CYBERJAYA CENTRE

Cyberjaya is a utopian IT City 50km south of Kuala Lumpur. Like Melbournes Docklands, it is a new suburb struggling to establish itself despite patchy development and a lack of urban focus. University facilities, office developments and apartment complexes have sprung up, but a genuine community identity has failed to emerge. Into this failing urban context a new type of development is proposed. Sited at the empty epicentre of the site spanning the ring road and settled in parkland, the Cyberjaya Centre is a shopping centre anchored by community facilities. The main anchor is a mosque providing the spiritual focus to Cyberjayas predominantly Muslim population. Facing Mecca but also oriented to the parkland to the north of the site, visitors move between the shopping centre and the mosque over a bridge, leaving the commercial world behind as they descend to the sanctuary and prayer hall. A convention centre, public library, and childcare centre form the other anchors, which define the pivot points of the projects extruded arms. The building form is defined by a sampling operation, tracing the brise soleil of Malaysias National Mosque and extruding the sampled profiles to create a series of volumes defining lofty interior spaces and external forms evoking traditional architecture. The brise soleil pattern also defines the faade openings and glazing, modulated by programme and aspect, and registering the changing use of the building from commercial space to sacred.

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TRANSPARENT CAMPUS

The experiment used is the Iterated Function system which is a process of self multiplication. By choosing the circulation part of a parking building, the function is applied to it thus increasing the number of circulation in various scales. These are then rescaled to make sure each and every part is habitable and can be used as a circulation. The floors and ramps are then being cut and shifted vertically to suit one another and provide the best arrangements so that they will work well as a building. This process resulted in the outcome of split levels that can provide visual connections throughout the building. The car parking qualities are kept in the final product which is the wideness and emptiness of certain parts of the building. Most of these spaces are being used as social areas, for both learning and leisure. Lighting is also one of the qualities of a car parking architecture. In most car park building, we sense a light compression because of the materiality and the building envelope. With my building, Im trying to recreate these effects by producing strips of lights coming into the building through the faade. The experiment used is twilling, which is a type of fabric weaving with a pattern of diagonal parallel ribs. These can be achieved by crossing the horizontal elements with the vertical elements with a specific order. However, this has been slightly changed to provide more variation to the outcome. The panels can also be used as shelves

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ALTER Flinders Street Station is one of Melbournes earliest and main train stations. It is located along Yaara River and the thinness of the site plays a part in shaping the station today. The building is rich with French Renaissance features but is not completely referred with the classical because of its function that prevented it to be attached to any particular styles. The elements that are looked at are the domes or protruding objects that appear throughout the original building and the horizontal elements of the facade. The original, unbuilt ideas of the station were referred to look at the probability of a different outcome the station would have today. The outbox idea comes from the different elements of the programmes that exceed the height of the proposed building making them extrudes out of the roof. These programmes are then enclosed by the external walls making them stick out of the volume of the building. These two volumes are boxed out by glazed walls, making them visible from the outside. The facade treatment of the library building is achieved by using the original design of the station and changed to suit the purpose of the building. The interior layer can be used as bookshelves. The proposed programme is an archive for the train stations in Melbourne; the history and and issues revolving one of the most used public places.

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AFTERGLOW

The site is located in the middle of the city, close to major institutional buildings and commercial buildings. The site is a pedestrian walkway in between buildings that is connecting La Trobe Street and Little La Trobe Street. It is also close to the public transportation stops such as the Melbourne Central train station and tram stops along Swanston Street and la Trobe Street. My intention is to turn a normal pedestrian laneway into an integrated bicycle storage without interfering with the existing activities which is currently a walkway, and keeping the existing vegetation. To accommodate that, the bicycle storage is provided on a higher level with ramps on one side of the laneway. Because of the additional level, maximum sun penetration is important to prevent the walkway to be dark. Therefore, only 3/4 of the side is provided with the bicycle storageand it follows the shape of the trees on the site. To provide maximum lighting, minimum size structures are used consist of the primary structure, the secondary structure for the bicycle parking and the transluscent bars and handrails which is covered with glow material for night time use.

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WOVEN LIBRARY

Located at the Fitzroy Garden, the building has a shell like structure made out of glu-laminated timber. The primary structural system of this building is the frames of various sizes, connected by the horizontal bracing elements. The design starts with a single frame which is then manipulated one after another with half offset of the previous one, creating a twisting effect. These two elements are creating a weaving structural system forming the shell structure which can be seen as a structural expression. The internal system is designed using a similar design process of the outer shell to create a spatial quality and materiality that can be experienced by the user. The use of timber is important as it allows the building to blend in with the surrounding area which is mostly covered with trees. The reason of designing a shell structure is to create a building that allows maximum connection between inside and outside to provide the sense of community between users. The cafe area is clad fully using glass as it will allow them to have a full view of the garden outside. The key point of this project and glulam timber is the right choice as it is an efficient material for this type of shell structure as it gives the rich timber finish and has a wide range of shaping ability.

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HOUSING IN CARLTON

The project is an affordable low rise housing project in Carlton for the low and moderate income households. Like any other community housing, open public spaces are provided for the residents of this housing community. Other than shared spaces on the ground level, there is also a shared underground car park which does not only maximise the use of the site for apartment allocations but also an element of a shared space for residents to meet and socialize directly or indirectly. Each of the apartment blocks is facing one another as another way to provide interaction between residents. Other than that the sense of community is also shown in the facades of both the apartments and townhouses. Both housing types have the similar design and materials to indicate the communal sense. Concrete panels are used for the horizontal and vertical elements of the structure and facades to emphasize the boundary of each apartment. Since this is a low cost, medium rise project, it is essential to maximise the number of apartments on site to reduce cost of each apartment.

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SUPER BRICK

The project is a housig community in the Dandenong suburban, Melbourne. The shape of the buildings was determined by the sun penetration onto the site in relation with the open space provided for the community. The roof shapes were then designed to suit the shape of the building by using two main pitched roof angles from the houses on the street. The site is designed with the houses on the front part of the site and the communal space at the back. The community space consists of a community house which has a kitchen, a barbeque area, a dining area and a shared laundry, a playground and a shared car park. Each house is provided with a private and a semi private space. Each two houses are connected with a shared laneway for access from the main street into the community area at the back. The use of brick is important in this housing project as it complements the community of the existing housing area in which most of the houses are built out of bricks. In this particular housing community, angular brick types are used to match the irregular shape of the building. However, only half of the buildings are using the angular bricks. In order to blend in with the other houses on the street, normal brick with the similar colour with the surrounding building is used for the front facades. The change of the brick shape can be experienced as one enters the site using the shared laneway in between the houses. Aside from the shape, the bricks also differ in colour as it will emphasize on the transition.

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DESIGN ELECTIVE: FLATLAND

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