Creepy Crawly Movie Night

Sukhjit Sidhu & Azmal Sabil

 

To continue the exposure of nature’s impact to architecture, students from the Architecture Design Studio 02 enjoyed a relaxing night of documentary and movie viewing. The students watched 1 full length documentary and an animated movie to further understand insect architecture that was a part of their Project 03 research. The student’s finished off the night with a horror movie as a class bonding activity which the students enjoyed.

 

The documentary viewed was a part of BBC’s Life Tv Series. The series takes on a global view of the specialised strategies and extreme behaviour that living things have developed in order to survive. The documentary enters the world of insects and shows us the diverse body shapes that incorporate armour and wings to ensure the survival of its kind. We also see how insects create their architecture to ensure a sustainable living.

 

For their final project, the students were required to study these insect architecture to understand how nature creates natural architecture that is a very basic act of vernacularism. From the very serious documentary, the students went on to watch an animated movie called The Bee Movie. While the movie was very light hearted and incorporated values of being sensitive to nature, it also gave the students the opportunity to observe the different approach to designing a typical bee hive. Although extreme in theatrical terms, the creative approach to the design of the hives was a fresh look into how animators bring a unique sense of combining human living to the animal world.

 

The concept behind the movie night was to have a little with education and design and was very well received by the students.