Jocelyn

Design Philosophy

For the past few projects , the designs to my projet came from my concepts which is usually based from research of the project site or the clients that i am handling with or potential clients who will use the space.


Taking reference from my concourse project, we are required to redesign a space in SP into a study and entertainment space for students. My group's concept is based on our potential client which are the students. We thought of what the students like and came up with the concept shopping for inspiration. Students enjoy shopping as much as the need to study, therefore we thought of combining shopping together with school work to inspire the students and trigger them with ideas and inspiration for their work . Our space makes use of the 5 senses which makes it interactive.

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For my interior i have proposed to use vinyl flooring and for certain customised furniture i have proposed the use of acrylic and polycarbonate and polypropylene.

Interior Views

( Waiting area and retail space )

( Hairdressing area )

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In the future , there will no longer be wood nor glass. The materials that i have proposed for my barge is mainly stainless steel panels and polycarbonate for my exterior walls.

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After deciding on the design concept, i studied the floor plans of hair salons and started to plan my space . The route that people will experience is very sequential , just like how one has to go through a certain sequence for doing various types of hairstyle.

The spaces in my barge are divided into public spaces and private spaces. The public spaces include a reception/ waiting area , retail space , hair dressing area, wash basin , bathroom , makeup station , manicure and pedicure area and store room . The private spaces will include living room, dining area, entertainment area, kitchen and 2 bedrooms.

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My design comcept is derived from my client's profession, which is a hairdresser.

One is required to know different procedures for different type of hair services. After researching on the different type of hair services that my client is providing to her customers, i decided to use strips to represent the services, and by comparing the different time needed for each service, the length and the width of the strip varies.

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Future Scapes

Due to globalisation, it resulted in the complete metldown of polar ice, which caused the sea level to rise, covering all the land. Humans can no longer live on firm fixed land, instead we have to live on floating cities. Our essential resources became scarce. In order to survive , we have to depend on natural resources like solar, wind, wave etc ...

Each of us are assigned to a client. The client which i was asssigned to is a female hairdresser in her 30s.

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Futurescape

I have 3 main volumes and the middle one is the biggest one because i want to make it as the main space for this barge. So that this main space has become the core space for everyone to gather.

The first floor is public space where community walk within the barge to travel from one barge to the other barge. Within my barge there is a passage way for them to walk, and along the passage way there are LCD screens where pass by can see what my client Micheal (web developer) doing, and they can interact or communicate with him instantly by using the touch screen LCD to either disrupt his work or commenting his work. Some of LCD screens affects what is shown on the outer and bigger LCD screen outside the barge. In this way, communication happens within and outside the barge and the community can also communicate with my client. So its a two - way communication.

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Futurescape

Keeping communication as my design idea still, thus I want to create a barge that communicate information to the community. Also becoming one of the barge that links up the community together. Thus, I though of unsing big LCD screens that will be located around my barge to send out visual images to communicate the community.


Comment given : the LCD screens becomes a decoraton instead a function that helps in my design articulating through spaces. They want me to take my bare location as an advatage of that the community needs to pass through mybarge before reaching to the other barges in the communicty, creating a passageway that connects my design together.

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Futurescape

Recall - Project requirement : to create spaces that can allow your client to live, work, play

Here are the spaces needed:
one workstation for Micheal - consists of table with many computers
one workstation for Sara (micheal's mother) - space that she use it to maintain her antiques
yoga & gym
Living room
toilet
bedroom
Kitchen
dinning
antique shop

This barge, has two stores - below is for public space while the top is for private space

I tired to use the graph as the rough draft to make up my model.

However, the comments given that I have forced my research to my design, causing it to be bad design and making the spaces rather meaningless.

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Futurescape

Commuication - becomes my design idea, so from there i approached thisproject by breaking down the meaning of commuciation. From there, I found out that some codes are used to translate information to codes so that it will be easily transfer on pass down to anyone else who has a computer to decode it. this code is called, binary numbers. where letters or messages has translated to binary numbers and then sent to a reciever who later decode it, and understand the message sented by the sender.


So I managed to find the formula of how to translate letters to binary numbers, and translated the word "WEB DEVELOPER" to binary numbers. then, creating a graph.

Then I used the graph to created my draft space for my client.

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Futurescape - Starting

This current project requires us to design a building / housing, that is built on top of a floating barge. This floating barge is needed to act as land, because in the future, land may no longer exist as sea water level has risen. Each of us are assigned to one client, however we are suppose to expand and create few more clients that living with our assigned client. then from there, design a space that caters both their needs and work.

My assigned client, is a man around 20s who is a web developer. I decided to add another client who is his mother, and they both live together in the same barge. His mother is an antique dealer.
Thus, I have to create spaces for that allows them to work and live at the same time.

I started the project by researching what is a web developer and what is the job scope. Then I realised that communication was the main tool that they often use when they work. as they created and maintain web sites so that their clients; usually companies, are able to communicate their products to the public. So web developer in short becomes a communication tool for the company.

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T3- Urban Intervention Part 5

The materials used in the proposed design is mainly white fibreglass in glossy finish to capture light and reflections. The entire structure of the seating areas will include set in LED strip lighting along the edges as well as the seat to highlight the forms. The wall of the seats also include motion sensor LCD screen to advertise for the shops in Harbourfront to help boost their businesses and creating interaction with the end users. The cafe's multi-layering wall to ceiling panels are also made of fibreglass in white glossy finish supported by mild steel 'C' channel studs are to mimic the layering of the vegetation in the desert oasis.

Detail of seating area

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T3- Urban Intervention Part 4

The entire area is generally used as a resting area for people to escape from the hectic city. This is a place for them to slow down and to take a breath from the fast pace of city life and a place of inspirations in the essence of light and water. The idea was to surround the existing trees, adopting the original seating platforms in the plaza. The existing trees were then mirrored to the unused space to maximize the seating areas. To integrate the idea of water into the space, a café bar is positioned in the centre of this design to establish the proposal of a drinking well and various issues such as introducing water into the space ( water jets pump water to onto the glass flooring to create droplets which will be captured on the glass).

Rendered views of Final Design

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T3- Urban Intervention Part 3

In the proposed design, when nature comes in contact with the city, the living organism transformed as it learnt to adapt to the form of its host, the city, and growth patterns and thus it developed into dynamic geometrical patterns that can be easily calculated by math from its original organic forms that “grows” out from the existing landscape. All these structures have also put the existing trees into considerations by building around them in order to preserve them.

Rendered Views of Initial Design

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T3- Urban Intervention Part 2

The design concept was changed due to the lack of information and the current site analysis did not help the progression of it. The final concept focuses on the City Oasis. As the current site has always been a place for resting and to recharge one in order to move on to their next destinations, it is somehow like a small area to escape from all the bustling and constant movements and events and the noise of activities happening around. The atmosphere was also tranquil and rather breezy throughout the day. Thus, there was a similarity between the site and an oasis. Oasis is defined as an isolated area of vegetation in a desert, usually with a pool of water in the middle. I focused on the multilayer of how vegetations are grown for food supplies by human who lived there as part of my design solution.

As more research and information of Harbourfront is being done, there was no need to redesign a new activity the plaza for the end user there as clearly people used the space generally for resting and to recharge themselves in order to move on to their next destinations. Why did they choose to come here? From observations, most people that utilized this area for smoking due to the convenience of the location as the Harbourfront MRT Station exit is linked to the entrance of Harbourfront Centre, thus people come straight out to the outdoor to have a quick smoke. However, this result to a major pollution of air in the plaza which non-smokers tend to avoid sitting next to them or even go there.

Sketch of Oasis Vegetation

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T3- Urban Intervention Part 1

The scheme of the design proposal is basically based on the history of Harbourfront which focuses on the temporality of the place. Formerly known as the World Trade Centre, was that it was an exhibition hall, fairs and exhibitions held there stayed for a short period of time. There is also the Singapore Cruise Centre, whereby cruise and ferries arrive and departure, thus there are constant movements and events happening in the area at every period of the day.

The idea was to create a space for exhibition to capture the essence of temporal outside the plaza of Harbourfront Centre with the use of light and shadow as part of the installation as there is a need to improve the lighting of the site. To achieve this, glass is the main material for most of the structure. The reason of using these materials is mainly to attract more people into the plaza and then into Harbourfront Centre to improve its business.

Surrounding buildings in Harbourfront

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T2- Body as Surface Part 4

There are many problems being faced as I was finishing the structure, the top rings of the structure that hold all vertical supports does not seem to match each joint. As drawing in autocad and building it in actual could be two different things, the gaps between each supports are unequal, thus affecting the structure and dimension of the boxes to be applied in. I have chosen to change them into rotating ones, leaving some fixed. This way, it allows more possible interactions between the interior and exterior users, still keeping some that only when one enters the place, he will discover more, a browse through the space only when you’re inside, in this case. There are also gaps between each box, one is still partially exposed to its surroundings, as where the library have similar scenario.

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T2- Body as Surface Part 3

You can’t judge a book by its cover. This is why the boxes in the structure should be all of similar appearances; in this way you may not know what you are expecting and what surprises it may bring to you. Exploration takes time. The function of these boxes includes: storage shelves, movable cubes, light boxes to introduce light into interior as it would be covered up entirely, mirrors and “books” whereby it functions the same way as a book by indicating what the content of it just by its spine, I would use 10mm thick transparent acrylic for wordings and images. The users are in a sea of boxes, like in a library where one is surrounded by books. For the materials of the prototype, I would use plywood for the main structure, doubling the thickness of it, thinner ones for the boxes as to be light enough for the skeleton to support, all these would be held together with heavy duty metal brackets. However, the main structure of the vertical supports seems to be a little too thin, when it is all attached together it starts to warp. There should be an increase of brackets onto the base to be able to strengthen it.

Image of the Cocoon

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T2- Body as Surface Part 2

The idea was to capture the emotion of confusion, slowly allows the user in the space to adapt and explore the environment and surroundings around him or her, evoking the emotion of curiosity and determination to seek for solution. My design take form of the shape of a cocoon, the wall structure is made up of different sizes of rectangular, placed in different directions to evoke confusion to the user.

After considering the design of the structure, I found that the construction of it may not work out and aesthetically it does not bring out the design. Thus some adjustments are made. The Cocoon now has a total of three vertical supports and seven horizontal ones across, holding the structure together. At the point of meeting, each has a single dovetail joint so as to be able to slot them in nicely and neatly. The boxes of various sizes that are applied into the gaps of the skeleton are a tool of knowledge that leads people to find out how it works and what function does it serve as the appearances of these boxes are similar, just like how books as they are, have the ability to draw their audience to browse them just by using its spine. These boxes could and should include the function for both sides of the users, meaning it should cater for both users from the inside and its surroundings, which brought as back to what a cocoon is about. It serves as a protection from its surroundings, yet it should not be too tough for the insect to break free itself, a correlation of interior and exterior.

Images and ideas of cocoon

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T2- Body as Surface Part 1

I have chosen to work on the book browsing in library for the project of body as surface, despite of the difficulty in capturing the emotions when one reacts in that particular scenario. I thought it was best to select one body to study on. After taking shots of the character in action, it was interesting to know that her way of reacting to the scenario was somewhat interesting such as the reaching out of different level of shelves for books varied and the distance between the body and the shelf. I also realized that the library in fact involves many emotions as different books evoke different sets of emotions. The library is like a cocoon of knowledge, protecting all books and their emotions as well. It is a collective place of emotions that each author of every single book wants to convey their emotions through words, and these words have the power to make their readers cry and laugh.

Various postures when browsing of books

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T1- Concourse Student Lounge Project Part 4

In our final stage of our design, we decided to use fiberglass in white glossy finish as our main material to capture light and reflections. The fiberglass panels will come in 6 modules in order to cut down the cost to maintain in the given budget. The constructions of these panels are supported by ‘C’ channel mild steel studs. For floor finish, we intent to use polyester foam for the central, white epoxy paint for the study area and timber strips for the exterior seating areas. We also wanted to play with various colours in gradient to further enhance the space by creating different moods to the end users by using different colours of acrylic panels suspended from the ceiling.

Rendered view of free seating area and study area

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T1- Concourse Student Lounge Project Part 3

Our design Parameters is to allow users to have the feeling of enclosure despite amount of people (relate back to cells environment – many cells close together but level of enclosure still present), with semi-visual isolation, protection (properties of cell wall), both small & large groups- free seating and fluid spaces. Our solution for the design of the concourse space we extract the form of the nucleus of the cell as the core of activities and the central of the space. We wanted to play with layerings and the organic properties where by the wall panels ‘flow’ to the floor to bring out the fluidity of the space.

Perspective sketch of interior

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T1- Concourse Student Lounge Project Part 2

Our concept of growth from fractal geometry was changed to the idea of binary fission where a cell would split by itself to ‘make’ more cells, & thus grow into a tissue, which in turn grows to become an organ and then becoming a body. So why is growth important in SP? Students come to SP to not just for studying, but to learn & grow. Growth can occur in many ways. Apart from academic growth, we want to allow growth of many other sorts to occur. Growing while doing sports, growing by reading, growing by communication with others. Growth develops a student from ‘being simple to complex’ (deepening the way students think and view).

Images of Binary Fission

How to draw student’s attention? Why concourse & not library, classroom or canteen? We want to provide a free space that still has a certain level of enclosure. Most importantly, the space is very fluid, and we want this space to encourage interaction while the feeling of enclosure still exists. The fluidity concept does not just exist in the form, but also in how the space flows from interior to exterior. The space is free enough for anyone to seat anywhere. There is no restrictions as to which is a certain seating area. In other spaces like the library & classrooms, seats & tables are fixed, boundaries are fixed, thus in here, the space is unique because we try to keep the level of constraints to the minimal.

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T1- Concourse Student Lounge Project Part 1

Our initial concept of creating a resting and study space for the Concourse Project was Growth. Why growth? From much research, growth is the development from a simpler to a more complex stage; also, the importance of growth is that every living creature has life, and life is about growing constantly; & growing in various ways. We wanted to make the space alive (as now the concourse is rather plain and dull), thus we interpret the space as a living organism where growth occurs. This led us to the idea of fractal geometry of cells where the complex form is made up of many duplicates of 1 simple form.

Image of Fractal Geometry