Showing posts with label landscape design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landscape design. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Living Wall

About a month ago, my office decided to get experiment with the vertical green. We've got this mock up wall from one of our supplier. They installed an automatic irrigation system for the green wall, together with artificial light. So far we're still trying to prove weather the vertical green can work well.


This idea first commercialized by a French guy call Patrick Blanc. I saw one on Quay Branly wall in Paris. Blanc's idea is superb, as he tries to create pattern made of vegetation on the building.


Now apparently in Indonesia, it's starting to get popular. It is mostly because of the limitation space to create greenery, and therefore they tried to build it vertically. Here are some of the example:








Saturday, June 17, 2006

My favourite corner in Indonesia

Heya all..... First of all... congratulation for exhibition. I think we all should proud of it. Just imagine how hard we all work. Aniway, its all over now.. welcome to the new world.
I'm just too happy that everything is done, even tho feel a bit sad asweel.. lost and confuse aswell.. as I haven't really make decission of what I'm gonna do next. But yeah.., forget about the lost and confuse for a while, I just wanna enjoy the freedom.. (I know it won't last long.. that is why i should enjoy this moment).

This summer I won't going back to Indonesia.. Gonna spend the whole summer here.. settling down for everything.. prepare for my next step of life. .. Ou I miss Indonesia. I miss my parents... and yeah I miss my favourite corner in Indonesia (this corner refer to the small Japanese garden at my house).
This Japanese garden is taken care by my dad and his assistant (the gardener, named Bejo). I love this garden because its full of my dad's second lovers (the Bonsai.... ehhehehe). The garden located just in front of my bedroom's window. It fills with bonsai and the koi pond. From my room i can always enjoys the amazing view of this corner. The water drips from the fountain always gives the fresh felling in the hot sunny weather in Indonesia.
Gossshhh... I wanna go back home already.....































Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Mood Board

The mood board attemps to create a certain ambiance in the design. In my mood board, the ambiance that I want to create is about transparancy, reflection, repetition, and shading. To create this feeling, in my design I will need to create different quality of woodland. And in this woodland, vertical quality would be explored aswell. Higher and lower density of trees would be one of the main consideration.

Roman de la Rose

The project for Meung-sur-Loire. For this project, we have two option, wheather we produce the design by ourself or working in the group. And at that moment, we decided to work in the group. So me, Rachel, Emma, George, and Idel (from graphic design) decided to create a monumental space based on the 'Roman de la Rose' literature. The monumental space will be designed in a simple form. We took the precedent studies from Vietnam war veterans memorial in Washington, Ian Hamilton Findlay's stone and literature, and Charles Jenck's cosmic design.
It was quite fun to work in the group, even though that night we have to came back 'til 9pm because of the brainstorming process. As a result, we were quite happy with the design... and off course most important was the process... we did really enjoy the process.

Sequential Sketches





















































More overlays...















First Response



























View of Hadlow























Saturday, February 11, 2006

La Loire project


Given the project by Roger to design the site in Meung-sur-Loire, which located in south from Paris, near Orleans, along the Loire river. This project is actually looks more like Site Design (the subject I took in last year with Jamie).

From the client's brief, they want it the site to represents the element of water, stone, and verbs, which rings the bell to Ian Hamilton Finlay's design. Water and stone actually can be describe close to oriental design aswell, we can see the Japanese and Chinese garden always use this element (Yin and Yang.. Zen.. hard and soft).

For my first response to the site, I was thinking to create the site as La Loire river side. The whole park will be represents the river, and there are stripes along the pathway, which represents the river element (such as woodland, wetland, vineyard, etc...). The idea is, to reflect back or visualize your journey through out the river Loire. So the big idea is about journey.

But after the meeting with the whole team, and brain storming again, Im not really sure with he idea. I think there's still some holes missing there. And Im very interested in Rachel's idea about literature (adapt from Jean de Meung's Roman de la Rose). This poem of Jean de Meung talks about paradise at the first part. And at the second part, it talks about more reality situation. Ermmm maybe not really realisticcondition, but definitly more earthy element.

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Masterplan detail area


From the previous masterplan project, we have to choose an area of 120x100 metre to be designed in detail. It is amazing that from the masterplan, this area looks pretty small and quite detail already. But once you blow it to 1:200 scale, the plan looks very empty and spatious. Seems that there are lots of things can be done in that area.
the area that I choose will include the tower building.. some residential buildings (from the sustainable community), the woodland, and a bit of river banks.

Masterplan has over

Part of me really glad and happy that this masterplan project has over. The other part of me feel a bit dissapointed. Mostly because I didnt use the time given effectively. This masterplan project just get interesting... and sadly have to be stopped already.
I know this is all my own fault. I lost direction for designing it (maybe because of the scale.. but yeah final word... is lost). And I kept thinking that I can figure it out this problem by myself, which I completely wrong. It is my huge weakness for not being spontanious and for being scared to ask questions. So from now on, I will really try to fight my bad habit.
And yeah.. well done everyone .. for producing such a wonderful work on 23 Jan.
And here I post some of the masterplan project... which has to develop further more in this final semester.





Saturday, January 14, 2006

Merger of woodland and water


Idea for my masterplan comes from hybrid form. So the main idea is to mix and merge between water, woodland, and community. These elements are my main point of my masterplan as my choosen focus is sustainable village. We'll see how am I going from here.
Okay have to go back to my work again.

Thursday, January 12, 2006

About Hadlow

Haven't manage to post any blog since quite sometimes. Here I have some early sketches about existing site of Hadlow. Seems now I have to figure it out of how to finish this masterplan project in less than 2 weeks time. Currently I'm still working on the A3 analysis. Still long way to go. will update you again later on.