Shompoonuth Kumpakdee (Portfolio)

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Several expertise are offered for people to cater to, here takes the example of a social housing created to alter people into becoming affectionate and friendly. 

-different criteria are catered towards different groups of people, an affectionate-trait building would aim to benefit old, impaired people by pairing them up with younger individuals give them companionship

-signboards are always iconic in china so here it is used as a sense of self-advertisement for the bldg.

-to enhance a sense of companionship within private spaces, a co-dependency unit is created, here habitants share units together in a space with high connectivity, chores around the unit is divided between the habitants to create reliability and although they share furniture together, they are also separated by them to still allow for some sense of privateness.

-different room types are available to inhabitants in different point tiers, as you move up tiers, your living space will be able to aid you in gaining points more.

(ground floor, public space, private space)

Your daily routine would be induced by the building to become an expert in being super friendly, or super athletic and people would spend more time in public spaces doing restrictive activities as they would be more beneficial as a community. These new social housings would create micro-communities of expertise, becoming a social-engineering tool for the government to control the labour market more effectively with reduced amount of time. 

But in the end, does allowing oneself to become more restrictive within the system justify the population becoming groups of people that are self-focused and narrow minded? What other ways could we rate our reliability on?

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The Hukou and Special Economic Zones (SEZ) are two instruments used by the government to control the population migration within China. They have proven to have been extremely beneficial for the country’s development, but at the same time, these highly restrictive systems inevitably widens the inequality gap between different social status. To counter the Hukou system, a new social credit system is introduced to offer talented individuals who reach the requirements an easy access to a legalised life within the urban city. However, requirements such as level of education, connections, or performance are all heavily based on your economic wealth, therefore the inequality still remains.

This plausible fiction explores the probability of what would happen if the factors of this social credit system were to change, to something that is not based on economy but instead related to a particular expertise, such as being affectionate, eco-friendly or fit. People within this system would be offered to stay in a particular social housing which is designed to maximise their point gain to allow for them to improve their social status combined with being legalised to be permitted for social benefits. 

-a circular plan would allow for buildings to be situated more densely, whilst still having efficient wind flow.

-as these buildings are created to aid you to focus on becoming an expert in a certain trait, all of the rooms are turned towards the inner core, which eliminates the spacing needed for external view.

-living in this social housing would induce and require for you to act in certain ways, influencing you to change your whole lifestyle into one that would make you an expert in that certain criteria.

-by acting in certain ways you would be granted points and there are several methods of getting them certified.

(catalog of other expertise-focused social housing)

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COMPONENT 2: (stairs) material experiment

A video of compilations of experiments showing the ability to flex, and hold shape from three different materials including; metal sheet, foam board and future board. These experiments are to see which material perform best overall in both category; flexibility as the stairs need to be able to transfer strong vibrations and form holding as the material need to be bent from one continuous piece to transfer continuous vibrations. As a result, the metal sheet ranked first in both categories hence, it will be used as the material for the second component.

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COMPONENT 1: (wall) material experiment

A compilation of videos showing the experimentation of 6 different materials to see which one transfer the most vibration. The materials are controlled to shape in a 13x13x4cm mould and has a human shaped carving in the centre. Then the materials are placed onto an active washing machine with a stick attached to the side as a vibration amplifier and sensor. As a result the best material which made the stick move was plaster, tube, strings, plaster with foam, foam and balloon accordingly from most vibration receptive to least.

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SUBPAC_COMPONENT (phase2)

FIRST COMPONENT: THE PLASTER WALL

The plaster wall was designed as a response to how architecture is loosing sense of touch from the human to the actual architecture. The aim of this wall is to reduce, or eliminate the gap between architecture and human body so the sense of movement in each architectural space resulting as the human integrating themselves into the actual architecture to feel movements translated as vibrations which are tactile to the human sitting inside of the wall as possible.

SECOND COMPONENT: THE METAL STAIRS

As the first component was aimed to receive vibrations, the second component focuses more on exaggerating vibrations caused by the human body. So, we chose the stairs, a functional space where there is bound to be strong human vibrations, as a component. The steps are exaggerated in height to make the human walking have to use more force, thus creating more movement and vibrations in return. The vibrations are then transferred through the whole stair from the continuity of the material to the people sitting on the steps.

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The manual - final

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The device - final

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Outputs of device - final

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Plates for phase 2 device - final

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First draft of device (mid-term progress)

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Photo evidence of printed material.

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Donato Bramante, introduction to matrix.

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Matrix and dossier of Donato Bramante, Renaissance.

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An instruction video to the DUCK VENDOR :)

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