My final model.....

The idea for my moodbox is actually having columns that do not look like column to support the whole shophouse…
And becoz of the irregular shape of the columns there will be an opening in between so no door will be needed…
The hole in the centre of every level allows natural lighting to come in. As the shophouse itself does not have many windows, the light can brighten the space and it will like more spacious…
There will be four storey for the shophouse…
First storey is Miro’s gallery where he can exhibit his drawings and sculptures…
The second storey will be his studio as he needs a space for his work…
The third level will be his bedroom and his daughter’s bedroom as his companion will be his wife and his daughter…
And the last level will be the living room where he can strengthen his bond with his family…
As for the airwell is the place where he can have talk with his guest so people cannot enter from the first storey but to go through his studio first before they reach the airwell…
Coz I think if they are Miro’s guest he will not mind to show them his studio….
And then the kitchen will be after the airwell…
That’s the journey of my shophouse…

FInal submission

Today is the submission day…and everyone looked really like living dead…
I also stayed out for 2 nights but still cannot finish my model…
We have 3 options for the submission and I choose option 2 which is submit the everything on today but the presentation panels and intech wall on Monday…

Impossible is temporary....

We were advised to use real material for the final model but I choose to use cardboard for the columns coz I need something that can be bending and wood is definitely not a good choice….so after some consideration I decided to not to care so much and start doing my final shophouse model…
Impossible is temporary…

Submission review of shophouse mock up

My first 1:50 mock up model after the moodbox…
This is actually almost the same as the 1:100 shophouse mock up which is to use columns to support the whole shophouse…
There is a hole in the centre of every storey to allow natural lighting to come in…
The only different is the staircases…
For the 1:50 shophouse mock up the columns itself is the staircase…

A new moodbox

The idea for the new moodbox is still the same but they look totally different…
It is actually using columns that does not look like normal column to support the whole shophouse..
So for the moodbox I put in a lot of slanted columns and they are connected to every level so that the whole box is being supported and even if I take away the side mounting board the box will sill be very stable…

Start all over again.......

I failed in translating the idea of moodbox into the shophouse…
The idea is just not that and it is kind of messy…
So, I back all the way to the beginning and started to draw out the drawings….
And then make my moodbox again……………

Result for moodbox...

Today we are going to know the result for the moodbox so everyone is so nervous as we all dun want to redo it Xl
And all we need to do is wait for our name to be called…
So I wait and wait and wait…
And I wait until the last one and MR.FOO you forget about me!!!
The paper with my name on it is with you!!!
Ok never mind since I dun have to redo my moodbox………..
And after that we rush to Orchard to take the photo of architecture…

Submission for moodbox

Today is the submission for the moodbox and everyone look so tired…
Well I understand why coz I m also one of them…haha…
And then Kelly told us a good new which is we can straight away go home and sleep after the submission XD
So everyone quickly write the description for the moodbox and rush home and sleep..
Goodnight…zzz

Moodbox...it is actually quite fun~~

Miro is a surrealist artist so his drawing is very abstract and he liked to use colors for his drawing..
So for my second moodbox I try to put colors inside and the result is quite nice…
And thinking about the function so I make an abstract kind of column to support the box…
It is quite interesting when you start to put your idea into action and make something out..
It is FUN~~~ =)

IS TERM 4~~

Term 4 school reopens~~~~
This will be the last term for Sem 2 and then we will go to second year…
So the first day of school and we have our consultation on the moodbox…
The idea for my moodbox is using one of Miro’s drawing..
So it is just kind of not correct so I have to redo a moodbox…
I think next time will be better…
Anyway is school reopens so is quite happy to see everyone again
Haha..

Critique............

We have our critique today and mine is really not a good one…
The “Blind Mice” have some problem that we never think of it before and it is just kind of doesn’t work out…
And my research on Miro is not enough and I realize that I dun really know about him…
I think I need to do more research on him before I make the moodbox…

HOLIDAY~~~~~

It is going to be holiday and we have our last lecture for Term 3…
And the lecturers throw us a lot of assignment…
We are going to have our holiday soon you know…T-T
The first one is design the interior of the shophouse that we measure before for our client, the artist or designer that we research on..
But before that we need to make a moodbox first…
Second is the TOD assignment.. we need to do a “art love design process journal” which is to record down the process of making the shophouse…
Thirdly is the INTECH, we need to choose one of the wall from the shophouse inside a 20 X 20 X 20 mm box..
And the last one is the CADP..
We need to add in furniture or anything that is going to be in the shophouse in the previous autocad drawing and also a shophouse drawing using viz….
……………………
Where is our holiday…?

Submission for machine~~

Today is the submission for the machine..
Everyone come earlier to complete their machine before handed it in…
And we managed to finish it on time...
The machine we design is something that can wear on the body and it is to enhance on touch and hearing...
The main material is the aluminum as it will vibrate when it knock on something and thus produce sound..
So we have another device that can wear around ears so the sound can be heard clearer…
Our machine is called “Blind Mice”

Brain damage...

We have to think again the machine that we want to do as quite a number of people are doing the same thing and it seems that the machine got a lot of problem and it just doesn’t work out…
So we have to brainstorm again…
And the drawing for the shophouse is driving me crazy…

At last we finish the shophouse drawing…
And we were asked to give marks to our own group member…
But to me everyone had done their part well so it is quite difficult to give marks…
Especially Danni coz she really take care of everything…
She is a good leader =)
So I gave her full marks haha…

Consultation...

Today is the consultation for the machine..
We consult Yong Shenq and King since we are in 04 and 05..
So at the end we decided to make a machine like something that can wear on your wrist and the will be some “leg” that extend out so that they can explore the space…

A new project!!

Today Kelly shows us a video at the beginning of the lecture…
And then we were asked to make something out of the wire that Kelly gave us before…
So I just make something that can wear on hand haha…
And then he told us we will have a new project…
I knew it….
And this project is to design a machine for disable people..
Like take away the sight then have to rely on hearing or touch…
Shophouse and machine shophouse and machine????
So wat is the connection???
I just dun get it hahahahahahaha…
Anyway we decided to make a machine for a blind person..
So is to take away the sight and the machine is to enhance the touch…
This is the only idea that we can come out with haha…

Shophouse shophouse shophouse...

Every group have done with their measurement but we still cannot find the shophouse that we want…so we have to go and find again…
Jia Min’s auntie’s office is in a shophouse so she called and asked and it was so happen that the shophouse is what we want which is with 1 air well and 1 rear court and her boss is so nice that he agreed to let us measure the shophouse.. XD
So we rush all the way to there and meet her auntie…
And she even gave us the copy of the original drawing of the shophouse for reference…
Haha thank you Jia Min’s auntie and her boss~~~~

Look for shophouse~~~

Today all of us gather in Chinatown mrt 1st and started our journey on finding the shophouse~~~
But but but,
when we ask the people there about the shophouse they were like “huh”, “I dunno”….
Ok I dun blame them coz if you ask me I also will answer you “sorry I dunno….”
At the end we still dun have the measurement of the shophouse coz they dun want to let us measure and some of us got GEMS so we have no choice but to dismiss without anything done…..

Shophouse

Today we have a lecture on different kind on shophouses…
Then we were asked to measure a shophouse and draw it out using autocad…
WAT!!!!!!
That’s my first reaction…..T-T..
So we separate into 6 groups and the class reps from each class will be the group leader and there will be 16 or 17 members in each group…
I am in Danni and Shane group and the shophouse we were asked to draw is the shophouse with 1 air well and 1 rear court…
So we decided to meet up on Wednesday 10 am at Chinatown mrt…