A sanctum is a private place from which most people are excluded. It will provide tranquility and suitable for those who are looking for a private place to run away from the hectic city life.

'Flat Pack Bag Pack' is the title for project 2. I was so thrilled to start this project as it was something that I have never tried before. As exciting as it sounds, this project is about giving the homeless or catastrophe victim a portable shelter and acts as a survival tool to survive harsh environments in the street of Georgetown. 

The shelter

We were divided into small groups of 5 and I'm so glad that all of my teammates cooperated wholeheartedly in this project. There were a few criteria needed to be followed in designing the shelter such as easy to fold and retract, lightweight yet strong and stable, it should occupy for both day and night and materials used must be from recycling materials.

Our group during the presentation

New knowledge that I gained from this project is the study of anthropometrics, design consideration based on the homeless circumstances and their needs in daily life regarding the shelter. I was super satisfied with our work, from the design to the boards completed by us. Developing new ideas was not an easy task especially when working in a group and we managed to get an agreement in term of design and everything. I am also very delighted and grateful that we won first place on the day of the presentation.

In semester two, we started off our project with project 1 named The Old Charm of Georgetown. It is a task where the students were asked to do a series of freehand sketches. It was actually a good opportunity for the students especially those who were not born in Penang or stay here to explore more unique heritage buildings in town and being exposed to some architectural elements that they never experienced before.

My selection of heritage building is St. George's Girls' School. It is an all-girls school located at Macalister Road, Georgetown. The main reason for choosing this building is because I'm attracted to the emphasis of English architecture culture and elements towards the building itself, parallel to its use as a church back in the past.

From this project, I was exposed to new things such as the principle of design, creative thinking and I also improved myself in term of composition, freehand drawing and coloring as well. The comments given by all of the lecturers helped me a lot in realizing my mistakes and learning from them. It was a great opportunity to learn more about real life architecture with different stories and background.

The last project is the highlight of them all. The folly is a project which students have to design a folly for public usage including 1 unisex public toilet and 1 toilet for the disabled.

I tried my best to decorate and put as much information as I can in the presentation boards. For the model, it took me a shorter time to complete it compared to the presentation boards.

By doing this project, I learn how to manage and plan my time properly so that I would not be in rush to finish up everything. Other than that, I noticed my weaknesses and I will try to overcome it and do better in the upcoming project. This project is the most challenging yet I learned a lot of lessons from it and I am ready to improve myself to become a better student.

Project 3B requires students to convert the 3D sculpture into technical drawings which consist of elevations and isometric.

The most challenging part of this assignment is the isometric drawing. I was a first-timer when I had to draw it and for me, it was quite complicated at the beginning of the drawing process but it gets better as I did a lot of practices and learn from my mistakes.

For this assignment students are required to create a 3D sculpture that represents ourselves. In this task I chose triangle as the main geometrical shape of my sculpture. It is because a triangle consists of the  combinations of flat, smooth surface and sharp, edgy surface. For me it represents myself as a patient person yet I have my own limits.

This project taught me to interpret information about myself into something that symbolises me as a person. I also can be more creative with different shapes and dimensions together with knowing the purpose of each action that I took in a form of object based on the sculpture.

As the assignment goes on, it is becoming more challenging and interesting at the same time. For this project, students are required to take a photo of exterior facade view of traditional Malay house which is ‘Surau HBP’ in the main campus and transform it into drawings using different medium.

As I was getting comfortable with assignments which require me to complete only one task at a time, this time I learned to manage my time properly in order to finish it on time. For the first few attempts of using all of the medium, I found it slightly stressful to do the stippling part. I had so much fun experimenting using different shades of colour and I prefer to use marker and watercolour out of the other medium.

Thanks to Dr. Hazril, my studio master for this project for his comments and suggestions that helped me a lot in improving the way I paint and deliver my drawings. Instead of feeling down for not fulfilling the requirements needed, I am grateful that I get the chance to learn new things through out the entire process of completing this assignment.

Project 1B is still the same concept as project 1A but the difference is the way I deliver my message. In this project, I was required to complete a write-up by using architectural style lettering based on inline paragraph format.

This is something new to me that I need to learn to complete this task. I have never tried this type of lettering before and it was challenging to me initially since the lettering form is contra with my own hand-writing. This is my third and final attempt I did before the submission.

It took patient to learn new things and this, for me is interesting and I enjoyed learning and practicing the new architectural lettering.