SJ18- Persepective Sketches

                  After months of sketching, shading with hatchings, finding visible point and drawing perspectives, I finally enable to use architectural sketching where I had problems doing it before. Like they said,practice makes perfect. I know there are few sketches which are not drawn properly but I want to explore myself through hatchings applied different strokes such as cross-hatchings, scribbling, pointillism, short strokes and zig-zags. It is a good experience to explore all these types of hatchings as an Architecture student which we will be applying it in the future. Even if we still cannot draw, we just have to push ourselves and keep being motivated all the time. Somehow or rather, I find sketching to be interesting as there are many things you can do with it applying at different parts of the sketches.

Exterior of the building

Interior of the empty house

Looking out at the exterior from the plane window

Interior of the living room

                   Last Tuesday we had another tutorial sketching through random pictures as Ms Dee posted images on the projector screen. There were time given to us bout 3-5 minuts per sketch. It was less of a difficult task as I had practice a few times at home and it was a good experience to catch up.

Tutorial sketch 1. Exterior

Tutorial sketch 2. Exterior

Tutorial sketch 3. Exterior

Tutorial sketch 4. Interior

Tutorial sketch 5. Interior

SJ14- Bubble Diagram of your Dream House

                 A quite interesting assignment to design our own dream house using bubble diagram. It is the first step of the way to show our ability of our own design of our dream home to other people what our characteristic is like. I'm sure to those some architects who design modern houses lives in simple homes even though they are still amaze of modern designs. As for me, I quite like the elegant of luxurious French + Mediterranean house as I always dream of building it one day. I like having a swimming pool behind my backyard and bbq area where most of my families can enjoy and have fun together as a family. Not forgetting home theater room and home gym. Below is my dream house and a bubble diagram.

My dream bungalow house in Philippines.

SJ12- Concepts and Ideas of Different Architects

            
                 We were given an assignment to find 3 concepts and 3 ideas of each of the architects to learn to understand why they design and the purpose to it.

The LAX Theme Building, Los Angelos Airport was designed by Paul R. Williams and Welton Becker resembling a flying saucer that has landed. The design was to help give LA a modern identity which completed in 1961. In addition, it gives patrons a 360 degree view.

Taipei 101 was designed by C.Y.Lee & Partners comprises 101 floors. The building was created as a symbol of the evolution of technology and Asian tradition. The Chinese believes the number 8 brings prosperity and good fortune as you can see there are 8 levels to the top. Therefore, the bamboo stalk was the concept.

The Conical Concrete Sculpture Unique Villa Design, Beekbergen was design by Mr Anton Schouten and Ms Hannie Kempinle. The unique concept architecctural style for villa. As for the interior, it is visible through the various open places cut into the cone.

SJ11- A380: Interest of Items

  
                  Airbus A380 is the largest created and most technologically advance aircraft built. The Qantas airline  industry had runned for more than 90 years in Australia which was founded in 1920. It has created an environment with unsurpassed levels of comfort and space. Therefore, I chose these favourite item which is from my plane collection. The drawings from the bottom shows the airline of Qantas A380.    

These includes plan,elevation,section and a perspective.

Environmetal Efficiencies- Improve of fuel efficiency and carbon emissions per revenue tonne kilometre

                                     - Quieter than other large aircraft. 

Dimensions : Length : 72.57m

                    Height : 24.1m

                    Wings : 79.8m

Engines : 4 x Rolls-Royce Trent 900

Trust     : 70,000lb  

  

SJ09- Penang Post Card

                I wasn't able to join the study trip to Penang among my fellow classmates and lecturers due to my grandfather's 80th birthday which my mom and I went back to celebrate his birthday as everyone of her siblings from overseas were going back to Philippines. When I return home to Malaysia, Amy, ome of my group members was willing to accompany me to Penang to continue with the assignment. I had snapped a few photos and later on sketch it after I got back home from Penang.What an exhausting day it was!!(sigh) It was a great wonderful architectural design I had ever seen especially the appealing design of Khoo  Kongsi, a Chinese clan house.
Here are 3 postcards which I chose to sketch.

The Old Town houses opposite Yap Kongsi.

Khoo Kongsi, the architectural design that has magnificent structure.

Masjid Kapitaling an old historic mosque ever built in Penang.

                      Other than the postcards is my friend Amy where we toured on a trishaw to continue our journey to the next location for our assignment.

SJ 08- Proposed Location Tower

                The location of the tower was set on the edge of the rock by the lakeside. The flat surface of the rock made it more stable for the model to balance.

Pokemerge Tower on site viewed 10 metres away from the site.

                   When it is viewed from the plan view, you can see how water and land (rock) combines with each other creating a balance with nature.

                   Looking at the overall, it had thought me much about respecting nature, how it funtions towards the circulation around it. This really motivates me a lot as I am able to look beyond the nature's surroundings.

SJ07- Sketching Out Ideas

I had learned about the comparison between concept and design which was thought by Ms Dee. The meaning of concept is an abstract idea or general idea derived from specific instances. For exampl, an idea of a coconut shell is used to create the building roof. The meaning of  design is a style and method of design and construction or structure the way of its building.

            Before designing a building we had to sketch several ideas of a Toy Tower that suites the environment at Taman Tsik Shah Alam and to explore the behaviour towards nature. Thus, able to blend with the surroundings with meanings and how concepts are being perceived.

The first idea of the Toy Tower. But still I was not satisfied with the design because it is too straight forward. Besides, my mom said it looks like an oil rig.



For the second idea where I imagined my toy tower to be hanging at the edge of the rock that decends down above the lake. Still I'm not too impressed with the idea as it looks too common and straight forward too.



Lastly, it came boom in my head as the concept was about emerging. As Ms Dee and Ms Norrma said about exploring your ideas and it really did. Therefore,the idea that I got from it was from the Poke ball, which I named the tower the Pokemerge  Tower.(Poke ball +emerging)

                Moreover, not only I did draw the idea but I also made a mock up model so that I can play with the shapes to create the concept, emerging. The pictures are above.