RUS 104 Project 8

Performance Night

Performance night was an awesome night for me. The theme itself was an unique theme compared to those previous theme I've ever heard. "The Lost Kingdom" Performance and Awards Night was conducted by Dr. Azree.

We spent a week to prepare for our performance night. For clothing, we bought cloth and sew our costume by ourselves. We have our own dress code that represent our kingdom. For Urban & Regional Planning, we got "LANGKASUKA" as our kingdom, it was originally from SIAM, which is THAILAND now. We searched online and google for some pictures to get them as reference for making us easier when we prepare for our props and costumes.

We decided to take traditional dance as our performance on that night. I am incharging in preparing our costumes and props since I am not a good dancer. I tried my best to contribute as a teammate even though i did not join the performance part.

 The performance team group photo. Behind them was a huge piece of cloth painted with ancient people. It was painted by a group of talented committees and i personally love it :)

The photo above shows when the piece of art was in progressing in studio 100 

Me and my lovely coursemates that we'll spend the rest of the 3 years in USM and the flag of our kingdom, LANGKASUKA!

The guys with those superb props that they've made with woods and painted in silver and wooden colour paint. 

Aqilah, our coure representative and she did contributed and helped us alot during the whole semester, thank you Aqilah !

That's a wrap for my post, and it somehow shows how we ended our sem 1. It was a short yet long sem. Long as in we did a lot in the whole sem, Short because we had created a great great life and memories and spent together with each other. It seems like it just happened yesterday when we first came into HBP and everyone still looking freshie and don't know where to go, until we started to overnight in studio, sharing the same music and had supper together, laugh and work together for most of the projects given by studio masters and it's time to say goodbye now. May our friendship last long and may our dreams come true

RUS 104 Project 7

RUS 104 STUDIO almost come to an end. 

Project 7 was about exhibition. When i were still a freshie, i used to remember what seniors told me about the exhibitions, the performance nights, the good and bad memories yet to remember. Time flies, it is December now, it sounds that we have to wrap up our first semester project by carrying out an exhibition. To exhibit our products and hardwork within this semester. 

I am an urban and regional planning student, we were require to share the same booth with Interior Design and our booth decoration has to be synchronize to each other. 

So we decided to do something that shows us are 'planning' student or 'ID' student. 

The booth decoration project as known as Project 7 last for a week, as usual. We actually spent 3 days to decorate our booth, For me myself, i wasn't really satisfy with my booth decoration because we were at first planned to do something better but it failed. It is okay since our booth get the 1st place among all the booth in the school of HBP.

During the week of booth decoration, we had a lot of fun among us. 

Although we are in different major, just because RUS 104 STUDIO, we are able to sit together and work together when we were preparing for our project. What makes me feel great about RUS 104 was the projects we were given to complete, besides, the mixtures of 7 majors to study together in first year was an great idea since HBP student seriously do not have much time for doing social and make new friends. 

The combinations of 7 majors in 1 classroom is awesome and it brings a lot of fun and even hold our friendship bond tighter. 

RUS 104 Project 6C

Project 6c was a challenging project. We were require to build an amphitheater stage model with the scale of 1:5. The model making part was fun, it was time consuming and also a money consuming project. 

First, we were quite lucky that we have few of our group members has the experience on ''dealing'' with the woods. we spent only 1 day to build the platform as known as 'plataforma X' 

The next few days, we started to build the curve roof and supporting columns. 

The white coloured base is the platform, it was the first thing we build before we raise up everything. 

Next, we begun to build the columns, Since we couldn't make a straight wood into curve shape, so we did something like added a curved wood at the edges and filled up the gap with wood filler before we painted it white to cover up them. 

When everything was done, we started to 'plant' the grass on the roof. 

We bought those artificial grass from DAISO with RM5 for each piece for covering up the roof as our green roof. We tried very hard to make sure that it do not show the gap between each of the grass carpet. 

In our presentation board, the bottom part of the green roof is climbers because the grass itself could not hold on the steep slope on the roof. Climbers will do and it was the best choice to cover up the steep slope of  the roof. 

These are the details of each of the small parts of 'The Oxygen' 

We were quite happy and satisfy with the outcome although we failed to fix lighting effect in our amphitheater, it was a great experience to work together with all my friends from 7 different courses in the mixture of all races. We get the know more about each other. Besides that, all of them have better ideas in different fields, when we share together, we learn more and it leads us move further. I was quite glad that our group did not happen any quarrel in these 6 weeks. Eventually, project 6 had come to an end. I was surprised that our amphitheater stage has actually won the 2nd place among all the competitors, it is the biggest compliment to us for working hard on this project. 

RUS 104 Project 6A 6B

Project 6 was the biggest project i have ever did, i think. It took 6 weeks for us to prepare included presentation drawing and model making. 

We are in Group 5, with 16 group members. We form our own 'company' in studio 100 for letting us to carry out our group activity. Project 6 was the 2nd project that made me staying up whole night just to draw the presentation drawing. I had been staying up late until 7am in the early morning for painting the presentation drawing, although the process was quite tough and tiring but the result turned out was a great surprise and satisfying. 

Project 6 was about building an amphitheater performance stage. It can be considered as a project where we create with out bare hands, from A to Z. 

Our group leader Amalin from Architecture divided us into few small "departments", we had small department meeting and group discussion 2 days a week. After few discussion, we concluded our meeting by taking 'The Oxygen' as our amphitheater. It required some techniques to arrange our presentation boards to have some specific contents such as section drawings, perspective views and plans. 

We get our idea for designing the stage from 'The Thinker', it simply combines the art of architecture and human's art work. We had our idea for adding green roof as it show out the simplicity yet natural building structure. The idea of the roof idea was came from the concept of bird wings. The bird wing design allows air to flow into the building structure and cool down the surrounding temperature. 

That's all for my blog post about project 6a.

RUS 104 Project 5a 5b

SENSE OF PLACE : NEIGHBOURHOOD AND COMMUNITY

Came to Project 5, we started to do something BIG.
The task was given on 11October 2013. We were required to do site analysis and also self site visit. There were 6 site (residential areas), we chose a residential area in Sg.Ara. The site we chose was Setia Green which is under the developer of SP Setia.

We went to the site for 2 times to gather more information such as movement network, lot layout, name of buildings, sun orientation, vegetation and so on.

From this project, I had learned a lot. Thanks to my studiomaster Dr. Suraiyati Rahman who led us all the way from the beginning of the project and she gave us a lot of information when we were "blurring our way" while completing this project.

In project 5b which was about Proposed improvements
It was quite a hard time for me to search for more information for improving and propose better improvements for the residential area. Besides the common proposal such as adding more street furniture and street lamps, i also looked for more information from the forums to gather more info shared by those residents and buyers of Setia Green.

RUS 104 PROJECT 4

PRESENTATION DRAWINGS

After project 3b, we were required to do presentation drawings on 2 pieces of A3 size cartridge paper on board. From this project, i had learn that i have to do an actual and perfect calculation with the right scale before i draw something on the paper. Besides, i had already learned how to arrange my presentation drawings so that it doesn't look TOO "BORING" to "sell" it to my "clients". Besides drawing elevations, we were also required to draw axonometric drawing and perspective drawing too.

RUS 104 Project 3B

OBJECT CONNECTION : A COMFORTABLE CHAIR

Project 3b was also something about 'object connection'. This time, we were given something different rather than working on the cartridge paper. Well, we still didn't know our 'chair' has to be draw as a blueprint later on. Everyone were trying so hard to create something special yet fully functional. 

So these were the task requirements :

• Produce a structural model of a wooden L-shape seating object that combines a table and chair(s) (students are free to design and decide the form of each chair/sofa/table/desk)
•  Besides aesthetical factors, the function of the furniture as an outdoor comfortable resting spot for HBP community and visitors were also required to be considered (as it will be placed near the HBP pond-waterfall).
• The size of that L-shape seating object should not be more than 2.8m x 2.0m x 1.2m (length x width x height) dimension
• The theme of that seating object is ‘UNITY’
• The scale of the model is 1:5 

My groupmates and I decided to create something simple and nice without losing the antithetical factors of a L-shaped wooden chair.

RUS 104 Project 3A

FREE FORM SCULPTURE 

By 23 September 2013, we were given another new project with the tittle "Object Creation - Free Form Sculpture“

Everyone has their own definition for the word "free form". For me, free free is something that "not in shape" but everything with "flow". I was thinking about something not in shape but i ended up by creating a tree where it branches are different from the actual trees. The inspirations were came from a tree i saw around School of Housing Building and Planning, USM. Then i came up with an idea for creating a free form sculpture in special way. 

Material used is iron wire in different size. I used the technique of twist and roll to create the tree trunk and branches. think iron wires were quite hard to twist by using bare hands, so i used pliers to twist it. 

 The above photo were taken before i twist the branches into swirl-shape.

 Since the theme of the sculpture has to be something relating to ''HARMONY'', i planned to add some butterflies to work as tree leaves. Those paper-made butterflies were painted in pastel colours to show the soft tone of colours choice and butterflies brings an aesthetic feel when it combined with a tree with swirl-shape branches.

This is the end product of my free form sculpture.

RUS 104 Project 2A

NATURAL STRUCTURE 

For project 2, we were required to do 2 drawings- natural structure and man-made structure.
I had quite a hard time searching for a natural-structure. At the end, i found a kind of potted plant in front of Hamzah Sendut Library 1. My choice for natural structure was calathea medalion because the plant itself has obvious lines and structures. 

From this project, i've learned to do pencil drawing, it was my first encounter to do pencil drawing and pencil sketch. It was a hard time for me to transform something from a picture onto a piece of cartridge paper in the right scale. Before this, where was a work shop given for us to learn and to practice pencil sketching. 

this is the pencil sketch i had done during the work shop