Interior Architecture Design Studio 3: Project 3- Zoo Visitor Centre

Finally this is the day!! The day of our final project presentation!! *gan jiong(panic)* > < Our task on this project is to design the spaces with programming in a zoo visitor centre. Zoo visitor centre is a place to let visitor know more about animal before visiting to zoo. The main issue of visitor centre is help to promote and achieve the 5 pillars of National Zoo- education, recreation, conservation, research and training. We are required to fill in the spaces with interactive programs.  

Here's my 8 A1 presentation board :)

Me n my presentation boards & model

Zoo Visitor Centre presentation board

Comment given by lecturers:

i. darken the column in plan

ii. render furniture/floor in plan

iii. improve on technical drawing

iv. presentation did not follow the flow of presentation board

v. space circulation not smooth enough

After this project, I have gain knowledge on how to fill in spaces with program, create space circulation in a building and etc. 

 

Day 10,11,12- 20-22/9/14

This is the last day we spent our time in Europe. Today was a free and easy day. We were separately into 2 groups. First group is lead by Miss Shar that will going to Portobello Road Market, Abbey Road and Oxford Street while the second group is lead by Miss Norji that will head towards Harrods and Oxford Street and yet, I'm joined to the second group.

Harrods building

Some interior view of Harrods that looked so grand and luxury

Upon request from my mom, I bought a handbag from here. (not able to get a single item for myself at here.....) After done at Harrods, we then move to Oxford street by bus. We meet the sales period of Primark store at that time! Lucky huh? As we walking all the way to Primark, we saw almost everyone was carrying at least one shopping bag from it! As we expected, Primark was so crowded. Everyone was grabbing those stuffs into their shopping bag!
I successfully get some low price basic tee and 2 pairs of shoes for myself! =D

Primark Store

We then rush back to our hostel as we need to depart from London back to Paris by bus which going to take 9 hours of journey. We managed to reach Paris airport at around 12pm but guess what? Some of us will take the 9:50pm flight! As there are some issue with our boarding pass...I guess...

So after 6 hours flight from Paris to Dubai and another 6 hours from Dubai to KLIA. Finally we reached Malaysia at 10pm!!! I never expect that there will be one day I wish to say: I miss Malaysia.

I have gained a lot of new experience from this Europe trip such as went to Western country, witness the change of guard, had microwave food, skip dinner for few days and so on. Of course, as an architecture student, I feel glad and lucky that I have the chance to view at those famous buildings which I thought I'm only able to see from books or online before this trip. =D

Day 9- 19/9/14

A new day start at the King's Cross station where is one of the scene in Harry Potter movie. Since I'm not a big fan of him and did not even watch the series of Harry Potter movie, so I did not actually queue up just to capture a photo with the scene (a half trolley with luggage and birdcage ==)

This is the half trolley with luggage & birdcage.....

All of us said that today is Vijay's day because we are going to Arsenal Stadium. XD

In fact, I'm not that excited since I'm not a football fan too. 

Facade of Arsenal Stadium

We did not actually enter to the stadium as entrance fees needed except Miss Shar, Vijay and Hakim. Next, Miss Norji will be leading us to Tate Museum at Millbank. It's actually good to hear that entrance for Tate Museum is free as we did spent a lot for this trip.... TT

Exterior of Tate Museum

Interior of Tate Museum

Cafeteria in the museum

 Art pieces in the museum that I could not understand most of it. ==

 

After 2 hours of exploring the Tate Museum, we move to view the Tower of London and Tower Bridge.

Millenium Bridge

The restaurant where we stop to have our lunch

Randomly captured a nice corner come together with road sign & bicycle

Fish n Chip of the day

After lunch, some of us get separate with Miss Norji as they went to search for halal food. So we need to go to the Tower of London separately. We choose to go there by tube since it will be faster than bus. Our stop is Tower Hill station and we can straight away view the tower after the station exit.

Panorama view of London Tower

Huge amount of poppies to create a powerful visual commemoration for the First World War Centenary  

Photo with the London Tower

Tower Bridge view from far

Closer view of Tower Bridge

                           

                                                                                          

Feel lucky enough that we can witness the halves of bridge lift up!

The 2 halves of Tower Bridge lift up to allow large boats to sail under it

After hanging around at Tower Bridge, we went to Royal Festival Hall at Southbank and there was having a night market at that moment. 

Sweet sweet strawberry! Favorite all the time! <3 

Dinner of the day- huge hotdog with bread
*This is extremely delicious as both the hotdog and bread are so crunchy!*

Food stalls in the night market

                      

                           

Day 8- 18/9/14

First stop was the Buckingham Palace for day 8 trip. We reached there an hour earlier just to get a nice position to witness the change of guards. However, we still could not actually get a satisfy location to witness the process as there are too crowded!

Facade of Buckingham Palace

Queen Victoria Memorial statue

The process of guards changing start at 11;30am.

 

Here's a short video of the process of change of guard. I did enjoyed a lot when watching at this orderly military together with the music played and the band was amazed too!

After watching the process of changing of guards, we move towards Stratford to visit the Discovery Children's Story Centre as seniors are going to use this as their assignment case study. This centre is only for children from aged 0-11 to play and learn hence all the objects inside are mostly only suitable for children, such as the small chair,table, playground, and some entrance that design according to children's height. 

Facade of Children's Story Cntre

Interior space with interesting 3d decoration

small interior playground area

Outdoor playground

Children reading area & reception counter

 We went to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park after Children's story centre. This is a nice and relaxing place together with the windy weather at that moment. =)

 
Some view captured at Olympic park

Activities at night for day 8 was visit to the Big Ben and the London Eye. The Big Ben is more fascinating than we usually view it online! They made it very fine and detail. The detailing part on the top of Big Ben is in golden colour.

Big Ben and Parliament building

A close up photo of Big Ben

The London Eye

The end of the day! =)