August 2010
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May 2010
7 posts
I’d like to start a project
by understanding.
there is a void with a history
that needs to be filled with
a different story
I’d like to learn,
through recognizing
what is most important,
and how to give that resonance
to a project in its entirety .
in the way it is put together
and how it is occupied.
I’d like to give the site
a presence and a new memory
Theatre in a Time of Terrorism: Renewing Natural...
Theatre in a Time of Terrorism: Renewing Natural Harmony after the Bali Bombing via Wayang Kontemporer I Nyoman Sedana
The bombing of the Sari Club on Legian Street, Kuta, Bali, on 12 October 2002 disrupted the natural balance that is sought for in Balinese religion. This article shows how a technically innovative shadow puppet performance that responds to the disaster is informed by the...
February 2010
7 posts
spiritual.religious architecture
although its definition might have evolved with time, its existence stems from our inherent need to understand and to reflect. it is an architecture that engages with the metaphysical question of the self and the world (palasmaa).
the project intends to further investigate the common elements found in the architecture of religious spaces with the intention of...
this passage really sums up the reason I started the degree project by looking into religious architecture:
“My interest is not so much in the organised religion, but in the way in which religion uses architecture subliminally, to reinforce the order and certainty it offers. Here the cathedral sends its axis of certainty out into the irregular surroundings, through a sequence of...
architecture references the human body in space
the series is about the space in the human body.
using drawing to familiarize the hand with the memory of the proportion, the axis, and the structure of the human body.
“‘Thirty spokes meet in a hub;
but it is on the hole at the centre that...”
– Lao Tzu in Tao Te Ching
notes
notes from Simon Unwin’s ‘Doorway’
Framing the transient moment, doorways stand as reminders of the ‘between’ in which we live… through human history and across all cultures, doorways have possessed great symbolic power and had ceremonies and rituals associated with them.
Human beings apply geometry to the world. Architecture is a prime vehicle of human geometry. And...
“…the temples and the subsidiary buildings of their sanctuaries were so formed in themselves and so placed in relation to the landscape and to each other as to enhance, develop, complement, and sometimes even to contradict, the basic meaning that was felt in the land. From this it follows that the temples and other buildings are only one part of what may be called the ‘architecture’ of any...
from body, memory, architecture :
At the very beginning of our individual lives we measure and order the world out from our own bodiesL the world opens up in front of us and closes behind.
…to stand upright, with our heads atop our spines…and up derives a set of connotations opposite from down. In our minds left and right soon become distinguished from each other in quality as well...
January 2010
48 posts
materials
light - wood. dark/brown. light+dark
heavy - stone. light/white. heavy+white
fabric, shoji paper, louvres. no glass
book: gathering places
Distinctive in form and detail, Balinese architecture celebrates the concept of gathering, from traditional vernacular architecture to modern homes and resorts. This book explores the features and elements that define Balinese architecture as an architecture made for gathering—pavilions, temples, palaces and village squares—and how these elements reflect the Balinese philosophies of adat...
I. Gates
The courtyard gate is a welcoming element, not a barrier. Gates are also the ‘processing portals’ of Balinese courtyard psychology: they can lead one from one state of mind to another, from the dreamily indifferent to the guarded, as experienced in a Balinese multi-courtyard home
Wijaya, Made. Architecture of Bali: A Source Book of Traditional and Modern Forms
degree project progress
site: just working with site #1.
program: art house - art gallery, with spaces for cultural performance.
Theatre in Bali, Indonesia is more than a distinguished discipline; it is a performance entwined with every day life. Theatre, like all art, is a part of the religion and culture in Bali; thus all Balinese participate in art in some way. Furthermore, music, dance,...
a shadow play
the shadow theater is used to tell stories.
at night, the project should still be able to tell its story, using light and shadow.
Wayang Kulit is a very unique form of theatre employing the principle of light and shadow. The puppets are crafted from buffalo hide and mounted on bamboo sticks. When held up behind a piece of white cloth, with an electric bulb or an oil lamp as the light source,...
Theatre in Bali, Indonesia is more than a distinguished discipline; it is a performance entwined with every day life. Theatre, like all art, is a part of the religion and culture in Bali; thus all Balinese participate in art in some way. Furthermore, music, dance, costumes, and drama are not separate entities, but rather pieces of Balinese Theatre that rely on each other to achieve their ultimate...
The core philosophy of Balinese-Hinduism is to maintain the balance of opposite forces, such as “yin and yang”, ‘male and female”, and “good and evil”. This principle is beautifully reflected in Balinese dance, where movements are repeated on the right and left sides to establish harmony.
Prof. Ken Horii Lecture
few notes from RISD Prof. Ken Horii’s lecture (about Indian rock-cut architecture, ellora caves) during the first week of drawing marathon class:
secular and sacred happens simultaneously
in india, the sacred part of the tree is in the shadows that it cast.
the art of necessity. that level of intensity and integrity is found through the belief in the necessity and the devotion which then...
my degree project board. a place for contemplation (october 2009):
i started my degree project by looking into religious +/ spiritual spaces. asking what, why and how.
its human nature to want to understand, to find purpose, to reflect. about one’s self, about our surrounding.
in the last few weeks, the same questions, the same search, has become more personal.
andy warhol expressed...
drawing series
making the series three-dimensional. layering. cutting through the drawings, the paper or other material. so that they can be read as one.
hegel on culture and globalization →
i am both, but neither one nor the other
can this be reflected through architecture?
program(s)
thoughts about possible program for the site(s)
multipurpose. changes from day to night. gallery for the arts. cultural performance. gathering. meditation. new memorial at site #2
site(s)?
1 - empty lot, formerly sari club +/- 800sqm
2 - existing memorial (in between sari + paddy’s club) +/- 200sqm
3 - empty lot, formerly paddy’s club +/- 340sqm
ideas for drawing series
Bali is famous for it’s artisans in many crafts and stone carving is one of those.
Through drawing, explore and show the process of carving.
carving a space, carving for light, carving a passage, carving a threshold
balinese gates example
Balinese Stone Carving
Also from Pura Tirta Empul, this is an example of the stone carving you will find throughout Bali. While the stone carvings...
The Task of Architecture
” The timeless task of architecture is to create embodied existential metaphors that concretize and structure man’s being in the world. Images of architecture reflect and externalize ideas and images of life; architecture materializes our images of ideal life…
All experience implies the acts of recollecting, remembering and comparing. An embodied memory has an essential role...
body, memory and architecture →
drawing marathon
today is the end of the 9am-9pm, monday to friday schedule of my Drawing Marathon class. we still have to meet from wednesday - friday for the next four weeks, to work on our own drawing series. im going to use this opportunity to work on my dp.
we had a lot of different exercises in the last 2 weeks, and made drawings with charcoal, vine charcoals, ink washes, pastel, and charcoal on gamsol +...
reflections
Gwen Strahle, my drawing marathon professor gave this to us today:
Reflections
i’d like to talk about the perfection underlying life
when the mind is covered over with perfection
and the heart is filled with delight
but i wish not to deny the rest.
in our minds, there is awareness of perfection;
when we look with our eyes we see it,
and how it functions is mysterious to us and...
rituals|dances|bali photos →
book →
island of the gods|materials|culture
tradition|terracotta.stone.wood.carvings.bamboo
carving →
duality |d(y)oōˈalitē| noun ( pl. -ties) 1. the quality or condition of being dual 2. an instance of opposition or contrast between two concepts or two aspects of something; a dualism
juxtapose |ˈjəkstəˌpōz; ˌjəkstəˈpōz| verb [ trans. ] place or deal with close together for contrasting effect