10 December 2019 – Over 100 imaginative artworks by Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB) School of Design (SDe) students are currently on display at the SDe Gallery until end of this month. The creative sixty-nine students comprised of first year and second year students undertaking BSc (Hons) in Architecture and BSc (Hons) in Product Design.
Viewers may explore on the most stimulating architectural drawings and models; large-scale models of shelter; models of famous buildings; product design models; and many more at the exhibition.
Architecture emphasizes a strong engagement and relationship to the site, spatial experiences and programmatic requirements. Based on that, the project calls second year students to apply lesson of a memorial themed the Journey for the five senses into Habitat design. The relation of five senses namely taste, hearing, sight, smell, and touch into Habitat are through conscious consideration of human scale, natural light, and materials/textures. For Habitat, the students create architectural drawings and models on seven sites including cliff, lake, peak of the hill, water, and three typology sites of the flatland.
Taking inspirations from famous architects who designed famous buildings like Burj Khalifa, Gardens by the Bay, Agora Tower; the students were given a task to choose an architect and one of his/her incredible works to be the subject. This project is called the Viewing Deck. This is to express the analysis of the design ideas and philosophy/principles hidden in the selected projects.
The exhibition also features the work of first year students entitled Shelter, the project focuses on designing and building a shelter that is temporary, affordable, practical and imaginative. The shelter can be mobile, or as a temporary appendage to an existing building. The challenge is to design the shelter blend in with the context as not to intrude too much on surroundings.
Several innovative designs based on how mood and expression can form into artwork called Mood Box were also being showcased. The architectural principal of design such as hierarchy, balance, harmony, and rhythm are applied in composing mood in the box. It introduces a more complex 3D design with simultaneous visualization from different angles; length; breadth and depth. The execution process shall be a serious and passionate experiment to explore imagination and nurturing curiosity. The students explore basic design concepts of form, pattern, colour, composition, texture, and shade as well as the principles of 3D design without the need to emphasizing function as a determinant.
As for Product Design, the students were challenged to build and design a Cardboard Portable Chair. Generally chairs are made of many highly processes materials which are rarely recycled due to high cost. For this project, the students were tasked to construct chairs that are made from corrugated cardboard that demonstrates its ability to function in a real world situation.
The exhibition is open to all artwork enthusiasts and the public every day except Friday and Sunday from 9am to 4pm until the end of the month.
