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ryxx. camperdown. sydney. 30.09.05

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Nu Skool Club in KUDT05

"Kick Up The Dust" was produced to provide a platform for Australian talents to express their passion for music and dance and to promote a type of 'alternative' performing arts scene not familiar to mainstream Australia. It has evlolved into an iconic community event for musical and dance and aims to break all cultural barriers and stereotypes, aimed at bonding all with one key element: music.
Nu Skool Club

"Kick Up The Dust 05 " was held last Saturday night and I was supporting Tony in Nu Skool Club (a self-proclaimed most aggressive underground hip hop style dance crew which won Melbourne's "Shakedow" competition and Sydney's Groove 2005"). They had a good performance but unfortunately didn't win the contest. More photos: http://www.adifferentcorner.com/image/tid/85/page/4


Surprisingly to realize the vocal of the guest performer of the show - Level28, Yuji aka, is my junior of the design course I was in. As I remember, I was talking and playing soccer with him once or twice and it is just amazing to meet him again on the stage as the vocal of the up and coming band. Great to see people fighting for their goal and achieving it in style. c'mon ryxx... www.level28.net

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Colleague's works

Jimmy's "sky house" Christine's "Experimental House"
Tony's "Peter's House"
Raymond and Peggy's Murphy Mansion

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murphy mansion 0.2

Previously designed by Tsuge and Yamagishi, students from Gifu University of Japan, my task is to redesign the house in considering Australian suburban context. This timber house is designed for a retired couple and it is meant to be a prototype of sustainable housing by introducing the Japanese OM system (http://www.passivedesign.com).
The theme is to create a complex, functional, flexible and transitional living spaces and at the same time, enhance the day to day living experience of the occupant (the retired couple). This house is not merely a machine for living. Machine has no life; it is not responsible to love and feeling. 24 hours a day, from sunrise to day's end, from winter to summer, from life to death, every moment in the house is transitional and involve with time. The house is not just a volume, it responses to the light and air change, its response to the concomitancy of the couple, it responses to the joy and happiness of the visiting grandchildren…”the moment of reflection”. The house involve corporeal and perceptual transition, transition between shadow to light, between one level to another, between high and low, compression and expansion. Just like the classical sculpture, the space is not fixed, absolute, or abstract, but it is relative to a movement, a posture, a gesture. Referring to my visit to the Casa de IÁrdiaca in Barcelona, the internal courtyard is not a free green zone, but the exterior environment that participates actively in the specific quality of the interior. The tree emphasizes the vertical relationship between the ground and the sky, and also symbolizes immortality, from one generation to another.

All the above are the guidelines of my design. But eventually, I can completely get rid of all the theoretical interpretations (or bullshiting) of my idea. A beautiful building is not compose by beautiful words. What one see, what one feel is the spatiality and texturality of the building. The essence of the building finds spiritually, not verbally.

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一支煙的時間 (cigarette's time)

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ryxx@studio_5

Studio 5 (Level 5 of Ballarat House in Surry Hills, Sydney) is a big studio space shares by 10 architectural office. I have been working part time for one of them - cyberLAB design which is the sponsor of my soccer team! I'm participating in a cinema renovation project in Melbourne and a housing project on a challenging site in Sydney (after designing it for 1 week..i called it "the house of stairs"..I'll talk about it when the design is finished...)
Designing houses both in office and Uni but with a distinct different in the design approaches (the design in office is highly practical and the uni project is just a fantasy prototype house) cause me difficulity in separating my role. I have to keep reminding myself what I can do and what I can't do in design and hopefully I won't become mental disorder...but in fact I am for a long time already....:P

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Brittany, France by Thibaut

This week I received another set of beauitful photos from my French friend Thibaut. It is Brittany locates in the northwest corner of France and it is also the place where Jean-Pierre Jeunet (the director of Amelie) filmed his latest movie "The very long engagement" / "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" in French. Oh yeah..one of my favouite actress Audrey Tautou is in the movie as well!
Brittany informtion : http://www.brittanytourism.com/

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Chefchaouen, Morocco by Jaap

Very very nice photo of a mountain city calls Chefchaouen in Morocco. It is taken by my Dutch friend Jaap who spent his summer in Southern Spain and also a trip to Morocco.

Chefchaouen - http://lexicorient.com/morocco/chefchaouen.htm

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Asian Grocery in Sydney

In contrast with my last post, it’s about another form of aesthetic. The display window of the Asian grocery is like a kaleidoscope, it is impossible to capture all the things it is displaying in one time. It is always bombarded by the colourful A4 size phone card advertisement and you have to see through the crap between the papers to "peep" at the interior of the store. Or it is full of cheap "made in China" ceramic and all in a sudden you will find two huge cans of fortune cookie sitting next to "Chinese art works". The complexity of the displays completely dissolve the materially of the glass and regenerate another fabric.
When looking at the the Asian grocery, a sense of beauty derives from the chaotic, the messiness and the complexity of the window display. Besides my nostalgic feeling, the unsophisticated setting of those Asian stores here composed an interesting journey for exploration in shopping.

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Room with nothing

I am living in a really big house with 8 rooms and only one room is not occupied which is the one in the photo.
The photo is capturing my homemate Taichiro and his friend having lunch in the "room with nothing" in a sunny weekend afternoon.
The Sun is the natural source of light, it penetrates through the sky window and strike on the white wash wall. The carpet becomes the seat for the people and the table for the food and beers. In a 4m x 4m room, a minimalist of living and the purest form of aesthetic is created.

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