Project One
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About the PrOJECT
Given the site at Langsat Road, Joo Chiat, Singapore, with an imaginary estate of 10 plots with facilities, we were tasked to design a dwelling for a single local artist through the translation of our Prelude Studies 02 (PS02) artist into architecture.
The assignment of the different plots within the estate allowed for varied site responses in every project as well as the assignement of different PS02 artists with unique perceptions of the artist allowed varied project schemes within the cohort.
The main focus of the project was to take in to consideration the poetics of architecture, where the translation of artform to architecture drove the design, while also going into the pragmatics of designing a dwelling for a made up client, where the macro (big picture) of the dwelling as well as the micro (nooks and cranny) of the dwelling are resolved in a logical manner according to the concept and to the site context.
Main deliverables:
3 A1 + 4 A3 Presentation boards
Presentation drawings & Technical drawings
- Floor Plans, Section, Elevation, Part facade section, Part plans, Part elevation, 3 Spot details from facade section
Final Model at 1:100 scale
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About My dwelling
Precedence
The artist from my PS02 is Tara Donovan, an art installation artist from America.
Her main focus was to change pre-perceived ideas of a mundane material through her art works, often making the mundane material look precious in her art works.
She was also very process driven, where her art works were a bi-product of the process, in which she mimicks the way of nature but not nature itself. Therefore, forming the final product as a form of nature.
These were the main take-aways from the artist that mentally drove my project design.
Furthermore, the learning of the mindset Peter Eisenman had towards architecture stuck with me, where it encouraged me to be more risk-taking and experiment and concept driven through this project. This was apt as he too, shared similar qualities with Tara Donovan, valuing the concept and content of their works.
"Architecture was made of latent ideas that survive through the
process of design and continue to influence the project even through construction."
The Project
The project took inspiration from Tara Donovan's installation Untitled (Tempered Glass), where the idea of breaking a whole form was taken, as well as implying a whole form even after breaking. This was achieved entirely through the process, where i used a systematic sequence - The Golden Ratio, to find control of the natural phenomenon of breaking and to govern my architecture.
Much like the precedence, the dwelling is the bi-product of the whole process, solely aimed to achieve the concept in the purest form possible while attempting to resolve the pragmatics of a dwelling so as to be functional to the client as well as her preferences.