stephanie yeow design portfolio

Stephanie Yeow734-730-6848

SkillsTraditional Media:watercolor, life-drawing, woodworking, clay sculpting, model-making

Computer Aided Design:Autodesk RevitAutoCADRhinoceros 3DAdobe PhotoshopAdobe IllustratorAdobe InDesignSketchupMasterCAM Grasshopper

Digital Fabrication:CNC MillingLaser Cutting

Digital Media:Documentary FilmDigital Photography

Design & Build:WikiHouse DevelopmentLarge scale wood installation

Real Estate Development:Elective SeminarDevelopment of proposals and financial pro forma

English, Malay, Indonesian

MandarinBeginner :

Languages:Fluent :

[email protected]

2260 Fuller Ct, Apt 2Ann Arbor, MI48105

Student AwardsUniversity of Melbourne Student Travel Grant (2012)

Superstudio Design Competition Regional FinalistStudent Organised Network for Architects (SONA)

Publications/Exhibitions

SPARKS 3 (2012) Architecture Student Catalog

Architecture and Design Film Festival New York (2010)‘Headspace’ Exhibition with Prof. Stanislav Roudavski

Taubman College Annual Student ShowFall Graduate Studio Work Exhibition

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Education

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Volunteer ExperienceEPIC Homes : Non- profit community building, MalaysiaEngagement Facilitator in indigenous communitiesVolunteer community builder of one complete house

Experimentia : International Biennale of Media Art, AustraliaMedia Art Curator for Robotics and digital media exhibition

Melbourne Open House, AustraliaShift Manager and organizing tours for visitors

University of Michigan, USAMaster of Architecture

University of Melbourne, AustraliaBachelor of Environments

Architectural Association, UKSummerMake Visiting School

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Professional Experience

Archicentre Sdn Bhd, MalaysiaArchitect Assistant : team design and development, assist in project coordination, drafting and visualization

Arkitek Perakanan Sdn. Bhd, MalaysiaStudent Architect : 3D modelling and visualization

Andrew Bartle Studio, New York, USASpring Break Student Externship : model-making forcommunity board presentation

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‘barlow’s playground’ public-private developmentmelbourne cbd

‘sea of lights’

parametric mediaproject proposalwyndham city

‘borrowed land-scape’

boathousestudley park

‘1 holmwood place’

construction de-sign and detailing

‘desaru south course’

commercial master-planning, project

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‘water symphony’design through making

architecturalassociationvisiting schooldorset park

‘unearthing’

visitorculturaland historicalcentreherring island

‘modern florist’headspace

digital designprototypingand fabrication

‘transient city’

speculative futures thinking

sona national com-petition 2011

photography

visualcommunication

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‘water symphony’design through making

architecturalassociationvisiting schooldorset park

‘unearthing’

visitorculturaland historicalcentreherring island

‘modern florist’headspace

digital designprototypingand fabrication

‘transient city’

speculative futures thinking

sona national com-petition 2011

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‘Borrowed Landscape’

A tribute to Tadao Ando- Boathouse in Studley Park

‘Sea of Lights’

Parametric media projectproposal in Whndham City

‘Modern Florist’

Digital design, prototyping and fabrication

‘Seeing RED’

Promiscuous architecture for visual representation


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‘Water Symphony’

Design through making : Architectural Association

Visiting School

‘Digital Fabrication’

Digital design and fabricationCNC Milling and 3D Printing

‘Desaru South Course’

Commercial mas-terplanning, project design & development

‘Barlow’s Playground’

Public-private development in Melbourne’s CBD

‘GROW ON: Detroit’

Mapping, speculating and projecting for cities

‘Within The Walls’

Comprehensive Housing Studio

Within The Wallcomprehensive studioassisted living housing: Austin, TexasWinter 2015 graduate design studiocritic :mick kennedy

MULTIGENERATIONALHOUSINGFRANZISKA ULLMAN & PETER EBNERVIENNA,AUSTRIA, 1998-2001

Drawings prepared by: Stephanie Yeow

LIGHT & INTERACTION SCALE: 1:50

AXONOMETRIC VIEWSCALE: 1:200

FLOOR PLANSCALE: 1:100

LOW KITCHEN WALL

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ELEMENTS

Relationship :The windows are intentionally designed to be low and within the bedroom and kitchen space so that the elderly confined to the bed can watch the passing of time while the couple enjoying their meal in the kitchen can wave and greet their neighbours pass-ing through the pathway.

Consideration :The low kitchen wall allows for the resident to have full views of the space and outside, to avoid feel-ing enclosed even in a small space

The different exterior wall colors distinguish the different unit types within the building

Bedroom

Threshold

Pathway

Window

Orientation of bedroom win-dos to morning sun promotes wellbeing of eldery residents

UNIT TYPES

Assisted Living Units

The focus on the comprehensive studio this semester was on the theme of ‘Elemental En-counters’ whereby singular details hold genera-tive power to impact the development of spatial organization in plan, section, mass and volume in response to the design challenges in housing the elderly. Typical housing studios often view the‘unit’ as an irreducible cell. Nevertheless, this project approach the elemental of the ‘kitchen’, the ‘door’ and the ‘wall’ as three key spaces to promote interaction in multigenerational living and thus possess the strength to generate archi-tecture which can impact day to day living.

Inspired by the site in Austin, Texas - this project draws reference from the relevance of courtyards in warm climate to propose a scheme based on the rationalization of the Mexican hacienda and the economic and social value in Accesory Dwelling Units in order to develop a new model for multigenerational housing.

Multigenerational Housing StudyPrecedent studies on development and execution of multigenerational housing with a focus on

the architectural elements and their relationship to one another in assisted living

The Mexican Hacienda

A ranch or estate with thick walls

surrounding inner productive and

courtyard spaces

Site planThe site plan strategy takes on the organiza-tion of a surrounding productive wall around the perimeter with clusters of units embedded within. These unit clusters are organized around a communal kitchen

Mick Kennedy-StudioStephanie Yeow, Yuxuan Sun

Between the wallARCH 562 · SYSTEMS STUDIO · WINTER 2015

Second Floor Site PLanOn the second floor, there are a series of ‘micro-units’ or efficiency units with basic am-menities which host users which service others in the residential complex

Mick Kennedy-StudioStephanie Yeow, Yuxuan Sun

Between the wallARCH 562 · SYSTEMS STUDIO · WINTER 2015

E. Caesar Chavez St

Willow Street

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Accesory Unit

Family Unit

Communal Kitchen

Boundary Circulation

Entrances and Egress

Productive Wall

Ammenities Recreation

Vertical AccessMicro Units

Site Strategy Ground floor plans indicating interal walkaways and relationship of unit clusters to the shared communal kitchen and ammenities in the wall. (R) Upper floor plan

showing the efficiency units which support the program of assisted living

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Elemental Studies

Progressive model making studies allowed for experimentation of different elemental details within the housing unit. Materials, textures, colors and composi-tion within the architectural elements were explored in relation to the human scale and the program of assisted living.

Plans(L) Ground floor plans indicating interal walkaways and relationship of unit clusters

to the shared communal kitchen and ammenities in the wall. (R) Upper floor plan showing the efficiency units which support the program of assisted living

Final Unit Cluster ModelMaterials used for the model indicate their construction typology and relationship between parts to the program. The materials used were stained balsa wood, corrugated cardboard, craft paper,

foam core and medium density fiber board

The boundary wall is porous and inhabitable. Here, the wall becomes an interior courtyard and vertical garden

Diego hangs out in the indoor courtyard in the afternoon to cool off from the heat. He meets his friend John and they catch up.

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A Day In The LifeExploration of the experience within the walls and the interaction between the elemental and the

architectural through inhabitation

Long ElevationVisualization from the main street view on E. Cesar Chavez St. This elevation interacts with

the street frontage and the layers on the exterior of the wall affects the street atmosphere. The corner of the elevation becomes the intersection for entering the wall

Increase Density

Increasing Density

There are two levels of density explored in the project which reflect both the spatial and atmospheric experience while still keeping within the theme of ‘Elemental Encounters’. The scale of the proposed project is intentionally kept smaller but in order to maintain the validity of the pro-posal, this project explores the changes in construction system which can allow for increased densification. A maximum of 4 storey walk-up is allowable without the need for elevator shafts and ADA accesibility is still provided on the ground floor.

Building Information

Overall Building Area : 60,000 sq ftUnit Types : 3Family Unit : 18,000 sq ftEfficiency Unit : 7,800 sq ftAssisted Living Unit : 6,000 sq ftParking space : 19Total parking area : 3,600 sq ftAmmenity area : 20,000 sq ftFAR : 0.9Site coverage : 79%Family Units : 16Efficiency Units : 24

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GROW ON: Detroitspeculative networks in the sharing economyfall 2014 graduate design studiocritic :assistant professor kathy velikov

This project looks at the rise of the sharing econ-omy introduced by Jeremy Rifkin in “Zero Mar-ginal Cost Society”. Cities today have largely be-come part of a network of resources and human capital. The project examines this new landscape as a model for rebuilding Detroit through the mode of speculative design as defined by design-ers Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby.

There are three components to the design ; firstly a mapping study of the urban typologies of Midtown Detroit in a collective book titled ‘Mid-town Morphologies’. Then, the work takes the form of documentary filmmaking to understand the nature of artist collaboratives in the sharing economy of Detroit from the ground.

Finally, by building on a set of value codes as design tools, this project takes the form of a prototypical living space and artist gallery within an active greenhouse. Small residential pods are nested in between bands of productive green spaces and artist exhibition galleries. This hybrid of programs aims to speculate on the relation-ships that exist between food cooperatives and artists collaboratives in shaping the city. There-fore, the residents of the Woodward Collaborative are not just casual inhabitants of Midtown, but pioneers in manifesting the sharing economy as a new model for rebuilding Detroit.

Excerpt from ‘Midtown Morphologies’A transect depicting the atmosphere moving through Midtown Detroit by vehicle

Still shots from the 10 minute documentary ‘genART : Detroit’ Interviews and study of artist collaborative spaces in Detroit, Michigan

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