ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO // SHOKI KOH

CONTENTS
Resume 3
One // Khia 4
Two // Musubi ( 結 び) 14
Three // Stack’D Up 25
Four // Symbiotic Village 36
Five // The Rejuvenating Afterlife 45
Six // The Jalan Tenteran Pod-kets 54
CONTENTS
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EDUCATION
TEMASEK PRIMARY SCHOOL
Class of 2009
TEMASEK SECONDARY SCHOOL
Class of 2013
SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC
Class of 2017 (Diploma in Architecture)
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
Class of 2022 (B. Hons Architecture)
WORK
INTERNSHIP - STUDIOGOTO
Mar- Jun 2016
ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT - STUDIOGOTO
Sep 2016, May-Jul 2017, Jun-Jul 2019
COMPETITIONS
2015/2016 BCA-CDL GREENSPARKS COMPETITION
Champion
YAC GREEN ACADEMY COMPETITION
May- Aug 2016
RESUME
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One // Khia

Khia
The project is named after the Hokkien word for home, “khia”, as it strives to fortify and enhance the
important elements of the Commonwealth neigbourhood.
It is aimed at creating a space of a greatersocial hierarchy for the neighbourhood to gather and
experience. The contours of the buildings surrounding the site revolves around the central open area. It is
located between the two most important buildings in the neighbourhood; the market and the church.
SITE PLAN
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The connectivity can be seen through the model by the orientation of the blocks to form voids that bond
the two buildings. The multi-leveling of the form is meant to match the topography of the site, as it
slopes upwards towards the north as well as to pair with the lower rising church and market structures.
The staggering of blocks is to create interesting voids between them that allows each form to breathe and
express itself.
The bridge makes way for greater interaction of the blocks (and residents) that creates a more unified
form. It also acts as a subtle buffer between the church and market by providing an interesting space to
experience and journey through.
In order to give residents the most complete experience of the space, the void connecting the church and
market have been made fully pedestrial. The service spaces (vehicular circulation and waste disposal)
have been organised in the northern portion of the plot.
PROCESS
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SECTIONAL DETAIL
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PART PLAN
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UNIT PART PLAN
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TOILET SECTIONAL DETAIL
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BUILDING PLAN DRAWING
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RENDERED PERPECTIVE
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RENDERED PERPECTIVE
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Two // Musubi ( 結 び)

Musubi ( 結 び)
The intent of Musubi is to create an atmosphere that fosters a highly collective and collaborative work life. This notion is in response to the lack of
interaction of the old and new practices within Chinatown; the contemporary business mostly to the southeast and north and the older ones to the west.
Hence, Musubi serves as a common ground for enterprises (within and beyond) to synergize.
The opportunity to integrate the practices would allow for the offices to engage in cross-disciplinary learning, promoting professional business growth.
This sentiment is what informs the architectural composition of the spaces, forging a collaborative passage through the building. The journey is based
on the conglomeration of the 3 nodes leading up to a series of shared spaces that weaves through the building in a linear ascension. This conceives
thresholds that ties the levels together. Within the levels itself, office spaces are arranged in clusters that share a common entry point. These grounds
serves as thresholds where the offices would fill up and make their own, animating the space according to their office culture.
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SITE PLAN
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RENDERED PERPECTIVE
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RENDERED PERPECTIVE
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SECTIONAL PERPECTIVE
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RENDERED PERPECTIVE
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PART PLAN
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FACADE STRATEGY
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SECTIONAL DETAIL
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SECTIONAL DETAIL
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Three // Stack’D Up

PROGRAM
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PLAN / ELEVATION / CONSTRUCTION STRATEGY
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CROSS VENTILATION STRATEGY
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HEAT STACKING STRATEGY
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FACADE DETAILING / CONSTRUCTION DETAILING
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FURNITURE DETAILING
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RENDERED PERPECTIVES
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RENDERED PERPECTIVE
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Four // Symbiotic Village

Symbiotic Village
How do you unite a people of different skillsets, ideologies and
backgrounds to work for a common goal?
Our starting point was to firstly see how the existing structure
could congregate people from all walks of life; from start-up
entrepreneurs to researchers, students and visitors. The building
will ultimately be inhabited by people, and it is up to them to
determine whether the building can become the hallmark of
ecology and technology - this will be the outcome of unification
to a common vision: a leading example of what the best training
centre could be to the world, out of a small industrial town in
Marzabotto.
MODULE STRATEGY
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PROCESS
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EXPLODED AXONOMETRY
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RENDERED PERPECTIVES
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SECTIONAL STRATEGIES
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SECTIONAL PERPECTIVE
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SECTIONAL PERPECTIVE
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ENTRANCE ELEVATION
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Five // The Rejuvenating Afterlife

The Rejuvenating Afterlife
The project aims to provide a bio-ethical death care alternative, turning deceased
into compost; to return to the Earth as nourishment instead of pollution, a
widespread occurrence in contemporary death care practices like burial and
cremation.
The coming of the recent epidemic has brought forth concerns across all industries
globally. In Balestier, specifically, it carries the threat of accelerating the death
rate of the prominently old population. This old population, aged 65 and above,
represents 20% of Balestiers’ 32,000 residences, twice that of the national average.
With the average life expectancy hovering at about 84 years, the 6,000 elderly folks
will pass on within the next 20 years at about 5 deaths a week, based on the previrus
conditions.
Looking at the highest figures of new daily cases and death probability of the
infected from the United States (October 30th and August 12 respectively), one of
the hardest hit countries, Singapore would succumb to a death a day from those
rates.
That makes 12 combined deaths a week.
The project situates itself on the defunct Communicable Disease Centre plot (now
reformed as National Centre for Infectious Diseases, NCID, within the Tan Tock
Seng Hospital Complex). It weaves itself through the seams of the existing matured
trees which then acts as the centre pieces which the compost mounds orbits
around; to push the notion of compost as a powerful methodology to help the
deceased and the loved ones transition through death.
The litters of packed trees up north create a series of pocket spaces ideal for wakes
where the loved ones gather and mourn privately. The wake, too, serves to get the
mourners involved in preparing the body for composting. This gets the mourners
to engaged in ceremonial process wetting of the body and scattering of wood chips
as part of the new death processioning. The mourners then travel with the body
to the composting rooms around the matured trees where the body remains to
compost in a six weeks long process.
It is during the six weeks where the body begins to breakdown and turn into
compost. While the composting is underway, loved ones would visit to pay their
respects in the private rooms screened off from the public. Once the body have
been fully composted, the loved ones would retrieve them and may choose to
scatter the compost around the lush greenery around and within the site or take
them away for other nourishing uses. This conclusion marks the return of the being
to the earth, looping back into the full circle of life.
EMOTIVE IMAGE
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PROGRAM
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PROCESS
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PROCESS
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SITE TREE CROWN MAPPING
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FORM MAKING STRATEGY
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SECTIONAL PERPECTIVE
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FIRST STOREY PLAN / ROOF PLAN
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Six // The Jalan Tenteran Pod-kets

SITE ANALYSIS
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ELEVATION
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PLAN
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POD VARIATIONS
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SITE LAYOUT
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RENDERED PERPECTIVE
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RENDERED PERPECTIVE
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