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Cheers! (:
Instant!
You see, there’s the stereotype concerning glasses and your profession. It instantly gives you an upper edge, distinguishing you as a talented, educated sort-of-person. There is no more a need to go through a decade of torture, you can just get these:
If you’d noticed, all the famous guys wore this. Le Corbusier must have set the trend again; not only in modern architecture and how a city should be in the future, he even dictates what people in this line should wear. Heh.
I’m scared of him, actually.
Cheers!
Cheers to good movies!
Inception. Caught it recently and I’ve started fangirling over joseph-gordon levitt. Oops. (the whole thing reminded me of my History & Theory lecturer, also a Joseph (:
Secretly, I seriously thought I could study architecture because I dream up of good designs, literally, through my night dreams. Be it colourful sofas or architectural spaces, or the unnaturally big blue moon in the sky, or outer space/parellel world with millions of celestial bodies hanging upside down. But in fact, studying architecture in real life isn’t as interesting as dreaming them. Well this movie definitely reminded of my 17 year old dream, just when I was about to choose my future path after high school. Its a whole lot more technical when we are bounded by gravitational forces.
In one part of the movie where Cobb takes Ariadne to his dream space for the first time ever and she overturns the world making it a square box, its shows how impossible fascinating things like that could be realized in the real world. Maybe it’ll be possible, but our already-advance-technology hasn’t figured out how to defy gravity. I was in the Tube (MRT, actually) when I’d realized it wouldn’t work if its in anti-gravity; well the train might be hooked down to the trails but we float in the train, and when the train moves forward, we’ll all slam into each other backwards, into the back of the train like mash potatoes until the train remains in constant velocity- then we’ll float aimlessly around. When the train decelerates we’ll all hit the part cabin. Ain’t that even more annoying compared to an impatient old auntie or an occasional durian fart in one particular car of the train?
Well, well. Anti-gravity means human can fly. We can fly, yes, by strapping ourselves to a machine called the aeroplane, or a glider, or any device that could generate the energy to pull away from gravitational forces. I guess it won’t happen on earth, it defies even the simplest form of logic.
Recently I read about Academy of Neuroscience and Architecture (ANFA) in San Diego founded under American Institute of Architects ( AIA), and I’m extremely excited of what they are going do to in the following years. Its an interesting study of the sciences of how human reacts to space. Now I have 3 solid reasons why I want to visit San Diego *winks*.
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Joint Crit 2′s over. Year 2′s critiques are much heavier than the first year’s; but it better be or else we won’t be learning and getting any better. Inception was right after Friday’s submission, with my mum and dad! 
Cheers
no sunlight.
1. Green Tea.
2. Ele 1
3. Ele 1
4. keith disrupts, marketing the hk trip.
5. Ele 1
5. Mr Goh (finally)
6. Section 2
7. Section 2
8. New lecturer?
9. Section 2
10. Here & There.
11. Section 2
12. More annotations.
13. PL, FL.
14. Toilet.
15. Section 2
16. CAD FATAL ERROR
17. New lecturer over again?
18. New lecturer complain computer slow.
19. Ele 2.
20. Ele 2.
21. 3 biscuits
22. More Green Tea
23. Ele 2.
24. Plans D;
25. Plans D;
26. Plans D;
27. Ipod batt running low D;
28. Which song to play next?
29. D;
30. long night ahead. More green tea.
2 week break!
I’ve completed yet another term in architecture school, although one term isn’t such a big deal compared to the Whole Thing. Year 2′s have been given one project to work on the entire year; this time, going through the Real stages of how a project would go if we were to be working in a Real firm. So that includes the stages of Client’s Brief to conceptual designing, DC submission, BP submission, design development, micro design & detailing etc.
Well that’s for the yearlong project. I’ve haven’t mention how much journal we have to keep for History & Theory (HTA), and Materials & Archi Technology (MAT). But we aren’t force to do all those journals; it solely depends on how much time you have on your hands and the energy to keep in touch with new ideas, magazines, research and design technology related.
I’m trying my best to keep a good journal! But well, I believe in a balance lifestyle so that includes total crash-in-bed/movies/books/music when I go back Home 8)
Now comes the interesting part, the 2010 year 2 project brief! We were asked to design a SOHO-style studio apartment for the inhabitants of Redhill/Queenstown. 5 storeys high, and all the Sustainability issues considered (the one Sg’s government is so gung-ho about to keep the garden city concept), using precast technology.
What we’ve done so far from the start of the first term to this two week term break:
1. Modular workshop: In this group project we were made to play with modular forms are come up with a model. Later on photoshoped into objects of three different scales: A building, furniture, and a fashion accessory.
2. Site analysis – went down to Alexandra road for site visit cum my long desired lunch@IKEA. Usual stuffs for the tangible experiences; as for the intangible experiences we wrote some poems, talked to the local people who stayed in that area, and interviewed some to study their living patterns around the area.
3. Coming up with design intention, concepts, are the design itself – required much research and reading! Thanks to HTA, I’ve managed to read up about the metropolitan man and his desire for individuality amongst the huge crowd. I’m working on that idea to come up with the design; oh wait, my chosen client is an Artist, a painter! Well it isn’t so much of a SOHO now, I believe that this guy paints more than he uses his computer. Still, I like working on this client for the concept
4. Keith made us throw in all the service requirements after all those grueling lectures concerning layers and layers of CAD drawings and countless regulations. And those fireman boundaries. But design regulations are essential, no blaming regulations for lousy design. Mr Goh said you can blame it for a lousy designer :B
5. We went through some critiques, and I handed-in my interim essay on The Quest for Utopia. Got me channeling through the school library 3 to 4 times a day to find my books. Apparently the good books were out on loan D; still, I reserved it hoping I can get it for the final submission. One all-nighter because I was writing real slowly – too much scattered thoughts to lay down, unorganized. It wasn’t at all perfect, but that’s what happens when you run to the library the week of submission. Learned my lesson x)
And, I’m really, seriously getting interested in urban planning.
Well, that’s all for the first term of year 2. Cheers!
Year 1 Final Project: Eco House
This is the final project for year 1 of Singapore Polytechnic’s Year 1 students of 2009/2010. The whole project lasted for 15 weeks, where we had the experience to go through every stage of what an architecture firm would be preparing for a residential project like this – which includes macro design stage, structural, sanitary, and surface drainage planning, as well as micro-detailing. The client’s profile is a middle-age father and husband, would would require spaces in the house for his wife and two children. Site locate directly opposite Paris Ris Parks, it naturally has an advantage to meet the needs of the client. Being a nature lover, the client requested for the house to be a place where he can be absorbed into nature after a day’s of work.
The solution for this request would be following my design concept, where I took of the idea of the fractal pattern found on a leaf, and realized I could break up spaces within the house to allow natural ventilation and day light to naturally breathe life into the house, with minimal use of electricity and simultaneously bringing in the sight, scent, and sounds of nature. A central courtyard of inserted into the architecture, thus the concept of ‘Genesis – Architecture giving birth to Nature’ is realized. As spaces are referential to the center courtyard, users easily identifies and navigates main spaces around the house.
The mood, or ambiance of the house is a modern yet natural feel, as clean lines are prominent in the architecture, material chosen for floor finishes are mainly timber strips, as well as frames for opening such as windows and doors are also timber. Wall paint finishes are mainly beige, as it gives the clean and modern feel, yet tie in with the browns found on timber finishes. A rubble wall cladding is also used for the retaining wall, as the stones look ties back to the concept of nature. The external wall cladding is the fair-face clay tiles, where it clearly shows that the house is a man-made structure, but blends in harmony with the garden surrounding.
The above concludes the year 1 final project.
Crit Mania.
For the Final Project of Year one, I attended the Wednesday morning critique session. Mine went pretty decently, but also had the chance to compile some of the lecturer’s sarcasms. yay. the Fun part XD
Its a space where your mum sends you to sit in for an hour when you’re naughty.
I won’t go there to read in front of a wall, I’ll probably go there to chant.Dry kitchens are for angmohs where they do fake cooking. Warm up their maggi mee and stuff.
A kitchen doesn’t have to be an enclosed space even though HDB has been doing that for the past fifty years.What’s that yellow strip? Like lemon paste. Eggtart.
Like an army of Frodo and elves. So disconnected. Wow. I’m levitating.
Why is your rendering like a Doomsday scene?
Like handyplast.
What’s that orange thing there? Like the room’s on fire. Somebody burning alive in there.
You know what is diarrhea? That, is diarrhea.
What’s that rectangle doing down there? Is it the client’s coffin?
Don’t want your ego crushed then never step in an Architecture school. 
CAD monkey?
A tourist walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display. While he was there, another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper, “I’ll have an CAD monkey please.”
The shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage at the side of the shop and took out a monkey. He fitted a collar and leash, handed it to the customer, saying, “That’ll be $5000.” The customer paid and walked out with his monkey.
Startled, the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said, “That was a very expensive monkey. Most of them are only few hundred dollars. Why did that one cost so much?”
The Shopkeeper answered, “Ah, that monkey can draw in CAD – very fast, clear layouts, no mistakes, well worth the money.”
The tourist looked at a monkey in another cage. “That one’s even more expensive! $10,000! What does it do?”
“Oh, that one’s a Design monkey; it can design systems, layout projects, mark-up drawings, write specifications, some even calculate. All the really useful stuff,” said the shopkeeper.
The tourist looked around for a little longer and saw a third monkey in a cage of its own. The price tag around its neck read $50,000. He gasped to the shopkeeper, “That one costs more than all the others put together! What on earth does it do?”
The shopkeeper replied, “Well, I haven’t actually seen it do anything, but it says it’s an Engineer.”
Very Similarly, an Architecture firm has CAD monkeys, too. Some even specializes in 3D drawings.
They call them the draftsman, and the 3D artists (sounds better, ain’t it.)
First 2 days in East 9 Architects & Planners (www.E9AP.com), I can foresee what I’ll be facing (the computer monitor 24/7, literally speaking) if I end up being a draftsman after being Sent to Architecture School. Never, I’ll say, look down on CAD monkeys because they’re skilled in what they do. However, I wished not to be stuck in front of the screen the whole time doing the same thing over and over again for too long- but I understand it well, people are trained in this field, and they strive to get the job done. They’re earning their living.
“With architects, you have an image of someone above reproach and not damaged, the way lawyers and judges and even doctors have been,” says film historian Robert Osborne, the genial host of Turner Classic Movies. ‘There are very, very few professions that still have a ring of heroism about them, and architecture is one of the few that does. If an architect is portrayed going off the deep end, it’s always because they are so committed to what they’re doing and that’s an honorable thing.”
The Lawyers, The Architects
Something to brighten your day (:
There are two big conferences in Johannesburg, one for Architects and one for Lawyers. They are both being held in the same building downtown.
On the first day of the conference, two groups run into each other at the Gautrain station and chat while waiting in line to buy tickets into the city.
When they reach the counter, the three lawyers each buy tickets and watch as the three Architects buy only a single ticket. “How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?” asks a lawyer. “Watch and you’ll see,” answers an Architect.
They all board the train. The lawyers take their respective seats, but all three Architects cram into a restroom and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, “Ticket, please.” The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on. The lawyers saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea.
After the conference, the lawyers (recognizing the Architects’ superior intellect) decide to copy the Architects on the return trip and save some money. When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip.
To their astonishment, the Architects don’t buy a ticket at all. “How are you going to travel without a ticket?” says one perplexed lawyer. “Watch and you’ll see,” answers an Architect.
When they board the train the three lawyers cram into a restroom and the three Architects cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Shortly afterward, one of the Architects leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the lawyers are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, “Ticket, please.”
Source: Design Mind
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