paradiz

lau pa sat part 2: model & video

2010-06-07T23:11:00.007+08:00

lau pa sat - displacement of community

2010-06-05T21:43:00.005+08:00

lau pa sat, the testimony of history, used to br founded near the port and witnessed the development of the build fabric around throughout the century. it always tied up closely with the shoreline, but was displaced in concept further and further from the shoreline due to the land reclamation, losing its identity and relation with its location and community as its location now becomes in land. in order to adapt to the changing community, lau pa sat constantly reinvented itself as festival market and food center to cater to the needs, but with least desired result being met. this project focuses on how lau pa sat readapts to the new coming community and aims to fundamentally change this situation by reaching it out and grabbing back the displaced community.

project: shopping x luxury

2010-05-29T22:52:00.004+08:00

A good designer is also a good communicator, therefore presentation and communication techniques are always necessary in the final stage of a project. Generally, the most usual and effective way is to visualize the design in drawing, model and presentation board.

Drawing is always the most exact tool in communicating a design. It contains construction drawing and rendering drawing. The former shows the comprehensive and complete information about all aspects, and the latter gives a general sense of the design.

Model is more intuitive than drawings, by which the client can really feel and experience the space rather than imagine. Some designers like handmade models, while in the industry, more designers prefer computer modeling by some advanced software since it saves time and energy.

Besides the drawing and model, the presentation itself actually supplements the additional information and answers further enquiry. However, it is still an important role in selling the design and finally achieving it.

project: shopping - research and analysis

2010-05-29T22:36:00.003+08:00

How to design?

Design is a step by step process which consists of several key stages from start to finish. Basically, when I’m dealing with an interior design project, there are four main stages beginning with gathering and analyzing information. It is essential to know what have been given to you, and what it is expected to achieve. The second stage involves the brief and proposal which determine the main direction of the project based on the requirement. Stage three is when concept and creativity is worked up in drawings and details. At this point of a design project, the thinking and creating process is basic done. And during the fourth stage, the ideas are transformed into model with perfect details and ready for presenting.

However, it is only a main guide of design process. A designer can not stop thinking and testing from the beginning to the end. In stage one to three, our brain gives ideas, while in the operating stage, our hand and eye still provide some unexpected surprises. Overall, a good interior design project always spends more time and experience in thinking and researching rather than operating.

As the most basic and essential stage in a interior design project, it’s important to gather relevant information about the project as much as possible. Take this store- design project for example, we should analysis the site condition, surrounding environment, target customers as well as their shopping behavior, and etc. the more you take in consideration, the better the design is.

Sketch, as a powerful and effective way to present a design, is favored by designer in designing stage. Besides manual drawings, more and more designers nowadays prefer to use drawing and modeling software such as Sketch Up and 3Ds Max to quickly show their design.

Project: Surreal Botany

2010-05-29T22:21:00.003+08:00

The role of the interior designer is multifaceted. To cope with this, designer needs to equip with domain skills such as analyzing, planning and designing, communication skill with client, specialists and suppliers, as well aw flexible, creative and artistic.

However, the most important role as a designer is still to make the works personal and reflect their own reality from the work. The appearances, concepts and techniques will change case by case, but the personality of design which derived from the education and understanding of interior design industry as well as the culture and custom of the designer, as a significant symbol to identify a designer from the rest is hardly modified. Louis Kahn once mentioned: ‘can you recognize the personal in a man’s work?’ implying the importance of ‘personal’ which deeply influenced the designers when they make their design decisions.

Good design can communicate with people itself. In this extend, designer’s main challenge is to listen to the particular space and find out its characteristics first, and at this basis endows it with value and concept, showing the personality of the work’s as well as the designer’s.

As a design student with general art background, I always prefer to add in aesthetics and story rather than pure function in my project. Take the Surreal Botany as example which developed the narrative spaces from several sculpture-like models, some interesting and exciting moments are created (shown in images). Since I aimed to allow the space itself telling the story, the main challenge in this project is to develop each model into a space or a feature, and then connect them meaningfully, properly and functionally.

YR1 FINAL - SHOPHOUSE FOR VERA WANG

2010-05-29T21:16:00.005+08:00

As a first year project, it aims to give a sense of what is interior design and allows us to reflect our idea into a design.

Interior design is a people-oriented industry originated from the new industrial age which correlates closely to architecture, fine art decoration, even social and economic situation. When art and architecture experienced several modern movements, interior design also developed itself as a more advanced and mature industry to meet people’s need.

Considering the health, safety and welfare of users, interior design goes beyond simple placement of furniture, instead, it concerns professionally with all the elements of the structured space of the architectural shell such as walls, windows, doors, finishes, textures, light, furnishings and etc. Aesthetics, creativity and basic technology are required in this industry to enhance the function and quality of interior environment, and to create desired ambience.

Generally, interior design involves the entire 'feeling' of a space which requires many elements come in to play in a subtle yet effective way. Meanwhile, the designer always endows each project with unique value and concept to make sure the interior space is the one and only as well as catered specifically to the needs and likes of the user.

Thus, the most basic idea of Interior Design is to create and plan various funcational spaces which is practicable and meet the users' needs. For example, considered the life style and job demand of the fishion designer Vera Wang, her shophouse should not only contain the basic area for sleepong, cooking, studying and entertaining, but also should includes party space, exhibition area and even runway which are not required by most of the others.

t4b-TOD process journal

2009-02-14T10:16:00.005+08:00

the design process journal is used to record the whole process of this projects. go through this journal you can have a basic understanding of how i pick up the ideas, how to transfer from dress to mood box towards shophouse, and how i modify the ideas...

it is quite interseting to record all these, because design is always about change and update.

t4b- intech wall model & shophouse facade

2009-02-12T19:22:00.005+08:00

finished critique alraedy! i take some pictures of my final model today as i have no time to do it previously. i feel so exciting that i can finally finish it, and the tutors can accept it! holiday will come soon!

also show some pictures of the paper product i did in the last YR1 DS lecture. we were asked to do a model using 5 pieces of paper, only cut and paste. it is a quite intersting way to create spaces!

design principle

2009-02-12T14:29:00.002+08:00

at the begining of the term, we have talked about the design principles and we were asked to take some picture which comform to them. i just show you what i have done.

t4b- final model+ auto Viz drawing

2009-02-10T14:46:00.008+08:00

i have made a largh change in my final model, and i'm not sure whether the lecturor can accept it. However, at least, i love it because the space is simple and interesting, the color is homony. just show you the pictures.

t4b-mood box & mock up models

2009-02-09T23:20:00.006+08:00

mod box

the whole design process lasts more than two months. during that time, we need to do material case study( have shown), mood box, mock up models, final models, auto VIZ, auto CAD,"wall" model and record the whole process which is the journal.

today, i'd like to show the mood box and some mock up models. thses are essential process to every one which gives inspiration and idea.

t4b-intech case study

2009-02-06T19:29:00.017+08:00

it is such a long time that i haven't update, because i was very very busy doing the final porject for yr1. in following days, i will post the design process, show some works with you.

today i will show the Intech Case study component. the material i chose is glass, and in this case study, i will inrtoduce 4 amazing glass architectures.

SHOPHOUSE DRAWINGS!

2008-12-01T16:33:00.011+08:00

review

2008-12-01T16:04:00.014+08:00

what have i done in this term? i always ask myself this question but can't find the answer!

it seems i spent a lot of time on projects while finally i can't remember what i have done, very ridiculous right?!

however, today, when i review the whole process, i recognize, i really did a good job! haha~~ show you ha~

what's the next?!

For the SHOPHOUSE drawing, i will show in another post.

Eliane, happy wedding day!

2008-11-29T15:15:00.006+08:00

DEC. 5th, 2008 is Eliane's Wedding Day! What can we do for her?!~~

everyone in 04 and 05 contributes money to buy her a gift, which is a nice necklace, i do hope she will like it.

Besides, everyone draws a cute A6 size wedding card which will be combined toghther into a book. i'm sure, it must be a precious gift!~~

want to see what i have drew?

haha~~show you now!

show yousome more photos which is quite funny and interset! if you like it and want it just leave massage to me!

art loves design

2008-11-27T10:31:00.004+08:00

spending me more than 15 hours, i finally finish the TOD assignment- art loves design, which is also a part of this year's final project. the designer i chose is Vera Wang, top Fashion Designer especially in gown industy.

from researching, reading, writing ,layouting and final printing, it is quite a long process. i'm quite confidence now that i almost know every single thing about Wang, much than she know about herself.haha.

the Printout Board is a little different from my expectation, as the color is a litter grey. maybe it's a good excuse to buy a new laptop~~

just show you the boards i have done, wish you like them.

just A4 papers!

2008-11-24T19:59:00.004+08:00

i got these pictures from Sarah, and they are really amazing! can you imagin they are just A4 size papers? Crazy, right?!~ sometimes, pure and simple staff can create incrediable design. her can, she can, we can, why can't you?!
Just share them with you guys, enjoy!

finish our machine!

2008-11-22T15:59:00.006+08:00

after 2 days of hard-working, we have finished our machine already!~

quite different from the previous Idea and Concept, we take away hearing and enhance sight this time. i really hope it will be ok!~

in this model, we use some physics princeples, and wear it on arm which can provide a reasonable distance of seeing.the site our chose is in theatre, where always got the shows!~just image how sad it will be if you watch a show but cannot hear anything~~the machine will help you a lot!

i will show you some PICs, enjoy!

the unaccepted mock up!

2008-11-15T22:46:00.012+08:00

Danni, sarah and i are quite lost now! we spend the whole day think, sketch and do the mock up of our project but it is unwanted!

why,why, why! who can tell...are we on the wrong direction?!

how can the tutor said "no, it's not what we want", then all our effort gone!

the whole idea is a person with all the senses gone but sight left only--we try to enhance the sight and show him the deeper world around.

our machine can produce a succession of symmetrical design by means of mirrops reflecting the environment around.

just show you some pictures. at least it's a not bad process~~

the IDEA module

2008-11-11T13:22:00.002+08:00

we got the Idea module this monday, it aims to enhance our creation. As design school, we connect this module to DS, and focus on how can our creation been used in/on our body.it's quite interesting, and we did a in class exercise which is "using a wire to create a objects which can wear on body". i made a wire-sunglass( as shown),so simple~but very fun.

In the next two weeks, we will have a final project, which is also focus on our body and senses.i'll talk more in the next post.so see you~

danni and i

2008-10-28T21:35:00.003+08:00

danni & I...

photo workshop

2008-10-26T11:58:00.011+08:00

the first week of the semester 2 is the photo workshop. it aims to teach us the basic skill of taking photos in both studio and outdoor. during this whole week, we got a lot of lectures and activities, they are quite useful and fun. i'll show you some of the photos i have taken in this week later. hope you enjoy them.

come back school.

2008-10-13T19:27:00.006+08:00

i just come back to school and the school start. to be honest, i really want to being company with my family, 40days are obviously not enough for me. hehe~~

have you ever been to china? if your answar is "no", then i just show you some picture of my hometown- Hangzhou. enjoy it.

CRIT+ field trip

2008-08-21T20:47:00.007+08:00

i'm lucky! the 3th day critique is not so serious as it was in the 1st two days, tutors are all quite calm, haha, so it seems my submissions is at least ok, no need to resubmit! as kelly said i can have a good holiday la!

today we go for the field trip to URA center and ann siang hill. it is a photograph trip so i take a lot of photos. the buildings there are quite amazing although they are very old. i really like the mix and match of different styles, and i really wonder whether i'm in Aisa or Europe!

about the URA center. it's a place to decide what will happen or appear in singapore, what need to build or re-build and what have happened in singapore history. a nice place to go also and you can try to find your flat or house in their scaled model. in the following picture you can see the full view of singapore! quite cool, right?!

finish submit already!

2008-08-15T17:03:00.003+08:00

today is the submission day, so obviously,after submission we are more closer to our holiday!~
but, we still have the crit, which is another chanllenge to me and my crit will start at next wednsday. i really hope the question can be easy, haha~~
besides the crit we will have a field trip and a furniture design competition. although i realil have no idea about the furniture design, i'll just try and do it for fun.
so i will update this blog in next week and show you the pictures i take. bye~~

start the tile painting!

2008-08-12T23:11:00.006+08:00

i have basically finish the labyrinth model, and also teh showboard. i want to make them professional, but i'm not surr whether i can achieve them. haha~~

by the way, i have started working on the tile painting, which is the last project of the term. this project is not so hard as it is basically the same as Tessellation, however, it still takes a lot of time. today, i spend 3 hours doing it but still haven't finish!!~~so the the next 2 days, i will continue!
just show some pictures now. enjoy!

tile painting( haven't finish)

show board A

show board B

5 more days to work!

2008-08-11T01:42:00.004+08:00

we change the submission day from monday to friday, so i have more time to complete my model.
however, i really don't like this change as i still believe everyone shoule follow the rule, no excuse! although i'm so glad that i have more time to improve my model, it is quite unfair to some people. i don' want this kind of thing will happen again!
come bake to the model. my friend said i shoule more elements and spaces in, but i still think less is more, i have the right to decide how is my model looks like. so i will just show some pictures of model with the humen figure. enjoy!

working on my model...

2008-08-07T23:27:00.007+08:00

my dear NICI

only several days left for making model, and of course, like most of my classmates, i haven't finish yet. it's really a big challenge to me as i have to consider a lot: scale, material, way to connect,shape, energy...once i start to think one element, i lost the others, so it's very hard to fine the balance point!
however, sometimes, i just tell myself that i am in yr 1, i have enough time to practise. yes, it's right! i cannot do it perfect, but i'll do it better after more practise.
design is not easy, making your design come ture is much more harder.just show some picture of my model which is not finish.

the aluminium sheet i have cut.

some small shape.

a part of my model.

plan?!

elavation?!

working on my final model!

2008-08-03T11:06:00.002+08:00

we are going to our submission week that means we will finish this term soon.
04 Aug- drawing portfolio, Design syudio collection A
05 Aug- TOD Flatland summary
06 Aug- CD journal
07 Aug- CADP portfolio, Escher model drawing
11 Aug- DS collection B
15 Aug- DS collection C
...
SO MANY THINGS TO SUBMIT! well, it's nice that i have already finish 80%of them, so in the following 2 weeks i should only work on the final model and tiles. Oh, GOD, help me to do so!hahaha...

by the way, i don't know the time to submit INTECH and TOD journals, maybe also these weeks la.

less is more!

2008-07-24T22:09:00.003+08:00

i just finish my 5th model, which is my favourate one until now.
i basically follow the pattern i have chosen and modify some part which is not suitable.
comparing with the pervious model with ZO card, this one has a better shape( not looks like a box anymore!), has more volume, includs both vertical and horizontal elements, while the flat is less and the space becomes more!
the cool thing of this model is i transfer the element from floor to wall to ceiling, but i'm so confusing whether it can achieve in the final model with timber! i hope can la!
ok, show time!

from model to building

2008-07-23T14:16:00.004+08:00

after finish the 3 model based on tessellation, we get a new assignment: base on the favourate model, do a new one with architecture elements(e.g. floor, ceiling, wall, staircase). it's quite a challenge and also very very fun. i'll show the images of my model later includes the design process, please ignore the frame made by saday stick, 'cause it is no sense of the whole design. after this model, it seems i have to redo a new one which improve from this one, and i MUST finish it on this friday! crazy right?
design is over imagination but also suffering!

new work in new week!

2008-07-21T22:29:00.004+08:00

this week we are going to make study model. i have to say that it is quite unimaginable!! how can 2d picture become 3d model?? the small and simple pattern i drew 2 weeks ago in ontography became teseellation, then becomes model now, and maybe one day it can become a real building!! haha~~kidding la~
i have a lot of things to show today, very nice o!

drawing of 2-points perspective, by makers.

it's my first time la, satisfied!

the maker i have used for perspective drawing! so expensive!

Edmund is so funny!

i like the design of the pocket. cute!

the models based on selected tessellation pattern.

tessellation!

2008-07-20T12:18:00.002+08:00

we spend another 2 weeks work on the new project: tessellation. actually, it is not totally new, because we are asked to select the interesting part on ontography as the basic and origin pattern of tesselation. to be honest, this project is much more harder than i had thought and it really need a lot of time. and it's also the reason why we should spend 2 weeks to finish only 3 pieces. the 3 pieces of tesselation are in color, tone(black,grey and white) and pattern.i only take the photo of the tone one, and i'll upload another two later.please enjoy it!

ontography!

2008-07-08T22:40:00.020+08:00

within all the two weeks, we are doing the ontography- don't think, just draw!
but how can i stop thinking? can i control my brain? if i can, i don't need to stay in the class any more. however, at least i finish 6pieces of A1 drawing....terrible!! and i hope i have met the request!

i will show some pictures of my ontography which are original and also some detail-pictures which is PSed! just have fun, don't try to guess what i was drawing, 'cause it's no sense!

CADP assignment- u r so ugly!

2008-07-06T10:06:00.004+08:00

finally, we start to learn photoshop which is more fun and easy.

let me show you what i did in last class~! the whole process (story book) is show in the picture too. enjoy!

title: DANNI, the covergirl!

Some work of term 1

2008-07-05T14:08:00.004+08:00

besides the pingpang ball disign and brick boy. we did another 4 design last term. they are: wire design, box design, ruaasian doll design and peek-boo. i'll display the russian doll and box design today. wish you will like! and in the 2nd term, we may start to do some design which is relevant to interior design. i'll post the design process in the future.3Q!

ps:

picture1: box design.

tool and material: brown box from IKEA, acrylic color.

picture2: russian doll design.

tool and material: paper clay,wire, acrylic color...

Pingpang ball design

2008-05-01T08:50:00.006+08:00

it is the hardest work i have ever seen. how can a people finish 40 balls in 5 days? if so, he/ she should be superman! however, we are all superman/superwoman, because we have all done!

the assignment is design 40 pingpang balls with 4 different kinds of emotion ( happy, angry, surprise, etc). i chose "happy","surprise","sad" and "nervious". haha, i'm not sure whether you can find these emotions in my design.

show time!

long time no see!

2008-05-01T08:22:00.000+08:00

It is the 11th day from I create this blog, and i finally decide to update,ha~

after 3 weeks' school life, i can totally adapt to the new environment, only one thing make me unhappy~ this is soooooooooooooo much work to do: brickboy, pingpang ball design...

fortunately, i have done!

just let me show you some pic about my brick boy. the pic of pingpang ball design will show in next post.

my brick boy- SLAM DUNK!

also some pic of the process below.

welcome!

2008-04-20T23:06:00.001+08:00

Welcome to my new blog!

It is a blog for design things ONLY.

I'd like to share my work and my fond work with you!

Ok, let's start! hope to see you again.