Open Pavilion

Designed by Korean architectural form Mass Studies, this Open Pavilion acts as a ‘Public Living Room,’ for social interactions in Hakwoon Park where it is constructed. Open Pavilion is enclosed by forests nearby to a number of apartments. The different aspect if this pavilion is that it’s introverted, unlike other traditional pavilions which are extroverted. It gets people together in a location similar to a small stadium, where 70 seating’s stacked in four levels are integrated in the structure itself.

This structural system consists of a massive chain net formed from the lower seating section to the upper roof section. The unbroken pattern of different sized and shaped steel tube arcs form this flattened sphere-like structure, making it solidly steady. The lower half seating can be seen as an arrangement of bent steel tube chairs in a combined structure, whose interlocking acts as links in a chain. The seating is created with use of hammocks among these links. The purpose of the roof’s design is to hold up a suspended translucent casing to prevent the sun and rain.

Burnham Pavilion

The Burnham Pavilion is designed by Zaha Hadid Archtects to celebrate Chicago's continuing tradition of bold plans and innovative ideas for the Burnham Plan Centennial. The design maintains Chicago's well-known tradition of avant-garde architecture and engineering, at the scale of a temporary pavilion. Situated in Chicago, USA, this pavilion was designed in 2009 and has a 120 metres squared floor, 500 metres squared site, and a footprint of 300 metres squared.

With use of overlaying methods, intricacy is built up and adorned in the pavilion’s structure. Burnham pavilion has a complex curved aluminium structure, with each part formed and welded so as to create its exceptional fluid form. Both the interior and exterior fabric skins are enclosed tightly around the metal frame to form its curvilinear shape. The interior skins within the pavilion also serve as a screen for a video installation which explores Chicago’s past and future by Thomas Gray.

“Fabric is both a traditional and a high-tech material whose form is directly related to the forces applied to it - creating beautiful geometries that are never arbitrary. I find this very exciting.” – quoted by “Zaha Hadid”.

Fingerprint Pavilion

This Pavilion designed by Scott Jarvie, employs advanced techniques in architecture so as to produce an easy elemental structure and system, simplified from more difficult geometry. Thus allowing the pavilion to be manufactured, transported and constructed without problems. It is made from 18 mm Spruce plywood sheet making it a really environmentally sustainable solution. Also it has a 35 square meter area and is weatherproof.

The interior space of this pavilion can be set differently depending on the occasion, such as speeches or presentations,  parties or social contexts, or even exhibition presentations, as pictured in these images respectively. 

Spaced Luminaire

The name Spaced Luminaire derived from the idea of creating a design of scattered wooden strips with irregular spacing, in which light was to be placed. Due to this layout, this same light would not be distributed evenly throughout the room, but would be spaced out in uneven gaps creating a calm atmosphere.

By keeping in mind my initial inspiration of spaced luminaire, instead of creating a design of scattered wooden strips with spacing in between for the purpose of light to pass through, I decided to produce  wooden boxes with neither top nor bottom. Each box would would slide through another, creating a telescopic effect with the design of routed strips all along the sides of it for the light to pass through them. In this way the light would still be emitted in a spaced out concept, as seen in the photos of my Final Major Project.
The purpose of this Spaced Luminaire was to create a low ambiance lighting to create a relaxing environment.

Opposites Attract Structure

I designed this Opposites Attract Structure during my first semester of the Higher National Diploma course Year 1. This structural design was created to be ideally placed in the entrance foyer of a newly set up dating agency. 

I was determined to design something which incorporated many separate objects as one. I wanted to design something modern which reflected my initial inspiring title of ‘Least and Most’. I represented the idea of ‘least and most’ with use of different height for each piece, and different coloured woods which include Mahagony, Beech and Ash. Therefore I including two contrasting woods in each piece, but fixed them differently, for instance dark-light-dark and light-dark-light; thus I inverted them. I thought that this should enhance their contrasting factors about them. An important reason I kept in mind when designing it, was ‘less is more’, which is why I kept to the simplicity of design.

Wood Wall Feature

I designed this wall feature from Wood during my HND 1 course as I was inspired from the wood's annual rings. My aim was to create a new design with a modern touch to specifically enhance this grain detail. Materialwise I used Red Deal, White Deal and Pine to create an interesting contrast of wood shades.