USM 38th Convocation 2008 From Event to Oval : The Production of A Built Environment

13th - 17th August 2008

the stage of expo convocation

the children playground

the Chay Kuew Teow and Mee Goreng stall

the teddy bear bouquet stall

the pharmacy expo

the gradute student

the canopies are empty

the field is empty and clear

Real World Construction - Dome

Domes' day : 10 September 2008
Time : 10 am - 12 pm

Group's name : Green Paradise
Group's member : Chai Cheng Yee ( Quantity Surveyor)

Chan Peik Yok ( Architecture)

Chiam Seow Lay ( Construction Management )

Lim Fang Yi ( Interior Designer )

Ong Wee Yeak (Architecture )
Group's motto : 1 , 2 , 3 ... Green action !

• intention - experiential , holistic , simulative learning
• act - design , built , assemble , blog out production
• product - a geodesic dome
• actor - teams of five people / team
• rule - zero cost , packaged , prefabricated , accommodate 5 , carryable by 3 people , assembled in 30 minutes , only by team members , show team identity , life : 12 months , recyclable
• site - on HBP premise

we started our dicussion at foyer DK

the 3v dome that we wanted to build


tri. A = 75cm
tri. B = 72cm
tri. C =63cm







this is the bamboo tree

we pull the tall bamboo down

we use the parang cut the bamboo

the bamboo is hard to cut

we use the saw to cut the bamboo down

we do the work together

the bamboo that we have cut

we use the thin bamboo to build the dome

finally , we have finish cut the bamboo...yeah!

we need the people hold the bamboo

we use the ragged cloth to joint the bamboo

ragged cloth is zero cost

the big triangle that we have build

do until midnight , take a photo first...

domes' day come , take a photo...

we have build the dome

after build the dome , very happy

Green Paradise , yeah!

the dome that we have build

the dome are colourful

all members take photo together

the dome got many ragged cloth

Lecture 3 - Product

• A product may be viewed as having the form-space , nodes-paths and illusion.

Attribute of form - colour , shape , texture , scales , heavy , size , light , pattern , proportion etc
Attribute of space - floor , land , etc

• A product may also be an illusion.
• There are 3 main types of illusion :
  

cognitive illusions , physiological illusions , literal optical illusions

• A product has it's own identity.

Such as identity - beauty , unique , big , small , smooth , rough , etc

cognitive illusions

unique

smooth

nodes

texture

illusion

Lecture 2 - Site ( Scale of the Built Environment )

• Production is a factor of scale.
• There are seven scales are used by the various professions in built environment.
• Seven scales are object , interior , building , premise , urban , regional and global.

intention - ideologies , design theories

act - scope of work ( development's prosedures )

product - design of physical objects to physical world

actor - industrial designer ( object ) , interior architect ( interior ) , architect ( building ) , landscape architect ( premise ) , urban designer ( urban ) , planner ( regional ) , " governor " ( global )

rule - legal aspects of developments

site - from factories to the internet

• These seven scales need to be properly looked at.
• While scale 1-6 may be detailed out by students , the scale 7 is indicated by a question of how we look at the globe
• The earth becomes a dying planet may be explained using the Production Model as follows:

intention - gold , glory

act - design and build

product - destruction

actor - earthling , inhabitant of earth , global villager , designer , builder , developer

rule - economics

site - earth

• The dying planet is a sustainable earth?

Lecture 1 - Production Model

There are 6 element of production:

intention ( niat )

- aim , objective

- explicit / implicit

- constructive / destructive

- good / bad

actor ( aktor )

- individual , institution , agencies

- producer

- profesional ( engineer , architect )

act ( laku )

- design , built , habit , destroy

- individualy / in group

rule ( aturan )

- law , culture

- man-made

- climatic , technological

product ( hasil )

- built environment

- spiritual / physical

site ( tapak )

- earth

- land , floor

- virtual site