Jiahui DID03

Let's not talk about architecture

2010-06-06T23:53:00.001+08:00

My year3 project titled: Let’s not talk about architecture. It was a competition. Our group had chosen the theme Displacement of community. The area that we were targeting was the Tiong Bahru wet market.

We had a design for each individual stall. We also used colours to replace signage for people to recognize which stall is selling what product. We wanted to enhance the relationship between the community. Hence there were pathway within the stalls. The whole building also have linkage from the first floor to the third floor with timber strips.

Shopping Details

2010-06-06T22:08:00.001+08:00

This project was named Shopping details. We were surveying the Raffles Xchange and choose a shop of 100 x 100 Square Metre and re- design to a shop we wanted. I was designing a watch retail shop. Having the concept of cubes, I created partition walls of cubes for placing the watches. The partition walls allow people experience the spaces with each turn in the store.

Surreal Botany

2010-06-06T21:56:00.001+08:00

For this particular project, it was also something to deal with botanical. We were being assigned to study and observed a particular plant. For my project, the plant that I’m supposed to study was the Licuala Grandis. From there, we were to study the colours, extremities, growth, habitat, movement, junctions, reproduction, scale, texture and the structure system of the plant.

From the studies, I did my drawings on the 10 terms.

From the drawings, mock up models were made followed by the final model. My model was a journey to the centre of the Earth. People will move through the spaces and experience the spaces that were created by the 10 terms of Licuala Grandis.

Botanical Terms

2010-06-06T21:21:00.003+08:00

This project was titled: Botanical Terms. In this particular project, I am given 3 botanical terms: Filament, Monoculture and Heterotaxy. Having these 3 terms in mind, I had to re-design the existing glass cube stairs which is located in Singapore Polytechnic.

We drew the elevation and the sections with details for the existing glass cube stairs and also our re-designed glass cube.

Model was then made to show our design for a clearer view of the ‘new’ glass cube stairs.

These are the process and some clearer views of my model.

final model

2009-01-30T02:57:00.001+08:00

These are the images of my final model.

I have used acrylic to act as walls at some parts of the house.

The stairs are all sloted through the walls.
Walls and floors are connected using slotting.

It a special house that I have design for Jorn Utzon.

The openess of the house allows him to look to the exterior, even in the interior he can look to the other ends of the house at some views.

shophouse mock up

2009-01-16T14:47:00.000+08:00

This is my final mock up, with the roof added up.
I love my own model. hahas ^^

Shophouse mockup

2009-01-16T14:40:00.000+08:00

These are the process of my mockup.

I was using slotting method to connect wall and the floor.

2009-01-16T13:34:00.002+08:00

These are some sketches I have drawn before constructing my mock up.

Mood box

2009-01-12T13:28:00.000+08:00

This was the second mood box.

This time I used square as the shape but the other ideas was still the same.

I draw grid lines to show the connection.

Mood box

2008-12-21T00:55:00.002+08:00

This was my first mood box. I used triangular shape to form up the shape.

The mood box shows Form, the triangle shape. Repetiton, using the same shape over and over again. Openess, Using transparent acrylic and the black tape to show the connection from the inside to the outside.

Strawry hearing aid^^

2008-11-21T23:03:00.000+08:00

These are the process of how my strawry hearing aid is being bulid up.

Team work is the thing which keeps us going till the end! ^^

Strawry hearing aid ^^

2008-11-21T22:40:00.000+08:00

The next update is the a machine that I have designed with my group members, Adeline and Gekshan. The device enhance the sense of hearing and touching but reduces the sense of sight and lost the sense of touch. We named it '' Strawry hearing aid '' as our main material for our device is straws. We used lots of straws and stick them all together and its being 'frame' up within the wooden sticks. The straws reduce the sense of sight but it enhance the sense of hearing and touching. When you knock onto things you can hear sounds as there's a string attached to the straws which goes right up up to the ear and by letting the straws hitting the surroundings, it acts as feelers which hence enhance the sense of touch.

Difficulties that me and my group members have met are, there are too many straws to cut and by framing the straws within the frame was not as easy as you think. As huge bunch of straws are attached together it becomes heavier hence kept falling out. We cannot solve the problem hence, before the crit, we then placed the straws into the frame.

Jorn Utzon

2008-10-06T00:43:00.001+08:00

This is the architect that I have chosen Jorn Oberg Utzon.

The reason why I chose him was I love his works.

The one which attarcts me most was the Sydney Opera House.

I wanted to know more about him and his works, hence I chose him and place him in my first choice.

Shophouse measurement

2008-10-04T00:03:00.000+08:00

I was in Alvin's group for the shophouse measurement. We went to somerset as the shophouse we found was located there. It was fun working in a huge group. We went there several times, people there were very friendly. Teamwork is really important. We have great time working together. We met problems when drawing different parts of the shophouse. Ours things was not propotional to each other. We correct it time and time again and again. Hope there are more teamwork in the future^^

Thats the way I wanted

2008-09-26T22:37:00.000+08:00

My activities interacting with furniture.
Due to some technical problems, I refomated my lappy hence I lost my 2 A1 panels soft copy.

Thats the way I like it

2008-09-26T20:11:00.000+08:00

These are some of my drawings in my journal =)

Thats the way I like

2008-09-26T19:38:00.000+08:00

In this lesson, we drew pictures in our intect journal to show the proportional height when humans are standing, sitting, stretching etc. All the stationary, moving postures are all recorded down into out journal by drawing. We also done measurrments for 3 different types of staircase. We learnt about riser and tread, whats the min. or max. height or lenght for riser and tread. For a normal riser, its 150mm - 175mm. For tread, the min lenght is 250mm. We also drew how humans height related to the furnitures aorund us, eg, table, chair,bed etc. We even took pictures of our daily life how human interact with furnitures and layout it all in 2 A1 size panels.

Photography Lesson in little India

2008-09-24T19:28:00.000+08:00

These are a few images I have taken at little India.

Photography Lessons

2008-09-24T19:23:00.000+08:00

According to our groups we take pictures due to the colour group we are in and well, I'm in the green group. Our group leader was Nz. He has done a good job making the collage ^^

Photography Lessons

2008-09-24T19:15:00.001+08:00

We have our photography lesson in the first two weeks of our school.
It was a fun exprience for me. I enjoyed the lesson throughout.
We went to little India to take our photos of that place.
We took photos in school according to colours.
We learn how to use photoshop to edit images and make them perfect.
We learn how to control our camere have all the settings in place before taking images.
It was really a fun workshop ^^

URA building adventure =)

2008-09-05T18:13:00.003+08:00

We also went to the URA building and we took photos there too!

There are some every interesting pictures that I have taken. Lets take a look! =)

Ann Siang Hill trip 2

2008-09-01T18:03:00.000+08:00

A trip to Ann Siang Hill! =)

Ann Siang hill trip

2008-09-01T17:21:00.000+08:00

This is my Ann Siang Hill trip after my labyrinth project. We went there taking photos of the place.These are the few images that I have captured.

My 16 coloured Tiles =)

2008-08-16T13:19:00.000+08:00

This were my 16 coloured tiles when I place them together =)

It was really fun drawing on a tile as the surface was so smooth but it was totally not fun when it comes to colouring! >.<
The surface was really too smooth, as I'm using acrylic paint,each stroke have to be very careful. I have even destory my tiles before when I was colouring them hence I have to wash the paint away and colour all over again.
But seeing the world product being finish, the happiness from the heart was really COOL~ !! hahas xD

LABYRINTH xDD

2008-08-16T12:45:00.000+08:00

I have finally completed my labyrinth! =)

This labyrinth which I have completed, the next day when I was in studio, Kelly gave me some advice and I had added some more things to it but I didn't managed to take the picture of my really completed labyrinth.

Alot of hard work was used in this project.

Since 8 august which is on a friday, I stayed back till 10pm in school just for this project. Because I was using acrylic as my main material, I have to go to the workshop to cut my acrylic even bending of acrylic too.

When I first started, my mind was totally blank! From 4 to 7 august all I do was only the cube. There's was nothing in the interior. I consulted Kieng yong and started only on 8 august.

I felt stress and sometime really stuck! I really can't continue. Thanks for the support of my friends and lecturers too, Kelly and Steve. It was really a tough week! hahas

But when everything was completed I felt relieve. Finally its all over!

Labyrinth was a nice name for this project. I personally like the name LABYRINTH alot. From the name, to me it's like holding some kinds of secrets in it and we have to discover it by the journey. And the journey was the process making our interior space in the cube.

This is an interesting and fun project xD I have learnt alot from this project and also enjoyed it alot ^^

LABYRINTH model in process

2008-08-07T13:37:00.000+08:00

This is when I started constructing my cube using timber strips which were provided from our lecturers to start us making our Labyrinth....
Let the journey beings...
hahas xD

Zo cards mock up models

2008-08-03T12:00:00.000+08:00

This was my first mock up model being made using Zo cards. At first I thought using zo cards to do means can just anyhow cut, fold and paste it on it to create an interior space hence my first mock up wasn't nice and was not followed from my tessellation.

After consulting one of the lecturer, I then made a new model. I followed my tessellation and cut out the shapes of it and stairs was then added to it also. It then makes my interior space more interesting xD

Mock up models

2008-08-03T11:13:00.000+08:00

These were my 3 mock up models which were being made based on one of my tessellation drawing.

The cube was made from satay sticks, masking tape was used to connect it up.
The models was made from paper, which there are different layers over lapping one another.You can see different things from different views as you turned the cube around =)

Tessellation drawings

2008-08-02T12:30:00.000+08:00

PATTERN

COLOUR

TONE

These were my 3 tessellation drawings.

Pattern, colour and tone.
The one which I like most is the toning one. I think it brings out some kind of character which I don't know how to explain and hence attracts me alot.
My pattern is the worst to me, I think it's too crowded hence making the drawing like the ontography.

16 templates

2008-08-02T11:57:00.000+08:00

This is the 16 templates that I have gotten from my close up ontography drawings.
It's all place in order pasted nicely onto an A1 paper =)

close up ontography 2

2008-07-20T14:01:00.000+08:00

This is my favourite ontography drawing! xD
From all these close up pictures I have chosen the top one to be zoom in more for my 16 templates.

Close up ontography!

2008-07-20T13:27:00.000+08:00

This is the 3D drawing of ontography.

This is also the 3D ontography from another part.

These were the close up pictures of my ontography which we were to chose one of it and zoom in more to achieve our 16 templates. For my next post on close up ontography 2, that will be my favourite ontography which I didn't manage to take the picture of it.

Perspective

2008-07-19T11:04:00.000+08:00

These were my perspective drawings =) The most bottom one is my very first perspective drawing which I have drawn. When the lecturer was teaching it seems so easy but when I drew, IT WASN'T!
I have drawn 6 times before I have done it correctly!
Glad that I get it correct in the end ^^
For the coloured one, it's actually our design studio.
And for the rendering ones is also our design studio but from another views.
I didn't know how to render at first.
Kelly always says " The first stroke was always the most difficult when starting a drawing. "

ITS SO DAMN TRUE! =X hahas

So the one which actually looks darker is the one which I first render.
The second one was the more lighter and looked more nice.

What I have learnt from perspective was it wasn't as easy as it seen to be at first, but with more practice, it's not that differcult. Anything can be done if you are willing to try over and over again =)

Colouring of shapes

2008-07-11T13:48:00.000+08:00

These are the drawings of hollow shapes that I have draw and coloured it.
I learned from one of my friend that when shading and colouring we must firstly know where does the source of light come from. So we will know where which place are dark and which are light.

Escher's Relativity model

2008-07-10T13:37:00.000+08:00

This is my Escher's relativity model which I made it with Adeline and Gekshan
It wasn't that difficult as it seems to be.It was easy to make. I like my model very much.
I enjoyed the process making it. I wonder does my 2 friends enjoyed it? -_____- ???

Ontography drawings

2008-07-05T13:58:00.000+08:00

My ontography drawings! Wahhh draw till I vomit arh =x hahas I actually have 5 pieces but I failed to take the picture of my last piece. It was the one I like best! ^^

It really requires alot of patient sitting down for 5 to 6 hours to draw an A1 size ontography.

It's really crazy! 0.0 hahas I tried different ways of drawing.

I have tried listening to music while drawing.

Tried watching tv while drawing.

Tried sitting patiently just draw.

At first when the director tells us '' DON'T THINK JUST DRAW ''

I was like dots.......

Don't think how do I know what to draw.

But as I moved on I understand what he means.

There are one which I reached a part where my hands actually takes control of my mind.

I don't know if I really enjoy the process of these drawings. It makes me have sleepless nights.

OH MY GOD. Thank god its over =3 heehee

Negative space

2008-06-24T13:27:00.000+08:00

Drawing of negative spaces of an objects. Seeing things in an negative kind of view was interesting too! =) My above drawing is a stick that a devil who always hold it and a bag.

For the above picture it is a bracelet and a design space of a project.Its really not easy shading the shape out.

For the following above. Its a Macdonalds sign and a whale!

Lastly is my specs and the logo of my wallet a dog. xD

It really difficult! If more complicated objects are given I really don't know how to shade.Maybe shading one of it will takes hours? hahas I don't know.
That's all for my negative space drawing lessons =D

1st day...UPSIDE DOWN DRAWING 0.0

2008-06-24T12:54:00.000+08:00

This is what we did in the morning for our drawing class. Drawing of bedroom UPSIDE DOWN! hahas =) We were only showed half of the bedroom upside down and we need to draw it o.o It's so difficult! After drawing half of it another half of the top was to be drawn. It looked so wierd after combining the top and the bottom. =/ hahas

Next followed by this president. Who do you think he is?

He is actually George Bush! Doesn't look like right? hahas
His picture was only shown a quarter of it and also unside down-.-
A quarter of his top face and then after 15 mintues another quarter of the bottom upside down.
I was like what the H-LL =x opps no la joking only xD
It's like totally don't know how to imagine the other two parts.
Anyway I just joined them together and that face came out! hahas
Qutie cute lor the outcome =)
All of my friends drawings show different kind of people
None of us looked alike, that's why I'm wondering are we really drawing the same person?
Though I do get rather impatient doing the UPSIDE DOWN drawings but it was quite fun after we seen what we have drawn. We learned to look things in another way. COOL EXERCISE xD

I'm back!! xD

2008-06-23T11:30:00.000+08:00

HEY GUYS! I'M BACK FROM MY 3 WEEKS HOLIDAYS!

We are starting our school tomorrow...
Wondering what are we goin to do in term two....
Will it be fun? OR.. still stress as term 1?
Looking forward for it but.... quite lazy too =X hahahas
So..

WORK HARD IN TERM 2!!! xD

BOX BOX BOX =3

2008-06-02T15:34:00.000+08:00

This is the box that I had designed... =D

We have come to the end of term1..
SEE YOU GUYS AGAIN! heehee xD

My mini project =)

2008-06-01T14:59:00.000+08:00

My final project:
From the emotions and the 40 ping pong balls exercise, we were to produce 4 little russian dolls.
It can be in any form of shapes. It's also called ''Mini Me".
For my biggest mini me its the happy emotion. I used turtle/tortoise to represent my first emotion.
I chosed turtle/tortoise because the sight of it makes me happy =)

The second mini me emotion was sad.
When I'm sad I cry and I don't like people seeing me crying hence I made a little mini mi wearing a hat to cover it's eyes but the tears still rolled out.

Third and my final mini me I made a cube which shows boredem with little tiny squares it forms a cube which makes it looked more special and a star coloured red and orange which shows anger.

This was my "peek-a-book" for my mini me.
It's a story linking all my mini together.

It was a fun school term which I felt stress but also had fun getting to know new friends and exprience new stuffs.It had finally came to an end. =)

Museum trip

2008-05-31T13:19:00.000+08:00

Before out first term end, we went to 2 musuem.This is the second museum we went. We drew the facade of the museum. I didn't manage to finish drawing it as it was going to rain. This was side view of it.

This is the first museum we went, we drew the interior view of the museum, adding old details to the new one. This is the bridge of the museum. The bottom of it is the new facilities with alarm and camera. Above it is old bridge details.

This is my first cadp assignment that had to be handed in. I drew out my brick boy using auto cad. It wasn't easy for my first time as I didn't use such programme brfore but an new exprience for me. With the help of my friends I completed it on time. =)

Within inside of TOD

2008-05-31T12:34:00.000+08:00

This is theory of design assignment named ''Within inside". We were to describe the words within inside. These are a few cards that I have done to describe it. One of it I drew a picture, the guy drew his girlfriend out who had sacrified herself to save him from a car accident.He was hurt deeply inside his heart. Losing the girl he loved, seeing her died infront of him. No one understand how he felt within inside his heart.His tears drop onto the paper......

The others were pictures that I find it interesting and describe it.

Draw without seeing! 0.0

2008-05-15T13:55:00.000+08:00

When we are drawing the hands and legs there's a paper covering hence we cannot see what we are drawing. Hence all the hands ahd legs looked so weird.

SO....

WARNING : PLEASE DON'T LAUGH AT IT!!

ps :hahas just joking xD

It was fun as we are using our feeling to draw out the nails and the lines on or hand. It was cool experience. We were all laughing at each other drawings. haha xD

I think all my friends enjoyed the drawing lesson =)

Ping pong EMOTIONS =P

2008-05-13T14:54:00.000+08:00

Remember the 4 types of emotions that I've drawn for the 6 titles?
I have transfer it all onto 40 ping pong balls and packed it up nicely in the plastic box that had been provided.
Drawing on the ping pong balls was fun! xD Because it had a round surface hence drawing on it, the lines are not straight, but as u draw more and more you will find it fun. As u turned the ping pong balls around you will tend to see differents elements.
It was a new exprience for me, drawing on a 3D surface.

acrylic drawings! TERROR! hahas

2008-05-13T14:17:00.000+08:00

My first time drawing human and it's even worst to draw on an acrylic.
It doesn't look nice at all as it cannot be erase as we are using permanent marker to draw.
It just look so weird. 0.0 but I saw others who stil draw so nicely. I wonder if it's thier first time drawing human???

It really looked so weird. Drawing out the full human wasn't so easy as it seems to be.There's one time I saw a man drew out human head beautifully. The toning makes it looked more real and detail. How does they do that? Well practice mkaes it more perfect ya? xD

This time we drew human using pencil on drawing block. It looked more nicer than the first time I drew, but I think it still can be better! =)

4 Different positions

2008-05-13T14:00:00.000+08:00

Standing

sittting

kneeling

crossing legs sitting on the floor
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These are the four ways a human does thier activities. Eg. standing

I have saw some of my friends drawings, they just drew so nicely. Mine, I imagined when I drew them, hence it all looks qutie weird. =(

Wired up process

2008-05-09T14:15:00.000+08:00

These are the few sketches I had drawn before making the wires models.

Next I will post those which I had drawn and have shaded it.

Wired up process

2008-05-09T13:37:00.000+08:00

This is the one I have chosen for my model.

These are the few sketches that I had drawn and shaded. xD

Wired up

2008-05-08T13:22:00.000+08:00

This is the cube.

This is the pyramid.

This is the sphere.

These are the combination of the sphere, pyramid and cube. Before all these we actually drew out how to combine it.

We used wires to do these model.It wasn't nice to do. I cut my fingers when making it T.T.
I tried making it again and again. But it all ended up nt nice. So I threw most of it away. If I'm to make models I try not to chose wires again. hahas xD But it's also something new that I have learnt. For the the post I'm goin to post the drawings for the models. =)

shadings 2

2008-05-07T16:03:00.000+08:00

This is my sencond attempt drawing and shading the shapes.
Looked more nice right? hahas =x

shadings 1

2008-05-07T15:49:00.000+08:00

This is my first attempt drawing these 4 shapes and also first time doing shading.

Drawings of EMOTIONS

2008-04-27T14:21:00.000+08:00

This is the patterns for bored and angry.
Life without music is boring isn't it?
Hurrican shows anger to me.

These are the materials that I have chosed to use
Tissue for sadness =(
Cotton for happy! the softness of it let me feel like I'm floating in the sky on the clouds
Newspaper for bored as I find reading is boring 0.0
Cursh newapaper or paper shows anger

These are the icons ...

These are the colours ...

These are the 2 patterns for happy and sad.

These are the objects ...

These are the sences...
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This is for the design studio...
The 4 emotions that I've chosen is :
- angry
- sad
- happy
-bored
Above is the pictures that I have drawn for the 4 different emotions.

They are 6 differents title for us to draw out representing the 4 emotions :
- patterns
- materials
- sences
- colours
- objects
- icons

It was quite fun drawing these few emotions out as when I'm drawing I will be thinking of each things which represents each emotion.

Fruits and vegetables! =)

2008-04-24T13:26:00.000+08:00

This is the corn that had been peel off.

This is totally being peel off.

This is the section that is being cut off.

This is the fruit that I have drawn for the drawing lesson. It's corn! This is my second attemp drawing it. It wasn't that easy drawing the fruit. I choose to draw a corn because of the tiny detail. Doing the shading wasn't easy too. It was a nice practice of drawing. xD

Brick boy ( bigger version )

2008-04-21T13:31:00.000+08:00

Well and this is my friend, Jocelyn's brick boy. Cool right? I think she did quite a good job too!! If the colours can be more bright it would sure attract alot of attentions! Lets work hard together Jocelyn!!

FINAL PRODUCT - Tweety bird!

2008-04-20T14:05:00.000+08:00

This is what I have made for my enlarged brick boy it is actaully a Tweety Bird. I not really happy with the outcome of my brick boy. Compared to my classmates mine really sucks! Well, but I did tried my best making it.XDD When I was making it, I faced some problems too. The straws was unable to stand (the green straw). The straws was actually acting as the swing for the Tweety Bird. When I first drew my idea down it looks qutie okay but I personally think that the mouth of the Tweety Bird wasn't that nice after all when i made the product out. It doesn't really attract people attention. On top was some of the pictures that I have taken of my brick boy. Hope to have some advice from the leturers if they have view my blog. Oya! One of the leturers said this in lesson '' Though the product of the project is important but the most important of a project is the process.'' I will remember what he have said. It will actually made me enjoy the process of a project more so i won't feel boring or stress when doing it. I have learnt alot overall from the first week lessons and I'm looking forward for nextweek !! XDD

Well, this is all for my first week lessons in SP ! I'm not really use to the life in polytechnic because we have to call the leturers by names!! We cannot wear school uniforms too. XD But I will continue to work hard!! (:

[ 3.29pm ]

Final decision.. hmmmm

2008-04-17T09:36:00.000+08:00

This is my final drawing of my Tweety Bird brick boy !! Does it looked like a Tweety Bird after the improvement ? (:

By adding some equipment in, it will stand out the Tweety Bird. So that everyone will know that my brick boy is actually a Tweety Bird! (: So maybe a swing can be added in. ( Opitional )

Planning for bigger brick boy =/

2008-04-17T09:19:00.000+08:00

This is what I have drawn at home for the BIGGER brick boy. My idea was Tweety Bird but unfortunately my friends and even my leturer, Kelly can't tell that its a Tweety Bird! -.- Hence with the helped from Kelly I improved in my idea.

Firstly, what I do was the improvement to the head of the Tweety Bird. The smallest part was planned to make the mouth. The mouth was made opened ! Cool ~ !

The eyes are drawn much more bigger and the three stalks of HAIRS is added in to make it looked more like a Tweety Bird ! (:

[9.35 pm]

First day of school =)

2008-04-17T09:03:00.000+08:00

This is what I have drawn on my first day of school ( 14-04-08 ) , first thing in the morning ! Its like drawing lessons. I suddenly felt that we have all gone back to our primary school days , sweet and simple (: It have been a long time since I really place all my heart in drawing. I enjoyed it too because I love drawing. That's maybe the reason why I chose the course DID. My drawings for the first day was really SUCKS ! =X But practice makes perfect isn't it? xD I will continue to work hard!

[9.16pm]

Brick boy!

2008-04-17T08:40:00.000+08:00

This is the brick boy that I have made on my first day ( 14-04-08 ) of school. I spent the whole afternoon making it. Its quite challenging when I first started, but during the process I enjoyed it, and I guess all my friends enjoyed it too !

[9.02pm]