Tony's Garage

southwest perspective

Tony's Garage | raymond road | under construction: the site is a very steep with no courtyard. it has a double story timber house at rear of the propoerty. The client Tony wants a double garage for his part time joy - car workshop, also his wife Michelle and the kids want courtyard area that would improve the quality of their outdoor living. 

Due to the site condition, the garage has to constrcuted on the street boundary and it covers most of the propoerty width. Avoid creating garage door that shut off the street is one of the important design aspect. 

The solution is to articulate, reduce visual impact, sun lit and greening the street.  articulate by having feature wall, high quality texture and pattern to the garage frame and doors; reduce the visual impact by having glass balustrade, widening and set back stair access and placing feature plants.  

southeast perspective

concept 1 | southeast perspective 

Concept 1 | night aspect 

concept 1 | courtyard  

concept 1 | access  

concept 2 | southeast perspective 

concept 2 | night aspect 

concept 2 | courtyard 

concept 2 | access 

Sketch of roof structure detail and decorative pattern from traditional chinese architecture. I believe the best way to understainding architecture is by drawing (and of course also by experience buildings). It's fun to draw too.

newcastle university city campus

Newcastle university school of architecture and built environment newcastle city campus: proposal of a university campus in newcastle CBD. the design features two main part; student's building and teacher's building. there are connected by common space, through site walkway and common space. it provide privacy for strudents and lectures, however there also common space student and lectures can meet everyday to discuss subjects. 

The building consist shops facing street for street activity and service to building users. at basement level there is huge two-stories deep open gallary for display students work. above are two levels of open studio space. above the studio is the green rooftop court for all kinds of student's activites, concerts, meeting and parties. lecters building consists library at lower level and offices above. on top of all, the lecture theater set in the air about two stories above the green rooftop that is supported by structural post of all different position and angle. 

The lifted theater provides coverage to green rooftop. the green rooftop increases activity floor spaces in the city and also provide sustainable roof to the building. the studio floors all have circular voids which allow maxium natural light penetrate through studio spaces. sun shading approch also apply to walkway stairway areas.     





salk community center

Salk Community Center: this is a proposal of a community center for salk institute (scientific research facility in California). brief is to provide recreational area for on campus researchers and thire families. the design proposal include gym, pool, libaray, concert hall, staff office and restaurant. 

This site is located on a cliff top with great ocean view. graint public walkway cut through the building which will lead public to main entry and at the end of the walkway it becomes great viewing platform to cliff and ocean. playful roof structures are inspired by surrounding interesting landscape dancing its way towards the pacific ocean...



urban tokyo

Urban Tokyo: the site is located within 1 kilometer of CBD. The challanging of this project is its small building envelope 3m x 3m x 7m. The client is high profile professional bachelor. He spend most of the time out. This building will only used for sleep and small group friends meeting. No kitchen and bothroom to be required.

The building consist living space at the ground floor level with double height ceiling above lounge and one bike parking space; tatami sleeping area at the second level with double height ceiling; on the third floor there are toliets, office and guitar playing area. The double height spaces are maximised to make the place feels bigger.  

laman housing

Laman housing: located at Newcastle CBD with ocean view to second stories. close to contemporary art district, landmark architectures and parks. The objective of this architecural development is to creat a contemporary landmark to suit local art culture, increase city's attraction to tourists, enrich activity in the city, maxim units on site and carparking to comply DCP requirments.    

The whole design inspired by 'tree house' concept. By elevating houses in the air and Houses are supported by posts that placed unevenly across the site. This provide intresting effect on the ground level as well as above ground. It maximise usable space both on ground courtyards and floor spaces. The construction are using contemporary perfabrication methods that provide cost effective result and also emphasise contemporary idea that within this project.