THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE
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“On the way” spaces is a spaces where everyone will pass by before they reach their destination. People wouldnt care about the quality of the "on the way" spaces because people wouldnt stay long at these spaces. But it's part of our journey every day.
What would you see from the pictures above is traffic jam, what you can hear is noise, people fighting for seat, and also invisible air pollution. Trapped inside a traffic jam was the most common "On the way" spaces for people who living is the busy city. How to enchance the spaces to provide a better journey for all the people.
Here is a vedio show the solution for public transport in a busy city.
The bus can reach at the accurate time to avoid waiting, the bus
design had been elevated to avoid traffic jam, bigger spaces for
passenger and also better air circulation. This idea also make the
passenger more comfortable. Beside that, i would suggest each seat
would have their own digital divises. So that passenger could watch
movie, read some news along the journey. A cafe on the bus provided
for the passenger so that they could eat or drink something while on
the way to destination. This could save something for those who busy
working. Is also a place for people to interact, talking to each other.
“On the way” spaces is also involve in a building. These spaces such as corridor, entrance, staircase and elevator. These spaces normally are simple and empty because people only passby these spaces. Majority of the people will only looking at their own mobile phone while walking. To enhance these place, designer can apply different feeling and mood or applying activity on these spaces by designing the opening, lighting or environment. The corridor can be many opening for natural lighting and viewing, it also could be open air and some animal sound occur around. The staircase could add in a slides beside for children to play around. So the experiences of the journey of user become more interesting.
People can learn or enjoying while walking at the “on the way” spaces. Designer can create activity along these spaces so people can interact each other instead of playing mobile phone. With a better quality of these “on the way” spaces could make our life more interesting and enjoyable.
By LIM CHAU YANG 1001438115
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Space and memory are inspiration. What kind of spaces evoke memory in your? And do these memories create a relationship between you and the architecture? How would you be affected if this space was torn down? Show example of spaces and the real memory and emotion tied to it.
Learn from the inspiration between the space and memory is the machine process and to like to create a journal/story from the human memory. Evoke memory is the space and was happen/accident in passed time to giving a memorable feelings. How people are sad while crying alone at the edge of the corner and how people are happiness while getting touched by others at the large space. Emotional are not just create/give from the human, it’s can create/give from the space and giving memorable in your life. The spaces evoke memory are, happy, angry, sad and lovely.
Living is the big influence evokes memory title in my life and it’s about the living space are needs for the human/me. Space can be stay in positive environment or negative environment. Positive spaces are looked like active movement from the people, open-mindset/ active thinking from the people, language communication with different religion…etc. Negative spaces are like world war, racism issues, polluted environment spaces, abandon space cause from the people who not interested..Etc.
Yes, there is created me to make closer with the architecture and desire to build a good living environment for the people who stay. To let people stay in green/ urban sustainability environments with a comfort zone for their social life. So I would be having a fresh & feeling a home stay in this space and will appreciate the positive matters surrounding with me. Another space is the recycle and reuse materials, there is good to educate for the people to learn how to respect and love their place with the space. Automatically, the environment to be fall in nature and peaceful space create by people. So, it’s can be touch and taste the natural movement such like the fresh air, birds flying, nature sound from environment, clean water at everywhere with no linkage….etc. Less decorative and use more in natural to create architecture/ build a environment.
At Malaysia, the most memorable space is my hometown, Pusing, Perak. It is a small town staying with a lot of elderly people and how enjoying their life at this place. Waking up on early morning to having a good breakfast and speak about the story with their neighbour. Some of elderly people doing morning exercise and reading/listen town news. At night time 9pm, house door to be closed and slept on around on that time. So, the streets will be quite silent and less people passing. They are more concerning body healthy and belief. Less mobility use and high digital technology use apply in this small town. Nature / manual are their primary work skill. So, this was increasing their language communication and belief religion & culture. Deeply touched from elderly people acting and movement where other places don’t have. You can see the kids are bringing happiness and feel enjoying and relaxing if staying on that space. Nature feels is come from their trees which easily to seeing at everywhere. You can touch it and you can smell it. It’s so living naturalism and space memory at there.
By HEW WOOI KEAN 1001335533
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Space is the core of architecture. In order to design, it is necessary to conceive and think about
Architectural space surrounding us by decoding the characteristics of its nature and discovering messages revealed via its built form.
What does it mean? Figuratively, the people who working in a typical furniture design and carrying case of tables, chairs and books normal office space, and another people who working at a office there with soft colours and comfortable seating , sofas, cushions, and create a unique office space for a vibrant. Compare this two working space, the unique office space would be more fun than another one. These good feelings, to make them more focused and concentrate on work, and put this good feeling to create a nice works on the work, and even make their work more productive.
By TOO XIN YI 1001231897
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Public spaces are spaces designed for people to interact with each other and at the same time being socially active. Thus, a public space must be huge enough in order to accomodate a certain number of people.
Market, park, mall, public realm, neighbourhood places are among the common public places that can be found in any suburban area. These huge public spaces create history, memory and story of the local people as time passes, which later on they can bring it to anywhere they go. Thus, they will remember it as a place with a memory in their life.
There are many differences between public spaces and private spaces, in which these two types of spaces must be co- exist to serve people. Public spaces are usually larger in area, which can accomodate many people at one time, whereas private spaces are only designed for one person. Public spaces are more open or has more opening compared to private spaces which is more enclosed in order to ensure the privacy of the owner is being well kept. Apart from that, public spaces has a more common design which can be able to suit the public’s taste, whereas private spaces has a specific design just to serve for the specific purposes.
One of the most famous and well-designed public space is the corridor of the Seoul museum of art which is located in South Korea by ACME architects. In this place, people are able to interact well within the space and carry out their own activities like taking photography, jogging and walking around and have their own leisure time as well. At the same time, this corridor is also wide enough for the people to carry out their activities comfortably, thus able to further enhance the mood of users.
The meaning of corridor of the art museum is determined by the purpose of the art museum and how the it is designed. When there are people walking through the corridor, there are interaction and connectivity between people. People will talk to each other in this corridor when they meet each other, have fun, and sometime having a discussion, a connectivity is created. Memories are formed. A corridor space is than become a meaningful place for people.
Apart from that, a relationship between human and corridor of art museum are created when there is interaction of people with the corridor by doing their activities. The corridor is designed to accomodate people and for them to carry other their leisure activities. Thus, people will feel welcoming and comfortable within the corridor. This can enhance the interaction between people and corridor thus enhance the relationship of people within the corridor.
Photo 1.2: A space of a neighbourhood housing area
Photo 1.1: A space of a garden
Photo 1.3: A space within a shopping mall
Photo 1.1: A space within a market
Photo 1.5: A space of a corridor of seoul museum of art
By Joana Chan Sing Sien 1001335414
Normal office design
Interesting office design
What are the common problems shared by people who work about their office space?
The common problem that are shared among the people that works in office spaces is that they do not possess an environment where they feel comfortable working in. Each individual have their own unique level of comfort, some might like their working space to be neat and clean while some might like their space to be decorated to reach their comfort level. When an individual is working in a space that they feel less comfortable, this will actually affect the productivity of the people. This is because they can't focus and concentrate due to the environment that gives them the feeling of boredom and it might leads to upset or frustration. People are not like machines. Machines can work 24 hours without any rest, whereas we, people need some fresh air to keep us alert, looking at greens to relax our mind and a little private space so that we can liberate ourselves.
Another common problem shared by office people are actually the arrangement of the work space. From the picture above you can see that in normal offices, the most common design used is the grid planning office. Cubicles are arranged in such way that it limits the communication among the employees. A large movement need to be made if a communication needed to be perform which causes inconvenience and is a hassle for the people. Although we are living in such advance technology world, there are always certain things that people have to do it without the technology, by talking face to face. On the contrary, while looking at the picture above on the top right, the interesting office design, the design is a more open concept design. People can have more interaction among one another and the different space quality gives different sense of feeling, thus people will not feel bored and this will result that the productivity level of the people is higher due to the comfortable layout of the workspace.
Why Google offices are more desired compare with other office?
People are always attracted to colourful, contrasting and a more uncommon, unique stuff. This is the psychological effect of the human kind. This is why Google offices are more desired by people compares to normal offices. As you can see from the picture below, the space quality in every room of Google office is different, each spaces have their own identity and uniqueness which made each space so special and comfortable to be in. All the spaces are designed to reach the human comfort level so that the staff can have a more comfortable space to work in which will result that the work they produce will have a better outcome. Going into different environment will actually help to reduce the exhaustion of a person and boost up their energy to finish their day. Feeling enjoy and excited when working can enhance the focus ability thus increase the productivity of the employees.
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In the future architecture is important. Architecture as a designer for human needs. An architect is a licensed professional who organizes space. Architects design houses, office buildings, skyscrapers, landscapes, ships, and even entire cities. In the future, all the houses will be control by using phone and others electronic devices. In the future this kind of house will be called as intelligent house.
Yes. Architecture will be need. Because architect will consider the real situation and try do something good for the society. Architecture can provide a better life for people, and try to give people a better lifestyle. And nowadays architects and architecture students are considerate community and public spaces in their design. It will bring people out from the building to the outside.
By TAN XIN KAI 1001438114
Yes, architecture always evolved during the time. If building is a position space and outside the building is the negative space. In the Chinese tai chi ying yang theory, human should get balance of ying and yang only will to be healthy. How architecture bring people out form the buildings? To bring people out from the building, what we need is a beautiful landscape or park. Where people can relax and play. Most of the property selling are using the beautiful landscape view and name such as Petalz, EcoWorld, Siphonia, and now landscape also part of the consideration of buying a house. Landscape architects are so important today, which bringing people out from the building and also known as better living.
There is where we need architect and landscape architect work together, Seksan is the best example for these kind of design. His projects such as sekeping, 11 gurney, PJ trade center and more.His design make people fall in love with nature, and enjoy the nature. People are mostly liked to take picture with the landscape more than building. Landscape is the space that connect people with people and where people meet others.
The era of internet and electronic gadgets come into the live. Landscape architect become so important which can neutral it. So, in any time or space, architects will also provide good design according to the issues and needs for that peoples.