Food and Culture

Food and Culture

Project 1: Writing Short Research Proposal

In project 1, we are required to research what kind of proposal we gonna do to suit any site that to be chosen, we are not allowed to selected some of the specific topic because it will retrict in just several conditions. After we comfirm what we gonna research, it will link to our project 2 and also final project, so project 1 is the first and also the most important stage to begin and continue to the following projects.

Before going to site, students were to have a imagination site and base on that site, develop a proposal according to the following theme: 

A) Food ingredients: Architectural space and place for the act of gathering ingredient for food preparation (wet market, farmers market, supermarkets ,mobile markets) 

B) Food preparation: Architectural space and place making that provided the act of preparing food; washing, cutting and cooking (kitchen, back lane open space)

C) Food consummation: Architectural space and place for the act of eating food (indoor dining, alfresco dining, formal and informal dining, religious dining/food offering) 

I choose Food Ingredients as my topic which is the method of storage to each type of ingredients. I think is quite interesting because to know how people store different kind of ingredients before the food preparation is very important, it affect the taste of the complete food dishes if the ingredients are not stored properly.

Project 2 : Experience & Capture 

After project 1, our tutor have selected the site for us and it is located in Pudu - Kuala Lumpur. In Project 2, we are require to group of 4 membersstudy the chosen site and produce a video about it. Before visiting the site - Pudu. During the site visit, our tutor had briefed us about the zones that we should study and what we should do. We went back to site several times after the first visit to get more informations and picture & videos about the site. After that, we divide each task to each of our member, which are video editing, photoshop, narration and storyline and concept.

Project 3: Interpretation & Analysis

In final project, we are required to conclude what we have done in project 1 and project 2. This is individual project same as project 1. We have to produce one A2 board that what we have research so far. The A2 board can be formed in any kind of format such as photobook or magazine. For mine, I design it as newspaper format.

Reflection:

During Food and Culture, I have learnt about how the culture affect the surrounding such as food, environment and architecture. I also realized that each things are linked together with reason, there are not individual. The important of the space can affect the function of the facility and the quality. It is very important to concern each space with its functionality.