Friday, January 6, 2012

Overdue 2.0

This post was overdue too, should've been up in 2011, my bad, AGAIN~
Photo montage of design on site
Project : Hiker's lodge
Task : Design a hiker's clubhouse . Design must be site and user specific.

Design concept : To not disrupt the main circulation on site, by integrating it into the design.

 Form : Follows the natural curves of the site contour and build around existing trees.

Final model at scale 1:100

For this assignment, I had chose to go ORGANIC , mostly because I form the spaces based on the curvy contours on site, as stated above .Another reason is cz hiker's love excitements and challenges, and curves are perfect to express that :) The thing I like most about this design is the sharp U-turn along the rocky ramp which turns back and into the clubhouse, forming the entrance *Quite a dramatic entrance, lol* Reason I like it is because at the sharp U-turn point, there is no walls and it's freaking 4m high. So standing there, it will seem as if you're at the edge of a clift, with no ropes attached, that's kinda scary no?

Final presentation board. READ TO UNDERSTAND DESIGN MORE.


External crit went pretty well, despite the part where I had really terrible cough and flu. It made me sound like a duck =.= Loveeeee my crit, Mr.Gary, he's  a-w-e-s-o-m-eeee.  His opinions and feedback, priceless :) Hope he'll be there for my next crit, by then, I hope I have improvements to show that'll make him proud~

Self-rating : Good, but can be better. Lots and lots of improvements awaits me :)

and with this, I shall lay down a big fat full stop to sem2. *cheers for surviving another sem* :D

Overdue.

Due date for this post was wayyyyyy long time ago, should've been up 2 weeks after returning from Korea. Haha my bad~ ^.^''

Project : Caretaker's Studio.
Task : Design a studio for the hiker's club caretaker, within a 6x6x6m boundary at the selected site (Penang National Park). Design must be both user and site specific.

Creature scanning exercise that aided in design concept.
Sketch models to final model.
Drawings by sze :)
Exploded axo by mua~
Really love manual axo, spent 6 hrs on this lil baby :3
Credits to the ultimate groupmate, sze <3


Self-rating : Satisfactory  :)