Homage to Earth

The world has changed overnight. The earth is sick, the whole world is panicking. All of a sudden in many places, it is no longer magical, no longer romantic, many places have become empty cities. Hugs and soft kisses have become harmful and abandoned. Instead of visiting parents and friends, distancing is a loving care.

Suddenly, I also realized many things that we care about the most have become worthless. Neither of them can provide the best oxygen to breathe and survive. When humans are kept in cages, the earth continues to be beautiful. Put down the arrogance, we may just be guests of this earth. The air, soil, sky, running water and the entire nature, they have been there.

Being in the cage for more than fifty over days, that's my only oasis in this concrete jungle. The frangipani at the balcony and the green plants in the living spaces are my companions. These days I can hear the breeze in the city, without the car whistle and the noise, the heavy city can be so quiet.

A ray of sunlight passed through the green yarn in the morning, lightly, tenderly whisper with nature. He said, listen to nature with a pure heart, let the soul return to peace and baptize again.

It is a calling, a voice from the top. Reminded me of Antoni Gaudi’s most famous and often-repeated phrases was, ‘originality is returning to the origin.’ For Gaudi, a deeply religious man, this origin was nature. Gaudi viewed he natural world as perfect, a creation from which he drew inspiration.

Lift the pen and use the lines to simulate the curved shape of the creatures in nature, brushing over the contaminated tiles without replacement. Imitate the nature, use nature and art to interact, let nature and art endow this oasis with a wider nature. With the greater living space with nature, the fresh breeze blew, the leave is green, the flower is fragrant. Because the rain and the sun contain the energy of the earth.

Because of the pause, the earth is slowly healing. Feel the nature, let life return to nature. With a very humble and grateful heart Life continues, but don't forget to recover.

#nature #linearts #mco #painting #contour #studio11+1A #tangu

Reposition: GAde Design to Tangu Design

Taking the spirit of collaboration design studio that provides platform for design and project collaboration work with other members of the design fraternity or community on a need basis, GAde Design Workshop team has repositioned with joining the base camp Studio 11+1A, with a entire new branding name call TANGU DESIGN.

We are still emphasis on Community, Place-making, Spatial & Product Design, as well as Art & Installation, with the new base camp sited on top of a old shop lots, with a great vision of getting ourselves to be inspired by this old charms of the community space. 

Stay safe& stay tune. More inspiring works ahead.

https://www.tangu.space/

#studio11+1A #tangu #tangudesign #tanguarchitecture #ikeaman

 

Logistics Office Interior

The conventional organisation structure of the original CJ Century Logistic office is remoulded at this new facility into d dynamic configuration that can be described by these words:

#village #movement #interaction #chillax #industrial.

by Design, common spaces and functions are distributed across the central void of 3 storeys for optimal interaction of staff between departments and floors. Colleagues walk along 'alleys and streets' to the 'public domain' or 'village plaza' for meetings, discussions and breakouts. Barriers are torn down and replaced with social domains and implied territory. 

Materials, colours, 'village structure' expressed as industrial / logistics elements and lighting reinforce this intent. 

 

Design Team:

Tangu Architecture & Tangu Design  

(previously known as GAde Design Workshop)

Photographs: Steven Ngu

GAde Design Workshop

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https://garisdesignworksho.wixsite.com/gade

GAde is set up as a collaborative design studio that provides platform for design and project collaboration work with other members of the design fraternity or community on a need basis. The principle activities and areas of focus include:

Community - engaging the community through public engagement in cooperative programs, amenity improvement, sustainable practices and with organizations in corporate social responsibility programs.

Spatial design - based on R&D, multi-disciplinary approach and collaboration with manufacturers, builders and specialists, and as testbeds or prototypes for new innovation solutions.

Place making - propagating by consultancy and participatory work the importance of place-making in the built-environment, its culture and the evolution of the place.

Product design - driven by design, branding and quality, including inventive building products, furniture, utensils, appliances, etc.

Art and installation - collaboration with artist, events organisers, tradesmen and others, for design and installation in galleries, public art spaces, performance and event spaces.

Urban Village

We always in the dilemma how to create a successful Urban Village in new township planning process. Place making and city comforts always the key factors that make urban life pleasant; places where people can meet, methods to tame cars and to make buildings good neighbours, art that infuses personality into locations and makes them into places.

An urban village demand an unique characteristics that can promote, not only a sense of community, but also diversity and environmental sustainability.

KLAF2018 - Catalouge _ Urban Symphony

 

Kuala Lumpur Architecture Festival KLAF2018 was an amazing event, We are honoured to be part of the event. Being one of the speakers line up, we glad to see how success of the event, and to managed to bring the event to be more relevant to the architecture and building industry. Highly appreciate the effort of the organizer has managed to elevate the standard of the event to another high for this annual event.

Also, we are glad to share our place-making project in Official KLAF2018 catalogue, with the article that managed to record our approach in promoting awareness of quality public space, in conjunction with WUF9.

MBAM Centre - Competition Scheme

MBAM (Master Builder Association Malaysia) Centre is a manifestation of the Master Builder's identity and demonstration of possibility translating imagination into reality.

The design vision empowered through the proposal aims to provide resources of info, public acknowledgement, interaction with other building consultants, and education trainings for new builders. Building programs has been designed to encourage trainings and involvement between different stakeholders in order to improve learning and working experience.

Proposed MBAM Centre is energized by multiple semi outdoor or in-between spaces, to be the core of the interaction spaces. The strategy of overlapping spaces and programme allow interaction and connection between different users. Besides, the massing is a clear representation of the programmatic configuration of the centre; expressing clear and distinct architectural language of timelessness as a new typology for utilitarian building.

Grand plaza at ground level is designated for multipurpose function, public events and gantry workshop for the heavy machinery, also function as workshop which eventually function as exhibition equipment for event usage.

 

With the proposed IBS steel post and beams framing system with truss system, the structure intended to express the effective cantilevered spaces, with central life core and services stacks function as the primary structure support for the building.

We believe being sustainable is an attitude that can turn into a habit and that leas to a norm and becomes a cultural practice. Thus our principle of sustainable design has clearly applied in this building.

Translucent concrete has been chosen as the main façade of the cantilevered spaces. Translucent concrete allow light transmissive properties due to embedded light optical elements. Light is conducted through the stone from one end to the other. This result in light pattern on the other surface casting unique shadow on one side which appear as silhouettes through the material. At night, the entire cantilevered box would appear as lantern.

 

Design Team: Garis Architects Sdn Bhd

(Ar Steven Ngu Ngie Woon, Daniel Tiong, Albert Chua, Kwan Seng)

Urban Symphony

Who doesn’t remember makeshift telephones made of wire and cans? Urban Symphony interactive sculpture is inspired by this childhood toys, but a bit more complex and a lot cooler looking!

In conjunction with WUF9 Kuala Lumpur, we had been invited to collaborate with UNHabitat to set up a pop-up art installation intended to promote awareness of quality public spaces in Kuala Lumpur city. 2 days on-site installation works conducted by the team, as we remarked that erecting the arts work on the street allowed passers-by to engage with their artistic process, ask question about the work, the process and goals.

UPVC pipes given the designer great flexibility in forming the angle and shape with its off-the-shelves angle joint. This interactive art formed by the combination of 36 vertical modules of various heights. As people speak into these modules, their voices are amplified and carried out into the air. The breeze carries these words and ideas into the atmosphere to create a collective voice. Trumpet-shaped listening devices are installed at the end of the each module, where painted Symphony Horns standing high – some angles toward the sky, some is pointed to the human level. Children can explore the playful qualities of sound by talking into one end of the sculpture to produce sound for the listener on the other end.

The installation work intended to bring the community together; it is the place that people meet with friends, stop for lunch, enjoy the time with family; The material used for seats and benches are 100% recyclable, these seating has been landscaped with 55 recycled pallets placed in between the Symphony Horn intended to break down the conventions of standardized seating patterns, utilizing height and space, as well as offering a large amount of external seating in this familiar urban space.

Tape arts be part of this installation work to entice, delight and direct the pedestrian flow and experience this public space. The colourful lines arts borrows from the language of KL-city metro map vector as it is a vibrant and memorable wayfinding indication of this growing urban legible city. 

Urban Symphony, a fundamentally demonstrated versatile space that hold any kind of public activity. The installation allowed all kinds of interactions, and allowed visitors to participate in the exhibition and programs organized by UNHabitat for WUF9. It has also successfully offered pedestrians a new experience with its symphony and optical sensation, inverting and magnifying the urban landscape.

Project info:

Architect: Garis Architects Sdn Bhd & GAde Design Workshop

Collaborator: UNHabitat (represented by David A. Sagita & Mitiku Woldesenbet)

Lead Designer: Ar Steven Ngu Ngie Woon

Design Team: Albert Chua, Daniel Tiong, Loh Kwan Seng, Ng Zhia Zhing, Jonathan Lim, Tan Chew Yee

Photographs: Steven Ngu, Ng Zhia Zhing

Comic & Architecture

 

Sometimes we encourage the designers / architects in our design studio to express a complex message in a readily understandable diagrams  or images to supplement their conventional architectural visual representations. Although traditional architectural drawings are well suited for identifying problems, or great visualizing for design idea. Somehow, they are often difficult for laypeople to understand.

Recently, we get an intern to use the comic strip mediums , a very first try in our design studio to express our design idea. The combination of comic strip and diagrammatic drawing makes it possible to express our idea in a very distinctive and succinct manner, in a unique visual style that is accessible to wider audience.

Design team: Garis Architects

Comic Artist: Jonathan Lim

(Ar Ngu Ngie Woon, Albert Chua, Daniel, Kwan Seng)