Melaka Town Trail

2nd year 2nd sem

Melaka Town Trail: Jonker Walk

Media: mainly watercolour, with some pen hatching

almost 2 years din't practice watercolour, but because my basic of watercolour is quite strong, so still can handle it ^^

the design of cover page

"Jonker Walk, Melaka" : design of gerbang at the entrance of the street

ship and sea above: the trip of Cheng Ho to Melaka

umbrella: rainy day for the whole trip when we were in Melaka

butterfly: souvenir bought

old music player and tanglung: the yesterday of Melaka

the cock and the marinated lime: San Shu Gong

Nyonya cake, durian cendol, iced grapes: famous food in Melaka

the small circle background: Nyonya's bead embroidery

metal, fire, water,wood,earth: 5 elements that used in roof ridge design

1. Entanglement

the complicated cable connection makes people wonder how is all these function

2. Calligraphy

the deatil carving and chinese character of the oldest functioning temple in Melaka, "Cheng Hoon Teng"

3. Deflection

the T junction gives an expectation that the place is the end of the street but yet a deflection give an unseen end of the street and the building forces to a coherent part.

4. Publicity

the advertisement give life to the street and also vitality of the medium in the urban scene.

5. Change 0f Levels

roof line of Jonker Walk is not a straight line. The combination of new and old building create the levels of roof change in a same row of shop lots.

6. Incident

"Guan Yin Tang" located between a row of shop lots give a big impact as it entraps the eyes of the visitors.

7. Contrast

a chinese temple "Fu Tek Chi" is located beside the Mausoleum of Hang Kasturi.

8. Nodes

a meeting place of vehicles and people between Jalan Hang Jebat.

9. Viscosity

the mixture of static possession (the hawkers) and possession in movement (visitors) formed by the famous night market of Jonker Walk during every weekends.

10. Recession

Rhythm of recession is created by the arrangement of shop houses which is not aligned and the change of veranda is different according to shops .

Taiping Lake Trip

Sky Promenade

2nd Project of 1st Year 2nd Sem


The purpose of building this sky promenade is to provide a resting place for people who pass by the first floor of B05 and B07 in FAB (Built Enviroment Faculty)

view from the seats

FORM
Basically, it is semicircle in order to ensure the users of promenade can have different view in every angles.

SEATING ORIENTATION
2 kinds of seating place; adjustable and fixed.
fixed seating place is set at “A” to avoid users to face to the female toilet nearby.
the position of the adjustable one is away from the toilet so the chair can be free to adjust.



ROOF
the requirement of roof design is adjustable so that the user are free choose whether to be sheltered or not.
the way to adjust the roof is similar to the theory of closing a chinese fan. in addition, it is controlled manually by the users with a single pull of the cable.
light material like canvas is chosen to be the main material of the roof.

the model: roof can be opened or closed by pulling the string

Sculpture

1st Project of 1st Year 2nd Sem


Sculpture

Task: a sculpture wih polystrene as the main material is required.

Precedence Study: Pagoda
The idea of the number of stories and the sides of pagoda is base on the concept, Yin and Yang.
according to Yin and Yang concept that applied in pagoda,
odd number = Yang; even number = Yin
the concept had been applied to the sculpture where:

• 3 levels/ elements (odd number); 4 sides of base/ square base (even number)
• the orientation of the sculpture is due to the sun path to create silhouette. the Yin and Yang idea of the pagoda is adapted in the number of fishes in second storey;
• the east and west faces of sculpture have 5 (odd number) fishes as the sun represent Yang;
• the north and south faces have 6 (even number) fishes which is Yin to balance the Yang.
  

The Working Process

as polystrene is very light material, it can easily be blown if the wind is too big
so the base is more solid than the upper components..
wires are installed inside the sculpture as reinforcement and also connectors to hold the components.
this was a group work which i complete it with my group member, boon tick

the water component

the heron

second component added

process in adding third component

after the installation of wings

submission day..

Room With A View

3rd Project of 1st Year 1st Sem


Painting Room
a room is required to design according to the given view
the view given is Pulau Berhala at Sandakan, Sabah
the attractiveand awesome part of the view is the strong and solid rocky mountain


Design Tool
1. Follow the perspective of the view
- curved frame according to the perspective to capture the view.
2. Welcome the main elements into the room.
- texture of rocky mountain installed on 1 of the wall to create continuity
- curves formed by sea waves is solidise and bring into the room

dry media practices

3R's Shelter

2nd Project of 1st Year 1st Sem

3R = Reuse, Reduce, Recycle

Task of this project is using recyclable materials to built a shelter..

1. Understand the importance of waste management.
2. Produce a shelter which is light, easy to assemble and dismantle and can be set up anywhere.
3. We have to design and build a shelter that fulfils basic personal needs and good in logic of material and construction.
4. Able to response to the environmental content.

Design Tools

STABILITY - very strong foundation
COMFORT - good ventilation, good mosquitoes repellent, enough space
PRIVACY
SURVIVE IN BAD WEATHER - waterproof material of base and layer.
SIMPLE AND LIGHT STRUCTURE - ease for assemble, dismantle and carry.

we have been ask to collect the "rubbish" from anywhere, anyone.. we are not allowed to spend in this project.. however, the transport money i spend while searching the material is not very low..
wiring pipe as the the main structure, umbrella cloths as covering..
took me lots of time to collect..
thanks to song to post me 3 big umbrella cloths from KL.. ^^

fordable shelter to ease the travel