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Rectilinear and Cylindrical forms Final

Curvilinear Form

 

As I did my research in Part 1, I knew I wanted my curvilinear space to be a cosy home on-the-go. I really liked the organic shape from the lotus teapots  and the bamboo cicadas hence I wanted to utilise the shape.

I made a rough sketch of the exterior and then went on to further design the interior with another sketch.

I wanted my home to have this industrial look with all the pipes coming out of the ceiling. There’s a control panel at the front of the home to maneuver the whole creature-home.

Here’s the final. I made several changes to the furniture.

Rectilinear Form

For the rectilinear form, I happen to stumble across these 2 boxes that were stacked on top of each other. For some reason, it reminded me of a television show about interesting houses which in an episode, there was a house that was completely hidden in the frontal view by a hill and could only be accessed through the back and light entered through a tiny hole in the ceiling. Sadly, I can’t find the original home that made me feel inspired, but these are pretty close:

I also researched on Bjarke Ingels, a Danish Architect who uses very interesting forms to create practical buildings.

Here are the boxes!

As soon as I saw the boxes, I made really simple sketches of the composition and went straight into creating the sketch.

The home would be underground, where a window on the ceiling is the only light source for the middle level. There’s a pool in the house which connects to the ground floor.

Here’s the final! To my dismay, the home looks really confusing without any shading. Hence, I added some shading to indicate the separation of floors.

   

That would be all! Hopefully, the homes I have created would look livable :,)

Thank you for looking through!!

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Assignment 1 Research – Cylindrical and Rectilinear forms

I chose to look at a single material, bamboo. The material has been used to masterfully craft out objects varying in purpose, showing the versatility of bamboo.

These photos were taken in Malaysia, Thailand, and Japan respectively. I chose to focus on interesting structures that made use of cylindrical or rectilinear forms to build upon itself.

Researching for bamboo eventually led me to Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, and Bonsai, the Asian art of cultivating plants to look like mini trees in containers. I’m not sure if they are considered art in the western world but it’s interesting to see the irregular forms that come out of it. Somehow, I stumbled across a few artists who specialises in using plants in their instalments, such as Patrick Dougherty and John Grade.

Also, while looking at the branches, it reminded me of Tinus Vermeersch, whose art was displayed at the Parkview museum some time in November last year. These are some of the photos I took, you have to see it in person to understand how beautiful these pieces are.

Here are some studies I did after receiving feedback from Jesse. I sifted out those that really spoke to me and here’s what I got.

I’ll be including some of my sketches as well ( to be continued )

 

Here’s the link to a google drive just in case the photos turn out looking like crap:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-DKtr328fjzRh7yoS0IyHrEw41dtp8dZ?usp=sharing