CONSTRUCTURE

This is my design on the 'pavilion' on the front entrance of our archi building. Wood is the main material, and this is a cross year project over 5 years of students, about 14 people a team, and 1 singaporean.

Most discussion were in korean, as I am the only engrish speaking one. Clearly they are not interested in the design or this project, for they are not awarded any 'points', other than yr 1 and yr 2, which got some 'points' 

being a 'points' orientated design, it was initially a 4 column, rectangle roof and floor, 3 benches design, vaguely resembling that of a bus stop... surely it could solve the problem of the site being a smoker's corner, for now we introduce seats for the smokers to gather and celebrate.

Out of 14 teams members, probably 10 showed up, with only 1 initial design. Some how it evovled to a '4 boxes in a row' thing, with a slight curvature fronting whats left of the yard.

My accident was to voice my comment, suggesting a vantage point in the middle of the yard that pulls people into the 4 boxes. after much discussion in korean, It became my idea, and i am to work on it to give a final design, to be submitted in  roughly 36 hrs time. (16 hrs from now)

It is much suggested that i use straight angles instead of curves, for wood can not cut curves, or so i am told. Being the stubborn guy i am, I curved whatever i want. DEZIGN! Waveform! whalebone! ZERGED!

Constructure is a piece of shit resultanted of bad planning and organisation i think

What will the future be like; what could the past be like

I was reading a book, seoul scenarios, as part of my research on seoul's history, for my studio work. Jean found this book in the library and thought it would be helpful in understanding history

It turned out to be a compilation of competition entry, to envision the changes that will happen to seoul in the next 2 centuries to year 2200 (from 2004). Many made predictions to technology, world events, economy of seoul, and architecture, esp the urban landscape to seoul.

surprisingly it was quite a read, despite not much mention about seoul's past. This is not a historical text, it is a prophecy
I've learned that architects should do architecture that reveal's our time. Similary, it is important as an architect to be able to perhaps be able to adapt to changes and know whats ahead of us. And for that, we must look into the past.

Looking to the past tells us many things. For example, Le Corbusier was a frustrated architect. ^^ His important theories were only made through thorough examination of the past, history leading to the present. With that, and other architects of his time with the same idealogies they propelled modern architecture to this day. Corbu's architecture can be traced back to palladio and neo classical, which leads back to gothic, roman and greek architecture, to vitrivius etc. The beginning of mankind

Now prophecies in a way are created by understanding the past and present. Past is not just the past, there are periods of history that extends to present times and to the future. History is continuous.

In a crazy way, imagine i do not understand anything about the past history, defined as history that has "ended". History that is deemed the past could be considered as those which does not apply to now. Now is defined as any time which is present. In 2050, now would mean the year 2050

To look to the future, we study now and maybe some of the past.
Can it work in reverse? Read the future, the present, and guess what the past is.
What would it be like if i study the present times and predict Seoul's past?

alternative history....

If we can see what are the important issues today, we might predict a few ways that people might deal with it. Similary, we can look at important issues, and predict its past.

What caused today?


It could be fun to look at it this way ( thought not good enough to submit a report on this)