Peer Reviews: Project 2 'Sustenance'

After being crited myself on my second life project, i found that my critics gave me compliments on the process i took to get to my idea and the research I put into the project from the start. They also agreed on the 'growing' of the building from its surroundings by coming out of other buildings on second life. After this I was set to crit others in the Argumentative Drawing group.


Jianxiang Ma (Mickey)
www.1337monkeyz.blogspot.com
Mickey's project I found was very good, he had a good starting idea and it showed with his final outcome that he had put alot of effort into his 1:1 detail model. Mickey's idea was had a very abstract meaning, but here we go, it was the idea that in the future oxygen would be a very scarce material, where humans would have to be walking around with oxygen masks on, filling up on what he called Oxygen stations which are similar to petrol stations. His idea from this was to design a sustainable, oxygen providing walkway that could replenish oxygen. In his walkway he had alot of plantations sitting upon a curved rail, to increase surface area. While gaining the idea of lungs he created a facade that covered the plants with an almost vein/branches from a tree design. As explaining can do so much, a picture here would be genius!

Jinok Shin
www.jinogi.tumblr.com
Jinok's project I found again interesting, her idea was communication or a lack of socialisation between interiors and exteriors. Her project, thus was to create a table both interior and exterior that could be used greatly for socialising. Her idea was to create an extendable table the fitted through the outside wall, it could extend to manage more people and have inside the table compartments for files, objects etc for storage. Her 1:5 scale model was amazing, with fully working hinges, rollers and the table could extend in four directions. She explained extending the table in different ways allowed the user to experience different social aspects (e.g being extremely close and far from people on table).

Jack Tiong
www.architekturvoyage.blogspot.com
Jack's idea was to create a case for his bible, a sign of devotion and care. He gained his inspiration from the holy wings inside churches and other holy matters. I thought his project was very complete, as he had done alot of research, alot of concept drawings, alot of modelling to provide final model and a very smart looking final model. The case which he made represents wings or hands wrapping the bible, and being held shut by magnets i thought was a smart idea. Once pulled apart the hands or wings show the bible sitting upon a case in the middle.

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