It is my sea [1]

The miracle of one looking back to its past time is fabulous in some sense. Basic pattern keeps recurring throughout life even after you grew up, took your education thousands miles away and changed your place several times abroad. Just like the sea, which has become a inherent element in my life after living beside it for more than twenty years.

My hometown is a small city beside Bohai sea in China. There was a nature path, which formed by shells, sands and stones over thousands of years, linking the seashore to an island in the middle of the sea. The path only appears during ebbing in a day. It was such a mysterious scene that fascinated my entire childhood. And do you know the most beautiful season of a sea is not summer but winter? When the cold atmosphere comes and the temperature drops to -10 ~-20 celsius, the nearer sea is frozen and cracking into pieces of thick ice.

it is a common scene: a 3-wheel motorbike driving on the frozen sea!

The cold weather of Kenmore reminded me about my hometown on Tuesday's visit. Although Jinzhou Harbour is much colder than Kenmore, the kind of coldness strike into my bone just mad me feel the same even worse. However, I miss that kind of feeling for long since I first study abroad five years ago. In Singapore, summer covers the whole year and the sea is warm, with many commercial ships parking on, and lots of black oil waste underwater or covering the sands underneath. I will mention that later and now back to my hometown. The other thing remind me was the type of house. The red house above is so much similar as one I saw in Kenmore. I think maybe the type of house built in my hometown besides the sea is also applicable in Kenmore for defending the coldness and blowing winds. 

The houses are fishers' house. They just park their boats behind. The geometric shapes are very interesting and stable at the same time. The main structure is made of concrete and wood-board-covered on the outer wall. Windows are not big, covered by steel board but can be open. The house is definitely warm enough with fire place inside for the inhabitants to spend over a long cold winter for nearly 4 mouths besides sea.

(to be continued)

Analyses of Precedent 08/10/10

After enough rest for 1 week, I finally turned up to write a post about our previous project. The project was a introduction of precedent architecture study, that gave us some basic ideas of designing and analysing procedures. Our group analysed Mario Botta house in Riva San Vitale. In the end of the 3 weeks there were still some parts missing in our final presentation. However, it was good to realise our lack of work and for those parts we had done were commented good in our tutorial review yesterday. 

I did the part of site analysis and elementary analysis, as well as 2 plan drawings, 2 sketches and 1 interior drawing. I've past the very stressful moments in the last few weeks. My friends said that every day watching me drawing the damn big site plan even turned them bored. As well as for the site models. I bought those quite expensive foam boards to do a 1:500 site model. After I finished that, I was asked to do another 1:1000 one for better illustration of the site. Then I bought those even more expensive mounting board and made the site model ALL BY MY HANDS.

 1:500 site model.

1:1000 site model|CUT AND COMPOSED BY HANDS!

Thank Brian for asking me to do the 1:1000 model at last. Since after I finished my 1:1000 model I realised how insufficient the 1:500 one was.

DRAWINGS:

 site plan 1:500 in A1 sheet. I suffered a lot in magnifying it to A1 scale from the thumbnail image on the book x/

my 2 sketches of the house. a bit rough.

and a rushed-out interior drawing added in our pdf file. 

We were lack of interior analysis in our presentation and it was pointed out by the tutors. Therefore, i drew this interior view for the house although it did not come out nice...

It was a pity that I forgot to bring my camera and take photos of our presentation sheets. our group also have a very impressive perspective model down by Sophie and one interesting volume illustrating model by Betty. I still need to gather some images from them to enrich my portfolio for our first project. Thanks them a lot for their help and kind instructions especially for my verbal presentation! I really love to work with them. And we end up with a A- from Brian. Cheers! xx