Review of Week 2 - Paul Yoon

Name: Paul Yoon

Student ID: 1848150

Blog address: www.archdes101.tumblr.com

Group No:3- Second Life

Tutor:Judy & Ian

This week I had the pleasure of reviewing the work of Paul Yoon who was designing a building in Second Life with regards to the subject of sustenance. Paul described his design as being centered around the idea of ultimate rejuvenation and sustenance via the means of water, with particular interest in Albert Park and he mentioned he spent some time observing both how people and animals (dogs) acted in accordance to the presence of water and water fountains. Paul's ideas manifested the physical quantities of water in his design, with thought being given to the importance of water for the life cycles of beings and the way that this essential need for water could be addressed as an exterior installation or water fountain in Albert Park that would be used both by people walking who were thirsty, peoples pets taken on walks and by general runners and athletes using the footpaths and walkways.

What I really liked about Paul's work was the use of the building form, based off the idea of water going down a sink, that almost like an inverted cone, reflected the external qualities and smooth textures of a water vortex going down to the drinking fountains at the bottom of the cone. The cone vortex extends into the sky, with it serving a vertical natural water filtration system as the rain water falls into the top of the structure and through a system of filters that Paul showed to us, filters the water by use of gravity.

A large number of water fountains at the bottom allow for a large number of multiple users to use the fountains which Paul described as otherwise defunct in Albert Park as it is today or that generally the quantity of them was lacking. In my opinion Paul has made a standout landmark for Albert Park, while utilizing a sustenance source that is vital to human and animal life as well as one that provides a spatially responsive and needed piece of infrastructure within the park atmosphere that is a clear and understandable representation of sustenance ideals.