nghia nguyen portfoliosample works 2011-2013

University of Nottingham (UoN, UK)- Graduating with Bachelor of Architecture in July 2013 [First class honours]University of architecture, Ho Chi Minh city (Vietnam)- Graduated with Bachelor of Architecture, Class of 2006 [First class honours]Le Hong Phong High School for The Gifted (Vietnam)-Graduated with double degrees Vietnamese baccalaureate [Excellent] and French bac-calaureate S (sciences) [First division]

John Thompson & Partners , Part 1 architectural assistantArchimedes Architecture (Sydney, Australia) Architectural TraineeFreelance designer -Interior and facade renovation for Desir Bakery (113, Ba Dinh, Hanoi, VN)Design and Packaging Consultant, Bioagro Food Ltd (HCM city, VN)

Charrette workshop for Ashgate Croft, School for Special Children [Construction phase]Charrette workshop for Ashgate Croft, School for Special Children [Design phase]UoA HCM city Student AmbassadorCommunity Involvement Project in Midlands, Vietnam

English, French, VietnameseAutoCAD, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk 3dsmax,Google Sketchup, Rhino, Ecotect, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, IllustratorMicrosoft Office, Model Making, Hand Sketching, Oil and Watercolour Painting

UoN Michael Stacey Architects Prize -3rd Year Best Design Portfolio [runner-up]UoN Summer Project Competition Prize (Shortlisted)UoN Michael Stacey Architects Prize -2nd Year Best Design Portfolio [runner-up]Houses of Tomorrow Workshop [Team Work, 2nd prize], Viet Arch 2009 National Architec-tural Exhibition

Concept Art, Photography, Robotics, Running, Martial arts

Nicola Gerber - UoN Year 2/3 design studio leaderEmail: Nicola.gerber@nottingham.ac.uk Contact: +44 (0)115 95 13180Dr Nicole Porter AILA - UoN lecturer (reference upon request)Email: Nicole.porter@nottingham.ac.uk Contact: +44 (0)115 951 4501Ian Fenn - John Thompson& Partners Design director (reference upon request)Email: if@jtp.co.uk Contact: +44 (0)20 7017 1780

ProfileI am a witty and enthusiastic architecture student who is working Part 1 architectural placement at John Thompson and Partners Architecture.Thing that I enjoy the most is to having a chance to meet and work with new people. My aspiration is to become a architect who focuses on community projects in developing countries. In the mean time, I like to fiddle with gadget and working on my first hand drawn animation.

Education2011- 2013

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Work ExperienceFrom Aug 2013Jul- Aug 2011Aug 2011

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Student ExperienceJul-2013Nov-20122008-2011

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Reference3rd year university tutor

Personal tutor and 2nd year university tutor

Current employer

NGHIA NGUYEN

Flat 15, 121 East Ferry Rd. LondonUnited KingdomContact: (+44) 07508213615Email: dainghia.archi@gmail.com

Imaginative landscape/reworked history fabricTransient landscape/ 3rd year studio

1 Project 1 Look See ImagineProject 2 Heterotopic deviceProject 3 Canvey Caravan Pier

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Project 1 Y3 | Site investigation through artistic approach and reinter-pretation of theory.

Industrial structureCanvey island historical advert

Using Images, footages and debris collected from site, 3 collages of the first project is the first look into for-mulation of Landscape to unearth its complexity and structures.

From the very intuitive first miniature that contrasts the two face character of the site, Leisure and Industrial, Old and New, Deserted and Inhabited...

...To a more objective gravitated sec-ond collage that reflects the observers

attitude and playful personal approach to the site, like an errant, which is un-consciously represented by the cara-van on site...

...Ultimately what we try to achieve is a projection and reformulation of the islands fabrics into new ideas, which will be used to engage the conversa-tion with context.

TRANSIENT adj.1 lasting only for a short time .2 staying or working in place for a short time only n. a transient person-ORIGIN Latin transire go across

TECTONICS Geol. adj. 1 having to do with thestructure of the earths crust and the large-scale processes, which take place within it. n. a (tectonics) large-scale process-es affecting the structure of the earths crust. - ORIGIN Greek tektonikos.

After all anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high. Anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. That is what makes a people, makes their kind of looks, their kind of thinking, their subtlety and their stupidity, and their eating and their drinking and their language.

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. au-thor; relocated to France. Wars I Have Seen (1945). Written in France in 1944

Landscape @ leisure

Landscape is all around us, so it seems common, but it actually reveals complex layers about what has happened (to it) over time. Its connotations of nature are connected to a sense of wellbeing, wholeness, and the idyllic. The art form of nature as a garden (lat. hortus conclusus) contrasts the endlessness of a landscape with a restricted space, the supposedly natural landform with an intellectual construct.

We are not looking for a new definition or clarification of landscape. We will dive into its complexity with a light-heart-ed yet professional attitude and enjoy the discovery and re-formulation of its layers, and projections of new ideas. We will specifically look at the layer of imagination through the principle of heterotopias, the idea of the other (Michel Fou-cault) to unlock the potential of landscape

Our exploration will focus on landscape, its imagery and imaginary aspects and readings of the forgotten landscape Canvey Island.

Transients Tectonics Unit 2013

Tutor: Nicola Gerber, Tiran Driver

location51 30 47.148 N 0 34 39.209 E

PROJECT SITE, Canvey Island, Essex is an industrial landscape, a land be-low the sea, a walled garden, a place to live, a holiday destination, a used to be dream land of nonsensical fun of Victorian Londoners escaping the grit and fume of industrialized behemoth of capital.

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Book of Canvey, inside of an ever changing world, the island is trapped in viscosity of time, memory and old glory. Sitting below the sea level and being oblivious, Canvey is surged with waves of people and water come an go on daily and seasonal basis.

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Canvey is a cluster of many different communities, of places in places. The Caravan camp is the path co nnecting Canvey to outside world, as its popu-lation roams and collects through out Canvey and Britain, it bringing in new experiences and taking away Canvey to other places.

Attacking the grid and monotony of car-avan camp site, the collage suggests to infuse the individual character needed to the place.: A place to make mixture and exchange culture, A place that is unique but also sharing the astonish-ing similarity to many other holiday sites across UK,

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The defining characteristic of those flneurs (Paul Gavarni, 1842) is that they dont have any practical goals in mind. They arent walking to get something, or to go somewhere, they arent even shoppingFlneurs are standing in deliberate opposition to capitalist society, with its two great imperatives: to be in a hurry and to buy thingsWhat the flneurs are do-ing is looking. Alain de Botton

Errantry transform nature into places. It is the progenitrix of nomadism but, differently from this, does not foresee either goals or returns, it develops en-tirely in unmapped and supposedly unmapped places.

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Project 2 Y3 | Heterotopic device, ground breaking act, exploration of possibilities through technology insight

In 1967, Michel Foulcault, french philosopher published his work suggesting the existence of Heterotopia, the Other space, an unreal space that mirrors and constantly looks into this world.

Canvey island, is strange in that way, it is not there or there, it is constantly overlooked by outsiders. The essence of the island, in my own conclusion lays with the distinctive flows of people that come and go to Canvey on holiday. With them, they bring in new things and when they go take aways a part of Canveys yet sharing the common love for travelling. In other words, the island is constantly in motion, it is open to everyone yet one must be defined by a certain rule to be included into that society group.

The second project channelled into this subject, address-ing the sea is the heterotopia and the counterbalance of the Canvey.

The proposal is a gateway to cross that realm, streaming and linking two worlds, crossing and melting utopia, dys-topia and heterotopia that are separated by the sea wall.

The result is a device that retrofit caravans on site with float-ing components and leisure enhancements, allowing them to swim free out to open water of the boundary of Canvey sea defences, which entrapped its residents and protect them at the same time from the flood.

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Assembling - DissemblingThe design is a mechanically controlled dock house that disintegrate itself into part s that attach into the caravans .The pro-cess is reversed step by step upon cara-van returns.

utopiaCaravans embody the idea of heterotopic devices that can be replicated, managed by caravan manufacturers and installed across Thames river to create a new way of travel and a new form of recreation.

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At your pleasure!The proposal restores leisure character to the context. Users have choices to also equips caravans with leisure components, which can be unfold to create their own version of leisure theme park. The idea of theme park reflects on the ironic ideal of commodity but represents a justifiable desire of ownership and personal space, to Inhabit Places.

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Project 3 Y3 | Canvey Caravan Pier

It is common practice to produce building that is well re-sponded to the context and the environment. Yet context, eventually is subjected to change along time. For that rea-son, it is somewhat illogical to produce a static short live build form, to impose permanent damage to the context than searching for an alternative adaptive organism.

Canvey islands stems from the no longer trendy sea side holiday tradition, sharing grown and fall along side the car-avan industry. It is a perfect example of the latency against changes, the thing that is lost in the transition that relish a new way to adapt.

Build on the foundation of previous projects, third project proposal is a dynamic build form deals with cultural pet-rification of time and the latency effect of those who are unable to catch up.

It combines and reinvent of two beloved British traditions, caravanning and seaside holiday into the form of industri-alisation emblem: the leisure pier. The design is a proto-type of transient architecture answering to the ever-chang-ing landscape that can mutate, alter itself to adapt to the change of Seasons, to future of mobility and freedom. The proposal ultimately addresses the eventuality of flood risk and self isolation of Canvey Island.

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50 years British love affairA research into the booming era of caravan during the 50s, to differentiate the differ-ence between static and travelling caravan and how the mass conversion into static holiday camp has dulled the joy and the sense of adventure, public perception and the future of these mobile homes in Britain.

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Thames Estuary 2100, flood estimation

Beware of the floodDespite surrounded by the sea, it has always been a dysfunctional relationship between land and water. Canvey is a place that should not be, it lies below sea level and needs protection from a continu-ous ring of sea defences. The defence both protects and cages its population within the perimeter.

The very flat estuary landscape is susceptible to the accelerating global warming rate. Without sea defence, 80% of land will disap-pear with 1 meter sea level change. The fact that natural disaster will likely to happen more and more often for the next century puts the island to a very fragile state, at risk to be reduced to nothing-ness.

OperationProject is meant to be a mobile super structure created by mov-ing components, plug- in design acting as a hub to channel two very distinctive traffics from London to Canvey Island, to commute and go on holiday, on land and on sea. Vehicles, boats and mo-bile homes and other portable Object carry people with different cultures and memory made up the components. People are free to participate and integrate to the design, alter, connect, inflate, extend to a community space on the go and inject knowledge and culture into local environment.

Create new vision and new view points of Canvey in motion and from far away, changes altitude and addresses the rigid grid flat layout of Canvey houses and park camps.

Functions and needs, collapsible structure and artificial land-scape facade operate in sync and chain reaction basis. Theme park, which is located on top platform and will be overhauled every new holiday season, attracts people to revisit the island. Coupled with a network of transformers piers , they will creating momentum for touring activity, keep caravan rolling on the roads all across UK.

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The design is a retake of Archigram and metabolism architectural movement dur-ing the 60s. It is aim to promote a more lib-eral point of view of modern architecture.

By freeing ourself from the connection to the land, we can avoid long term effect created by the construction industry upon natural environment.

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Fun fun funBy inject life and create everchanging lei-sure theme park back to the forgotten sea-sides holiday, the pier will create a new community of caravan enthusiasts that never cease to move, to return and to re ex-plore Canvey as it will always change and be reinvented. The theme of customization from second project is revisited here and developed to the theme of seasonal holi-day festive fun.

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EcologyCaravan pier belongs to the caravanning eco sytem of 1 million caravan currently roaming across UK.

By enhancing and recycling materials from the previous caravan generation, we cre-ate the surplus of steel that can generate 12 modules of pier structure per year, with-out releasing excessive CO2 to the environ-ment, to keep the scheme sustainable.

A comparative study also shows that 200 households caravan community con-sumes less than 50% energy of its residen-tial counterpart.

StructureThe concept is based on collasible struc-ture and foldable component, the study of geometry assure a relevance to the tradi-tional british seaside pier, yet it is also easy to alter to create exciting holiday attrac-tions.

In winter, It is a metaphorical expression of the island in hibernate state waiting to be revisited

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Project 2 Y2| Bakewell housing design

Design workshop of 6 dwellings units, located at the out-skirt of Bakewell town, Peak district.

With the clients as local teachers and scholars and the site sits right next to town primary school and play field, the pro-ject prioritises on resolving the relation of public and private needs.

The British landscape of the Peak, with its asymmetry and unnecessary frustratingly complicated, which explains the mentality of relish for privacy of Britons, is reapplied to the internal layout of the scheme.

The masterplan embrace natural contours, give away the idea of mimic landform. The housing units open lookout points into landscape, without hinder connection between town centre and nature but provide the resident their own private castle.

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Project 3 Y2 | Bakewell brewpub and Art and craft maket.-Riveside industrial revitalisation

With adaptive reuse strategy, the project trans-forms the derelict gas retort house in to an brew pub with traditional hand-brewing production. In the background, the industrial park is converted partly to a Sunday market and permanent work-shops.

The design is the return and tribute to tradition, engaging local community to protecting heritage and inviting visitors to the heart of Peak District.

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This Project explores the powerful effects of archi-tecture and human activity fuelling the changing landscape. By studying the old cotton industry which propelled the landscape of Bakewell River-side over 18th century, the proposed Thorbridge brewery scheme aims to redefine and continue to shape the landscape over the years.

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Decision to convert gas retort house into a brewpub and marketplace is carefully considered to reflect the respect towards the past but furthermore a vision of the future, of what it might become. As the old chimney is restored, new refurbishment of independent roof structure introduced al-lows more light and connection to the mill race .But a new built brew tower which houses the traditional brew equip-ment driven by gravity force will celebrate and honour the handmade tradition and be informative and engaging to community.

Focusing on the old limestone wall of Bakewell, it embrac-es the aging process of an architectural piece. The activity chosen allows the pub to get better with time by taking part of the culture that never aged. The pub makes people care and take care of it acting as a bridge to connect the industry to the community.

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The context evolves around refurbishment and new built for the derelict gas retort house, as it becomes a part of the new converted art and craft marketplace. The market theme stirs the industry to a sustainable and more humane approach and gives opportunity for small businesses, to benefit the town environmentally, socially and revive a dy-ing industrial site.

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form and space studio 2006

Final project, University of Architecture HCM city| Commendation award for excellence in study, class of 2006

Nha Trang National aquarium

5000 m2 of exhibition, leisure, research and breeding

Vietnam has 2100 km of sea front with an extraordinary wildlife that is both under used and abused at the same time. Which is why I select the theme Marine institute for my final project as a demonstration the need to what archi-tecture can bring and unlock to country potential.

As an extension of the current national marine institute, the aquarium creates a bridge between public and research-ers, raising awareness and calling for help to protect na-tions fragile ecosystem.

The form is derived purely based on technical system of 4 tank tower, which optimise the spiralling circulation and the vertical services as well as create the most effective user experience in the area allowed.

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Olympic themed summer project 2012

Go Ape outdoor sport centre, Sherwood Pine ForrestThe brief is to use the study of sport equipment to generate main detail for a training facility. My pro-posal uses the actual climbing equipment, robe and laminated timber alone to create a dynamic facade that can react to different seasonal condi-tions. By having rest points, climber can carry on activities under extreme weather for an extended time.

The structure system stemmed from study of climbers movement, how they manoeuvre from place to place with safety procedure.

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Charity workshop 2012-ongoing

Ashgate school Independent learning unit, Derbyshire

My ongoing community workshop, the aim is to help raising fund to design and construct a learning experience for special children with disadvantages.

The design stimulates a camping experience using material on site. It takes into consideration of balancing the schools pupils personal preferences, safety, cost and workability of the project.

The workshop started from my first year at university of Not-tingham and we have been returning to site to help with the construction and improvise the design during construction.

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Competition 2013

International student competition, HYP cup 2013Team member: Nghia Nguyen, Yun Wan, Adrian Yau

Brief: Architecture must disappear!Title: Beijing Shougang open Zoo, climatic collage

Architecture is an attempt to separate one from weather. The layers of a buildings skin are each systematically designed to control atmospheric conditions to provide ideal interior environments. However, the more we fortify ourselves into our own buildings, the more we are cut off from the nature. The action of architecture is create isola-tion and separation; the conventional building ele-ments such doors windows and walls are for the purpose to separate us from the nature. In this pro-ject, our main idea is to questioning the conven-tional approach of architectural design. To make architecture disappeared in another term is to make the nature reappear in our daily life.

The Indicator_ Visitor contemplating the manifestation of Beijing air Pollution level, the base of the device coated with titration solution, gradually change change the color to match the acidity level of the ground water

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The Narrative of the Zoo is a a collection of contemporary events happened in the City of Beijing, include the daily lives of the politicians, the bankers, the shoppers and so on. The concept of Post-code Habitat was introduced to define different zonations within the zoo, it was to reflect the social fabric of Beijing into our design; with animal regrouped into multiple habitats like a miniature copy of Beijing.

This miniature city is controlled by a system of mist de-vices powered by the redundant waste from the city; that when activated it creates a collision between different habitats, merging evert zonation into one, thus the idea of making conventional architectural elements,( wall, door, boundaries) disappear. In parallel, their main purpose is to dissolve the smog by water droplets and form a natu-ral mist shield for the users, to prevent animal and man from the severe smog hazard effects

Competition 2013

Our project sets in the contemporary context of Bei-jing; the recent events of highly polluted air invade the vast urban landscape of the city. Beijing is standing on a breaking point, the climatic condition of the city have been completely disturbed by the industrial smog and the over-populated citys domestic pollution.Without been over-ambitious to save the world, we ad-dress this issue and test a new form of architecture in a small scale. We intend to work with a forgotten com-munity of Beijing: the animals of Beijing zoo by the relo-cating/inhabit it to a new site; the largest steel plant of Beijing Shougang Corporation. Being one of the first and largest steel plant to lead the modern industrial revolution of china, is now being left in a derelict state. The introduc-tion of zoo into the ex-steel plant site, this creates a situa-tion where the zoo blurs the identity of the steel plant and vise-versa.

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By this project, we simply question the role of cli-mate at the very rudimentary core concept of the creation of buildings. Our approach through this project is to eliminate the difference/ discrimina-tion in architecture, thus restraint the needs for separation and divider. This is where architecture start to disappear

Competition 2013

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Competition 2014

TYPICAL FLOOR FIRST FLOOR GROUND FLOOR

The proposal follows the existing foundation, height change and each facade reect the immediate opposite context, to retain the character of spaces, like narrows alleys, open pub spaces, open canal, hill slope and high rise neighbor-hood. Materials are consisted of a mix of locally recycled brick, corten steel and translu-cent glass okalux ( cavity infused with insulation) to harmonise with local context, bring in thermal mass, durability and resolve privacy issue without hinder ventilation and natural lighting)At the heart of dedicated conference district , the Peak is an oce building that links the triangle of public space, work space and leisure space, formulates a lively oce design that joining the golden lights of Birmingham library, the CUBE , Hyatt over Birmingham horizon.

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Over the last century we built cities that are de-signed for cars, machines to work that change our live styles for the better but also, for the worse.The BCO proposal tackles the issue of unhealthy office strains by realising and bringing back spaces for people into workplaces.

There will be no hard partitions, both in offices and public spaces, but treading between buffer

zones that are intuitively directed and allocated by the building form. The LINEAR form derived from local storage buildings, is a tribute to the industrial heritage of Birmingham, Workshop of the world , provides a single simple solution to flexibility of small and big group of associates, also makes structure, services, lighting , ventilation modular and effi-cient.

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Long corridor of 15m width provideslighting/ oor area eeciency

Form is derived from prefab construction of storage dock house which was introduced from industial revolution. The organisation along lenghth allow allocation of small private workspace and commune spaces to be shrink and extend exibly , with movable partitions

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Green vent creates stack ventilation driven by solar radiation

Existing structure transfering character

Translucent buer material ( okalux_ glass with infused insulation) diuses light for no glare working environment

Movable partition and xed rooms on linear axis. The exibility accomodates and welcomes changes in law practice hierarchies, signied by ratio between assistants (S) and associates/ partners (A/P)

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The proposal follows the existing foundation, height change and each facade reflect the immediate opposite context, to retain the char-acter of spaces, like narrows alleys, open pub spaces, open canal, hill slope and high rise neighborhood. Materials are consisted of a mix of locally re-cycled brick, corten steel and translucent glass okalux ( cavity infused with insulation) to harmonise with local context, bring in ther-mal mass, durability and resolve privacy issue without hinder ventilation and natural lighting)

At the heart of dedicated conference district , the Peak is an office building that links the tri-angle of public space, work space and leisure space, formulates a lively office design that joining the golden lights of Birmingham library, the CUBE , Hyatt over Birmingham horizon.

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professional experience RIBA part 1 2013

Community center, Dicken Yards

LocationDickens Yard London W5

TypeCultural building

DateAugust 2013 - ongoing

Construction starts in 2014

ClientSt George PLC Home developer

Size4000 square ft

SupervisorIan Fenn Senior Partner

The project is a stage D post amendment to Dickens Yards development in west London. The community center used to be planed in a more prominent location next to parish church of Christ the Saviour and facing the proposed squared is relocated to a retail slot under resi-dential block facing school lane.

The main challenge is to make the site more accessible inviting and work with the deep and narrow space pro-vided.The programme includes exhibition spaces, two semi-nars , public library and cafeteria. The main concept re-volves around flexible continuous spaces which differ-ent functions and privacy level can overlap and extend in between.

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Perceval Yard Residential

LocationDickens Yard London W5

TypeResidential

Date20144- ongoing

StagePreliminary design

Size160 units, 14 storey

Adjacent to Perceval Council house in Ealing and national railway, the new residential tower is re-stricted by different set of planning guidelines. I am responsible for development multiple models of massing and research into materiality. The pre-liminary idea is a step like mass , emphasised on horizontal and vertical elements, for view points and smooth transition to the local neighbourhood and also using brick work to interacting with the council building.

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LocationWest London, Southhall

TypeResidential

Date2014- ongoing

StageTender

Size36 dwelling units

The new residential block is replacing the unused Albert Dane center. As an af-fordable and Pocket living project, the ethos is to use simple technique of ma-nipulation brickwork to create lace-like facade strip that reflect on area history.

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professional experience RIBA part 1 2014

Silvertown

LocationCanning town Greater London

TypeMixed use

Date1 Month , June 2014

ClientGalliford try

Size2.5ha

1500 dwellings

Silvertown Reach has been conceived as an exemplary mixed-use urban quarter, which utilises its strategic location in Canning Town to connect into, and enhance, a wide range of regeneration initiatives in the local and wider area.

The proposals fully meet the project Aims and Objectives for a substantial new residential neighbourhood of 1,000+ new homes provided in a range of tenures (PRS, affordable & private), in full compliance with the London Housing Guide Standards, and to a target mix that includes a significant proportion of larger properties.

8,000 sqft of mixed uses are also included to generate job opportunities and enliven both Silvertown Way and new public space within the development.

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Photography Personal travel journal

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Ansel Adams

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landscape ecology studio 2012

carbon footprint photo manipulationspectrum of control data mapping 1860-2010priority network data mapping

Project 1 Y2| Exploration of Peak District

Multiple workshops looked into different ways of assessing the naturalness of Peak districts.

Historically it took some time for our culture to read the open space around us not as a dangerous, threatening and dark space, but as one, which lifts our spirits and invites us to engage with or to get lost in, both physically and emo-tionally. Architecture can either creating barrier to protect us from nature or can work with it as an advantage. It is this latter, more positive attitude, the unit will explore the ecol-ogy layers of national park Peak Districts, to practice and dissect the concept Learning to dwell

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Installation, recorded as a live footage demon-strates how a Human controlled action try to imi-tate the nature form. The documentation leads to an interesting fact that though Peak district seems to bed defined as in natural state, it is in fact a result of human control and alteration for a long times

motion sequence installation

man made vs non man made 820x420mm

Land as a system photo manipulation

The debate between what is deemed as natural and what not

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