visualising a design - final video

Linear Evolution from Wun Shin Liew on Vimeo.

music/ foals - spanish sahara

visualising a design - 300 word narrative

Hesitating, I am walking through the haze of short sightedness. The narrow field of vision down this linear path restricts my capacity to evolve. The restricted development of urban landscapes parallels this path that I take. The repetitive nature of the built environment echoes my footsteps. As I look around the sea of materiality begins to blend into lifeless architecture. Time continues to pass, and the lack of inspiration begins to crave a desire, a motivation to begin something new.

What if there is more than just what is accepted? What if uniformity breaks away from barriers of conformity? How do I go about realizing the unknown? Do the potential pitfalls of the unknown make the rebellious gesture worthwhile? The mind is conflicted at the best of times as I begin to grapple with these concepts. There’s a fury in my head as I try to leave the ghost at the back of my head. But something needs to change otherwise this linear development will lead to a dead end, instead of evolving.

I continue to walk, and the linear thoughts begin to unravel into a network of ideas like a microchip. My footsteps begin to hasten as the urgency of the situation appeals to my survival. I begin to leave a trail of destruction in my wake. The barriers begin to break down, and old habits are left to be desired. This spark that is in me begins to electrify my thoughts, just like how technology has morphed the built environment that we live in. There is a light at the end of the tunnel that blinds the horrors here.

visualising a design - video inspiration

inspiration for use of materials

TRI▲NGLE from Onur Senturk on Vimeo.

inspiration for atmosphere of my proposed video

Car park - Sound-reactive drawing from Peter Root on Vimeo.

Pleinmont - Sound-reactive drawing from Peter Root on Vimeo.

visualising a design - storyboard

visualising a design - article synopsis

Article:
'Infiltrated city, augmented space: information and communication tecnologies, and representations of contemporary spatialities' - Fabio Duarte, Rodrigo Jose Firmino
The Journal of Architecture, Volume 14, Number 5

Synopsis:
The article discusses the idea of communication technologies being increasingly incorporated into our daily lives and the fabric of our urban spaces. As technology advances and evolves, the network becomes more intense and convoluted but at the same time, it becomes more invisible as they become embedded into our daily lives and they dictate the spaces that we live in.

The article incorporates this idea of this tecehonology catalyzing various experimental and spatial dimensions of cities and urban places. The article starts off by clarifying how technology has influences our living environment and built space and describing this particular scenario that they’ve identified. A simple example is how the humble television set has become so incorporated into our daily lives and thus dictate our living space at home. Another idea that they discuss, that the majority of structures, have a ‘microchip’ embedded into its functioning.

The article develops their argument by using 2 examples by contemporary thinkers. Lucrecia Ferrara alludes to this notion by discussing how the urban landscape is coated with glossy images through media and signs and questions that will reveal the true character of a city environment if we reveal this glossy surface. The authors suggest that if we remove this layer, we no longer have the essence of the city, and that really we can’t isolate the physical built environment from technological layer. Nelson Brissac Peixoto experiments with investigating how abandoned urban spaces can be interpreted in multiple ways depending on how the spaces can be manipulated and represented by different users. He addresses the idea that a space can’t be read just as a space and that how it is used will define a space. This can be linked backed by saying that a urban environment isn’t defined by built spaces, but all that is integrated with it.

music video - linear transformation

Music: Brand New - Tatou

music video - silent version

Below is the silent version of my music video. Full version is to follow