This project is most awesome project I had did and most effort we put in semester 4, I love to study about structural design and this project had given an opportunity. We did many calculation and design on paper to prove our bridge is actually the best from so many bridges we design in the early stage. The outcome of the project might not as good as other but at least we can track down to the root of out design to prove then we don't anyhow place any of the member of the bridge.
Project 2 For this part of the project, we need to calculate the ultimate load and produce shear force diagram follow by bending moment diagram.
This project had revealed the truth behind placing the column. Since semester one, I don't really understand how the column supporting those structure and how many column I actually need and if I really need to add more columns to strengthen the structure. This project basically reflected and explained everything that I need to know in structural design.
Project 1
In this project, we are assigned to produce schematic diagrams from our design in Architectural Design Studio 2.
The design of my retreat house:
Submission of Boards:
board 1
board 2
Reflection:
I learn about how to setting up and planning to put those piping or electrical appliance to suit the design of my building and I discover flaws in my design of retreat house. This project allow me to understand more about the services and i will actually remind myself to not repeat the mistake I made in the design again regarding to those services.
Project 2
For this project, we are assigned to visit a commercial building or shopping mall that not more than 3 floors and produce a report.
Reflection:
I had learn a lot regarding services in the building and this project had given me an opportunity to visit services of a shopping mall and opened another door of knowledge in my journey of becoming an architect. What make service so important is to let people experience comfort and preventing disaster like fire to happen in the building. It is actually a very fun project and I like it very much.
Throughout this project, I think I had understand Islam, muslim and my country more. I started to understand those principal and concept and the spirit of Islamic culture in my country.
Project 2
APA References
Tittle
Keywords
Topic/Discussion
Content
Le Corbusier. (1931). Towards a new architecture. Courier Corporation.
Towards a New Architecture
Light;
Geometry;
Shape
His arrangement of forms, realizes an order which is pure creation of his spirit; by forms and shapes he affects our senses to an acute degree and provokes plastic emotions; by the relationship which he creates he wakes profound echoes in us, he gives us the measure of an order which we feel to be in accordance with that our world, he determines the various movements of our heart and our understanding; is it then that we experience the sense of beauty.
Mass
Our eyes are constructed to enable us to see forms in light. Primary forms are beautiful forms because they can be clearly appreciated. Architects today no longer achieve these simple forms. Working by calculation, engineers employ geometrical forms, satisfying our eye by their geometry and our understanding by their mathematics; Their work is on the direct line of good art.
Surface
A mass is enveloped in its surface, a surface which is divided up according to the directing and generating lines of the mass; and this gives the mass its individuality. Architects today are afraid of the geometrical constituents of surfaces. The great problems of modern construction must have a geometrical solution. Forced to work in accordance with the strict needs of exactly determined conditions, engineers make use of form-generating and form-defining elements. They create limpid and moving plastic facts.
Plan
The plan is the generator. Without a plan, you have lack of order and willfulness. The plan holds in itself the essence of sensation. The great problem of tomorrow, dictated by collective necessities, put the question of ‘plan’ in a new form. Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and for the city.
Giedion, S. (1967). Space, time and architecture: the growth of a new tradition. Harvard University Press.
Space, Time and Architecture
Transition of space and time;
Spiritual bond
Explores the transition of the spaces and time of the city planning relating back to the user as their spiritual bonding makes the city ‘alive’ by promoting new types of architecture that carry the idea of modernism.
It has in common a space conception, which is as much as part of its emotional as of its spiritual attitude. It is not the independent unrelated form that is the goal of architecture today but the organization of forms in space: space conception. This has been true for all creative periods, including the present. The present space-time conception – the way volumes are placed in space and relate to one another, the way interior space in separated from exterior space or is perforated by it to bring about an interpenetration – is a universal attribute which at the basis of all contemporary architecture.
Its emanating force is generated by the respect it has given to the eternal cosmic and terrestrial conditions of a particular region. Instead of being regarded as hindrances these have served as springboards for the artistic imagination. It has often be remarked that the panting of this century has again and again driven boreholes into the past, both to renew contact with spiritual forebears and to draw new strength from these contacts. As in architecture, this is not achieved by adopting the forms of the past but by developing a spiritual bond.
Moffatt, L. (2014). Sacred Concrete: The Churches of Le Corbusier Flora Samuel and Inge Linder-Gaillard. Art and Christianity, (77), 15-17.
Sacred Concrete: The Churches of Le Corbusier
Ethical;
Philosophy and Theory of Simplicity
Political relationship between Le Corbusier’s view of religion and that of the Church, as manifested in his radical sacred architecture and the work of other architects who drew inspiration from it.
Its unique strength lies in its co-authorship by Flora Samuel and Inge Linder-Gaillard, architect and art historian, respectively, both with a strong interest in the subject matter. This joint authorship convincingly explores the tense political relationship between Le Corbusier’s view of religion and that of the Church, as manifested in his radical sacred architecture and the work of other architects who drew inspiration from it.
Fragmented research on Le Corbusier’s religious belief and the architecture of his sacred buildings can be found in a number of books written by well-known academics in the field; however, this is the first comprehensive scholarly work dedicated to his religious projects, built and unbuilt, and their social, theological and political contexts. Extensive and original research into the roots of Le Corbusier’s sacred ideals and the architectural merits of the associated built forms makes this book useful and highly relevant.
The authors invite the readers to take part in a historical journey, through the development and upheavals in the Catholic Church in the early 20th century, with particular emphasis on events in France. The key concerns of Le Corbusier’s sacred architecture in terms of the modernisation of the Church and society; the application of the ethical, philosophical and theological notions of simplicity, poverty and truth in church design; the role of the interplay between space and light as well as the processional route; and the role of art and artists at the service of the Church are all well explained. This is followed by an investigation of the evolution of Le Corbusier’s thinking on religion, from his early upbringing through his spiritual incubation in Paris in the early 20th century and his final maturity.
Dennis,Mc, N.(2015) The Institute For Sacred Architecture: Lecorbusier and the Monastery of La Tourette.
The Institute For Sacred Architecture
Sacred Art;
Religious;
Faith
Couturier sought to renew sacred art and architecture in much the same way Le Corbusier sought to renew architecture: through the utilization of powerful contemporary forms and materials. As a remedy, Couturier placed his trust in artists, believing something of the sacred.
Le Corbusier’s allusion to the “inner life,” while highly personal, apparently satisfied Couturier. From his early years, Le Corbusier had written of things spiritual, though in wide divergence from Catholic understanding. He claimed in Towards a New Architecture that the modern world needed a “spiritual revolution,” and he called for a “revision of values” and the ‘”mass-production spirit.” The concrete grain silos and coal bins pictured in the book replaced church steeples as symbols of the new age. Nonetheless, Couturier employed Le Corbusier’s “almost religious” architecture as medium for a community with religion at its core.
When asked to design other churches after the popular success of La Tourette and his earlier pilgrimage chapel at Ronchamp (1950-55), Le Corbusier stated quite clearly that La Tourette monastery held no particular interest for him as a place for sanctification through a Catholic devotional life. Moreover, this feature of the program actually formed an obstacle to his participation.
Jonathan Glancey (2008), Faith, Hope and Clarity
Faith, Hope and Clarity
Faith;
Spiritual Emotion;
Clarity;
Sacred Architecture
Le Corbusier was the most dangerously radical of all 20th-century architects. In his astonishing polemic Towards an Architecture, published in 1923, he argued that his clean, white, stripped-to-essentials and apparently wholly new architecture reflected the industrial spirit of the times; he also argued that his work inherited the spirit, and even the proportions, of ancient Greek temples and the great cathedrals of the middle ages. Forget the traditionalists and revivalists: his was the true architectural faith.
Le Corbusier's last buildings, including the swooping pilgrimage chapel of Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp (1950-55), set high on a spur of the Vosges mountains, and the numinous monastery and college of Sainte Marie de la Tourette (1957-60), west of Lyon, were realised on little more than a shoestring. Exquisite, captivating and complex, Ronchamp was hugely controversial when new. It broke all the rules of chaste, geometrical modern buildings; it was as if the master had betrayed his pupils.
The monastery, La Tourette, was different again. It was so modestly built - Le Corbusier refused a fee - that today it needs major conservation work to ensure its future. And yet to rebuild it too slickly would be to undermine Le Corbusier's intentions. Many people find La Tourette too bleak, or simply incomprehensible, today. While it has none of the light-spirited delight of Ronchamp and few obvious design thrills, La Tourette's chaste, pared-down architecture is a powerful experience. I have found true peace here myself, settling in for the night in a simple yet perfectly proportioned cell. This is something of the elemental life Le Corbusier wanted everyone to enjoy; he didn't foresee lesser talents adapting his ideas and buildings into grim 1950s housing estates.
When I last visited Ronchamp, a woman began singing as she moved under the astonishing concrete crab-shell roof. At once ultra-modern in spirit and as ancient as the hills it rises from, the chapel is a distillation of architecture through history and across cultures. It has no facades, only walls; no straight lines, only curves. Its roof is lifted slightly from the walls to let in shafts of light. Its design owes as much to Le Corbusier's love of the Parthenon in Athens, as to his fondness for the primitive white churches he encountered as a young man in the Aegean. Here is an architecture for all time, connecting past, present and all religious faiths or forms of spirituality.
Interview Questionnaire:
Interviewer 1 :
Mr Zahir Wahari
Interviewer 2 : Ms Muzmalini
1.What do you feel
when you walking through the staircases from the entrance? Interviewer 1:
I felt like I am in curious of the space up there because I can’t see what’s
there due to the high staircase yet I like that feeling.
Interviewer 2:
I feel like welcoming, peaceful and down to the earth.
2.Why do you feel
so, is it possible because of its lighting and geometrical shape of the mosque? Interviewer 1:
Perhaps yes, the lighting of this mosque looks like reflecting by the material
of the mosque like tiles, the shape of the building is interesting and look
majestic to me.
Interviewer 2: This is because of the scale of the staircase is big and
the lighting in the top is coming to the staircase give me all of these
feeling. To be in the huge space made me feel really calmness and relaxing.
3.How do you
describe the experience of you from entering to pray until leave this mosque? Interviewer 1:
I felt welcoming and I find peace in this mosque where the pool that
surrounding the mosque calm me down and during walking up the praying hall I
felt like I put down all my burden for temporary.
Interviewer 2:This mosque is very big and every time I entering to pray make me
feel closed to Allah SWT and peaceful. It also made me forget all my problems
and just focus to pray.
4.Does praying at
this mosque make you feel closer with god as a Muslim? Interviewer 1:
Yes it did and I believe most of the mosque did.
Interviewer 2:Yes.
5.In your opinion,
what do you of the material used to construct and decorated the mosque? Interviewer 1:
I think I like the tiles and the decorative although it is not very complicated
compare with other mosque.
Interviewer 2:I think they use composite material of glass fibre fabric mixed
with epoxy resin to make it durable and light.
6.Do you think
simplicity layout of the mosque will lose its identity? Interviewer 1:
Absolutely no because Islam will have their identity no matter in what form as
long as you are faithful to the god.
Interviewer 2:
No, it’s easy to understand.
7.Spiritually, do
you think the mosque had made you more faithful to the god? Interviewer 1:
Yes, the mosque look majestic and I felt humble just by the look.
Interviewer 2:Yes.
8.Which part of the
mosque make you feel closer to the god? Interviewer 1:
I think it’s the praying hall.
Interviewer 2:The design and geometrical shape of the mosque make me feel
closer to the god. Besides that, how the lighting is coming inside the building
also such as lighting from heaven and also the interior finishing inside the
mosque are using earth colours.
9.Do you prefer the
mosque having modern exterior that is way simpler than the traditional design? Interviewer 1:
It depends, I still prefer traditional design because its eye pleasing.
Interviewer 2:Yes.
10.Why and is it
possible that the simplicity give stronger spiritual emotion to you? Interviewer 1:
Sometime, maybe. I believe that the emotion is born within your inner self
where it is very subjective to judge the emotion since everyone is different.
Interviewer 2:Modern design style is very simple and straight forward.
Reflection:
This project had given me an opportunity to interact and understand about local muslim community and their spiritual sense regarding the mosque. I love this project as it opened an window to the Islamic architecture not only to study but also understanding the concept behind it. Compilation of the book
Project 1
In this project, we need to conduct a general study of any building in the world regarding it's contextual performance and vernacular adaptation.
For this project, I had chosen the famous nature retreat in Malaysia, Sekeping Serendah as my case study. In Sekeping project, Sekeping Serendah is one of the most famous and successful project that loved by many. I conducted my case study on it's Glass Shed chalet of Sekeping Serendah.
Reflection:
Malaysia is a hot and humid climate country, ventilation is one of the most important issue to be consider when designing a comfortable house or shelter. I'd learn a lot regarding to effort that Ng Seksan put in his design to reduce carbon footprint and being closer to the nature. This project is less burden and I actually do enjoyed it as i studying architecture visually and spiritually. I learn how he spiritually link human with nature with his design. I just love it ! Project 2: From the general study regarding of Glass Shed, Sekeping Serendah in project 1, we are assigned to conduct a deep research and study in this project.
First of first, I have to admit that Seksan had done a pretty good job in approach of designing regarding on contextual and vernacular adaptation in Glass Shed. Yet, the design is good, eye pleasing but the experience of staying a night in Sekeping Serendah is very disappointing. The choice of material that he chosen like brick and concrete that actually letting moss growing on it and it is extremely bad and harmful for health as it causes cancer. Although the ventilation is good but the humidity is still remain the same which because the material is not good in repelling humidity which causes a human to fall sick under that kind of circumference. It might be interesting to visit once in awhile for the chalet yet definitely not a good idea for long term accommodation. In this project, I had learn to see and study design from another perspective. Except from studying and research online, I actually went to visit the Glass Shed and even stayed overnight there. Although the experience is disappointing for me but it might be different for other.
In this project, we are assigned to conduct a site analysis on a selected location in Taylor's University Lakeside Campus. The site is located nearby the futsal court next to the road. The space must have consist of security guard post or tower, a sport recreation space for student and it must be related to the site as much as possible.
My group decided to design a board game cafe instead of fancy sport my other course-mate proposed. The reason we chosen board is because it is an mental sport, game and a relaxing activity to let out of stress while they can wait their transportation or while waiting for their basketball friend to meet. The site is also ideal for security guard post as it is one of the blind spot of security in that area. The design of the cafe also situated on the contour neatly with minimal excavation as there are sewerage pipe underneath it. A lot of consideration has been made in this design especially shading device and circulation.
making progress of our final designed model
conceptual, mockup and draft model
final model of our design
another perspective of our final design
another perspective of our final design
contextual model with landscape study
contextual model with landscape study
contextual model with landscape study
Presentation board
an overview of our presentation board
However, to have a clear and straight forward presentation of our design, we made a short video to showcase our space by walk through animation.
Reflection:
Personally, i love this project, it give me a lot of opportunity to convert my creativity onto my building design, providing comfort, rational and contemporary design. In this project, I also met some misunderstanding issue within my groupmate which I find she is a little bit hard to communicate with since she is a little bit of lazy to do the work. However, we managed to finish the project according to the schedule we had planned since early stage. This project was one of the project that I had ever designed in my life as architecture student. I also would like to thanks Miss Alina for guiding us throughout the project as this will be impossible without her tutorial and guidance.
Project 2A: Site Analysis (Gateway to Royal Belum)
For this project, we are assigned into different group to conduct a larger scale of site analysis compared with project one at Pulau Banding, Perak. Our site is located 500 meters away from Belum Rainforest Resort.
In this part of project, I am assigned to Miss Anne group yet I am responsible on producing site plan as leader of CADing group.
Board 1
Board 2
Board 3
Board 4
Site Plan produced by my CADing Group and I
Site Elevation and Section produced by my group and I
our model
Reflection:
For this project, I learned a lot about synchronizing with other group to workout the model and the site plan at the same time. The site plan is too big for me to finish alone so I need a good communication with my members and a schedule to keep my progress on track while doing work. It is one of my most tiring week in semester 4 but I love it !
Project 2B: The Nature Appreciation Center
In project 2B, we are assigned to design a nature appreciation center (NAC).
According to my research and study, kids (high school or primary school student) like cool stuff instead of cute stuff and they don't like spoon feeding education which is effective yet limiting their imagination like what our education ministry did in Malaysia.
Youngster nowadays, like thing that is easy to understand, to explore yet they can't tell whether if it is right or wrong everytime so that is why education is so important that it affect the way they think, they judge and their action.
For my concept, I found that my concept is pressing hard on unity or union that unite everyone to stand against deforestation. Belum Rainforest Reserve is declare as a state park instead of national park which mean it is still reachable for logging activity or already under logging activity. Human is smart but not too smart for assuming nature like a credit card without a spending limit.
By raising awareness of important of taking care the environment, we can flip the truth around, instead of being polluted and finding solution to solve global warming, why not we stop ourself from causing the issue to happen.
The approach of design of my NAC is to connect spiritually with visitor to feel and be a part of nature by joining activities such as camping or even having a cup of tea at the cafe.
North elevation
View from cafe stepping up from stairs
walkway to hammock for adult
View from tree house
Art & Craft workshop
Cafe
View from Nature Gallery
View from Entrance
Fire Pit
Observation deck and hammock
The Atrium
study models
during my presentation
Reflection:
Since highschool, I was taught not to be judging book by its cover, by reality is the another way round. I am weak in sketching as one of the crit said that my drawing is worst than her daughter's drawing. I am very sad of that comment yet i tried to spend nights to produce the drawing, instead of motivating me he actually demotivated me. The comment from the presentation was very bad as she never really look at my design and keep picking problems which is not from my standard to overcome. I knew that I wasn't good enough yet but at least encourage me to keep me passion in seeking my path in Architecture ? I love architecture because it educated me deeply inside out, teaching and guiding me not only become an architect but becoming a person with passion, creative and much more! In studio 4, most of the tutors are demotivating their students instead of giving them motivation as I asked few friend from others group and they came up with same respond. I tried my best to do everything I could just I am not good at presenting my idea and I am still sharpening my presentation skills yet it seems like they aren't giving us a chance to present. I hope this kind of issue won't appear in my future studio as I get a pretty good tutor in studio 4 which I considering myself as a lucky one, My tutor always guide me with her positive encouragement that give me boost in my design although i don't really think she 100% understand my design yet she did encourage me. Encouragement is all we need to finish off a project, not harsh crit that actually demotivating the students. However, for this project I learned a lot about global warming issue and ways to reduce carbon foot print in my design. The approach of my design is to provide a good user experience with relaxing mood and raising awareness at the same time. I was happy that the project was finally over since it is very tiring and disappointing especially for the crit session which I didn't get the feed back i am seeking for.
This project is most awesome project I had did and most effort we put in semester 4, I love to study about structural design and this project had given an opportunity. We did many calculation and design on paper to prove our bridge is actually the best from so many bridges we design in the early stage. The outcome of the project might not as good as other but at least we can track down to the root of out design to prove then we don't anyhow place any of the member of the bridge.
This project had revealed the truth behind placing the column. Since semester one, I don't really understand how the column supporting those structure and how many column I actually need and if I really need to add more columns to strengthen the structure. This project basically reflected and explained everything that I need to know in structural design.
