The Post cards and the design criteria...

haha, silly me.....tok so much i haven upload all the design criteria and requirement. so here it is......take a look and comment!!

this is the pic of the post card.......


Istana Art Event

A pavilion in the Istana, during National Day period, for the Istana Open House, to promote better understanding of our ASEAN neighbours.



Design Brief

- A pavilion incorporating postcards which are numbered between 32,000 to 50,000
- Postcards are sent across ASEAN nations in celebration of ASEAN’s 40th Anniversary.
- Istana officials are quite particular about construction day, hence we should try to make the structure such that the soil in the fields will not be damaged, too much.
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants the postcards to be protected to the best of our abilities.
- There will be several better postcards shortlisted, Ms Jean Wee, who gave us this opportunity, suggested that we could do something to these postcards and make them centerpieces. ( Zheqing has brought up similar suggestions)


Dr. Erwin suggested that we organize ourselves properly. He identified a few roles, which he felt would be important.

- treasurer-financial controllers ( work out budget)
- people to keep record of the project




Schedule

- 26 May (SAT) : meet in studio to finalise direction and form
- 28-30 May (MON-WED) : prepare proposal + work out rough budget for Jean’s review
- 31 May/ 1 Jun (FRI) : Send proposal to Jean, via email
- await Jean’s reply
- improvise as necessary.




Ideas

So far there had been numerous ideas that were thrown up during discussions.

- a labyrinth (maze with a single entrance/exit) such that people come out of it with a better understanding of ASEAN
- incorporating a blank canvas of some sort so that visitors on the actual day of the open house will be able to contribute towards the event.
- Capturing the elements of the site, wind and sound
- Zoning of space according to ASEAN nations, each zone will represent an ASEAN nation but at the same time the zones are completely open to the other zones, signifying the interdependent relationships between ASEAN countires.
- A movable structure, such that people will be shaping the pavilion as they move about.
- The client or the person using is mainly children, they are also the one who is filling the card. so the structure is best to attract kids and bring interaction




Just to add on to it, the structure which we are making is going to be displayed at the Shangri La hotel if i not wrong, at dec for some other event. thus it would be good if the construction is kept as simple as possible.

ok here is Yuting, sketching her ideas. See how much fun we have?? haha, see how happy she is can le. Like i said, this is nothing formal, just enjoy the process and learn the experience.

The start yet not the start....

hmmm.....u all might wonder y the title is this. Bcos we have started the project a while ago, ard 2weeks ago but the progress is like nothing, only though of making a blog out of it and keeping a record of it after some time. So here we are, doing this. Right now we only have 2 totally committed personnal doing this. That is Disheng and me. y? maybe bcos we lousy, cant find a job so end up doing this. Believe it or not there is almost 30 plus ppl wanting to do it be4 sch ended and we were wondering how to coordinate the ppl to do the work. End up only us......well....archi ppl all busy ppl. wat can u do? some busy with rag, some went back to their overseas home, some went intern, etc.....but there is always ppl like marc, yuting, lishan, virginia, lennard who came down to help.....and we are always glad if u can come down to help.....tt is also y we are setting up this blog so tt everyone can be updated of wat is going on and give some comment on the design......no need to be formal......if need to be so i wont be here doing this cos typing formal is not my forte. So just enjoy the process and feel free to drop some comment. we are always open to them.....

this is the first photo of the day when FOC or freshman orientation camp is having some meeting and so some ppl came to help....this is pics of yuting and disheng having some discussion abt he pavilion.