HBP. BUILDING SURVEYOR

All man-made structures must be designed to suit the people, climate and site where it is located. A house for instance, should be designed not only with its occupants’ needs in mind, but must also consider its surrounding environment and the larger community. This is because several houses that are collectively located in one vicinity  will   indirectly   form a neighbourhood area, where each individual unit is ‘linked’ with each other and in turn, affects the local population. In the modern era, where the population is denser and the demand for quality living is higher, a well-planned neighbourhood area like a housing scheme is a more appropriate type of settlement to suit those situations. However, to create a sustainable and liveable neighbourhood area, every single element of neighbourhood planning like effective movement networks, appropriate size and locations of public spaces, facilities, amenities, services and the whole layout plan should be planned and designed holistica

Presentation drawings, which consist both 2D drawings (e.g. plan, elevation, cross section & details) and 3D drawings (e.g. perspectives and axonometric projections) is one the most effective ways to communicate the design ideas and concept to the clients or audience. It is used by designers like architects, interior designers or even structural engineers to develop a design idea into a coherent proposal,   to explain a scheme and to promote its merits. Since presentation drawings play a vital part in convincing people about the merits of the proposed design, the quality and appropriateness of presentation drawings should be top-notch in terms of composition, drawings rendering, scale chosen, graphical images shown and written description. This is especially so if the presentation drawing is a design proposal which the designer must use to win a job.   The main objective are to introduce students with basic technical or presentation drawings as a medium of communication in

PROJECT 3a: OBJECT CREATION : A FREE-FORM SCULPTURE All objects that man creates are either shapes or forms, and the creation involves various elements and principles of design. A shape, be it geometrical or free-form, is  a 2D area that is defined in some way  by line, space, value, colour or a combination of these. Counterpart to shape, form is a 3D object that has dimension or volume. Shapes like triangles or squares can develop into forms such as cones and cubes with the addition of depth. On the other hand, space is  the element that refers to the emptiness within or around the objects, and it can be either positive or negative. In this sense ,  the shapes and forms are called the positive space, or the ‘figure’, while the empty spaces around shapes and forms are called negative spaces, or the ‘ground’. In built environment, the objects created can be both stand-alone or connected, and functional or non-functional; while the space produced can be both habitable o