Fall 2020
Final Assignment! Rain Sheet. I recommend reading my inspiration for Rain Sheet blog before this because this is a 2-part blog. This is the execution part.Keeping my inspirations in mind I decided to use rain as the main source for saving water crisis. Introducing Rain Sheet! as the name applies it is a long sheet… Continue reading Rain Sheet
I grew up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is a place where rain rarely occurred thus naturally no infrastructure was built to deal with it. However, once it rained for 3 days and 9 people died. It was a huge shock for everyone. That’s a thing that has stuck in my brain ever since. When… Continue reading Inspiration For Rain Sheet
This week we studied about Graham - A model made to survive car crash. This is one of the first times I’ve seen a case of solving a problem by changing the design of a human being rather than designing something to accommodate for the lack of human abilities. This was a unique approach to… Continue reading Grahams Of This World
People's Architecture Office (PAO) was founded by He Zhe and his team back in 2010. It is situated in Beijing and it consisted of many talented architects, engineers and product designers. they all share a similar belief that design is for the people. The studio focuses on the social impact they can have through design.… Continue reading Architectural Review of Mrs. Fan’s Plugin House
Baraka is a film that was developed over the course of 14 months by Ron Fricke (American film director), released in 1992. I viewed this documentary with great interest and decided to write about the 10 minutes from 1:03:00 to 1:13:00. It was astonishing for me to learn about the amount of time and effort… Continue reading Baraka And The Perspectives On Mortality
Taking inspiration from Air-Ink. I decided to look into something similar and decided to research about naturally occurring pollutants that we might be able to recycle. I decided to study about the process of recycling smog or acid rain and converting it into anything useful like a fertilizer.Air pollution is visible in many cities, especially… Continue reading Hybridity and Sustainability
Sustainable Development is defined as - to achieve a future which leave no compromises for the people of the future to prosper today. Many health organizations and individuals say that the reduction of carbon emissions is key to sustainable futures. The High Line is one linear park located in New York, where this particular area… Continue reading A Step Towards Sustainable Future
In 2012, on a trip back to India when Anirudh Sharma was still just a student. He took a picture that got stuck in his head. The picture consisted of an exhaust of diesel car on one side - a machine that is a sign of human progress - which is a sign of rapid… Continue reading The Creation Of AIR-INK
Have you ever wondered whether design can also improve social issues by promoting positive ideological changes? Different design styles exist: discursive, critical and speculative. Although many consider good design to be unobtrusive and intuitive; discursive design aims for our minds; stimulating self-reflection and fueling the imagination. Discursive design extends the parameters of how design can… Continue reading A Study Into Discursive Design
Conceptual contrast is joining different forms of concepts together to create something unique due to the differences between them. Concept, meaning ideas or abstract imagination/thoughts and contrast is the juxtaposition between values. Conceptual contrast is a great way to make your work distinctive and stand out from the rest. Star Wars is one example of… Continue reading Conceptual Contrast In Space Mosque
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