Tag: Kluang
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Utopia or Dystopia (part 2)
Utopia means: “an imaginary place in which the government, laws, and social conditions are perfect” or “a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions” or “an impractical scheme for social improvement” or “an imaginary and indefinitely remote place”. All of these definition are different to each individual in this world, our…
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Utopia or Dystopia (part 1)
Fred Turner explain there are 2 possible dominant future that humankind will face in his paper publish in the digital liberalism in the US. The first one is were human will have the ideal utopian, where we all advance in technology, universal wealth, enhanced freedom, revitalized politics, satisfying community, and personal fulfillment. Or we could…
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Chip City
Signage, Architecture and Getting Lost. In one of the discussion on the masterplan with the students, we discussed about an idea of how technology could liberate us from dealing with the issue of redundant signage and unnecessary billboards in front of heritage buildings in Kluang. In the past, shop signage have been respectful and subtle…
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Start Designing
Start designing Presentation Board for our Workbase. It started with a simple idea from other sources (mostly from Pinterest). It may seem simple, but for me, this is one of the hardest parts of becoming an Archi Student. It must be interesting and at the same time, people must understand your intention through your board.…
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Space Syntax and Site Mapping
Today we had a talk from two invited speakers on the theme of data collection, site analysis and synthesis. Dr. Sharifah of UTM MArch teaching team gave her talk entitled; ‘Space Syntax and the Development of Architectural Studio with Evidence-Based Design Decision Methods’ while Dr. Kristanti of Universitas Indonesia on ‘Site Mapping: An Inquiry’. Both…
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Kluang Site Visit
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Kluang Initial Site Discussion
First discussion on the macro and micro site. The site discussion were about the division of work of students at workbase (smaller groups) and design studio level to analyse and synthesize the site within a macro and micro scale. We look into the initial findings of the site, the action of works for further inquiry…
