Mint Design Progress 29March Pin Up

Existing Site Analysis

Plan

Rendering & Perspective

Maty design procress

Phed Design Progress : 29iii2011

Moshe Safdie on building uniqueness

He who seeks truth shall find beauty.

He who seeks beauty shall find vanity.

He who seeks order shall find gratification.

He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed.

He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self expression.

He who seeks self expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.

Arrogance is incompatible with nature.

Through nature, the nature of the universe, and the nature of man, we shall seek truth.

If we seek truth, we shall find beauty.

Safdie, Moshe (2002)

one of my favorite all time TEDtalks. apart from reinventing the wheel (theo jansen), Why Design?(Philippe Starck), Biomimicry(janine benyus) and a few more

TCDC on Sunday Afternoon

I will be there starting at 3pm.  If you would like to meet, please comment below.

Work Progress - Mint

I've been working on the contour of the park and the different levels. I started out using foam but it's really hard to alter the shape once its done. I will try to work with clay or similar material from now so it will give me more flexibility.

This diagram shows the height and route of different steepness through out the park area. I have not added stairs and elevators on this diagram. The two main routes are the 1:12 and 1:8 which climbs to different height throughout the site.

I'm researching about the options that would allow me to bring in natural lighting for the bypass underneath and also ventilation for that area as well.

Klong toey market

Here r some photo; i take from Klong toey market.
it is very interesting to see how the market operate and work in this condition.

Elevated Garden City - Christchurch, New Zealand

As you all probably know Christchurch was hit by a violent earthquake last month and most of the CBD was destroyed. This gave the opportunities for designers to step in and help plan what the city would evolve to in the future. I came across this group of people and I thought it'll be interesting to share their ideas.

I think this project will encourage many people to speak out their idea of the future for
Christchurch. :D

Elevated Garden City

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The current state, Me and Maty in 2008

World Wide Student competition :)

http://www.slant.eu/
International Competition for Students of Landscape Arhitecture 

The international competition for the SLANT AWARDS is being held this year for the first time 
and on this occasion is aimed exclusively at students of Landscape Architecture and Landscape 
Design. 
The central idea behind this challenge is that the project in question is a "virtual project", one 
that has been created specifically for this competition. 
What you are being invited to do is to create a concept design for a public park, one which will not 
only serve the needs of the citizens of this city, but which will also aim to achieve iconic status 
and in so doing will enhance the international reputation of the city. 
You will see from the brief that we are looking here at urban renewal, with the project being set 
on a vacant site in a riverside location. 
This competition has been designed to offer students an interesting challenge with what we believe 
are interesting rewards, and we have tried to keep it as simple as possible. 
You can enter as often as you like, either as an individual, or as a team of 2 or 3, 
and an entry fee will be charged accordingly. 

Deadline for submissions: 10 June 2011 

First Prize          Euro 3,000 
Second Prize      Euro 1,500 
Third Prize         Euro 750 

Jury Members: 
John Brookes (UK), 
Ulf Nordfjell (Sweden) 
Paolo L. Bürgi (Switzerland) 

Diagonal Mar Park

Hey! Check this out! The diagrams are pretty neat, it's interactive.


Diagonal Mar Park (It's Interactive!)

Urban-Think Tank Lecture This Monday at INDA

Alfredo Brillembourg, co-founder of Urban-Think Tank, will give a lecture hosted by INDA on Monday, March 21st from 16:30-18:30 in Room 329 of the Chulalongkorn Faculty of Architecture.  Attendance at this lecture is REQUIRED for this class since the talk will deal with issues directly pertaining to your projects. 

The internationally celebrated work of Urban-Think Tank concerns both theoretical and practical applications within architecture and urban design.  Alfredo and his partner, Hubert Klumpner, founded U-TT in Caracas, Venezuela in 1997 and have since expanded to NYC, Sao Paolo, and Zurich. The firm's focus primarily rests on finding design solutions to bridge between first world industry and third world creativity.  U-TT's on-going film project, Sur Global, examines life in emerging informal settlements around the world.  Their first phase of the Caracas Metro Cable system was completed in 2010 and was featured in the MOMA exhibition Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement. 

Starting in 2007, Brillembourg has been a guest professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, where he co-founded the Sustainable Living Urban Model Laboratory (S.L.U.M. Lab) with Hubert Klumpner.  They currently hold the chair for Architecture and Urban Design at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH).

Changing Landscape, Changing Climate: Bangkok and the Chao Phraya River Delta

http://places.designobserver.com/media/pdf/Mitigation,_Ad_498.pdf

Paper by Danai Thaitakoo and Brian McGrath

Class Tomorrow

Now that your proposals are taking form, I will give a short talk on a few technical issues related to landscape construction that you all will benefit from.  The talk will start at 1:15pm in room 208.  It will last about an hour and then we will have short desk crits in studio.

I will schedule a pinup for next Friday with outside reviewers (INDA, Chula Landscape, Practioners).  For tomorrow, I want to see your drawings to a regular scale (1:500, 1:1000, whatever) and multiple sections, plans, and site analysis diagrams.  On Tuesday I told each of you specifically what to do so I expect to see a lot.

Your midterm review grades will also be distributed tomorrow....

Best,
Aj. Nilay

lets have a trip to Maeklong market!

I know quite a few of us may have seen this video already, it is yet a spectacular thing that's going on at MaeKlong market that is now known as the talad rom-hoob (retractable market)...

I plan to visit this market this coming saturday... I'd like anyone who's free on that day to come along.. it will be rather Amazing... as our AJ.Rachaporn exuberantly told me
"i think it is the best railway project in the world... so so so so cool... you should go there... it is amazing... you will understand a lot more .... your perception of railway now is an empty space for train... actually it could be a lot more..." 

I'm so psyched up about this trip right now. hope you guys can join me :P

here's the plan for Saturday March 19, 2011

The best timing is the following schedule:

8.40 Dep Bangkok Wong Wian Yai
9.30 Arr Mahachai

—Ferry River Crossing—-

10.10 Dep Ban Laem11.10 Arr Maeklong

At Maeklong the station is at the end of the market. You now have 20 minutes to walk through the market and find a good spot to watch the train come through.

11.30 Train departs Maeklong and goes through the market.

You now have 3 hours in Maeklong until the next train arrives. Seafood is a specialty here, so you could look for a nice seafood lunch. That will take up about 41 minutes. After that there’s not alot else to do in Maeklong, but hey, you are an intrepid traveller, I’m sure you will make your own adventures.

2.30 Train goes through market again, arrives at Maeklong Station.

3.30 Train leaves Maeklong. Last train to Bangkok. Make sure you’re on it.

This schedule will allow you to see the train going in and out of the station, while you are in the market. If you are a professional photographer – or a train spotter – you could get the 7.30 train from Ban Laem, which would give you another two times to see the market run. That would mean a really early start from Bangkok, which is above and beyond the call of duty really.

from : Nomadic Notes > Travel Blog.(march 16, 2011 23:30)

(trains are limited to these times... that is why we need to go early)

Please let me know if you can come. Tell me here via comments

Call me for more info 0870209933
Hope you guys can come! :P

Equally Spaced by Demos

http://www.demos.co.uk/files/Equally%20Spaced.pdf

A good read on the topic of public space by Demos. With ideas about the basic idea of a public space and what is it today (the report is more focused towards spaces in the UK) with case studies and many interesting perspective on the modern public space.

In favour of Public Space

Open publication - Free publishing - More public space

A few good projects in here. Check it out.
I personally like:
-playa de poniente esplanade
-passage 57, espace culturel ecologique
-A8ernA

Vendors Barred from Siam Square

Bangkok Post, March 8, 2011

Any thoughts about this, class?  (click the image to enlarge)

Special Lecture by Sylvie Meunier Tuesday Afternoon

Aj. Saeed has arranged a lecture by Sylvie Meunier on sustainable urban development. This topic directly relates to the subject matter of our studio so expect to attend the talk today from 3pm to 4pm.

"Sylvie is an architect and has lot of interest in sustainable design. Sylvie will share her research she did in Belgium. Sylvie presently works with dwp and is the Design Director. Sylvie is also the eco champion of the company and has lot of knowledge of LEED."  -Aj. Saeed

Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington, USA

This space, designed by Richard Haag in the 1970's, is a famous example of the adaptation of industrial land and structures buildings into a public recreational landscape.  


The park represents a complete reversal from a period when industrial monuments were regarded, even by preservationists, as ugly intrusions on the landscape, to a time when such structures as the gas works are recognized for their potential ability to enhance the urban experience.” (NY Times, 8/30/75)


Read more at the wikipedia entry and then the following book in the Chula library: 
William S. Saunders (Ed.): Richard Haag. Bloedel Reserve and Gas Works Park. New York: Princeton Architectural Press 1998

21st Century Park by Hargreaves Associates

In Chattanooga, Tennessee (USA).  Worked on by Ajarn Pok Kobkongsanti (Chula landscape faculty).  You can learn more about the project by clicking here.

Ajarn Pok is the director of T.R.O.P. Studio: terrains and open space here in Bangkok.  

Edward Burtynsky on manufactured landscapes | Video on TED.com

Edward Burtynsky on manufactured landscapes | Video on TED.com

Optional TCDC Meeting on Sunday

Marina Bay Proposal, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol

I'll be at TCDC around 3 tomorrow afternoon.  All are welcome if you would like to discuss your progress.  I believe I was clear about what each of you needed to do in the coming few days, but I will be available to talk if you have any questions.

Phed, plan to be there at 3pm to discuss your work.

Best,
Aj. Nilay  

A poetic (literally) reference to Walls- 1 of my 3 ket elements

MENDING WALL

Robert Frost

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Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

Depth Using Color

(from http://kalaalog.com/2008/07/27/depth-by-color/)

Depicting depth using color – or affect on color of objects on the farther side of field of view, is something I started exploring in detail as I had been doing some of the painting and illustration projects.

It is pretty evident that we need to illustrate things at a smaller scale (size) when they are placed farther away than the nearer objects. But how does this effect the colors?

As can be seen above in a theoretical case, mere size does not seem to give enough sense of depth. We need to nudge the color of the farther objects a bit to make the effect of depth more convincing.

To understand how the color would be effected, observe the side view of the layout of objects of the above illustration.

As the object goes farther away from the observer, there is more volume of atmosphere or the medium in between them. That means, the farther objects would seem to absorb more of the ambient light, its color would be more different than it true color.

Taking a theoretical example of having a white background, the color application on objects as seen above in the flats would need to be tweaked to be more white as it is farther away.

Observe how the color of the farthest sphere is more white than the middle. The one closest (and thereby the largest), has a more saturated color.

Taking another example, assume these spheres are floating in empty space which is pitch black.

Here the black is absorbed more by the farther spheres and hence, the color has shifted to be duller than the pastel approach in the white background example.

Consider a little more practical or real example of having a blue sky as background.

Observe that in this example, the green (true) color of the sphere is shifted towards the blue (ambient) color of the sky.

Taking theoretical examples may turn out to be a bit boring, but it helps us understand how depth of the object effects the color.