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[11 Sep 2008 | One Comment | ]
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The Plan-less Concept is strongly related to Catalytic Planning; both being strategic approaches. Although referred to as Plan-less, but this does not mean that the planning was conceived without any thoughts or considerations. This planning model does not, in the end, come up with an actual plan as regular planning models do; its end result, instead, is a spatial program.
This type of planning model can be used to restore functions, and control planned zones that have been violated. The consideration towards implementing this concept is the characteristic …

Moral Responsibility, Revitalization, research studies, sustainable architecture, urban design »

[21 Aug 2008 | 9 Comments | ]
City’s Future = Slums?
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Word by word suffocated my lungs and so they hung there, limped and numbed. The scattered houses down bellow are a jungle of undeniable truths of how living squatters in Indonesia’s biggest city, Jakarta is conditioned. I am sure if you open the car window you would smell the bad odor rousing from down there. Haphazard developments of housing on unattended or under disputes of ownership lands are what had happened to form these squatters.

Moral Responsibility, architecture, research studies, theory of architecture »

[16 Jul 2008 | 14 Comments | ]
Form follows function or function follows form?
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Which one comes first, “form follows function”, or “function follows form”? This is just like how we can compare between egg and chicken, which one comes first, egg, or chicken?
Form follows function is a principle associated with modern architecture and industrial design

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[12 Jun 2008 | 2 Comments | ]
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Regional Planning
Planning, if it is to be successful, must start at the beginning. The beginning, according to Wright’s approach, is the total situation of a village or a metropolis in its statewide and multi-state