind Ensemble Founder & President OIC of pitching, events management and establishing the ensemble
2012 − 2013
We Don’t Erase! Co−founder & Treasurer
2012 − 2014
Rotaract@SUTD Member 2−week mission trip to Chiang Rai, Thailand
2014
PREM1ERE − SUTD’s 1st Performing Arts Concert Director of Publicity Committee
Others
2015
Independent Activity Programme (IAP) in Florence, Italy 3−week exchange at Instituto Europeo Renaissance architecture, Humanism and beginner’s Italian
2013
JENESYS 2.0 in Kyoto, Japan 1−week exchange with students from ASEAN and Japan Arts and culture theme
2013
International Youth Music Festival in Vienna, Austria Guest member of the NUS Symphony Orchestra Orchestra competition and music performance tour in Europe
2012−2014
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Programme (UROP) Designing a sustainable and scaleable aquaponics system to grow fish and plants
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SELECTED PROJECTS 2015 to 2016
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WORKING WORKOUT
Thesis project on integrating physical activity amongst sedentary office workers in their daily working life.
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THE WASTE LINE
Rethinking convenience design leading to wasteful habits amongst urbanites
03 SMART FACADE Design of a facade system that responds to the problems of haze in wind−driven rain for naturally− ventilated spaces in tropical, equatorial countries.
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URBAN HOUSING MASS
High density housing mass project inspired by a poetic reference from nature − the wetlands.
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TROLDTEKTABLE
Product design project submitted for the Troldtekt Award based in Denmark.
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WORKING WORKOUT
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M.Arch Adaptation Thesis Project Project Type: Commercial Advisor: Assoc Prof Yeo Kang Shua Location: Shenton Way, Central Business District, Singapore "Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well−being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it." Soren Kierkegaard
PROBLEM
ARCHITECTURALISING EXERCISE
This thesis project seeks to rethink the office working environment promote physical activity amongst the sedentary population. It aims to get workers moving and exercising spontaneously without the delibrate intention to exercise.
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DESIGN INTERFERENCE ON THE SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE
DESIGN STRATEGY
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Rise
Travelling to workplace
Travelling home
Work
Daily activities at home
human−scale office modules
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Incorporate 30 x 5 = 150min of recommended exercise a week, spread over 5 workdays.
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Reduce the building to human−scale office units that are relevant to the occupants in terms of programme and walkability.
MASSING STRATEGY
Maximise plot footprint
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Podium x tower typology
Reduce footprint to get more daylight into towers
Move towers apart to create public deck
Shape heights to respond to site
Setback from historic neighbour Lau Pa Sat
1:2000 Site Plan SITE CONSIDERATIONS
Connectivity with transport nodes
Extending the future green boulevard of Downtown
Maximise plot footprint
Podium x tower typology
Reduce footprint to get more daylight into towers
Move towers apart to create public deck
Shape heights to respond to site
Setback from historic neighbour Lau Pa Sat
Soften the urban edge
Programmatic response to Lau Pa Sat: Plaza Space
Visual accessibility of public deck from major transport node
Soften the urban edge for towers
Create skydecks for unique programmes
Shaping of tower segments
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OFFICE MODULE STRATEGY PRESENTATION CORNER
PANTRY
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PANTRY OUTDOOR GARDEN
Typical office floor plan depth (for central core)
Proposed module: 3 x 3 x 3 = 27 units of programmes
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INDOOR GARDEN
PROGRAMME FOR SAMPLE MODULE
RESOURCE: LIBRARY
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Office units
Atrium at core / periphery
Outdoor garden OUTDOOR GARDEN (L1)
LOUNGE AREA PRINTER
INDOOR GARDEN
Lounge and informal spaces
Reception and resource
Connectivity with other modules and rest of building
SEMINAR ROOM
LOUNGE
1:200 Section
1:200 Level Plans GARDEN KITCHEN
LOUNGE INDOOR GARDEN
OUTDOOR GARDEN
CAFE
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(U) 1:1000 Massing Model (L) 1:1000 Massing Model, top view
View from inside a three−storey office module, connected with other modules in the same tower.
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THE WASTE LINE
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Studio Project: Adapting Condoland Project Type: Community, commercial, masterplanning Tutor: Teo Yee Chin Location: Newton, Singapore. Convenience is built into everyday lives − especially for urbanites. It is convenient to buy, use and throw (BUT). There are recycling bins placed around most public neighbourhoods, but not neccessarily the same for privately developed housing areas. Newton is a testing ground to rethink and redesign (in)convenience to undo the BUT culture and make recycling second nature for its residents. PROBLEM
BUY−USE−THROW Culture
Convenience built within homes
Ignorance of existing recycling equipment
4 TYPES OF METAL 7 TYPES OF PLASTIC 8 TYPES OF PAPER 4 TYPES OF GLASS
Grow your own food Use your own waste
Recycle & Play Concept an arcade−like experience
Farm−Table−Farm Concept Urban farming and community fresh food market
DESIGN INTERVENTION Educating the public with waste awareness and architecturalising the recycling bin into a waste park to form the Waste Line:
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MASTERPLAN
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DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
Market Bridge links both sides of the major plots of Newton neighbourhood. Direct staircases leading up to the Market makes it relevant to the ground level pedestrians.
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Second level of the Market is lifted out of the bridge language, increasing the floor area and creating a separate, higher level for cafes and special programmes. The higher floor is more pleasant for dining given its further proximity from the fast moving traffic on the road below.
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Market is enclosed and air−conditioned, with a small rooftop garden on the second floor publicly−inaccessible area to make views for diners more pleasant. Rooftop garden also helps to reduce pollutants from road.
The Waste Line: A community−driven fresh food market and recycling park − farm to table to farm concept that is echoed in terms of design expression. The Market is the centrepiece of the The Waste Line (masterplan), where patrons are encouraged to be more environmentally−conscious and mindful of waste when buying and consuming food.
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RESIDENTS’ BRIDGE CONNECTED TO RECYCLING PARK & MARKET
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SMART FACADE A facade for naturally−ventilated buildings prone to haze and wind−driven rain
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Capstone Project in collaboration with Singapore Insitute of Architects Project Type: Architectural Facade Mentors: Cheong Yew Kee (SIA), Theodore Chan (SIA), Chong Keng Hua, Timothy Li Context: Hospitals in haze−prone, tropical equatorial countries In partnership with fellow members from the Capstone group: Alexandra Lee, Jane Chong, Nguyen Minh Chau, Tate Ng & Timothy Lum This project was also presented at the ArchXpo, Archifest 2015
The design brief calls for a solution for a new prevalent problem on top of an existing issue for naturally ventilated buildings in Singapore − haze and wind− driven rain. The consequences of these two issues coming together are especially obvious in healthcare spaces such as hospitals, where patients are more heavily affected by poor indoor air quality. This facade is designed based on the hospital context. Current facade designs highly revolve around fixed windows, monsoon windows and jalousie windows, based on a study done on 5 local public hospitals. USER NEEDS ANALYSIS
PROBLEM CONTEXT
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DESIGN ITERATION
SIMULATIONS
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
DESIGN CONCEPTS CONSIDERATION OF WIND−DRIVEN RAIN
Open state
Semi−open state
The final design was conceived through the combination of 2 ideas − rotating the traditional jalousie and three−dimensionalising the profile of the jalousie panels.
Closed state
Keeping out rain while allowing wind to flow through
Proposal jalousie panel profiles:
CONSIDERATION OF HAZE
HEPA filter Glass Sun rays Wind Rain
RAIN Incorporating materials that filter haze particles, block rain and yet let light in.
PROBLEM CONTEXT
HAZE Making use of specific geometry and mechanical systems to rotate between materials.
DESIGN ITERATION
SIMULATIONS
CLEAR / DEFAULT Making use of specific geometry and mechanical systems to rotate between materials.
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
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DESIGN CONCEPTS CONSIDERATION OF WIND−DRIVEN RAIN
S−Profile
L−Profile
V−Profile
Internal External
Glass Electrospun fabric
Internal External
PROBLEM CONTEXT
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DESIGN ITERATION
SIMULATIONS
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
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TESTING DESIGN ITERATIONS TEMPERATURE SIMULATION
Predominant wind direction
WIND TUNNEL SIMULATION exterior
Velocity magnitude (m/s)
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Temperature 29.18oC 31.35oC
KTPH model
proposed model
KTPH model
proposed model 1.5
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Proposed design does not trap unnecessary heat in the ward despite the amount of glass used.
Wind flow is overall better for proposed facade as it decreases deflected wind flow and allows more wind to flow in effectively.
DAYLIGHTING SIMULATION exterior Illuminance 300 < 2000 Overlit >2000lx
Proposed design reduces glare as compared to benchmark model.
PROBLEM CONTEXT
DESIGN ITERATION
SIMULATIONS
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
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PROBLEM CONTEXT
DESIGN ITERATION
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
SIMULATIONS
DETAILING: VERTICAL JALOUSIE SYSTEM ONLY
1. High performance aluminium plate 2. [Top] Anchor drilled to top of aluminium casing [Bottom] Rotatable gear for pivoting glass panel A 3. 16mm reinforced glass 4. 16mm reinforced glass 5. [Top] Rotatable gear for pivoting glass panel B [Bottom] Anchor drilled to bottom of aluminium casing 6. Concrete parapet mounted on floor slab 7. 5mm aluminium mullion encasing top and bottom gear systems 8. Rotatable screw for pivoting A 9. Anchor screw for [8] 10. Anchor screw for [11] 11. Rotatable screw for pivoting B 12. Gear belt 13. Aluminium bracket set for B 14. Snap−detachable electrospun fabric panel for filtering PM2.5 particles
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1:10 Detailing of mullion
Internal
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SERVICES
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PATIENT'S BED
SERVICES
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Closed State
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1:20 Plan
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Vertical Jalousie System Climber Plant System Rotatable Panel System
Louvred Overhang
Planter Boxes
PROBLEM CONTEXT
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DESIGN ITERATION
SIMULATIONS
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
PROBLEM CONTEXT
DESIGN ITERATION
SIMULATIONS
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
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Sectional view of full facade system in 1:20 model A healing view through the facade Exterior view of rotating vertical sunshading panels + overhang
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Planter boxes designed to be easy for maintenance and support growth of climbers.
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URBAN HOUSING MASS
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Studio Project: New Sustainable Housing Mass Project Type: Residential Tutor: Manuel de Hagopian, Armand Devillard Location: Tanah Merah, Singapore. This housing mass project is inspired by a poetic reference from nature, the wetlands and its natural resident, the mudskipper. THE WETLANDS "A wetlands is a flat area of land where the constant saturation and drainage of water is the routine for the soil of the land." THE MUDSKIPPER Periophthalmus, Oxerducinae. Amphibious fish that live on land and water, streaming in and out of their burrows throughout the tidal patterns of the wetlands.
ARCHITECTONICS OF WETLANDS
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Residential floors as ‘soil strata’:
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Taking the site boundary as the massing:
wetland system
Contouring strata − public space under mass: RESIDENTIAL MASSING
PUBLIC SPACE
PUBLIC PUBLIC SPACE SPACE
PUBLIC SPACE
PUBLIC SPACE
PUBLIC SPACE
People weaving through public and community spaces like the water dynamics in wetlands. RESIDENTIAL MASSING
PUBLIC SPACE
ABSTRACTION
POETIC REFERENCE
RESIDENTIAL MASSING
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PUBLIC SPACE
PUBLIC SPACE
PUBLIC SPACE
PUBLIC SPACE
PUBLIC SPACE
MULTIPLICATION
SUSTAINABILITY
INTEGRATING WETLANDS ARCHITECTONICS
Respecting existing pedestrian paths + creating new links to access points
Negative spaces as "feet" of wetlands massing
Zones for public activities
Internal spaces for communal facilities
Opening up "habitat zones" for outward view
Central garden for each habitat zone
abstraction model
POETIC REFERENCE
ABSTRACTION
MULTIPLICATION
SUSTAINABILITY
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garden + bioswale
public facilities
community facilities
habitat zones
Roof with PV cells Units facing community garden Balcony decks of lower units Units facing public atrium Units with outside view EWâ&#x2C6;&#x2019;facing units
1:1000 Site Plan 1:1000 Programmatic Working Model
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Unit types: Unit2types: 65m 65m22 90m Unit 2types: 2 110m 90m
SCHEMATIC TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
2 22 125m 65m 110m 2 22 138m 125m 90m
160m 110m 138m22 125m 160m22 138m2 Block types: 160m2 Block types:
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POETIC REFERENCE
65 m2 unit 90 m2 unit 110 m2 unit 125 m2 unit 138 m2 unit
ABSTRACTION
direction the view
MULTIPLICATION
cross ventilation
units core circulation
SUSTAINABILITY
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SCHEMATIC TYPICAL SECTION + SUSTAINABILITY
Photovoltaic Cells
Community Garden
Bioswale
Water Recycling System
Level Garden (lighting and ventilation)
Light Shaft
Wind (ventilation)
Fire rated doubleâ&#x2C6;&#x2019;glazed glass windows + doors
1000mm timber railing
450mm planter box Timbre edge beam
POETIC REFERENCE
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ABSTRACTION
MULTIPLICATION
SUSTAINABILITY
(L) Short Section showing Private Gardens on L7 (R) Public facilities and events on ground − residents retreat into their ‘burrows’ by streaming back into the Habitat Zones Exterior view of the Central Garden in the centre of a Habitat Zone
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Poetic reference Abstraction Multiplication Sustainability
(U) Initial application of poetic reference across site (L) Resulting wetlands urban housing mass
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Troldtekt ble
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Troldtekt Awards 2016 Entry Project Type: Product Design/Furniture/Interior Competition Troldtekt acoustic panels are versatile −they can be painted, cut and tessellated in any colour, shape and pattern. This project combines the acoustic qualities and flexibility in furniture use. Troldtektable is a modular, light and multi−functional table that can be used sitted on the ground, on itself, or as standing tables.
SETUP
Compact
Extend trunk+base (floor activities level)
LIGHT AND MODULAR
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Sitting
Music + lighting
BUILT−IN AUDIO AND LIGHT SOURCE
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Extend trunk+base (standing level)
MATERIAL SELECTION Ultra-smooth Troldtekt superfine Audio speaker Warm LED light Padded leather on Troldtekt superfine (for seat)
PRODUCT DIMENSIONS 690.0
1400.0
600.0
1180.0
extensible
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extensible
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