Building Material

Building Material

Building Material is study of material from all aspect including characteristic, function, form, texture and etc. This module held 3 credit hours of my semester 1.

Project 1: Space Out- the material cube

In this very first project of the assignment, we are assigned to explore two type of material, timber and paper. Then we have to make a cube with 12 inch x 12 inch x 12 inch carrying specific space with by using the characteristic of the material.

Reflection:

In this project, I would proudly to say that my friend and I are the only few students that stands out the characteristic of the material which we explore the characteristic of the material first instead of start designing the cube. I used the bouncy characteristic for paper while solid, straight and pointy for timber.

Project 2: Materiality of Space - An Experiential Exploration

In this project, there are two part. Part A is group work which we have to choose a interesting building with interesting material which we can explore more than 15 types of material. 

Part A

Board 1

Board 2

Board 3

Board 4 (Mood Board)

Reflection:

In this part of project, we find that material they used to construct the Pod Pavilion is very few and exposed but then when we look closely analyzing and exploring, we found that we can group them into several types! The outcome is unexpected as we didn't expect we can find that much of materials from this building. This project had taught me that every building, every structure and even every material they choose, there must be a reason behind either commercial, financial, weather or etc.

Part B

Part B is individual part which is also choosing a colonial era shophouse from downtown Kuala Lumpur to study the relationship of material and space.

Reflection:


Shophouses are a very hot and love by many in Malaysia which is one of the biggest trend in South East Asia. Well, every time I do research related to shophouses, it gives me more and more surprise. I did research with shophouse tracking back when I was in foundation year last year. From this project, it taught me lesson about preserving the heritage and how our ancestor get full use of those material back in time when technology wasn't that good as today. I am so proud of our ancestor!