May

30

Re-thinking the garden city: Creating city in the city

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Konsep “Kota dalam Kota” di Kota Semarang

 The old concept about “garden city” (Ebenezer Howard, town planner and English parliamentary member) that stated that city for living, city for working, should be held between commercial areas, is just an ancient theory, and cannot be implemented today because of it has cast a lot of problems. newgardencity.jpgThus because of this concept was already developed in many cities, including organic cities. Read more

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Feb

13

Fengshui: logic or not?

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cover.jpgThere are a lot of controversy explained about the logical aspects of fengshui, one of them do believe that fengshui as a guidance, and at the other side did not believe with this fengshui. Fengshui often related with mystical and irrational legend, and among almost unbelievable world, so people sometimes get scared to learn about this thing.

Fengshui based on the empirical notes and literatures. In order to keep exist, fengshui experts at the past (called: Geomanser) used the marketing and symbolism in fengshui, to tell about about mystics and irrational worlds in its languages. So, this symbolism style of marketing creates a normative culture, such as do and Read more

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Jan

28

The existence of Semarang Diponegoro Park, Today

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tmn-dip.jpgDiponegoro Park (Taman Diponegoro), located in Semarang city area, have significant change from its function for the park and one of node area there. The difference happen from the past and today with its main function, as was activity here used to be an active park. Later on, this place had just become a passive park. At the early 1900’s Read more

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Jan

23

Tutorial awal proses gambar desain bangunan

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tutacad.jpgProses 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

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Jan

13

Kenzo Tange and His High-Tech Masterpieces

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kenzotangedesign.jpgkenzo_tange.jpgProfessor 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

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