pam talk | toad

I was honour to have a chance to attend a talk by MR.MOHD HATTA ISMAIL which in held few days before. What does design means to me?I am more getting more clearer after I attended and listened to the short brief by Mr.mohd Hatta Ismail. Does design only pop out in our mind when we are facing some problem?,The answer is obviously no, just like MR.mohd Hatta .For someone like Mr. Mohd Hatta Ismail, design has become a part of his lifestyle. During his lecture, he express the idea of relating senses to objects and spaces towards a consciousness allowing greater insights into art, object, form and space and also some of his design .

At first, he start his talk by showing some artcraft and some of the model that he did to us. Firstly, he was showing us with his collection of bowl as his hobby. The bowls are made from different kind of material and also they have different texture and with their own unique and the meaning behind the bowl I guess.After few minutes passed, he is still demonstate us with his artcraft, and I also got a bit not understand about his main purpose but the things pop out in my mind when the talk finished is, he is trying to tell us that no matter how is the form of the bowl, as long as it consists of the meaning itself.

After that, he started to show us sme of his painting, sculpture, ornament and also his building design. He is trying to derives to us the meaning of the painting itself with virous of line, colour and shape. Then, he started to show us some of his courtyard design which is indoor and also surrounded by glass wall. I can already feel the comfortness when I look at the photo.It look like a pleasure place for the client to rest inside the space but also he tackle well on the problem of the sunlight.. One thing that inspired me the most was when he said “ if you were to place a dot on a canvas, where would the perfect spot be”. This was a question that made me wonder on during his talk.

SILALIMA (LOCATED IN KUANTAN)

Adaptive reuse of a residential area into one public accommodation ( guest house ) for other to book for a pleasant stay.
Having simplicity of the space planning and material choosing ,he decided to blend in a pond , serves as Hierarchy of the elements in the entrance.
The entrance seems to be hidden in somewhere , but it is just located right to the pond ,seperated with a concrete wall .

“i found out when you are designing something , dont try to have too much inside “, said Mr Hatta ismail , emphasizing the importance of mixing material and your design idea together , but not overload the space quality , thus make the space to be complicated and messy .

“When i try to make this building alive, i was not touching the structure of it, just add on some element , or can be said as ornament . “

Glass is the favourite choice of material by him ,

Throughout glass ( transparent medium) , we ,as the user of the building can undergo visual contact with the surrounding / human being . Natural elements like sunlight , rain drop can performing their architectural way of effect through the glass too.

During the Q&A section , one audience questioned about the intention of taking wabisabi as his design approach , because wabisabi is a concept of japanese ,how he related to the culture or design in malaysia. The answer for me is quite interesting as he said design is forever imperfect , you cannot create one building or area which is so called UTOPIA, there is always some issues deeply planted inside, but you can go simplicity to it .wabi may be interpreted as the imperfect quality of any object, due to inevitable limitations in design and construction/manufacture especially with respect to unpredictable or changing usage conditions; then sabi could be interpreted as the aspect of imperfect reliability, or limited mortality of any object.So thats the reason he is inspired by this famous concept.While there is another question about how he approach his design to the client which is more related to the project managements ( subject that are going to be studied in the coming semester).