TETRIS CUBES VARIATIONS FORM EXPLORATION

To restrict the form exploration experiment, I’ve limited the use of Tetris cubes variation, where each variation has only been used once, with the maximum height of 3000mm.

Form Translation

The translation of the Tetris cube form into a 3D version, the smooth of the edges are essential to be kid friendly providing more safety considerations

FORM VS. HUMAN ACTION

Zoning Plan

Translation Of Form

Spatial Plan

Dividing the play area into 3 primary zones of climbing, crawling and pop out zones, and supplemented by 2 secondary zones of the connecting and observation zones. In this manner it creates a more complex yet clear circulation for kids to explore.

3d Elevation Diagram

Selected flexible cube connected by only magnet, that are arrangeable by players

Plan out the basic shape, empty space and height of the cubes, according to the function of the area.

Add new layer on top to create continuous path for upper layer and to enrich the form and playability.

Add the highest point in the play-scape to create a sense of rhythm through form to make it more complex.

Finalize the full play-scape by adding connecting forms between each function zone, and to add the operation platform.

Form Structure

STRATEGY - AIM

colourized silicone coating

The materiality consideration was based on the overall spatial design and elements within it. Where Flexibility and modality takes a major role in this project. The selection of using silicone and wire mesh, enables each modular unit to be easy to install and is flexible on site, and also simple to mould during prefabrication construction off-site. The combination of silicone and wire mesh implements the idea of light weight but also enough firm and secure to climb on.

Outer layer silicone cover

Inner layer silicone cover Steel mesh structure stainless steel

Utilise studs and notches to connect forms to forms enables flexible connecting points

Steel studs for attaching two forms

Custom silicone sleeve edge

The Floating Community

Project Form: Individual Project Date of Completion: 11.02.2023

In my perspective as a graduate from the interior architecture program, believe it is critical to identify and address current societal issues in the built environment, in order to make a difference in the actual world. While population growth offers certain benefits for society’s development, it has also raised societal concerns. As a result of the housing shortage and high rental prices, not everyone can afford to pay the rental charge, this will eventually lead to a series of uncontrollable repercussions. The article The anchor-outs: San Francisco’s bohemian boat dwellers fight for their way of life ’ from The Guardian reveals a specific result due to the high rental prices. I think this is quite an interesting and meaningful topic to explore since it is a global issue that needs to pay more attention to. So I want to express my design ideas on this topic and create a design solution for the target audience.

Location

The site is located at Richardson Bay, Sausalito in California. Utilizing old vessels from the past days and ships that are planed to be abandoned within the bay area. Which are all ships from the anchor-out floating home community.

Design Goal

According to the location, history and past development of the bay area, there’s a need to boost the tourism sector for the country in order to reduce alienation between the locals and other cities as well as to promote the culture.

13 min

25 min

Transportation

Sausalito

Richardson Bay

San Fransisco

The location is very convenient which has a high possibility to attract tourists.

Population Density

Low High

According to Geoff Boeing analyzed statistics, it shows the different daytime destiny within this area, where San Fransisco has the most traffic density compared to the other areas, which provides opportunity to attract more visitors to the site.

1830

Sausalito starts being a place where ships can get fresh water, and is still a part of Mexico. Alsop a small fishing, boat repair and ranching center, where the boat repair businesses remain active today.

Target User Group

1880

1941

Railroad has been introduced within Sausalito, where tracks has been built to link today’s wine country. It transformed into a key hub connecting San Fransisco.

This period being the starting point of Sausalito’s houseboat communities, and provided a place for Sausalito’s already active artist community to grow.

During World War II north of Sausalito turned into a massive Marin ship Shipyards that mainly produce merchant ships to carry supplies around the world.

After the War ended Sausalito, parts of the land been sold to governments, ship builders and land developers. A community of artists, maritime workers and craftspeople, and the boat building and boat repair businesses blossomed.

1960

An creative colony grew where artist’s, writers and musicians were inspired to settle in the area. Floating homes began to trend in the Maritime, where artist Jean Varda, philosopher and author Alan Watts (who remains influential today) etc. joined the improvised floating homes community.

1980

The anchor-out floating home community faced a crisis, where they were forced to move their boats into the harbor. Some of the 1940’s era vessels were disintegrating, and there was no money to restore them. Incidents of violence increased. Waste and bad smell increased resulting in “The Houseboat Wars”.

Today

40% Visitors

15% Artisits, Musicians, Writers

45% Residents

Issue still remains, my intention is to create a new supportive hub to relocate and provide opportunities for these boat house owners, and allowing them and their culture to influence residence and visitors, to foster and boost the art and boat culture to the new genration.

A important figure in the counterculture movement and has inspired young people into the bay area in California by his Zen & Buddist philosophy.

Design Analysis & Strategies

Spatial Analysis

Exisitng Functions

Structural Add On’s

Thermal & Light Analysis

Proposed Fuctionalities Functionalities Distribution

1. According to research the article ‘The anchor-outs: San Francisco’s bohemian boat dwellers fight for their way of life’ from The Guardian, reveals that the majority of ships at the bay area are for residential purpose which are illegal and unsafe, this therefore started the crisis.

2. Add new column structural elements into the existing ship, to create visual spatial divisions. It shows that ship no.02 and no.03 has the most diverse spatial division.

3. Due to the different activities within the space natural light conditions plays a important role for each activities. According to the thermal analysis, it shows that ship no.02 receives the most natural light, ship no.03 the second and ship no.01 the last.

4. Apply the new functions within the different areas. Zen scenting, zen tea and mediation can be held in ship no.01 since it all requires a more enclosed and ambient space. However, every space are flexible, with moving furnitures to enable different activities to be held over the year.

5. Functionalities are distributed according to the needs of spatial scale, acoustic, light and openness. Some activities will be held on different ships according to the season and weather condition, creating a highly flexible layout of how the ship can be connected.

Block Relief Prints

This project focuses mainly on the experimentation of typographic image making, print techniques and materials, in order to express the narrative graphically through postcards. The design concept elaborates from the article 68% of the world population projected to live in urban areas by 2050, says UN which discusses the topic urban growth in a global perspective. The reason that I’ve chosen this text is that it’s where my interest is at and also by reading the text I’ve noticed that it’s full of data and comparisons between past, current and future urbanization development statistics. Which I think it’s quite interesting to work with and has a lot of potentials to play with hierarchy in the postcard design.

Since urbanization is not an intuitive change, but a subtle development that usually takes many years for people to have an intuitive view. People tend to focus on the benefits of urbanization at most times, rather than the actual process, however it is essential to know the process in order to better understand the future sustainable development of the country as these are the foundation of urbanization.

The text talked about several different ideas of urbanization, but the information still correlates to each other. Based on the text, I’ve chosen 4 topics: Settlements, Population concentration, residential shift and rural decline. Which think covers my main idea to create informative postcards to inform audiences, by using key statistics to communicate the bond between sustainable development and rapid urbanization.

For my final designs, I’ve worked a lot with grids and text hierarchy, as want to emphasize data in my design. Since it’s a double-sided postcard, I’ve used a reveres color palette on the front and back. Where the front being the informative data, and the back highlighting the main topic being expressed.

“By 2030, the world is projected to have 43 mega cities with more than 10 million inhabitants, most of them in developing regions.”

I’ve played a bit with the typology, for the ‘U’ I’ve added windows to make it like a high rise building, and for the ‘i’ I’ve changed the dot to a triangle so that it symbolizes houses. For the back, I’ve stretched the bottom of the text symbolizing the developing journey.

“By 2050, it is projected that India will have added 416 million urban dwellers, China 255 million and Nigeria 189 million.”

The front design I’ve incorporated several bars connecting each of the countries to one point, mimicking the nature of rapid urbanization is a global development. For the back I’ve overlapped the lines to create the middle part referring to ‘concentration’

“Today, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050.”

I’ve used a curved line to indicate the journey towards the residential shift on the front. For the back of the post card I’ve stretched the typology and curved it to symbolize the shifting process, which also create visual narrative that any process won’t be a straight line.

“The global rural population is now close to 3.4 billion and is expected to rise slightly and then decline to 3.1 billion by 2050.”

For the front, very obvious typology hierarchy are applied, since it’s very informative, so I tried to you layers to emphasize on data. Whilst for the back, its referring to how rapid urbanization leads to rural population decline. was inspired by the data curve, which then visualized it with my typography.

Post Pandemic Cafeteria

Project Form: Individual Project Date of Completion: 13.08.2020

The post pandemic era was the main inspiration in creating this project, where it allows designers to reflect and innovate new ways of how customers in a cafeteria circulate and use the space, as well as to create designs that can suit different consequences and settings for a longevity purpose. This project mainly focuses on the documentation of a technical drawing set and materiality, materials that are easy to clean are extremely important for this project as it can decrease the bacteria survival rate.

Proposed Floor Plan @1:20

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

Materiality.

Concrete Deflecta Concrete Bacteria

Control Mix

Glass Agc Glass Europe Planibel Ab: Clear Glass

Steel Antique Copper + Clear Gloss (Acml)

Stone White Shimmer 3124 Polished Finish

Concrete Organic White 4600 Polished Finish

Concrete Bianco Drift 6131 Polished Finish

Fabric Bamboo Organic Cotton French Terry Kf291

Fabric Bamboo Velour Camellia Rose Kf440

POCKET SLIDING DOOR, BUILT INTO WALL STRUCTURE, 40mm

DASH LINE INDICATES UNDER BENCH FRIDGE INSERTION

DASH LINE INDICATES DOOR SWING PANEL FOR STAFF TO ENTER THE WORK ZONE

GLASS WINDOW PANEL 50mm

BUILT-IN KNOCK CHUTE WITHIN JOINERY SURFACE

DASH LINE INDICATES UNDER BENCH BIN

DASH LINE INDICATES UNDER BENCH CABINET DOOR SWING