PUO school of Architecture - Research it first!

Salam Everyone,

Research is and always will be an important concern for people who want to solve problems. As problem solvers, we need to identify the problem, understand it from different angles before beginning to address it.

SEM05’s final project is an Architecture School. This is a good opportunity to start thinking in advance about how to do research. Research is about asking questions and finding answers. Its about being sure of what you want to do based on facts.

For your upcoming project, try this out, answers these questions as a group/individual:

What is Architecture? How do you define it? What is its component? How is it different from construction, how is it similar? Etc…

What is a school? What is an education? What types of education are there? What is Polytechnic Education and how is it different from other types of education, Etc…

What do you mean by an Architecture School? How is Architecture taught at other schools? How should it be taught at the polytechnics? Etc,…

Who are design students? How do they behave? How do students learn to design? Is creativity important, how to be creative? Etc,…

Who are the users of this school? What activity do they do? What spaces are important to promote learning and creativity?, Etc…

Try answering these questions. I KNOW SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS ARE DIFFICULT but try understanding them as best as you can. I am NOT asking you to do an in depth research but just to make you understand the importance of research in understanding a problem. A Simple Research will make you appreciate your design even more.

Now, Research needs data. Data can obtain from reading, interviewing students and lecturers, visits, observing how an architectural school function, etc. Ask these questions, collect data and then try to understand them by making a conclusion before designing your ARCH SCHOOL!

Questions?

DRN

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The Importance of Sketching.

Salam Everyone,

The matter of sketching has been a long debate between Arch/Design students, especially in the digital world. From my point of view, sketching is very important to us in the creative/building industry. Above is a drawing called 'Hand drawing a Hand' by Escher (Read posting Mission Impossible: Escher's World, in Designers@PUO) that I'm using to illustrate the importance of sketching.

Below is an excerpt I found interesting from a PAM's 2008/9 skecthbook. It is from the President of PAM,read on to appreciate the importance of sketching from his point of view: -

A note from the President of PAM,

In this time of computer-aided drawings, computer generated perspectives, and 3D animations, what more with software bearing the name of “Sketch-up”; the physical act of sketching and drawing by hand seems to be losing favour among the younger generations of architects who are more at ease and proficient in ‘drawing’ and ‘sketching’ with the keyboard.

Nevertheless, throughout the history of architecture and up to the present hi-tech age, sketching – the act of drawing in search of ideas and solutions – has always been the repertoire of many a great architect: from the old masters such as Michelango and Lernardo Da Vinci to modern masters like Le Corbusier, Louis Khan, Alvar Aalto, Steven Holl, Frank Gehry, …, etc. These great architects all excel in the art of sketching and drawing.

…Alvar Aalto once declared, “God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it…”

Ar. Lee Chor Wah

PAM President 2007 – 2008 (Architecture Sketchbook 2007-2008).

What do you think?

DRN

Manual VS Computer

Drawings and working drawings are important. But what is more relevant is the knowledge to do those drawings and to put them together. Not the knowledge or skill to use the tools to 'physically draw' those drawings. Your draughting board, pencil, set-square, T-square, technical pen, and computer with all 3d software are just that: tools. Nothing more.

I've heard my lecturers say this so many times and I agree with them totally..
Mastering all the tools are important. However, if you want to be a good architect, the MOST important tool is your HEAD... get your ideas straightened out and workable. If you're just relying on the tools to be successful... 'baik jadik draughtman je'.
I think what they said is quite logical.

So guys, what do you think?

Selamat datang ke McDonalds!

Salam Semua,

Dari Senibina ke Kejuruteraan Awam ke Rekabentuk Grafik, satu elemen binaan yang terpapar di atas ini sering di gunapakai oleh perekabentuk2 pelbagai bidang. Lihat gambar2 di atas, dan cuba kaji elemen ini dari aspek keistimewaanya, kegunaannya, kekuatannya dan bahan2 yang digunapakai oleh perekabentuk2 ini. Elemen ini mempunyai sejarah yang menarik dan ia juga telah berubah bentuk dan saiz mengikut peredaran masa - "Behold the Arch!".

Soalan:
1) Siapakah perekabentuk "the Brazilian wave arch bridge" (gambar diatas)?
2) Apakah kelebihan binaan ini jika dari segi bahan dan binaannya?

(http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/learning_modules/maths/02.TU.03/?section=6)

DRN : )

Brief Project - 2

Salam Sem5..

Projek ke-2 bagi sem5 sesi Dis10 merupakan sebuah projek rehat (break project) untuk pelajar-pelajar sem5. Walaupun dinamakan projek rehat, ini tidak bermakna pelajar boleh rehat sehingga tamat projek 2 ini. Masih banyak yang perlu dipelajari daripada projek ini seperti gaya senibina moden, kajian antraphometrik dan ergonomik, keberkesanan rekabentuk struktur menanggung beban disamping rekabentuk yang kreatif. Cuba selami bagaimana jurutera struktur menyelesaikan masalah pembinaan struktur bagi rekabentuk yang 'superb' dari arkitek-arkitek berbakat di seluruh dunia. Saya pasti anda semua boleh berjaya. Selamat merekabentuk kerusi anda (Da' BENCH).

'If they can achieved in the past, why not us now' -Micheal Scofield-.

Welcome Everyone to Design Sem05

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