Week 5: Finalising of Our Model Making House

Finalising of Our Model Making House

 

 

 

This week, we are supposed to finalise our model making house. At the end of the lesson, we need to do small presentation in front of the class. Hence, to maximise the time given to us, we divide our jobs.

 

 

 

We decide to design the door of our house by using the idea from paper shoji screens. So, we draw the pattern of paper shoji screens on plain white paper.

 

 

 

We use black garbage bag to be the walls and the base that cover the structure of the house.

 

 

 

The four pictures above are the front view, the back view, the side view and the top view of the completed body of our house.

 

 

 

Next, we build the roof structure of our house by using satay sticks and twine rope. Also, we cover the roof structure with masking tape.

 

 

 

This is our finalised roof.

 

 

 

We also add some trees to the surrounding of the house, so as to give organic characteristic to our house.

 

 

 

Here it is! This is our finalised futuristic Japanese house. The concept of our house is actually a fusion of traditional Japanese architecture and modern features. We can sense the traditional Japanese architecture from the style of the roof and the entrance of the house. As for the modern part of our house, we add solar panel features to the door and the roof of the house. The solar panels provide the energy to generate heating during winter season and generate electricity in the house.

 

 

 

People may ask...

Why do we still keep the traditional Japanese architecture for our futuristic Japanese house?

This is because in the future, every house will be so modern in its architecture and thus, traditional Japanese architecture will become extinct. Hence, to make our Japanese house survive in the modern architecture industry, we have to make it unique to other modern houses of the future. That's why we still keep the traditional aspect of Japanese house but at the same time, we add futuristic features to it.

 

 

 

Every group gets the chance to do presentation. It is a really good experience for all of us to learn how to promote our products (the model making houses). They are all so creative in their designs and they have done a really great job. They manage to convince the viewers about their awesome houses and the viewers are also able to guess the origin of the houses correctly.

 

From this exercise, I learn about teamwork and time management. We can finish our work on time because we divide our jobs. We also learn to apply our creativity into different situations such as how we apply it into future context. We gain communication skills too.

 

 

 

 

 

After we are done with all the presentations, we are given another task to design a watch for a friend sitting on our right. So, I design a watch for my friend, Prabhjit. I discuss with her about her preferences for the watch. She likes her watch to be simple yet elegant. She loves nude colour and 'mickey mouse' cartoon character. She also prefers her watch to be made of leather material.

 

From this task, I learn that as designers, we have to fulfil our customers' satisfaction. We are the middlemen for them to achieve the products they desire.