Project 11-Mounting An Exhibition (Scale)

Finally, it is time to exhibit all our work. I have done 10 projects since we entered school of HBP. I felt a relief because it was the last project that we do to exhibit all the previous work that we have done for RUS 104. For the project, we were asked to produce a A1-size board to accommodate all the pictures of our projects with a creative photos arrangement. Moreover, we had to produce a portfolio with some graphic values to accommodate all the hard copy of the previous projects.


Although the job seems very easy, I had spent lots of time designing and making the boards and portfolio. Besides that, we had to go to the studios to set up our individual and group booth for exhibition, table arrangement and cleaning. It required the team work of all the students.


In addition, QS and CM students need to make a arrangement with the caterer to prepare food on the exhibition day. The architecture students were busy designing and making banners whereas the interior design students were busy with the spatial design of the exhibition studios. Every students have their own work and I was happy that everyone was keen on the exhibition.


Finally, the lecturers and seniors came and visited our exhibition and every things run smoothly that day.


The following photos are my individual and group exhibition booth:

 Group Exhibition

 Individual Exhibition

Thanks for reading and following my blog. I really appreciate your effort of reading my blog and share the learning journey with me at USM.

Best regards,

Low Chun Fatt

110647

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Project 10-Community Facility (View)

An academic visit to Malacca was organised during project 10. The project aimed to train our visual observations and do visual records such as sketching when we are doing a site analysis.

Malacca is my hometown and I felt excited and happy during the trip heading to Malacca. We were arranged to sit in three buses based on our gender. That's the reason I could not get the chance to sit and talk to my friends. Hence, I ended up sitting with a famous Malay guy called Boboi. I had already known him because he was my group member.

However, it was fun sitting with all the Malay friends.They were fun and we had had lots of jokes about our lecturers and study life at USM. Furthermore, the ride to Malacca took nearly 11 hours. I had never had such a long ride to Malacca. However, it may due to the safety of the students. We stopped at three resting stations during the journey.

The first day in Malacca was to visit all sorts of museums available in the World Heritage Zone of Malacca such as the Stadhuys Complex, Stamp Museum, A'Famosa fortress and St's Paul Hill Church. It was fun learning and lookng at so many artifacts and the Dutch houses which were built during the colonisation of the Dutch. Moreover, we went to the astronomy center located in Tanjung Bidara. At night, the officer was giving a talk on how to identify and recognise direction and stars at the balcony of the building. To me, it was a new and nice experience to me to listen to a talk with friends at balcony at night.

 A' Famosa Fortress

Stadhuys Complex

The second day. We were brought to the Dataran Shopping mall to buy some souvenirs or shop for somethings we need. Besides, I led my friends to a tourists-must visit destination in Malacca- Jonker Street where they can taste the local delicacy, food and see Baba-Nyonya culture. Next, we also had the chance to get on the Menara Taming Sari which has a height of 100 meters. The tower offered us the bird eyes' view of Malacca city and I found that Malacca was truly a beautiful place.

Then, it is river cruising time. The night scenario along the Malacca river was damn attracting and wonderful. I can see the night life of Malacca city- harmonious, quite and warm. The spotlights with different colours have lighten up the Malacca river where we can see bridges, cafe, houses and some beautiful scenarios along the river.

Bridge with colourful spotlights

On the last day, we visited the Malacca Furniture House and Malay traditional house before departing to USM. To me, it was a joyful and memorable trip to me. 

Malay House- Rumah Md. Natar

Thanks to the efforts and commitment of the lecturers.

Best regards,

Low Chun Fatt

110647

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Project 9-Integrated Project( Angle)

Project 9 was the last group work. The project was quite tough. We were required to design and make a scaled-down model of a free standing pavilion of USM. The pavilion will function as a information center for visitors or prospective students of USM.


It was like doing a real project which we need to take the measurements, estimate the cost and do site analysis. Furthermore, we had to prepare at least 2 A1 size boards with graphics that shows the location and concepts of our pavilion.


Our tutor Dr. Naser is a very nice and caring tutor. He has provided us with lots of guidance and asked a PhD student to give us a brief on design a building. I was so fascinated with his talk and I didn't feel bored at all. Although designing may be very dreadful to some people, I started to like design things after listening to his talk.


However, the concepts of my group have been banned or rejected two times because the comments for the first model is too complex whereas the second one is too simple. Hence, we had no sufficient times to do the third model. We only had two days to complete the model and boards for the third design.


Hence, we were doing the project non-stop within that two days trying to do the best model among other groups. Moreover, BS and BT students were trying to implement some technological appliances into the building to make it more convenient for the residents and less pollution to the environment. It broaden my horizon on construction as there are actually many aspects to consider when doing a project. 


The title of our model is "The Gua". "The Gua" is a pavilion that looks like a terrace houses. There were five rooms with different sizes connected to each other with a slanting roof which can collect and deliver the rainwater into the lake located in front of the pavilion. The rainwater can be reused to flush toilets, cleaning and watering the plants around the pavilion. Moreover, there was a tree inside the sitting room where the visitors and rest and enjoy a green scenery in the sitting area.


These are some photos of the project:

 The front view of "The Gua"

 Top view of "The Gua"

 The lake in located in front of The Gua 

 Plan View of The Gua

 Graphical Presentations of A1 boards

 The Gua and the lake

 Interior spaces

Plan and side views

Thanks for your kind attention.


Best regards,
Low Chun Fatt
110647
Quantity Surveying

Project 8-Object Connection(Jointing)

In the project 8, each of the students was required to produce a doodle in a jigsaw puzzle by using our name. The aim of the project is to reiterate the importance of connectivity with other team mates in a project. Leila was the class captain and she coordinated the puzzle position of each students.


Besides that, we had to communicate and work with the students whose puzzles that were connected to our own puzzle. I saw some students produce puzzles with rainbow background colour. For me, I and my neighbors used white as background colour and we combined our design in the puzzles.

 This is the puzzle that I produced

Final work

I designed my doodle with big and colourful lettering in order to attract attention of other people.^^

Thanks.

Best regards,

Low Chun Fatt

110647

Quantity Surveying

Project 7- Analysis of GTWH Buildings(Presentation)

Hi.


Project 7 was the first project work tha of a building required us to work in a team with students from different disciplines to produce a site analysis on the GTWH buildings in the core and buffer zone of George Town.


First, we would have to decide the heritage buildings that we were gonna visit and we went to George Town by bus. I was happy that most of the teamates were commited and went to do the site analysis together.


The heritage buildings that we conducted site analysis were Yeng Keng Hotel, Penaga Hotel and Cheong Fatt Tze's mansion. We collected data from various aspects such as the architectual, drainage system, materials, ornaments and vegetation of the heritage buildings. We took photos, getting the brochures and also jot down any necessary information to us.


Unfortunately, we could not conduct a thorough analysis on Penaga hotel because we did not get any previous permission before visiting the building. Moreover, we had to pay to visit the blue mansion and we were not allowed to take any photos in the mansion. That made our site analysis difficult.

 Penaga Hotel

 Yeng Keng Hotel

Cheong Fatt Tze's Mansion

Next. we had to produce a graphic presentation of a size of 4 A1 mounting boards with the data we collected. We distributed the jobs based on the expertise of each member. Some members were good at painting, part of them is at drawing and so on. Hence we could produce a higher quality work efficiently and at the same time we could learned from each other. It was fun doing the boards although we had to stay at the studio until very late. I think it's worth it because I learned lots of things from each member.

The pictures below are some of the artwork/ornaments/interior spaces we produced:

 Ornaments

 Interior Design

  Ornaments

  Ornaments

  Ornaments

  Ornaments

  Ornaments

  Ornaments

  Ornaments

 Ornaments

Finally, the presentation board of 4A1 size is completed:

Our graphic presentation board

Feedback from lecturers:

I learned the ways to produce an integrated graphic presentation board after listening the heed from the lecturers, especially Mr. Roslan. Most of our presentation boards were lack of site analysis data due to some reasons. In order to produce an integration work, we must plan and coordinate every aspects of the data and photos. For example, the coordination of the background colour, the size of the words, the perspective view of the buildings and other information as well. 

Thanks.

Low Chun Fatt

110637

Quantity Surveying