[Exhibition]Ergonomics: Real Design

EcoBuild : be part of it

EcoBuild 2010 is the biggest event on the world for sustainable design, construction and the built environment. I found it was really helpful for understandings in sustainable building materials and construction details.


The most useful part of Ecobuild was the series of seminars for me. The various topics of sustainable seminars were held and I could choose and attend a room.

I chose to attend seminar for making space for food because currently I have big interests in this issue and it was linked to my current ongoing studio project. I hoped that I could gain some useful and professional information from the seminar, and it was.

After joing this worth event, I felt landscape architects must have responsibility for sustainability when they have design their projects.

and for that Ecobuild was a great success for all types of people - students, teachers, landscape architects, architects, gardeners, planners etc.

Section Drawings_ Swimming Man

I drawed sections for my proposal of Lea Valley Wastelands Project. The sculpture will be affected by tides of the river. and this section drawing is showing different shapes of the sculpture depending on different water levels.

Model making_ Flying Whale

This model was made to realise how the structure will be look like and how it will work. The project was Utilising King’s Cross’ spaces in waiting. and I suggest a temorary huge balloon sculpture.

The tethered balloon Whale will use an innovative lighting system to provide real-time reports on atmospheric pollution. The balloon will display the quantity of the dust found in the atmosphere, using an easy-to-understand colour coding – red for highly polluted air, orange for polluted, yellow for moderate, light green for clean and green for very clean during the period of King’s Cross redevelopment.

[Book]Detail In Contemporary Landscape Architecture

This book illustrates the details in landscape architecture. It uses some of the biggest, well known projects. This book is a great start in understanding detail.

[Lecture]Caroline Swann - Hillier Nursery Ltd

Note Takings from the Caroline Swann's Lecture.

Tree specification
Trees and planting
Trees for the future

Hillier Nursery Ltd is the largest tree nursery in the U.K.

Why tree?
1. sense of places
2. people like
3. bring the countryside in to the town
4. can be great design feature ex) cube tree..
5. absorb CO2
6. provide shelter and shade
7. reduce flash flooding (good for environment)

for the future...
+ Start now to get to know tree species.
+ Trees are an important and very creative design detail
+ Understand how to specify trees
+ Plant for today but its for the future

[Exhibition] Miroslaw Balka: How it is

I met a impressive conceptual art in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.

'How it is' is Miroslaw Balka's immense huge steel container and it takes visitors into the heart of darkness. Everyone wants to see what's in there, to know how it's done.

Before entering the container, I was really afraid about what is inside. However, actually there was nothing. It was just empty. That is his intention.

I felt manipulated, for instance, to begin with: drawn into and through the darkness by animal curiosity. Everyone wants to see what's in there, to know how it's done. And the space has its obvious associations. Once you have run through them – occupied the space with your thoughts, as it were – what's left?