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Pre-major Week 01 | Mon 01.03.2004

Background | Who�What�Where Am I?: My first investigation would be within myself. I believe this would help focus on what my premajor research would be.
Self investigation would look within Who�What�Where am I. The following would list the design studios plus external projects i was involved in.
Here's my old portfolio "discussion + essay" : FoochSaysPreMajorPortfolioEssay
Year 2001 | Nonlinear | Design Studio: Level 03 | Tutor: Gregory More | Nonlinear Website: This was my first studio venturing into the "digital" architecture field. I would say it was at the whole "an eye opener".
Dived totally into blobs, non uniformed structure plus mathematically generated form. Got introduced to architecture in a whole different way.

I remember Greg showing the Blue Gallery and talking about his work with Decoi.
At that moment, I decided that what I'm doing doesnt have to be dull, bland, purely structural.. Architecture can be exciting, moving, A.R.T
The brief of the studio was:
Nonlinear is a process driven studio examining the "non-linear" aspects of architectural form making, by utilising the combinative nature of
various media this studio aims to explore the notions of a nonlinear architecture: through process, prodution,and experience.
These explorations will be located in relation to contemporary design process, visualisation, and the design of architecture for the constructed environment.
- Design Theory
  The focus of architecture in a nonlinear form is based on its process rather then the final product.
  The system which produces the architectural form and space becomes the central point behind an idea.
  Independent movement, a biological aspect of lifeforms is an aspect captured and experimented with.
- Nonlinearity describes a moment of uncertain outcome and infinite potential.
  Thus movement, independent movement in particular, when mapped to a system
  produces nonlinear qualities which allows generation of further forms.

Year 2001 | WKRS � West Kowloon Reclaimation Studio | Design Studio: Level 04 | Tutor: Jesse Judd: The remark that Hong Kong reinvents itself every few years becomes quite credible when we look at the changing skyline of the Central District.
Architecture from the point of view of the city can only be associated with film, �the visual art that developed alongside the modern city�,
that is to say the art that problematizes the visual as stable because it is film that gives us, in Jean-Luc Godard�s words, truth twenty four times a second.

Design Theory
The focus of architecture in a nonlinear form is based on its process rather then the final product.
The system which produces the architectural form and space becomes the central point behind an idea.
Independent movement, a biological aspect of lifeforms is an aspect captured and experimented with.

Nonlinearity describes a moment of uncertain outcome and infinite potential.
Thus movement, independent movement in particular, when mapped to a system
produces nonlinear qualities which allows generation of further forms.

Discussion | What would my Pre-major be?: What should i do with my pre-major?
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