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Studio 200, 1985-86
HBP Gazebo, Nodes &
Paths
(Recycling
Monerasinghe's Roundabout
Roof Piece)
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Once HBP constructed a
prize-winning single-column roof piece for one of
the roundabouts in Penang. After
its expiry date it was returned to HBP. The steel
roof was placed under the tree and the column was laid
down by its side. And there they remained for a good
many
years, at one time even suggesting as though there
was the Minagkabau civilization buried below, haha. |
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Studio 200 agreed that
we could do something to this white kerbau by purposefully recycling
it as a gazebo, and in doing so,
bring about an architectural order to the HBP environment so fragmented
as a result of the incomplete metamorphosis from
camp to campus. The product of nodes & links, and
the gazebo in the center, would simply
be a garden (cf
University in a Garden, 2000). Here's what was
documented in part...
(2b inserted - HBP PrecinctPlan by Studio 200) |
"Unleafing" the Roof |
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Restoring Column |
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Kamarudin. |
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Trench for Footing |
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Reinforcement Bars |
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Kamarudin & Anbalagan |
Anba in white
(doing steelwork?) |
Placing Bolts |
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Concreting |
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Anba again (no more in
white)! |
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Raising Column |
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What Lee Lik Ming doing
watching? |
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Bolting Column Into Place. |
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Mr Leow Ah Let! |
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Formwork For Stump. |
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Concreting |
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Gunasegaran mixing
concrete. |
Guna & Azhar
(Azhar later lost 3
fingers, not in this project though!) |
Raising Roof |
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Restoring Roof |
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Making Concrete Slabs |
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Making Ferrocement Main Steps |
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Workshop-Gazebo Wall |
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Other Steps Linking HBP Spaces
to Gazebo |
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Kopi ais or take-away
coke? |
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Mun Leong & Kawan2. |
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