Tuesday 11 October 2011

personal relfection

main concept
- i learnt how to effectively make a building aesthetically appealing and to make comments and argue about my own layout design flaws and factors. i also learnt how difficult designing is and the ways of an architect.
difficulties
being with other subject projects, this project was rather time constraints and research was necessary for the project to be effective, also the google sketchup was often irritating and annoying.
how did i overcome?
i marked my schedules along the due dates, thus time management was easier and learnt a thing or two about sketch to make it easier

Tuesday 20 September 2011

Window to the soul- low wei kang

(Name of building): Window to the soul

(Purpose of building): The main purpose of the building is to provide a conductive and practical workplace and shelter for the students of SST.

(Concept behind the building): The students of a school can easily be considered as a the soul and of the school, the schools performance, livelihood and standard fluctuates with the students of the school, and since the building is meant to be a hostel, the building design revolves around the transparent and glassy look and feel, thus the name- Window to the soul

Tuesday 5 July 2011

What makes a good architectural design



The design of this school hostels provides equal accessibility to all students, and ample rooming. The needs of school hostel is ease of movement, enough space to carry out basic every day needs (sleeping, studying, toiletries) also, the hostel needs to have ample space for interactions between students for study and social purposes, although the design shows more than abundant in all these areas, the huge area in the centre is wasted, in places like Singapore, this proves to be a very annoying problem. the four corners may be swapped into the centre so as to take up the space in the centre.

http://www.iitb.ac.in/deanpl/images/bviews/projScien/2.gif

Tuesday 28 June 2011

What is Architectural Design

Architectural design
A concept that focuses on the components or elements of a structure or system that unifies them into a coherent and functional whole.
-businessdictionary.com
A style and method of design and construction of buildings and other physical structures.
-wikipedia
The art or practice of designing or constructing buildings.
-apple dictionary