Victoria Thong_Design sample portfolio

Victoria Thong

Design Portfolio

Ink and resin concept model

Victoria Thong唐家慧

Education Architectural practice

Research & Teaching

Awards

Skills

[email protected]

University of Westminster2014- 2016 M. Arch, RIBA Part IIDistinction

National University of Singapore2009-2013Ba (Architecture), RIBA Part ISecond Upper

Plystudio | Singapore09/2013-03/2014Architectural assistant

DPA | Singapore05/2012- 07/2012Architectural Intern

WOW d-lab | Singapore05/2011- 07/2011Architectural Intern

World Architecture Festival 2016Student Charrette

ETH Future Cities Laboratory Chair of Plans and Politics 2013Research Intern

National University of SingaporeStrategies for Sustainable design2012Teaching assistant

Dean’s List2011

Ministry of Education Hu-manities Scholarship2009-2010

2DAutoCAD Illustrator PhotoshopIndesign Microsoft office

3DSketchupRhino Revit

English Mandarin

+44 7522173444

Concrete cast and gold leaf concept model

Contents

This portfolio pamphlet represents a sample of my work from academia, research, practice and my personal interests.

CV

Mamilla National Park M. Arch Thesis Project

Singapore Tropicana: perspectives on Singapore ModernismUndergraduate Thesis Project (continued as an extended research project and exhibition)

Terrace House Proposal for the conservation and extension of a traditionalshophouse

Hotel Rendezvous Built samples of interior design and furniture of a new reception lounge Furniture, sculptures, ceramics

Work experience / Projects in practice Plystudio (2014)Retail, Compass Point Shopping Centre Interi-or design, Competition, Retail, Waterway Point Shopping Centre, Interior design, Completed, Residential, Everton Shophouse, Conservation and extension, proposal, Exhibition, Fashion + Ar-chitecture, Singapore ArchiFest

Future Cities Laboratories (2014)Exhibition and Publication, Singapore Tropicana, Singapore and Zurich

DPA (2013)Residential, Sentosa Bungalows, Design devel-opment, Mixed-use redevelopment, King Albert Park, Design proposal

D_lab (2012)Hospitality, Hotel Rendezvous, Completed, Mixed-use masterplanning, San Ya, China, Design proposal

Mam

illa National Park

View of journey through “floating” library

M. Arch Thesis Project

As a response to the controversial Museum of Tolerance built by the American-Jewish Simon- Wiesenthal Center (SWC) on the ancient Mamilla Cemetery, the project proposes a se-ries of archives, libraries and muse-ums to recreate a “landscape of lost property” dedicated to generations of Palestinians in the West Bank and di-aspora abroad, symbolically returned to the heart of Jerusalem; where they cannot be.

Designed as a flooded landscape, the project gains greater poetic meaning as a reflection on the incredibly vul-nerable socio-political fate of the Pal-estinian state. Water; fluid/ neutral is the antithesis of territory/ terra firma, a concept which has lost all physical and symbolic meaning in the Palestin-ian situation. The theme of vulnera-bility permeates the scheme and be-comes the overarching design intent in the cemetery where even in death, one can never return to a permanent resting place or home.

Mamilla National Park “A landscape of lost property”

M. Arch Thesis

Mam

illa National Park

Plan for a submerged m

ausoleum

Mam

illa National Park

Axonometric draw

ing of a sub-m

erged mausoleum



Absentee Property (A.P) Library

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Easten archive Entrance into archiveReceptionOffice Stair to upper floor

Open library corridorGround floor Library corridorGround floor Library corridorEntrance to library (East block)Entrance to library (central block)Stair to upper floor of liibrary (central block)Ground floor library corridor (West block)

Western archiveEntrrance to archiveWCWCstair to upper archive floor

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Plan, axonometric draw

ing for a “floating” librarySite section


The Singapore Tropicana research collaboration was set up as a kind of task force to discover and document some of Singapore’s first modern buildings that have been left in sorry states of unuse and dereliction. The studio would be an archaeological ex-pedition focused on investigating the architectural artefacts that borrowed from modernist movements abroad and produced in a particular spirit of national bravado and ambition at home. Now forgotten w favour of the new landscape of international style glass towers, Singapore Tropciana was regrettably short-lived. We cel-ebrate its legacy in a monument to Singapore’s Modernism nonetheless!

Singapore Trop icanaPercept ions of a Trop ica l C i ty

model | Monument to Singapore’s Modernism

The Singapore Tropicana re-search collaboration was set up as a kind of task force to discover and document some of Singa-pore’s first modern buildings that have been left in sorry states of unuse and dereliction. The studio would be an archaeological expedition focused on investi-gating the architectural artefacts that borrowed from modernist movements abroad and produced in a particular spirit of national bravado and ambition at home. Now forgotten in favour of the new landscape of international style glass towers, Singapore Tropciana was regrettably short-lived. We celebrate its legacy in a monument to Singapore’s Modernism nonetheless!

Chair of Architecture and Ur-ban design (FCL)| 8 weeksAlex Lehnerer

Singapore Tropicana 1:100 Exhibition model

Photographic journal

Singapore Tropicana Perspectives from Singapore

Ba (Arch) Thesis FCL Research Project

photographs | process documentation and final photos of exhibit ion at FCL

model | monument to singapore modernism

photographs | col lective documen-tation

(columns) from left1. Unique forms (HDB at Chinatown Complex, venti lation holes at Golden Mi le comlex, HDB at Rochor Centre)2. Extensive coverage (covered walkway at Beace Road, Bukit Pan-jang and Woodlands)3. Publ ic housing blocks (HDB at Swee Road, Air-conditioned facade,

Documenting Tropicana

Through a thorough study of 11 buildings identified as “tropicana artefacts” as well a photo expedi-tion across Singapore, the studio began an extensive documen-tation of peculiar architectural features as traces of tropicana that we have inherited as tangible objects in the city.

From public housing to shopping malls to pedestrian infrastructure, everyday occurrences in our familiar city became increasingly legible as unique and interesting forms, spaces and textures in the lineage of the tropicana era.


Shown at ETH, Zurich


Made and exhibited in FCL, Singapore

section model

Terrace + HouseTerrace1. Terrace house- a typology of housing where identical houses are conjoined into rows2. Terrace garden- an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect3. Terrace (geology)- a step-like landform

By adopting the consistent technique of “terracing” as an architectural intervention, a central courtyard is created and infilled with a continuous terracing of incremental steps that reads as i)vertical circulation through all 7 levels of the house, and ii) a series of planters that together create a green, naturally ventilated verandah space inserted directly into the typical envelope of the long, narrow shophouse plot.

(plan diagram from top)1. typical air-well 2. air-well as central courtyard space3. communal space extends across the central axis of each floor plate, private services confined to narrow bands at party walls; private bedrooms confined to front and back to afford views out 4. vertical void of central courtyard extended and expressed as a void on rear facade on second storey

1. front foyer1a. powder room1b. reading ledge

2. living 3. dry kitchen4. wet kitchen

5. yard5a. storage

5b. service W.C6. bedroom 1 (guest)

7. outdoor toilet 1 (guest)7a. shower 1 (guest)

7b. W.C 1 (guest)8. bedroom 2

9. outdoor toilet 29a. shower 2

9b. W.C 210. family lounge

11a. W.C 311b. maids bedroom

12. granny suite13. attic

14. roof terrace15. bedroom 3 (master)

15a. W.C 3 (master) ground floor

third storey plan

second storey plan

roof garden plan

2A storey plan

3A storey/ attic plan

roof

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Terrace HouseSection, Elevation, Plans

Terrace HouseParti diagrams for circulation

Terrace1. Terrace house- a typology of housing where identical houses are cojoined into rows2. Terrace garden- an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect3. Terrace (geology)- a step-like land-form

The brief of the project was to design a shophouse extention within a local con-servation district. Constrained by strict conservation guidelines, the design in-tervention was largely concerned with how to stitch the split levels between the old and new sections of the house. By adopting the consistent technique of “terracing” as an architectural inter-vention, a central courtyard is created and infilled with a continous terracing of incremental steps that reads as i)ver-tical circulation through all 7 levels of the house, and ii) a series of planters that together create a green, naturally ventilated verendah space inserted di-rectly into the centre of the long, nar-row shophouse plot.

Old + New

The brief of the project was to design a shophouse extention within a local conservation district.

Constrained by strict con-servation guidelines, the design intervention was largely concerned with how to retain the existing envelope on the exterior while mediating the 7 split levels between the old and new sections of the house.

After consulting conservation guidelines, a series of sec-tional studies was done to produce various iterations of connections that would yield interesting new spaces in this interstice of old and new

Reproduc ing the cen-t ra l courtyard

The introduction of the central void not only brings light into the long and narrow enclosure but also encourages natural ventilation via openings in both the roof and rear wall.

The intention to create visual relief and social spaces via the central air well is a modern intervention which pays tribute to the original ambiance of the shophouse typology.

(section diagram from left)1. air-well brings light and air into typical shophouse2. air-well as central courtyard space3. vertical void extends horizontally to become an inhabitable space4. air-well now conceived as a vertical and horizontal funnel to facilitate cross-ventilated via the venturi effect

Existing Upper Storey Levels- Existing level, timber floors and structural system are to be retained and restored.-Minimium 1.5m setback required when new roof mezzanine floor is higher than top of window/ fan light.

Proposed Pitched tile roof- Proposed pitched roofs may be higher than the eaves of the main consserved builidng but lower than the ridge of the main roof- The material and the pitch are to be the same as those of the main roof

series of models showing level sectional studies

section showing central airwell back elevation

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5. yard5a. storage










third storey plan

second storey plan

roof garden plan

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roof

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Terrace HousePlystudio

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5. yard5a. storage










third storey plan

second storey plan

roof garden plan

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roof

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Terrace HouseSection, Elevation, Plans

Terrace HouseStudy models investigating dif-

ferent circulation options

Hotel Rendezvous Custom designed feature light column and seating

Hotel RendezvousReception counter,

Original design acid-etched on aluminium

Concrete “Folding Chair”Ceramics

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Reference Letter

This is to confirm that Victoria Thong has graduated from the University of Westminster with a

distinction in her postgraduate architectural design project MArch. Being in Design Studio 22

and as her supervisors we were very impressed by Victoria’s hard work and outstanding

performance and design skills. Victoria Thong is one of the outstanding Part II students who

have left a huge imprint on the Studio level -- and indeed the school of architecture as a whole

-- with her design work and personality.

Victoria’s Postgraduate design work is very remarkable in terms of its scope, intellectual rigor,

design and creativity. As practicing architects ourselves we try to emphasie on in our academic teaching and in the design studio on the process of work and thinking with a similar approach to how we deal with projects in our architectural practice. Victoria very well responded to that with a great balance between research conceptual thinking, design and technical awareness. Victoria is one of those students who have successfully managed to provoke a critical architectural thinking and unique design with socio cultural awareness,. Very poetic as a designer with a sensitive eye to materiality and a gentle play between scales.. Her making skills are delicate with careful attention to details. Above all, she is self-motivated and a great team player. Both aspects are very crucial when working in an architectural practice. We therefore strongly recommend taking her as a PART II Architectural Assistant. If working in the right context and guidance, Victoria can deliver very creative, productive and outstanding work. If you require any further information or detail do not hesitate to contact us on the details below Best Yara Sharif Partner Golzari NG Architects Design Studio 22 University of Westminster

Golzari - NGArchitects. United House, 39-41 North Rd, N7 9DP Tel. 02036748462

www.ngarchitects.co.uk [email protected]

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