WEEK 3 - Reverse Thinking

5 Aug 2015, Wednesday.

    It is a cloudless day, we all learning about the reverse thinking which is doing the research of the interesting building that we founded and start ponder over what aspiring the designer of the building to design the building.

    So, our group decided to visit Bugis+, formerly known as Illuma, is the crown jewel located in the heart of Bugis which is near by our school.

    The facade of the mall plays with the theme of light and illumination, having high-tech features such as a light- and media facade designed by WOHA. The "crystal mesh" facade envelops the convex part of the building and brightly lit billboards will scatter across its flatter sides, unlike those in the Times Square. 

The architecture is so beautiful! Unique texture of the building giving a pleasure vision and its good looking not boring anyone. The colour of the shopping mall also simple but looks various, it's using split complimentary contrast colour to make it more attract.

When we entered the shopping mall.

The designer lay emphasis on the ceiling also. Three main colours which is black, white and grey used to make the appearance of the mall more clear and clean.

The theme the designer used inside the mall was amazing! Ceiling and the floor are related with one pattern.Overlooking, overlapping and directing views up, down and across, are strategies throughout the building, inside and outside, to enhance vibrancy, people-watching and excitement.

Every single has its own design and style, make the entire mall more plentiful.

Personally, I love this advertisement structure design, like rubik's cube and more space for doing advertisement.

After taking photo of the building, we went back our class and every group shared the research and their thought with classmate. It's hard to reverse thinking for me. I'm very admire those who have a lot of idea to sharing. Through this lesson, I'd learned some history and story of some Singapore's building.

Bugis+ in night

 Crystal Mesh media façade composed of faceted jewel-like fixtures that glitter in the day and glow in the night. It is using the simple energy saving bulbs in the custom designed reflector which controlled by the custom designed software. Quite nice at night view.