Messing with MAYA

Here was one of my first attempts at playing with Alias MAYA nurbs based sculpting. Just trying to have different corrugations in the surface. It pretends to be architectural but I think it is still rather stuck in the "flashy+shiny". Oh well, I did learn about how naive we can get playing with a brand new program in a simplistic way. CV stretching is definitely not the only way to "push the potential of the program".

Jelly Fish

Drawing class at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California. It was more exciting for me to look at the jelly fish than to draw it. Well, here is my attempt to capture a blob that would not stay still.

Tomography

Tomography is the study of section cuts instead of its more famous cousin, topography which is a study of planal cuts. I then lofted it together in serial manner. I hope you guys like it.

Final Year Undergraduate Exhibition

This was the presentation format that I was limited to. Well, I packed it with as much information as I possibly could. The little yellow post-it on the upper right hand corner indicated that I fortunate enough to be selected for the Final Year Top Projects competition. At this point I had already had an advance placement into the 2nd year of Grad studies at SCI-Arc and was on my way to Sunny Southern California. What a mad rush! I had 2 more months in Singapore and then left family and girlfriend (some of you know who she is. If not, you can scroll to the top right corner of this blog!).

LVMH HQ (Singapore)

This was my final year thesis design for the LVMH Headquarters in Singapore. This project was chosen for the Final Project Exhibition at the National University of Singapore School of Architecture. Its glowing skin ebbs and dims according to the varying activity levels in the building. The porosity of the skin hints at the private and public content of the program behind each volume.

Artist village

This model was done with no glue. Just cut to fit pieces. I just wanted to challenge myself and make life difficult. It was rewarding though. This is a design for an artists' village in Outram Park, Singapore on a sloped plot of grass that is uninhabited.

Look up!

LOOK UP! This is a pay-per-spray perfume booth shaped as an abstracted flower. The petals and sepals of the design are tinted, frosted, warped glass combined with scratched metal matted to various degrees. The booth closes its doors on you when you enter like a venus fly trap only to spit you out when it is down spraying you with a coat of scent of your choice.

MAKING as means of DESIGNING

Designing by Making. I think I learned alot by seeing with the eyes of the skin. I enjoyed this studio very much as I discovered how joints hold pieces together while seeing the spaces and forms that have to influence each other.

VERGE @ NUS

This is right outside the School of Architecture at the National University of Singapore. It was part of the exhibition for the Star Trek Convention at Suntec City. It is now on permanent display as a garden sculpture. It must be have decomposed by now. Well, that was me when I was slim. I did this project with classmates Soo Ying "Zinc" Ho and Sock Mui Koh. I have always liked the environment that it creates when we zoom in to its infrastructural logic. Hope you guys like this!