Article 2

From the article, the Heidegger thinking is too abstract.

But if we read to what language says in the word bauen we can know that :
1. building is really dwelling.
2.Dwelling is the manner in which mortals are on the earth.
3.building as dwelling unfolds into teh building that cutivates grwoing things and teh buildng thaerects building.

In order to understand Heidegger's view of architecture and its role on society, it is important first of all to understand what Heidegger has to say about technology, as well as his talismanic approach to construction. This construction needs to be recognized not so much as a literal constrcting of bojects in the physical world, but rather as a way of looking at the world- and as a way of using that worlds so that human beings become part of the world rather.

The Heidegger talk about symbolism , when you see a greek temple, you may think about its use, or what it contains, so that it's symbolism that is being conveyed. I think he is talking about whether a building is an object or it conveys something else.

Relationsip of man & God
From the ancient of Greek, the temple all built at the hill and a isolated place. And all the temple was huge because they believe that God is Great and Grand. And the Temple not just represent the God and also is the place that God stay. The function of the Temple not just a dwelling for God, it also a symbolism for showing the Grand, Reverence, Fear for God.
It create a harmony feeling that once you enter the Temple, you will feel the Grand of God, and you have to be humble and awe.

Relationship of Man & Nature
Man & Nature are related very close. From the ancient period, human starting to built building on the hill, at the grassland. Our building stay harmony and blend into the environment. With the new technology of development. What we built is become ignore the Nature. So it comes out the Garden City concept and 5 finger concept and so on to keep the nature as part of our planning. It is very important and releavant between Man & Nature. Without taking good care of Nature, Man can't have a mortal dwelling cause nature represent the Earth. If the earth destroy, our dwelling gone too.

Place & space
Place is consider a location. Which have the specific location. Spaec means a place cleared or freed fro settlement and lodging. A space is seomthing that has been made room for,namely within a boundary, a boudary is not that at which something stop but, as the boundary that from which something begins its presencing. As locations, allow a site we now in anticipation call building. There are so called becauwse there are made by process of building construction. There are locations that allow a site in a place that in each case provides for a space. The relation between place and spcace lies in the nature of things location, but so does the relation of the location to the man who lives at the location.What we need to concern about the Place and space is different place we need different space for it.

Dwelling
dwelling is a space for living. Human stay in dwelling. dwelling can be building. To stay in a place. Building not Dwelling.Yet those buildings that are not dwelling places remain in turn determined by dwelling insofar as they serve man's dwelling. Thus dwelling would in any case be the end that presides over all building. Dwelling and buiding are related as end and means. However, as long as this is all we have in mind, we take dwlling and building as two diferent thing, an idea that has somthing same. For buildng is not merely a means and a way towards dwelling to build is in itself already to dwell.

Language
It is language that tell us about the nature of a thing, prvided that we respect languale's own nature. We can use language to describe what we want and explain the meaning of everything.
By language, human can communicate. And with language, human can work more closely but it is just between human.

This is the church that i manage to visit last time and on Sunday

This is St. Mary Church, the internal proposion is similar like St Andrew Church. It using yellow light to create a harmony feel and when human comes in they will feel peace. It is a place for God and human communicate.

St. Andrew Church

The sitting area is in line and the internal part is using natural sunlight to lighten up the space.


There is a opening on the East and West side of the wall. When the sunlight comes in, it create a saint and pure feeling that like the saint light shining thru the opening to the internal.

There is few tinted glass with texture to create a hamony feeling.

Other Church in KL

Internal Part showing the high ceiling to represent the dwelling for the God.

Article 1

After read through the Long article, i roughly put into 2 theory

1.) Is a 'place' where people don't want to go back to the same spot because if they go back it will not look the same ( 1st theory).

2.) Is a place where people can call their own, means they go back to the place, and the place has an identity.

For my own opition, i'm agree with the auther which suggest the 2.)
But i would like to add in some about the 1.)

The 1.) is mentioning about the mobility environment which is Utopia concept. From the 1st page, We can know about he concept of Place, some say that our place ( house ) will mobility, mobile environment of the future. For my own opinion, if our city (Let say KL )become a space ship and will keep moving, it is very good that we can move to other country, 4 season place. From the article, we can know that it maybe won't have anything look same if your building and environment is mobility which i think it mean there is not landmark or identity building left( of cause, if you keep moving your shodow sure will keep following ). And Culture it create by a very long period and the human stay in one place for certain period maybe century then only come out the culture. So if we keep moving, it is very hard to create culture.

And also it mean if we develope too much and too many modern contemporary building built, it will lost the identity of the place. It is very good if our technology become advanced, but if we keep built something that not no identity building on a ground, it might become no history and it can be anywhere?

About 2.) from my point of view, no matter how advanced for our technology and how fast for the development, we can't demolished or overlap our heritage building or change the culture of the certain place. For Pudu Jail, after it demolished and become Shopping Mall and Condiminium, will your son or grandson know previously there is a heritage building there if you didn't tell them? There is a common acceptance, the role of this place played in some most significant times that the city has experienced. Therefore, the memory of the city as a componenet of the place's structure must be accounted for as an important value, since it is memory which can bring about the good or bad images to a place. The characteristic of the buiding is strong enough so as to attribute a specific individuality for each place in particular ,and that area also those that try to understand the decisive role places play in the fulfillment of human living experiences.

Conclusion
I think we should remain our heritage building while we looking forward to become a society like Utopia Concept world. I think the mobility environment can work, although it can't leave any identity and it also won't make people to go back to the same spot, but maybe it can create a landmark on the path way of 'mobility house'? And also the mobility house it can give us alot of convinient. At the same times, we also can have the building and enviromnent that have imageable structure that can bring people back to the spot at the same times. Then when your mobility building back to the same spot, you still can regconize the place because there place have landmark or imageable structure on the ground.

P02 Film Review

15 June 2010

Movie : Minority Report

Comment : 4 Star. Basically is a good movie.

Critique

1. Basic plot line of movie.
-A girl and twins can see the future. Sure everyone will think they are insane but someone appreciate.

-Comebined with the new technology, some one utilize the gift of the girl and hold the 'justice'.

- They use it as a per vision to rescue human from murder. Murder case become less.

- But behind the scene, there is some conspiracy. And it still going.

- Some one found problem and want to found out more, but framed by bad guy.

-Hide and Seek game started.

- Finally the leading man finally kick the bad guy a*s.

2.Impressive
Start from the movie, i was attract by the futuristic design of the city. The infrastructure of the city is amazaing, the transport can ' climb ' on the wall and reach every unit of their apartment, office and more. Hopefully one day our earth can be like that, but before that we should concern about our environment problem now.

Second is the 3D style newspaper, screen. The newspaper can show in slide and change news, it a bit like Harry P*tter newspaper, both also can move. But the most impressive part is can use special glove and move all the detail and using our finger to control the screen, i think we almost reach there cause now already have touch screen.

When the leading man fight with his old friends, the car in Lexuz is so futuristic, i think it is a concept car.

When he escaping , he go to a Green house to find an old lady. That scene is the most green scene in the whole movie. The director shows the green house is so pure white, quiet compare to the city, it's like heaven.

When the leading man and the girl can view future escape to a 'illusion room' . the interior design of the space is amazing. Fully represent the futuristic and it create a private space for each individual. And the desiing of Zik Zac shape will create a wave shape.

Finally the building is fully glass, it look very simple, clean but comfortable and the space is just enough.

Unimpressive
Unimpressive part will be the begining, when the camera show how futuristic of the city, it also show there is no greenery in the city which now we all plan our city without thinking about this problem. luckily after that director manage to show the out skirt of the city which is still remain green.

And from the 1st mission we saw in the movie, when the leading man and his team when to the criminal scene, they can't regconize the house that the future murderer inside. It is because all the houses is the same. Same like now, all of our terrace house is the same, only the colors or maybe some rich guy will renovate it.

Do you still remember the leading man escaping, he went in a shopping mall, 2 roll of 3D commercial board keep selling their product, it create sound and vision, but combined together it become noise. And since that is 3D and it can take turn to show different commercial, why not just use one instead of blocking the way and wasting electricity and create noise?

When in the train, the newspaper pop up the leading man's photo and put in wanted. Feeling curious how he fold the newspaper and put inside his suit bag?

And for a futuristic movie, the costume is a bit old fashion, its like 2008 but not 2000 and late.

3. Architecute & the Story
1st thing, with the technology and the help of the flash image, they already know the leading man will go and 'kill' the guy, why until that moment, all of the officer still not going and standby at the scene but letting the leading man look for that guy and ask many question?

About the technology, the 3D screen which i think is using few angle projector and create a 3D image. Which i think it is going to become real cause currently there is some experiment is going on and quite succesful.

Architecture, about the infrastructure, i think it is very cool cause it really make human more convinient. From the time line, i think we need to work more hard to make it become real.

And the spider detective, i feel a bit not fit the time line because im doubt that our technology will gain so fast until the spider detective can be so soft, intelligent. If so why not robot become cops instead of send so many human cops and bit up by the leading man?

4.Intention/massage
I can get the massage from the writer/director very well. When the girl ask leading man to see the flash vision, it already show clearly the problem is come from the vision of the future. And the leading man get the main point so that he can find out the problem. Until the end the director manage to show all the context for the audience clearly. I think the intention of the film is succesful. It show everything although how perfect it is, if you use it in positive way then it will become good, but if you use it in negative way it will turn bed side too.

5.Impact of design thinking
Sure, from the movie , we can observe that lot of different shape and ' weird' building. It can inspire us because they imagine so many amazing shape of building and it can inspire us to design more creative design and try more to think out of the box.

Second is the massage that director want to show us. we should think everything in different way, just like the 3D image, it come from different angle and create a image, it helps us to design a building that with 5 elevation also can impress people.

Third is from the story line, a perfect thing can't be so perfect sometimes. So before we think our design is perfect, maybe we need to show other people and get some idea and advise or maybe criticm sometimes is needed.

The End

My Story

My name is Siow Chen Liang, call me Daniel. Architecture Student in Sem 5. I'm a diploma student from ALFA College. After that i plan to further study at Tasmania but too expensive and my result was terrifying... so i apply for Taylor...but Taylor officer wasn't so friendly....so i choose UCSI because Taylor and UCSI is same level....for me lah....

When i was in primary school. i want to become a scientist. But when my UPSR result come out and i get C for my science....i know i have to choose other ambition or else...

Sooner i had a new ambition - become a top sales. Because during secondary school i had a lot of friends, all like to chit chat. So i think my Eloquence should be very nice. But when i go for looking part time job when i was 16 i found out i'm very lousy even with a simple conversation with stranger. It really broke down my ego.

Before i graduate from secondary school, i never heard about Architact this word. Until when i was form 5, i went to a gallery with my school teacher at KLCC, saw a lot of design ( i think it was Datum or Archidex those kind of event which i don't know on that time ) . Until then only i start to read building design magazine ( before that only know Galaxie, Gossip or Sin Chiew Daily...)

After that in a very coincidence opportunity i get to know about sustainable, eco friendly, then i found out why all the architect design the building must full of concrete, our house why they want to seal up the little piece of land in our car porch area just to park another car.... When that time, i feel that i should do something to our earth. I plan to join the community of Environment protection, but i don't think that's what i can did with my age, so i tell my mum that i want to study Landscape Design.

My second brother was taking engineering on that time, he told me that Architecture is the main role if we need to design building. So if you want to make decision to make more space to green, you better be the boss.... So, i just took his advise....now im stepping to this non U turn road...

Best and worst experiences in study architecture. I just join UCSI around 1 year and 1 month i think. Basically still fine ... only when i know my history mid term exam failed cause me few days non stop nightmare..... When i was in ALFA, i failed my Design 3 . And it really left a scar in my heart. This is the black shadow in my life, now everytime presentation and exam, i will feel pressure and feeling im going to failed.... But thanks for the lesson, i think now i learn a lot and i have the opportunity to co-operate our Design 4 studio with AR Jimmy Lim after i join the next studio. AR Jimmy Lim teach us a lot and we learn site planning on that time.

Best experiences will be joining event. I never join architecture workshop, i feel very unfortunately. But i had joined Sepuluh and Sebelas, i think now already tujuh belas or lapan belas, Oh...i feel so old..... Sepuluh was organised by ALFA, so everyone of us was helping and it was so fun.

can see ALFA sign board and UCSI signboard?
Last time was Alif ( now change to ALFA)

Best Habit - errr.....i love to make things become beautiful. I like to make my presentation board full of color, especially green and red. Like to make everyting beautiful, more color, nice color. Although i know my design not so good, but hopefully lecturer will give some marks due to my presentation board. I think i should go for fashion design but i know i don't have that talent. But study architecture also the same, fashion designer cloth up the human, but i dress up the building. How cool....

Worst Habit - a lot..... lazy, don't like to study. And not really good in doing research. Now still learning. English not so good, only understand 60% - 80% when lecturer talking. I like to read Architecture Books but very lazy and hard to understand the words, so most of the books i only remember the photo.

I have a group of friends which all study design. Everywhere we go we like to give some piece of our idea no matter good or not. Sometime will a bit mean but with them i learn a lot of thing. Now all of them already work for at least 1 year but i'm still studying...... sob sob...

Finally, my 1st blog going to end. What keeps me going? I think that without Degree, i can't go for the next step. And i feel i need to learn more thing. After few years study architecture i still don't like architecture, but now i'm starting feeling interesting in architecture, and i love this feeling. So why not i take few more years, or maybe more longer time to enjoy this feeling ? Life should be enjoyable.