THE FOOD OF ARCHITECTURE

(Updated note, 10 Sept: Nothwithstanding the blurp below,
the trip is now
CONFIRMED
as
17-20 Sept @ RM1,100)

Join the Taylor's SABD trip to Ho Chi Minh City!
(That's Saigon, Vietnam, for some of us...)

It's about Architecture...

It's about F O O D ..... :)

. . . with your friends . . .

Tutors of Studio 4 are right this moment finalizing the trip with the travel agents! Obviously we are trying our level best to keep the cost alap. Depending on availability of places, and the now fast increasing response, the trip will be
EITHER

23-26 SEPT (4D 3N) at approx RM1200,
OR

23-25 SEPT (3D 2N) at approx RM999

We will decide on ONE option once your feedback (and the agent's full investigations) are received.

Places are limited! So please indicate your interest by
contacting Alina Choong or Keith Tan by Thursday 2 Sept 2010.

The itinerary (being planned by Alina and Keith right now!) will center on

FOOD and ARCHITECTURE :)

It will include a visit to the architectural office of the American firm, O2, to check out the workings of expats exploring insertions into an Asian context.



Obviously there will be plenty of attempts at feasting on the architectural (and culinary) heritage of that rich, and once-troubled, city.

Take a Break - Go Vietnam !

Pic 1, 4, 5, from the website of O2
Pic 6 & 7 shows halal Ho Chi Minh (google images ho chi minh food)
Pic 3 (google images ho chi minh food)
Pic 2 from.....

World's Best Street Food

by JJ Goode

INTERESTED IN THIS DESTINATION?

The dish: Banh mi

Where to find the best: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Word on the street: It takes almost no time for the peddler who sets up her tiny cart and knee-high charcoal brazier every weekday at 5 pm at 37 Nguyen Trai Street (in District 1) to turn you into a banh mi lover. As soon as you order, she swiftly assembles a sandwich that, despite its colonial French exterior (a stubby baguettelike loaf), is Vietnamese through and through. Peel back the newspaper wrapper and bite: Your teeth crash through the bread (a touch of rice flour makes it exceptionally crispy) and into still-warm morsels of grilled pork, a crunchy spear of cucumber, sweet-tangy shreds of pickled carrot and daikon, cilantro, and a smear of Vietnamese mayo. Add a squirt of hot sauce, and this might be the best sandwich you've ever had. Or at least the best one you've ever had for 30 cents.

(http://www.concierge.com/ideas/foodwine/tours/2274?page=1 Accessed 31.8.10)

Pic 8 from ....

Eco Factor: Sustainable residential community with green roofs and sky gardens.

Vietnam-based architecture firm DWP Architects has unveiled the designs of the “Everrich 2,” a new residential community under construction in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City. The 630,000-sqm complex will have 3100 apartment units ranging from 120 to 250 sqm each, with two floors of mixed retail and public space on the ground level.

(http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/dwp-architects-everrich-2-apartments-complex-aims-to-be-self-sustaining/ Accessed 31.8.10)

Dip. Studio 3 - mosque

Idea of the mosque as an urban sanctuary space, a natural environment in an urban context. The sanctuary space is essentially a prayer hall which is a big open space open to nature, providing a small temporary solace from daily activity and spending some time to pray.
Street Façade: Exploring the transition to the internal sanctuary. The journey begins from outside street/pedestrian continouing to internal space. The trellis/louvres provide glimpses of inside space. Monolithic walls which stand out in the streetscape as an imposing structure attracts people to explore which also have gaps between the walls providing glimpses of interior space. The exploration of the space continues to a ramp.
The trellises providing shade also starting that transition to place of worship, starting the separation from the street . The walls and trees act as visual seperation. Trellis providing light and shade on main circulation space. The Sanctuary space which is the prayer hall is essentially a big pavillion space open to nature.

The whole architecture explores the closed internal space. Where tall, monolithic imposing façade expresses a solid mass impression from the outside, but a large open space on the inside. The sense of scale progress from a human scale entrance to a heroic scale on the sanctuary space.

Dip. Studio 3 - A hindu temple Project

Hinduism believes in the Duality of Existence,as the fundamental concept of the religion. Hinduism has a diverse system if thoughts with beliefs in both Pantheism and Panantheism. Where one believes that "God is Whole" and another believes that "The Whole is in God". They believes in multiple truth,instead of individual philosophy. And they are given the freedom to worship whichever deities they believe in, at the same time worshiping the one ultimate supreme being, Brahman, and also the religion as a whole.

The temple adapts the idea of the duality of existence.At one point, the temple act as a gathering space, where the Hindus gather and together they achieve a singular consensus of the religion as a whole. And at one point, the temple act as a space where the devotees find closure, and a direct exclusive contact between them and the deities. Traveling from one space to another, the user experiences a transitional journey, as an individual and as a part of the community. Like two drops of water on water, the wave ripples and interferes each other harmoniously.

The vehicular and pedestrian approach to the site creates an interesting relationship, by placing the temple at the contour. A stop-n-go motion for the vehicular and an extended walkway that leads the pedestrian to the site and into the temple.

Staircase leads the visitor down to the lobby, garland booth/information area can be found on the way.

Main lobby area, an area for community activities and celebration, also a space for the chariot to be placed, partially sheltered by the corridor above. The colorful glass panels on the wall suggests a direction, leading the devotees to the main praying hall.


The main intention of the praying hall is to provide every single devotees the freedom to worship and express towards the specific deity they believes in. As every deity has a specific orientation they faces, a wide centric space is designed where the statues of the deities are placed in the suspended structure in the middle based on their orientation, and every devotees will pray towards the center, directly to the deity, and indirectly to the structure.
In micro the structure acts as an collective statue where the devotees pray to and find exclusive closure.
In macro the structure acts as an icon, a direction, like the Gopuram structure in every hindu temple.

A Mosque in Nature by Shazwi

Studio 3 Dip Final Presentation : A Mosque in Nature

Final presentation board

The idea is to make use of the nature as an element to make worshipper closer to their Creator. As they admiring the beauty of the surrounding, they will admire the power of the Creator that creates all the creature on this earth.

By taking advantage of the vegetation of the site, the form surrounds the nature and open towards the environment.

Stairway going to prayer hall (upper level) from the entrance

Ablution area and shoe rack

Prayer Hall

Nature creates spatial experience and becomes the ornament that decorates the transparent wall of the mosque.

Some of the facilities at lower level (Top: Cafeteria, Bottom Left: Female Toilet/ Ablution, Bottom Right: Imam's Apartment)

This mosque is actually designed to bring back the basic functionality and simplicity value of a mosque.

Thanks...

studio3dip : tabula strata

umma, reaction to the stereotomic onion; massive looming bulk, whatever goes on in there. At the heart of submission is prayer towards (origin) - so I want sleek out of the land Direction.

Connections. The community reclaims public property at the top and our vector becomes mediator. A new (klang) valley for festivities or schoolchildren mucking around, see from all round.



Ahahaha pool people down. Submission begins at the beginning of prayer.

Time. Times.

and the filigree scales in gradient to subdue space.

Evocative of a mining past?, but it doubles attendance effortlessly. Underside is immaterial record of daily movement towards in unison, up down, kneel bow.

Facade design

This is a project where we were required to design a skin for shoplots located at bangsar street. The main idea of the facade is to provide protection to the site as it is overwhelmed by the neighbouring city elements.


The facade is designed to have stilts that are protruding out. Just that the arrangements differs on each side. The stilts from points, lines, and planes where viewed from different angle. Each individual stilts are installed with led lights and heat sensor film. The reason is to provide more variability to the stilts to cater for the high changes of the site.

The montage image is to portrait how the facade changes according to the site as time passes, catering different perspectives for visitors.

To all who's too worried & can't sleep.

To all studios, especially diploma studio 3. Good luck to the final review tomorrow morning.

All done is done, just relax, be confident, and prepare yourselves for what all the critiques have to say (or maybe nothing to say.)

It's not the end of the world, you have all the luxury to make huge loads of mistakes.

Each individual has his own pace of improvement. Just do your best, show your sincerity through yourselves and very importantly your projects, constantly, and you'll be fine.

Best Wishes.

What images to show??

Hey guys and girls.

I could really see some of you all are struggling to present your design scheme in images that best describe what your building is all about.

Forget about the exterior image of your building for a moment. Ask yourself "What sorta spatial quality does my building have that I should show to the external crit?" Don't get me wrong here..exterior image is also important. It shows a lot on how your building sits onto the site and how it fits into context but it shouldn't be the main focus.

As what Khang Siang has mentioned in his previous comments "if this is about religion..I guess you ought to focus on displaying images that show the religious sides of your buildings"..that's exactly what you guys need to do! What makes your design scheme so special and different from others are those spaces inside it!

I'm gonna share a little of my studio work I did in Melbourne Uni. I won't be elaborating much about my work here. There's still some refinements that has to be done for my final submission. My studio theme is all about Atmosphere and we had to design a building that is a centre for climate cognition. My building functions as a weather museum that has a photo gallery, exhibition spaces and also a meditation space.

Each student has their own unique spatial devices that drives the design scheme which we got off from our workshop phases. Mine particularly was about the tension of spaces through instability.

The two images below are my community space. The contour wall was a direct representation of my external form, as well as what I thought would portray the tension of the spaces within my building (bull$h!t!ng your way tru ur ideas are very important! The crit bought my idea! =P )

The image below was kinda the best image that portrays what my building is about, hence I blew it the biggest in my board.

The photo gallery. Walls coming off from ceiling and side walls. This was one of my weakest space I had in my scheme. I directly copied the exact idea from my workshop outcome..which is good and bad. Good cuz that's what the Melbourne module wants you to do..progress our work based on our workshop phase...bad cuz it wasn't anything extraordinary...a copy and paste work.

My exhibition space. One of the strongest part of my scheme. Box floors extruded upwards at different height. The lightings from the box makes the floor seems floating and instable (a whole lot of stuffs about this spaces. wont talk about it here)

Hmmm..that's roughly what I would show to my external crit that would best describe what sorta spaces i have inside my building.

For the exterior..I think one good montaged image of your building onto the site which shows accessibility and site context is good enough.

Oh yeahh..a good section of your building do help a lot too in explaining what your scheme is about. If you have time, do a sectional perspective or an exploded axono (no problem to those sketchup people). Gaya to the max man! =)

MEMORIAL TO A MEMORABLE EVENT

This is to say a BIG Thank You! to Ker Chwing, Pei Wen, Wilson Yong and Ronald Yoh for the stunning show last Tuesday. We were impressed!

All the actual winners for the competition are accessible here And students putting their work together now will find lots of good ideas on how to lay out your final presentation boards.

Look out for Ronald's and Daniel Tjong's entries! Taylor's College is there through them.

DIPLOMA FINAL REVIEW, STUDIO 3

Tue 1 June 2010 promises to be an exciting day with awesome displays! Don't miss it!


Work in progress.....

jacky yong

jacky yong

harry tjoe (by moonlight)

jonathan wong

jonathan wong

chew pui cheng

jonathan tan

Azfar

felix saw