Archive for May, 2011


“Architecture is life that should be cherish and nourish.” This is my manifesto that reflects the whole personality and characteristics of the so called “Architecture.” Architecture plays a big role to all people in this world especially to the architects because it touches the hearts of them when a new amazing and fantastic building was able to build by their creative ideas. And sometimes because of the too much love and passion was put on their work, they able to give all their life and soul to their creations.

 

Just like the life of a man, architecture is really important and it should be value because this is the only way for us to know the past and reconnect it to our present life that will help in building our own future. We can also say that “life without architecture is nothing but a piece of junk” because it give us shelter, feelings that we may never felt without this and an influence that this thing can only be the one to do.

 

I couldn’t imagine a life without architecture because we may never have a colorful life if we don’t have this. Life improves as the time passed by just like architecture as every days passed a new style and buildings are able to build and create. But if we never care about architecture it will easily lost selfsame to life’s man, it we haven’t managed it well, in just a blink of an eye it will be lost.

 

“Architecture is allying to the human body parts; eyes, hands, lips, feet, brain and of course, heart because it functions just like them!”

 

Architecture are agnate to eyes because it sees all the events surrounds him and been able to see even the historical events. This is our bridge to the past because it sees the past event and even in our present time.

 

This are hands that functions like man’s hands because it touches the lives of people and adept to express their feelings and all of their experiences by means of physical contact with them. They are lending hands that wanted to help us in times of our misery because if you will be looking to a wonderful structure despite that you’re sad, you will manage to have a smile full of happiness. They can also be your friend even if they didn’t talk and move because they also like humans; it has also feelings and can help you to have a shelter when you haven’t one.

 

Lips than can talk even actually it cannot talk but you will hear what they wanted to say because architecture has life. But means of appearance and texture, it can really tell you what he have experience during his period and by this you can know the historical facts and events.

 

Feet that walk to other places even they won’t move on their place, by means of flyers, internet, books and people. They just influence easily the people around them even if they don’t do anything at all. They can walk to your life and change it in just snap of fingers. Just like what I have experience, because of the different buildings I saw when I was a child, I dreamed of having my own creation that I will be proud of and also my family. That’s why it carved a mark on brain that I wanted to be architect so that I will have my own trademark and name in the field of architecture. I wanted to inspire people and touch their life that may help them to be a better person using the designed buildings of mine. And I wanted to have a designed building that no one has ever built and will be used as a tool to change the lives of everybody. And that’s the whole story behind it, why I wanted to be an architect someday.

 

Just like a man, architecture has also a brain. Why did I say so? This is because it’s storing historical facts of past events and will give knowledge to all people who are studying the past.

 

And last architecture has heart because they can be also hurt, feel happy, excite and other man’s feeling even if they didn’t say so. And maybe Sagrada familia in Spain cries out loud when Antoni Gaudi dies because of his too much love to this structure.

 

That’s how amazing architecture is! Are you amazed?

 

Well if you ask me, I really amazed of architecture that’s the reason why I chose this career because of too much passion of mine in this field to the extend that I wanted to still design even if I am one hundred years old.

 

Also, “Architecture is like a holy artifact that should be treated properly, an all out respect, make an importance to it and give an endless care to it.”

 

That’s how important the architecture is because it should be love, respect and care. Especially if your architect, you really have a big heart to the architecture because it is your source of life, your inspiration and you treated it like your son. And if I became already an architect I will also do the same what the other architects do, they put all their life on this to be able to have a wonderful world to live.

 

But despite of all of the dreams and ambitions of mine, I know I am still thousand miles from what I wanted and so I will never stop in continuing this career until I reached my goals because someday all of the hardships of mine will be worth when I achieve my biggest dream. That is to be an architect!

 

Architecture is my life. Like life, my ideas and concepts should also be improved and evolved to have the distinctive style that lies on me will come out. And by all of these thoughts, I know a priceless design will be able to come out and make my own name in the path that I chose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DECONSTRUCTIVISM: It is the development of post modern from the 1980’s. It has the concepts of fragmentation, manipulating the structure’s surface, distorted shapes, and dislocating the parts of its structure.

Zaha Hadid-

Name: Vitra Fire Station,1990-1994

Architectural Concept: a linear, series of walls

Client: Rolf Fehbaulm, Vitra International AG

Size: 852 m²

Resource: http://www.zaha-hadid.com/education/vitra-fire-station

Daniel Libeskind-

Name: Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco California, 2008

Objective: To exposed the Jewish culture, history, art and ideas.

Inspired: Hebrew phrase ” I’ chaim” (to life)

Size: 63,000 sq. foot

Resource: http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/projects/show-all/contemporary-jewish-museum/

BLOB ARCHITECTURE: is also called as “blobism” which referring to today’s modern buildings where in it is describe as an amorphous, blob-like shape.

Future Systems-

Name: Selfridges Department Store, Birmingham UK

Intention: To evoke the female silhouette dress designed by the famous designer, Paco Rabanne

Purpose: To create an architectural landmark in Birmingham, UK

Skin’s materials: thousands aluminum discs

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blobitecture

Peter Cook and Collin Fournier-

Name: Kunthauz Graz or Graz art Museum

Called as: “Friendly Alien”

Purpose of Built: To celebrate Graz’s designation as the Cultural capital of Europe for 2003

Exhibition: Austrian and international art form from 1960 onwards

Resource:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunsthaus_Graz

MINAMALIST: It is used to reduced the necessary elements. It is described as no ornamentation, bland, and simple. It can be referred to the philosophy of van de Rohe “less is bore.”

Tadao Ando-

Name: Azuma House, Osaka Japan

Materials: reinforced concrete

Size: 57 sqm lot

Resource: http://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Azuma_House

Gwenael Nicolas and Tomuyuki Ustumi

Name: C1 House, Tokyo Japan

Size: 189 sqm

Basic Architectural design’s description: a glass box surrounded by  walkway that connect to its own floor

Resource: http://www.archdaily.com/9542/c1-house-curiosity-milligram-studio/

HIGH TECh/ ROBOTIC: It is somehow reflecting the image of robots by its design and it uses high tech structure that can easily be used by the users.

Norman Foster-

Name: HSBC Main Building, Central Hong Kong

Size: 180 meters high, 47 storeys

Characteristics: absence of internal supporting structure, natural sunlight as the major source of lighting in the building, helps to conserve energy, sea water is used as the coolant for the air conditioned, all floors are made up of movable flooring and it based on feng shui

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC_Main_Building,_Hong_Kong

Richard Rogers-

Name: Lloyd’s Building or Inside-out Building, London England

Size: 289 ft, 14 storeys

Characteristics: most famous and controversial building in UK, it has a gift shop inside this which sells different books, prints and souvenir, and the lifts are placed outside of the building so that you can see the insurers moving up and down

Materials: made of glass and steel framed

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_building, http://www.ukattraction.com/london/lloyds-building.htm

ORGANIC + ARTS AND CRAFT MOVEMENT: This movement was able to show the organic and naturalistic design of a structure. It is somehow related to art nouveau.

Santiago Calatrava-

Name: Tenerife Concert hall, Canary Islands Spain

Characteristics: all- concrete building, it has dramatic roof like a crashing wave,and  it has 1800 seats and a music hall which has 400 seats

Resource: http://www.arcspace.com/architects/calatrava/Tenerife/

Antoni Gaudi-

Name: Casa Mila, Barcelona Spain

Known as: La Pedrera

Characteristics: good example of art nouveau building, it is part of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and owned by Caixa Catalunya

Purpose: He wanted to make the people who lived here  have a communication to each other.

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Mil%C3%A0

MODERNISM: It is a movement that was introduced in the 20th century. It has the concept of international style that is widely used all over the world. Usually the form of their structure is a cube.

Mies Van De Rohe-

Name: Barcelona Pavillion

Purpose: It is for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona, Spain.

Materials: high grade materials like Tinos Verde Antico marble, golden onyx and translucent glass.

Intention: They intended this to be exist only just temporarily however some of the spanish architects reconstruct this.

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_Pavilion

Philip Johnson-

Name: Glass House, 1949, New Canaan, Connecticut

Description: It is a masterpiece that have minimal structure, geometry, proportion and the effects of transparency.

Materials: glass and steel

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_House

BRUTALISM: It si characterized by monolithic forms or massive and usually uses concrete as the materials. It has no ornamentation at all in its exterior.

Leandro Locsin-

Name: Cultural Center of the Philippines, Pasay City, Philippines

Purpose: To promote and preserve the culture and arts of the Filipino.

Logo: to embody the truth, goodness and beauty of our culture

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Center_of_the_Philippines

Louie Khan-

Name: National Assembly Building, Bangladesh

Description: one of the largest building in legislative complexes in the world,and  center for the parliament of Bangladesh

Cost: It cost 1.29 billion dollars

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_Building_of_Bangladesh

POST MODERNISM: Post Modernism has different view from modernism movement. It contradicts all the ideas of modernism architecture. It doesn’t form a cube structure and it is usually in a different shape.

Michael Graves-

Name: Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel

Date Opened: June 1, 1990

Theme: For enterteinment

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_World_Dolphin

Robert Venturi-

Name: Vanna Venturi’s House

Awards: This house won the prestigious Twenty-five Year Award

Description: Constructed as a formal architectural, aesthetics, and historical contradictions.

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanna_Venturi_House

CRITICAL REGIONALISM: It is not actually in the sense of regionalism but actually on the contrary of this, it is on the modernist approach in the premises of local or regional.

Ken Yeang-

Name: Editt Tower, Singapore

Known as: paragon of Ecological Design in Tropics

Size: 26 storeys

Description: It is wrapped by organic local vegetation and it has natural ventilation.

Resource: http://inhabitat.com/editt-tower-by-trhamzah-and-yeang/

Francisco Manosa-

Name: Coconut Palace, Pasay City

Description: workplace for the vice president of the Philippines, this was built for the visit of the Pope John Paul II, and it shaped like an octagon

Materials: coconut lumber, coconut shells and hardwood

Resource:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_Palace

GREEN/ ECOLOGICAL: This architecture aims to minimal the use of polluting materials taht may contribute to the global warming and the use of natural resources in building a structure. This architecture refers to the eco-friendly structures.

Frank Lloyd Wright-

Name: Falling Water, Pennsylvania

Cost: 2.4 million dollars

Characteristics: japanese architecture reflected in this masterpiece,and  it shows the harmony between man and nature

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallingwater

Ken Yeang-

Name: Singapore Science Centre, Singapore

Cost: 55 million Singaporean dollars

Description: It has landscaped facade, rainwater harvesting, and roof gardens, can reduce solar heat gain, waste separation and it can recycling.

Resource: http://www.e-architect.co.uk/singapore/singapore_science_center.htm

LA AVANT GARDE: This movement aims to specialized a building for a specific field that has the reflection of the given field.

Santiago Calatrava-

Name: Bodegas Ysios, Spain

Description: prime example of la avant garde, it is dedicated wine making,  and it is inspired by the wine culture in Spain

Philosophy: The philosophy behind this was to harmonize the building with its environment, the environment that is all the outstanding owing to the Sierra de Cantabria.

Resource: http://www.winesfromspain.com/icex/cda/controller/pageGen/0,3346,1549487_6763451_6784365_4425668,00.html

Frank Gehry-

Name: Marqués de Riscal bodega

Description: It is the second achievement of Gehry after his Bilbao Museum, and this is one of the landmark in Spain.

Resource: http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/marques-de-riscal-hotel-by-frank-gehry#!/photos/2216/1

SKYSCRAPER/ ICONIC BUILDINGS: Skyscrapers refers to tall building that purposely to reach the sky. A building that a height of 80 m can already be called as skyscraper.

William Le Baron Jenney-

Name: Home Insurance Building, Chicago Illinois

Description: it is the first skyscraper to be built, it was destroyed in 1931

Materials: structural steel, cast and wrought iron

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Insurance_Building

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill-

Name: Burg Khalifa Skyscraper, Dubai

Description: it is the tallest building ever built nowadays

Height: 828m tall

Cost: i.5 million dollars

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa

EMERGENT/ BIOMORPHIC: It shows a representation or just as close to the form of a living organism like animals or even plants.

Norman Foster and Arup-

Name: 30 St. Mary Axe “Gherkin,” London

Description: It is describe that its form is like a pickle, it uses energy saving methods, and it was constructed by Skanska.

height: 181 meters

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe

Michael Hopkins-

Name: Dynamic Earth Building, Edinburgh

Description: It is the science centre in Scotland,and the focus of this is to facilitate a public understanding of the processes of the shaped of earth.

Known as: Earth Science

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Dynamic_Earth

FUTURES: Futures Architecture is something that extraordinary or can be also called as weird. The buildings of this styles are like out of this world because it can be in motion and placed in a place that you can never ever imagine.

David Fisher-

Name: Rotating Tower, Dubai UAE

Description:This building can actually move or rotate, it will never appear the same twice, it produce its own energy by using turbines

Purpose: to have a multipurpose such as hotel, residential apartment, and offices

Height: 1380 ft

Resource: http://unusual-architecture.com/rotating-tower-dubai-uae/

Joachim Hauser-

Name Hydropolis Hotel, Dubai

Cost: $500,000,000

Depth: 66 ft

Inspired: Jules Verne tale 20,000 League Under the Sea

Resource: http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail/711.php