Exit blog

After the first semester I was planning to go back to Maldives because we got like 5 weeks as holidays’. I wanted to go back to refresh my mind and come back again to study so that I believe I can give my full effort. The thin happened was I gave my passport to immigration for visa renewal and I never got it back sooner..so I had stay for the whole five weeks in Malaysia. So for me when the starting of the semester was moody. After that I realized how hard this semester was.

Theories of architecture is a nice class the only thing is the time the class is and the assignments that we had to do. It’s so not me. The thing is we had to reads and writes. So force myself doing these things. Its so hard to understand what the essays about.

The worst part of this semester was that I can’t stop thinking about design. Nothing you do is correct no matter how hard u try. And the printing cost was so high that you will feel sad after printing all.

Best moment in this semester was the visit to Kellie’s castles. I was so exited when I saw the place. i was taking pictures all the time. Well that’s happens because it’s the first time that I saw a castle in my entire life. it was pretty awesome.

I would say day by day I am getting more experienced in architecture and architectural philosophy.

Taboo and Transgression

When I started reading this I thought it’s about   sexuality and architecture. But the thin in see in this is the desirability about architecture to people. Architecture has a different way of attracting people. it’s a feeling in a space or experiencing architecture, 11 fragments which form the pleasure of architecture. In his research on architectural theories Architecture is made up of “fragments” and the movement of non-existence fragments are “desires”. Besides, architecture is made up of orders, it is impossible to perceive architecture without its orders. Orders are part of sensuality and are used to create desires. And transgressions are created when architecture not only satisfy the spatial expectations, but when the pleasure of space conflicts the pleasure of order, which is moving forward towards something new/modern, exceeding.

The pleasure of space cannot be put in words it is unspoken. It’s because it’s how u feels when you are in a space. Everything in our lives is experienced by our body and is related to our five senses. these senses are shows how important it is you to know how anything feels.

Eroticism­, where the subjectivity of experience and the objectivity of concept become a result from the immediate experience. Eroticism brought by the architecture is how concept and space inter related each other, brought to excess and that is the immediate experience of the space. A landscape designer can design a building easily. because whatever they do they have to consider the environment. Garden merges the sensual pleasure of space with the pleasure of reason. Architecture can be made interesting in even the way its reflection of our desire. 

Kellies Castle

When i was in the bus going to Kellie’s castle i had no idea how it would look like. I was picturing the place as to have a big entrance and symmetrical and the place to be a huge place like the ones in cartoons. That was the first time that i saw a castle..But believe me when first i saw the place from far i was impressed, because i wasn’t expecting much because its Malaysia i haven’t heard about any other castle in Malaysia. As u knows the place has been more than for 100 years. the location and the trees nearby was awesome.

 And then when i entered the place it was shocked because the place was better than my expectations.wen i entered the rooms i felt like the family was there, and how they were living around was actually afraid to go to the dark rooms which is in underground because of the things that i heard about the place.. And the place is a gift for his wife. Kellies Castle is symbol of love, like the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. And in the architecture, there is definitely some moghul influence visible.

This window and door is strongly showing mogul influence

i like the view from here. the way the building is sitting on the site..and the river in front

curved staircase

like the way they have done the openings

repetitive mogul arches

i like the wey they tried to play with the light

An Architecture of the Seven Senses

Eyes, nose, hands, ears, and tongue, we use these organs to hear, smell, see, feel and touch. we need all of these organs to feel a space or let’s say to feel architecture’s can give a memory or a feel to a place by using these senses while u design a place.

I think mostly architectural designs are relying on one sense, which is the visual one. The other senses are forgotten while a place is designed. This is unfortunate since it is through the senses that architecture can have deep effect. For example, architectural building can more truly relate to the surrounding culture through all of the senses.

Within architectural space it is important to establish a sense of place. This is true not only for the architecture to be good but also for your experience within that space to be memorable. Did you know that your memory and your sense of place are closely linked? Creating an environment involves designing for meaningful experiences to do this, establishing a sense of place is key.

I really think that landmarks and paths are described as important when designing architecture. It seems that both memory and sense of place prominently involve the same part of the brain our memory of events may depend upon a strong sense of place, and by extension, our sense of place may be influenced by the integrity of the memories formed there.

 In the book Spaces Speak, Are You Listening, the authors describe how aural spaces evoke feelings and emotions as occupants listen. Interestingly, the authors describe how sound gives a connection between isolate human depending on their closeness to noise levels, a specific sound source or other people. Humans use their sense of hearing to understand space. Sound works together with the other senses to help people navigate and construct understanding of forms objects and distances.

As a conclusion I would like to say is, as the human body moves, sees, smells, touches, hears and even tastes within a space the architecture comes to life.

The Jewish museum and National Monument.

The museum

This museum shows the whole history of the Jews in Berlin (Germany), that is showing what the Jews have gone through in Berlin.

­­­ The Jewish Museum, Germany. The building covers 2 German Jewish history and its is a combination of old and new, it consist 2 building. The new part of building is designed by architect Daniel Libeskind

Libeskind’s academic and intellectual practice culminates in this much-talked-about and unusual building. The design is based on a rather involved process of connecting lines between locations of historic events and locations of Jewish culture in Berlin. These lines form a basic outline and structure for the building. Libeskind also has used the concepts of absence, emptiness, and the invisible—expressions of the disappearance of Jewish culture in the city—to design the building. This concept takes form in a kinked and angled sequence through the building, orchestrated to allow the visitor to see (but not to enter) certain empty rooms, which Libeskind terms ‘voided voids.’ The ideas which generate the plan of the building repeat themselves on the surface of the building, where voids, windows, and perforations form a sort of cosmological composition on an otherwise undifferentiated, zig-zagging zinc surface.

In my way of thinking I think the Jewish museum is commemorating the dead. Through the 3 axes which indicates the 3 realities of Jewish life in Germany

Jewish had gone through a very hard life in Germany .first axis follows from the old baroque building to the new building of Jewish museum this had represented the Jews the continuation of the Jews living in Germany

The second axis which is out to the garden of the exile and emigration outdoor. the garden with slanted pillars represents the instability of the immigration time. And the plant at the top represents hope. References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/holocaust

Third axis shows the number of people who was dead during the holocaust time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/holocaust

Its quite incredible to have those ideas blended in the design of the building

National Museum was built after independence in 1959 and was officiated by our Third Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Syed Putra Al-Haj Ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail on 31st August 1963.

I think it's the appropriate one if we wanted to make a comparison between two museums and architecture. Museum Negara is a palatial structure built in the style of Rumah Gadang or Minangkabau .To symbolize the nation’s culture, the architect, decided to build National museum in a traditional Malay style. Its facade comprises elements of traditional Malay and modern features.. And we're much displaying story and pictures, weapons for memorizing the heroes.

In my way of thinking’s think the best way of remembering them for this kind of a history is by displaying their left behind items like as shown now. And also they can show it by architecture. As Libeskind has said, “It is the responsibility of architecture and culture to address events and history” It is best to commemorate with architecture as “A building and a city are always present across time and across history. The act of building transforms the culture of a city.”

                                                                                                    

Remembering the Home

I have to spend my childhood experience in two very different houses. One is in the capital city of the Maldives which is Male’. This place is very compact due to the population, more than half of the total population of Maldives lives in the capital (Male’).that is around 170,000 people and the city is around 2 km longer. Now u can imagine how much the place is congested. The roads are full of vehicles and you will see construction all over the city. In the city you will see all buildings of different sizes none of them is bigger than 2000sq feet other than it is a government place. Usually for residence it is 1000sq feet. From far on the ocean this place is like a full concrete structure.

My house which I grew up in Male’ is a three story high building of 1200 sq feet but we live in two stories which are the ground floor and the first floor. Let’s start from the ground floor. This floor has a small shop which is facing the road and from a side of it there is a walk way to the apartment (2 room’s apartment) which is no more than 3 feet wide. From the walkway you will directly enter to the living area and you will see the kitchen in one side and the two rooms (one room is attached with a toilet) of the same size in one side. Each house has to share a party wall which is not wide more than 250mm so basically if u talks loud enough the people who live next house will hear clearly. There is almost no ventilation in the ground floor of any house in Male’ or a building. That’s why the government had a law for the architects, which is 10percent of the land should be open air. So that means 90 percent of the land can be built the other 10 percent is been untouched and this place is only for the ventilation process and for natural lighting.

I am studying architecture now and to be honest whenever I have to do a project in studio class to design a relaxation area, a one man hotel, a kindergarten school, the first thing I can think is about the ventilation of the place and natural lighting. After that it is not to use concrete I think that’s the reason behind why I love timber that much. In every project of mine you will see timber more than any other construction materials.

Heidegger's Thinking on Architecture

This article is telling about heidegers thinking and his philosophy.i strongly agree this ways of thinking because in this assay he tried to show it through an Greek temple how the temple makes all the things of earth visible

Talking about man made and nature, that is kind of enlightening when reading through the Heidegger's thinking about the bridge gathers the earth as landscape around the stream. It's true. Nature is something very elegance and infinite. There are some limits of to enhance manmade structures.the bridge does not connects the two banks only but yet it makes a place comes to presence. At the same time the element emerges as what they are.

heideger mentioned ''Language keeps the world'' in my way of undustanding I think what he is saying is by language u can say anything u wnt, u can describe anything u wnt.also can give life to anything.the next one is "Poetry speaks in images''.Contrast,which let the invisible be seen.ya,even though a building also need a hierarchy too.The author oso mension about a painter here.named Van Gogh and his drawing ''representational image''.From Architecture view,a building is mute if it just a building there, but if the building is verymuch realted to the environment and if it has a meaning.it can be more intresting in that way u can give life to a building.but without it it can be very boring jus like the auther mentioned ''non-representational images''.

auther also describe about the building location , room as the space and is provided for the locations. Boundary as threshold, it separate the building to have indoor and outdoor, these space brings life to a building, a function to a building

''Inhabited landscape'',the gap between earth and sky is a place,a place that fullfilled the nature elements.The word ''inhabited landscape''I think he is saying it is the space were god haven’t touched he left the place for us.to design.thats the space that we have to built our space by nature elements as mentioned.

For my conclusion,everything can be an art.even the language as well.Just depend on how we using it.The essay also describe very well in how to used and taking benefits from the nature/enviroment.Hows the building show its important between man and landscape and makes a good connections within the structure and nature

Heidegger thinks that art is not used to represent something but it presents itself to the public and that language is not use to communicate but rather it speaks for itself. In my conclusion art can be anything. It’s a matter of how you use it.