Siew Moon Chow, M.Archportfolio architecture + design l selected works 2009-2012

Phone: +61438238813 (Australia)Email: smoon.chow@gmail.comAddress : 815/585 La Trobe Street Melbourne 3000 VIC AUSNationality: MalaysianWebsite: http://be.net/smchow Availability: April 2013 onwards

2011 -2012 MASTEr of ArChITECTUrE | avg. distinction University of Melbourne

2008-2010 bAChELor of ENVIroNMENTS (ArChITECTUrE) | avg. distinction University of Melbourne

NoVEMbEr 2012 grAdEx 2012 | Thesis 'deconstructing the wall' NoVEMbEr 2011 EyES exhibition semester 2 2011 | Master design studio work 'The Platform' JULy 2011 EyES exhibition | Master design studio work 'St Kilda hotel' JULy 2009 EyES exhibition | Undergraduate design studio 'The Water house'

exhibition/ acknowledgement

JAS ArChITECTS PTy LTd, MALAySIA | INTErN Participated in early design stage of Sabah Library tender & design documentation of a private residence in Kota Kinabalu

work experience

AUToCAd | SKETChUPT Pro | VrAy | rhINoCEroS | grASShoPPEr | fIrST rATEAdobE SUITES ( PhoToShoP, ILLUSTrATor, INdESIgN) | MICroSofT offICE | ModEL MAKINg | LASEr CUTTINg

skills

fluent in ENgLISh (IELTS band 8), Chinese Mandarin and Chinese Cantonesemoderately fluent in MALAy, INdoNESIAN and JAPANESE

language

art+design | architecture, amateur photography, graphic design, fashion and textile others | badminton, swimming and travelling

other

STEVE hATzELLIS | guest tutor at University of Melbourne, director of hATz Architectureemail: steve@hatz.co | contact number available on request JErEMy WoLVErIdgE | guest tutor at University of Melbourne, director of Wolveridge Architects email: jerry@wolveridge.com.au | contact number available on request

reference

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education

siew moon chow

AUgUST 2012 SoNA SUPEr STUdIo 2012 | participant SoNA Super Studio is a 24 hours student design competition across the country. Students are to form team of three to deliver a 3 minutes presentation at the end of the session.

JULy 2011 MELboUrNE oPEN hoUSE 2011 | volunteer Tasks including guiding and informing visitors alongside other volunteers

ANd LECTUrE SErIES 2010 | organising committee ANd is a student run lecture series held weekly at the faculty of Architecture, building and Planning in University of Melbourne. The lecture series invites speakers from the profes- sion to speak about their work. Tasks including communicating with speakers, scheduling and designing weekly publicity poster.

MELboUrNE UNIVErSITy ChINESE ThEATrE groUP | publicity crew Melbourne University Chinese Theatre group is a student run theatre group, producing two chinese speaking shows a year. A publicity crews’ tasks including speaking to the public and students in order to promote the show, selling tickets and organising show venue alongside other crews.

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MArCh-NoVEMbEr 2010

MArCh-NoVEMbEr 2009

JANUAry 2011 - fEbrUAry 2011

deconstructing the wall 1ThESIS 2012

the aquaponic platform 13MASTEr dESIgN STUdIo 2012

the platform 25MASTEr dESIgN STUdIo 2011

alternative experience 39SoNA SUPEr STUdIo 2012

the weather gallery 51 UNdErgrAdUATE dESIgN STUdIo 2010

water house 59UNdErgrAdUATE dESIgN STUdIo 2009

architectural documentation 69APPLIEd CoNSTrUCTIoN 2011

content

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deconstructing the wall a multicultural castle

TErM: MASTEr ThESIS STUdIo, 2012STUdIo LEAdEr: WArWICK MIhALy-------------------------------------------------------

Studio Synopsis:the studio asks students for a translation of castle in modern days Aus-tralia. The castle is a fortified structure dating back to Middle Ages, serv-ing primary purpose including protection, prison, barrack, market place and residence. Nowadays however, we do not have feudal system, nor catapults, nor the need of lookout. What and how would these traditional castle be translated in modern Australian context. The studio asks students to consider two key things:1- What, in contemporary Australian culture, is worth protecting?2- And from what threats is it being protected?-------------------------------------------------------------Melbourne is a multicultural city. Early research of the studio through online survey however shows that this diversity is not truly embraced. Cultural groups remain isolated of each other due to lack of shared interest and activities being discovered. having the aim to protect cultural inclusiveness from isolation, a multipurpose building located at the Peel Street and frank-lin Street is introduced as a modern translation of medieval enclosure and concentric castles.The project's immediate response to this issue is a castle that explores the common denominator of all cultural groups' food, aiming to encourage inter-actions between them. A series of programs that ranges in privacy: culinary school, community kitchen, hydroponic garden, dormitory and night market are inserted within and in between unique layers of walls that regulates and connects, surrounding a central courtyard.

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Two survey investigating interaction and under-standing across cultural groups in Melbourne and founding shows that there is an apparent lack

The project proposes a multiuses building that aims to tear the wall hin-dering true understand-ing between cultural groups

Site selection based on criterions: accessibility and frequency of visiting by all culture groups

Site response, as an extension to Victoria Market and Flagstaff garden

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section

concept diagram perspective l day timesection

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sectional detail

perspective l social aggregator

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perspective l aerial view perspective l night market

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The Aquaponic Platform is a critique of Melbourne's intense in-crease in populations, to be doubled at 2050 in one of the Australia Bureau of Statistics projection. There is a possibility that this rate will surpass the rate of food production and Melbournians would suffer from hunger. Besides, with this sudden increase in density, social interaction has evolved into its most complex and intense ever. Public spaces where the relationship of the community is knit-ted will have to be revolutionized into space that maximizes quality as well as quantitative factor. Traditional top down approach in designing public spaces such as parks and squares, its reductive-ness and monofunctionality is no longer adequate to accommodate Melbournians need.The Aquaponic Platform aims to utilize this interstitial space as an opportunity to reassess the relationship between programs of dif-ferent genres following this intense increase in density and popu-lation in the city. The project combines aquaponics farm allotments and recreational spaces that seem incompatible conventionally, in the same space. The aquaponics allotments will be owned or rented by city dwellers, whereas the recreational space will be set its purpose as a result of bottom up self organization amongst the occupants of the allotments as a community. Emergent, where the behavior of the whole is much more complex than the behavior of its parts, an effect of multiplication instead of addition is anticipated. With this new kind of typology, it might generate excitement and anticipation like never before.

the aquaponic platform farming and social hybrid

Term: Master Design Studio, 2012Team Credit: Siew Moon Chow, Haw Ping YapStudio leader: Justyna Karakiewicz & Steve Hatzellis---------------------------------------------------------

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vertical urban farming vertical farming to increase food production following increasing population and density

complex adaptive nature of human interactionpublic space needed to be designed based on ‘event’,

temporal and adaptive to cater for emerging need

the aquaponic platformhybrid of urban farming and public social space

PROGRAM AND DISTANCE ANAYLYSIS

26Delaunay tri-angulation was used as the ba-sis of digital tes-sellation for ev-ery points stay conected with each other and it avoids skinny triangles.

concept

Analysis of func-tions of building in the city

People in pub-lic social space self organises in a way similair to mold organis-ing itself around food source

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1. Pedestrians moving with random vector 2. The existence of attractor agent starting to stimulate swarm behaviour of the subjects

3. Subjects start to flock, in general towards the direction of the attractor.

LEGEND

Attractor - Street performer Unexited subject - Pedestrians moving randomly ( no swarm behaviour) Excited subject - Pedestrians showing swarm behavior

Street performance at southbank promenade in a weekend afternoon

Analysis of the swarm behavior of the crowd through stret performers as an attractor agent

CREATIVE RESEARCH: THROUGH OBSERVATION: SWARM BEHAVIOUR WITHIN CROWD DURING STREET PERFORMANCE

4. Subjects performs swarm behavior , which is governed by 3 basic rules :(1)Cohesion-Fly toward the centroid of the local subject; (2)Seperation: Keep a certain distance away from local subject; (3) Alignment: Align velocity vector with subject of immediate surroudings

5. Subjects moving at random vectors after the performance ended.

study on human self organisation behav-iour

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SECTION

GROUND FLOOR COMMERCIAL SPACE

UPPER FLOORS AGRICULTURE SPACE

NODES COtMMUNAL SPACE

the aquaponic system

section

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GROUND FLOOR SUNLIGHT ANALYSIS

TYPICAL FLOOR SUNLIGHT ANALYSIS

TYPICAL FLOOR SUNLIGHT ANALYSIS

AGRICULTURE ALLOTMENT

CIRCULATION/ GATHERING SPACE

VERTICAL CIRCULATION/ RAMP

TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN

solar analysis

typical floor plan

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GROWTH PARAMETERS

SUNLIGHT TRANSPORTATION DENSITY PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC DEMAND/ POPULATION GROWTH THROUGH TIME

2012 2015 2020

TIME

Growth parameters

INTERNAL PERSPECTIVE

growth in time and parameter

perspective l gathering node and aquaponic farm

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the platform temporality and permanency in apartments

TErM: Master design studio, 2011STUdIo LEAdEr: Marjan Cehovin-------------------------------------------

This project is fundamentally a critique to current practices of resi-dential planning. Inflexibility and banality in housing design, short sightedness in town development that build only to cater instant need has causes issues including blind densification in Melbourne Cbd and housing glut in the growing fringe suburbs. furthermore, the fix-ated house planning has forces us to live nomadically, as one faces growth or inevitable changes in life such as marriage, having children and aging.

Questions such as "Could there be an alternative to this residential planning myopia?" "how can an apartment be a permanent home?" were asked.

The value of this project is experimenting with modularity and kit-of- parts to provide flexibility that caters the changing need of the so-ciety and individuals. In urban scale, detachable pods can be installed and removed to render the project with adaptability to accommodate needs in facilities that comes with development of North Melbourne. on an individual scale, extension pods of 1.5m and 3m module can be attached or detached according to preference and need, to basic apartment units of 3 dwelling typologies: single floor, south facing and north facing duplex, designed based on 6.3mx 8.4m structural grid. In the light of adaptability, internal partition are segregated from its load bearing structure and services running along structural walls, to allow adaptability in space transformation and possibility of joining adjacent units.

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The project is located at North Melbourne, an inner city suburb. Following the growth in population and North Melbourne Development Plan, North Mel-bourne is shifting from a industrial precinct to a medium density suburb.

5 years 10 years 20 years

10000M2

site study

conceptual diagram

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typical apartment

each approximately 100m2

north facing duplex

south facing duplex

SINGLE COUPLE COUPLE WITH YOUNG CHILDREN

COUPLE WITH GROWN UP

AGED COUPLE THREE GENERATION

apartments with alteration possibil-ity to cater occu-pants’ need

Living/ dining spaceService space RoomGreen space/ terrace

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physical model

kits of parts for individual apartment extension

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apartmentdetachablecommunity pod

commercial communal green spacemain pedestrian entrance

solar cellsroof top garden

plans

perspective l attached pod

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1-200 ON A4

esd detail

section

programmatic distribution

west elevation

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detail section

perspective l arden street

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alternative experiencearchitecture beyond physicality and materiality

Term: SONA Super Studio Competition 2012Team Credit: Siew Moon Chow, Justin Tan, Yee Von Low------------------------------------------------Proposal:The project questions how we perceive architecture and our environ-ments? Questions such as 'is physical materiality the only we can per-ceive our environment?' 'is architecture limited to only built forms?'We approach the subject and the production of future achitecture as a broad and curious field that oscillates between representation and reaslisation, experience and expertise. The project proposes that architecture as an experience of multisensory and multiperspective, where physical realm is overlapped with the synthetic realm that is reconstructed based on rules and physical reality.Question:With the current stretching of architecture into new territories we can observe a concurrent and perverse retreat into architectural primitiv-ism, limiting architecture to corporeal materiality. How will architects engage with the fast future while affirming material reality? What is your radical proposition for future culture, architecture, environment, and thought? SuperStudio 2012 requires you to materialise a future for architecture while engaging with the present. Entrants are asked to eschew objec-tivity and immerse themselves in a new critical practice. SuperStudio 2012 asks you for your personal architecture.-------------------------------------------------SONA Superstudio is a 24 hour Australian and New Zealand nation-wide design competition that aims to refurbish studio culture, lay foundations for creative design solutions and assemble networks between students and the profession. Students are to work in team of three to prepare a 3 minutes presentation to deliver their idea or solution.

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the weather galleryTerm: Undergraduate Design Studio 2010 Studio Leader: Catherine Duggan

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Located at the Docklands, The Weather Gallery aims to encourage weather and environmental aware-ness amongst Melbournians through its exhibits as well as its architecture. A home to various form of climate themed art work including sculpture, paint-ings and performance, the gallery is composed of two distinctive parts, the closed and detached from the climate, in contrast to the open and susceptible to weather, interchanging as one move across the gallery.

The project outcome is ultimately an explorative one, as a result of a series of experiments with media in early studio sessions, than a prescriptive one.

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concept

conceptual diagram

early workshop experiments, media: modelling and photography l drawing

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ground floor plan N first floor plan second floor plan third floor plan

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perspective l corridor perspective l performing space perspective l gallery perspective l from site

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water houseTerm: Undergraduate Design Studio 2009 Studio Leader: Jeremy Wolveridge

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The Water House was designed for Tracey Bialek, the founder and managing director of Ripple Prod-ucts. Her passion about water saving and her enthu-siasm on the environments has inspire the project to explores the pleasure of experiencing and living with nature in an inner city suburb (Fairfield). The Water House is composed of a pavilion containing a home office or study room and a main house, seper-ating from each other. A short distance of travel-ling from one to another gives Tracey and her family a dose of nature from day to day. The main house and pavilion has also double height glazing towards the east, that ensures maximum pleasure of river view and privacy.

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1. The house is cut into two, a home office pavilion and the main house

2. Greenery was placed in between to allow a daily dose of nature for the family in the inner suburb

3. The pavillion and main house are shifted sidways

4. ...to allow maxi-mum view to the river

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physical model

concept

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Ground floor plan

first floor plan perspective l first floor living areaplans

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in a3

section b-b

site plan

esd planning

perspective l dining

section

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physical modelperspective

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architectural documentationTerm: Applied Construction 2011Studio Leader: Andrew Lyons

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Selection from a series of detailing drawings for University of Melbourne Architecture School as per Denton Corker Marshall's proposal, as part of university construction subject submission.

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