Feeling emo

This is the Merdeka post i supposed. I understood the meaning of LONELY at this particular time. Clock almost strikes 12 when i was writting and will pass 12 after i finished this.

Cannot think of what more meaningful to do other than writing myself a post here. Happy merdeka myself. Self Merdeka quoted. I am 22 and it should be a long time ever since i learn to live in this world. I am so OLD and there is more days ahead. How am i going to make it wonderful?

My dinner was burnt down as of my clumsiness again. Forgot abt the corn and in the end, a black corn is what i have. A lesson again, my dear SUEANN.

The four days of holidays is used to do my report and presentation. Gosh, studio havent really figure out. My phobia i guess. I do not know from where to start it out.

HAPPY MERDEKA to myself. Just for this very moment. :P

Merdeka from mind over someone who been in my mind for almost one weeks. It is time to let off. I cannot figure out what that feel was but it was too confusing after all. Ya. It is time to let it off as of the different world. A simply different one. I meant to.. gosh.. let off is better...... it is just fantasie after all..

Emo with ning baizura -selagi ada cinta.. GOSH> getting more and more emo in this merdeka.. Happpy merdeka.. Is time back for works!!!

I will.. never love.. never emo over..............Felt i am such a childish one..

SIgning off

SueAnn

Why i do? Been escaping from the tiny world of blog since then. Ever since, last month? haha..

UPM do has the story. We was on one week holiday due to the quarantine. That was a nice outbreak anyway. The day before the break of the news, we were rushing the assignment like hell. Non stop of photoshopping and autocadding. And just a day before the submission, we were announced to break free, break out, break up with our assignments. We had an extra week for free.
Arigatou H1N1 after all.

And the day after the outburst of the news, up the hill we go. Thru, it was an inconsiderate thing to do, we did that. Were pretty proud for being at the hill and yet, we completed the task finally.
This is a post straight away after the presentation.

Feeling : Relieved, regret, happy

It was a rush presentation anyway. Mr. meor was all the way like this @ @... haha.. But at least i tried to finish my board using computer finally without manual.. there is a number of people i would like to address my thanks. My mum for all the food she cook, my sis for all the reminder she gave, dad for de cool advice- hentam la, my facebook entertainer, Coursemate, and lecturers.. Almost everyone. Sound like a speech after the award winning. :P

One sad news, Sg might not be in list anymore as we cant get through the H1N1. We have to sneak in if we wanted. No one is responsible again. After all, our lecturers still treat us as kids. Just pray HK trip will not be affected as well. Rain rain H1n1 go away.....

Grown up kid react differently this days. So different. Cant even know what he she thinks. haiz.

Bye DNA, thx DNA, for being once in my life. :P

Along the waiting ....

When you waited too long, it get fed up..

These happened for the past two weeks. It is time to wake up and face the reality. The reality that stand by myself for the two weeks. Hope flow in at times yet, it just procrastinated one to stop and wait longer. The illusion that given is all fake. It is upsetting but that's life. You take and give. There is dreams that we share and all these were impossible. How i wished that was possible.. But that is still impossible no matter how positive I am..

Submission.. Back in action.

the began of first two week...........

Finally, i get my free night. Over the last two week, it was all about rushing here and there. Assignment never stop assigned to kill us ever since the past two week. Almost every night, i made my own panda eyes. But, not only complain, started to learn more about life.

The hardwork does pay off at times. Finished the assignment and able to pass up it. Although there is much more room of improvement yet, i have done that holiday assignment with bonus which is the sarawak holiday. Talking about Sarawak, it finally ended. Have to learn to love reality. Practical training was a worth thing to be enjoyed. Ours is definitely different from others. It is a break from architecture in a fun way. Meeting the fun people and fun activites. In the future, if i ever looked back, the experiences will never removed from the mind. Will not unless Parkinson attacked. Haha.

Today will be a break day from sketches, conceptual, CAD, model and others. No architecture night and just me and myself and my interest. reading blog and watching as much drama as I can. But with ONE condition, tomolo, i have to stick myself on the chair and start drawing the needed thing for crit submission on monday.

Second project : An expression of personality on a Pavilion.

This project is different than other project. A new feel as now we are allowed to express what we really want. Our own design setting. My personality...
Stubborn, restless, cheerful, and stubborn again. How to really reinterpret this into my cool pavilion? Something rigid , dynamic or something soft, curvy.? Let's think again tomolo.

Going to singapore soon. For class trip. The last trip was 4 years ago for the Xmas. The orchard road is a memorable place. The place that i found the wild me. I love partying with stranger on the particular day. Weird interest. But with Chinese only, it really make me felt chinese. Look like I have to save more and more money for the coming trip. Not only singapore but hong kong for next year. Architecture student is poor student.

Ok.. time to catch back my drama... Hail..

A new chapter of life

Finally I am back from kuching. It bring both feelings. Happy for being at home at last and sad for leaving a place that became mine for approx 3 mths. The unusual feel of not meeting such a big crowd need time to heal. This two month has brought us so much closer. From someone that is formal became someone that can joke all the time. It really take time to build such relationship but sad to say, it is hard to maintain. We might bump into each other like we just knew each other. After all, this is life. You come and go in everyone's life.

MJ is gone. The reaction that people gave is.. WOW.. why treasure only if it is lost? While he is alive, there is people that judge him and when he gone, all these gone and it turn to be something else. When human gone, the story also gone. LOST + GONE = treasure. guess that is it..

Man in the mirror- reflection- i guess this is the best song to see humans. when you feel lost, sad or

Judgement day

Judgement day.

Judgement is another aspect of life that i discovered. A simple person might not be as simple as he or she look like. It back to the simple rule that everyone
did have their mask. Mask to reveal the true side of them. These mask are terrible weapon as we cannot judge how the true and false side
of a reality. It get pretty scary at times. Not pretty but really scary. And it felt horrible when you thought you understand someone but actually, you didnt.
Not at all. Things doesnt turn on the way it supposed.

Upset to the most. Back to the basics rule. You may be high at the wheel and down at the next minutes. You might hate someone for today, forget them tomorrow. And hate them
again the next day. But when it come to someone with faces, it became hard. You will never know when the face is true and when is false, and you
just get mad for not able to judge that. You angry with yourself because of poor judgement.

Guess finally i understand why it is easier to get along with people of same key. Good people stay in group and bad people in their group.
Bad people like me is worth to be hate anyway. It is punishment after all. Honest and simple people often mistaken for their faces. And i
terrible did mistakes with my naked eyes. Sorry for being so. Sad for being blind all the time.

People have right to be what they suppose to be. Everyone did. But at certain limits, they should be true to themselves at least. Nothing should be
a reason to the deed behind everything. Well, maybe there is some reason. Affection is not a least item. Who will said no to love? Bear in mind even you want to
appear the best in front of someone you like, be yourself. Do not change yourself for that someone. After all, poor judgement lead to many misunderstanding and regret that you cannot retrieve at the
end of the day. To call off the day, be true to yourself, my friends.



Signing off
Under the cloud.

SECOND REVIEW

UN studio project just caught my eyes. Browsing through the web and discover some design. It is not extreme yet it stands for its purpose in a striking way. From buildings to chairs just like the Barcelona chair by Mies Van Der Rohe. The different is the chair design and name. MYchair does has it purpose as a seat just like Barcelona. The fact is when you are an architect, you never run away from designing anything useful in daily life. Anything not only buildings.

MOMEMA in Dubai by UN studio is a more tender idea compared to Frank Gehrys. The exploration of space is a great. Its interior somehow is not that expressive as the exterior. It tends to adapt another style. A style more to Daniel Libeskind. Yet to said, the MOMEMA does stand great in Dubai along with other vertical growing buildings.

UN studio also has the Star facade in Taiwan - Technically acting as a sunscreen and weather barrier the curved facade is fully glazed and combines the curtain wall glazing with horizontal lamellas and vertical glass fins. The position and size of each of the façade elements are derived from a twisted frame system, which is related to the interior organisation of the building. The concave front of the building displays different fluent forms when seen from varying distances and directs the visual field of the customers traveling on the spiraling escalators. Edge-lighting for the vertical glass fins spreads soft colours onto the façade by night. The lighting intensity and colour effects are digitally controlled and choreographed adding another layer of fluidity to the building’s skin.
That was the review of the facade of the building. The building depends on the exterior to make it tally with other buildings. It still represents Taiwan in a new way. The idea is there.

UN studio make its debut in the labratory. Science is no longer the same with this building. Some of Zaha Hadid first impression as in the Montepelliar building. It looks familiar to one of the building in final project either.
The research labroratory - The facade is constructed from flat, vertical aluminum slats, which, in places, are twisted outwards in bowed forms. Tall, vertical undulations are generated, which present an open or a closed aspect depending on the angle under which they are viewed. On the lower level the colour yellow is used, which gradually changes to green towards the top of the building. In the interior, two internal vertical voids allow daylight to enter the interior functioning as a form of internal facade. The two voids have the geometry of asymmetrical truncated cones which mirror each other vertically. Shared walkways surround these internal voids, creating a clear organisation whereby dark corridor systems can be avoided. On the ground floor, where daylight is at its lowest, yellow is used. Per floor this colour then deepens through to orange and finally to red on the uppermost level.

The next project : The design for the Theatre Spijkenisse focuses on the placement and orientation of the building in the urban location, whilst simultaneously providing architectural solutions for programming needs and public access. The placing of the programmes within the building aims for efficient routing through the theatre, coupled with a logical relationship to the surroundings, whilst the design and placement of the various volumes make use of the natural variations in the levels of the site. The two main theatre spaces are positioned to receive the visitor flow directly from the foyer and the public square. From the foyer, a sculptural stairway forms the binding element towards the entrances to the theatre rooms. The theatre cafe is located adjacent to the nearby water and is designed as a third theatre, in the form of an amphitheatre.

The building is structured to combine a unit-based volume (the black box of the theatre) and a series of movement-based volumes (foyer and public circulation). Because this organising principle is made constructive, a fluent internal spatial arrangement is actualised, efficiently connecting spaces to each other. The multipurpose auditorium can seat up to 450, and that is adaptable to a great variety of performances. The free-flowing space of the foyer is made possible by a spiraling constructive element that connects the entrance to the auditorium and to the music rooms above, thus welding together ‘with a twist’ the three levels of this side of the building. This twist forms a 3D interpretation of the repetitive pattern, executed in the muted tones of stage make-up, which is applied to the facades and then enveloped by a glittering mesh.

Colourful just like a building in Kuching by DNA. The Boulevard shopping centres that look simple during the day and lighting make it alive at the night. Brilliant idea for sharp effect and minimalism cost. Credit to Mr. William. Haha.

Rhino facade strip from UN studio is not a bad idea after all. The moving lines do potray every single space well. As it is unique that a megayacht shipyard allows publicity regarding their design and manufacturing process.

The Burnham Pavilion in Chicago is not a bad term either. The shape is smooth and it just looks nice from the picture itself.

Out There: Architecture beyond Building
There is a distinct dystopian thread running through Out There: Architecture Beyond Building that leaves you more concerned about the mental health of the exhibitors than the world they attempt to critique.
Its curator and director of the Architecture Biennale Aaron Betsky tasked around two dozen international architects to produce a piece — not of architecture, but about architecture — to explore how the profession can domesticate technological systems to make people feel “more at home in the modern world”.

The majority of the exhibitors are showing in the Arsenale, a 300m-long, 10m-high linear procession of large rooms in what was the city’s old rope works. The scale and character of the installations they have produced suit this windowless space well, but those expecting the shock of the new may be disappointed. Many of the pieces, knowingly or otherwise, have a space-age rhetoric that has become instantly recognisable.

Moving through the first space, David Rockwell’s and Jones/Kroloff’s Hall of Fragments, is a bit like going through a kaleidoscopic egg timer. Projected onto two large screens that in plan curve towards each other are fractured images from a hundred classic films, from Hitchcock’s North by North-West to Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. These filmic fragments follow your progress as dynamic shards, even coalesce around you if you pause for a moment, but melt into nothing once you leave your seat.

Other architects explored interactivity such as Barkow Leibinger’s Nomadic Garden, where laser-cut tubular steel pieces of various heights can be reconfigured by visitors throughout the duration of the biennale. Its description as an “ephemeral version of poché” chimes with other gaming metaphors in the show such as the computer game that models interactive planning processes by MVRDV, and the installation organised on a giant chessboard by Penezic & Regina. Here, the rigid logic of a game, with its necessary abstractions and clear-cut rules, hints at the dehumanising approach to architecture that is one of the show’s major themes.


One of the high points is Nigel Coates’ Hypnerotosphere which, taking the obverse approach, puts human experience at its centre.
A suspended screen creates a circular enclosure, inside which are fleshy pieces of furniture, loosely suggestive of a domestic interior. Projected onto the screen are two interacting male dancers interspersed with images of the Corviale, the doomed mile-long housing block on the outskirts of Rome. The suggestion is that architecture should amplify, not disrupt, such lines of human desire.

But elsewhere, images of domesticity have a darker agenda. UN Studio’s installation of three interconnected white chambers, for example, aims to evoke feelings of emptiness and alienation, The pessimist undertow really reaches full strength with Matthew Ritchie’s and Arand/Lasch’s “anti-pavilion” which “inverts the obsolete technocratic optimism usually associated with pavilions.” Its creators suggest that the truncated polyhedral shapes, which can be scaled up and down and attached together in limitless different ways, could be multiplied across the universe.

This notion of infinity is extended by Patrik Schumacher, who wants us to imagine an urbanism where “there are no more landmarks to hold onto, no axis to follow and no more boundaries to cross.” Both these practitioners, with their emphasis on multiple centres, reveal their profound interest in the network society. And yet these endless, amorphous propositions seem far too literally inferred from the immense scale of emerging global communication systems.

Betsky’s view, that we are controlled by technology and imprisoned by architecture, is certainly popular within a certain wing of the architectural intelligentsia, but is it true?

Technology will increasingly marginalise architecture as the means to connect people in the 21st century, and it would have been great to see a show that explored more convincingly how the profession can help shape the merging of virtual and real worlds in a positive way. But in deliberately ducking the thorny question of building, the show fails to place architecture firmly, materially, and imperatively on this territory. The ideas are too frequently so tentative, so ungrounded in reality, as to offer little insight.

At the end of the main Arsenale exhibition hall, out to the left, are a handful of pavilions for nations too new or too small to yet have a place in the Giardini. One of these, the Croatian Pavilion, has as its motto: “We are positive we can destroy our world, yet we do not easily give up the idea that we can improve it. Into the sea of possibilities we jump and swim.” You can’t help wishing that more of the exhibitors had grabbed their trunks and dived in too.