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Before entering architecture degree course, I believed that architecture is all about designing the form of buildings, because I think that the simplicity buildings in today's architecture are too boring, lack of creativity and a touch of madness. I was amazed by the buildings of Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind and many more famous deconstructivism starchitects. Their works are always the first to caught my attention because of the stunning, visual appealing and sexy exterior designs. During that time, I thought that the beautiful facade of buildings are important as they showed the identity and the iconic of certain place. Since then, designing building forms, playing with the shapes, curving crazy lines, adding beautiful textures to make the exteriors look outstanding became my main concern when I started to design a building. Function follows forms.

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Frank Gehry was the man that brought me into the world of architecture. ‬The Walt Disney Concert Hall exterior is a composition of undulating and angled forms, symbolizing musical movement and the motion of Los Angeles.The reflective, stainless steel surface engages light as an architectural medium. The facade's individual panels and curves are articulated in daylight and colored by city lights after dark. Thin metal panels allowed for more adventurous curvature and could be structurally disassociated from the ground. ‬Because of their mathematical intricacy‭, ‬the twisting curves were designed using a 3-D design software called CATIA‭, ‬which allows for complex designs and calculations that would not have been possible a few years ago‭.

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As I entered upper semesters, I learned the importance of creating usable, comfortable and functional space, using honesty structures only to support building without additive decorations. I realized that as good as a building looked, in the end all that matters was the user experience. Louis Sullivan's aesthetic credo 'form follows function' became foundational to the modernist architectural movement. The shape of a building or object should be primarily based upon its intended function or purpose, functionality should always be given higher priority than form. An Architect might be tempted to create crazy designs which might be prohibitively expensive or unusable, however, it is the duty of an Architect to design a structure in a way that it is both functional, durable and trendy.

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Designed by Ole Scheeren, partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), The Interlace breaks away from Singapore’s standard typology of isolated, vertical apartment towers and instead explores a dramatically different approach to tropical living, an expansive interconnected network of living and communal spaces integrated with the natural environment. The design capitalizes on the generous size of the site and further maximizes the presence of nature by introducing extensive roof gardens, landscaped sky terraces and cascading balconies. The Interlace incorporates sustainability features through careful environmental analysis of sun, wind, and micro-climate conditions on site and the integration of low-impact passive energy strategies.While maintaining the privacy of individual apartment units through the generous spacing of the building blocks and far-ranging views, the design also features communal spaces for shared activity, offering opportunities for social interaction, leisure, and recreation.

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Form and function go hand in hand in a project, and since there is no right or wrong in architectural design. I personally believe that it is really a matter of personal perception and resolving. It is one of the issues that give us more than one solution to design issues. Both are equally important and cannot be neglected for the other's sake.

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