1st Project - Building, Site, Landscape : Coogee Oval

Threshold, Environment

Reciprocity, Social

Materiality, Tectonic

Insertion, Climate

Infrastructure, Movement

Project 3 : Art Gallery - The finale

My Art Gallery

The entrance - when u look straight, it looks like a pathway; a representation of the 'pathway by the King St.'

Front Facade - A unique and different facade to attract people attention.

Overall view - front angle

Overall view - back angle

Overall view - Bird's eyes

Lighting 1 - This is where I'm gonna place my photographs. Both side of the walls ( glass and concrete). The same photographs are used just to give a different way of viewing it ( concrete wall: plain background, glass: people walking around as the background). The paintings gonna be placed at the other walls. After discussion with Ainsley, artificial lights are used in order to avoid damage on the paintings.

Lighting 2 - Inner courtyard for having any functions such as cocktail party or art exhibition. There is a small garden for making that place look lively rather than plain.

Lighting 3 - Skylight is used at the grand staircases.

Lighting 4 - A small slot to let the natural light come in. Top cubicle : small-toilet, big-bedroom. Bottom: Store (darker room), Workshop (with light)

Lighting 5 - The light shines into the windows. There are two windows, one at the living hall at the top and another one is at the workshop.

The office at the ground floor.

Lighting 6 - Skylight is used for the sculpture ( the sculpture is placed on top of the platform).

Exploded Axonometric, Scale 1:100

Scale 1:100

Scale 1:100

Scale 1:100

Scale 1:100

Interior 1 - The place for the sculpture, Scale 1:50

Interior 2 - Inner courtyard, Scale 1:50

Additional facts:
- The roofs (both the gallery and the apartment) are slanted to the middle ( skylight at the grand staircase) to let the water to flow into the gutter which is placed at the meeting point.
- Another gutter is placed at the glass roof at the photographs section. That is why it is slanted to the wall.

Project 3 : Art Gallery - The beginning

Concept:
The main concept of my project is to connect between the architecture of the gallery and the artworks exhibited inside of the gallery. I've chosen it to be 'rectangles & squares' which i believed connected with the contemporary paintings by Ghasan Said and sculpture by Patrick Hall.

Idea:
Since it is located at the King St., my initial idea is to create a representation of the King St. inside my gallery. The concept of 'pathways by the street' which is the significant element at King St. is chosen. The different would be the atmosphere inside which provides calmness and tranquility rather than a hectic and busy lifestyle along the King St.

Project 2 : Room and Narrative : Finale

Yes! Finally, i've finished my second project. Here are the photos of the drawings and the model. Enjoy~

Narrative : "The woman's misery ended when she finally decided to poison the daily breakfast"

Project 2 : Mind Mapping

The keyword of my design is 'misery'. I googled the word to have a clear idea on how am I suppose to represent it in my design. I look for photos and videos since both of the mediums would give a direct interpretation for the word. Here are the results:





Based on my interpretation, I recognize that all of these mediums have something in common which can be translated as the negative values. Even at the last pic, the font used as well as the colour is actually the direct translation of the hardness which a person have to face when the word misery is involved. Therefore, the adjectives which I am gonna use for my design are :

unhappiness, despair, distress, grief, suffering, depression, torture, agony, gloom, sadness, discomfort, torment, hardship, sorrow, woe, anguish, melancholy, desolation, wretchedness

These are all the elements which would be translated into the interior part of my design. As for the outside, it would be just a plain normal, like nothing bad is happening inside.

Project 2: Updates from the 1st post

Since this project need to be finished in a short period of time, I have to work fast in order for me to have my work submitted. Therefore, here come the update for my new narrative for the Dutch Painting - The Milkmaid ( check the previous post just in case you do not know what am I talking about).

' The mother's misery ended when she brilliantly decided to poison the daily breakfast '

Yes finally, I have came to something which I guess very suitable to describe the painting. Well, the concept here is just simple. If the Taj Mahal is made because of love from Shah Jahan to her beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal, mine going to be a 'cubicle' made of frustration, despair and full of miseries! In other words, i will design a place where it looks ok, nothing is happening from the outside BUT it is the other way round when we go inside. This is just to represent the mother (who is actually the milkmaid). She looks fine, with her always fake smile, doing her daily house chores just like normal. However, deep inside, she is totally different, a person who always in despair, frustration of her life and having a critical self-conflicts!

Well, this is just my concept and it is still at the beginning stage. Gotta get working! Anyway, have a look at one of the most wonderful architectures in the world, a place represents the LOVE of Shah Jahan to her dearest Mumtaz Mahal.....TAJ MAHAL.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Taj_Mahal_in_March_2004.jpg)

Project 2 : Room and Narrative

"Look at this painting, assume that you are a cultural detective, and start thinking about a narrative which can describe about what you have seen".

I am still have not finalised my narrative. At the moment, this is what i can say about the painting;

"A heartbroken wife who had been cheated by her husband, planning to commit suicide by pouring poison into the family's breakfast".

I know it sounds lame, but i will come back to this post and change it with a new one. Oh ya, this is actually another 'boring' rough idea for my final model. Do not worry, this is not my final one!

Project 1: Mother's House

Brief:
Students are divided into a group of two or three to do 'an architecture investigation' on a selected building. As for my partner, Paul Pang and I, we have to study about Venturi's Mother's House.

Section A

Section B

Plan - Ground Floor

Plan - First Floor

Here are some of the photos of the model which taken during the day of the presentation: