The Wait is Finally Over!

The past weeks were full of disturbing incidents hence lack of sleep, but finally when the Admission and Records of IIUM office emailed me the result of my application to KAED... now I can finally eat and sleep without worrying so much about it... Oh yeah! The result is... drumroll please...I'M IN!!!!Now that I think of it, the nearly 2 hours of interview by Applied Arts and Design lecturer and 2...

and now, let's begin...

okay, peeps! finally after waiting for 2 whole weeks, the result of my application to IIUM's Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design has been announced!and the result is... drumroll, please....I'm in!!!!!Thought I won't be able to make it as it's been 2 weeks already... But totally wrong on that... =)Now I realize that the nearly 2 hours interview is totally worth it...So, hereby I announce,...

Damage!

On Monday, while I was reading some books in the library, I received a call from a private number. Filled with curious, I picked up."Is this Nuraini Munira Jalir?" "As the lawyer of D****** V***** R********, I would like to inform you that this company is going to sue you with RM 10 000..."I was about to collapse upon hearing that... "For further explanation, please call this number.."I called the...

Materiality

Materials are imbued with meaning. They elicit memory, desire, agitation, and recognition, significantly shaping the experience of an architectural space. The sensory characteristics of a material - whether it is supple, brittle, translucent, cool, elastic, crude - and the extent to which it is manipulated evoke presence and absence weight and density, light and time. Materiality is fundamental to...

Detail

A Detail is a discrete element of a larger work - a particular component to be considered particularly. In a room, a detail can be the resonance or buffering of sound, the tangible, corporeal feeling of a floor or a bench, or the way two materials meet side by side. On a building, a detail can be the treatment of a roof edge or surface, the unexpected use of a certain material, or the way a corner...

Evolution of the 'Sea Lion'

I was just in the mood to post this up... =DOkay! I'm done...Disclaimer: All the pics here are MINE... Took them using my 8.1 Megapixel Sony Ericsson W995 camera...p/s: please don't mind the backgroun...

Early Sketches

As I promised before I'll post up the early sketches of Vice Versa.. I have to admit that it's not that good if you guys want to compare to real archi students... Still, this is my first attempt... Let's just let the pixes do the talking, kay?click here to see the pixes in high pixels...

Vice Versa Part II

Basically for the centre part, the planes have the ‘heads’ and the ‘tails’... At lighter tones, the ‘heads’ are smaller from one to another while the ‘tails’ are shorter from one to another... This part is going in a circle, in exact 360 degrees. From 0 degree to 90 degree are the light tones, from 100 degrees to 270 degrees are the dark tones, and from 280 degrees to 360 degrees, the planes are going...

Vice Versa Part I

Part IFinally after I'm done with designing, planning and buying all the stuffs I need to do my first project - serial planes, so I figured.. why don't I post the whole process in here?These are all I need for the planes......err... you may wonder... what's with the inter-framing iPod, right? Thanks to Danny - it has a name, I can stay up until late night finishing things up... If there’s anyone...