Memorial (Journey of 5 sense)
The project was required to explore issues of spatial typologies and poetics through simple design exercises. We were to propose 2 schemes for a Memorial themed ‘journey for the 5 senses’. The requirement was to to design the Memorials in the form of semi-open architecture by using two contrasting spatial types of your choice (Linear and concentric). There is no specific site for this design work. The story of your Memorial should translate a narrative of the events that happened in the 2000s era and the 2010s era, and it should be informed by precedents studies.
Building Program:
Memorial building
Location:
Imaginary city and hills
DATE:
April 2018
Supervisor:
Fadzlee Khamis
Interconnection
The project was required to explore issues of spatial typologies and poetics through simple design exercises. We were to propose 2 schemes for a Memorial themed ‘journey for the 5 senses’. The requirement was to to design the Memorials in the form of semi-open architecture by using two contrasting spatial types of your choice (Linear and concentric). There is no specific site for this design work. The story of your Memorial should translate a narrative of the events that happened in the 2000s era and the 2010s era, and it should be informed by precedents studies.
Individualism
Fast forward 10 years, social media draw us into a very powerful world of edited reality, which can work to reinforce our own insecurities. We strive and seek for the idea of perfection that has been implemented by the standards of social media. Instead of being about connectivity, social media became a way of disconnecting ourselves from reality. With likes and shares representing a virtual currency, the sole purpose of the social network has now become a perpetual self-affirmation service. We share and post only for the narcissistic thrill of our acquaintances reasserting our own arrogance. What have we lost? Closeness, voice contact, the intimate communication of actually knowing what a person is feeling, and that can only come from presence.
