POETIC FOOTBRIDGE

Architectural discoveries always arrives in most unexpected ways, thanks to barely perceptible shifts in ways of observing cities, place & space, structure and social life. By working as they do, through projects one after another, architectural students are increasingly thinking and taking differently from those before them. They are stumbling across unexpected qualities or possibilities found in the new media used to captured, record or communicate ideas. They are picking up and starting to try out new kinds of design tools; they are experimenting with new materials, assembly structural systems, building technologies and the physical 'stuff' of building in such haphazard ways that they are opening up further avenues for new kinds of projects. The consequences of this kind of youthful approach to architecture are readilly evident in this project.

Project: Poetic Footbridge

Duration: 4 weeks

Requirements: Finished model with scale 1:200, exploded isometric & superimposed photograph on site.

Site: Tropical Garden University Lake

Supervisor & Photography: cyfu.

Enjoy & Godbless.

SELF MADE ARCHITECTURE

THE BEACH SHELTER

The second semester of the academic year, Fundamental Unit continues to explore and debate notions of architecture through a series of design projects. The first project namely “The Beach Shelter” quickly immersed the students in diverse architectural ideas and challenge. These are their first self made architecture. They have to produce a full scale prototype model trying to solve their first architectural responses which was then be tested on actual site at Teluk Resang, Mersing, Johor, through the end of the monsoon season. This would really test the structural strength of the shelter with the actual site forces. Though they are from different workbases and using different materials, they all shared a common goal.
The monsoon rain burst and very strong (I mean very very strong) gust of wind constantly blow our face and broke some of the structure on our first day at Teluk Resang. Regardless to the rain and the wind, the students manage to pitch up their shelter safely. We had a marathon photography session for more than 24 hours (sleepless night) and we also manage to sculpt a set of stone sculpture during the blue hour. Here are some of our masterpiece. Enjoy!

BEACH SHELTER IN THE MAKING

Self made architecture, solving first architectural responses which able to address to self with simple structure and tropical environment. Safety First. Godbless.

Bending the aluminium tube.

Drilling recycle plastic bottle.

The Scale Model