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Dramatization of Market, 2024
Competition Entry for PAM-MBSJ Architectural Design Competition for Pasar Awam SK 10 Seri Kembangan
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Air-Ria, 2024
Competition Entry for PAM-HSL Air Architectural Design Competition
The urban neighbourhood that demonstrates the contentment living
The urban fabric in Kuching was almost flat, with a few high-rise developments scattered around the town area and mostly filled with the landed residential and commercial. The interrogation begins with the questions of the prevailing high-rise residential developments in Malaysia and specifically in Kuching, Sarawak. As we have noticed the development leaning towards more hyper-individualistic approach and planning, we often question how can a social exclusion neighbourhood to create a self-sustaining, liveable communities within its own?
Architectural Reincarnation is the gift of breathing and designing new life into the existing space, as the radical reinterpretation with the existing elements.
The main emphasis of this scheme is not so much in creating the perfect form, however, it is an attempt to generate the soul of the place that creates the contentment (RIA) within the neighbourhood. This concept bridges both upper and lower part of the development, metaphorically represented as The Air – the upper, The Water (Air) – the lower.
Air: Reincarnation the Urban Spine
Presumably with the existing conditions, the planning often leads to the culvert like retaining wall to further enhance the protection of the stream from being further changed through time as erosion, deposition and transport of the sediment. Thus, it prevents the accessible functions and usage and it would also quite often being neglected and inaccessible.
With the river stream in between the existing site, it has actually created the spine within the site that connects the scattered urban greenery spaces. The further enhancement of the stream itself is proposed with the stepped terraces as the retaining platforms that generates permeability within the site, while it is also functioned as the On-Site Detention Pond for the development.
RIA: Manifestation of the Elevated Park
The elevated platform serves merely two planning purposes, one with the intention to extensively reduce or avoid entirely the amount of filled earth over the entire site as there is 5m discrepancy level in between the main access road and the site itself. Secondly, it allowed a more direct visual and physical connectivity from the main access road.
It is intended and designed with the access that creates the journey that linked the two phases, be it for vehicular or pedestrian usage. Main ingress and egress are placed right adjacent to Jalan Teo Kui Seng with the 10m wide roundabout that acts as threshold to the development. The link further forms the platform with the large void that allows more natural lighting to the urban spine below. It then further connected with the urban spine via a 1.5m width perimeter ramp and a 4.5m width staircase in each void.
As a bustling hub for daily activities, including boutique retails, market spaces, public open theatres, and cultural events, the elevated park could also function as a platform to showcase the celebration of the multiple traditional festivals of Malaysia. These festivities not only enrich the city's cultural fabric but also underscore its role as a melting pot of diversity, where history, stories, traditions, and shared moments intertwine; creating an avant-garde in its urban fabric.
The AIR-esidential Towers
Aside from the bustling hub for daily activities, the AIR-esidential Towers comprises a total of 980 units of service residential and 60 units of commercial retail spanning across 5 towers. The site is situated right adjacent to Kuching International Airport, the building height control is also taken into the consideration in complying with CAAM requirements. Controlled within 14 storeys of the service residential and 2 storeys of commercial retails above the elevated park.
The towers are separated into two phases and they are positioned aligning with the site boundary with the intention to create visual threshold to stimulate the entrance towards the development, while it also allowed more areas for the community engagement within the urban spine and the elevated park. Apart from its form planning, the façade is designed with a minimal and repetitive approach where it is intended to ease the future maintenance. Meanwhile, the roof portion is designed with the facilities that are exclusively catered for usage of the residential dwellers only. Covered with the aluminium screen with the motif detailing that represents the native armour shield, Iban Terabai. While the roof shape and sheltered canopy are inspired with the urban fabric in the town area of Kuching.
© 2024 Lam Tuck Lone & Lim Vick Ter
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The Daya Langit, 2023
Competition Entry for Malaysia Identity Competition under LAM 50 Years Celebration
a Reimagination of Malaysian identity regeneration; an avant-garde in the urban fabric of Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysians as National Identity
Today's architectural landscape in Malaysia is a captivating fusion, skilfully blending the strong influence of contemporary designs from the Western world with innovative solutions that cater to our unique tropical climate. As a nation that proudly showcases a plethora of diversities — be it cultural, natural, or a harmonious blend of races — Malaysia's architectural narrative embodies this multifaceted identity. As it may seem the practitioners attempt consolidate an identity to some extent, however the abstruse identity could be difficult to be described in Architecture as there is no singular significant aspect that could represent Malaysia as one nation.
The main emphasis of this scheme is not so much in making the identity in a perfect form of architecture, however, it is an attempt to generate the soul of the Malaysia identity, which is the People, Malaysians.
Manifestation of Quality Third Space
The rapid urbanization and sprawling expansion within Kuala Lumpur have precipitated a transformation of its city centre. However, comes the consequences of segregation of public spaces by the encroachment of traffic and towering edifices. The incessant demand for new developments has further exacerbated this predicament, eroding the fluid circulation pathways essential for sustaining a robust urban economy, a cohesive society, a vibrant culture, and a balanced environment. Kuala Lumpur's existing public spaces are currently confronted with deficiencies in size, accessibility, diverse scales, and interconnectivity.
The Daya Langit reimagined as a catalyst, offering a potential remedy, a revitalizing force in the city centre. Through its integration of the public realm, this scheme seeks to bestow its occupants with a collective identity while concurrently providing them, the People, Malaysians with efficient connectivity and inclusivity to the multitude of resources that enrich urban life. It also aims to manifest a "third space," one that functions as an intermediary point for seamless connections between all the elements constituting the verdant expanses within the city centre.
@ 2023 Lam Tuck Lone. A Collaboration Works with Team.
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Recreating Architectural Intelligence, 2023
Honorable Mention for Future Practice Competition under KLAF 2023
Architects are often appointed as the Superintendent Officer (S.O.) or leaders in the construction industry, overseeing everything from the initial drafts of a project to its completion. Their responsibilities span across various stages of a building’s lifecycle, requiring them to master multiple skills while coordinating with a wide range of professionals. However, the time demands of running an architectural practice are significant, often requiring architects to work well beyond standard office hours. This raises the question of whether the rewards and compensation in the field are commensurate with the effort and time invested.
Challenges in Current Practice
Several key issues plague the current architectural practice:
Client Dilemmas on New Developments: Clients often approach architects without clear development goals, requiring architects to conduct multiple feasibility studies, only to face setbacks during the authority submission process. This results in earlier design work being discarded, leading to wasted effort and unexpected costs for the client.
Prolonged Endorsement Periods by the OSC (One-Stop Centre): The process of project approval is hampered by unstandardized and unsynchronized requirements across different local authorities. Architects face further delays due to conflicting instructions from different officers within the same department.
Coordination Between Consultants and Clients: Many current practices have yet to fully adopt Building Information Modelling (BIM) or advanced computer-aided design technologies. This leads to errors and oversight during the coordination of work among consultants, such as clashes between structural and service designs.
Contract Implementation and Management: Architects face challenges in evaluating the contractor’s progress and workmanship, with delays arising due to factors like poor site conditions, inadequate reporting, and limited access to real-time information.
Sourcing Building Materials: Material sourcing is a time-consuming process, as architects must manually compare specifications, prices, and certifications across multiple suppliers.
Non-Compliance with SOMF 2010: Many architects struggle to justify their fees and demonstrate the value of their work beyond the visible results of completed buildings. Unhealthy competition between firms often results in undercutting fees to secure jobs, leading to subpar service quality.
Solutions through Architectural Intelligence
To address these challenges, the implementation of Architectural Intelligence is proposed, which would transform current practices by incorporating AI and digital tools:
Comprehensive Database: A platform with real-time simulation and AI-driven analysis could help architects better visualize sites, assess potential constraints, and propose feasible designs early on. This would save time and resources during the initial stages of a project.
OSC Advance Intelligence: By adopting a more digitized system, submissions could be streamlined through BIM and synchronized with various authority requirements, ensuring smoother endorsement processes.
AI for Coordination and Management: AI tools integrated with BIM could allow real-time 3D simulations, improving coordination among consultants and contractors. Additionally, LiDAR scanning and drone surveillance could be used to monitor construction progress, generating detailed reports automatically.
Supplier Database: A centralized platform for suppliers to upload product information in a standardized format would enable architects to make informed decisions about materials, saving time and improving transparency in the sourcing process.
ESG Framework: The essay advocates for the integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) indicators into architectural practice. This would allow architects to align their services with broader societal values, showcasing their role in creating socially and environmentally sustainable projects.
Conclusion
We believe there is a need for architects to embrace technological advancements such as AI, real-time simulations, and comprehensive databases to overcome inefficiencies in the current practice. These innovations would not only improve project outcomes but also redefine the value of architects by incorporating ESG metrics, ensuring that their work contributes positively to the environment and society.
© 2023 Lam Tuck Lone & Lim Li Chi (Project A-Tipikal)
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Penang bsc., 2022
Competition Entry for PAM-SADC Competition 2022
A high wall of Landmark, A large audience of Bicycle
The competition calls for an urban pavilion which can be multi-functionalized in accordance to the selected festivals with the intention to promote a good design and long-term wellbeing for the surrounding community.
For this scheme, the main emphasis of the design is not so much creating the building in the perfect form, but rather an attempt to generate the soul of the place and an attempt become a prototype to be multi-functionalized.
Quite frequent in developing a design brief for a temporary building in a tropical context, ie. a pavilion, the form and its design would rather a typical pitch roof with the walls cover its surrounding. Perhaps, that is how we perceive a straight-forward system of a kind to be adopted for sheltering the function below. However, this design attempts to develop a Steel Prototype that is not only meant to be adopted as an urban pavilion but also to be projected as a Learning Exemplar. The idea is to engage the public community in discovering the construction joints and nuts of the prototype itself. Serving the function of the building is crucial but engaging the building soul cannot be neglected.
Sheltering with a high soffit and volume of the pavilion below, it is intend-designed with the idea to be used for multi-purpose. As a gathering spot for a festival celebration, a competition hall, a dancing floor, or it could be a prayer and social engagement area. Part of the metal deck roof to be used for bicycle parking area with the racks that are made up of the lightweight channel. Customizing the lightweight steel material into furniture or accessories is meant to demonstrate the multiple functionalities of the building material into varieties of output.
Intended to create a louder form and a higher pitch of roof covering for making the design become the landmark of the surrounding. Covered with some translucent roofing sheeting to allow a better visual transition within the building. With its high volume, it helps better in natural ventilation and the translucent roofing sheets that generates the natural lighting are part of the design consideration.
© 2022 Lam Tuck Lone
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Sekolah Agama Rendah Al-Falahiah, 2022
© 2022 Lam Tuck Lone (PNA)
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Back To Kampung, 2020
Competition Entry for MALAYSIA HOUSE Competition under KLAF20/21
A HOUSE THAT REMINISCES THE MEMORIES IN KAMPUNG.
Today’s design trend of Malaysia house is increasing attention towards security, increasing number of gated and guarded township and development results in social segregation. Even the whole township is being proposed with the public spaces to be fenced up which is highly emphasizing the concept of ‘Hyper-individualistic’ development.
Differ with the culture in village (kampung) in olden days where local villagers practice ‘gotong - royong’, the culture of helping one another as a community. The hidden dimension of the village house has brought in the friendlier and even created a whole series of social engagement to the owner and their neighbours as well.
Instead of fencing the house, hiding the house from public visibility and accessibility, we build a house in the ‘public eye’, under the surveillance of the public. The hidden dimension allows the occupants to enjoy the fruits of social and public engagement within its own boundary, while they could still keep their privacy to be in place and secured.
Adopting the idea of traditional Malay house where the building is raised on stilts for ventilation and privacy and the lower compound serves as a space for social interaction and children’s playground. Also, integrating the idea of ‘Shi He Yuan’ to create internal courtyard space for family area that acts as open-air living room.
The building is set in the orientation where most of the rooms are facing north-south direction, whereas internal courtyard and swimming pool are facing east side (the morning sun). Entrance facing west- with large cantilevered overshadows the public gathering space.
© 2020 Lam Tuck Lone & Lim Li Chi (Project A-Tipikal)
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Graphic Poster: Covid-19, 2020
For Standard Operation Procedure Against Covid-19
Size : A4 - 210 mm(w) X 297mm (h)
Printed on Cartridge Paper
For prints or any enquiries, kindly drop an email to [email protected]
© 2020 Lam Tuck Lone
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The Reimagined ‘Kampung’ House, 2020
Shortlisted Entry for ACYA-YYAF WFH Workshop 2020 & Featured in ACYA Architecture Gallery
We, as modern people, take the value that a house brings happiness is a dream house. But is that true? The competition calls for a dream house that focuses on health security, self-sufficiency and happy living. What are the standards for a ‘dream house’ that we seek to live in this current pandemic situation. Focusing on happiness can be a method to make sense of architectural beauty, but it probably won’t be of much help in resolving conflicts of taste. In society of today, there is as much disagreement on what constitutes the best life as there is on what constitutes the best built environment to live it in.
We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
“The Architecture of Happiness. (Alain de Botton, 2006)
The reimagined ‘Kampung’ house is the proposed typology as an attempt to be a ‘dream’ house. The location is set in the town area of Kuala Lumpur and it reflects the images of Kampung House in the urban city. The main emphasis of this reimagined ‘Kampung’ house is not so much of creating the building in the perfect form, however, it is an attempt to resurrect the emotional living engagement to the building context. The house is designed for a young couple that are struggled living in the economic downfall and attempting to survive through the pandemic period.
It aims a long term engagement between the occupants and the building context. The provision of the designed spaces that could occupy the occupants with the daily activities at both outdoor and indoor areas. As much saddened as the people living in the high-rise apartment like we do in today’s world, with this pandemic situation, the freedom to engage outdoor activities are being stripped off due to Movement Control Order. Thus, the outdoor spaces like farming area, ground play area beneath living area, and outdoor walkable spaces are very important for a healthy and happy living. It allows movement freedom within the boundary and yet ensuring the safety from the virus.
Despite of that, basic occupancy spaces are also provided such as entertainment space, working space, sleeping area / sex space and indoor working out spaces. The splitting of levels also allows minimal installation of door to filter the privacy of spaces. This staggering effect on the spaces allows the maximum opening of area for natural lighting and cross ventilation through the entire ground level and first level. It also created the spaces beneath the entertainment space for ground playing area and raising stocks. The openness of the spaces provides the occupants with the visual experiences to the adjacent context.
Apart from that, the engagement of the idea of self-sustainable is intended to ease the occupants in the economic downfall. The adoption of the solar panels and rainwater harvesting system to sustain the power for lighting at night time and farming irrigation respectively. This house is designed to be easily replicated with the adoption of the Industrial-Building System (IBS). The house spans over 12 metres in length and 6 metres in width to form a modular unit of spaces that could be easily adjusted and reformed. The adoption of the lightweight block and solid-panels as the partitions to form the spaces could be easily to be installed or dismantled for the different usage of space in the future.
Taking the new functional aesthetic into the home, however, did not prove an entirely happy experiment. As Le Corbusier famously described the ideal house as a “machine for living,” and De Botton highlighted great buildings speak of “visions of happiness”. The reimagined ‘Kampung’ house could argue the facts the happiness of living should be as simple as in creating the spaces for the needs of the occupants, and it also aims to change the way we think about our homes, streets and ourselves.
© 2020 Lam Tuck Lone
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Tropical House For Orang Asli, 2019
Shortlisted Entry for Tropical House for Orang Asli Competition under KLAF 2019
Orang Asli’s Home is often perceived as a temporary shelter, unstable structure and the indigenous community that mostly living in the undeveloped condition. Prior to designing the homes, visitation to the village of Orang Asli is made to understand their way of living, usage of spaces, cultural living and communal engagement to share and trade belonging. However, we seek the most fundamental need of living is actually to provide an architectural resolution in creating a space or a prototype that fulfilling their needs and living condition.
A Space for Flexibility and Expandability
Rather than proposing an advanced-architectural resolution, we develop a very basic design scheme to merge their existing lifestyle. Our intention to develop the modular unit that is able to extend into bigger size unit, it also allows future extension with the base module that we designed. With 3M X 3M modular unit, it could be configured to cater to different family sizes and the allowance area in their context.
The Starter Kit of Building.
We propose to adopt the modular-structural elements that every element is not longer than 1m to be assembled and intersected into forming a bigger structure. It eases transportation to transfer the structural elements into the remote area with narrow access. The materials could be transported in the smaller bags or boxes to the designated building area.
With the recycled paint bucket to be filled with concrete as the concrete stump footing, the house could also be mobilized to anywhere if the community decided to move. It also requires less manpower to put up the structure and it could be built up quickly. The modular façade-skins are proposed to allow the owner to be arranged based on their preference. The fabrication of the starter kit is affordable compared to conventional housing as it requires less manpower and time to fabricate the materials. With the wire mesh be installed above the metal deck roof, the leaves are scattered above the wire mesh to act as the heat insulation on the roof to allow more comfortable and less humid conditions.
© 2019 Lam Tuck Lone & Lim Li Chi (Project A-Tipikal)
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Dialogue With Water, 2018
Academic Works: A Performing Art Centre in Georgetown Cultural Park, Adaptive Strategies Towards Sustainable Waterfront Development
Graduation Project for LAM Part II - Architectural Design Thesis
According to World Bank (2016), by the year of 2045, the world’s urban population will increase by 1.5 times to 6 billion that will be more than 50% of the population will live in the urban areas. The scarcity of land and rapid growth of population have spiked the demand for more habitable land in the urban context especially in the island city. City leaders and policymakers strive to rebuild and redevelop their own utopia for the need of their growing population. Thus, the urge of redevelopment has led to the expansion of space in waterfront spaces by massive urban reclamation. However, this unsustainable practice will further lead to devastating impacts towards the environment, ecological and the community in the waterfront spaces.
In line with one of Ruskin’s theory in ‘The Seven Lamps of Architecture’, architecture that should stem from natural environment as nature is the model for beauty with its lines and shapes that forms the organic human interpretation of the environment. This thesis argues that the architectural reinterpretation of urban waterfront spaces could be developed and rehabilitated by adopting appropriate adaptive strategies with the integration of architectural design and planning that are culturally and environmentally feasible.
On the other hand, waterfront should be envisioned as the cultural notion based on its historical value in relation to its evolution of the function of waterfront spaces that house mix of urban uses to allow the spaces to be accessible by the locals and tourists. A successful cultural waterfront houses a mixture of different cultural facilities and all have water-oriented spatial arrangements. Consequently, a cultural waterfront will enhance the underutilized spaces to serve the public with a whole new image and new functions. The notion of mixed-use development is the composition of different functions of buildings and the spatial arrangement of the built environment that accommodates people, their activities, buildings, streets, open spaces, and parking spaces.
Essentially, as a mean to guarantee successful waterfront redevelopment is often characterized by accessibility in term of physical, visual and psychological. The creation of accessibility allows the waterfront to be perceived as a public domain. Also, the redevelopment of the waterfront area has to include both accessibilities from the city to the waterfront as well as to the water and vice versa.
Thus, the cultural park will be proposed as the new architectural injection to resurrect the abandoned waterfront spaces with the adoption of adaptive strategies for expansion of habitable land. Cultural Park, an integration and journey linked in between Cultural Performance Art Centre includes concert hall, performance space and galleries and Urban Park on land and water surface. Georgetown Cultural Park will be the catalyst and major cultural notion to Penang Island for regenerating the soul of spaces.
For Design Research,
tucklone.com/architecturaldesignresearch
Master Studio Coordinator:
Dr. Mohammad Yazah Mat Raschid
Thesis Supervisors:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zalina Shari & Ar. Aznida Azlan
Publication and Exhibition:
1. Featured and Exhibited in PAM Master Thesis Exhibition 2019 at PAM Centre, Bangsar - http://www.pam.org.my/mte2019/portfolio/lam-tuck-lone/
2. Featured and Exhibited in UPM STEdex 18′ Smart Tropical Design at UPM Art Galeri Serdang
© 2018 Lam Tuck Lone
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