Shelter.
Shelter.
A place to nap.
An area to rest.
I just wanted to dream.
We were assigned to design a shelter. And all i wanted to do is to stay true to who i am and play .
I came up with ideas of bedtime stories, where Disney-like children get to listen to bedtime stories, where they could imagine about mermaids swimming in the ocean or Timon and Pumba singing Akuna Matata(not correctly spelled..ohwell) bursting with joy. I thought of running arcoss the Amazons the same way Pocahantes did as she belted out Colours of the Wind. I was so overwhelmed with ideas that i got myself a headache. Its sad aint it?..nah..
So, i just scaled down the scope of fairytales and something spoke to me about ponies, unicorns and pegasus.
By the way, the main purpose i wanted to create this bedtime stories inspired shelter was to change the trend of growth of today's children. I want them to grow. Yes grow. However grow age appropriately.
"No No ipods for you my boy of you are a 8 year old.
ipods are for Big Boys and big girls. Barbies and transformers are more for you."
Get it? i just want children of today to STOP themselves from growing way much faster than tehy should be and i strongly belt out that architecture has the ability to change the way people live, think, act. Thats what i want to do. Ya right, u might think i am like overthinking it. Hell no. Its who i am. i like conceptualising, imagining, thinking of if's and what about's..crazy mind of mine.
So, i named my shelter La Croissance. meaning growth in French.
Ponies grow into horses. But wait here, you got the sequence all mixed up.
In my world, or in the world of La Croissance, from a pony, u get to either have a horn or a pair of wings. Yup.you grow into unicorns and pegasus.
And so this is it.La Croissance.
It sounds crazy but my point is that i just want children to allow their imagination run freely like wild horses across the grazy plains.
This is La Croissance. something that is out of the normal minds. Fly...its my dream
Like i stated firmly in my presentation, i could just come up with a normal building of four facades. But theres this inner creature wanting to be free , thus , i opened the gates , and released by creature of creativity. I wanted to play.
its not so architecture architecture.
but its definitely architetcure YouShengFoong to me.
its me.
Mine.
Me produksi.(Stamp!)
