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PORTFOLIO
Spatial Designer
KAMAL KAUR-
About me
Kamal Kaur Bachelors of Design (Spatial Design) Auckland University of Technology \\ Spatial designer enthusiast of all kinds of conceptualized-visual things.//
About me
Specialty digital
Adobe Photoshop / Adobe Illustrator/ Adobe Indesign Rhinoceros / V-ray / Autodesk Autocad / Revit Microsoft Office pack
physical
Model-making / Laser-cutting / Hand-skeching/ Architectural collages / hand drafting /
language
English / Punjabi / Hindi
Contact Information +64 210638505 kamalk94@hotmail.com kamalkaur.myportfolio.com www.behance.net/kpreet issuu.com/k-kaur/docs/kamal_kaur_portfolio
INDEX SELECTED WORKS 2015-2017
Koruwai
Organised Chaos
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31-45
Ocean of Kiwa
Digital Technique III
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Between the Trees
Digital Technique II
Spatial Drawing I
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KORUWAI Rongoa Health Clinic
Spatial Fabrication 2017 Smester 1 Tutors : Fleur Palmer Location: Kari Street, New Market, Auckland Method : Model making, Rhinoceros, Illustrator & Photoshop.
Our aim is to create an enviornment that will strengthen the position of Rongoa Maori and natural healing in New Zealand. I wanted to create a space that encompasses the four elements air, water, fire and nature. Which are common in all natural healing process. I wanted the building to be designed as series of open spaces so the nature can interwine to form unique and restorative layout in public and private spaces. Creating a calm and uplifting enviornment that enables us to support and promote natural healing process. The design provide more than just a healing enviornment and also acts as a home, garden and healing space for the patients. It creates ambience of calmness and serenity throughout, immersing patients in nature and daylight and offering them a stressfree healing experience. This structure embodies a precise and fluid articulation of light, nature wind and water. The enterance is made by passing through the arch on the East creating a threshold between inside and outside. Once inside the Arch will act like a shield and provide comfort. I wanted to consider all the natural elements on our site. Which is why I decided to make the enterance from the East as the sun rises from the East. Also because the enterance from the East is viewed as prosperous in Maori culture. As when you enter from East, it gives you positive and spiritual energy.
Dossier/ Research Context https://issuu.com/k-kaur/docs/koruwai_process
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Plan
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Elevation
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Enterance
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Reception
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Communal Space
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Staff room
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Communal space
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Clinic room / Deck area
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Greenhouse
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Greenhouse
ORGANISED CHAOS
Spatial Fabrication 2017 Smester 2 Tutors : Sue Ghalleger, Rafik Patel Location: Fort Lane, Auckland Method : Rhinoceros, Illustrator & Photoshop.
Chaos of Straight lines
Chaos of straight lines proposes to explore the semi-permanent architecture to activate public space on Fort Lane by creating perceptual spaces, that will allow inhabitants to play with their perception in viewing cinema and eliminating the subsequent repression and alienation of individuals in constructed and controlled space of Fort Lane. This project takes inspiration form the film Playtime by Jaquez Tati and his clumsy portrayal for modernism in the film. This film projects how we aimlessly yet hopefully wander through impersonal cities, it perfectly portrays and makes us question the cities we inhabit. Fort Lane is inhabited as merely or shortcut by public, or used by the bourgeoisie who occupy the luxurious restaurants and cafes on Fort lane, generating as poor space for social interactions. As a result creating separation and dislocation between pubic and space, which needs to be transformed into an enlivening space. ‘Chaos of straight lines’ is a simple programmatic response to identifying the problem, and solving it by creating an inhabitable public space off the street. It is a way to engage with the public in a unique and less controlled way as the design consists of a modular and flexible elements that can be changed into various forms and arrangement, allowing a new functionality to the public space of Fort Lane. The aim create cinematic space that will integrate with the facade of my design, simultaneously enhancing and challenging how we all perceive public space and cinema. The cinematic aspect of this design will be activated every evening, to be visible and perceived from different vantages of Fort Lane.
Dossier/ Research Context Part 1: https://issuu.com/k-kaur/docs/spatial_fab_iii_part_1
Part 2: https://issuu.com/k-kaur/docs/organized_chaos_sd_iii_
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Elevation
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Section
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Imperial Lane window perspective
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Occupying Space
Window perspective
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Cinematic space
Fort Lane carpark
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OCEAN OF KIWA
Spatial Fabrication 2016 Smester 2 Tutors : Albert Rafiti Location: Devonport, Waterfront. Method : Rhinoceros & Photoshop.
This space will enable the visitors to experience a play between a great experience of water, sky and landscape that surrounds the building. The geometry of intersected spheres refers back to the rich history of symbolism. Borromean rings also represent the karmic layers of the Universe and the interconnection of life. Pulling the ocean horizon into composition , intersecting sphere will be embodied into a geometrical plan surrounded by a thin sheet of water. It is a reminder of the natural phenomenon known as the angels ladder and will bring visitors the celestial experience as if embraced by the natural world. As it is influenced by the the experiences of the ancestors navigating through the ocean. Creating an atmosphere thats urges people to walk through an eminently spiritual space constructed out of reflected lights that is a vessel collecting many different pieces that share specific interest of ancestor and navigation promising a reflection on polynesian culture existence and how Polynesians navigated through ocean. Resin sphere is a vessel representing the life of ancestors. Sphere as the ‘moon’ creates a space with light and aura. As the light reflects on the surface of the sphere. It reveals the beauty of various elements and textures that exists within the sphere.
Maori & Pacific Cultural centre
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Concept model
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Concept drawing / 594X841
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Concept section drawings
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Elevation
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TEMP ARCH PAVILLION
Digital Techniques 2016 Smester 2 Tutors : Sue Hedges Location: Old Auckland Railway station Method : Rhinoceros, Revit, Illustrator & Photoshop
A folly, as the word itself suggests, is an extravagant, frivolous or unreal building, thought more for an artistic expression than for functional reasons. The pavilion is, indeed, all of that. Through a polyphonic repertoire, it aims at being both a temple, a temporary construction and a toy, neo-classical and post-modern. A rational structure encloses a cubic volume. The folly is a playful combination of pragmatic seriousness and frivolous irony. A composition where each element has its own value, complementing and contradicting each other.
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BETWEEN THE TREES
Spatial Fabrication 2016 Smester 1 Tutors : Fleur Palmer, Rafik Patel & Jaffar Khan Location: Old Governers house, University of Auckland Method : Model making, Rhinoceros, Photoshop.
Community market
Between the trees is designed to be a open-air community market.The structure’s facade is designed to be a translucent face to let the light fo through and glow inside out at night. The “trees� surrounding the site adapt to the changes in the sun conditions from day to night and respond with levels of transparency in order to control the amount of direct sunlight hitting the market area. The disordered structure, arrangment and the detailing of the shelves repersent the ambience of Mordern era. Espacially targeting the people of age between 14-34 years old, to offer them an instagram worthy location to visit. This project was briefed to be developed through the method the model making. We were able to develop the concept by playing around with the composition of the structure. Overall spatial concept is developed through the use of the modelling as a constantly present design method that elevated its purpose from pure ornamentation to a method of developing architectural compostion, spatial organization, structural elements, integration of eviornmental sustainable strategies, to the planning of flow of people. Through model making process we tried to blur the line between private and public space. Blurring that boundry is very important for people to transition to actually use the space and experience the space. The aim of this project was to bring an ecological, cultural and social aspect of sustainability together in Auckland city.
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Final model
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COLORWAYS Window Frame
Digital Techniques 2016 Smester 2 Tutors : Sue Hedges Location: Old Auckland Railway station Method : Revit, Rhinoceros, Illustrator
I drew inspiration from the traditional stained glass architecture. The ancient hand blown glass in the windows of traditional palaces is tinted by trace impurities of copper, iron and magnesium. These historical ‘colourways’ were the starting point for my project, an experiment that used natural light to visually alter visitors’ perceptions of the Hall’s of Old Railway station in Auckland. These spaces can differ dramatically in atmosphere depending on the amount of light that’s present. By using coloured retractions and reflections, I attempted to create a spatial light trail through the Hall which highlights the elements of Old Railway stations architecture that are usually unnoticed or overlooked. This interplay of architecture, light and colour constantly changed as the sun’s natural light shifted through day.
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The Composite WW Building
Spatial Drawing 2015 Smester 2 Tutors : Rafik Patel Location: WW Building, Aut Method : Hand drawing, 594 X 841 mm
This drawing is a composition of poetic assembly and patter. The composite allowed me to explore design processes. In this project I presented series of drawings that docuements design work. I was able to explore and experiement with range of media, that generated and re-genrated ideas through creative experimentation. This project is free-hand drawn of WW Building of Auckland University of Technology. I am presenting and redesigning WW Building through a composite drawing. I used drawing as a instrument to express a fabricated narrative and repersent an understanding of relationships persented in lectures. This drawing is constructed strategically with an engagement between 1 Axonometric, 2 Sections and a Floor Plan inspired by artist like Raimund Abraham.
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KAMAL KAUR kamalk94@hotmail.com +64 021 063 85 05