**Peer reviews - week 6-7**

(SECOND LIFE)


Weiwei Wong
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Blog: http://www.weixiaosecondlife.blogspot.com/

Weiwei's design was based on water cube forms which were prominent in her precedent building. Her office design included different spaces for different colleagues on different levels  and it works well with the correlation of the interior and exterior as the boundaries are not as definite, which I like. I just feel that she could have developed it further and her planning should have supported the function and actual layout of the office space more rather than the form only.

Yiheng Jiang
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Blog: http://www.yjia107.blog.com/

I was immediately attracted to Yiheng's design on second life due to its aesthetics on the exterior. His project was inspired greatly from Le Corbusier's work, especially the Morphosis building in Los Angeles. This building has a very interesting exterior facade, especially the variation, concentration and dispersion patterns of horizontal panels which was inspired from kinetic movment of the car. This technique has been adopted by Yiheng on his exterior and I think it works really well to attract people, also due to the glowing qualities of the horizontal panels. He also refers to Mondrian art and its idea of "the unstoppable journey around the building" for his lighting effects. The design of the building is continuous and doesn't stop at the floor which I find very interesting.


Taylor Chan
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Blog: http://www.design-taylor.blogspot.com/

Taylor's main idea is about connecting the interior and exterior spaces (he uses organic materials), therefore connecting people and nature. His design is 3 levels and is situated near vector arena, overlooking the sea. I found some of the details in his design very appropriate, for example the "photoframe" window he had, overlooking the sea and inspired by St Pauls. I also like how he has thought about his layout quite well so that it suits the needs of everyone. For example, the fact that the musician is placed on the top floor as he would want privacy and his music will not disturb anyone as sound travels upwards is very clever. Taylor's work was very well thought out and developed in my opinion. He also advised me to use more sculpties on second life to cut down on my prim count.