A Talk With Samuel Wong - Leong Jiang Ling 1001436853

Posted by Unknown September 16, 2017

A Talk With Samuel Wong - Leong Jiang Ling 1001436853

"Architect is a journey of discovering"

A creative, hardworking, and even a person who loves his wife architect, who has a talk with us, Samuel Wong.

He graduated from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia at 2006 and interned in T.T. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn. Bhd. After his interned in Kuala Lumpur, he decided to work in Singapore which can further his view of design.

By this opportunity, he joined Aedas, to discovering more on his journey of architecture. With this talk, we can know him more about his journey to China.

Raffles City, Hangzhou

He joined the part of the biggest project, Raffles City, 2008-2016, at Hangzhou China. It is a project that contains program like, hotel, office, and also an apartment.

Ben van Berkel, Unstudio

The architect of this project is Ben van Berkel, from Unstudio.

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One of the design concepts is the circulation. The landscape is zoned as four spatial experiences, extending from the site periphery to the inner court fronting the built mass. The main landscape circulation stems from the four corner nodes. The west and east nodes spiral downward into the exterior sunken plazas, while the north and south nodes flow into the structural ribbons of the inner atrium.

Exterior Facade

The second concept is the facade tiles. Those tiles reflect the building's activity and landscape to offer pixelated perspectives.

Thirdly, the sustainability. The incorporation of natural ventilation, solar gain and daylighting principles tailored to the local context. It is the first retail mall in China to use natural ventilation on a large scale and has achieved Gold Leed certification.

The building incorporates retail spaces, offices, housing and a hotel.

And from very far away to see, it is like a person standing above the lake.

The design of this opposition is to let people that living at the residential area can look toward the lake around the city.

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Interior View of Retail Mall

There is a center void inside the retail mall that from level 3 to level 7. There is a skylight shine into the building and also a natural ventilation.

There is also several types of void inside this building.

The main entrance is made of glass to let people see through it and provide a sense of welcoming.

After finished his sharing about his project in China, Q&A section started.

Random Guy: Do you think after the student graduated from a university should work in Malaysia or should be like you, traveling to other countries for more develop?

Samuel : I think you should gather more experience in this country, then explore your experience onto the other country. I think architects should discover more rather than staying just one place.

The sharing section ended here. Although we don't have an opportunity to ask more question because of the time limit but we are able to learn what Samuel had shared.