Street Photography Exercise

All photos are taken at Taylor's University Lakeside 

Local Interior Designer

In the previous post, I've talk about the my design inspiration style, which is simple, clean and modern. In this post, I will be showing some of my favorite local interior design in Malaysia.

Casa Tropicana by Pocket Square

 This kitchen gave a sense of simple and clean into space with its mostly white and minor dark colour scheme with a little hint of a marble. It makes the space look spacious for the small kitchen. The contrast between the dark floor and bar stool really stood out from the overall white colour scheme. 

Casa Tropicana by Pocket Square

I love how they keep it simple and clean to the living room. The wood panel from the wall and ceiling added a bit of texture into the space. This space look very refreshing and cool even when the weather of our country is usually very hot and humid every year.

La Costa by Pocket Square

This is my ideal work space for declutter room. How the natural lighting came in to brighten up the space and the color scheme make it look spacious. The wood flooring brings out the texture details into the space. The colour scheme for this room make it look very calming and refreshing. When a room is clean and simple, its easier to do work with any distraction.

TTDI Plaza by Pocket Square

I love the colour scheme for this space, its very minimalism. The black L-shape sofa and the coffee table really stood out in the space. It is a great contrast between the whole space, such as the floor, wall and kitchen. The grey wall on the right really gave some texture into the space.

Five Stone by paul+pris

This space gave a sense of simplicity with a hint of blue statement among the grey scale colour scheme. The blue colour that stood out in this space is the blue armchair on the right corner near the window. Nevertheless, the whole space looks chic and modern. The carpet design was a bit not to my liking but it still suit with the design of the space.

On of the local interior designer I admired is paul+pris. 

paul+pris was established in year 2008 by Pauline Ng and Priscilla Ng because of their shared passion for design. Since both of them graduated from UK, they had their skill been trained and experienced in overseas and also local architecture, international branding and interior design firm. The picture below are some of their interior design works.

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8 scape showroom 

8 scape showroom 

Five Stone 

Most of their design are simple and modern yet also bold with some of the choice of colour, For example, like the one of the 8 scape showroom, the bright blue colour is very bold and stood out in the space giving a sense of characters into the space. Other than that. paul+pris really like designing monotone colour scheme into their space, which is something I like as well. I would love to see more of their work in the future.

Why Designing Is More "Me"?

When it comes to designing, I love simple, clean and modern interior design. I'm always inspire to design a simple yet bold interior spaces. When people think about the word "simple", they will think the space would be boring and no uniqueness, however, the word "simple" can be more than that. It can give the sense of chic and elegant into the spaces. Bright colours, pattern and abstract is not the only thing that can show certain characteristic into the space. The pictures below are 5 example of interior design space I'd choose that define my simple modern designing style.

Minimalist Exercise

Reason Why I Choose This Path As An Interior Designer

Interior design was never my first choice during my high school days. I was thinking about making into biology major medical school last time. However, I always had love making craft and drawing ever since I was in kindergarten. I’ve been drawing ever since I could remember, it was my hobby. However, during open enrollment day after high school, I survey the courses available between design and medical in a lot of different university, private and even government. By surveying and researching a lot about the courses, I was in a dilemma. My parents told me they doesn’t mind on which one I choose, as long I can do it and happy with my own choices. It took quite some times for me to decide but then I realize, biology is fun and interesting, however, design had always been my true passion ever since before. In the end, I chose to take design course which is something I love to do. Who isn’t happy working on something they love for the rest of their life?

During my foundation in design, I decide on taking Interior Architecture as my degree course rather than graphic course. Some people asked why, since I enjoyed drawing, they thought I will be taking graphic instead to gain more knowledge. The reason is because I never thought on making that as a career. Interior Design had always sparks my interest on how amazing a space can tell us, whether it’s more to comfy zone, working zone, chic and modern zone etc. One space is able to tell us a story, an emotion, its function and the characteristic of a person. How people able to design something beautiful yet practical is also amazing. I wanted to do something like that. I want to learn and design something to make people happy. When I see how people are happy with my work, I will be happy as well. I like designing and I want a space to leave a great impression to someone. A space that can be brought to life. There are still so many things to learn from my course and self-learning, I will be looking forward to that in the future. 

Project 3: Working Drawing and System Integration

For our last project for this subject, we were give a task to produce a working drawing based on our Interior Design Projects final project, which is a Science Center. The number of working drawing we need to produce is;

1.Setting-out Plan

2.Furniture Layout Plan 

3.Reflected Ceiling Plan

4.Electrical Plan

5.Section Drawing

6.Water Supply System

7.Detail Drawing(2) 

These are my working drawing:

Setting-out Plan

Furniture Layout Plan 

Reflected Ceiling Plan

Electrical Plan

Section Drawing

Water Supply System

Detail Drawing 1

Detail Drawing 2

Reflection:

This project task took for 7 weeks and we had plenty of tutorial with each of our of lectures. Although my progression was a bit slow in the beginning, but I slowly began to understand what I need to do and don't. With the given sample of our senior's work, we were taught the correct method of working drawing we should be doing. My autocad software(along with my 3Dmax software) received a error message and I can't use it at all. I end up doing my work at the campus computer lab most of the time I could. It was a difficult period for me. However, I was able to finish my work on time and submit it in one piece.

Project 2: Individual Reflection

For this project assignment, we have to produce a report and layout drawings based on our site visit we went, which is the 3K MPSJ at Subang Jaya. In a group of 4, we had divided ourselves in 2 part, two people doing the report while the other two do the layout drawing.

I was in charged of the report together with Goh Pei San, while Chia Kha Wen and Thian Bing Xun did the layout drawing. For the report, Pei San and I divide our workload into parts, as I take the introduction, enviroment of the site, natural physical feature, vegetation, sensory and building services. Both of us still help each other when we had difficulties on our part. By keeping in track with our other group members, we managed to finish everything and hand our submission in one piece. To my group members, thank you for your hard work.

We need to include UBBL(Uniform Building By-Laws 1984) Acts into the report as well. I realize how important it is to understand the laws before designing a building. It is for the safely of the people and the building as well. There are some laws acts that I don't quite understand fully yet, so I will need to ask my lecturers about it in the future.