Proposal of Park Visitor Centre

The site project on Putrajaya Botanical Gardens continues! And for this final, we're going to propose a new park visitor centre in the park! What's more interesting, it's an integrated project with the Introduction to Drawing module.

Before we propose anything, we need to come up with a concept to design the surroundings of the visitor centre. And this design concept needs to relate with the present environment of the park. And here we conducted another research session on the softscapes and hardscapes already placed in the park, and a solution to arrange sub areas in the surrounding of the visitor centre in the form of a bubble diagram and conceptual diagram. And we present our plan in the style of an interim.

After the interim, we do our projects individually. With the advice from our lecturers that we should use the botanical concept (because Putrajaya Botanical Gardens is...botanical duh), we orient our design to, putting popular flora species in that park as our main feature in the design proposal.

I realised a lot about my colouring and drawing techniques of architectural landscape design here. And I learned a lot, especially about the different types of form composition.

I used to be not confident about my drawing and colouring. But for this project I had a lot of fun and it gave me hope. Maybe I can achieve my dream as a landscape architect after all, maybe? hahaha

Anyways, this is my final creation. (super proud) look at how colourful my master plan is (i can't help but feel so in love).

Thank God for guidance!!

Site analysis on Putrajaya Botanical Gardens

Last enbe (Elements of Natural & Built Environment) project taught us how to do site analysis around a city area, now we're going to take it a whole other level - in an established recreation park, and on our own.

In a site study, we're learned to do three phases - site inventory, site analysis and site synthesis.

We're put in a team of 6 very different individuals (and I'm excited!) and I never regretted working with them. We're assigned to conduct a site analysis on Putrajaya Botanical Gardens, which is a half hour drive from campus. So here's to a series of weekends of us gathering in school and driving out to our assigned park together. And we would go home exhausted, tanned and sweaty, bottoms sore from bicycling and walking around the park and impromptu photoshoots.

Here's our presentation on our site analysis :

 The plan before analysing the park - zoning of different areas

 Brief description on what the park is about

 Types of uses

 Categorising of areas around the park

 Types of featured softscapes

 Plus points and weak points of the park

Proposal of solutions to improve the park

We did a presentation but from the lecturers we found out that we missed out on a few parts, like especially how we emphasised on certain points on our boards and the way we composed our content. But overall, the lecturers praised us for being observant around our surroundings.

From this project, I do admit I kind of slacked a little on conducting a proper site analysis. I felt that we should dwelt deeper in our research and not just the obvious signs. We should look at things like the microclimate. And from this, then it's better to come up with more effective solutions to improve the environment.

Kudos to this diverse team of passionate humans. thanks for all the rides and laughter and random group shots.

A tour around Taylor's Lakeside - Archi Style

The task is to create a little tour guidebook around Taylor's Lakeside Campus in the form of a graphic journal. It needs to feature softscapes (the plants) and hardscapes (man-made features) around the campus too.

Besides illustrating a map around campus, (I oriented my guidebook for freshmen from FNBE only because I reckon it's "more effective" to a user this way huhu) this project got us to go explore the campus from an architect's point of view - as in categorising trees, shrubs and ground covers, identifying the type of trees, what type of plants are placed in certain locations, and so on. Besides, each of us has to feature our favourite spot in the guidebook.

This is my guidebook (pretty informal though) but I enjoyed this assignment a lot. Once I had to take photos around the campus for project reference, and that time was when the Pokemon Go hype was pretty high back then, a lecturer thought that I was catching pokemon, while I was just snapping pictures of regular trees hahaha.

But overall, this was the first time I drew architectural trees, and also the first time I drew this many trees in my life. I found out that there were certain techniques to draw a tree and if you draw it right, others can read your drawings easily.