Pavilion Project - Final Sheet

This is the only perspective render view I did for this project. Enjoy.

Design and Presentation development

These are some of the picture renders I used for my final presentation sheet which will be uploaded soon. I have not uploaded the other renders because its I have forgotten to transfer it into my pendrive, as I am in the public library, the internet at home has been terrible. This is a competition called the Pavilion Project in Australia and the deadline is on the 16th.

Water as a Theme

Water as a design theme or a focal entity in a concept has been lingering in my head ever since I saw a design by WOHA for a underground train station in Singapore which they exhibit and won at the World Architecture Festival 2009, Barcelona. This theme was shortly forgotten due to my busy schedule for my thesis, but my interest has been triggered again after uploading my previous post, swimming 55 stories up.

Water seems to provide a certain tranquility that reflects and beautify a space with a very simplistic manner. The Infinity Pool at Alila Ubud (above) is an award winning pool, similar to the pool in Skypark, it also stretches towards the virgin jungle, sinking your senses with the surrounding.

This is a recent project design by WOHA, Alila Villas Uluwatu in Bali. It is an exquisite eco-resort design and this beautifully designed complex straddles a striking white limestone cliff and an arid savanna on the tropical island’s arid Bukit Pennisula. The Alilas Villas resort is the first of its kind to achieve the highest level of certification for Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESD) and is designed for the Green Globes GG21 standard. The take-your-breath-away beauty of the resort and its sensitive placement on the delicate landscape is enough to set one’s mind at ease.

I will be designing a garden for my parents so this would be a very inspirational precedent. Water theme design does not have to be limited to just resorts. It can be used as an interface between two spaces. WOHA and Steven Holl had similar approach on different type of spaces.

This is the Bras Basah MRT Station which help WOHA scooped building of the year in Barcelona and also a RIBA award. The water acts as a layering between the outside and underground, an interface yet the transparency creates a connection between spaces. It sits quietly like a public pond from ground level, but the water glass roof is a huge skylight for the underground.

Steven Holl carpark design is similar in concept, different in material and context. The concrete roof is holding up a much deeper pond situated in front of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art.

Now, time to think of something more innovative, if only I could. <_<>

Swimming In the Sky

Would't it be interesting to be able to swim 55 storeys up? You would be able to do so in the infinity pool at Skypark that tops the Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore. I remember looking at this project a few years ago of a perspective render on the interweb. The hotel itself did not do anything for me, but it was the horizontal deck on top that interlinks all 3 buildings together that intrigued my curiousity. Bold ideas like this gets people thinking and ponder. I hate heights but even this pool which is design to stretch towards the horizon, would give me the courage to sit at the edge and enjoy the wondrous panoramic cityscape view.