DESIGN 2 PROJECT 4 - GIFTING (TRAM STATION)

My design is a combination of a Pacific Island fale and waka together with some Tongan arts patterns which I think is my gift to the people of the Auckland City Area that are very busy everyday and night with the activities and works that runs the whole Auckland City Area.  My design is to provide people that are to use the trams to take off their mind and thoughts from the stressful and tiring ways of life they are used to in Auckland city and imagine they are in the Pacific Island environment and enjoy the peace and quietness of the little islands.

The three spots that I chose for my tram station locations will each have my tram station design which are all surrounded by trees and green plants similar to the Pacific Island environments where there are more trees and green plants comparing to Auckland City where high buildings and roads nearly replaced most of its area.  Therefore my design would probably give the users idea that they were being dropped off by flying wakas and picked up by trams from the three stations because we know for sure that wakas only travel in the ocean not on land.  Not only this but the Pacific arts on walls thanks to my mother for allowing me to use her authentic designs for tapa cloth on my projects.  This also gives people the feeling of being in the Pacific Island environment where most people here in Auckland love to go for vacation.  Here are some snapshots of the little model of my design to give some ideas of what I've mentioned above:

DESIGN 2 PROJECT 4 - GIFTING

Our final workshop for Design 2 which is project 4 wasa about GIFTING.  Our group was told to be divided up to smaller groups of 5 or 6 members and design a TRAM STATION within our site triangle to cover probably some spaces not covered by buses and trains.  Here's a map of what our group came up with 12 defferent locations of our tram stations in red circles and joined by blue lines (tram's tracks).  Although our locations have most of them outside the required site, we only chose those that is withtin the triangle.

I chose 3 locations for my tram station stops shown on next photo:

where the first stop is on Emily Place in Eden Terrace..................

and secondly is by the Vector Arena...............

and lastly is by College Hill Park on Symond Street and Anzac Avenue...............

DESIGN 2 PROJECT 3 - GATHERING SPACE

TO BE POSTED SOON.......................

DESIGN 2 PROJECT 2 - VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURE

Too bad I don't have the snapshots of steps how I build my structure in Second Life but hopefully it will be ok.  Been a heck of a week this week trying to do both my project at Uni and labs at Unitec but I'll try to tell the story of my structure in Second Life to hopefully more meaningful.

The idea of waking up and seeing good views from your room or house or wherever you wakeup at, gives you a joyful feeling and makes you really wanna drag yourself out of where you slept and walk up to see more of the good views.  For example, waking up and seeing through your windows the big cruise ships arriving at the wharf, or lifeguards running around the ocean on the jetskis and so on.  Whenever you see these kind of activities when you wakeup, you really wanna be part of it and so forcing yourself to actually go there and see it for yourself.

Whereas if you wakeup and see old buildings and nothing interesting comes through your windows, you don't want to get out of bed.  You don't like to get out there if you wakeup and see boring and quiet views of old houses with no interesting activities to really push you to go and explore what's happening out there. Here's a look at some of the snapshots of structures build in Second Life:

1. Snapshot 1

This is a shot of old structure that gives the idea of boring and emptiness where no one wakeup and enjoy looking at it thereofore doesn't really gives anything but bad taste.

2. Snapshot 2

This photo shows  a contemporary modern structures which can be seen from outside. The beauty of the structure when you wakeup and see it really push you to get up and go out explore the amazing looking structure.  So the idea of good views, beauty and joy are the facts that decide the wakeup place to be build.

3. Snapshot 3 and 4



A further shot of the two structures

4. Snapshot 5,6 and 7

5. Contemporary Structure snapshots



Will be back to add more infos.



DRAWING MATRIX

As a result of my USB malfunction, I redraw my drawing matrix in Autocad on crit day and could not finish it in time but thought I should put it up here for tutor's reference.

Discussion with Ian regarding Second Life

Technology does not like me.................all my work for Virtual Architecture that I did and saved in my usb have disappeared and I still don't know why and how it happened and have to redo most of the stuff whole of this Thursday crit day. Anyway here's a bit of recap from last week up to crit day Thursday.

Discussion with Ian last Monday regarding my project in Second Life, I told him about making a structure to sleep and wakeup and get good views around the surrounding environment of the Structure.  This was the idea of my previous project of drawings animation and I wanna carry on with it.

Ian recommended to choose specific views that I really like which is the new apartments and other new buildings area by the Vector arena and also the view of the wharf and the ocean which is a very good one for me.  Ian was saying that it might be ok but try to figure out a way of how to make something in Second Life to reflect the views that I like and really have to be strong and provide more informations to readers.

PROJECT DISCUSSION WITH JUDY AND IAN.

List Any 10 Things that Architecture Is All About:

1. Architects need to be aware of their own intentionality

2. ALIVE - has character and changes

3. Personal - we all interpret it differently

4. ABOUT CHANGE - "Evolution"

5. Has an element of visual manipulation

6. Also other sensory information

7. Is reflective of our culture and others

8. Is human interventions

9. Is relational - a whole bunch of connections.

10. Defining or creative space.