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URBAN ITINERARY: CINEMATIC SPACE Week 1: Site Cinematic Device and Site Visit When people look into a mirror, they see an image of themselves behind the glass. That image results from light rays encountering the shiny surface and bouncing back, or reflecting, providing a “mirror image.” People commonly think of the reflection as being reversedContinue reading “Spatial Design Studio III Sem 2 2021”

Year Three-Semester One Brief You are asked to propose a scheme for a refurbishment or temporary retrofitting of the Auckland Domain Winter Gardens, designed by Gummer and Ford and built in stages between 1916 and 1928. The gardens consist of two barrel-vaulted steel glasshouses (the Temperate House and the heated Tropical House), joinedby a courtyardContinue reading “Spatial Design”

PART ONE Week 1: The Commons and Social Spaces My social spaces: WG Building WA library Auckland Art Gallery Restaurant Market Where is the social space I chose?My social space is the Auckland Art Gallery. Why is my social space is Auckland art gallery?As a student who is studying design, visiting exhibitions is a veryContinue reading “Spatial Design Studio 2020 | Semester 2”

Week 3 – Site Visit The St James Theatre is a heritage stage theatre and cinema located on Queen Street in Auckland, New Zealand. Built in 1928, it was a replacement for the older Fuller’s Opera House and was originally designed for vaudeville acts. Its architect Henry Eli White also designed many other famous theatres in Australia and New Zealand including the StContinue reading “Spatial Fabrication Studio 2020”

Week One Readings:How to Encounter a Puddle by Anny Li and Index of Agency by Sophie Chien 1. What is Li’s overall idea about puddles? How does she connect the practical (photos, experiences) with the theoretical (ideas in the text)? The author’s thinking through the puddles on the roadside and recorded it through photography. SheContinue reading “Theory”

Project Design: BATH HOUSE Week one-Bath House Site Introduction:In this term, we were continuing along the theme of ‘intimate space’ and start new designing with the theme bath. We will design from the WW building due to WZ building of AUT. Before we started designing, we visiting the environment inside and outside and conducted filed measurementsContinue reading “Spatial Design Studio”

Spatial Design Different: This space must be different another one. For example, design, material, idea, etc. Privacy: Everyone needs privacy not just in a room if this space that he living not conceal that will affect the lives of the occupants. Connect: Try to make public space that can help strangers meet, and in thisContinue reading “Project three: Sleep/Wake”

Spatial Design Week Four: Mapping Site The annular marking on a tree indicate its age, there’s a lot of old trees in Albert Park. Also Albert Part is a grand park of historical importance. So I used tree rings to express the history of Albert Park. Also, I paint a map of the park usedContinue reading “Project Two: Sleep/Wake”

Week Three-Presentation Abstract: The project originates from the night, the dawn, and the day we are experiencing every day. In the project, you will find the drawing consists of two parts.One is the bondage during the day, and the other is the freedom during the night. The model as well is made up of twoContinue reading “Project One: SLEEP/WAKE (concept)”