Resume and project portfolio for Malaysian architect

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2011 - 2012
2008 - 2010
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“ To look for a design-oriented working environment that enables me to push my current limits on the field of architecture by taking
challenges and solving problems on the design of good and green architecture. ”
Ng Syh How
26/12/1989
Malaysian
Chinese
No.16, SS4D/6,
47301 Petaling
Jaya, Selangor,
Malaysia
010-2688598
ngsyhhow89@
gmail.com
Master of Architecture
University of Tasmania, Australia
Bachelor of Environmental Design
University of Tasmania, Australia
SPM & UEC
Chong Hwa Independent High School
2009/2010, Committee - Media/Public Relation
Malaysian Student Association (MSA),
Launceston, Tasmania
- Regional & Sustainable Architecture
- Spatial Quality (threshold, edges, levelings, ciruclations)
- Design Details (archi-tectonics)
- Residential (micro) & Urban Planning (macro) Projects
Ms. Helen Norrie
Lecturer & Final Year Project Supervisor
School of Architecture & Design, University of Tasmania
+613 6324 4493 Helen.Norrie@utas.edu.au
Dr. Ceridwen Owen
Deputy Head of School & Program Director
School of Architecture & Design, University of Tasmania
+61 3 6324 4479 Ceridwen.Owen@utas.edu.au
Tasmanian International
Scholarship (TIS)
Top Student & Best Project Award
Heritage Trail Transport Hub
(M.Arch class 2012, Final Project)
Golden Key Honour International
Society Award
UTAS Dean Roll of Excellence
Think Brick Australia - About Face
2010 Student Design Competition
(shortlisted for national round)
Chinese
English
Bahasa Melayu
Cantonese
Hand-sketches
Autodesk AutoCAD
Graphisoft ArchiCAD
Google Sketchup
Artlantis Studio
Rhinoceros
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Indesign
Words/Excel/P.Point
(advance)
(advance)
(advance)
(advance)
(intermediate)
(advance)
(advance)
(spoken & written)
(spoken & written)
(spoken & written)
(basic level)
2009, Architectural Trainee at
d.c.a I Design Collective Architecture Network
(drafting, 3D modelling, schematic design presentation)
PERSONAL INFORMATION
EDUCATION
CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
INTEREST
REFEREES
HONOURS / AWARDS
SKIILS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

project list
Talbot Street Housing
launceston, tasmania
Year 2 Sem 1, 2009
TAFE School of ‘Sustainable Hospitality’
(About Face 2010 Student Design Competition
- shortlisted for national round)
Year 3 Sem 1, 2010
The Green Urban Edge
hobart, tasmania
Year 3 Sem 2, 2010
The Ethological City
Year 4 Sem 1, 2011
Informal Urbanism
dharavi, mumbai
Year 4 Sem 2, 2011
historical melaka, malaysia
(Best Project Award, M’Arch class 2012)
Year 5 Master Project, 2012
Details & Documentations
Theoretical, Conceptual &
Structural Models
Other Design Projects
- Advance Design Research
- Interior Materials & Components +
Learning by Making (THE CASTLE)
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The Green Urban Edge
hobart, tasmania
TAFE School of ‘Sustainable Hospitality’
historical melaka, malaysia
Talbot Street Housing
Informal Urbanism
dharavi, mumbai

Talbot Street Houselaunceston, tasmania
Year 2 studio project, semester 1
This is a small sustainable housing
project on a slope site for Toshi (an
ecologist in Forestry Tasmania) and
his extended family and friends. He
requires a house that is small but
feels ‘generous’ and accomodates
comfortable living.
Piles of logs that appear to be a
very significant feature to the site as
fencing inspires the idea of visually
separating the volumes of the house,
and pile them up like how the logs are
being piled. The intention of taking
the fencing logs as inspiration is to
pay respect to the nature of the site,
as some of the trees are required to
be cut down for construction. Hence,
the house is named after “The Fallen
Trunks”.
— The Fallen Trunks
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1st Floor Plan
Section A-A Section B-B
Grd Floor Plan
2

SW Elevation
NE Elevation
SE Elevation
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TAFE School of ‘Sustainable Hospitality’launceston, tasmania
This project intends to adaptive-reuse
a fine old building on the industrial
edge of the city into a cooking school
with a public restaurant that aims to
make an interface between the school
and the community.
The design focuses on spatial
penetration throughout the existing
brick building and the idea of
threshold which involves progressive
change of spatial quality in terms of
edges, volumes, materials, brick wall
patterns and lighting qualities that
draw public from outside into the
internal community space of this ‘old
and new architecture’.
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Section C-C
Section B-B
Section A-A
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WHAT DO THEY EXPERIENCE??
...Perception of activities
...Smell of food
...Realize the function of the building
...Sense of changing environment (quality of spaces)
...Touch of surfaces (bricks)
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Think Brick Australia - About Face 2010 Student Design Competition (shortlisted for national round)
4 internal walls to be built entirely by new bricks creatively with dismantled bricks from the building to be laid and crawled over the face of the new brick wall.
Playing with the concept of progression through spaces and visual realization towards the laying pattern of the old bricks (protrusion) on the new brick walls.
The FOURTH brick feature wall plays between lines of shadow (protrusion) and lines of light (void) that
form a rainforest patterning within the greenhouse.
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Hybrid Space Wall and Joinery Details
plays with the idea of a “floating dining table” that visually offsets from the edges of the opening within the hybrid (dining/teaching) space
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The Green Urban Edgehobart, tasmania
This is a medium density mixed-used
garden-oriented development (GOD)
for residentials + commercials on
Melville Street vacant carpark site
that holds tremendous potential for
city connections through it access to
three separate street edges in the
CBD of Hobart. This project examines
the potential to blurring the use of
traditional ‘public’ and ‘private’ urban
spaces, and provide shared amenities
and places for socialization at a
community friendly level.
The design focuses on progression
through a series of thresholds and
community square spaces, where the
internal building edges constantly
open up new activities at every
widening of edges. This is to build
a more explorative urban living and
greener space to breathe within the
tight urban spaces.
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Internal building edges
Each widening of boundary and
building edges opens up new spaces
for different activities.
Main circulation
Faster human flow, walk and explore
Threshold spaces & squares
The sequence of 1st space
(threshold), 2nd space (intermediate),
and the 3rd space ( the square).
Internal circulation
Slower human flow, stop and interact
Glass boxes
Vertical entries/circulations for residents
Grd Floor Plan
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Section B-B
Section A -A Grd Floor Masing Above Floors Masing
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Section E-E
Section C-C
Section D-D
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Elevational and Sectional Street Front Details
Elizabeth Street Front that plays with the visual effect of a floating timber box above the threshold spaces of the visitor centre at ground level...
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— Solar-gramlaunceston, tasmania
Group project by:
Ng Syh How & Angela Siang Boon Ya
Solar-gram is a mixed-use parametric
development on Patterson Street
carpark in the CBD of Launceston with
60% of residential, 20% of commercial
& 20% of other specialist functions,
whose design principle revolves
around the concept of ‘behavioral
relations’ between human collectives
and urban matter.
This exercise is based on performance-
oriented form finding through data
visulaisation on 3 urban parameters
(public penetrations, wind flow & solar
radiation) and parametric associations,
being overlaid with architectural
programs. The goal of this experiment
is to create an eco-sensitive and
generative design method that is
highly adaptable towards the change
of external forces.
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Parameter 1 -
public penetrations
Parameter 2 -
wind flow
Parameter 3 -
solar radiation
form finding
process...
Backdoors’ public penetrations
of the surrounding buildings
suggest potential meeting points
for public entries of the building
Lower exposure to solar radiation access
will “extrude” out of the envelope in
order to capture more sunlight in winter -
“solar battery”.
The profile of the building
suggests a relatively low
pressure zone at the rear which
will improve building ventilation
parameter 1...
Lofting of the public penetration graphs based on activeness
Smoothening and tapering to reduce drag under wind action
extrusion to store heat by obtaining sunlight from nw & ne directions
parameter 2...
parameter 3...
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Informal Urbanism khumbarwadadharavi, mumbai
“Build from the existing, but not build
on the existing”...
The pilot project for Kumbharwada
in Dharavi, one of the Asia’s largest
slum will envisage a combination
of infrastructure upgrading and
redevelopment, including housing
upgrade, community facilities and
the provision of accommodation for a
gradual projected population increase
of 10-12% over the next 5 years.
Cost will be kept low by contributing
local labour, low-cost construction
technologies and blending government
subsidies with housing loans.
This intervention is based on joint-
neighbourhood principle, where
there are options of 1,2,3 or 5
adjacent families can be upgraded as
1 joint-neighbourhood, with certain
design configurations that are being
determined by the width of the
existing footprints.
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Khumbarwada precinct site plan
90 Feet Road
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Joint-neighbourhood housing footprint scenarios
Different width x depth of the joint-neighbourhood housing determines
the number of units to be built on top of the neighbourhood. Regulated
system for unit addition on top of the nieghbourhood is to control the
proportion and height limit of the neighbourhood, in order to maintain
the existing street scale.
Joint-neighbourhood 3D massing scenarios
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Ground floor typical plan
(3-units joint neighbourhood)
1st floor plan 2nd floor plan 3rd floor plan
Proposed setbacks & structural benefit
Front setback allows 1m outward extension for joint
neighbourhood to achieve efficient internal planning and
new units addition of top of the neighbourhood.
Back setback will benefit all families on cross ventilation.
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Detail Section G

Section C-C
Section D-D Section F-F
Section E-E
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Threshold into Kumbharwada, on a platform, a sense of
territory against the commercial crowd to the community...
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4
2
5
3
6
Viewing into Kumbharwada, on a platform flanked by the
significant ladder access shaft, a sense of welcoming...
Walking through the familiar edges and crowd, where the
children is enjoying on the unused landfilled plinth for kiln...
Walking towards home, through the open working space
that was used to be a building, a greater sense of threshold...
The rasied up community toilet, the soft edges, the existing
alleyway which has now having a proper drainage system...
The backlane, with proper drainage system where the women
could do their cooking or laundry in their own spaces..
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Heritage Trail Transport Hub@ historical melaka, malaysia
Year 5 master project
The Heritage Trail Transport Hub is to create a new urban threshold in addition to the CIQ Complex that welcomes the visiting tourists and facilitates them
with multiple convenient and sustainable ways of entering the Historic City of Melaka without resulting in high vehicular reliances and adding tension to the
prevalent traffic congestion issue within the heritage precinct of Melaka.
This project aims to recall the importance of Melaka River as being the former threshold of the town back in old days, by driving on the idea of giving back the
river edge its role and pride of being the first doorstep to the town. This will ecourage the tourists out from the CIQ Complex to firstly engage with the river
before entering the inner city of Melaka on foot, or through water taxi/tuk-tuk motorcycle.
A New Urban Threshold on Melaka River...
(Best Project Award, M’Arch class 2012)
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SITE
dispersal
retail +
commercial
food &
beverages
heritage trail
participation
riverfront public
spaces
hotel
THE NEW URBAN
THRESHOLD
River Cruise (existing) Trishaw (existing)
Water Taxi (government proposal)
Tuk-Tuk Motorcycle
(project proposal)
pay and ride along
the heritage trails
water taxi to backpackers & hotels
nearby river
pedestrian route linking the
river promenades
a form of “motorised-trishaw” to
backpackers & hotels at any places
without fixed route
pay and ride
along Melaka
River
Custom, Immigration &
Quarantine (CIQ) Complex
ARRIVAL
2000s (PRESENT)
minimal connection between the
street and the river promenade
~1600s (PAST)
significant connection between the street
and the back of house
Melaka River to Regain Its Pride
1 - Urban Street
Reconfigure the exit
point of the CIQ complex
and propose an “urban
street”
2 - River Edge
Reinstate the trace of
the former river line to
connect the site with the
promenade walk along the
left bank of the river
5 - Social Pockets
Inject series of social
spaces flanking along
the primary line of public
movement to encourage
‘movings’ and ‘stoppings’
to occur along the line of
reinstated river edge
4 - Transport Nodes
Locate and centralize
nodes of transportation
access (water taxi, tuk-tuk
motorcycle & pedestrian
route) along the line of the
reinstated river edge
3 - Urban “Gaps”
Reconnect the “urban
street” with the river
edge through the proposed
urban“gaps” with social
activities
“How can the heritage trail transport hub be an urban
catalyst that reinstates and revivifies Melaka River as a
historically significant urban threshold of Melaka?”
The role Melaka River once played for being the primary
line of transportation and threshold to the Historic City
of Melaka has now been overtaken by vehicles on the
street, resulting in minimal urban engagement and public
awareness towards the values of the river.
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convergence
divergence
Retail
Retail
Retail Retail
Retail
Retail Retail
Retail Restaurant
Restaurant
Restaurant
Plant
Room
F&B
F&B
pavilion
F&B
F&B
F&B
River
Bridge
Cafe
F&B
“social marina”
F&B
“social marina”
F&B
“social marina”
F&B Kiosk
Hotel
Lobby
Cafe
Cafe
Cafe/
Pub
Cafe
Custom, Immigration &
Quarantine (CIQ) Complex
Casa del Rio
Luxurious
Apartment
Casa del Rio 5-Star Hotel
Quayside Heritage Centre
Royal Custom
Museum
Replica of
“Portugese Ship”
Maritime
Museum
Tuk-tuk Motorcycle
Hire (sunken)
Water Taxi / River Cruise
“transport marina”
Trishaw
(parking area)
Ticket
Counter
Wide & Narrow
The widening and narrowing of building
edges denotes the change of social
programs and spaces
Movings & Stoppings
The social pockets and grand social
spaces, encourages slowing down to
socialize
Social Edges & Transport Edges
The social marinas comes before transport marinas,
encourages higher engagement with the river at the
‘back of house terraces” through f&b programs
Lines of Movements (diverge & converge)
The public diverge at the grand concourse
for transports and bridge walk, converge
and go along the river after the rive bridge
Grd Floor Masterplan
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Museum/
Gallery
Tuk-tuk
Motorcycle Hire
Tower
Lobby
Hotel
Rooms
Hotel
Rooms
2nd Floor Plan
A
A
B
B
c
c
D
D
ZZ
Y Y
A
A
B
B
c
c
D
D
ZZ
Y Y
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1st Floor Plan

The Street Walk
sheltered “urban street” in front of CIQ complex with informal spaces for
market stalls to set up and planter boxes for seatings, and greeted by the
“5-foot-way” of the retail shops
The “Back of House” - Social Marina
series of marina platforms extend out to the “boat-like” food & bever-
age sunken timber spaces, also with steps down to river and concrete
planters for seatings
The “Back of House” - Grand Concourse
double volume grand concourse with main ticket counter and accesses
to the “transport marinas” - water taxi, tuk-tuk motorcycle & pedestrian
river bridge
The River Bridge
1st floor space linking to pedestrian + tuk-tuk motorcycle river bridge,
greeted by the view of the tower beyond the timber screened grand
canopy
Central Courtyard & Large ‘Dining Hall’
informal dining area with the open courtyard as backdrop, and greeted
with series of skylights that introduces the quality of “inside-outside
dining environment within the traditional shophouses”
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Detail Section X-X
Detail Section Y-Y Detail Section Z-Z
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Urban Re-engagement with Melaka River
The idea of urban “gaps” in this project also encourages social porosity between the street and
the river across the vacant shophouses further up the river line, which could potentially be part
of the masterplan with similar social programs like hotels/backpackers, cafes/restaurants, retails,
or even stop points for water taxi/tuk-tuk that will form stronger correlation between the project
and the context.
River Edge Urban Street
Vacant shophouses to be
adaptive reused
River Edge
Urban Street
Project masterplan
(urban “gaps”)
Hotels/Backpackers
Cafes/Restaurants
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Theoretical, Conceptual & Structural Models
Ginkakuji “Silver Pavilion ”(1483) Structural Model
Kyoto, Muromachi Period
2. Rush Hour
3. The space of
a soft carcase
1. In pursuit of
knowledge
Through the notion of
representation, language
and pattern, architecture
can contribute to its
social and cultural
context by putting across
understanding of Hobart
to people.
INSIDE OUTSIDE
Theme: Representation
(significance of water in
Hobart)
JOINTING DETAIL
Theme: Language
(multi-national demographic
pattern in Hobart)
1 2 3
To experience how i walk through both streets in relation to their densities of human flows in response to how i tend
to define or not boundaries between self and the “others” during the everyday stroll along the streets based on my
experiences and memories.
History in Technology & Design
Ando ’s concept of
emptiness & light
Ken Yeang ’s concept of
vertical sky garden
Hadid ’s concept of tension &
anticipation
SURFACE/FAÇADE
Theme: Pattern (image of
“living in the nature” )
Introduction to Sculptures (elective)
Design Research Method
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SOCIAL HUBS @ John Turnbull Park, Hobart
Advance Design Research
This research project
examines the potentials
for utilizing existing
facilities and characteristic
of John Turnbull Park
to construct a social
hub that encourages
social cohesion on this
community park in
Lenah Valley.
Rivulet Edge
encourages greater engagement with the nature of bushland and rivulet.
Art & Performance Edge
encourages appreciation of the graffiti wall, unique ground elements.
Gathering & Eatery Edge
encourages public gatherings around this ‘park’ that has been underused all the time
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Interior Materials & Components (elective)
THE CASTLE - an autonomous mobile housing
Learning by Making (elective)
Featured window frame with lighting panels will turn into interior wall lighting during night time
THE CASTLE, led by Dr. Richard Burnham is a long-term
collaborative project between UTAS School of Architecture and
a local youth-service organisation. The intent is to assist youth
at risk of homelessness through the provision of competitive
temporary accommodation that are spatially clever and capable
of housing one or two occupants as a viable alternative to
mainstream timber-based construction techniques.
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