A talk by James Lim -- Yap Jia Cherng 1001642857
A TALK BY A MALAYSIAN ARCHITECT : JAMES LIM
We are glad today to have our lecturer to share about his past works and talk about his point of view towards architecture. In his work he put high focus on enviromental facts, spatial quality and the use of materials.
POINT 92, which is one of his project, comes with a fantastic envelope with random pattern of openings and a huge open space in the middle.
The top part of the builidng is a office area which is constructed on top of the carpark basement, which is covered by trees nowadays. The idea behind it is to create a view of the building is floating out of the nature.
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| POINT 92 |
The top part of the builidng is a office area which is constructed on top of the carpark basement, which is covered by trees nowadays. The idea behind it is to create a view of the building is floating out of the nature.
The odd shape opening is the design of a breakout area for people to come out and enjoy the view outside. The design of the replication off small openings was inspired by the night view of city high rises where random of openings are with lights on and some of it is dimmed or lights off. They try to birng that idea to the daytime.
They did alot of experiment off the building envelope with different materials including timber, glass and steel.
The lobby ground floor is designed with washed aggregrate to create a demolished feel when shadow casted in.
Mr James also get to design a counter. He remake the appearance of the counter of a cafe. The hanging lamp on top was handmade by Mr James and he say that handmade stuff always have some surprise and randomness.
Novi : From all of the design, is there any issue with the end user feedback?
Mr.James : There is feedback received like it's too iconic even though it's not on a big scale, but mostly, the main point of the feedback from the end user is that they liked it and enjoy using the space.
Pang Shi Han : Comparing Malaysia and Singapore, do you think Singapore is a better platform for architects to explore and be given more opportunities in terms of exposure and experiences?
Mr.James : Yes, as Singapore is a small country, it becomes a design hub where architects from Singapore will receive various projects from other countries around south east Asia. The architect will be given more exposure toward international projects and be able to work with people from all around the world.
Yap Yen Ling : In your opinion, do you think the architect still following the theories of architecture in terms of designing rather than just follow the clients’ needs?
Mr.James : Of course, we still follow those theories somehow but when architects design also need to refer back to the client's requirement and as I mentioned just now the project Point 92, we do pursuit and try to educate them with our typology and design sense. If you talk about theories in term of philosophy kind I think this seldom happens in Malaysia and it is too individualism to practice in Malaysia too.
Logeish : Your (Mr. James) designs speaks a lot about random openings and allow natural phenomenon penetrate thru building. What if the client likes the idea, but with neat and less opening on the facade?
Mr.James : Convincing the client is hard but work smart with what you can substitute with clients needs with a proposed cost.
REFERENCES
The talk was held in UCSI University, during semester 4 Theory class September 29
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enMY757MY757&biw=1536&bih=710&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=onyx+jalan+sultan+ismail&oq=onyx+jalan+sultan+ismail&gs_l=psy-ab.3...4815.4815.0.5033.1.1.0.0.0.0.39.39.1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0.9hSdsa_jXHA#imgrc=cW_aTKBgyxPBUM:
They did alot of experiment off the building envelope with different materials including timber, glass and steel.
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| lobby |
The lobby ground floor is designed with washed aggregrate to create a demolished feel when shadow casted in.
The trees planted is to block out some sunlight and also filter out the noise from the mainroad outside.
The second project he introduces to us is a competition that the client wants something similar to the building Point 92, which is the randomness and the floating effect. The part below is covered by cripples, which is the car park and on top of it is an apartment. The key word of this project is to be natural, and so they start trying bold materials like sea, trees, on this project. This project has much similarity with Point 92, Mr James emphasis that this is the result of learning and growing from past works.
This office project is named Onyx, originated from the idea of stone. The exterior is designed with black, glassy style while the interior is designed with white walls like shopping malls.
The following project is a residential with a nice courtyard and rich nature elements. Mr James tell us that the occupants of this building will be majorly old generation who always enjoy relaxing and nature. The material chosen was also very raw, including bricks, concrete and cripples.
The balcony design allows the occupants to enjoy a good view at the beach at the other side of the building.
The next project done by Mr James is a clubhouse for a reserved forest, located in Singapore. He test out several ideas with models and sketches but unfortunately the project is cancelled by the client by some reason.
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Mr James also get to design a counter. He remake the appearance of the counter of a cafe. The hanging lamp on top was handmade by Mr James and he say that handmade stuff always have some surprise and randomness.
The last project he showed us was also a cafe. He wanted to try some new materials which he is not familiar of, which is polycarbonate with different colours. The ending up result does not make Mr James happy because the appearance of the colour (polycarbonate) is too harsh and somehow destroy his intention to blur out the human walking shadow from the outside, instead, the panels almost blocked all the views from outside. The interior wall material is metal sheet which usually use for roofs, but he wanted it be on the wall to have more industrial feel.
Q&A session
Novi : From all of the design, is there any issue with the end user feedback?
Mr.James : There is feedback received like it's too iconic even though it's not on a big scale, but mostly, the main point of the feedback from the end user is that they liked it and enjoy using the space.
Pang Shi Han : Comparing Malaysia and Singapore, do you think Singapore is a better platform for architects to explore and be given more opportunities in terms of exposure and experiences?
Mr.James : Yes, as Singapore is a small country, it becomes a design hub where architects from Singapore will receive various projects from other countries around south east Asia. The architect will be given more exposure toward international projects and be able to work with people from all around the world.
Yap Yen Ling : In your opinion, do you think the architect still following the theories of architecture in terms of designing rather than just follow the clients’ needs?
Mr.James : Of course, we still follow those theories somehow but when architects design also need to refer back to the client's requirement and as I mentioned just now the project Point 92, we do pursuit and try to educate them with our typology and design sense. If you talk about theories in term of philosophy kind I think this seldom happens in Malaysia and it is too individualism to practice in Malaysia too.
Logeish : Your (Mr. James) designs speaks a lot about random openings and allow natural phenomenon penetrate thru building. What if the client likes the idea, but with neat and less opening on the facade?
Mr.James : Convincing the client is hard but work smart with what you can substitute with clients needs with a proposed cost.
CONCLUSION
In short, Mr James is a adventurous person who always wanted to try out new ideas and materials. He is very honest to materials and play well with several of them. He aslo never forget the nature when he is designing and often try to intergrate nature to architecture.REFERENCES
The talk was held in UCSI University, during semester 4 Theory class September 29
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enMY757MY757&biw=1536&bih=710&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=onyx+jalan+sultan+ismail&oq=onyx+jalan+sultan+ismail&gs_l=psy-ab.3...4815.4815.0.5033.1.1.0.0.0.0.39.39.1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0.9hSdsa_jXHA#imgrc=cW_aTKBgyxPBUM:
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