Decided to start with this blog to documented my journey in renovating my own office. I wanted to do the design myself and try outs many new things while being hands on with this project.
So I'll start with the background of everything. I'm 26 years old Landscape Architect with 3 years experience of working in the field. But in that short amount of time I gradually lost my passion in the field of profession that I love so much since I'm 12. I love the beauty of nature and would like to participate in showcasing of it but as I realized in my country this profession became a victim to the uncontrolled economic growth, it became a money centered field rather than design field. There is no more design or conceptual discussion, there is only chasing after plan submission and endless construction meeting that usually ended up about money concern and cut down of design in favor of saving budget with no proper design planning. There is no design for the user anymore, whats left is just do the minimal requirement for the developer and municipal.
This drives me to my decision to quit my firm and start my own, where I aim to revitalize back the design aspect of this field with a touch of arts, with that my journey begins.
The office
It's a shop-house built in the 1980s that my parents bought almost 10 years ago but found no purpose for it yet until now. So you can say the condition is icky. But nevertheless, the size of it is enormous. Since it was built in the 80s, the minimum requirement shop lot/housing standard size at that time is 102' x 52' compared to today's minimum 70' x 20' in my country. This 2nd floor lot that my parents bought actually has 6 rooms, 2 toilets, 1 kitchen, 1 dining area, 1 living room area. All things considered despite it's poor state, it is a huge space to utilize.
With this starting point I started to design and search for the suitable materials.
I'll tell about it in the next post.
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