Monday 21 March 2011

The Wait is Finally Over!

The past weeks were full of disturbing incidents hence lack of sleep, but finally when the Admission and Records of IIUM office emailed me the result of my application to KAED... now I can finally eat and sleep without worrying so much about it...

Oh yeah! The result is... drumroll please...

I'M IN!!!!



Now that I think of it, the nearly 2 hours of interview by Applied Arts and Design lecturer and 2 Deputy Deans in KAED, is totally worth it!

To be honest, that was the first time I've been interviewed. Though a week before the interview I was in total control and composed, I was in wreck the morning of that day. I was so nervous, I went to the toilet like 5 times! I couldn't think straight, I took wrong buses to the faculty building, and thought the back side of the building is the front side of the building.

Though I got there half an hour early, I forgot to bring my certificates. I sneaked in an eraser during the drawing test - but eventually being confiscated by one of the Deputy Deans, and until this day, I actually couldn't recall clearly what did I blabbered about throughout the interview but not until after I showed the three interviewers my e-portfolio - my serial planes that I worked on a week before coming here.

All in all, I think it's safe to say that getting into KAED was something that I worked on all by myself - of course by the recommendations by the Deputy Deans in KAED so I would like to thank them for the opportunity given to me and hereby I promise that I'll work hard - and if I don't, well... make me, threat me with anything...

... I guess this is a point in my life where I'm about to embark on new journey - that I supposed to take long ago... So, wish me luck!

Monday 14 March 2011

Materiality

Materials are imbued with meaning. They elicit memory, desire, agitation, and recognition, significantly shaping the experience of an architectural space. The sensory characteristics of a material - whether it is supple, brittle, translucent, cool, elastic, crude - and the extent to which it is manipulated evoke presence and absence weight and density, light and time. Materiality is fundamental to the vocabulary of architecture. Just as there is poetry in selecting a specific word or words to convey a certain meaning, there is poetry in choosing a specific material or materials to bring into being a certain place. Materials may have fixed qualities within mutable states; they may be raw, finished, decomposed, or fabricated. Technology amplifies mutability, creating a culture of endless signification: plastic endowed with select attributes of glass; corrugated metal differentiated by fluidity and impermanence. Our work reflects purposeful, honest material choices, giving rise to places of self-production and self-reflection.

Detail

A Detail is a discrete element of a larger work - a particular component to be considered particularly. In a room, a detail can be the resonance or buffering of sound, the tangible, corporeal feeling of a floor or a bench, or the way two materials meet side by side. On a building, a detail can be the treatment of a roof edge or surface, the unexpected use of a certain material, or the way a corner is turned. Further, a detail can be unfixed, ephemeral - the dematerialization of a textile interplay of light and shadow, reverberation, temperature. Details, though they may be small are not minor or inconsequential. If a building is more than the sum its parts, it is nevertheless the sum of its parts. Details are inextricably linked to what we call "desire": our greater aspiration for a work of architecture; our vision for its unifying idea or meaning. Detail should express the same meaning as the space and contribute to the holistic experience of that space.


-1100 Architect, The Monacelli Press

Disclaimer: quotes from the above book..I do not own this..

Friday 11 March 2011

Evolution of the 'Sea Lion'

I was just in the mood to post this up... =D








































Okay! I'm done...

Disclaimer: All the pics here are MINE... Took them using my 8.1 Megapixel Sony Ericsson W995 camera...

p/s: please don't mind the background..

Early Sketches

As I promised before I'll post up the early sketches of Vice Versa.. I have to admit that it's not that good if you guys want to compare to real archi students... Still, this is my first attempt...

Let's just let the pixes do the talking, kay?










click here to see the pixes in high pixels...

Saturday 5 March 2011

Vice Versa Part II


Basically for the centre part, the planes have the ‘heads’ and the ‘tails’... At lighter tones, the ‘heads’ are smaller from one to another while the ‘tails’ are shorter from one to another... This part is going in a circle, in exact 360 degrees. From 0 degree to 90 degree are the light tones, from 100 degrees to 270 degrees are the dark tones, and from 280 degrees to 360 degrees, the planes are going light again... So, this is it!

This is the front view...



This is the view from the back...



This is the right side...



When I’m done with the centre part, I went on with the left ‘tower’...


Done with the left part...



Proceed with the left part...



and voalla! This is before I’m truly done a day after...



With that, I’ll post the final part and I’ll explain what’s this model about...

Merci!

Friday 4 March 2011

Vice Versa Part I

Part I

Finally after I'm done with designing, planning and buying all the stuffs I need to do my first project - serial planes, so I figured.. why don't I post the whole process in here?

These are all I need for the planes...



...err... you may wonder... what's with the inter-framing iPod, right? Thanks to Danny - it has a name, I can stay up until late night finishing things up... If there’s anyone of you out there in attempt to do a serial plane, please be extra careful with the knife... The mounting board may looks easy to cut but I almost lost a finger when I unknowingly changed my pressure and strength while holding the knife!


This is for the center part... inspiration for the shape? Sea lion, I guess... haha kidding!




The 'tower' - this has another set - so basically there are three parts of the whole thing..



Preparing for the fun part of this project - degrading and upgrading the tones... some may find it unbelievable but to be honest, this is the first time I bought poster colours... I chose Buncho because I saw my roommate used the same thing back in foundation.. Simple, right? ...and why purple? Though I never listed purple as my favourite colour, so the sole reason why I chose purple it's because I would like to dedicate this project to my bestie - Shasha...




These are the colours I used to come up with different light and dark tones... It’s easy to get different tones for the light ones but I got to be extra careful while mixing up purple and black cause they did turned out to be a different type of purple - not darker ones... Since I’m not that expert, these are all I got...



So, after I’m done doing final touches - correcting and making sure all the planes are ready, I proceeded with the base for them...



I’ll post up the early sketches of this model later, kay?

See you in part II...