In this project, we are assigned to conduct a site analysis on a selected location in Taylor's University Lakeside Campus. The site is located nearby the futsal court next to the road. The space must have consist of security guard post or tower, a sport recreation space for student and it must be related to the site as much as possible.
My group decided to design a board game cafe instead of fancy sport my other course-mate proposed. The reason we chosen board is because it is an mental sport, game and a relaxing activity to let out of stress while they can wait their transportation or while waiting for their basketball friend to meet. The site is also ideal for security guard post as it is one of the blind spot of security in that area. The design of the cafe also situated on the contour neatly with minimal excavation as there are sewerage pipe underneath it. A lot of consideration has been made in this design especially shading device and circulation.
making progress of our final designed model
conceptual, mockup and draft model
final model of our design
another perspective of our final design
another perspective of our final design
contextual model with landscape study
contextual model with landscape study
contextual model with landscape study
Presentation board
an overview of our presentation board
However, to have a clear and straight forward presentation of our design, we made a short video to showcase our space by walk through animation.
Reflection:
Personally, i love this project, it give me a lot of opportunity to convert my creativity onto my building design, providing comfort, rational and contemporary design. In this project, I also met some misunderstanding issue within my groupmate which I find she is a little bit hard to communicate with since she is a little bit of lazy to do the work. However, we managed to finish the project according to the schedule we had planned since early stage. This project was one of the project that I had ever designed in my life as architecture student. I also would like to thanks Miss Alina for guiding us throughout the project as this will be impossible without her tutorial and guidance.
Project 2A: Site Analysis (Gateway to Royal Belum)
For this project, we are assigned into different group to conduct a larger scale of site analysis compared with project one at Pulau Banding, Perak. Our site is located 500 meters away from Belum Rainforest Resort.
In this part of project, I am assigned to Miss Anne group yet I am responsible on producing site plan as leader of CADing group.
Board 1
Board 2
Board 3
Board 4
Site Plan produced by my CADing Group and I
Site Elevation and Section produced by my group and I
our model
Reflection:
For this project, I learned a lot about synchronizing with other group to workout the model and the site plan at the same time. The site plan is too big for me to finish alone so I need a good communication with my members and a schedule to keep my progress on track while doing work. It is one of my most tiring week in semester 4 but I love it !
Project 2B: The Nature Appreciation Center
In project 2B, we are assigned to design a nature appreciation center (NAC).
According to my research and study, kids (high school or primary school student) like cool stuff instead of cute stuff and they don't like spoon feeding education which is effective yet limiting their imagination like what our education ministry did in Malaysia.
Youngster nowadays, like thing that is easy to understand, to explore yet they can't tell whether if it is right or wrong everytime so that is why education is so important that it affect the way they think, they judge and their action.
For my concept, I found that my concept is pressing hard on unity or union that unite everyone to stand against deforestation. Belum Rainforest Reserve is declare as a state park instead of national park which mean it is still reachable for logging activity or already under logging activity. Human is smart but not too smart for assuming nature like a credit card without a spending limit.
By raising awareness of important of taking care the environment, we can flip the truth around, instead of being polluted and finding solution to solve global warming, why not we stop ourself from causing the issue to happen.
The approach of design of my NAC is to connect spiritually with visitor to feel and be a part of nature by joining activities such as camping or even having a cup of tea at the cafe.
North elevation
View from cafe stepping up from stairs
walkway to hammock for adult
View from tree house
Art & Craft workshop
Cafe
View from Nature Gallery
View from Entrance
Fire Pit
Observation deck and hammock
The Atrium
study models
during my presentation
Reflection:
Since highschool, I was taught not to be judging book by its cover, by reality is the another way round. I am weak in sketching as one of the crit said that my drawing is worst than her daughter's drawing. I am very sad of that comment yet i tried to spend nights to produce the drawing, instead of motivating me he actually demotivated me. The comment from the presentation was very bad as she never really look at my design and keep picking problems which is not from my standard to overcome. I knew that I wasn't good enough yet but at least encourage me to keep me passion in seeking my path in Architecture ? I love architecture because it educated me deeply inside out, teaching and guiding me not only become an architect but becoming a person with passion, creative and much more! In studio 4, most of the tutors are demotivating their students instead of giving them motivation as I asked few friend from others group and they came up with same respond. I tried my best to do everything I could just I am not good at presenting my idea and I am still sharpening my presentation skills yet it seems like they aren't giving us a chance to present. I hope this kind of issue won't appear in my future studio as I get a pretty good tutor in studio 4 which I considering myself as a lucky one, My tutor always guide me with her positive encouragement that give me boost in my design although i don't really think she 100% understand my design yet she did encourage me. Encouragement is all we need to finish off a project, not harsh crit that actually demotivating the students. However, for this project I learned a lot about global warming issue and ways to reduce carbon foot print in my design. The approach of my design is to provide a good user experience with relaxing mood and raising awareness at the same time. I was happy that the project was finally over since it is very tiring and disappointing especially for the crit session which I didn't get the feed back i am seeking for.
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