Tips: 4 Approach To Architecture Design

4 method for design conceptualization

The common problem right after every project brief back in my studying days are where should I begin? or at times after the design was created - how could I explain it? What are the basis for this design?. Over the years, I've discovered several approaches to design. Here are the breakdown summary in each of these approaches *(You could view it in a slide format available here).

A new way in doing things

How to Generate Architectural Concepts & Design Ideas

 

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You can read an article about the breakdown of this tip here.

*Originally the slides was called 'Let's stop using the word Concept', however for this slides - I'm reserving my opinions towards 'the concept approach' for a broader general view towards the design approach.

** The first version of the slides was presented in Studio 2, Uitm, Shah Alam, 2008.   
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B & B

Basic Guide To Design Composition

Presentation: With so many things to explain, where do Yu begin?

Its almost reaching the dateline and you are on the final stage in the design process: Presentation. However, with so many items, drawings, pictures, diagrams, text to include within a design presentation. 


How does one begins to organize such 'chaos'?

Apresiasi

A smaller Notebook

Thinking about

Salam Eid ul-Fitr,

Buzzing

Compilations of Design Tips

 How to composed design presentation.

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Basic guide and step by step explanations of design composition technique for visual presentation.

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How to generate design concepts and ideas.

4 examples in how to generate concepts, approach and ideation for design.

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5 types of architecture design process.

What is a design process? How many are there? and what does it all have in common?.

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dokumentasi: pertalian

"Physically, every relationships have its beginning and an ending.
If it could be imagined in a physically form, the complexity of every relationships is like a twirling cords. Apply straightening when required."

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On the other side, this is An outline exercise by documenting everyday objects.
The challenge?

1. There is no 'Undo' button in this exercise.
2. Try to capture as much details as I can.
3. Personalized the subject. This can be done through the lines forming the objects. For example, I'm comfortable with 'funny wiggly lines' because its making drawing straight lines much more easier and personalizing the drawn subject at the same time.

A tribute to suburbia & a band

"Setiap geometri mempunyai pelbagai kisah/ ruang/ hero dan antihero. Walaupun, dari jauh ianya seolah-olah seperti sebuah gabungan landskap statik - tidak bernyawa/ kontang/ sepi.

Sesuatu yang kita (mereka yang mereka) sentiasa terlupa: Sifat kemanusiaan didalam setiap geometri alam bina."  
- Words by Hadi Of Laila Lounge.


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Back in the suburbia of Johor Bahru, I've made a promised to a group of friends that I will design a cover for their long awaited EP. Sadly, during our days together that day never comes. Season goes by and we soon departed into our own ways.

What linked me back to them, are their music & our memories of friendships. Ahh, those days of staying up late discussing about what we are passionate about, scouring through the suburbs for a drink at 3 A.M. and listening to the beautiful sounds from their jamming session at home.

It is in this suburb, I spend most of my entire youth life. I still can’t escape the feeling of lostness and alienation despite over the years staying there. During my stay, I'm counting the days and figuring out ways in getting out from there. Yet, it's always there for me, repeatedly offering me a fresh new start from all my failed attempt.

Dear suburbia,

Yu might thought that its was only yu who revitalized me, but actually it was also by the people who lived in your harsh faceless, standardized, decaying roads, lots & abandoned backlanes.

Sometimes I wonder if yu even knew the diversity of your occupants and what they offers to the world. Sometimes, I wish if yu could ease down the stress that yu imposed upon them. Depleting the 'perfumed odor' from your oxidation pond, sheltering us from the sun rays and heat during the day, so that we don't have to squint our eyes whenever walked pass through your space and roads. Mostly, I wish the traffics in your streets to be less congested and safer *(No more accidents involving undergraduate students being hit by some car in any poorly designed junctions or by a lorry from the nearby factory).

Therefore, ... I dedicated this composition to yu: Taman Universiti, Johor Bahru.

All these years in the back of my mind, I always wanted to capture my experience living in your environment, but I couldn't quit grasp for any point to began with (Even tough there are tons of subjects within your sprawls). It's only after listening to these demo tracks from one of your occupants that it becomes clearer for me to begin. Somehow, it feels like the circle is completed. These sounds captures the mood of your lonely nights and hectic days.

I hope that you like it (while reconsidering my request).

I (heart) February

I'm trying to find an element that we all could relate towards the celebrated event within this month. And what will that be? The Mandarin Orange. I particularly love this month because somehow in someway, the freely distributed mandarin orange will always makes it way to me through someone.

Either its from the faculty office, friends and even students. I hope this traditions continues for years to come. To everyone who are celebrating this festive event:

Happy Chinese New Year!