Nik, Nik Ariff Azmee (2009) Jury Review "Title : The Cutting-Edge: Extending the Boundaries into New Possibilities". Sustainable Tropical Environmental Design Exhibition (STEDex’09), 1. p. 21. ISSN 2180-0685
Abstract
It would be a personal injustice of me to single out any of the works from A1 – A13 as they are works of expression by the students. I could not in all fairness deliberate a few of such expressions over the others. Each of these products are idiosyncratic in their respective forms and I could only recommend that they be exhibited collectively. As they are not strictly architectural pieces, the given criteria for assessment would be futile against them. Everyone should be congratulated for introducing students to the boundless realms of ideas and expressions when approaching architecture - in the absence of which, the excercises would then be a course of building rather than architecture. I would like to recommend that the project for cardboard chairs be broadened by reducing it to a seating implement rather than pre-coded as a ‘chair’. This is in anticipation that the result would then be much more innovative and varied rather than merely different versions of a chair. Alas, the excitement of the first three projects began to wane considerably the moment the students approach what is more tangibly architectural. The Singular Space Dimension appears as preconceived forms into which ideas were incorporated rather than forms allowed to evolve over ideas. For the Singular Space Dimension (SSD) project, the selection of A15 and A18 is primarily due to their execution of functions within the SSD without having to compartmentalise them into ‘rooms’. There is the overall intent of making these spaces more interesting by introducing and placing what appears to be objets d’art but they seem to be just that rather than contributing to any interplay of light/shadow, solid/void, etc., into the space. Hence, the lack of substantial architectural quality about them. It would therefore seem obvious that there needs to be a methodology that allows for architecture to be discovered in very much the same way students were allowed to discover expressions of themselves in the earlier projects of the semester. It would be probably more contiguous to seek development of ideas into architectural form rather than an architectural form or type-seeking ideas.
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