Dip. Studio 4 | Assignment One Crits

The first wave of assignments and projects are over...Happy Chinese New Year to all! Enjoy it while you can!

Models for HP's Launching of Its New Line of Printers

For the past two weeks, Taylors had been approached by HP (Hewlett Packet) to construct two city scape models based on our own creativity; one architectural and one conceptual, models of not more than 1.5m x1.5m respectively; for the launching of HP's new printers which was held in Midvalley Hotel last Wednesday! 

We got to know about this project a week before our new semester and had decided to take on this challenge out of mutual agreement and later got a whole lot of others to chip in as well! The whole team had decided to maintain the same road layout for both the architectural and conceptual model so both would seem to morph from the same basics yet diverse in material style.

The architectural model team wanted theirs to be an exact replicate of the modern city with renowned skyscrapers massed in the middle of the city, followed by low-rise and residential areas surrounding it! Everything is done to scale, precision and in a sensible manner with brown boards all the way and indeed it mirrored a city scape well. Work started on the first day of college itself, everyday after classes and went on for a week or so. Everyone enjoyed it totally and had a fun time blasting musics and chatting away while modelling at the same time. Each person completed about one to two skyscrapers of their choice/ design and the rest of the low-rise buildings and signages were done together.     

Led by Kijun Lo, the team consists of Felix, Rynn, JasonOoi, Megan, SuYiean, Stacie, Jonathan, Krystal and Fiona, all from Diploma Semester 5.

As for the conceptual model team, they had to come up with something futuristic and out of the norm; an architecture that would create a 'WOW' factor, yet maintaining the idea of creating a sensible and realistic city scape without creating a whole lot of mess. So, the team decided to explore further with the use of computer parts as building materials; collecting and dismantelling old computers from friends and putting them into good use. The team, led by Jonathan Low, with the assistance of Marie, Kenny, Shauwn, Joseph, ChooiSi, Alex, JasonGoh, Dennis and Julian; a mixture of Diploma Semester 3,4 and 5; indeed had great fun trying to fit different parts together, forming building-like structures and skyscrapers as shown below! In the same line, it is sort of a replica of the architectural model as well, creating two different models in different materials. So far, only around 6-7 computers were used in this project.

Credits and cheers to all who were in charge of making this external project a success !!