The Project Happy Feet Team will be heading to Hanoi, Vietnam this year in support of the following organizations:
- Humanitarian Services for Children of Vietnam
- Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation
- KOTO Hanoi
During the trip, the team will be visiting schools to present them with school supplies, villages to present them with food and a culinary school that provides opportunities for street youths to learn a skill and gain employment.
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Project Happy Feet and Heading to Hanoi
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Exhibition
24 – 27 Nov 2009
10:00am–8:00pm daily, except 27 Nov 10:00am - 6:00pm
Free admission
Suntec City, Halls 402 & 403 (Co-located with the Icsid Congress Exhibition)
The Portfolio Show for Young Designers presents the best collection of portfolios by young Singaporean or Singapore-based designers. It is presented as an exhibition across all design disciplines, presenting the progression and ambitions of Singapore design.It aims to benchmark the standards of young designers in Singapore, inspire current and future design students towards excellence, and to communicate their potential to established designers and design clients. The show provides exposure for these young designers, who would otherwise have little or no such opportunity.
The Portfolio Show features work from the best graduating designers from the Class of 2009 and young design agencies with less than five years of practice. For more info : DesignSingapore Council
will be bringing the models down for setup tomorrow evening. Weirong, Haowen and my works will be exhibited at this portfolio show. One of my st nicks classmate, Si Ping will be there as well !
A VOID EXPERIENCE is a collaborative design-based multi-sensory exhibition by Lim Si Ping, Pixel Pastry and Tribal DDB Singapore that observes the mainstream asocial behaviour of HDB residents in Singapore.
here’s my latest submission for the digital design module ! the assignment was to design, model and present a set of multi-level spaces connected by vertical circulation using 2D & 3D softwares like rhino and autocad, as well as Ecotect to analyse and test out insulation stuff. so the site is located at the Singapore Botanical Gardens, and my design intention is to allow interaction with the surrounding greens. haha, nature again ! mine’s rather simple and conceptual, the curved wire mesh was enough to kill my computer. seriously lags my lousy laptop. anyway, the main objective is to use digital media to present our stuff. getting the hang of rhino software, but sketchup is so much more friendly ! haha especially for 3D idiots like me : ) done with all submissions, two more papers to go ! cant wait for dec to come, vietnam trip ! Making footprints of change at Project Happy Feet
Project 2 - Atmosphere
10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 5
natural vs artificial
chosen site : abandoned railway located at Sunset Way.
As one walks along the railway tracks, there is an experience of distrust, which makes one constantly aware of what he/she is stepping on. The sense of fear and uncertainty starts to creep in as we start to wonder what is hiding in the tall grass. As compared to the manicured and well maintained landscape around us, the plants on the site just keeps growing and starts to take over the tracks and concrete slabs. We can assume that generally people are afraid or uncomfortable in wild nature.
The design intention is to help address children’s fear of nature through involvement. By bringing them close to nature, it could allow them to embrace and confront their fears, and at the same time, have a better understanding of wild nature. The program of the space is designed for the children nature society. The main focus is the circulation, whereby the teacher will guide them through a series of spaces, 1) walkthrough 2) close to nature and communities 3) story telling 4) gallery, which showcases different species of plants and insects.
The site is naturally covered with wild nature and instead of destroying the existing qualities of it, the architecture will be placed on the existing concrete slab. By opening up spaces, the gaps and cracks would allow the surrounding greens to encroach into the building. The materials employed will react over time. Concrete gets stained easily and cracks while steel rusts and corrodes in relation to the climate changes and surroundings. After a period of time, wild nature will start to encroach and creep into the building and the whole design would eventually blend and be part of the site.
Proposed design panels :
well, crit was alright. the design could definitely have been better and more into detail. two projects down, two more to go for next semester ! looking forward to it !
products taken at NAFA studio. product photography is not easy ! there’s so much to learn..
Louis, Hendry, Rongzi and i did a presentation for the ideas module last week. Our two objects were egg crate and aluminum drinking can. We had to analyse the physical properties and describe the emotive and associational impact of it and from there, we proposed ideas on how to undo and redo it. Our main idea was to tackle the problem of fragility of eggs and to design such that it is more portable.
Wed’s final submission for project 2. that’s damn fast, 5 weeks just zooooom past like that ! spent like 4 weeks doing site stuff and now it’s production time. will update on that soon once crit’s over. hopefully my first indv work will be go well.
I was asked to do a Project shoot for the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The team will be organising the International Convention & Expo Summit 2010 next year around march.
Anyway, tomorrow’s the start of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit taking place in Singapore from Nov 8 to 15. My brother Alvin, will be one of the forty who will be part of the annual Apec Voices of the Future programme. They will be interviewing Apec leaders and these reports will be up on the Apec web everyday.