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Design problems and solutions
2007-09-06 11:53:00
Today is a great day~!Got an email from my lecturer and email from Ghazali and design development on the service apartment.Lots of solutions on design issues raised by the experience developer. 1. Glass internal wall replacing brickwalls that results tight corridor space. 2. Stacked air-conditioning units at upper duplex level, serving the living, the room below and the room above3. Reducing unnecessary space at staircase at liftcore4. Building facade enhancement with design thoughts collaborated with fins element for fire fighting requirements.5. Most important of all~ thinking out of the box, resolve issues with design thoughts~! Sometimes we need some brain twisting before answering simple questions. Problems will turn into solutions and problem is solutions.
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Jonathan Yuen
2007-09-05 12:04:00
An interesting web design you cannot miss ~!!"I strive for simplicity of values and functions in creativity and aesthetic success. I value and push for truthfulness, personality and substance in design. And above all, beside bringing food onto the table, I pursue design as a tool to contribute myself as part of the species for the better of the surrounding in which I live and share. Influenced by my culturally diverse home country and background, one of my main intereestes lies in flusing Eastern and Western visual cultures in design and art." to find out more...Passage from http://www.jonathanyuen.com/main.html
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Building a Career in Architecture
2007-09-04 08:47:00
"Earnings of Architect s: Median annual earnings of wage and salary architects were $60,300 in 2004. Recent graduates working on internships will earn much less. Those starting out in private practices will go through a period of time when they are operating at a loss.*Use the Salary Wizard at Salary.com to find out how much architects currently earn in your city." to find out more...Passage from http://careerplanning.about.com/cs/occupa tions/p/architect.htm
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Mecanoo
2007-09-03 03:31:00
"10 Statements of Mecanoo1. Land as an expensive commodityThe difference between Los Angeles and Tokyo is obvious to everyone. Los Angeles, the city of the twentieth century, designed for the car which is literally given more room than people are: there are more square metres of car parks than of built-up areas. There is an abundance of land and it is almost valueless. This will be bound to change in the twenty-first century. Tokyo, the gigantic village of millions of people and public transport. Every square metre has been thought about and put to use, above ground and below it. Land is very expensive, even more expensive than the houses and buildings that stand on it. The Netherlands, a country with a high population density and a shortage of land. At the same time the country that wastes its land because the price of land is much too low. The result is a lack of intelligent solutions such as dual use of land, inventive combinations of infrastructure and building.2. Love of nature...

Single Hauz
2007-08-29 07:13:00
Another interesting cube house by Poland's front architects ? Single Hauz, from BLDG.Image from http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/sing le-hauz.html

Managing Design
2007-08-28 03:04:00
"This website is not just designed for design management experts but especially for companies that need to learn about design management. On this website you will find everthing you ever wanted to know. You can use the DM tool to browse case studies and assess yourself, find network members and lookup various design management issues." to find out more...
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Does Honeycomb housing with conflict of feng shui beliefs?
2007-08-27 05:44:00
An architect from Malaysia, Mazlin Ghazali did a survey on honeycomb housing with theories, research & practice. Impressive!"Honeycomb Housing is a new Malaysian innovation from Arkitek M. Ghazali in collaboration with Universiti Putra Malaysia and offers an affordable and environmentally friendly alternative to terrace housing. It is gaining wide support from potential house buyers in exhibitions, amongst housing professionals at seminars and now the Sarawak Government for the Ninth Malaysia Plan. However, Developers are concerned that the departure from rectangular shaped building lots to triangular housing compounds, which link up to form hexagonal cul-de-sacs then honeycomb communities, is too radical and may conflict with Feng Sui beliefs. If true, this cultural objection may deter Chinese house buyers, a major section of the Housing market. To test this serious commercial risk a pioneering Developer (Renewed Group based in Johor Baru) commissioned the University to conduct a r...
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a map of my mind
2007-08-25 10:21:00
This is a blog that makes Malaysians proud, an architect from malaysia that shares his work, his experience, his determinations. I love this blog, it is an encouragement to all Malaysians. Hoping more architects can blog, can share, can lead the younger generations. I love this blog, a map of my mind, a blog by an architect from Malaysia."an architect who still climbs and schemes for satisfaction and place in architecture. Having desire to learn many subjects which will make a uniquely well-versed architecture. Expressing my individuality in design Yet to discover a whole dreams of creativitiy, originality and innovations.Sky's the limit!" to find out more...Passage from http://jalakmas.blogspot.com/Image from http://www.slide.com/r/CHervjILvj941902b9 HcIQ3dGlT4eymr?view=large
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Screampoint
2007-08-23 05:37:00
"From six conceptual floor plans and four elevation diagrams, Screampoint was asked to provide design interpretation, and develop 3D visualization tools to be presented to the Owner's management team.From the limited documentation provided, Screampoint developed a 3D componenet model, produced renderings, and animations within three weeks and outlined a system by which the 3D component model would continue to provide value throughout the project's lifecycle" to find out more...Passage & Image from http://www.screampoint.com/v2/prev_site/i ndex.htm

arhddesign
2007-08-22 12:13:00
"We are a Space Planning, Architectural and Interior Design Consultancy based in Kuala Lumpur. We offer a range of professional services to individuals, companies and organisations requiring new premises, alterations and additions to existing spaces and on going facilities management for projects designed and coordinated by us.As a collective unit, we have substantial experience in the design of spaces for a variety of business and interior types. Our reputation is due to our ability to achieve high image interiors tailored to the individual needs of our clients, regardless of size, budget or country where the projects are located." to find out more...My ex collegue is currently working at arhddesign, heard that he is doing well...Passage from http://www.arhddesign.com/html/about.html

Architects leaving Malaysia
2007-08-22 03:43:00
"?There were some 1,600 professional architects in Mala ysia 10 years ago. It is surprising that the number remains the same now,? he told a press conference after the annual PAM architectural students works exhibition 2007 here yesterday.Tan said that while the population of Australia was almost equivalent to that of Malaysia, Australia had around 12,000 architects." to find out more...Do you intend to stay or leave the country for greener pastures? Who would not?
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gpchicago
2007-08-21 03:26:00
"Goettsch Partners, through a progression of leadership transitions, traces its roots to 1938 when Mies van der Rohe established his design practice in Chica go.Mies? work in America served as the inspiration for a new generation of modernists, loosely defined as the Second Chicago School.The First Chicago School, led by such luminaries as Louis Sullivan, Dankmar Adler, Daniel Burnham and William LeBaron Jenney, explored new construction technologies like the steel frame, creating a unique spatial aesthetic that, in turn, paralleled?and even influenced?developments in early European Modernism.Today GP strives to continue that tradition, looking to the science of materials and craft of construction to inform the great challenges of our age.In our own work, we strive for a synthesis of art and craft through construction, for clarity of purpose and achieving designs that posses their own inspired simplicity." to find out more...Passage from http://www.gpchicago.com/users/folder.asp ?Fold...

FOTA
2007-08-20 03:20:00
One competitive, young design firm here! Wishing more work to publications here. Congratulations for the great work from FOTA Design , Malaysia~! to find out more...Image from http://www.fotadesign.net/works.html

Rendering Improvement
2007-08-17 11:17:00
Look at what I had done in 8hours' time!?Inclusive planning, modeling, rendering & touchup.Some improvement har~!
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Architect Peter Eisenman Sells West Village Co-Op to Night Crawler for $3.2
2007-08-17 03:41:00
?If you were a son of mine, I wouldn?t want you to be an architect,? the septuagenarian told this reporter, ?because it?s a tough way to be in the world. Look, my son who graduated from law school three years ago makes more than I do after 40 years of working.? mentioned by Peter Eisenman.That goes for non-business minded architects. I would need learn some business techniques for not ending up 35years later stating these...Getty Images located from http://www.observer.com/2007/architect-pe ter-eisenman-sells-west-village-co-op-nig ht-crawler-3-2-m
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Anti Smoking Ads
2007-08-15 20:05:00
I was thrown a question today of how to deter smoking habits during office hour. I could not forget these few images which I find creativity, humour yet bringing awareness to health issues that would work:-http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/lifest yle/2007-05/17/content_874903.htmhttp://w ww.netzkobold.com/index.php?/archives/179 -smoking-kills.htmlhttp://www.oralcancerf oundation.org/board_images/tobacco_packag e_image.jpghttp://adweek.blogs.com/photos /uncategorized/cigarette_penis_1.jpghttp: //www.quitsmokingnews.com/cards/tob-ads-e n-04.jpghttp://www.adpunch.org/images/ant ism1.jpg
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HL architecture
2007-08-14 17:38:00
"HL Architect ure was founded in 1994 in Malaysia by architects from UK. Their combined and diverse expertise was instrumental in building HL Architecture ( formerly known as Haeger Lindsey Wilkins Sdn Bhd ) as a multi-disciplinary design consultancy combining skills in Architecture,Strategy,Interior & Identity."to find out more...Special thanks again to my director, Martin for the testimonial and certification of my work in the office. Ought to introduce HLarchitecture, after working 4years here. Both directors are very smart person, with one specializing in design and another in marketing and design. The most amazing thing I found out here is we can built things with bare hands~! James Lindsey is the one with the capability to drawing everything out with a pen, inclusive working drawings. What I learned from him is the logical way of thoughts he imposed into the design, how to analyse a site, the existing design problems.Martin, with his social ability and strong analytica...

IJDesign
2007-08-14 07:05:00
"The International Journal of Design is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design, including industrial design, visual communication design, interface design, animation and game design, architectural design, urban design, and other design related fields. It aims to provide an international forum for the exchange of ideas and findings from researchers across different cultures and encourages research on the impact of cultural factors on design theory and practice. It also seeks to promote the transfer of knowledge between professionals in academia and industry by emphasizing research in which results are of interest or applicable to design practices." to find out more...Passage from http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJD esign/

Appreciation to Ar. Jeffery Cheah, Zone Architect
2007-08-13 13:41:00
" ZONE architect have been established for the past 12 years, and since then have in combination undertaken projects worth more than RM2b with a range of clients both within Malaysia as well asoverseas."My appreciation to Ar. Jeffery Cheah for certifying my certificates at the last minute. And he is asking me to spread the news that Zone Architect is looking for new blood. Any architects interested? to find out more...Image from http://www.zone.com.my/practice/practice. html
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Rendering Development
2007-08-10 05:35:00
I had been busy lately getting hold of 3dmax modeling with Vray rendering. I am now into FormZ modeling. My learning progress is basically watching videos and u can get the tutorials from gnomon. The image beside is some photoshop montaged with background, cars, trees and people. The glass is still not satisfying yet since I was running out of time...it would do for the time being. Going into next project now.
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Sebastian Irarrazaval
2007-08-10 05:03:00
Some interesting project from Sebastian Irarrazaval from Chile. to find out more...Image [1] fromhttp://www.sebastianirarrazaval.com/0 5%20web%20SID/pag%20obras/laspalmas.htmIm age [2] from http://www.sebastianirarrazaval.com/05%20 web%20SID/pag%20obras/caballero.htm
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Digital Water Pavilion
2007-08-09 04:59:00
"Imagine a building made of water. It features liquid curtains for walls ?curtains that not only can be programmed to display images or messages but can also sense an approaching object and automatically part to let it through. MIT architects and engineers have designed such a building, and it will be unveiled at next summer International Expo Zaragoza 2008 in Spain, themed Water and Sustainable Development. " to find out more... There is an interesting movie clip of this pavilion.Passage from http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Featu re230.htmImage from http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/image s/Feature0230_01x.jpg
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Dear Architects, I am sick of your shit.
2007-08-03 04:40:00
"Architect s love to discuss how much sleep they have gotten. One will say how he was at the studio until five in the morning, only to return again two hours later. Then another will say, oh that is nothing. I haven?t slept in a week. And then another will say, guess what, I have never slept ever. My dear architects, the measure of how hard you?ve worked and how much you?ve accomplished is not related to the number of hours you have not slept. Have you heard of Rem Koolhaas? He is a famous architect. I know this because you tell me he is a famous architect. I hear that Rem Koolhaas is always sleeping. He is, I presume, sleeping right now. And I hear he gets shit done. And I also hear that in a stunning move, he is making a building that looks not like a glass cock, but like a concrete vagina. When you sleep more, you get vagina. You can all take a lesson from Rem Koolhaas."My collegue got a stroke and was hopitalized and I even suspicious of he is lying to escape work. Even you work ...
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Woods Bagot
2007-08-02 05:10:00
Some great projects from Woods Bagot."Woods Bagot is a global studio specialising in design and consulting across three key sectors: Workplace, Education, Lifestyle. We draw on our experience and research base to create unique design responses. These design response are crafted by our multi-disciplinary global team that operates across four regions: Australia, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Within each of these regions we have studios staffed with both local and international designers and specialists in the areas of architecture, consulting, interior design, urban design services and project management. In December 2006 our firm became 100% climate neutral. The initiative will offset the CO2 impact of all aspects of the firm business through the purchase of carbon credits. These credits are used to fund clean energy projects. " to find out more...Passage from http://wbpublic.woodsbagot.com/Home.asp?S cript=1&Nav=Nav_Public&NavTit le=Public&Lang=EN&2ndL=Image from h...

A Basic Guide to Photon Maps in VRay
2007-07-30 05:04:00
"This tutorial explains the basic concept and usage of photon mapping in VRay. The tutorial is designed for VRay 1.09.02e and Max 3.1" However, it should be applicable to the general concept of Vray photon mapping. to find out more...Passage and Image from http://www.chaosgroup.com/stuff/PMapTutor ial/
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Design studio press
2007-07-21 06:17:00
Some useful stuff from design studio press and the gnomon workshop. I had been going into the detail of rendering this few weeks. Learning to render a scene. Three point lighting- key light, fill light, back light. Vray settings~using irradiance map with light cache GI settings. Hoping to reveal some refined work soon. The technique~enjoy your work. It had been so easy now for the global illumination setting. Just adding up some bounces of light will lit up the entire scene. Image loaded is without photoshop adjustment except the watermark. Image rendered through max with one plane light, with irradiance & light cache GI. Need to add an ambient to lit further more at lower portion, to add some reflective mapping on the glass and some adjustment to floor tiles, the cladding and some photoshop trees and shopfronts. With the dynamic GI provided from Vray we now only need a key light for the sharper shadow and an ambient for the overall color. With scanline rendering we need so much...
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eMule & Fusion 5
2007-07-12 12:38:00
2 things I want to share today~ Eyeon DIGITAL Fusion V5.0 and eMule. It is the most powerful and friendly tool I came across for adjusting rendering passes. Must have it. to find out more in chinese version...to find out more from Eyeon...
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Renderings
2007-07-11 20:07:00
I had been continously rendering the same scene for 3days. 14 results with numerous try outs and the conclusion is ~ photoshop is the best tool resolving most problems, creating your intentions. The technique is~ you need to understand a drawing. The composition of colors, angle selection, layout, materials and do not go into the details. The final rendering is really expansive, this time. Takes more time and effort at self learning.
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Vray Splotchiness
2007-07-03 12:52:00
I was battling for the splotchiness rendered through Vray in 3dmax, through some facts finding and finally, I caught the bug~!! It is not the global illumination setting~! It is the Global Switches~!!! Yes, I am involved in the building design, cad documentation and 3d renderings, hoping to get more and more... It is quite some improvement after the sketchup process, I am modeling in 3dmax now and trying to render it through Vray, dealing with the avant-garde rendering engine here~@@
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Visualization Insider
2007-07-03 10:42:00
"3DAS- 3D Architectural Solutions, presents 26 weeks of insider secrets delving into the world of professional architectural visualization. Authors of the recent title: Foundation 3ds Max 8 Architectural Visualization , Brian Smith and Brian Zajac bring you a weekly fix of tips and tricks published every Friday!" to find out more...Passage from http://www.cgarchitect.com/upclose/VI/def ault.asp
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