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This is my most recent self designed and produced item. It was a continuation of another work which was done during a school holiday in the school D&T room. Shortly after graduating, I decided reapproach the design. As a direct consequence of the room layout, the permanent location of two windows and a door prevented the use of many ideas. My goal was to switch from two desks to one whilst maximising the workable surface area of the desk, and minimizing the space wasted. Space is something that can be shared, everything from opening wardrobes to sliding on office chairs requires space, however all these movements are temporary, so if you cut up areas into smaller segments and allocate a permanent areas for these movements, the same space would be less useful and a waste of space. The desk is designed in a way to use up all the least reachable areas, whereas the arc of the desk is designed purposely to enlarge other useful areas of the room. Because of the equipment available, there are obvious limitations to use of curvature and related designs.




There are many reasons why I chose to study architecture, but this image was quite meaningful to me. I found it during 2006, back then they had long mentioned environmental issues, global warming etc. Soon after I was studying negative and positive externatlies in economics, and how the government proposed the CarbonSmart program where people were paid for having trees on their land. When i saw this image again, it showed me that not all buildings and structures destruct nature. Although when we construct buildings, it causes negative externalties and offsets polution into the air, but the trees beneath are a form of positive externality which acted like a form of trade off between human and natural environment.

Prior seeing the image, my concept of "something beautiful" was often obstructed by environmental issues. I'd always wondered how a beautifully designed infrastructure can be environmentally friendly.


Then you might ask, what is my concept of something beautiful? Below is an image of Audi R8. The focus is not just the car, but also the setting. Although its not very green, but post-modernism is surely a beauty.

A little bit beyond post-modernism and contemporary art is something even more beautiful, Audi RSQ as featured in I-Robot,predicting civilisation beyond 2035. Such futuristic designs and prototypes are in everyway unique and original.
Similar forms of beauty are also explored in futuristic designs in films such as The Island.