Before I get to the opening ceremony, I'd like to tell everyone about the journey of this installation.
Here we go!
As I mentioned before, we only had a few days to prepare this installation. Few days meaning, only about 3-4 days? That's because we already had to rush a major assignment last week so we had to juggle our time and sacrifice our sleep (as all architecture students do haha).
So we worked like well oiled machines up until Sunday night where we sped off to One Utama at 11pm from Taylor's Lakeside Campus. Just to remind you that we all worked for hours and hours before leaving for OU.
When we arrived, we began assembling - to be honest, we were no where near from ready. We practically lost confidence in ourselves but we never gave up so, we pushed.
At about 1am or 2am, every other universities had something standing while we were still struggling to speed up and get ours up too. Other students watched us after they were done with their work. We could see them wondering if we would succeed haha.
Here we are, trying to get the structure to stand. Everyone stood up for at least 3hours long trying to get the whole thing up and ready. :S
We finally got everything working! By then, the sun had already risen. We couldn't believe it took us that long to make everything work.
And of course, we were the last group of students to finish. One Utama was deserted by the time we had finish getting the structure up.
By 10am, we began putting up the finishing touches! Everything underwater ~
FINISHING TOUCHES!
Lets explain the materials!
1) Fruit mesh - the plastic that's used to wrap fruits! Used to create the soft, spongey coral texture + add an interesting shadow effect.
2) Plastic basket and fasteners - to create sea urchins!
3) Plastic bottles - to create a dry coral texture + add an interesting shadow effect.
4) Fruit mesh + fasteners - to create underwater flowers!
5) Corrugated plastic board - to mimic the organic shapes of a coral reef.
7) Fasteners - to mimic the soft but hairy effect of certain underwater creatures.
Just so you know, we used these plastic materials to create awareness to the pollution that can be found in the ocean! Why litter and throw plastic away into the deep blue sea, destroying marine life and coral reefs, when you can make it into art, like we did? :)
The plastic materials used shows the versatility of the materials, of how everyone should look at plastic with a different perspective! We hope that this concept can be derived from our installation.
Anyway, by 1pm, we had finished! Over 12 (I think 24 hours straight) hours of working and no sleep. Can you imagine the happiness we felt when we had put our final touches to the installation? We were (and still are) very proud of ourselves and our work.
At 1pm in the afternoon. Shops had already opened and OU customers had already entered the building.
PICTURES!
The opening ceremony today at 3pm!
Here are photos of our installation.
Our installation, standing proudly and strong!
Glowing ~
Students' models being displayed!
Glowing ~
Bottles, giving a unique effect.
For podcasting and for others to check out the 3Ds Max images and videos! :D
The mastermind behind the design! :D
Us, explaining our concept to a few PAM members. :)
The group with Dr. Veronica!
The group with Dr. Veronica again! Haha!
Special thanks to those who helped out (juniors and fellow classmates of ours!), supported us (friends and family!) and visited (or is planning to visit) our installation. Thanks to Mr. Tony, who took time off his busy schedule to be there with us at the opening ceremony. Thanks to Mr. Kid and Dr. V who mentored us. We are very lucky and blessed to have this opportunity to represent our University and to showcase our talents to others and we hope that what we have to offer is good enough for the world to be proud of us Taylor's Architecture students!
HOPE YOU GUYS LOVE IT!
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