Sem3 Design

Design

Project 01: EXPLORING ABSTRACTION (20%)       2 WEEKS

Students are required to design a piece of artwork that expresses the understanding and developing the idea through concept and experiment. The artwork which using 100% recycle materials and plywood as the based should be in 3 dimensional as the final result. The inclusion of one (1) local sense in the concept is a must to become the main subject.

A concept is an abstraction or generalization from experience or the result of a transformation of existing concepts. From the concept, students have to experiment the understanding then throw the idea to become a concepts. From the concept, students have to experiment the understanding then throw the idea to become a concept. Concepts are treated in many if not most disciplines both openly, such as in psychology , philosophy, things in the real world or the ideas.

 Project 02: RESEARCH: [Site inventory] group work + [Design & Subject] individual- window display (30%) 3 weeks

Description:

The understanding of the site, location, context, circulation, surroundings etc, needs to be look into (SWOT). Furthermore, substantial information and knowledge about the subject itself needs to be considered.

Introduction regarding the brand and organization begin this stage, students required to choose 1 brand and understand the process of the product and also the corporate identity. After all, students have to design a window display to attract customers and at the same time to dressing the façade of the retail shop to make a better impression to the customers.

Window display, also known as shop window and store window is a window in a shop displaying items for sale and the designed to attract customers to the store. Usually, the term refers to the huge windows in the front façade of the shop.

Project 03: LIGHT INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT +RETAIL+FAÇADE (50%)

9 weeks

Description

You are required to look into the primary functions the exploration and industrial product retail shop; the activities, the relationship between human factors and spaces; design approach, conceptual and design thinking on how the product and facility should operate, way findings, graphic identification etc. Find good design strategies and possibilities to develop ‘intelligent’ design solutions.

sem 3 visual communication

Introduction of myself! Im kah wen, 20, an interior architecture student who came from Sabah.  Im a simple people who likes paint, eat delicious food and make alot of friends. I always wish to be a brave and strong, positive person with creative ideas and cool living style!

A quick visualization of our design lecture. Its actually about the local sense which i was doing research in design subject--coconut. 

Favourite festival. Of course it is going to Chinese New Year.

An unforgettable journey. I have visualized one of my best experience in my life, mount kinabalu climbing.  

Food preparation. Burger is always something easy to get XD

Favourite movie. Titanic is the most touching movie which i have ever watched!

Visualization about Technology 3, so i decided to visualize out basic introduction to building services

Ipoh trip journey. It was absolutely the best trip in 2015, I think its because of great people in this course. Lovely coursemates and great lecturers. 

Review: Place vs Space

Review: Place vs Space

We all are human. Human have sense. Human body moves, sees, smells, touches, hears and even tastes within a space, then architecture comes to life. Prominent neuroscientists across the global have actually proved that images of the brain in action and emotion are placed in the main place, asserting that thinking is emotion-base intuitive and fast. In this review, based on the topic, Space, I actually stand to my point: understand how does a space work and then applied it in community life which giving benefit.

The readers I have chosen are “Come to your senses”, by Catherine Warren LeoneIe and “Traveling, Inhabiting, & Experiencing,  A phenomenology for public transit”， by Lena Hopsch, Marco Cesario, and Rachel McCann. In usual life, architecture design only rely more on primary sense—visual.  However, this is very unfortunate as senses do really enhance the emotions. From my review, there is also saying that addressing historic , traditional or present-day cultural patterns can make a work of architecture a success when the senses are transmitted and conveyed effectively. In directly, emotion then affect the interaction between space and after that goes to memory.  Just exactly fit to what my reader says, “the architect must act as a compressor that orchestrates space into a synchronization for function and beauty through the senses--and how the human body engages space is of prime importance.

Other than that, my reader takes bus terminal as example. In public transit, efficient movement and way finding are often at odds with human identify and environmental presence. In the reader it is mentioned that bus terminal is considered as a space for travellers and travelling but also offering affordances to the activities of that area. Considered as an Agora which with so much movement and also interaction, for example ticket area, shoplots, waiting area ,etc..  Besides,  bus terminal is a kind of crowded space ,the ambience and architecture  qualities inside actually bring the effect that encourage users to engage fully with the space. So, it is then let people feel like more willing to join in interaction, participation and exchange with others.

Bus terminal proved to me that spaces bring ambience and sense. So, how about we apply this knowledge on somewhere meaningful?  The area I chose is art street. In my research, I found that art street always lead to two opinions, either in term of vandalism or appreciating art. Then why don’t we just apply the theory of sense and change the typical bad to a good one. My reader says “Emotions affects awareness, consideration, persuasion, recall and loyalty. “Sometimes, architecture is not only about function and beauty, it can be more than that. We can take good use of it in order to contribute in community rather than just leave it as a useless space. For example, there is a famous street art artist ROA he has drawn a lot of animal street art in order to raise up awareness about endangered animal. As the result of a survey, people feel good to see these kind of fun interact space and they also raised up their awareness effectively.

Conclusion, in my opinion I think that architecture is not only about function and aesthetic, it should works closer to our daily life and as human we should use our knowledge in this area and building its advantage to contribute to community. By engaging all of the sense, form and function may be more fully expressed so occupants can have deeper and more meaningful spaces.