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