News – Caleb Ong

Character

October 9, 2026 No Comments

how you treat people and how you make people feel will be remembered for life although humans grow, mistakes are made, and apologies may be given, certain damage will no longer be curable there is no excuse for ignorance, adolescence, or innocence that makes certain actions forgivable actions speak of one’s character a good character treats people equally and with respect a good character does not abuse their power when they have power at hand a good character protects with their knives from the stronghold, not one who uses the knives against the weak a good character understands the

Room x Living ASEAN Design Talk 2024 at BITEC, Bangkok

October 5, 2024 No Comments

“room x Living Asean Design Talk 2024” event with the topic “(Re)Thinking Inside the Box: Vol.1 Living in Small Urban Spaces” will be held at the Baan Lae Suan (Home and Garden) Fair Midyear 2024 on August 4, 2024. Our topic: Interplay between urban and landscape Activity: Design Talk – (Re)Thinking Inside the Box: Vol.1 Living in Small Urban Spaces – Date: Sunday, August 4, 2024 – Time: 13:00 – 17:00 – Location: BITEC Bangna, Bangkok, Thailand – (https://goo.gl/maps/tJkTepDgUVSBUatH9) – Language: English Theme: Exploring small living spaces that reflect the challenges in the context of urban areas.

How to design RC planter

January 21, 2023 No Comments

The following is documentation of what I’ve learned from proposing and supervising the making of typical Reinforced Concrete (RC) planter boxes. It shall be continually updated accordingly. Open Planter = Planter with soil mix directly connecting to the earthClosed Planter = Planter with Slab underneath the soil mix (like a pot) You may learn how to design a RC planter box from the following scenario and case studies:(Do correct me if I am wrong on any aspect) Scenario 1: Raised Open Planter with Seating Ledge early site condition Planter RC Ledge Structural Sketch site condition when the planter box

Ground Zero

December 24, 2020 No Comments

Ground Zero is a vision that aims to provide the ultimate publicness on future urban spaces under Formzero’s design philosophy. Level G 0 Full Ground Zero A1 Drawing “Ground Zero is a future urban space, which is a dimension inserted in between a floating city and underground infrastructure Ground Zero is apolitical Ground Zero is shared by all human beings and animals Ground Zero is boundaryless Ground Zero has neither vehicle nor controlled movement Ground Zero only provides ultimate publicness” -write up and sketches by Lee Cherng Yih The content, concept. and presentation configuration are all discussed and confirmed

Three themes and massing studies " Fun, Cowork, Park/Romance " has been proposed based on the data collected from several survey and research conducted to the target user group ( Youth/Gen Y Generation ). The preference-based design is aligned wit

F3

February 24, 2019 No Comments

The project and research are directed towards the younger generation within the market. It explores the possibility of the extension and stacking of building facilities vertically as part of the facade within a limited piece of land as an added value and attraction to the target user based on their preferences and flexible needs. The three elements being focused are “Facilities, Facade, and Flexibility (F3)”. Three themes and massing studies “Fun, Cowork, Park/Romance” has been proposed based on the data collected from several survey and research conducted to the target user group (Youth/Gen Y Generation). The preference-based design is aligned