RE-IMAGINED SPACES
PART TWO| 2019
THE RHYTHM OF SHADOWS
THE WAYS WE SHOP
The Glasgow School of Art
Year: 2019
Site: Clifford Center & Raffles Place MRT
The project is divided into two main parts. The first being research which is conducted in groups of 2 and a thorough documentation is made by means such as sketches, diagrams, photographs and atelier bow wow styled drawings. Research Partner: Tay Man Ning
For the second part of the project, it is an individual project where it moves on to the ideation stage. The task is to design a strategy for the chosen mall, a plug in that speaks to its current situation.
Site Plan & Ideation Sketches
This sectional perspective represents the different materials and mood that each level in Clifford Center gives. With different material finishing, lighting and detailing, it produces completely different vibes that makes it almost seem like different malls. The Atelier Bow Wow styled drawing aims to convey texture through detailed lines.
Rights To The City; “it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.”
- Henri Lefebvre
Sectional Collage
In my design intervention, i wish to create an interruption to that space, in order to ‘break’ that robotic lifestyle of office workers.A 500x500cm/grid is repeated and extended fully in that wide space where platforms are added at different heights for tables and chairs forming a pavilion-like structure. Plenty of greenery is used to create a different environment.Putting this massive structure in this fast paced transition area forces people to slow down and break into different paths to reach their destination.In accordance to Lefebvre, “the right to change ourselves by changing our city”. This intervention is a collective reshaping to how people use the space. The grid also then forces people to occupy certain spaces.