@nightmarecrones As part of the brainstorming tool sih boleh buat gw. Nanti kan lw polish, tambahi, perdalam pake otak sendiri. Yg aneh itu kalo 100% delegating kemampuan berpikir ke AI
pas gue ikutan kelas di Uni of Cph sebelah gue persis tuh bapak2 usia 60 majoring in Musicology, duduk di kelas Transnasionalisme Politik. sebagai mahasiswa, bukan dosen.
Alm. Eko Prawoto adalah salah satu arsitek Indonesia yang paling kami hormati, baik sosok maupun karyanya.
Di saat arsitek lain berlomba bikin gedung setinggi dan semewah mungkin, beliau justru memilih "menunduk" tenang. Membiarkan budaya, alam, dan kreativitas para tukang mengalir dalam karyanya.
Tapi justru kesederhanaan itu yang membawa arsitekturnya sampai ke Venice.
Yuk kita bahas satu karyanya, sekaligus kediaman pribadinya di desa.
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@rdtyarie Hate to psychoanalyze the dead tapi keliatan banget tendensi abandonment blio parah. Friendship kenalan biasa dia anggap tolongan tangan, begitu ga direspon sesuai ekspektasi jd trigger luka dalam. It's a strange situation ...
I'd go further. Farish Noor said budaya tegur-menegur usually doesn't even come from genuine faith, but from the desire to control and the feeling of superiority. It's not that people are being overzealous, it's that they want an excuse to be insulting
it's a very labor involved & technical process that masks itself as "simple". sistem bekisting berlapis² pake specific kind of wood & structural support. ini the real star here is the Japanese concrete craftsman that he employs
makin kesini gw liatin karya²nya Tadao Ando & his after-generation of inspired raw concrete architects tuh yg exceptional bukan forms or massing nya. tapi FINISH & detailingnya. susah tuh bikin concrete yg alusssss gila.
my kost guweh nanti look-nya bakal seperti ini. tapi keknya agak too cold jadi gw mo ganti dindingnya dg MU + pigmen putih. atau ga cat dinding biasa. something lighter & natural
This house in India is quietly making a case Africa should be paying attention to.
Studio Kaha's "House of Symmetry" leans almost entirely on passive design to stay comfortable, private courtyards pulling in light and air, and brick screens doing triple duty: shading, privacy, and thermal comfort, all without a single mechanical system doing the heavy lifting. That's not a luxury add-on. That's the whole strategy.
Now picture that exact logic here, on this continent, in this climate. We live in the tropics. We deal with heat every single day, and yet so much of our newer construction still leans on imported glass facades and AC units to survive a climate our own ancestors already knew how to design around passively. Brick, the very material this house builds its identity around, is something we have in abundance across Africa, clay-rich soil, centuries of masonry tradition, and we're still underusing it in favor of materials that don't even suit our weather.
Add Afrocentric pattern and art into brick screens like these, the same way this project integrated custom artwork into its architecture, and you get something that isn't just climate-smart. It's ours, visually and materially, instead of borrowed.
We don't need to import comfort. We need to look at what already works, and build with what's already ours.
Project: The House of Symmetry
Designed by: Studio Kaha
Principal Architects: Kenil Doshi & Hem Pandya Doshi
Photography: Tejas Shah Photography
Plot Area: 80,000 sq. ft.
More photos from this project INR the thread below.
those thinking of it, that it's a lonely thing yg lo bisa kerjain sendiri, itu benernya delusional. part of the depression self-isolating aspect
maka benernya the key here is to beat that part of your mindset. to regain & nurture connections. easier said than done, though
mungkin jujur kalian2 ini belom pernah had the talks with your parents soal, "Dek, nanti kalo mamah papah meninggal, hubungi nomer2 X Y Z ya, ini buat pengurusan jenazah, itu buat jasa penguburan".
dying is always a socially involved process. ga bisa lw lewatin tuh
gaada org meninggal yg ga nyusahin. apapun keadaan dan penyebabnya, smua org yg udh meninggal pasti membutuhkan bantuan org lain. yakali mau gali makam sendiri, mau kremasi, mau masuk peti sendiri. jadi stop deh narasi "mau mati aja nyusahin" ke org tertentu. smua bakal nyusahin.
sangat noticing bahwa outrage against the femme kind of queer tuh makin ganas pasca 2016 ish pertama kali percobaan mobilisasi identitas kecil² untuk keperluan politik (Ahok). sebelumnya aman damai sentosa kita menghadapi pluralitas. just a fact of life aja