Edinburgh

I went to Edinburgh three times during Easter holiday. It is an interesting city that combines old Scottish traditional styles and new city lives together. The street views were extremely beautiful under the beautiful sunshine but a different feeling of cold and gloomy was generated in the dark. The change of sense of place in different times of the day created a mysterious illustration of the city of Edinburgh.

I went there with Rong, Yuntong, Peter and Hank. Edinburgh was our intermediate stop for our trip to North Ireland.

walking on the street which half covered by dark shadows and bright sunshine contrast on the other side.

 best friends forever.

red acrossing the road

great colours mixture appears on the stone walls that made a feeling of watercolour paintings on the photos 

Hello Monster :)

My friend Haoran came to visit me from Cambridge and we decided to go to Loch Ness together with Rong.  Haoran is one of my very closed friend. We spent four years in Singapore together and I have not seen her for almost one year after we graduated from high school. It was very pleased to meet an old friend and when we were on the train we couldn't stop talking until the train was arriving Inverness.

Loch Ness is famous worldwide for the story of the Monster. I read the monster stories from a Japanese comic book for the first time when I was very young, and the place became a mysterious impression in my mind. As I grow up I know that some of the stories and photos were fake. May be or may not. You won't know if a monster really laying on the bottom of the lake but just fell asleep.

We went there on 21st April which was my birthday. It was the first birthday I had in Scotland. We had a very special experience when we were waiting for the bus back to Inverness and having my birthday cake at the same time. Well, it was curious that the bus supposed to come at 1:31pm disappeared! And we got on the next bus which was two hrs later and surprisingly this one was the one brought us to Loch Ness in the morning, the same driver as well as the passengers! O口O - @口@ I was totally blur and thought if I traveled across time or something... emm ... It might just be a small trick by the little monster in Loch Ness since we forgot to give it a piece of my birthday cake...

haha it was taken when we were in Inverness. It is a really beautiful place but I love Dundee more :P

the Urquahurt Castle beside Loch Ness

The real castle... and Loch Ness

the very-dry-birthday-cake

walking on the road

dealing with paper

I love the tectonic project which required us to explore the structural and spatial possibilities created from a piece of papre. It was the most enjoyable project for me in year1. Not only because of cheap materials used (:P haha just kidding), but also the interesting experience to make a three-dimensional space from a two-dimensional world with different ideas and approaches. and the paper models were quite easy to make and realised my thoughts at once. 

Some ideal plans were failed, that the paper cannnot stand up or the structure was really weak, but quite a few ideas worked. I love this idea below the most and made it as the final pavilion design in the end of the project. It was interesting that the idea was pumped up into my mind when I was falling asleep. 

 the original paper model 

developing process 

final model  1:20. It was so big that spend me 6 pieces of A1 paper to make.

Pavilion perspective drawing

The photos below are the models I made for tectonic 1.0 project. Some effects were very impressive but hard to develop further in structural aspect in my stage...