Lingyan Kong Selected Works - Architectural Portfolio

Lingyan Kong BSc, M.Arch

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

M.Arch

Project site

Focus on an area with homogenous urban form to develop a general infrastructural strategy for Monaco

7 sites are selected from study area because they are dominated by street parking and not being used as busy roads, buildings in the

due to the level change on both sides of buildings, there are two lobby levels and the lower lobby levels are mostly garages. Last but not the least, they are outside the 5 mins walking distance from large public/green spaces.

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New Public/green spaces as another part of urban infrastructure

New 5 mins walking distance from green spaces.

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Design Thesis : Urban Infrastracture - Green Infrastructure,Monaco

M.arch part II

My thesis investigates the ecological relationships in the contexts of rising pollution and lack of green/public spaces in Monaco. Alternation of buildings and planning gain reflect my critical thinking on creating green/public spaces and cultural facilities as infrastructure that forms a better connection for social interaction and flora/fauna living.

M.Arch

2

Chao Art Museum,Chengdu, China

KKAA Project

3

YangChengHu Visitor Centre,Suzhou, China

KKAA Project

4

Interior and Landscaping Design for Mahanakhon Tower,Bangkok, Thailand

KKAA Project

Part I Year out

5

Puppet/Shadow Theatre,Lyon, France

BSc, Part I

6

Science City Master Plan, Port Talbort, Cardiff, UK

BSc, Part I

BSc, Part I

Project site




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Design Thesis : Urban Infrastracture - Green Infrastructure, Monaco

My thesis investigates the ecological relationships in the contexts of rising pollution and lack of green/public spaces in Monaco. Alternation of buildings and planning gain reflect my critical thinking on creating green/public spaces and cultural facilities as infrastructure that forms a better connection for social interaction and flora/fauna living.

A water retention system is inserted between the gaps of buildings, surface run-off will be stored and then returned back to the aquifer to stabilize groundwater, and meanwhile, much cleaner water will be available for urban uses.

Many roads are dominated by street parking, the ground floor garages and street parking could be re-accommodated in a more efficient way, so that these roads can be pedestrianized, and new programs can be inserted into the garage spaces.

An organic architectural language is developed in responding to route, experience, threshold, and inside and outside. Spaces are designed in relation to an optimum micro-climate conditions. As a whole, the site becomes an urban oasis.

M.Arch

Project site




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URBAN USE

WATER PURIFICATION

Enhancement of removal of hydrophilic pollutants;

Reduction of microbiological risks

SEWAGE TREATMENT Enhancement of organic

biodegradation;

Reduction of energy consumption in advanced treatment

The Canal De La Vésubie - France

Valley Roya - Italy

70% OF WATER SOURCES

Larvotto (Vaulabelle) water source

Ingram and Marie water source

30% OF WATER SOURCES

SUBSURFACE INFILTRATION

Reclaimation of treated waste water by filtration(sand filtration to remove turbidity, and chlorine dioxide, to

eradicate the infection);

Reduction of local and periodical imbalance of water resource

the Société Monégasque

d’Assainissement (waste company)

The Société Monegasque des

Eaux (Water Company)

The Société Monegasque des

Eaux (Water Company)

Rain water

Water collected in the Principality of Monaco (or from French or Italian sources), is naturally relatively healthy, because the region has few activities of intensive agriculture, and little heavy industry, limiting pollutions to pesticides and heavy metals. The treatments are so light.

Treated waste water return to groundwater layer, instead of going into the Mediterranean sea.

Treated waste water return to groundwater layer, instead of all going into the Mediterranean sea.

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11280 Trees,23.3% Green coverage

Carob Citrus

Laurels Schinus

Oak Plane Cypress Pine

Casuarina Cycas Ficus Magnolia Hackberry Olivier Palm CactusAloeAgaves

Thuja

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Citrus 851 Carob 124 Oak 144 Plane 71 Cypress, Thuja 1108 Pine 1431

Casuarina 32 Cycas 340 Ficus 308

Laurels 149 Magnolia 202

Hackberry 7 Olivier 1001

Palm 2116 Schinus 81

Other tree 3315 (Agaves, Aloe, Cactus...)

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Laurels Schinus



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Laurels Schinus



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Laurels Schinus



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Section A-A’

A B

B’

A’

C

C’

B’

Elevation from public garden

Scale : 1:200

Elevation from the upper road

Scale : 1:200

Elevation & Micro Cliamte (Urban Oasis)

Scale : 1:200

Elevation from the upper road

Scale : 1:200

Section B - B’

Section C - C’

March

March

Remove street parking

Remove existing garages on the ground floor, remove parts of existing terrace and walls.

Setting up scaffoldings on the other side of the buildings.

Preparing to reconfigure the existing floor plans on the tops two floors of exiting

apartments.

Setting up scaffoldings on the pedestrian walk way.

Preparing to reconfigure the existing floor plans on the tops two floors of exiting

apartments.

March

April

Phase 0: Existing site

Phase 1: Site clean-up

May

Jun

Jul

April

Petrol interceptors and water tanks are incerted between

buildings

On the other side, the steel frame is incerted into the existing garages.

Mechanical parking system under construction to acommodate parkings

efficiently.

Pre-fab steel frames of apartment extension are delivered to site, then

attach to the existing buildings.

Pre-fab steel frames of apartment extension are delivered to site, then

attach to the existing buildings.

Remove most of scaffoldings.

Construction the apartment extensions.

Petrol interceptors and water tanks are incerted, plant rooms

and extened spaces on the sides are also in place.

Construction of the shell for the new spaces in the garages.

Mechanical parking system completed, provides 32 secure parking spaces.

Construction the apartment extensions.

Phase 2: Alternation to resurrect urban form

Phase 3: Constructing the shell

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Petrol interceptors and water tanks are incerted on the last

phrase.

The facades of incerted programs in replace of existing

garages are completed, and interior work begins.

The shells of apartment extensions are completed, and interior work begins.

Construction of “green seams” and the landscape on the main public

space starts.

Phase 5: Moving-in


phrase.

The facades of incerted programs in replace of existing garages are completed, and interior

work begins.



space starts.


phrase.

The facades of incerted programs in replace of existing garages are completed, and interior

work begins.



space starts.


Phase 4: Landscape and interior

Phase 6: A growing landscape

Sep

Oct

Nov

Sep

Oct

Nov

Part I Year Out:Working at Kengo Kuma & Associates

I spent my Part I year out in Tokyo (Kengo Kuma & Associates) and Shanghai (Space Cube Design Lab). Working In Japan was a testament to my diligence, productivity and focus at work.

I have worked on projects of various natures and scales, including arts and culture (new build), creative re-use (regeneration), interior design and masterplanning, when I gained work experience both in concept design and design development stages.

During my stay at Kengo Kuma & Associates, I worked independently in a small design group, whilst keeping frequent communication with my supervisors and colleagues during the working process. Spending my year out working abroad has given me insight into the work ethics and cultures of international practices, where I stepped up to the challenge of diligently working long hours.

Part I Year Out

Oct

Nov

Conceptual Design for Chao Art Museum, Chengdu, ChinaKKAA Project

Chao Art Museum is the second project commissioned by Fantasia Group after the Xinjin Zhi Museum completely in 2011.

The project located at the centre of a commercial complex. My task was to develop one design proposal out of two, as shown on the images.

Different design proposals were explored in order to develop an unique spatial experience. The design of spatial experience was in parallel with the design of structure. A sense of temporay is created by the expressive scaffolding structure and spiral walkways, so that the project achieve a quality of “Installation” in stead of “Building”.

Media: Rhino, Vray, Adobe Creative Suite, Physical modelling, Sketching

June July August

Roof Design for YangChengHu Visitor Centre, Suzhou, ChinaKKAA Project

The project was in design development stage. I was working with my supervisor to design the roof and roof tiles for this visitor centre. The roof was designed based on the traditional straw roofing found locally. I rendered different roof proposals and made physical model to understand the design in different scales (1:1, 1:5, 1:20).

The roof tiles will be aluminium cast panels in this proposal. In order to minimise cost for roof panels and achieve technical performance on water proofing, panel sizes were adjusted to appropriate thickness. Three different panel sizes were used and placed in a random order. Cost calculations based on different panel sizes and thicknesses were generated on spread sheets.

Media: Rhino, Vray, Cinema 4D, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Physical modelling, Sketching

August

Interior and Landscaping Design for Mahanakhon Tower, Bangkok, ThailandKKAA Project

KKAA is commissioned to design landscaping and interior of Mahanakhon Tower, which was designed by OMA. Key spaces including main lobby, restaurant, meeting rooms, swimming pools and hotel rooms. My supervisor and I worked closely to design the main entrance, the restaurant and the meeting rooms for the design development meeting.

I worked on physical modelling, digital modelling on Rhino, rendering studies on Cinema 4D and 2D CAD drawings intensively in this project. This was the first project I was involved when I started my position in Kengo Kuma & Associates and it was the first time for me to use Rhino and Cinema 4D.

Media: Rhino, Vray, Cinema 4D, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Physical modelling

Puppet/Shadow Theatre + Science City Masterplan

I worked on a masterplan project in Port Talbot and a theatre project in Lyon during the final year of my BSc.

BSc, Part I

Puppet/Shadow Theatre, Lyon, FranceBSc, Part I

The heritage site is quiet and beautiful, but lack of connection with the city. My intention is to develop a tectonic language base on my research of puppetry and puppet typology, to connect the ancient remains and motivate them, and to celebrate the art of theatre by designing a new culture centre but not merely a theathre.

Media: AutoCAD, Sketchup, Adobe Creative Suite, Physical modelling, Sketching

Science City Masterplan, Port Talbort, Cardiff, UKBSc, Part I

In the city of Port Talbort, biomass stations are currently generating most of electricity for the entire Wales, whereas biomass is currently imported from Canada. This project focus on forestry study to build up database, look for suitable speciels to plant locally in order to provide biomass plants locally for electricity generation.

Media: AutoCAD, Sketchup, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketching

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Lingyan Kong Selected Works - Architectural Portfolio