Wow just five days left and then we on holiday!! But five days of very hard work and no sleep! happy designing all and good luck with your portfolio's, we are almost there! do you see the light.. ;)
Friday, 10 June 2011
Thursday, 9 June 2011
A design that is slowly coming together....
Portfolio is just around the corner and my design is no where near complete or finialised!!! Is that normal?? I seem to never stop working. Computer portfolio is done and dusted, very chuffed about my 3d annimation. The project was a very intersting process and am looking forward to experimenting more with 3d max... its still abit challenging ;)
Thought id share some of my sketchup views of my design space for the Oceanarium that i have been designing. The design is no where near complete, but at least this is a start, i do apologise for the ruff 3d pictures, but the second semester the real thing will be presented to you all :)
Well thats where the design is at the moment, still lot to progress on, but at least its a good start. Happy designing all :)
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Creative & Sustainable Street Design
Good day to everyone :) It has been a very busy week again with deadlines and intense submittions. During all the haze i managed to find some inspirational street design for public open spaces. This designer has created a very organic sustainable approach to public spaces that i find very intersting as the exterior of our lives do not always have to be normal, why not have designer looking elements around us all the time while conserving our enviroment!
The goal of the intervention at Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz (Landhausplatz) was to create a contemporary urban public space that negotiates between the various contradictory conditions and constraints of the site and establishes a stage for a new urban activities characterised by a wide range of diversity. The realised project consists of a 9.000 square meter undulating concrete floor sculpture surface that was done by an Austian design Studio LAAC Architects and Stietel Kramer Architecture.
The Platz square retains the site’s four monuments with the addition of new trees, benches, lighting, a fountain and drinking fountains.
The huge concrete slabs swell upwards to frame these elements, with textured surfaces giving way to a smooth polished surface.
Water is allowed to drain away through the gaps between the slabs and is absorbed on site. Before the transformation took place, the square’s atmosphere and spatial appearance was dominated by the facing facade of the Tyrolean provincial governmental building from the period of National Socialism, and by a large scale memorial that looks like a fascist monument – which in fact and in spite of its visual appearance is a freedom monument that shall commemorate the resistance against, and the liberation from National Socialism. The intervention aims to compensate for existing misconceptions and to reinforce the monument’s historical significance. The new topography of the square offers a contemporary and transformative base for the memorials and makes them accessible with a new perception.
from concrete and joined by bolts that deal with shearing forces. Drainage of the whole square including the fountains are located at the open joints between the individual fields so that there is no drainage pit visible on the whole site. An innovative buffer system helps to accomodate the drainage design.
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Interesting furniture pieces made from 100% Wool "All South Africa"
Ronel Jordaan is a South Arican designer that is based in Johannesburg, and creates magnificant sustainable furniture pieces, cushions, scarves, throws and much much more. I find her products very creative and inspiring, so i thought id share it will you. :)
Here are a few items of her range, but take a further look on her webpage: http://www.roneljordaan.com/
Keep designing and happy week-end all :)
Thursday, 19 May 2011
Where has the inspiration gone??
Wow its been a crazy few weeks so i do apologise for not updating my page!
PortFolio is 3weeks away and life is crazy!! The Oceanarium has offically closed to the public :( this is very heart sore for alot of people.
Choosing this site as my thesis for the year has given me hope that one day funding will be available to restore this beautiful piece of history in our town. My thesis has incorporated a new approach :) Sustainable design!!! so excited and loving researching all the interesting facts about this theory.
Port Elizabeth needs a huge change and why not go green??
il will post some of the interesting green facts and design ideas soon... so keep posted :)
gd luck and happy designing peeps
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
mid-week madness
Wow its been a crazy week already! From handing in all my as built drawings of my building site, needless to say the lovely 7021 square meter site which took me almost two days to measure up, to spatial planning for my design, to furniture layouts and now to still stretch the mind and body to create visual 3d's! Its still going to be a ruff week and week-end ahead.
My design thesis is if i must say coming together nicely :) Im finally geting through all the nitty gritty bits and actually begining to think and design each space, exciting times ahead!! Each space really does require alot of thought and detail as im not only accomodating humans, but live marine mammals. I love going to site as it feeds my mind on all the possibilities that i could design. It also is sadening as this facility desperately needs alot of help and huge amounts of funding. The staff at the Oceanarium are fantastic people and really try their hardest to look after and conserve the marine life in our bay.
On a sader note, the Oceanarium is closing their doors on the 31 March 2011, as this facility needs to be revamped, therefore all the marine mammals are going to be relocated to a better home, but only on a breeding program basis. Im really hoping this facility will be granted the funds that need to redevelop it and make it an icon for our bay. The much loved animals need to be brought back home as they are a huge part of Port Elizabeths tourist and local attractions. Our city also needs a center like Bayworld with caring staff to help conserve our marine life in and outside the bay.
All are welcome to head over there on the week-end, the ticket prices have been discounted, so please go for old times sake and help fund the moving of the animals.
Keep on designing all you peeps and help do your bit :)
Monday, 7 March 2011
Nemo 33- the world's deepest indoor pool
The new week as begun in full force. Im feeling alot better since my operation, but now its time to start designing a name and logo for my thesis!! To clear my mind and to inspire myself i came across an intersting article.... where leisure and creative design form one.
Nemo 33 is located in Brussels in Belgium and is 33m deep indoor pool. This is the deepest indoor pool in the world!! It was constructed back in 2004 by an engineer, and diving expert, John Beernaerts. This pool is filled with filtered unchlorinated spring water. The pool contains 2,500,000 liters of water, and consists of simulated caves, several platforms and a 33m deep cylindrical pit.
This depth is deeper than you are allowed to go on a standard SCUBA diving license. The pool stays at a constant temperature of 30 degrees which allows perfect conditions all year round, especially in Belgium.
This pool is unique as divers that want to gain their diving qualifications can qualify in their open waters and advanced open water all in one location. What is also unique about Nemo 33, is that it is built round or in a complex, therefore divers and patrons can relax during their surface intervals at the bar or restaurant, one can them come back and complete ones deep dive. For most divers this is a big plus! Take a look at this beautiful facility:
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The surface of the pool Nemo 33 - The pit and cavesHappy week all and happy designing :) |
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