Hi guys,
Please note that the final submission for the compiled and collated portfolio will be this Wednesday, July 25 between 4pm to 6pm (late submissions will not be tolerated).
I will place two submission boxes outside my office in Level C5, one for Group A and the other for Group B.
Kindly place your portfolios neatly in these boxes. Your folio should be submitted as loose pages in an envelope. Please make sure that your name and ID# are clearly labelled on the envelope.
If you have any queries, please contact me via email. Otherwise, good luck with the last bits of the semester as well with your exams.
All the best!
Shyn.
Ps. please post this announcement on your FB page. Thanks!
Pps. to Design Comm students in my tutorial group, I have (finally) finished assessing them. You can pick them up from outside my office as well. I have placed them together in a single plastic sleeve on the floor outside the staff offices on level C5. Please come collect them asap for feedback and comments. Thanks for that too!
Monday, July 23, 2012
Monday, June 18, 2012
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR DESIGN STUDIO
Dear all,
Please be informed that I will be briefing you on the requirements for the Internal Review tomorrow in class. For Group A, this briefing will take place at 11am, Group B at 2pm. Attendance is compulsory and critical.
As we are just mere days away from the submission, this will mean that you need to finalise your design schemes with your tutors by tomorrow. In order to aid the finalisation of your design and getting the advice you need to progress towards completion, you will need to show sufficient visual material to your tutors. So please have with you: your study models, site models, orthographic drawings, sketches and any additional drawings such as perspectives and axo. Everyone should have started on their models and orthographic drawings by now.
Please take note of this and inform your fellow peers.
Thank you and I will see you all tomorrow.
Shyn.
Postscript:
In developing your designs, think about these two things:
1) What is the spatial quality you're creating? What is the poetics of space in your scheme?
- poetics of space quite simply refers to the atmosphere you're creating. Think about the difference of spatial quality and experience of a church and a storeroom. Why are the two spaces so different in experience? What are the architectural elements (ie. ceiling height, choice of materials and textures, window openings size and type) that have been used/manipulate/modified in order to create that resulting spatial quality?
2) How is your design grafted?
- does your design meet the requirement of being grafted? What is the definition of grafted? How is your design grafted to your site? Is it grafted to the wall or ceiling? Is it grafted to the ground or onto a pillar?
Please be informed that I will be briefing you on the requirements for the Internal Review tomorrow in class. For Group A, this briefing will take place at 11am, Group B at 2pm. Attendance is compulsory and critical.
As we are just mere days away from the submission, this will mean that you need to finalise your design schemes with your tutors by tomorrow. In order to aid the finalisation of your design and getting the advice you need to progress towards completion, you will need to show sufficient visual material to your tutors. So please have with you: your study models, site models, orthographic drawings, sketches and any additional drawings such as perspectives and axo. Everyone should have started on their models and orthographic drawings by now.
Please take note of this and inform your fellow peers.
Thank you and I will see you all tomorrow.
Shyn.
Postscript:
In developing your designs, think about these two things:
1) What is the spatial quality you're creating? What is the poetics of space in your scheme?
- poetics of space quite simply refers to the atmosphere you're creating. Think about the difference of spatial quality and experience of a church and a storeroom. Why are the two spaces so different in experience? What are the architectural elements (ie. ceiling height, choice of materials and textures, window openings size and type) that have been used/manipulate/modified in order to create that resulting spatial quality?
2) How is your design grafted?
- does your design meet the requirement of being grafted? What is the definition of grafted? How is your design grafted to your site? Is it grafted to the wall or ceiling? Is it grafted to the ground or onto a pillar?
What is being grafted here and how?
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Design Studio 1: Interim Submission requirements
Hi Studio 1 troop,
Just a few general announcements and advice for the coming Monday [June 11] Interim review:
Format of review
- it will be in the format of a pin up. Each student will get 5 minutes to present and 5 minutes feedback.
- please have all your works pinned up (drawings, sketches) and laid out (models) according to groups by 8.30am [Group A] and 2pm [Group B]. This means that you will have to be at the studio half an hour before to organise yourselves into your groups and rearrange (and properly subdivide) the studio space for the purpose of the presentation. Have your site models ready and conveniently placed in your group's space too. The review will commence precisely at the above stated times.
What we will be looking for
- your design scheme, and proposed idea in relationship to the site and function you are providing for your user. Which means two very important things you must be designing with: (1) SCALE, and, (2) SITE
- make sure all drawings and models are done to SCALE. This shows your consideration of the human scale in relation to your scheme. You can choose to draw and model either at 1:50 or 1:20 or even in both scales, depending on the nature of what you need to explore with the model and drawings and how.
- make sure all drawings and models are drawn and built with SITE CONTEXT. Your study model should sit within a model of your site, and your drawings (floor plans, section and elevation) should include the surrounding site. Without this, it shows us that you are not considering the information which you all have worked so hard to gather in your site analysis exercise in the last two weeks. Why waste all that precious effort hah?
- make sure all drawings and sketches are presented neatly and consistently on A3 butter paper. If you have been drawing on A4s, don't worry! (or swear or throw them away) Just stick them onto A3 butter papers and tadaa! they are re-usable for presentation purposes.
Make the drawings work for you. Let even a single section say more about just the inside of your design, it can talk about how your building relates to its surroundings, and people approach your design. A site plan can also contain your floor plan. The question is how do you contrast the site from your building to make your design stand out.
Link: http://openbuildings.com/
Make models. MANY models. But with a purpose in mind, several questions to address and answer.
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And make these models work for you (not vice versa).
Link: http://gabriellevoogt-
Time management
- I don't call you guys a troop for nothing. It's been a long battle and you guys are physically (some potentially mentally, some frighteningly emotionally) weary and tired from the last eight weeks. Good news is, we're halfway there. Bad news is, we've got six more weeks to go and you guys are way too burnt out for your own good. You have to pace yourself. And in order to do so, please plan and manage your time and other resources well!
NOTE: Resources here include the following - money (please don't incur car damage and accident fees from lack of sleep), materials (don't find yourself cursing in the middle of the night for flattening your technical pen nib after having slammed it by accident onto your drafting table out of frustration of having lack of sleep), and energy (read: LACK OF SLEEP)
- please start exercising the habit of keeping track of how long you spend working on an assignment. And when I say work, it doesn't include checking FB on your iPhone or Angry Bird-ing off your iPad every half an hour. Every minute counts. Finish your work then go enjoy surfing, tweeting and Bird-ing in your free time. Focus and get your work done WELL in the minimum amount of time. I'm sure you all are trying to crack your head around how to get an extra 25th hour in your short and overfilled day.
Tracking your time means that you will know that inking an axo will take you two days (instead of two hours before submission *cough cough* ortho *cough cough*).
This means that ideally you should finish your axo by Saturday and start inking before Saturday evening. Split and manage your hours on Sunday smartly between Dcomm and Design Studio.
And yes, we are aware of your BMaterial and CultureHistory submissions. Thus, it is only realistic to expect that you will only continue work on the other two subjects after the submissions (and frankly, after you have properly rested).
Guys, I cannot stress enough the importance of working smart as opposed to simply working hard, and producing quantity over quality. Time to shift your mindsets and approach to your studies. This is for one reason alone now: to prevent yourselves from burning out and losing your minds even before the semester ends.
Best of luck over the weekend, hoping that the examples here will inspire you to soldier on!
Shyn.
Ps. for students in my tutorial group for DComm, sincerest apologies for having been absent today. As En.Wan may have informed you, I will see you guys for a brief replacement session next Monday after Group B's Studio class at 5pm to 6.30pm. Will see you then!
Just a few general announcements and advice for the coming Monday [June 11] Interim review:
Format of review
- it will be in the format of a pin up. Each student will get 5 minutes to present and 5 minutes feedback.
- please have all your works pinned up (drawings, sketches) and laid out (models) according to groups by 8.30am [Group A] and 2pm [Group B]. This means that you will have to be at the studio half an hour before to organise yourselves into your groups and rearrange (and properly subdivide) the studio space for the purpose of the presentation. Have your site models ready and conveniently placed in your group's space too. The review will commence precisely at the above stated times.
What we will be looking for
- your design scheme, and proposed idea in relationship to the site and function you are providing for your user. Which means two very important things you must be designing with: (1) SCALE, and, (2) SITE
- make sure all drawings and models are done to SCALE. This shows your consideration of the human scale in relation to your scheme. You can choose to draw and model either at 1:50 or 1:20 or even in both scales, depending on the nature of what you need to explore with the model and drawings and how.
- make sure all drawings and models are drawn and built with SITE CONTEXT. Your study model should sit within a model of your site, and your drawings (floor plans, section and elevation) should include the surrounding site. Without this, it shows us that you are not considering the information which you all have worked so hard to gather in your site analysis exercise in the last two weeks. Why waste all that precious effort hah?
- make sure all drawings and sketches are presented neatly and consistently on A3 butter paper. If you have been drawing on A4s, don't worry! (or swear or throw them away) Just stick them onto A3 butter papers and tadaa! they are re-usable for presentation purposes.
Make the drawings work for you. Let even a single section say more about just the inside of your design, it can talk about how your building relates to its surroundings, and people approach your design. A site plan can also contain your floor plan. The question is how do you contrast the site from your building to make your design stand out.
Link: http://openbuildings.com/
Make models. MANY models. But with a purpose in mind, several questions to address and answer.
.jpeg)
.jpeg)
And make these models work for you (not vice versa).
Link: http://gabriellevoogt-
Time management
- I don't call you guys a troop for nothing. It's been a long battle and you guys are physically (some potentially mentally, some frighteningly emotionally) weary and tired from the last eight weeks. Good news is, we're halfway there. Bad news is, we've got six more weeks to go and you guys are way too burnt out for your own good. You have to pace yourself. And in order to do so, please plan and manage your time and other resources well!
NOTE: Resources here include the following - money (please don't incur car damage and accident fees from lack of sleep), materials (don't find yourself cursing in the middle of the night for flattening your technical pen nib after having slammed it by accident onto your drafting table out of frustration of having lack of sleep), and energy (read: LACK OF SLEEP)
- please start exercising the habit of keeping track of how long you spend working on an assignment. And when I say work, it doesn't include checking FB on your iPhone or Angry Bird-ing off your iPad every half an hour. Every minute counts. Finish your work then go enjoy surfing, tweeting and Bird-ing in your free time. Focus and get your work done WELL in the minimum amount of time. I'm sure you all are trying to crack your head around how to get an extra 25th hour in your short and overfilled day.
Tracking your time means that you will know that inking an axo will take you two days (instead of two hours before submission *cough cough* ortho *cough cough*).
This means that ideally you should finish your axo by Saturday and start inking before Saturday evening. Split and manage your hours on Sunday smartly between Dcomm and Design Studio.
And yes, we are aware of your BMaterial and CultureHistory submissions. Thus, it is only realistic to expect that you will only continue work on the other two subjects after the submissions (and frankly, after you have properly rested).
Guys, I cannot stress enough the importance of working smart as opposed to simply working hard, and producing quantity over quality. Time to shift your mindsets and approach to your studies. This is for one reason alone now: to prevent yourselves from burning out and losing your minds even before the semester ends.
Best of luck over the weekend, hoping that the examples here will inspire you to soldier on!
Shyn.
Ps. for students in my tutorial group for DComm, sincerest apologies for having been absent today. As En.Wan may have informed you, I will see you guys for a brief replacement session next Monday after Group B's Studio class at 5pm to 6.30pm. Will see you then!
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SEMESTER - ARC1115
Hi everyone,
This is the final announcement of the semester. Hope you enjoyed the semester and the subject as much as we the lecturers had.
FINAL PIN-UP AND EXTERNAL REVIEW
1. I have updated the presentation room layout, in addition to attaching a new image with this email outlining how you should pin up and submit your works. Please (everyone) peruse these LAYOUTS, and make sure you do not pin up at the wrong areas!
There has been instances where some students have repeatedly pinned-up at the wrong areas. By doing so, you are inconveniencing your guest crits. Please respect their time and effort.
2. I will be assigning Ceavs in charge of CODA, and Seng Poh in charge of Studio12. Please ensure that the works are pinned up accordingly, and the rooms are spotless and clean. As you will be submitting on a Sunday, you will need to inform the security/FM to open up the room on that period of time. Please liaise with Shyn on this as I will not be around.
3. The partitions will be placed in the rooms by Friday, I believe. You will need to bring in an additional 6 tables (possibly from Studio 1) into CODA.
4. I am hoping that everyone can take instructions to ensure the success of your crit. We are very proud of the works that you have produced and we want the works to be presented well.
WHAT DO I NEED TO BRING FOR MY FINAL SUBMISSION - 4 DEC?
1. All models in ONE box + butter paper
2. Presentation boards, pinned up
3. Pins for the partition boards and masking tape for the walls/glass
4. A PRINTED final copy of your portfolio, in a plastic folder/wrap, plus your name and ID clearly labelled on the plastic folder/wrap
5. Group A1 installation panel
WHAT TO DO ON THE DAY OF THE REVIEW?
1. The times given are indicative of the order of your presentation. Keep track of your presentation order. You may present earlier, or later.
2. Don't be late. If you are late, you need to go back in line.
3. Only the presenters and the crits will be in the presentation rooms. The rest of you may wait along the corridor, but try not to make too much noise.
4. Do use your group site model. Talk about the design from your perspective, not the perspective of your lecturers.
This is the final announcement of the semester. Hope you enjoyed the semester and the subject as much as we the lecturers had.
FINAL PIN-UP AND EXTERNAL REVIEW
1. I have updated the presentation room layout, in addition to attaching a new image with this email outlining how you should pin up and submit your works. Please (everyone) peruse these LAYOUTS, and make sure you do not pin up at the wrong areas!
There has been instances where some students have repeatedly pinned-up at the wrong areas. By doing so, you are inconveniencing your guest crits. Please respect their time and effort.
2. I will be assigning Ceavs in charge of CODA, and Seng Poh in charge of Studio12. Please ensure that the works are pinned up accordingly, and the rooms are spotless and clean. As you will be submitting on a Sunday, you will need to inform the security/FM to open up the room on that period of time. Please liaise with Shyn on this as I will not be around.
3. The partitions will be placed in the rooms by Friday, I believe. You will need to bring in an additional 6 tables (possibly from Studio 1) into CODA.
4. I am hoping that everyone can take instructions to ensure the success of your crit. We are very proud of the works that you have produced and we want the works to be presented well.
WHAT DO I NEED TO BRING FOR MY FINAL SUBMISSION - 4 DEC?
1. All models in ONE box + butter paper
2. Presentation boards, pinned up
3. Pins for the partition boards and masking tape for the walls/glass
4. A PRINTED final copy of your portfolio, in a plastic folder/wrap, plus your name and ID clearly labelled on the plastic folder/wrap
5. Group A1 installation panel
WHAT TO DO ON THE DAY OF THE REVIEW?
1. The times given are indicative of the order of your presentation. Keep track of your presentation order. You may present earlier, or later.
2. Don't be late. If you are late, you need to go back in line.
3. Only the presenters and the crits will be in the presentation rooms. The rest of you may wait along the corridor, but try not to make too much noise.
4. Do use your group site model. Talk about the design from your perspective, not the perspective of your lecturers.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
A1 Installation Panel
Please follow this layout/grid. Use images and sketches. Print in A1 and pin up on submission day.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Penultimate (Design Studio Internal Review)
Hi everyone,
Final reminders:
1. Four A3 boards only. please pin up your works by 9am (group A) and 2pm (group B). Reviews will start on time. If you submit late, you will not be allowed to present.
2. Please pin your boards on the partitions according to groups. Arrange your boards vertically (i.e. board 1 above board 2 above board 3 above board 4) so that everyone can pin up.
3. Place your sketch models on/in a box. Label your sketch models, preferably.
4. All drawings must be hand drawn and all text on your design boards must be hand written.
5. Drawing scales and north point. Do not make mistakes on these things.
6. Re-composition using computer graphic programs are allowed. But the scale of the drawings on your printed boards must be indicated and accurate. A re-scaled drawing must be labelled to the print size. If you do not understand this, do not use computers for your design boards.
7. Additionally, please print and staple a black&white draft of your portfolio for this subject for projects 1 and 2. This shouldn't take too much of your time. Think simple layouts.
Some other announcements:
1. Portfolio binding payment of RM30. Group leader please collect the portfolio fee on the day of presentation. Please arrange this before the presentation.
2. To those who has not paid their bus fee (Fildzah, Xian Song, Samaneh, Derrick, Jamie, Xueyi, Kieran, Lee Xin and Najath), please be responsible and pay up by the day as well.
3. Submission date for architecture design studio and portfolio has been confirmed on Dec 4, one day before the presentation date.
4. To those who cannot make it for final presentation, you are to submit the works to me prior. Your work will be assessed without verbal presentation.
5. By the way, attendance for design class has been disappointing. I know there are a lot of submissions, but your time management is your responsibility. There will be NO extensions whatsoever.
All the best!
Final reminders:
1. Four A3 boards only. please pin up your works by 9am (group A) and 2pm (group B). Reviews will start on time. If you submit late, you will not be allowed to present.
2. Please pin your boards on the partitions according to groups. Arrange your boards vertically (i.e. board 1 above board 2 above board 3 above board 4) so that everyone can pin up.
3. Place your sketch models on/in a box. Label your sketch models, preferably.
4. All drawings must be hand drawn and all text on your design boards must be hand written.
5. Drawing scales and north point. Do not make mistakes on these things.
6. Re-composition using computer graphic programs are allowed. But the scale of the drawings on your printed boards must be indicated and accurate. A re-scaled drawing must be labelled to the print size. If you do not understand this, do not use computers for your design boards.
7. Additionally, please print and staple a black&white draft of your portfolio for this subject for projects 1 and 2. This shouldn't take too much of your time. Think simple layouts.
Some other announcements:
1. Portfolio binding payment of RM30. Group leader please collect the portfolio fee on the day of presentation. Please arrange this before the presentation.
2. To those who has not paid their bus fee (Fildzah, Xian Song, Samaneh, Derrick, Jamie, Xueyi, Kieran, Lee Xin and Najath), please be responsible and pay up by the day as well.
3. Submission date for architecture design studio and portfolio has been confirmed on Dec 4, one day before the presentation date.
4. To those who cannot make it for final presentation, you are to submit the works to me prior. Your work will be assessed without verbal presentation.
5. By the way, attendance for design class has been disappointing. I know there are a lot of submissions, but your time management is your responsibility. There will be NO extensions whatsoever.
All the best!
Friday, November 4, 2011
Something To Think About...
1. Think about material properties. Be sensitive of the materials that you have chosen. The more considerate/rigorous you are with the choices you have made, the better.
i.e. what is glass? is glass merely about transparency? of physical separation but not visual separation? of transparency, and yet at the same time reflecting its surroundings? What are the geometrical limitation of glass? What are the implications of using glass (beyond the original intent) on the building design, atmosphere, etc.
2. Whatever you come up with needs to be relevant to "architecture". Architecture does not necessarily refer to building, but a way of thinking about material, structure, space or place-making. Beware of using symbols and forms that do not relate to architectural structures.
in case you are confused, remember this: design a space! always think of the design criteria.
i.e. what is glass? is glass merely about transparency? of physical separation but not visual separation? of transparency, and yet at the same time reflecting its surroundings? What are the geometrical limitation of glass? What are the implications of using glass (beyond the original intent) on the building design, atmosphere, etc.
2. Whatever you come up with needs to be relevant to "architecture". Architecture does not necessarily refer to building, but a way of thinking about material, structure, space or place-making. Beware of using symbols and forms that do not relate to architectural structures.
in case you are confused, remember this: design a space! always think of the design criteria.
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