Project 3: Visitor Interpretive Centre

Continuing from the project 2, space planning and spatial qualities of the design are changed and improved. In the end, I am able to produce digital presentation board about the V.I.C.

From this project, I learnt about the ways of incorporating the site context with design. I know more about how to apply the concept into design. Other than that, I also learnt about designing bigger buildings that are to accommodate large number of visitors. Size of spaces and basic spaces are important as practicality of design should be taken care  as well as the aesthetics and poetics of building. 

Project 2: Genius Loci: Site analysis and concept development

Worked as group, we were required to discover about the genius loci of a place. Genius loci of Sungai Lembing will then be development into a concept to be applied in the V.I.C in project 3.

In this assignment, I sketched about different scenes that I found interesting about Sungai Lembing. All of the sketches had different elements that can be noticed in Sungai Lembing. It shows a timeline of Revival in Sungai Lembing. Hence, the concept developed is Revival.

From this assignment, I learnt about methodology of site analysis and understand the SWOT of a place. Besides that, I am also able to generate concept from sketches and translate the concept into design of a building. The process of designing are more interesting with the introduction of genius loci of the place.

Project 1: Memorials

For the first project of Design Studio 3, we were assigned to do precedent studies and design a Sabah Earth Quake Memorial and a Rohingya Crisis Memorial.

After we decided to choose Holocaust Museum and Santa Costanza for the spatial typology studies, we done research on the spatial qualities and poetic。

From the precedent studies, we applied what we learnt to design memorials for Sabah earth quake and Rohingya Crisis.

In this assignment, I learnt how a journey can be applied in linear building or even concentric buildings. It helps me to understand about poetics of architectures and spatial qualities. These qualities are the elements that is important to the environment around and inside the memorial. From here, I learnt to design memorial spaces and architecture elements.