"edukasi"

"what is education without enlightment?" - FLWright,1957

ungkapan yg di ucapkan oleh FLW...sama pada masa negara kita mencapai kemerdekaan...

tapi hingga kini aku masih tertanya2 adakah "education" yg aku dapat/pelajari drp sistem "edukasi"* kita masih lagi di momok dengan "lapisan luaran" sahaja...

*nota: kalau "location" boleh diubah menjadi "lokasi", kenapa "education" tap boleh jadi "edukasi"; maaf kerana bahasa aku lemah; aku ambil LKM800X

aku sering mempersoalkan kenapa pelajar2 lepasan SPM kini kurang bertanyakan soalan secara terbuka bila dlm kuliah...ye la...bila aku yg mengajar di depan pula kini aku tahu bagaimana penatnya bercakap sorang2 selama 3 jam tanpa respon... sistem satu hala lebih menjadi ikutan...pelajar2 lebih suka mendengar apa yg mereka mahu dengar, dan selebihnya hanya mendiamkan diri...cuma apabila tiba masa untuk beredar, barulah datang seorang demi seorang dengan skrip yg sama; "sir/encik/bro. ...saya tak faham la tentang bla! bla! bla!.."

bukan aku sombong atau pun bongkak...tapi aku selalu terangkan kpd mereka yg aku lebih suka menjawab sebarang pertanyaan / musykil secara terbuka semasa kuliah...ni bila aku nak tutup buku je baru nak tanya...

sebabnya: idea pembelajaran yg aku paham (sekarang la... ) adalah secara berkongsi pendapat dan pertanyaan...jadi kalau pertanyaan dibuat secara terbuka, makin ramai orang yang dapat "limpahan" drp pertanyaan itu...

lagi pun kekadang tak larat gak nak jawab soalan yg sama berulang kali...

masalah malu bertanya dlm kuliah ni, setakat yg aku tahu adalah perkara yg sama aku alami masa lepas SPM dulu? tahun 1988...sekarang dah 2009...maksudnya 2009-1988=21...

dah 21 tahun berlalu, tapi masalah masih lagi tak dapat diselesaikan...

kenapa pelajar2 (yang aku pernah alami la...org lain aku tak tahu le pulak) kita malu/segan nak bertanyakan soalan / pendapat dlm kuliah....

apakah sistem pembelajaran peringkat menengah kita salah?

atau mungkinkah kesalahan itu berpunca dengan sistem pembelajaran peringkat lebih bawah?

dimanakah "enlightment" dlm sistem "edukasi" kita?

p/s: sejarah akan dibaca mengikut apa yg kita tulis....

u have been TERMINATED!

2009...nothing is being updated here...

busy or lazy...

my association with twintech ended the year 2009....

staff o291

19/9/01 - 13/5/09

i wish to thanks all the present and previous collegue in helping me from the first day...

any how ...i would like to convey my apology for any difficulties caused by my action...

FABE...i salute you!

p/s: any body want to buy my ISO file?...heheheehh

Seni Bina atau Bina Seni...

aku dah lama nak citer tentang isu ni......ari tu dlm the star ader tunjuk gambar yg org solat kat luar masjid...ruang solat hanya utk 700 org ...dahle buat masjid glamour ..lak 2 org nok gi solat situ..pahtu 'space' dok muat pulok...agaknye org nak solat kat luar sebab nak tgk kilauan krystal tu kut...

semalam dlm life focus (the STAR) jugak ade kluar dlm ruangan pojok oleh Dr. Tajuddin pasal masjid dan taman ketamaddunan islam...

http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2008/2/17/lifefocus/20262893&sec=lifefocus

..bukan aper..aku cuma nak tahu sape agaknye arkitek yg design masjid krystal ni...ntah berapa banyak pulak pembaziran wang untuk menyelesakan makmum dlm ruang-ruang dalaman...
lepas baca tulisan dr. taj...aku teringat balik isu yg ditimbulkan oleh DR. SYED ALI TAWFIK AL-ATTAS tentang konsep kereta islamik...(islamic car) yg dicadangkan oleh proton, joint venture dgn iran...ada ruang untuk simpan al-quran, ruang untuk simpan tudung, alat penunjuk arah kiblat...bla..bla...

http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/arkib.asp?y=2007&dt=1118&pub=utusan_malaysia&sec=rencana&pg=re_05.htm&arc=hive

sama la mcm projek taman tamaddun islam....bina je satu..dah blh kira "islamic"....
aku bukan anti agama..tp kadang2 kita terlalu nipis pemikiran yg dianugerahkan untuk berfikir....(soalan drp wan b masa lecture theory dulu selalu aku ingat...how do you know that you're thinking...)..fikirkan lah...

p/s ..soalan drp wan b masa lecture thoery dulu selalu aku ingat...how do you know that you're thinking.. :roll:

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aku nak tambah skit; alhamdulillah masa inspiration workshop/seminar; aku dapat bertanyakan beberapa soalan tenntang binaan masjid ini dan tentang "taman tamadun islam"...beliau drp urbanisma consultant group ; mr julian paul harding atau nama islamnya julani paul harding...he is an aussie...being in malaysia for several years until now is the associate director of urbanisma...

i did asked him "personally" what did he felt on the projects...well he did agreed that some of the things being manipulated in the idea of the project was beyond his control...we shared some good information on certain things...as his a very wonderful person, friendly and very imformative...

the things that makes me wonder is why those "decision maker" alias "policy holder" is not aware and being sensitive enough in executing these kind of project....

learnt we are not...

Design Process

All processes will begin with research leading to an “architectural” concept that guides the layout of the space with relationship to the program. After completion of this, and only after, may theme or metaphor be used to articulate the space.

Concept Development Process:
Concept: A plan or intention; a conception

1. Do research on building type – including floor plan analysis of successful examples.
2. Develop client profile based on the brief and including the criteria for design success – what absolutely must be accomplished in the new design for the client if it is to be successful.
3. Develop programming diagrams – adjacency matrix, bubble diagram, and zoning diagram. Zoning diagrams are to be zoned on some progressive criteria – security, public to private, natural to artificial light.
4. Look at bubble and zoning diagram in relationship to the base floor plan for the space being designed for.
5. Develop a concept in relationship to the results of programming and the floor plan. Students look at these things together and evolve a concept, e.g. centralized scheme, radial scheme, assymetrical balance. There’s an intuitive leep, yes, but then there’s a relationship between programming and concept development. A minimum of three concepts should be developed – these should be critiqued to arrive at a single synthesis of the best ideas in each of the three.
6. At this stage the use of architectural precedents could also be usefully employed. Further, the pattern language should be used in every case to ensure the students think about the interactions of space and events (and meaning). The seven principles of Universal Design could also be used in a meaningful way to guide the development of a responsive design.
7. Develop multiple schematic designs, more or less to scale, in softline form.
8. Build physical models of important aspects of the spaces with furniture. This will give the students a sense of 3D reality. In the near future Sketchup will be used from the concept development stage to develop a sense of the 3D feel as well.
9. Only once the design has been evolved in this way should CAD – a design documentation tool – be used.

The Importance of Design Studio Instruction : Tom Mitchell's Design Blog

Friday, January 26, 2007

The Importance of Design Studio Instruction

Traditionally the design studio has played an important role in the development of generations of designers – in architecture, interior design, product design, and other fields. Students would spend long hours in the studio setting which became a home away from home for many. Comfortable chairs, cots, and refrigerators are regular features of design studios. In such settings, students worked in a “guild like” way under the direction of an instructor (“master”) who conveyed his or her experience in a practical way. Design students learned by doing – and they often gained as much through interaction between students as their projects evolved as they did from their instructor.The value of this form of education was highlighted after the move to computer-aided designing. Whereas before students worked in a collaborative way through physical models and sketches – evolving a design – when CAD began being used as a design tool the design development process was often “shut down.” Students arrived at designs individually, in their heads, and jumped straight to the design documentation phase. The result? Designs devoid of richness and development. Such designs, further, often reflected a lack of an understanding of the process of interaction and use. In other words, with CAD as a design tool you get nothing of quality, precisely.From this experience – shared in many design fields – the importance of collaboration, making the design process explicit, evolving design through a series of visualization techniques, and testing it through prototypes before commiting to design documentation is clearly demonstrated. Further, this experience suggests that other fields that may not yet have a studio culture, such as Human Computer Interaction Design, might benefit from adopting the studio approach as the method of attaining the richest, most responsive results. Even immaterial experience can be embedded in forms that act as catalysts to interaction. The design studio – viewed this way – is an essential context for the future of all forms of design, not simply a relic of history.
Posted by Tom Mitchell's Design Blog

my new year's wish(es)

my new year wishes for
knowledge, competency & innovation

1. an architecturally comprehensive "studio"..


2. an architecturally "state of art" library..


3. no more "sick classroom"..


4. transportion for architecturally visit


5. sponsored architecturally events..

wish for the best..but at this present condition..expect for the
worse.....pishhh...pooshhhh....

diparch review dec07

recently we had the design review for the diploma student... the result are as listed below:

• sem 01 - non talent but potentials young designers - stay hungry (architecturaly of course..) - casuality:1



• sem 02 - big gap between good + hardwoking designers (girls) and average + lazy = not serious (boys) designers - casuality:2



• sem 03 - a lot of improvement form this batch ...keep on going! - casuality:1



• sem 04 - are your learning curve is mellowing down or what?...buck up or ship out..-casuality:2



• sem 05 - the young and not so dangerous...some can stand the pressure but a lot of you just melt down and get carried away emotionally...a lot of blood and tears in this batch...-casuality:8

Richard England_Definition of Architecture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRyVPd_nqng

external reviewer..

architecture or design is subjective...it is an art that will triggers individual or group's opinion..nevertheless, it is quite common trying to minimize this impact on the projects / works...but do not forget that it is an art of tangibility and we need the outsider to help us to be more sensible in our design..

Learning – a life long process

Learning is usually thought of interms of “learner” and “theacher” in a specially equipped places called “classroom”.... But actually it is an activity that take place whenever an individual responds knowingly to a stimulus....“learning” philosophically means acquiring new knowledge, skills and even wisdom....

Consequently, it can or might occurs any where a stimulus may be encountered ....That means every setting should have an educational potential....The idea is that when more than one person is present the “potential” is increased (as we do came along with different experiences and perceptions)....That means all the arrangement of space should employ all the available recources to expedite and enhance the learning experience...

We could increased the educational potential of many other places simply by making certain of their nature of function is unstandable to anyone who encounter them....This is a learning process that can be materially influenced by appropriate design features....The stimuli of learning resources that may be provided will vary greatly with the setting of the “learner’s room” which to intensify the learning experiences....What ever the level of stimuli, the ambient conditions must be suitable i.e with appropriate lighting, acoustic, ventilation and a safe place to sit or stand in comfort in order to absorb the information....

learning can occurs when ever there is a source of information....there should also be more non academic “spaces” where the “learner” can interact ....as these “spaces” should not be viewed as merely utilitarian adjuncts of the teaching spaces themselves....there are an integral part of the educational setting....therefore the layout must be designed to foster out-of –class learning just as the “education spaces” must be designed to foster in-class learning.....

to be a learning center and a complex of social organization, it must serve the purpose of a “campus” ; where ever the location is ....

dparch final project overall review

overall, the sense of "passion" totally disappeared from the student's. work..none seems to enjoy doing what is called the essence of architecture course..which is "design"...the same "soft" issue (for sem 01) or blatant mistakes (for higher semester level) is being repeated..the "unpresentable" presentation method is used...deja vu all over again..

..unconscious mind made all the action..remember the zombie?

the verdict:

sem 04 - didn't meet the "requirement" by the standard of "IPTA"

sem 03 - lack of commitment

sem 04 - the standard is decreasing

sem 01 - do not follow all the above!!

dip 04 final project

lost in time...lost in space ...lost in scale...lost in translation...

that is my conclusion upon reviewing the final crit of dparch04 final design project...
from 17 candidates; 5 were OK, 10 were given KO and surprisingly we got 2 absentees ...(may god punished 'em) ...hopefully they got a very good reason for not attending the final crit...

17 - 5 = 12

12 individuals whom were given 2 months of time; didn't manage to present a decent design proposal...to the extent that some were not even know or forgot to indicate where is the main entrance to their's design...

brief were not fully understand...and some of requirements were purposely neglected...reason and justification are totally disappeared form the design...

lacks of interest...poor attendence...is one of the main culprit (nevertheless between one night CFC & MUFC were dumped out of EC..which is only a minor factor*)

basic and raw ideas were seen in most of the design scheme...which is too late to blossom under just one week's time...

5 candidates barely manages to survive the final crit...reason?...ideas were not really tangible and convincing as they were presented during the conceptual stage...among the five survivors; none is in my "B" list...maybe if they push harder in this one week of presentation time; maybe they will open the "B" door...until yesterday the "B" door is totally sealed and hopefully the 12's also will buck-up and rise to their true capability...

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU

* KOP - you'll never walk alone unless you're BLUES or DEVILS..

floating mosque

melaka

another "floating" type of mosque...

do we need it anymore...

sabah

penang

terengganu

what is a mosque??

does the elements of dome represent islamic ?

what is islamic arch?

http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2006/11/5/lifeliving/15909747&sec=lifeliving

http://www.islamicarchitecture.org/architecture/themosque.htm

PJ once said..

"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business..."

Philip Johnson

(RIP 2005)

dosa siapakah ini...

dosa siapakah ini....

bandingkan 2 imej berikut: pelik tetapi nyata kerana kota yang dibina di kuala kedah mempunyai ciri-ciri yang sama dengan pembinaan kota-kota pada zaman pertengahan di eropah atau tinggalan sejarah dari senibina "moorish" ...sedangkan binaan di kuala kedah tersebut di bina pada abad milenium...tidakkah kita ingin tahu siapakah arkitek yang telah merealisasikan ide ini...persoalannya, mengapakah ide sedemikian yang datangnya daripada golongan professional..sanggup melacurkan "imej seni bina tempatan"...terlalu jauh perkaitannya diantara ruang dan masa di antara kedua-dua imej tersebut...apatah lagi jika konteks persekitaran dan budaya diambil kira...ermmm...sedih dan pilu bila seni pada "senibina" dibuang sehingga menjadi "bina" sahaja...bina apa sajalah...asalkan faktor RM yang dipentingkan...hilanglah "seni" dalam "senibina"...

apakah yang dibayangkan oleh arkitek yang merekabentuk binaan ini...sebuah kota medieval di lokasi perkampungan nelayan di kuala kedah...???..."perlacuran senibina" adalah satu ide yang pernah diperdengarkan oleh seorang pensyarah dan kenalan dari UTM...ide-ide pengamal senibina atau "practitioners" yang bergini sebenarnya seolah-olah menikam dari belakang tentang ide pembentukan senibina malaysia...

apakah yang boleh dipelajari oleh pelajar-pelajar jurusan senibina sekiranya binaan tersebut dijadikan "case study"...sering diperkatakan didalam studio rekabentuk, "your design...the idea is lost somehow interms of form, function and contextual elements"... sedangkan dalam situasi sekarang, apa sahaja boleh dibina asalkan mendapat sokongan politikus atau klien yang sanggup membayar...jadi mengapa institusi pembelajaran sahaja yang sering di"kambing hitam"kan tentang pembelajaran senibina sedangkan situasi "apa yang dibelajar tidak sama seperti praktis"...
banyak lagi binaan-binaan "out of context" yang telah dibina dan mungkin akan dibina pada masa akan datang...
mungkinkah patut dijalakan satu kajian atau satu anugerah "turkey of the year" untuk "binaan yang sewaktu dengannya"...

p/s: ali setan - takkanlah pakai samping, baju melayu...tapi pakai topi koboi?

Ayam Brand Architecture

institutions that privately offering "architecture" education as it is becoming like a very good strategy to initiate incomes..ermm...just by adding the "the text" as part of the program then..ka-blam!...one "architecture-based" program is on the way to the market...basically, this kind of "brand" managed to "mengeliru dan memperdayakan" the student...lot of tales of happiness and successful career path can be achieved thru "the brand"...some were being induced or may i qoute "seduced" to take this path as basically it leads to a "professional" tagline..(aren't we?)...unfortunately, the students now is trapped inside a "bubu" (traditionally handcrafted fish trap made of bamboo)...

they can't afford to get out (1% still managed to squeeze themselves out..) either being told that their "architectural education" is not being recognized by the "board" or technically knock out by the structure of "the brand"...their tales in pursuing "architecture-education" seems like a journey through the middle-ages..(remember the "romanesque" gloomy and dull...) seems like no nody cares about as long as RM is considered..who cares about the non-conforming "LAM" syllibus...just wait until the 3rd strike and then you're out!!!
what is architecture if not about design?..well basically the idea of design as a core subject is a must in every aspect...architecture without studio-life...what a genius!...a non-travelling architecture student?...Philip Johnson (RIP) would chocked himself...

nothing can be exposed to them after a hefty sum of RM being dump just to get the "architecture"...to put them inside "the box"...maybe to "condemmed" them inside is more appropriate...which is the "contradiction" of keep telling them to "think outside the box"...

FLW once said "education is about enlightment"...
finally, the students also play part as the negligence party...don't let "the brand" keep manipulating the system....

Forrest Gump: Stupid is as stupid does...-1994

p/s: still waiting for the "renaissance man" to drop by...

The Ideator

lately, i miss to keep track on the www of one of my x-lecturer or the one that has the "X" factors through out his idea(s) and approach(s)...
the idea of "Memahami Model Penghasilan (Niat Laku Hasil)" is one of the model that is very useful to me...

http://www.hbp.usm.my/1b/ideator.htm

TAPAK = HASIL = NIAT = AKTOR = LAKU=ATURAN

the one an only wan* b

one=wan

Truth Against the World

"what is education without enlightment? It's mere conditioning. And what is mere conditioning but maintaining mass ignorance, the poisoning end of what we call 'civilization'. There is nothing more dreadful, more dangerous, nothing to be more feared in this world, than plain or fancy ignorance. We can see this today in the drift towards conformity. We can see it in the education of modern-mass society. You can blame education for much of this because education has not seen what we have needed as a free people. It has not provided enlightment. It has provided conditioning instead."

Frank Lloyd Wright gave this speech in 1957 to a group of students..

1957 = we declare our independence..

2007 = marks 50 years of the event

i got this problem...students never (0.0001% seldom) ask me after my lecture..when i ask "o.k,..any question?"

everybody either say yes or no...i know, as a first year students this thing happened ..as what i had experienced it during my early years in education..

BUT

that is about 17 years back in 1990..when the petronas twin tower was merely a mode of ideas..17 years and now the same problem occurs to my first year students*..

DEJA VU ?...

someone** up there should do something..as nothing seems to be done to "correct" the "syntax error"...

* terms and conditions applied

**eventhough i mostly aggreed that "you're the navigator of your own destiny"

articles to read...

i got to know dr. tajuddin rasdi only a few years back...somehow there is something about him that i wished would have known or met him or the kind of lecturers* back from my archi-education period...

well as "tak kenal maka tak cinta" ...so try and have a peek into what he got to say..

http://www.atma.ukm.my/senibina/index.html

*i pay my tribute to my ex- lecturers:

• en haidar
• en mi
• pak ku
• en wan b

terima kasih..may allah bless you all..

is this architecture II

yesterday, 3rd of April...around 4:45pm...

the "hard rock" cafe of tago were blewn apart..

luckily the were no casualty...

imagine what if...

architecture is for all...there should be no discrimination to who..where or what you are...

ever heard architecture for the poor?

ever heard Hassan Fathy?

is our "hard rock cafe" a part of the "discrimination"

or is it just a part of the lack of "sense & sensibility"

or can it be because of we are being treat by those who suppose to be "human"

we're all human...(aren't we?)

only god's knows.....

* i once heard this..."sometime those individual in the human resource dept. must learn and act to be more human.."