ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN (AAD)
Anda Jitlekha: THE HAGING FLOWER GARDEN - The hanging garden inspired by the red lotus sea in Thailand where is red and green are the primary color of the floating garden—from the sense of place to the ecstatic experience, using the abnormal view from upside the garden to hanging down through the combination of red and green like its floating in the air.
Allen Chan Hong Wai: Joyful Thud is designed for Coldplay. Everyone on the floor can closely interact with Coldplay during their performance on the tracked stage. It is a massive steel structure, but it turns out to be an illuminated box in the evening.
Bilge Yılmaz: THE GOLDEN HOUR - Superficial Exchange - ‘Golden hour’ is a fine dining restaurant where Oxford University college dinners are held. Its architecture aims to provide the 'golden hour' experience in different dimensions, both indoors and in the square where it exists. It includes concepts such as golden light, reflection, masking, reflective gold plates in the square, golden sphere dining areas of different sizes. It is a place where the ‘golden hour’ can be experienced at any time of the day. Also, it defines the square where it is located with shadow, light and reflection. It offers an architectural experience that differs indoors and outdoors. Golden spheres make you feel like you are floating in the seamless golden while dining. In this space, whose architecture is based on the golden rule, objects such as food and clothes are also completely gold, giving the user a total golden experience.
Carlson Kwan Hiu Tsun: Golden Bath, the Oxford thermosolar power energy generator and bathing place. The 200 metres high tower in Oxford. Absorbing solar radiation to heat the molten salt, transferring heat to boil the water and creating steam.
Damola Olaleye: Nest Lounge - “The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it is the hardest to describe because it is nonverbal.” – Janet Echelman. The Entranced Thump is designed to mimic the ergonomic nature of a nest with hundreds of brightly coloured threads intertwined within and across each other. Threads & ropes extending outward like a blossoming flower whose petals are light threads with shimmering qualities; all held captive in a resilient dance of light, wind & gravity. The space is a lounge in which its visitors are immersed in a relaxing interaction between the design, the sky & the environment around it.
Elvin Seyhan: Drone restaurant is a black cube containing drones equipped with blue light, parked on the walls of the cube while waiting for an order.They serve the "Glow in the Dark Jelly". The guests are surrounded by hundreds of blue dots flying around them which creates an otherworldly experience inside the building but also in the sky. The citizens of Oxford can see the flying blue dots over the sky and historic buildings at night.
Hande Yılmaz: Chameleon is a complex of different materials and lights that are blended which includes a cafe called ‘Kusama Kafe’ that is inspired by the artist Yayoi Kusama. Her vision of using the pigment is collided with the functioning of a chameleon and formed a space which serves as a dynamic experience. Chameleon effect is used when creating the lighting that changes colors due to the user’s position. Colored light coming from the outer layer of the wall reaches inside after it percolates through two different layers and changes property from area to area, layer to layer. Colored light goes through firstly the hazy glass coating to reduce the effect of the pointed light source and make it more like a expanded light and then the colored transparent perspex wall which has several openings on it. The perspex wall appears as an element that changes the effect and sometimes the color of the light. As the user moves and stares at the different parts of the wall, the color changes it’s properties. That is why Chameleon is also an interactive experience besides that it is dynamic. Besides the technology behind the complex, it offers the user to experience a dining time that flows in a infinite spectrum of changing lights and colors.
Joseph Zhang: The Underground Felt Forest of Bon Echo - The project embodies the absence of sensations and digital stimulus. The architecture is a place of digital detox where you are insulated from technology, like being on a plinth in a forest.
Laura Lendrin: Impressionist picnic at the Waterlilies - The architectural project is based on the concepts of the impressionism painting period and is a scaling of the Waterlilies’ paintings by Monet. It is composed of three parts, each one with different light and colour qualities, all meant to immerse the visitors into an ecstatic experience.
Leo Baker: Rendezvous Jam is a reimagining of a library in the contemporary, highlighting the importance of the tactility of written media as we transition into a digital realm. Stimulating sociability and discussion when approaching literature compared to the silence and isolation of traditional libraries.
Maeson Chong: House of SILHOUETTESTM is a fashion powerhouse that caters for a fashion store & couture runway on certain evenings. Guided by the Ecstatic Experience “Journey into the Deep Sea”, House of SILHOUETTESTM is designed with the intent to recreate Oceanic surroundings; from surface, to deep sea & sea bed, at different times of the day, through the combination of Fashion & Architecture.
Piccolo Sulistio: Dark Ship is a design which comes from a word pair Spinning Warp and is a remake of various scenes from the dark star and optical illusion which make the room having a certain angle to optimize the space, also forced perspective is implemented using a certain angle to take a shot to create a scene or room which looks longer than it actually is without being distorted.
Samuel Effiong: FlowingWaterisaprojectthatsekstoeducateandfacilitatewateracesandmanagementby meansofrainwatercolection,storageandfiltrationaswelasharnesthepotentialenergy turnedkineticenergyofflowingwater,togeneratepowerthatfedsthecity’sgrid,inthe hopesofencouragingtheuseofrenewableenergyinmodernarchitecture
Shazia Dhalla: Till summers end, a samba dance studio that comes to life during late spring and is alive throughout the summer season. I was drawn to the dragonfly wings and its delicacy and iridescent qualities which I tried to incorporate into the essence of this architecture.
Wynn Hui: This is a study of Time & Stone – an ancient material that has been existed and used widely in most structures since the beginning of time and human civilisation, yet this natural resource seems to be forgotten in nowadays world. It is time to re-examinate this material and the technique that manipulate it. It is a reawakening of a new stone age.
Yiping Tao: PAPER TEA HOUSE - This project is about a tea architecture totally made by paper. The architecture will be moved in the winter and rebuilt in the spring. People sit in the tea room with every tea set and furniture made by paper, enjoying the light changing from the sun angle and thinking about the Buddhist mood and timelessness in a regular-loss space.
Yiping Tao: PAPER TEA HOUSE - This project is about a tea architecture totally made by paper. The architecture will be moved in the winter and rebuilt in the spring. People sit in the tea room with every tea set and furniture made by paper, enjoying the light changing from the sun angle and thinking about the Buddhist mood and timelessness in a regular-loss space.