Jan
23
This is common issues today related with the safety of construction works. Frank Gehry, one of the famous architect that being sued by MIT for his fatal design (article related), the roof of the mangkang terminal construction that just collapse down and bring down 15 of its workers to the hospital (attached article), and so on. As one of the main contractor here, I’ve already found that there are a lot of factors those can made these things happen, such as mismanagement of the project, low quality of the materials you have used, or even from the wrong design building placed there, or even, you choose the wrong architect for those Read more
Jan
23
Proses desain yg biasa dilakukan untuk membuat gambar desain bangunan secara singkat yaitu sbb:
untuk membuat gambar awal 2 dimensi dan atau gambar bestek, meliputi gambar denah, gambar tampak, gambar tulangan, pondasi, struktur, dll, proses penggambaran dapat dilakukan melalui perangkat lunak erkait (Computer Aided Design) misalnya Autocad.
Selanjutnya, apabila gambar 2 dimensi ini sudah jadi, berkas CAD ini dapat di impor ke perangkat lunak pembentuk sosok 3 dimensi, seperti 3DMax atau 3DViz, dan mulai dibuat model 3 dimensinya. Proses modelling 3 dimensi ini Read more
Jan
20
Permukiman sebagai aspek Fisik dan Non Fisik
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Permukiman sebagai tempat (sarana) hidup manusia dapat digolongkan dalam 2 skala yaitu: 1) Permukiman (Skala makro) Human Settlement, dan 2) Perumahan (Skala Mikro) Housing
Unsur Permukiman
Unsur permukiman itu sendiri yaitu antara lain berupa wadah, tanah / lahan yang digunakan, dan pengisi, penghuni yang terdiri dari makhluk hidup dan benda tak hidup. Permukiman dapat dibedakan menjadi tiga karakter yaitu: 1) More agriculture (traditional countries), dengan ciri pertanian menjadi mata pencarian utama (Irian jaya), Read more
Jan
15
Excursion to Thames Town, Shanghai 2007
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Edited from Ariyanti (2008): “
It was a cloudy Saturday and our group of formerly 14 people has been reduced to 8 from the morning visit to Anting New Town. Exhausted, we found out that Thames Town is really far out from to the other direction, the only way to get there was with a cab, since our limited Chinese, we asked our friend to instruct the taxi driver how to get there. After another 40 minutes ride, we arrived at the compound, surrounded by fences, waterways and empty boulevards, the town was a place separated from its surrounding.
Jan
13

Professor Kenzo Tange was a Japanese maestro architect, famous by his impressive modern-structural masterpieces (later known by name “High-Tech” modern style). High Tech is architecture design style that exposed the building construction’s structures as a part of the design aesthetic. Tange’s works including the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (1st place in design competition), Summer Olympics stadium complex in Tokyo, which the design is like a stringray fish form (Pritzker Prize citation as “among the most beautiful buildings of the 20th century”), Tokyo Cathedral of Saint Mary, and Tokyo Master Plan, which concept to re designed the Tokyo city, OUB Center, OUB Plaza in Singapore, also master plan to re-designed the Plaza Place d’Italie, in Read more
