“Batik is a the process of writing a picture or decoration on any media by using the wax as a medium to coloring” (International Batik Convention in Yogyakarta,1997).
RAW won 1st prize of Kampung Batik National Design Competition. This competition was held by the local government of Semarang to proposed a new design and idea of the “Kampung Batik”. Kampung Batik is located at North Semarang city near the Old Colonial city of Semarang. It expected to become the center of batik , as well as a new tourist destination in Semarang city.
Therefore, in designing the “kampung batik”, the design focus on the process, stitching layer upon layer, combining the past and the future, making a harmonious design within cultures, people and the environment meet.
There are several issues during designing this Kampung Batik, they are the complexticity of the residential, lack of open space, and ownership of the building there. The realization of the design is expected to be inexpensive and can benefit all parties.
The design is divided into two phases, where at the first phase, the design propose minimal intervention to a few buildings and the neighborhoods, while continuing to raise funds. The second phase, the proposal offers new identity with the replacement of some buildings, building facades and the addition of a large canopy that stands out for the village. We also made some events proposal to maintain the continuity of the Kampung Batik.
Principal : Realrich Sjarief
Collaborator : Randy abimanyu, David Sampurna, Morian Suspriatnadi, Andhang Trihamdani, Suryanaga, Maria Pardede, Indra DN, Mukhammad Ilham
Pada tahun 1932 Alvaar aalto membuat kursi Paimio yang terinspirasi dari bentuk alam yang organik. Pada waktu masa 1920 penggunaan material besi yang dilengkungkan pada desain furniture banyak dilakukan oleh desainer bauhaus [salah satunya marcel breuer]. Teknologi kayu dilengkungkan yang digabungkan dengan unsur fungsional. Usaha untuk menanggapi alam kemudian dipecahkan dalam permasalahan fungsional seperti kenyamanan dan estetika menjadi salah satu pemikiran dalam karya ini.
Desain kursi ini memiliki 2 nama Cendana atau Sliced wood [kayu yang terpotong] yang terinspirasi dari bentuk organik dan citra natural dari bebatuan [sesuatu yang kokoh, berdasar, dan dingin). Dimana kayu memiliki sifat yang hangat sehingga memberikan kenyamanan. Hal ini kemudian diterjemahkan ke dalam lapisan kayu yang disusun secara horisontal dengan celah 30 mm untuk memunculkan siluet yang organik dengan kemudahan sistem konstruksi kayu.Jarak – jarak antar kayu memungkinkan untuk membuat siluet berdasarkan posisi duduk dan kenyamanan, dalam hal ini yang dipakai parameter kursi adalah jenis bentuk sofa. Tiap – tiap lapisan terbuat dari lapisan triplek meranti dengan kulit jati 3 mm difinish bulat di tepian.
Sliced Wood #2
Sliced Wood #1
Sliced Wood #5
Designed by Realrich Sjarief for Biennale Desain dan Kriya 2013 di Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta.
Diri ini merenung mengenai satu kata ” terkenal”, mbak Vivi, Avianti Armand, menulis satu tulisan disini. Kata “terkenal” adalah satu kata yang wajar, kalau seseorang tidak dikenal, maka ia tidak bisa mendapatkan penghidupan, seperti seorang arsitek yang semakin dikenal karena mungkin kapabilitasnya untuk menghasilkan bangunan yang disukai orang yang menunjuknya sebagai arsitek, sama seperti dokter yang semakin dikenal karena mungkin kapabilitasnya untuk mengobati penyakit sehingga banyak orang datang untuk diobati penyakitnya. Di tulisan mbak avianti sepertinya ada kerisauan dengan fenomena cepatnya informasi,atau popularitas sesaat dalam arsitektur, memang suatu alasan yang benar adanya dalam proses berarsitektur yang lebih baik. ini cerita lebih detail ,
ia menulis lebih lanjut :
“Yang jelas, “sindrom terkenal” itu juga mewabah di sini. Terus terang, saya sedih melihat kecenderungan arsitek-arsitek muda tanah air, mangga-mangga mengkal dan umbi-umbi pejal yang belum siap panen, buru-buru ingin jadi terkenal, sehingga rela membayar untuk dibuatkan buku tentang biro atau konsultannya. Padahal, kalau menilik karya-karyanya, saya percaya mereka masih harus menempuh perjalanan yang lebih jauh. Akhirnya kita melihat buku itu sebagai alat marketing belaka. Publikasi harusnya punya bobot berita, bukan sekedar alat pencitraan dan propaganda. Sindrom yang sama, saya duga, juga jadi bensin luar biasa yang mendorong arsitek-arsitek kita untuk berpameran ke luar negri. Dengan mengundang diri sendiri, dengan biaya sendiri, dengan tenaga sendiri. Saya sampai heran luar biasa. Saya tanya buat apa? Jawabannya: untuk menunjukkan pada dunia kondisi arsitektur di Indonesia. Saya tanya lagi, buat apa? Untuk membuka hubungan lintas negara dengan arsitek-arsitek manca negara. Saya tanya lagi, buat apa? Ternyata jawabannya berhenti di situ.” [Avianti]
Ada beberapa 3 hal penting menurut diri ini yang perlu direnungi, mungkin penulis merasa banyak buku – buku arsitektur yang tidak sesuai dengan ekspetasi beliau, mungkin juga penulis mengkritisi mengenai pameran tanpa agenda yang di bawah ekspektasi beliau yang dicetuskan beberapa saat yang lalu. Mungkin penulis hanya berharap mengenai muatan yang lebih baik untuk meningkatkan kualitas informasi terhadap karya arsitektur yang ada. Saya pikir tulisan ini akan membuat satu refleksi untuk berbuat yang lebih baik dalam meningkatkan standar kualitas meski ranah itu adalah subjektifitas orang per orang. Dimana Karya arsitektur memiliki perenungan yang panjang, dan proses yang panjang, yakni 1 tahun sampai karya tersebut selesai kemudian mulai ditempati, 5 tahun, 10 tahun, 15 tahun, 20 tahun, syukur apabila karya arsitektur dianggap begitu baiknya sampai dipertahankan di dalam era yang berubah, ia kemudian menjadi penanda jamannya dan kemudian memiliki pembuktiannya. Oleh karena itu, menjadi arsitek yang baik, membutuhkan kesabaran untuk menghadapi dunia. Saya pikir tulisan ini seakan – akan menantikan keseimbangan yang wajar dimana definisi terkenal didudukkan sewajarnya, berbicara mengenai karya yang terbukti nyaman, terbukti indah, dan publik pun menanti dalam alegori desain yang ada, dalam pembuktian rentang waktu yang tidak sebentar. Oleh karena itu memang diperlukan suatu kesabaran dalam berkarya untuk selalu berbuat yang terbaik hari demi harinya.
World Wildlife Fund for nature (WWF) Indonesia has long been recognized as an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment. The station for Orang Utan Research facility provides the research lab for preserving habitat of orang Utan. It design responds to rational for specific research, encouraging intercommunication and providing flexible, light filled working spaces in which research teams can expand and contact with ease.
The area is 12 hours drive continues by 1.5 hours transport by long boat, in total almost 900 km distance from Pontianak, the nearest city. Thedesign synthesized called for close proximity between laboratories, core support areas, offices, and Bedroom. Two organic wings and one ore frame a linear configuration formed by repetition of triangular shape which we called a practical form which is easy to construct and cheap on the budget wise. This is a philosophy beyond the functionalism which synthesized wood as the only sustainable material which has to be used.
Looking at the extinction of orang utan species, Together with the implementation of this station for research these buildings in the initial proposal hopefully will bring beautiful impact on the architecture of research facilities around the world. Not only have they set new technical standards but they represent an exciting new research environment to live with.
Principal : Realrich Sjarief
Collaborator : David Sampurna, Indra Dwinugraha, Silvanus Prima, Andhang Trihamdhani, Bayu Prayudhi, Morian Saspriatnadi, Anastasia Widyaningsih
Dunia di ITB itu berbeda dengan dunia SMA saya yang homogen. Dunia SMA saya dimana saya dibesarkan di lingkungan gereja katolik, dan daerah Jakarta Barat. Sebagian kawan – kawan saya tinggal di daerah yang sama, dengan radius sampai 5 kilometer.
Saya suka duduk – duduk di sepulang sekolah di tukang gorengan yang kurang populer. Ada dua tukang gorengan, yang satu kurang populer karena tempatnya di dekat SMP yang lebih populer lokasinya lebih strategis, dengan dengan toko minuman. Saya menghabiskan waktu setengah jam setiap pulang sekolah untuk bertegur sapa, menanyakan keseharian tukang gorengan tersebut. Sampai – sampai satu saat saya melihat sepatu tukang ini robek, saya melihat di rumah saya banyak sepatu, dan mengambil sepatu tersebut untuk diberikan ke tukang ini.
Terkadang saya diberikan bonus gorengan, beli 5 gratis 1. Apa yang saya alami di sekolah, tukang ini mengetahuinya, karena beliau ini teman cerita saya. Mulai dari saya kehilangan uang, kisah cinta, atau ketika ujian saya mendapat nilai jelek. Dengan dekat dengan tukang gorengan, saya juga jadi mengetahui jenis – jenis pisang yang dia pakai untuk membuat pisang goreng. Ternyata ada lebih dari 5 jenis pisang. Pisang – pisang tersebut tidak selamanya ada di pasaran, karena ia mencari yang harganya tidak mahal dan juga berkualitas bagus. Dari situ saya belajar dari tukang gorengan yang memberikan pengetahuan yang praktis, bagus sekaligus tidak mahal dengan logika mendasar.
Di ITB saya menghadapi begitu banyak wajah dan latar belakang yang heterogen. Kawan – kawan baru saya ada dari seluruh penjuru Indonesia. Dalam satu bulan saya sudah ketemu kawan – kawan dari Kudus, Papua, Jember, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Nusa Tenggara Barat, dan banyak lagi. Mereka pintar – pintar dan juga bisa berargumen juga punya kegiatan unik – unik dari orator sampai hobi mengumpulkan sampah. Di ITB juga tersedia kelompok minat ataupun unit budaya yang begitu banyak. Uniknya, setiap kelompok memiliki ruang kerja, ruang himpunan. Saya merasa diterima di semua kalangan, di kelompok tersebut. Saya terlibat di Unit Tennis, Unit Tennis Meja, Unit Aikido, Unit Keluarga Mahasiswa Katolik, Unit Badminton, dan Ikatan Mahasiswa Gunadarma, ibaratnya semua yang ada raketnya + keagamaan + organisasi arsitektur.
Uniknya ITB, dengan begitu banyaknya keberagaman, tetep memiliki suasana informal di dalam kemahasiswaan. Ada perasaan bangga menjadi mahasiswa, dengan teriakan – teriakan yel – yel yang ads di sabtu minggu. Sudah biasa kita melihat hari sabtu minggu ada saja orang berkumpul untuk berkegiatan. Mereka menggunakan jaket dengan warna beda – beda. Misalnya farmasi warnanya kuning, geodesi warnanya oranye, Teknik Mesin warnanya biru dongker. Dan arsitek warnanya biru tua. Saya belajar dan menyadari bahwa Indonesia itu begitu kaya.
Setiap hari saya habiskan untuk bermain – main di kampus, saya jarang pulang ke kos – kosan dan juga jarang pulang ke Jakarta. Saya mendapatkan dunia yang lebih luas dibandingkan dunia SMA saya. Sejenak rasa kangen saya terhadap dunia SMA terobati.
Ternyata ada ya kumpulan manusia absurd yang lebih besar dan beragam, dunia ini warna – warni ternyata dengan begitu banyaknya bendera yang berkibaran.
Cibubur Mall Extension and Hotel Development
Features : 2 levels of integrated pedestrian walk and Hotel development consists of 120 luxury rooms with double loaded corridor which offers architecturally balanced between open air pedestrian walk and undulating surface of facade.
Conceptual design of RAW (Former DOT) In collaboration with Andy Prasetyo Architect
Status : Built
Appointment: 2011
Construction Start: 2012
Completion: 2012
Umumnya setiap orang ingin memiliki rumah yang ideal dan nyaman menurut versinya sendiri. Tiap – tiap orang dilahirkan dengan latar belakang yang berbeda – beda, ada yang berasal dari keluarga yang memiliki satu budaya tradisional yang kental, atau keluarga yang memiliki budaya yang bermacam – macam seiring dengan perjalanan keluarga tersebut ke banyak tempat dengan budaya baru. Dari latar belakang ini kita bisa mengenal, mengerti, kemudian memahami nilai yang dianut oleh orang per orang, dimana setiap orang dilahirkan untuk menjadi seseorang unik. Seorang anak kecil mungkin akan menggambar rumah dengan jendela yang kotak, atap yang miring dengan pintu di depannya, mungkin ia akan menambahkan matahari dan awan di atasnya. Rumah adalah cerminan dari hati dan impian seseorang yang dibentuk dari saat ia anak – anak. Menurut Robert Forest salah seorang penyair yang saya kagumi,’Home is the place where, when you have to go there they have to take you in. Paragraf permulaan ini adalah tulisan untuk mengenal siapa klien kita, yaitu orang – orang dengan pribadi yang unik di tengah jalinan budaya yang ada.
Red house adalah satu rumah yang didesain William Morris (1834-96). Dimana ada satu keinginan untuk mendesain ruang yang ideal dimana orang – orang bisa berbicara di pojok – pojoknya dan orang – orang lain bisa makan di pojok lainnya, tidur di pojok lainnya dan kemudian berkerja di pojok lainnya. bentuk konstruksinya ditampilkan begitu jujurnya sehingga menginspirasi banyak arsitek setelahnya dengan kejujuran bentuk konstruksi sebagai intensi utamanya.Louis Mies Van De Rohe, Philip Jonshon, ataupun Norman Foster menjadi beberapa arsitek yang mengikuti Intensi William Morris dalam pengolahan bentuk – bentuknya. Dalam perjalanan karirnya, seorang arsitek hidup dengan melayani kliennya dan mencoret garis dengan pengalaman hidupnya, ia tidak hidup sendirian.
Apabila satu desain bangunan menyebabkan pemilik rumah sakit – sakitan karena udara yang lembab akibat dari ruangan tidak mendapatkan sinar matahari,dan ada ventilasi dimana terjadi ketidak nyamanan karena ketidak sesuaian dengan kebutuhan pemilik. Saya pikir itulah satu kesalahan. arsitek itu sebuah profesi yang melayani, profesi yang melayani masyarakat sebaik – baiknya. Mendesain denah untuk mendapatkan cahaya langsung yang memiliki intensitas cukup namun tidak panas, dengan pertimbangan mengenai sudut datangnya sinar matahari, dengan pertimbangan mengenai bagaimana bentuk bangunan yang inovatif terhadapnya. Angin pun memiliki peranan penting dalam sirkulasi udara silang yang sehat di iklim tropis, kita pun membutuhkan udara segar untuk hidup, sirkulasi udara silang mutlak sangat dibutuhkan, ditambah dengan usaha untuk memenuhi aktifitas pemilik rumah dari aktifitas menjemur baju, aktifitas relaksasi, aktifitas melakukan hobbynya. Aktifitas itu tumbuh menjadi arsitektur ditengah – tengah tarikan peraturan bangunan yang ada.
Le corbusier ataupun para pendeta arsitektur tradisional sudah mengajarkan banyak dengan 5 prinsip , bangunan melayang di atas tanah [pilotis], denah yang fleksibel terhadap perkembangan jaman, tampak yang fleksibel [bebas dari elemen struktur], pandangan untuk menikmati alam, atap yang mengkompensasi area hijau yang diambil lahan. Saya melihat kita hanya perlu berkerja sama dengan alam dengan teknik, teori, keahlian kita dalam desain bangunan.
Sekarang ini trend fungsionalitas, satu paham yang oleh banyak orang di sebut minimalis menjamur, sebagai alat untuk berjualan, sebagai satu pendekatan desain yang disukai. Sebagai salah satu paham desain, ada yang menyukai ada juga yang tidak. Salah satunya adalah orang di depan saya, yang mengajak saya berdiskusi pada waktu itu, ia adalah seorang mahasiswa,
“Jadi desain yang minimalis itu tidak apa – apa ya pak ?” tanya satu orang adik pada waktu itu.
“tidak apa – apa” saya jawab. Diri ini berpikir, minimal adalah sekecil mungkin, mungkin yang dimaksud adalah satu dorongan untuk mengefisienkan desain bangunan karena tuntutan dari naiknya harga lahan, mengecilnya plot bangunan, dan semakin kompetitifnya iklim di dunia kerja mengakibatkan dorongan ekonomi pada proses arsitek dengan klien oleh karena itu hal ini bisa terjadi.lalu “apakah itu salah ?”
“Memang semua itu harus maksimalis ?” saya balik bertanya. Mungkin apa yang dibicarakannya menyangkut satu style yang diambil dari pergerakan international style, desain schroeder house dari Gerrit Rietveld yang berkembang terus di seluruh dunia, tidak hanya di Indonesia. Tidak hanya arsitek yang melihat ini, klien kita pun melihat. lalu apa ?
Tidaklah perlu kita mengeneralisasi apa itu arsitektur minimalis, maksimalis, dekonstruksi, neo modernism, post modernism, yang saya tahu hanyalah arsitektur yang baik yang dimulai dari coretan garis oleh arsitek berdasarkan kebutuhan klien. Yang kita perlukan adalah satu pemikiran yang mendalam selain provokasi like or dislike, yaitu analisa mengenai kebutuhan manusia dan pemecahan kebutuhan – kebutuhan tersebut yang merupakan solusi dari praktek arsitektur. Ini yang saya sebut arsitektur yang responsif dengan segala sikapnya untuk menghargai alam, menjaga manusia dari ketidaknyamanan, sekaligus mendekatkan manusia untuk menjejak lekat dengan bumi.
Kembali Satu saat yang lalu dimana saya bertanya kepada satu orang di depan saya“apa kemauan klien anda ?” tanya diri ini, kemudian mungkin pemuda didepan saya ini bingung tidak menjawab seakan – akan kita hanya berpraktek tanpa klien. Arsitek adalah seorang pendeta, ahli dalam seni, konstruksi bangunan, ya kita kan punya klien, perlunya kita berkomunikasi dengan klien kita, berdiskusi, berkerja bersama – sama, sentuhan anda dibalik keinginan klien menghasilkan karya yang kalau ada di Indonesia, jadilah ia Arsitektur Indonesia. Coretan – coretan desain yang dicoretkan arsitek berdasarkan kebutuhan seseorang bukan hanya berkerja sendirian akan mewarnai satu karya arsitektur, dengan intensi coretan desain yang seresponsif mungkin menurut saya akan menjanjikan satu kebolehan kita, dan daya tawar kita kepada pengguna jasa kita.
Yang terjadi pada akhirnya, kepercayaan itu akan muncul dan anda akan dinilai oleh orang lain bukan hanya oleh diri sendiri, oleh karena itu buka mata hati, telinga, dan intuisi, di setiap goresan pena Arsitek, selalu ada tanggung jawab.
Tulisan ini dipublikasikan dalam majalah Baccarat Indonesia edisi January – February 2014
Tulisan ini dipublikasikan untuk Baccarat Indonesia edisi pertama November 2013
Satu saat saya ingat beberapa tahun lalu saya berjalan – jalan ke satu rumah tinggal milik kenalan saya, dulunya dinding itu penuh dengan pot – pot tanaman yang ditempel di dinding setinggi 6 meter, pot – pot itu disusun selang seling menyerupai pola bata, dengan teknologi penyiram air berupa selang – selang kecil yang melilit pot – pot tersebut, bahan pot tanaman itu sendiri terdiri dari kayu yang disebut kayu bengkirai dari Kalimantan, atau sering disebut kayu damar laut dari Sumatra, kayu itu termasuk kayu golongan kayu keras. Namun Sekarang pot – pot itu hilang, kayunya pun sudah berubah warna, dinding yang yang tadinya rimbun penuh pohon, kini hilang tanpa bekas. katanya sulit untuk merawatnya meski sudah didesain dengan teknologi penyiraman yang baik.
Peter Blanc, seorang arsitek lansekap dari perancis dikenal sebagai desainer yang memainkan elemen tanaman yang disusun vertical atau dalam bahasa perancis disebut mur vegetal. Ia dikenal di tahun 2009 sebagai salah satu orang yang memodernisasi tanaman vertical, sehingga mendapatkan gelar satu dari 50 inovasi terbaik di dunia keluaran dari Time Magazine. Ia berpendapat Desain yang hijau itu tidak hanya berhenti dari penampakannya saja yang hijau dengan tren vertical garden, satu museum di kota Madrid yang bernama Musee Du Quai Branly hasil dari kolaborasi desain dengan arsitek Jean Nouvel menjadi salah satu icon keberhasilannya, bagaimana kita mengapresiasi alam dengan dinding vertical garden menciptakan efek visual yang menarik mata. Lebih lanjut lagi Peter, menarik esensi dari vertical garden melalui pemilihan tanaman – tanaman yang sesuai dengan lokasi, dan iklim, sehingga tanaman tersebut bisa hidup secara natural, tidak hanya manis dipandang mata namun mudah dalam perawatannya.
Kembali ke kenalan saya, setelah saya lihat – lihat, memang dinding yang tingginya 6 m itu merepotkan karena membutuhkan usaha ekstra untuk merawatnya, ditambah lagi kesibukan kenalan saya ini yang merupakan seorang pengusaha, Mungkin pada waktu dinding itu didesain sedang ada tren / lifestyle / design style untuk menutupi wajah dinding dengan tanaman. Namun setelah saya lihat lebih lanjut memang, tanaman yang dipakai yaitu srigading adalah tanaman yang membutuhkan cahaya matahari langsung sedangkan tempatnya adalah cenderung tertutup di void bangunan dimana di atasnya terdapat skylight kaca, juga ditambah lagi kenalan saya itu yang memang tidak bisa merawat tanaman dan ia tidak mencintai tanaman, namun ia ingin dilihat sebagai pencinta tanaman, seseorang yang mengikuti trend. Kita perlu bertanya jujur, apakah kita benar – benar membutuhkan itu ? kalau seorang pencinta taman akan berkata lain. Saya berpikir memang desain itu sesuai dengan individu – individunya, sejujur apa kita dalam menginginkan sesuatu.
Konsep Desain yang hijau / green adalah desain yang bisa hidup senatural mungkin, ia berbicara menurut fungsinya yang sejujur-jujurnya, menurut saya desain pun demikian, ia pun harus peka terhadap esensi dasar bahwa segala sesuatu pada dasarnya harus berjalan secara natural. Satu arsitek dari Australia, Glenn Murcutt , ia memulis bahwa arsitek hanya membuat sebuah wadah, dengan alam sebagai inspirasinya, matahari, aliran udara segar, dan keinginan manusia untuk selaras dengan alam. Saya pikir begitupun dalam rumah tinggal. Sebagai manusia kita perlu bernafas, pentingnya sirkulasi udara yang masuk ke bangunan upaya udara tidak lembab, saya sendiri pernah mendesain satu rumah dengan satu cerobong angin di tengah rumah itu, tempat dimana udara segar bisa masuk secara terus menerus 24 jam. Semuanya dimulai dari kebutuhan dasar yang memang dibutuhkan oleh manusia yakni kita sendiri.
Kayu jati yang terbaik adalah kayu jati yang tua, berumur panjang, bukan jati muda hasil dari hutan produksi. Dari situ jati tua dihargai karena urat kayunya yang indah, kekerasanya dan ketahannya terhadap waktu, juga warnanya yang muda, urat kayunya mengalir seperti air. Dari situlah kita tahu bahwa kayu jati itu adalah kayu yang mahal dan memiliki nilai seni tinggi dengan alam sebagai pembentuknya. Hidup pun begitu, Tisna Sanjaya, memberikan pesan supaya hiduplah seperti pohon, jangan hidup tergesa – gesa. Ini mungkin salah satu pemikiran yang membuat kita perlu merenung sejenak untuk kemudian menjalani hidup kita sehari – hari dan senatural mungkin.
” The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn’t use their imaginations to think of the impossible.”- Pete Seeger. Tulisan ini untuk membagikan pada dunia, mengenai nafas kesedihan ataupun nafas kebahagiaan, hal – hal yang terduga dan yangtidak terduga, yang membuat hidup seperti mengumpulkan koleksi kupu – kupu. Tentunya yang terbaik yang diambil untuk direnungi kembali untuk apa kita disini.
25 July 2012
Ini acara Summer Workshop yang baru dilakukan di RAW yang diisi oleh Ivan Nasution dari CSAC National University of Singapore dan Rizki Supratman [OMA].
Ini detailnya :
Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. — Thomas S. Kuhn
Dalam sejarah arsitektur, keragaman paradigma dalam desain adalah salah satu cara untuk melihat keragaman dalam berarsitektur. Dimana kita menjadi manusia yang lekat dengan tradisi berpikir, berargumentasi, pemilihan keputusan desain berdasarkan pertimbangan – pertimbangan empiris dan rasional yang matang. Proses untuk mencipta ini yang kemudian menjadi penting, karena adanya kekreatifan dalam proses mendesain. Proses dimana kita bisa mendapatkan pelajaran yang lebih baik, sehingga untuk pada saatnya mendesain nanti bisa memberikan desain yang lebih baik dibandingkan sebelumnya. Proses berpikir ini yang kita coba gali dari dua orang dari generasi muda, Ivan Nasution dan Rizki Supratman. Ivan yang berkerja di NUS [National University of Singapore] dan Rizki yang berkerja sebagai di OMA [Office for Metropolitan Architecture] satu biro yang didirikan oleh Rem Koolhas. Sharing pengalaman dari kedua orang ini diharapkan bisa membawa dialog yang akan membawa peserta untuk memahami dunia arsitektur lebih dalam dalam lingkup teori dan praktik.
02 February 2014 I’ve just got a wonderful quote about facing our life with smile and planning ”
Whatever happened in the past is over. Do not dwell on past mistakes. There’s no point crying over spilt milk. Everybody makes mistakes. It’s what you learn from the mistakes, and promising yourself not to repeat those mistakes that matters. When you miss opportunities, don’t dwell on it, as there are always new opportunities on the horizon.
Being able to smile when being slightly misunderstood is good upbringing. When you’re wronged and you smile with calmness, it is generosity. When you’re being taken advantage of and you can smile, you’re being open-minded. When you are helpless and you can do a philosophical smile, you’re in a calm state. When you’re in distress and you can laugh out loud, you’re being generous. When you’re looked down and you can calmly smile, you’re being confident. When you’re being jilted in relationships and you can smile it off, you’re being suave.”
30 Januari 2014 Satu adik saya memberikan gambar dan memberikan sebuah buku. Ia menggambar muka ini di atas kertas, saya tersenyum melihatnya, mirip gambarnya dengan alis yang tebal, rambut yang pendek, kacamata, hidung, mulut. Ia orang yang pendiam, jarang berbicara lantang. Namun ia selalu berusaha menemukan hal yang terbaik dalam setiap momentum hidupnya untuk menjadi orang yang lebih baik. Baru senin kemarin diri ini mengumumkan bahwa sudah tidak ada acara perpisahan lagi karena sejujurnya, diri ini sudah tidak sanggup untuk bersedih setiap ada yang keluar dari kantor untuk bersekolah ataupun melanjutkan petualangannya di dunia ini. Bagi saya, semua yang berkerja bersama adalah keluarga saya sendiri, siapapun dia, apapun latar belakangnya.
ia menulis pesan yang membuat diri ini larut dalam kesedihan, membuat diri ini menyadari kembali rantai waktu bahwa hidup ini adalah sebuah perjalanan.
Dear Kak Rich,
It’s probably one of the hardest phase of my life. I’m no bragging about it. But truly, leaving this office and it’s beautiful people is a hard choice to do. Thank you for this awesome 2 years. I’ll always remember all the things i’ve learnt from you, mas beng, kak yudith, putri, and each person in this place.
You have travelled to many places, learned from many people, and in the end you found you own happiness with RAW and your love of your life, kak yudith . And my time is coming to take another journey like you’ve done before in order to learn life one step further.
Thank you for being such an inspirational boss and heartwarming person. Wish you and your family all the best thing in life could offer.
Regards,
Raras.
Tetesan air mata mengalir, kesedihan datang tak disangka – sangka, Saya akan kehilangan, kehilangan pribadinya, kehilangan kehadirannya, kehilangan keceriaannya, namun saya yakin awan kebahagiaan akan muncul dimana masa depan yang cerah untuk adik saya ini akan selalu saya doakan, semua akan berjalan lebih baik. Setiap rentang waktu memiliki catatan perjalanannya sendiri. Orang pergi, dan kemudian orang datang, meninggalkan memorinya, catatannya, saat-saatnya sendiri. Tidak banyak orang yang bisa meninggalkan kenangan yang dalam di rentang waktu perjalanannya, namun adik saya ini sungguh memberikan kenangan yang manis dalam perjalanannya, dan saya benar – benar bersyukur untuk itu, dan semoga kita bisa bertemu lagi, dalam rantai waktu ketika yang ada. Terima kasih Raras.
Apriani Kurnia Sarashayu
20 Desember 2013 “Sliced Wood – Cendana” dipamerkan di Galeri Nasional Indonesia. Diri ini mendesain satu furniture untuk pameran biennale desain dan kriya 2013 satu acara di Galeri Nasional, terima kasih tim Design Perfection Workshop untuk kerja kerasnya [ini cerita lebih lanjut]
Ini pengumuman nya dari publisher Imaji : untuk pertama kalinya karya 14 industri kreatif dan kriya diadakan bersama dalam satu ajang pameran Biennale Desain Kriya Indonesia (BDKI) . Lebih dari 67 karya individu dan karya kolaborasi terkurasi akan hadir di dalam acara besar ini. Diharapkan acara ini memberi kontribusi positif terhadap dunia desain dan kriya Indoesia.
Exhibition: 20 Desember 2013 s.d 19 Januari 2014 @ Galeri Nasional Indonesia.
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15 Desember 2013 salah satu pembimbing diri ini, meninggal dunia, namanya Ahmad Rida Soemardi. Pak Tata adalah satu figur yang dekat dengan diri ini di masa – masa kuliah dan masa – masa diri ini menempuh pendidikan master di Sydney. Ia orang yang sangat hangat, periang, dan dikenal akan kepakarannya dalam studi urban desain. Dalam disertasinya di University of New South Wales, ia masih menyempatkan waktu untuk diri ini, saya seperti mendapatkan satu pembimbing tambahan selain Jon dan James di tahun 2009. Ia menjadi penyeimbang di antara intelektual Jon yang rasional dan James yang puitis. Pak Tata orang yang menjembatani pengertian antara keduanya. Mungkin ia menjadi penyeimbang akan dua dunia yang diri ini hadapi di tahun itu. Beliau selalu menyempatkan waktu untuk membahas, berdiskusi mengenai topik bahasan yang seru mengenai urban desain ataupun mengenai wisata kuliner dimana beliau memang doyan makan. Tidak dipungkiri bahwa diri ini mendapatkan satu role model yang menyeimbangkan dunia. Mungkin Pak Tata tidak bermaksud menyeimbangkan, namun memang karena pembawaannya, namun menjadi penyeimbang dunia harus mampu untuk bisa mendengarkan, dan dari dia saya mendapatkan satu contoh terbaik untuk bisa berkaca, bercermin dalam kehidupan sehari – hari. Saya kangen sekali dengan beliau, orang baik seperti beliau selalu mendapat tempat di hati murid – muridnya yang beruntung mendapatkan bimbingan beliau, salah satunya saya. terima kasih Pak Tata. God Bless you.
9 Desember 2013 Minggu kemarin, diri ini ke gereja untuk beribadah minggu bersama Laurensia. Pada waktu itu ibadah sedang memasuki doa Syukur Agung kemudian mendadak lampu mati, yang tersisa hanyalah lilin yang menerangi romo, menerangi putera altar, dan romo berbicara tanpa pengeras suara. Semuanya hening, dalam keheningan itulah, suasana khusyuk terasa dalam, dan diri ini menemukan kedamaian, Tuhan seakan – akan berbicara. Kesederhanaan itu indah, terasa dalam, kedamaian seutuhnya. Sama seperti kehidupan, indah dan terasa dalam untuk menjadi manusia yang utuh dalam hening. Apa yang terlihat dalam kehidupan terkadang hanyalah kulit dan pupur muka saja, ekspresi yang jujur, makna yang dalam, akan membuat kita merefleksikan diri menjadi manusia seutuhnya.
8 Desember 2013 Diri ini merenung mengenai satu kata ” terkenal”, mbak Vivi, Avianti Armand, menulis satu tulisan disini. Kata “terkenal” adalah satu kata yang wajar, kalau seseorang tidak dikenal, maka ia tidak bisa mendapatkan penghidupan, seperti seorang arsitek yang semakin dikenal karena mungkin kapabilitasnya untuk menghasilkan bangunan yang disukai orang yang menunjuknya sebagai arsitek, sama seperti dokter yang semakin dikenal karena mungkin kapabilitasnya untuk mengobati penyakit sehingga banyak orang datang untuk diobati penyakitnya. Di tulisan mbak avianti sepertinya ada kerisauan dengan fenomena cepatnya informasi,atau popularitas sesaat dalam arsitektur, memang suatu alasan yang benar adanya dalam proses berarsitektur yang lebih baik. ini cerita lebih detail ,
ia menulis lebih lanjut :
“Yang jelas, “sindrom terkenal” itu juga mewabah di sini. Terus terang, saya sedih melihat kecenderungan arsitek-arsitek muda tanah air, mangga-mangga mengkal dan umbi-umbi pejal yang belum siap panen, buru-buru ingin jadi terkenal, sehingga rela membayar untuk dibuatkan buku tentang biro atau konsultannya. Padahal, kalau menilik karya-karyanya, saya percaya mereka masih harus menempuh perjalanan yang lebih jauh. Akhirnya kita melihat buku itu sebagai alat marketing belaka. Publikasi harusnya punya bobot berita, bukan sekedar alat pencitraan dan propaganda. Sindrom yang sama, saya duga, juga jadi bensin luar biasa yang mendorong arsitek-arsitek kita untuk berpameran ke luar negri. Dengan mengundang diri sendiri, dengan biaya sendiri, dengan tenaga sendiri. Saya sampai heran luar biasa. Saya tanya buat apa? Jawabannya: untuk menunjukkan pada dunia kondisi arsitektur di Indonesia. Saya tanya lagi, buat apa? Untuk membuka hubungan lintas negara dengan arsitek-arsitek manca negara. Saya tanya lagi, buat apa? Ternyata jawabannya berhenti di situ.” [Avianti]
Ada beberapa 3 hal penting menurut diri ini yang perlu direnungi, mungkin penulis merasa banyak buku – buku arsitektur yang tidak sesuai dengan ekspetasi beliau, mungkin juga penulis mengkritisi mengenai pameran tanpa agenda yang di bawah ekspektasi beliau yang dicetuskan beberapa saat yang lalu. Mungkin penulis hanya berharap mengenai muatan yang lebih baik untuk meningkatkan kualitas informasi terhadap karya arsitektur yang ada. Saya pikir tulisan ini akan membuat satu refleksi untuk berbuat yang lebih baik dalam meningkatkan standar kualitas meski ranah itu adalah subjektifitas orang per orang. Dimana Karya arsitektur memiliki perenungan yang panjang, dan proses yang panjang, yakni 1 tahun sampai karya tersebut selesai kemudian mulai ditempati, 5 tahun, 10 tahun, 15 tahun, 20 tahun, syukur apabila karya arsitektur dianggap begitu baiknya sampai dipertahankan di dalam era yang berubah, ia kemudian menjadi penanda jamannya dan kemudian memiliki pembuktiannya. Oleh karena itu, menjadi arsitek yang baik, membutuhkan kesabaran untuk menghadapi dunia. Saya pikir tulisan ini seakan – akan menantikan keseimbangan yang wajar dimana definisi terkenal didudukkan sewajarnya, berbicara mengenai karya yang terbukti nyaman, terbukti indah, dan publik pun menanti dalam alegori desain yang ada, dalam pembuktian rentang waktu yang tidak sebentar. Oleh karena itu memang diperlukan suatu kesabaran dalam berkarya untuk selalu berbuat yang terbaik hari demi harinya.
6 Desember 2013 Buku Houses by indonesian Architect sudah terbit. Terima kasih Pak Sonny, Mbak Imel dan tim sudah membantu arsitektur kita untuk lebih dikenal ke masyarakat.
2 Desember 2013 Tidak terasa sudah bulan Desember. Diri ini bersyukur Murakabi sudah selesai 50%. ini cerita perenungan tentang Murakabi, satu rumah yang belum selesai, mungkin akan tumbuh seiringnya waktu dalam keindahan proses iterasi desain arsitektur.
23 November 2013 Hari ini hampir seluruh waktu dihabiskan untuk melihat museum Purnabakti Pertiwi di daerah TMII, beberapa hari yang lalu diri ini dihubungi satu teman lama untuk datang ke tempat ini hari sabtu ini, untuk membantu mendesain di lokasi ini, bagaimana mengaktifkan museum dengan program – program baru yang kreatif sehingga bisa mendukung operasional dari museum yang tinggi. Melihat potensi yang ada, bukaan solid void, keindahan struktur, kemudahan akses, pola – pola abstraksi lansekap yang tidak terdesain sekarang menjadi penting, bagaimana hubungan antara fungsi atraksi yang baru dengan yang lama akan menjadi salah satu hal utama. Kita harus berbicara mengenai masa depan, bagaimana citra yang baru terbentuk dengan bisnis komersial yang masuk akal untuk merawat museum itu sendiri. Puisi dengan masa lalu menuju masa depan menjadi hal yang terutama. Daerah ini memiliki luas 20 ha dimana bangunan yang baru akan menghidupi bangunan lama, pembicaraan jenis – jenis anchor menjadi penting, salah satu fungsi dimungkinkan adanya universitas media, studio film, pusat ilmu pengetahuan, pedestrian mall, dan renovasi museum purna bakti pertiwi.
“The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”
Buku Indonesia House akan dilaunching oleh tim mbak Imelda Akmal awal bulan depan. Diri ini bersyukur, Bare Minimalist diliput di buku tersebut, terima kasih untuk kesempatannya dan kerja kerasnya dalam publikasi mbak Imelda dan tim. Sementara itu Rumah milik dari keluarga Frans Wiriawan sudah hampir memasuki pengecoran lantai ke tiga, bulan ini dan bulan depan adalah hari yang menentukan untuk proyek ini karena pekerjaan struktur sudah selesai dilakukan, dan eksperimen finishing arsitektur akan dilakukan. Beberapa pekerjaan rumah tinggal lainnya yang sedang dikonstruksi sedang menunjukkan citranya, satu di kebayoran, tiga di alam sutera, dua di meruya. Setiap karya arsitektur itu berbeda – beda dengan klien – klien yang berbeda – beda, dengan pendekatan yang berbeda – beda dalam setiap citranya, citra yang merunduk ke tanah untuk melihat langit yang biru, selaras dengan alam.
18 November 2013 Senin sudah memulai minggu ini dengan rutinitasnya, minggu ini akan cukup padat dengan design development yang terjadi untuk proyek – proyek . Selasa dan kamis besok adalah hari yang menentukan untuk presentasi Galeri Nasional ke pejabat – pejabat tinggi pemerintah, ini adalah satu skema yang dimenangkan dari kompetisi kira – kira 2 bulan yang lalu,Galeri Nasional sudah hampir selesai perencanaannya, puji Tuhan semua lancar tanpa kendala.
Perspektif Mata Burung
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Konsep dari Galeri Nasional ini terinspirasikan dari kesederhanaan bumi, dan birunya langit dimana keselarasan akan menjadi titik tertinggi dalam pencapaian manusia..[ini cerita lebih detail] , Thank you my dream team for best work, Septrio Effendi, Christiandy Pradangga, Donald Aditya, Tatyana Kusumo, Apriani Sarashayu, Maria Vania, Muhammad Iqbal Zuchri, Mukhammad Ilham, Miftahuddin Nurdayat and for the interns as well, Devina, Okta, Galih, Nidya, Richard.
15 November 2013 Hari ini, diri ini rapat mengenai 5 proyek yang berbeda, diri ini sendiri letih, untungnya besok sudah hari sabtu, bisa beristirahat. Perancangan hotel adalah mengenai hospitality design. Bisnis atau fungsi komersial yang menggantungkan dirinya terhadap bagaimana melayani tamu yang akan menginap sebaik mungkin. Berapa fasilitas yang didapatkan oleh 1 kamar / 1 bay akan menjadi kunci utama yang juga berkaitan dengan jumlah total kamar yang ada. Chemistry antara owner dan operator memiliki peranan yang sangat penting dalam mewujudkan feasibility study, setelah itu arsitek memiliki tanggung jawab untuk membuat desain se-kreatif mungkin yang tentunya harus feasible dalam pembangunannya. Kepekaan untuk mengerti tipologi ini menjadi penting. Minggu depan akan menjadi hari yang penting supaya desain – desain bisa selesai tepat pada waktunya. 14 November 2013 Mengenai urban design paradigm, diri ini berpikir mengenai garden city, Ebenezer Howard, mengenai keputusannya dalam membuat kota satelite yang banyak diperbincangkan bahwa tindakan tersebut sendiri adalah mendukung sprawling. Dalam satu sisi realitanya, itu benar adanya yang terjadi, namun dalam sisi lain, manifestor kota satelite adalah satu upaya untuk mengurai kepadatan, ketidakteraturan yang ada untuk kemudian kembali lagi memperbaiki struktur yang lama. 10 November 2013 Kantor baru direnovasi lagi, semoga semua lancar, anak – anak bisa semakin betah di kantor, seperti keluarga saya sendiri.
wherever you go, go with all your heart. Confucius
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Best Office in the World
7 November 2013 Rumah keluarga pak Misnu sudah mulai berdiri , diri ini sendiri baru menyisihkan untuk membeli atap foil dari bahan recycle, mengganti atap polycarbonate yang ada. Rumah ini saya namakan Murakabi, bukan dari bahasa Jepang tapi dari bahasa sansekerta yang artinya bermanfaat untuk semua. Rumah , dimana seluruh bentuknya mengadopsi dari bentuk stream line horizontal, dengan modul 1.2 m x 2.4 m, rumah ini berisi 3 buah kamar tidur dengan dapur, dilengkapi dengan warung di depannya untuk melayani kebutuhan sehari – hari dari warga sekitar. Ini baru 50 persen selesai. harus berusaha keras dalam supaya rumah ini cepat selesai. Belajar dari romo, mungkin bisa jadi tumbuh perlahan – lahan menjadikan rumahnya nampak cantik dan penuh ledakan ide, emosi.
Never think you have seen the last of anything – Eudora Welty.
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3 November 2013 Beberapa hari ini, diri ini pergi ke Yogyakarta. Yogyakarta memang satu kota yang romantis, dengan usahanya untuk menjaga budaya tetap ada. Diri ini dan beberapa adik2 pergi ke rumah Romo Mangunwijaya, dari situ diri ini melihat jejak – jejak kehidupan romo yang hidup selibat, hidup dari keterbatasan yang ada, dengan teknik konstruksi yang menggabungkan keterbatasan material dan kekreatifan dalam menggubah bentuk. Workshop diletakkan di lantai dasar, dengan rumah di sisi depan, sirkulasi dibuat tidak langsung, melihat dari samping, dengan tektonika bata , sambungan kayu yang diperlihatkan. Dari sini saya pikir sebenarnya, apa yang dibuat ini lahir, dan tumbuh secara perlahan, beliau menambahkan setiap fungsi satu demi satu yang kemudian fungsi privat terhubung dengan fungsi sekolah, interlocking dengan ada nya jembatan yang menghubungkan dua buah massa, beberapa eksperimen yang gagal juga terlihat di sambungan pintu jendela dengan sambungan engsel lantai atas – bawah, yang memang jauh dari kesan selesai. Saya melihat sehari – hari nya beliau muncul sebagai individu yang spontan, kreatif, dan meledak – ledak dalam setiap pojok rumahnya, mengingatkan saya meski dalam skala yang berbeda dengan figur Enric Miralles seorang arsitek spanyol yang berpuisi dalam setiap gubahan bentuknya. Dari sini saya belajar mengenai kekreatifan beliau dalam setiap detail yang muncul dalam pergulatan sehari – hari, ledakan jejak – jejak arsitekturnya.
Pictures of the trip
Traditional Shop, Kota Gede
Kota Gede, Pemakaman Raja
Charlie’s Angels
Ruang doa romo
Tampak depan
Sambungan kayu
Laurensia di Asrama Romo
nako dari papan kayu
Detail anyaman pintu garasi
ruang keluarga
Enric Miralles Work
1 November 2013 Hari ini diri ini mengganti nama firma arsitektur dari DOT Workshop menjadi RAW [Real Architecture Workshop] selepas 3 tahun diri ini kembali ke Jakarta dan berpraktek. DOT Workshop akan memfokuskan ke kolaborasi antar pembangun dan tukang, sebagai pembangun yang melakukan eksperimen terbaik demi satu karya bangunan yang lebih baik daripada masa lalu. Dimana Real Architecture Workshop, memiliki fokus pada inovasi arsitektur, redefinisi program, teknologi detail arsitektur, integrasi dengan struktur dan utilitas, dan bentuk yang tropis, dan se kreatif mungkin. Sementara itu proyek – proyek terus berjalan, beberapa proyek yang sedang berjalan termasuk perancangan beberapa hotel di jalan Matraman, Cempaka Putih, Cemara, Kemang, Bogor, Bandung, beberapa perancangan rumah tinggal milik keluarga Syadli dan Farhad di Cipayung. Ada juga perancangan rumah – rumah cluster Accola milik pak Sidharta. 23 Oktober 2013 Jurusan Arsitektur Binus membuat satu acara yaitu Urban Play Ground. Di dalam acara ini, diri ini sendiri merenung, mengenai hakikat playground, satu tempat untuk bisa mengekspresikan diri. Bahwa di kota ini memang perlu ada tempat – tempat aktualisasi diri, bermain – main, melihat alam, mungkin sudah saatnya Jakarta memiliki waduk – waduk yang indah, pedestrian yang nyaman tempat bertemu orang – orang baru, bersosialisasi. Namun saya pikir desain berbasiskan riset, beberapa saat yang lalu, diri ini mendapatkan buku berjudul greening Singapore, berisi tata cara untuk merawat taman yang ada di singapore lengkap dengan jarak pohon, jenis pohon. Disini Singapore sudah melakukan riset yang panjang dan buku ini hanya sebagian kecil dari riset mengenai urban desain yang ada di dalamnya. Made in Jakarta mungkin bisa memulainya, satu riset panjang mengenai Jakarta yang mendukung kebutuhan siapapun yang membutuhkan. 27 September 2013 Hari ini dir ini bertemu dengan kawan lama, namanya Gunawan Tanuwidjaja. Dia mengundang untuk memberikan seminar di ITS. Saya dan Gunawan berteman baik, dulu ia yang mengajarkan bagaimana harus mencari ilmu sebaik mungkin melalui kelompok minat digital library, yang pekerjaannya menscan buku – buku untuk kemudian di bahas bersama, saling berbagi mengenai satu topik arsitektur. Diri ini bilang ke anak mahasiswanya, bahwa pak Gunawan adalah teman baik , dan teman baik sulit didapat. Pekerjaan boleh datang dan pergi, ilmu selalu bertambah namun kenangan tetap ada. Diri ini berbicara singkat saja mengenai design paradigm, kutub – kutub pemikiran yang berbeda dalam desain, dan arsitek bertanggung jawab atas coretan garis yang mewarnai kutub pemikiran tersebut. Pak Gunawan sekarang aktif mengajar di Petra, mengajarkan mengenai studio perancangan, dan pemahaman mengenai arsitektur yang merespons kaum diffable. Energinya yang tinggi, mewarnai arsitektur Petra sekarang. Diri ini percaya beliau akan mewarnai dunia arsitektur di Surabaya. Pak Gunawan, terima kasih atas undangannya ke Surabaya. 26 September 2013 Pagi ini Diri ini diundang ke ITS untuk acara yang diselenggarakan yaitu, lomba tugas akhir nasional, saya bertemu satu kehangatan disini, bertemu dengan Pak Agung, Pak Paulus, Pak Defry, Pak Josef, dan kawan kawan yang lain, celotehan, senda guraunya mewarnai pembukaan hari ini, selebihnya hari berlangsung sangat cepat dari diskusi didapatkan juara pertama dari ITS, Rizky, juara kedua dan ketiga dari universitas Tarumanagara, dan Bina Nusantara. Semoga acara seperti ini bisa terus berlangsung, dan tahun depan yang mendaftar lebih banyak lagi. Malam itu juga diri ini bertemu dengan beberapa mahasiswa dari ITS, mereka adalah orang – orang yang ingin belajar lebih. Beberapa dari mereka adalah mahasiswa perantau. Diri ini sendiri bertemu dengan salah seorang dari mereka pagi ini di bandara, diri ini ingat, perut ini lapar sekali, capai sekali juga, kemarin baru lembur sampai pagi bersama – sama dengan adik – adik di kantor untuk menyelesaikan beberapa perkerjaan yang harus diselesaikan. Baru tadi malam bertemu dengan beberapa anak ITS di zanggrandi, satu tempat yang romatis, tempat yang sudah banyak berubah, dengan kota yang sudah berubah sangat, ke arah yang sangat baik. Bravo bu Risma. Pak dulu waktu jadi mahasiswa bagaimana ?, ya seperti kalian, jarang tidur, belajar arsitektur dengan baik, baca buku, berteman dengan banyak orang. Pikiran ini menerawang, teringat 8 tahun yang lalu diri ini sendiri juga masih mahasiswa. Pada waktu itu diri ini sendiri sering berada di kegiatan kampus, dan tenggelam di kegiatan kampus. Dari situ bertemu satu teman yang adalah ketua himpunan pada waktu itu. Dari situ juga, Kegiatan belajar untuk ikut rapat – rapat yang menyita waktu dan tenaga pun dilakukan, demi belajar bagaimana berhubungan dengan orang. Malam itu, dalam keyakinan, orang – orang di depan ini, adalah mahasiswa mahasiswi yang terbaik , ada satu orang ketua himpunan, ada pengurus – pengurus, mereka orang – orang yang meluangkan waktunya untuk mengenal diri ini dan istri lebih dekat lagi. Oleh karena itu kita bisa bertemu. Kepercayaan ini menjadi begitu tingginya bahwa setiap orang itu unik oleh karena itu setiap mahasiswa berkembang menurut caranya sendiri.Belajar dalam arsitektur itu seperti belajar dalam berkehidupan.
Pak Agung dan Para Juara
Beserta anak – anak arsitektur ITS, photo by Annisa Diah Astarini
25 September 2013 Today is my second marriage anniversary with my lovely wife, Laurensia. ^^ diri ini dan istri saya sudah seperti perangko, kemana bersama – sama, berpikir bersama – sama, kadang – kadang ia menemani untuk hari – hari minggu sabtu berdiskusi dengan klien, begitu juga diri ini yang biasa duduk di ruang tunggu pasien kalau ia sedang melakukan konsultasi gigi. Rasa semakin jatuh cinta dengan Laurensia makin nampak terbayang setiap harinya, ketika uban ini juga makin banyak di umur 31 tahun, ketika perut menjadi buncit, ketika, ritual setiap hari nya itu ada untuk makan pagi, makan siang, makan malam bersama. Ini semua seakan – akan mengajarkan ke kita berdua, mengenai indahnya hidup.
Me and Laurensia #1
Me and Laurensia #2
Me and Laurensia #3
5 September 2013 I just came back from working trip to Belitung. I worked one resort here, The building is fantastic, the owner, the builders has pushed the limit of the construction difficulties. I was thinking that I’m just a musical player who played with instruments of nature. I hear the voice of the nature, the beauty of construction here gathered by local labour. The resort complex was aimed to finish on this December. 2 September 2013 I just came back from Jogjakarta, city with spirit of java. I met old friend from Palembang who studied on Urban Design, Rizka Drastiani, I asked her to show me, Kali Code’s development, an urban development and bits of architecture piece by Romo Mangunwijaya. 1 September 2013 I met few students at UNS, sharing about architecture. 30 August 2013 I’m going to Solo for UPH’s student workshop of PA 3. The workshop is placed at rumah rempah, which is a workshop owned by Paulus Mintarga 26 August 2013 12 August 2013 I’m flying to Singapore tomorrow. 8 August 2013 Happy Lid to all my brother, sister, hope you all have great time in this public holiday. I’m so happy with this break, because I can relax and enjoy the holiday for 2 weeks with my family. I gave my staffs few days off, they have worked very hard for me, it’s worth to enjoy life at least once a year. By the way I’m not going anywhere, I am staying in my lovely house, spending time with my family. I might plan for next holiday trip. I have two options in my mind, I was thinking to go to Bangladesh to see my lovely friend, Omar. I have another promise to fullfil to this person, I think I’m bad at fulfilling my promise. Another one, I might go to Singapore, for short trip. I’m planning to see what’s my friends are up to. Hopefully they are doing great ! 7 August 2013 I met Ditri, new reporter who got my number from Sunthy. She asked how do you know Sunthy, I was wondering, I don’t know either, the thing that I know, we still connected in our own way. We discussed much in Slipi few months ago. Ditri is interesting person, she is landscape designer who loves to write. She has her own story about connecting the network of in her view, connecting people by what they can do with what they have for the society. It will be in her new magazine. I remember what she said at the end, “Realrich, Honesty in good deed can be seen by looking at the people eyes.” and the, I smile with that phrase from her. It ends our chat in one coffee corner at Plaza Senayan, afterwards I went back to watch movie with Laurensia. Nice to meet you Ditri. 6 August 2013 I was wondering while I was walking in my neighborhood, there are several renovation of old buildings, new buildings which make me contemplated about my practice, about how far should I go to determine one form to another form, how far should I challenge the brief. Starting from building philosophy is always my favorite intention. I don’t quite like what happens in my neighborhood. It’s not questioning about what the function and form should be. They called their style minimalistic, from my opinion, it’s not what Mies intends to, or Pawson, or Ando, which they try to expose themselves to such philosophy, a philosophy of living less, minimalistic, or silence in spirituality, feeling to get enough. Then my eyes, my head wonder about the tiny bit, about the gutter that is not planned within, about the leaking which might happens, about the cracking in joint between concrete and brick exposed by sunlight which might be a problem of leaking tested by time. I just feel it isn’t right way to do architecture here they are heading to. It’s about thick lipstick sometimes misinterpretation, another generalization about minimalist architecture, it’s never about form, it’s about philosophy. 4 July 2013 Contemplating about the core of architecture movement, I love what Robert Venturi believes. In the 1966, there is publication under the title “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture” he stated :
Architects can no longer afford to be intimidated by the puritanically moral language of the orthodox. Modern Architecture. I like lements which are hybrid rather than “pure”, compromising rather than “clean,” distorted rather than “straightforward,” ambiguous rather “articulated” perverse as well as impersonal, boring as well as “interesting,” conventional rather than “designed,” accommodating rather than excluding redundant rather than simple, vestigial as well as innovating, inconsistent and equivocal rather than direct and clear. I am for messy vitality over obvious unity. I include the non sequitur and proclaim the duality.
This believe is wonderful, opposed to Corbusier’s rational believes, which It expressed by some of his buildings. The article that he wrote, about a man with a donkey thought should explains this contradiction very well. 1 August 2013 I met my great uncle, he was the one who encourage me to open the firm. He hired me as well to design his own building, his office and his house. He said “Design building for me, a building which I could admire, live in, work in, and it should be actually works as I live with my activity within.” I love nature, I was thinking to use some of the metaphors for this design. I remember about Alvar Aalto a man who embraced modernism early in his career then moved on to develop a personal idiom.Idiom that acknowledged modern culture and technology but remained firmly grounded in the Nordic context. He has designed wonderful sanatorium, furniture, which reflects the form of nature which is organic. 17 June 2013 Today I’m very tired of finding new place for our small workshop. I kept looking for these few days from one to another place. Laurensia and me went to river side of Daan Mogot, place where stock piles of garbage dumped there. We found one place of storage for workshop there. But there are problems such as flooding, smell, but the space is spacious. I’m also looking for one house for my driver, he has a dream for having his own place of living, a small, but decent one. I found a small piece of land, only 80 sqm, gladly he like it. The thesis then come in my head about the affordable house for every people especially, which is cost less but very decent one. Vo Trong Nghia has tried designing low cost house, but I think the passive design is not addressed perfectly, It’s still hot during the day time which show the temperature is quite high even though he is using bamboos louver as sun shading. 8 June 2013 I remember one day that was bitter like Gibran’s symphony,
Kamboja tree at Bali – “Nature in Harmony”
“Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.” Kahlil Gibran
4 June 2013
Traditional House at Tenganan
I raised concern in our life, our man made culture. That sometime we see the opportunity as wild, to maximize the profit of each moment. I wonder then, what purpose of life then ? If we can’t share our life to the one who needs it. I believe, each day will pass by, and the kindness of everyday life in wherever you are should be seen as kindness serendipity. By the way I just came back from overseeing work at Kerobokan, Bali. I can see why we say Bali as Island of God. It’s kindness, the architecture marvels to respect nature, man live under nature. While the people probably try to respect nature as its best with it’s people. The irrigation system might show us example of its living system.
“Subak is a traditional ecologically sustainable irrigation system that binds Balinese agrarian society together within the village’s Bale Banjar community center and Balinese temples. The water managements is under the authority of the priests in water temples without forget about Tri Hita Karana Phylosophy which is relationship between humans the earth and the gods; an ancient method followed in India by rishi’s of Hindu Religion in India.” wiki
I also visited Tirta Gangga, such a wonderful landscape beauty because of it’s natural water flow, its ambiance of tranquility, we can sense such spirituality which connect from our heart to nature. The brief history said that this one hectare complex was built in 1946 by the late king of Karangsem. There are many beautiful statues, carvings, path walk, fountain. ” Tirta Gangga literally means water from the Ganges and it is a site of some reverence for the Hindu Balinese. Strictly, the name refers to the water palace built here in 1948 by the Raja of Karangasem, Anak Agung Agung Anglurah Ketut Karangasem. It is, however, widely used to refer to the general area which includes the water palace and the lush rural areas around.” Wiki.
I felt the coldness of the water, the freshness that it brings. Its one way to respect our nature. I think this journey to east of Bali is worth to bring such spirituality to our mind heart and body.
Tenganan #1
Me and Laurensia #3
Tirta Gangga #1
Frangipani #1
3 June 2013 I heard Raras’s father got heart attack, hope and pray the best for her father :(. That what I affraid might happen to my parent as well. We as human being connected by love with our parent and family. The good news is I heard that her father is recovering. :) 22 May 2013 I’m off today from office, spending time with my wife. The best wife in the world. I remember Robin Sharma wrote that most people don’t discover what’s most important in life until they are too old to do anything about it. They spend many of their best years pursuing things that matter little in the end. While society invites us to fill our lives with material objects, the best part of us knows that the more basic pleasures are the ones that enrich and sustain us. I believe that no matter how easy or hard our current conditions, we all have a wealth of simple blessings around us. As we do, our happiness grows. Our gratitude expands. And each day becomes a breathtaking gift. 21 May 2013 Tomorrow my wife is having birthday :). I can’t wait to spend my time with her. So I will be off tomorrow. 17 May 2013 Today is saturday, I went to Bidadari Island with some of the students for sharing experience. #1 It was sharing about my life experience in uni, my working experience, moment of learning, toughness of working time of 3500 hours per year when I worked with past colleagues working for Norman Foster, Wu Tzu Chiang, and Mas Emil, and other prominent mentors. This experience I must say, was very important experience to shape my way of thinking in my practice now. It is all about knowledge development, but despite that thing, secondly,I shared about the relationship between people to people, encouragement, good relationship which I mean real relationship, take and give to be true family with everyone even with stranger. The third thing is, I shared about the person that we have to face turbulent times, depends on, In my case, that person is my lovely wife. She came with me to the talk and everywhere I go. In this life there is always be turbulent times, thousand of times of sadness and happiness, be prepared, and enjoy your time ya :) Tuhan terima kasih atas hari ini, semoga minggu depan, hidup akan semakin baik untuk dijalani, penuh suka cita. :)
Photograph by Firine Eika, Candid by her, thank you :)
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16 May 2013 I fixed my lovely bicycle in local workshop. He has a name, his name is Seagram, not Seagull. :) I used it when I was in Uni, 10 years ago.
Seagram not Seagull
“Life is like riding a bicycle: you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.” – Claude Pepper
… 13 May 2013 Evan, my student, reminded me about talk at Bidadari. I look forward for the event on 18th to 20th May, 12 May 2013 I was thinking about the design of the cities, I think there are 3 main typical functions of urban spaces, network, square, and core. One masterplan is a way to organise to enhance a good behavior for its people with different culture, climate setting. To create one masterplan we need to understand theory, history, philosophy, culture, environment, aesthetics, typologies while exclude one item which is politics. One book by Alexander Cuthbert, Designing Cities, should explain all of these item with writing from, Manuel Castells, Christian Norberg-Schulz, Peter Newman, Jon Lang, Aldo Rossi, etc 11 May 2013 I’m doing landscape design for my brother and sister’s house, my mother’s house. To learn about art of gardening, I was thinking to learn from the best gardeners and nursery centre,eventhough my aunt taught me about lot of things, the functionality of shrubs and trees. Asihara, Ching also wrote several well thoughtfull books about art of gardening, landscaping. 9 May 2013 Last week, my former colleague, Scott Valentine came to Jakarta, It’s been 8 years, I haven’t seen him, he is working with WATG, one prominent hospitality architecture firm. Hopefully he was happy during the trip. He had seen my working space, meeting with my staffs inside the workshop place where I did experiment in Architecture, and I invited him to see our workshop, place where I tried to get sense of perfection done in such limited resources.
Scott ““This is the office” I’m told, “now look up – and back there” My first shock is how many people they have packed into a tiny space, then I look up, I look behind me. there’s people everywhere! A single long desk space packed with computers, workers and files adorns the side wall. Then above another level of staff. 12 staff in a 10m x 3m room!”here is his story, you can click this link . Scott’s Writing,
My Seat – Light up
… 8 May 2013 Our way is not soft grass, it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. Ruth Westheimer, b. 1928 I believe that we do not move through our days alone or apart from the world around us. And so we must always be aware of the things and the people we allow into our live. I think It’s a mark of wisdom,tons of blessings to choose to spend time in those places that inspire and energize you and associate with those people who elevate and uplift you. Whether in our work or within our personal lives, these most positive friends and peers will inspire us to be our greatest selves and to lead our largest lives. 7 May 2013 Dear God, thank you for your kindness to my family, my friends, and me. Hope you will always be with us, to show compassion, love, and sincerity. Give us strength, and let my loved people see this as a love message to show your love. Thank you so much. 1 May 2013 I was thinking to continue the renovation my driver’s house. I was thinking to use all of the recycle material, the left over small pieces marble as wall and floor. Bu the composition of the planes should be very clear composition bringing sense of privacy and functionality of wall as building structure,because the space is quite limited and the structure used is existing structure. 21 April 2013 Dear my loved one, I would like to say, Thank you for your love, precious passion you have been giving to our family. This society has become a messy place to be. People value their things more than they value their relationships. We seem to be more interested in stroking our egos than in the much richer pursuit of reaching our ideals. It’s just so sad, it’s become more popular to be popular than to be ethical, brave, and kind. I’m so happy and showing honor having you in my life. I hope that we can life our life freatly, my wife. Dream boldly. Live beautifully. And to our last breath, Love to the fullest. 16 April 2013 2 days ago i went to Bandung for visitting two architects, seeing their works on their house, Pak Apep and Mas Deddy, I was very happy because of their response and willingness to share their work to me and my students of Thinking Drawing Class. 7 April 2013 I remember one house that is on the hill that I always think of, I made a model from cardboard for contemplating the composition. It’s made from composition of planes. One house that I love is Falling water (1935-9). Arguably Wright’s masterpiece, achieves such a unity with landscape, its forest and hill. Its tiered horizontal concrete slabs dramatically cantilevered over a waterfall – at one an abstraction of its setting and an integral part of it. It is also showed in wright other’s work, Taliesin was built from local stone combined with concrete made out of local aggregate, so the structure appeared to grow out of its rocky desert setting. 6 April 2013 I remember, my first date with Laurensia. She is the my love one, time flies so fast, it’s been 5 years now. hugs ! :)
2009 – Last Date before flying to England
30 March 2013,
“Among his various possible beings each man always finds one which is his genuine and authentic being.The voice which calls him to that authentic being is what we call”vocation.” But the majority of men devote themeselves to silencing that voice of the vocation and refusing to hear it. They manage to make a noise within themselves…to distract their own attention in order not to hear it; and they defraud themselves bysubtituting for their genuine selves a false course of life.” Jose Ortega Gasset
I spent my time today with my wife, so happy for our moment together :) 29 March 2013 Yesterday, Laurensia, my family, and me went for mass to celebrate Holy Thursday. In this mass, there is Pedilavium (washing of the feet), traces of which are found in the most ancient
rites. We learn that Jesus washed our feet with his hand, so we have to wash other’s feet by our hand. It’s showing true compassion to help, serve each other. I met one person he is looking for job. I was thinking to open door for him, his eyes showing a sincerely, a way of showing respect for others. I want to look after more people as much as me and Laurensia can. By doing that this world should be one better place, at least in our world.
28 March 2013 I was wondering about the relationship between object and its relationship in architecture.The object itself in the need to connect to the outside world, therefore context comes in. That’s why architecture and outside world is somehow connected, bringing outside in whatever it is, the surrounding, the nature is very important. I think Shigeru Uchida agreed with me, he wrote
“there are two directions for design themes,. They are the way to grasp a “thing” or “object” as a subject and the way to consider a “relationship as precedent.” … a major theme is how to create a relationship between each of these things that has its own individual meaning. Moreover, on top of these relationships, each of their parts also comes into existence.
Sketch for Jong’s House
The challenge in architecture is the relationship to what ? the relationship itself is a predicate not a subject, it’s a process on connecting the tissue of each part which is solving the problem and creating wonderful design. 27 March 2013 I’m thinking about the new bioclimatic form about roofs. The roof is one of the most beautiful part of architecture, it’s a crown,resembling human attributes. It’s the head. The question, how can you design new touch about it. What is new then, according to its beauty, function, logical structural question. Can it be lighter ? Roofs are the building element that are subject to greatest changes in temperature, and therefore the greatest expansion and contraction. Different types of roofs were thus created, with different thicknesses and materials according to the characteristics of each place. The construction aspect of roofs is undoubtedly significant for their design and maintenance. A roof is considered to be flat when the pitch is no more than 5 %. A roof with a pitch of 5 – 15 % is considered a low pitch roof, and one with a pitch higher that 15% is considered to be a pitched roof, I think the choice of one type of roof or another depends fundamentally on the communication between architect and client, on answering the client’s needs and foreseen the innovation in the roof design technology. It’s added by carlos broto that it’s depends also to the climatic conditions and on resources available. It must be conceived constructively, rationalised and adapted to the variable conditions of its environment. 26 March 2013 Today I met my old friend, he is now working in a prestigious company in Indonesia. It’s very unpredictable to meet him again, I was thinking about the click moment, Frans Johansson, said :
“”The world has never behaved in a predictable fashion, and that has never been truer than it is today. But this means that anyone of us has the opportunity to change world in the most unexpected of ways.An opportunity can present itself in the blink of an eye. It can happen when you least expect it. It can hapen in an instant , when the various pathways of our lives come together in surprising ways and connect.”
I never expect to meet him to talk about many opportunities, but that’s click moment, always surprises us. It’s happened to you as well, :) it’s about opportunity to getting know each other. 24 March 2013 I remember my daughter, Cherry, I feel so sad :(
23th March 2013 I’m so Gratefull today, many good things happened :) Right now I’m thinking about one school of construction mastery, It’s one school I named, “Design Perfection Workshop”. It’s one place to train skill for new apprentice in stone masonry, blacksmith, and carpentry. This school allows us to train the craftsmanship.The intention is to find new way of construction, of perfecting the old one, both of them are needed. I’ve got my intention, there are two spots needs to be perfected one is the improvement of understanding art in architecture, and construction in architecture. Both of them accumulates to be one master piece of architecture. That’s why I was thinking what we could do for striving such mastery.
Spending Time with Fadi and Gamma
16th March 2013 Finaly I met Fadi Raditya and Gamma Sinta Rini during our trip to Bandung, Fadi and Gamma have established their own architecture firm titled farad studio. hope the best for them. 13th March 2013 I’m at Pontianak, it’s about one masterplan nearby Ambawang River. I was thinking that this project needs to be green in landscape, full of park where old and young meet up. The street is going to be great !, I was thinking the ROW doesn’t need to be 12 m, but it can be smaller, 8 m is sufficient with no gate. In design of the masterplan, the framework is very important. It’s about combining the whole thinking of beauty of the nature and uniqueness of each typology, understanding the commercial force is also important factor. 12th March 2013 I was thinking in the office, I put all of my energy to understand force of nature, and brought it to the architecture scheme. The architecture scheme needs to say it’s a damn good design, depends on each circumstances. I want it to be extremely meaningfull. Each project has each story.
10 th March2013 I read one book “New Regionalism in Bali Architecture by Popo Danes published by IMAJI Publishings, in overall I love this book not only because of many breathtaking and beautiful pictures but it shows a clarity in showing plan,elevation and section. The description in the project, explained very well although it can be more detailed. It’s started briefly from what client asked Popo Danes in brief and what His intention in answering the brief. I like Popo Danes,his lovable gesture of what I called synthesis of neo traditional movement is evolving so we can look at the picture, many details resemble traditional usage of material, joining technique. I can say he is one great empirist ! :) I would love to see him in person
6th March 2013 Akanaka is nearly finished. I’m expecting all the things about design is on place. I was thinking about this project which has rational of functionality, the communal space arrangement, the lightwell between rooms, and the exercise of aesthetic and economical aspect of detail design.
20 th February 2013, My mom is having birthday today. I pray for her health and happiness. She has been sick for several days, few days ago my family and me taking her to emergency room because of her fever. I hope she will recover as soon as possible. I’m designing several houses now, I think every houses need not to be same, there are such principles, but it will always better than before, also the detail. In our act, excellence is not an act but a habit. Keep the spirit ya ;) Architecture is a lifelong commitment The principles of workmanship to unifiy art and architecture came from very long time ago. It’s the need of perfection of architecture mastery. It was found by one of my mentor, Walter Gropius. He is Well known because of his rationality in the design during form follow function movement. In 1913, Gropius published an article about “The Development of Industrial Buildings,” which included about a dozen photographs of factories and grain elevators in North America. A very influential text, this article had a strong influence on other European modernists, including Le Corbusier and Erich Mendelsohn, both of whom reprinted Gropius’s grain elevator pictures between 1920 and 1930. [Wikipedia]
The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect; the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during the first years of its existence. Nonetheless it was founded with the idea of creating a “total” work of art in which all arts, including architecture, would eventually be brought together. The Bauhaus style became one of the most influential currents in Modernist architecture and modern design.[1] The Bauhaus had a profound influence upon subsequent developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography. Wikipedia.com
My thought for Akanaka Logo [simple, crisp, beautiful]19th February 2013, Lobang Kayu, one of our project will be on Archinesia next edition, thank you IAAW for such publication. Also I designed this logo for one of design built. I love for the simplicity, but we need to add more options to see where it might go. I need to send this to Denny and Edhie, to get their approval for the design.
18th February 2013, I really love to use concrete. I love the texture of the material, the simplicity, boldness and heaviness of the original fingerprints that it brought. The character is different than steel, It’s heavy. The challenges is always how to enlighten this kind of material. Ando Tadao has been developing the mastery of the concrete with the general contractor to get the surface smooth and done in such panel integrated with the structure itself. Today I spent several hours at Oemah Demang, I need to do last add for lighting design and several transition details from bare concrete, gutter, L steel, and coral. I think that the details make the architecture function as a whole.
17th February 2013, Today is Sunday, Laurensia and me enjoy Bandung so much. I spent quite a while to plant pine trees along the edge at the home for cherry. We talk to the local workers, village people to help us taking care of the baby trees. Hear the voices of the nature
“There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.”
me and laurensia seeing the trees
Minnie Aumonier 16th February 2013, I woke up very early in the morning, . I remember that today Laurensia and me will have our time in Bandung, such lovely city. Before we go I need to go to Kemang Timur for supervise Oemah Demang design. I was wondering about the lighting of this home. I think the best place to find lighting fixture is in Bandung, it’s not expensive, and the design is good. So I made a preparation to set up several points for outdoor lighting on site with workers.
13th February 2013, I got interviewed by Dwell design, thanks to tya, and mbak Sunthy for the hospitality. It’s about Bare minimalist design for Charles Wiriawan. We invented wind chimney, cross air circulation, and sunshade fixtures together with combined by lightness of the concrete and living canopy to soften it’s expression. I called this paradigm, Bioclimatic Design. I think it’s about innovation of understanding climate in architecture. It’s holistic approach to design. I remember Alexandros N. Tombazis wrote
“…You should approach design in a holistic way, drawing strength and inspiration from all the elements of which it is composed, for example: history, culture, social considerations, symbolism, beauty, function, technique, place, sustanaibility and energy considerations, climate. the law of physics and time-cost benefit… do not frown on these issues. They all count and are important, of course not always to the same degree in all projects. On the other hand though, and this is the difficult part of it, if you take everything into consideration but lack that extra flair, the end result will probably not be much than mediocre, a watered – downsoup.”
Bare Minimalist #2
I think to decide which one is more important that other, we need to sense it. Each project is definitely unique, and we need design of architect’s eyes to bring the brilliant scheme.
10th February 2013, I just back from Belitung doing site supervise Arum Dalu resort. several Villa detail design is done on spot. Today is Chinese New Year. I got package from Surya, celebration card and photo journal. I hope the best for him for his career. I’m really happy to see all of my staffs going forward and do their best. 8 th February 2013, I did several on spot design. The Arum dalu starting to have its own beauty. I believe this resort will be one world class resort with the passion of the owner, the beauty of the nature, and the architecture that inspire and enhance the beauty of it. I was thinking that the detail need to be function, timeless, and aesthetically beauty. I did survery with people, we found kaolin coral which has spark and translucency like onyx but it’s beautiful, rare in pure white colour. I was thinking to have special custom shower fixture designed, it’s using pvc pipe covered with 80 mm blanger plank.
Detail of Arum Dalu Resort – Project
Detail of Arum Dalu Resort – Concrete Prefab by Agus Suparmono
Detail of Arum Dalu Resort – Detail – Project
Ship cotter pin
7 th February 2013, I look at the ship construction in Belitung, how the joint unified using traditional wood cotter pin. They also can bend the wood using warmth of fire. It’s one of the local traditional carpentry. I was thinking about bent wood, and remember my master alvar aalto do the same thing but it’s in the different way for his furniture design. arm chair 406 in 1939. Check this. 5th February 2013, Encouragement. One word that makes human stronger. I find this word hard to swallow in this world today. It’s really important to put trust on whoever help you regarding to everything. I’m planning to do last revision Oemah Demang Design revised done in today. It’s about the lightness of hand railing, the honesty of its construction and its efficiency to reduce building cost. I was thinking that stainless steel fitting that allowing 3 cm gab might do better than putting the panel directly to steel stick.
1st February 2013 It’s already new month. I’m very happy to see my wife recovered from our loss. Yesterday I did lecture for Architecture department of University Indonesia. I shared one butterfly collection, from my side of view to make our fantasy come true in architecture. There are several components, thoughts needed such as context, creativity, initiatives, and trust. Creativity is basically trying to solve problem with new paradigm, fresh look with one full learning design iteration. It’s never ending qualitative process. Fantasy is all about people. It’s one enterprise that brings people together around some marvelous dream that inspires people and contribute rich value to those they serve. With all the technology, disruption, competition in the world today, a lot of us have forgotten that the whole game is about relationships – and human connections plus context plus initiatives.
31 January 2013 It’s the end of the month. Today, I will be pretty busy, I’m planning to go on site for site inspection, together with UPH’s thinking working drawing class, meanwhile in the afternoon I will do lecture for University Indonesia students. I just can’t wait for the lecture. Meanwhile I remember today is Saturday, time for relax and have fun with family. 30 January 2013 It’s 5.30 am in the morning. I’ve got wonderful quote from Lao Tzu, it’s about how to carve our mastery and passion.
The master of art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play. His labor and his leisurer, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others ti decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both. Lao Tzu
The wisdom of this reflected in the observation that hard work plays huge part in making you successful. And, the truth is, we simply tend to work harder at things we’re passionate about. Today I have trip for our upcoming project, It’s eco boutique hotel. Many people ask what is eco project. The simple one coined started by professor from Harvard, Ian Mcharg, in his book “Design with Nature”,
he popularized a system of analyzing the layers of a site in order to compile a complete understanding of the qualitative attributes of a place. McHarg gave every qualitative aspect of the site a layer, such as the history, hydrology, topography, vegetation, etc. This system became the foundation of today’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a ubiquitous tool used in the practice of ecological landscape design. [wiki]
I think this approach need to respond to passive , active, several analysis needed. The idea is to conclude harmony man with nature. I call this building bioclimatic building. 28 January 2013 Today is Monday. It’s 5 a.m. It’s the starting of the week. I will do lecture coming Saturday about architecture theme – reviving the dead at University of Indonesia. consider its definition
re·vive (r-vv)
v.re·vived, re·viv·ing, re·vives
v.tr.
1. To bring back to life or consciousness; resuscitate.
2. To impart new health, vigor, or spirit to.
3. To restore to use, currency, activity, or notice.
4. To restore the validity or effectiveness of.
5. To renew in the mind; recall.
6. To present (an old play, for example) again.
v.intr.
1. To return to life or consciousness.
2. To regain health, vigor, or good spirits.
3. To return to use, currency, or notice.
4. To return to validity, effectiveness, or operative condition.
To return death to life, a condition before. If the site is blank canvas then how to bring it back to life. Actually it’s basic need of what every scheme needs, it’s the duty of the architect when human and nature at its centre. The combination of both is needed, human and nature. To think about this we need to think critical about the context, about the city, about the action to bring back the spirit of environment [genius loci]. It’s all about good architecture and it needs to be responsive. 26 January 2013 It’s 4.30 am in the morning. I’m still refining few projects so far, I’m doing I walk for Citraland. For the few days workshop, I still don’t get the form that I want, my staffs in the office have been working hard for this, now it is my turn. I get this wonderful quote from Martin Luther King Jr. about the job that we do every that whatever our position is. He said
If a man is called to be street sweeper, he should sweep streets as Michaelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare poetry. He sould sweep streets so well that all hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say “Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
Nevertheless Because today is Saturday, I will have time with my family. :) 25 January 2013 Laurensia is recovering from the surgery, thank you for Dr. Cindy. We lost our baby, 2 months. I just hope Laurensia recover like normal quickly and we can have our time together. My tears dropped, I am very sad, but life must go on, we have to walk this life again, with what we have, living life that matters. 20 January 2013 it’s 6.a.m in the morning. Today is Sunday. Deep inside my heart cries of the news.
19 January 2013 I hope the sadness in our family because of the pain of the losing our hope does not happen. I remember story from Tuesday with Moorie, He said, when sadness happened, feel it greatly, deep inside your heart, dive with it, and then get over it. It’s done.
18 January 2013 my office is closed today. I spent time by reading books, one book is about the story of my most favorite American architect, Frank Lloyd by Bruce brooks, and it’s about the finding of prairie house. He wrote in the March 1908 issue of architectural record,
“The prairie has a beauty of its own and we should recognize and accentuate this natural beauty, its quiet level. Hence, gentle sloping roofs, low proportions, quiet skylines, suppressed heavyset chimneys, and sheltering overhangs, low terraces and out reaching walls sequestering private gardens.
Designing one house in every part of the world is unique by its context. In Indonesia, we are known for its monsoon climate, we need to accommodate air stacking effect and cross air ventilation to add fresh air which accumulate in such humid climate that we have. I think it takes time to evolve to redefine. Wright takes 7 years to redefine and invent his planning. I learn about open plan, the need of creating series of activity in house design, place where people see each other, talk with each other, because of the culture of the people, Asian culture. But William Morris has done in his design, red house. So, what could we offer, I believe in fantasy, in one dream, that house need to be warm, expressed by its beauty of unpredictable forces such as each context, and its client. In order to get inspiration, ask nature what it offers, by its impression and its character. We hear the sound, breath fresh air, and the imagination will come after. And I’m also reading another book by Frans Johansson aout the click moment. I will share the click moment in the next post ya :). I hope the flooding is over soon, and Jakarta will be normal.
17 January 2013 The city of Jakarta get flooded badly, I think the government should consider the development of the infrastructure. I think there are many best practice to follow from Tokyo, London, Denmark, Rome about the importance of the quality of living. Every people should read jane jacobs, Lang about theory of great city. I agree with what Jacobs wrote,
It is so easy to blame the decay of cities on traffic … or imigrants… or the whimsies of the middle class. The decay of cities goes deeper and is more complicated. It goes right down to what we think we want, and to our ignorance about how cities work. The forms in which money is used for city building – or with held from use – are powerful instruments of city decline today. The forms in which money is used must be converted to instruments of regeneration – from instruments buying violent cataclysms to instruments buying continual, gradual, complex, and gentler change.
My Birthday
My Dream Team
16 January 2013 I am 31 years old today :) Jakarta is flooded today. My employees did surprise, I’m so amazed, so we had a photo session at the front of our office. I do believe the office has best camaraderie that we have cultivate the relationship so far, it can’t be measured by looking at it, but it spread among us. The flooding is getting better, Laurensia and me went to nearby shopping mall to buy a celebration ice cream for my birthday. I’m so gratefull with this life, air that we breath, family that I love so much, and friends who are beside us in matter of sadness and happiness.
Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it. Sai Baba
Thank you God, Thank you my wife, thank you my family, thank you friends, thank you life for everything.
Birthday with My Wife
15 January 2013 I’m refining design for cluster of townhouse at Margasatwa, the idea come up to get a concept of sustainable living, which mean dan we need to rethink about the opening, the planning configuration while the bussiness model need to be considered as well, because many sustainable scheme does not go forward because the treatment is considerably expensive.
14 January 2013 I just came back from Makassar, finding that Jakarta is in Heavy rain, hopefully the city is not flooded this time.
13 January 2013 It’s sunday, I’m going to Makassar for one eco resort, one friend asked me to help him to do his project. I was thinking to meet old friend at Makassar, she moved to Makassar few years ago, I can’t wait to hear her story. My Father is having his birthday today, I pray for his health and happiness.
9 January 2013 Love … it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be, Khalil Gibran. It’s 4.30 am in the morning, I will go to Oemah Demang just make sure all of the design set up in place.
8 January It’s serene and tranquil today. I remember about Black Swan, Yevghenia, she spent few years, writing her book without comprimising to the outer world, it’s a path of perfection. In order to get perfection we need to set back from our daily routines, and ask ourself, what’s worth, what’s needed, it’s a point of redefining premise of understanding other people, our surrounding. That’s a perfection of what I think worth for. 7 January It’s 5 a.m. in the morning,
One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most peoplehave breakfast. ~Robert Braul
today I will wrap design one house at valley for our client at Bandung, and another one in Alam Sutera. I have to make the dream crystalized.
House in its definition from merriam webster dictionary is a building that serves as living quarters for one or a few families
but I think it’s more than that definition above, I remember that in house design, Gaston Bachelard’s La Poetiques de l’espace (‘The poetics of Space; 1958) explores the psyhic nature of the house, from the attic where though are kept corresponding to the superego, to the basement where things are buried and forgotten. Houses house not only poeple and their belongings, they also contain memory and meaning. It’s deep in its philosophy and design concept.
6 January It’s 5 a.m. in the morning, I’m still refining lobby and gazebo for Arum Dalu till the precise detail and composition, the result before was still not in my expectation eventhough I know we have done our very best last week. In order to be the best, I think it’s the price of the process, the testing gets under way. I will do this until 7 a.m. and will start travel this universe of life with my wife, the best wife in the world. :) And you people don’t forget to relax ya, today is Sunday. I will pray for such blessing, and gratefullness to God for what’s good and bad been happening :)
5 January Heard about the smart tunnel proposed by Jokowi and Ahok, Very gratefull to hear it because it’s vital point to manage waste in the city, even though London needed four decade at least to build the tunnel, it’s no point to delay it. It’s about creating more healthy city. Heard very sad news about my mentor, my friend about what’s happening in his office. It’s story where corruption happens, and trust, distrust. It shouldn’t be like that, the pure intention is that office is for work, loving our working world, trying to be more capable and more capable and wake up peeps, there is ethics above innovation, and great works :). Please respect others, if we do that , at the end all story is happy ending.
2nd January 2012, I can’t wait for the starting day of daily activities, :) I will have one meeting today, hopefully the meeting will run smooth. I need to make sure the dream of the projects realized. It’s about one ecoresort in Makassar. I met Edhie, Pak Singgih, all of the head builders to coordinate, make sure the design is deliver on spot. it’s part of working the design.
1st January 2012, Happy New Year :) I hope 2013 would be the best year of celebrating the warmth of love, the pursue of happiness to be celebrated with your loved one. I have been reading few books like the leader who had no title by Robin Sharma, It’s wonderfull book, it’s one modern fable who told me about real success in business and in life, it’s also international best seller after Gladwell’s books.
31 December 2012, During my short holiday to Japan, My secretary has prepared all of the gift for my friends and relative, but it’s not enough. I haveto add more cookies for the gift, I’m gratefull that all of the preparation is finished, Laurensia helped me to wrap up the gift and preparing the gift.
30 December 2012, I can’t wait for the end of the year :) I woke up arround 4.30 a.m. I need to do refinement of work of me and my dream team, it’s about detail of floating stair using cable. It needs to be light and the transition of material to be applied smooth and gentle, and it needs to be sophisticatedly beautifull. I’m writing new article for one architecture magazine. It’s about the timeless way idea of design, one article inspired from Christopher Alexander, James Weirick, and Jon Lang. My wonderfull professor. 1 more day to end of this year.
29 December 2012, I woke up very early this morning, arround 5 a.m. preparing few materials for meeting today at Kemang for Oemah Demang. I was thinking to start a walk arround my neighbourhood for a while, to have such Healthy body is one of our best thing that we ever had, I’ve just turned 30, and will be 31, better enjoy the ride. The time is ticking :). I spent whole day, working on site in Kemang, I need to do refinement on the detail design. This building need to be awesome. I love to work on site, doing the workshop with the builder, it’s not about making the aesthetic, it’s about opening our architect’s eyes, to the detail of the construction, the labour who made it, the beauty of understanding of art making, understanding the logic of the function, and spontanious beauty came up from the numerous workshop. It’s beauty hardwork designed by me and my dream team, along with all the builders and designers inside. I met Laurensia quite late today, because the work today. But when we find ourself tired working, meeting our loved one is always so sweet and memorable just heard love words from her made just enough to close my day.
28 December 2012, The design time is just never stop :) We just get commision from one of our client to design few villas in their projects, also we have one project almost finished in Kemang, my best friend Edhie and Denny, they are the clients. I don’t want to dissapoint them so tommorow I’m going to arrange full meeting with the builder, and project manager on spot just to see one and each detail design to be built correctly and perfectly. This tim I’m adoring the texture of terra cotta for the project. I’m eager to try this material for our project. Meanwhile, we’ve just already finished design for Arum Dalu resort in Belitung, Hope that the client like it. Today, I’m refining the scheme, the design, angle, finishes, and the presentation.
27 December 2012, I just back from our trip to Japan just to relax, it’s ben such wonderfull trip. We met Fitra, Ditto, Renzo [their son] our best friends in Tokyo, while we spent a while in Tokyo, Hakone, Shirakawago, Kyoto. This trip is our baby moon trip,
Babymoon has several meanings. The original meaning is a period of time that parents spend bonding with a recently born baby. More recently the term has come to be used to describe a vacation taken by a couple that is expecting a baby in order to allow the couple to enjoy a final trip together before the many sleepless nights that usually accompany a newborn baby. Babymoons usually take place at a resort that offers appropriate services like prenatal massage.[wikipedia] Babymoon can also be used for a trip taken by a couple even before they get pregnant. As long as the trip is intended to be a final romantic fling before venturing into parenthood, the term babymoon applies.
7 August 2012 I’m very tired now, I still haven’t got any long night sleep. We are having rush dateline to design one 200 ha masterplan, I think the masterplan needs big Gesture for conceptual, i was thinking for the function like circus, one non stop looping main spine with layer of lakeside, commercial, and residential at more private precinct.
6 August 2012 Today is the first day of workshop studio at UPH, I saw students, their freshness on their spirit. Mean while right now is 17.30, i still have several hours before meeting with one contractor to discuss one of the design. I just asked of our staff to send me the drawing. I need to revise some of the design to make more spacious space. Then we are having our office in one cafe, I was thinking, the speed, the time is always so valuable. I hope that I can rest a bit, since this 2 weeks we have been in tough dateline from one project to another projects. Just to share one good news that one of our work “the bare minimalist residence” is in IAI Awards nomination. I’m feeling really happy and thankful for all of the effort we have done, whatever it takes, small effort counts to the project.
5 August 2012 Laurensia and me just got back from meeting, time is 22.30 now, We had such long run meeting since 12 am this afternoon. It’s sunday today, even though it’s weekend day, I still have 2 meetings and 1 site supervision to follow through today. Laurensia had accompanied me for meeting for 10 hours so far. I felt really exhausted, need to take a rest.
taken from a foreword of Time Territory Book, February 2010 [Realrich Sjarief MUDD 15 2009 Surabaya, Indonesia [edited by Li jou oi]
I completed a bachelors degree in architecture at the Institute Technology of Bandung Indonesia (ITB) in 2005. Over the last four years, I have been involved in major projects throughout Abu Dhabi, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam. I spent a year with Urbane Indonesia, Bandung, followed by a year with DP architects in Singapore, and finally moved to London to work for Norman Foster in Foster and Partners. I was fortunate to be involved in several projects such as Plot – L11, a commercial building at the first zero-carbon, zero-waste Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and the YTL Headquarters in Malaysia. Pursuing architecture has been a wise decision – I continue to gain and learn so much from other team members through architecture explorations and discussions. I find it immensely rewarding to be able to constantly meet new clients and provide them with my design services. I thoroughly enjoy the design process and as a result, have won several design awards as of 2008. Life is a journey of learning.
In 2008, I was looking for a university that offered the best urban design program in terms of lecturers and course work. The University of New South Wales came in as my first choice and I enrolled in the Master of Urban Development and Design starting in 2009. The courses have broadened my knowledge to a level I have never experienced before, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the process of learning. Our professors, Professor James Weirick and Emeritus Professor Jon Lang encourage us to establish a strong theoretical framework in design. I believe the influence of this on our careers will be profound and far-reaching. My first semester started with the Introductory Studio with Emeritus Professor Lang which laid the theoretical foundation of urban design. This was followed by our second project, the Incheon Urban Design Competition conducted by Professor Weirick. Driven by Professor Weirick’s extensive knowledge and enthusiasm, our team pushed the envelope of design and was rewarded the bronze prize, from over 1,000 international entrants. The second semester studio conducted by Adjunct Professor Nigel Dickson introduced analysis and synthesis in the professional urban design practice such as market forces, land and building considerations, structure plans, the need to respond to the city’s vision and work flow in urban design to stitch conceptual and detailed master plans.
My most rewarding experience was the international studio led by Professor Weirick. We travelled to Nagoya and immersed ourselves in the Japanese culture through various discussions with other students and through community consultation. Special thanks go to Professor Endoh of the Urban Renewal of Nishiki 2 District Project and Jun Sakaguchi, director of PTW Architects who helped facilitate this studio. The Japanese experience was further enhanced by subsequent travels to both urban and traditional areas in Nagoya, Tokyo, Shirakawa, Mount Gifu and Kyoto. My journey with the MUDD program has brought forward the greatest achievement of my year, being awarded first prize in the design competition for the Vocational Program building complex of the University of Indonesia, scheduled for construction in 2010. I have now set up an architecture office in Indonesia and intend to continue running it with an urban design practice. As the Spanish novelist, George Santanaya, has said “The wisest mind has something yet to learn”.
This MUDD program for me was the beginning of something unseen but memorable. To Professor Weirick and Emeritus Professor Lang, thank you very much for the valuable experience, and ’Salute’!
Sydney Harbour
Art Gallery of New South Wales – My Favorite Museum
“The wisest mind has something yet to learn ” – George Santanaya, Spanish Poet, born in Madrid 1883-1952
Hari ini 11 Desember 2009, saya terharu sekali dengan tulisan Ade Tinamei, saya memanggilnya mbak ade. Dia menceritakan kisah dari seorang anak untuk bapaknya, sebuah cerita yang personal dan sangat sederhana, namun sungguh melandasi apa yang saya anggap sangat penting untuk menjalani hidup setelah perjalanan dari beberapa negara di dunia. Perjalanan demi ilmu untuk selalu belajar seumur hidup.
Tribute for Ardi (dibuat sang Anak, dibaca sang Ibu, dipersembahkan bagi sang Bapak)
Today at 4:06am [11 Desember 2009 -ed]
Selamat malam.Sebelumnya terima kasih karena saya diminta dan diberi kesempatan mengisi sambutan dengan topik “Tribute untuk Pak Ardi”. Saya lebih suka menyampaikan pembukaan ini dengan bahasa cerita. Bukan bahasa pidato.Karena saya lebih sering melihat bapak bercerita, ketimbang berpidato atau menggurui dalam kuliah-kuliahnya.
Pertama, bagi saya Pak Ardi adalah pribadi yang kaya dan paradoks.Kaya, karena hingga kini kita tidak akan henti dapat menemukan hal-hal baru dari kehidupan Bapak. Tidak pernah habis.Paradoks, karena kita selalu dapat melihat dua sisi kehidupan Bapak. Bahkan saya yakin pada acara ini, saya mengajak untuk menemukan kekayaan baru dan berbagai paradoks dari diri Bapak.
Ke-2, bagi saya Pak Ardi adalah pribadi yang cuek.Cuek pada penampilan dirinya sendiri, sisiran rambutnya, dan bajunya. Tapi Bapak tidak pernah cuek pada kemajuan pendidikan. Untuk kemajuan arsitektur UGM. Untuk kemajuan Kota Yogya yang bahkan bukan kota kelahirannya atau kota tempat ia dibesarkan.
Ke-3, Pak Ardi adalah pribadi yang sederhana.Sederhana pada pemikirannya atau pembawaannya.Tapi tidaklah sederhana untuk perjuangannya.Tidak sederhana atas keyakinannya.Keyakinan bahwa pada umumnya semua orang dilahirkan adalah orang baik.
Bapak yakin pada dasarnya semua orang selalu beritikad untuk menjadi lebih baik. Bapak sangat yakin itu.
Ke-4, Pak Ardi adalah pribadi yang easy-going. Tidak ribet dalam menilai sesuatu dan membawa diri dalam komunitas baru.
Pandai berkawan.Tapi Bapak tidak selalu easy-going dalam menilai kepandaian murid-muridnya.Bapak selalu ngotot memperjuangkan apa yang benar, dan apa yang baik.Ngotot memperjuangkan generasi muda untuk berkarya.Yang menurut Bapak baik bukan bagi diri Bapak, melainkan untuk kepentingan murid tersebut atau komunitas secara luas.
Ke-5, Pak Ardi adalah pribadi yang romantis.Romantis pada keluarganya, tanamannya, dan rumahnya.Tapi Bapak memilih pragmatis apa adanya pada hal-hal lain.Pragmatis pada kompromi keadaan yang tengah terjadi.Ketimbang meromantiskan masa lalu dan tradisi, terkadang Bapak memilih untuk merasionalisasikannya pada setting masa kini. Mendengar berbagai pihak. Merangkul berbagai keluh kesah. Dan hidup berkompromi dari hasil keputusan bersama.
Ke-6. Tapi memang Pak Ardi pribadi yang pelupa.Pelupa pada tanggal-tanggal penting, pelupa letak dompet dan kacamatanya, bahkan terkadang pelupa menjemput saya yang telah menunggu lama di bioskop di masa muda kami dulu. Tapi satu hal yang saya tahu, Bapak tidak pernah lupa akan kodrat dirinya. Sebagai pengajar, sebagai arsitek, sebagai anggota masyarakat dusunnya. Juga sebagai pribadi manusia khalifah di dunia. Pribadi yang dianugerahkan amanah ILMU untuk memajukan individu-individu lain. Menyiarkannya dalam pengajaran yang terkadang terlupakan jadwalnya. Hanya lupa jadwal, bukan melupakan niatnya.
Maka di kesempatan sekarang ini, ijinkan saya menyampaikan salah satu pesan Bapak.
Bahwa hidup harus dimaknai.
Yang digali tanpa henti
Oleh ketekunan kita.
Dan kesabaran kita.
Bahwa hidup harus diwarnai.
Yang dicoreti dari berbagai pengalaman yang dijalani.
Oleh semangat kita.
Dan antusiasme kita.
Bahwa hidup haruslah belajar.
Yang ditimba dari apapun di penggal kehidupan kita.
Tak hanya di ruang kelas.
Tapi juga yang terhampar di sekitar kita.
Karena bagi Bapak, hidup adalah pencarian karunia Tuhan terbesar, yaitu ILMU.
Semoga kita bisa selalu menggali ILMU di dunia selama hayat dikandung badan.
Seperti Pak Ardi Pardiman.
Amin.
(disampaikan pada acara Pembukaan IAI Yogya)
Ade Tinamei, Executive Director & Senior Urban Designer at Center for Urban Design Studies (PSUD) and Part-Time Lecturer at ITB.
Just after the Olympics, Iron demand, steel output and oil imports all continued to increase at double digit annual rates. 1 million people are moving from the countryside to the cities each month, the oil prices which rose to almost 10 percent since 2008 which have led to shortages of fuel and electricity, and China stock markets have crashed over the past year. Shanghai stock exchange fell 53 percent at the end of 2008. Unsold automobile inventories rose 50 percent to a four year high in June 2008. Foster (2008:55).
1)introduction to Beijing
The writing begins with the introduction of the Beijing old city planning, development reality behind Olympic 2008, and situation after that. To describe Beijing in simple word is not easy. It has an amazing fabric, planning hierarchy principle based on class hierarchy principle. Rose also stated the city is practically a diagram of imperial china’s coherent and comprehensive idea statement… it is a succession of concentric quadrangles. Rose (2008:8). It’s a well integrated city with grid planning and courtyard housing which was built in 3 different dynasties. The mountain Area southwest of Beijing was the home of Peking man some 500,000 years ago. In the 11th century B.C. became Jicheng (the city of Ji). It was the capital of the state of Yan of the Warring States period (475-221 B.C.). The city grew and in the mid 12th century. The Jin Dynasty made it its capital calling it Zhong Du (central capital). A century later it was made the Yuan dynasty capital of Kublai Khan, who named it Dadu (Great Capital). In the early 15th century the Ming dynasty rebuilt the city and named it Beijing (northern capital). Yongqing (1980:4).
Wu in his book Rehabilitating the old city of Beijing explained that Beijing is different than most of its predecessors, which perished at the end of the dynasties in which they were created, Beijing evolved through the last three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing. It has become the ultimate example of ancient Chinese city planning. Liangyong (1999:3). Paris as a comparison with Beijing in figure 1 on the page 2 can be seen as a small portion of Beijing. While from 800 until 1800 Beijing hasn’t grown so drastically. Wu stated that Beijing was the largest city in the world in the period between AD 1450 and 1899 in terms of population size (except during the period between AD1650 and 1700, when Constantinople overtook it by a small margin. Liangyong (1999:4) It shows that Beijing has a rich and complex urban growth that is been existed for 2000 years.
In 1978, London times correspondent David Bonavia pictured Beijing as a monotonous socialist city, lacking in vice and urban life. Twenty-six years later, Chinese blues singer and writer Liu Sola pints the chaotic landscape of an alienated megalopolis… in the swirl of global consumerism. Broudehoux (2008:1). In 2008 when the Olympic was happening in Beijing, it consist of not only a city staging but it was a country staging to the world to show the world that China showing it’s economic power through Olympic in Beijing. The city has been going into huge changes in the Mao era and its progression on 1990s and The Olympics undoubtedly was a catalyst of urban growth in Beijing.
The structure of the writing is:
1)Introduction
2)Urban landscape developed pursuing Olympic 2008
3)Urban landscape After Olympic 2008
4)Conclusion
In This essay, the scope and time line is limited to before and after 2008. Chapter 1 is the introduction about Beijing. Chapter two is the chapter of to seek an answer about the image construction in Beijing pursuing Olympic 2008, and how the government role and commercial role take in charge of inventing architecture as agent of change of reshaping new image of Beijing. Chapter 3 seeks for current condition to know about recent situation. It is the chapter to understand the current Beijing’s economic situation and what is happening on government’s strategy on reshaping urban landscape. Statistics and literature study will be chosen as methods for achieving data. These 2 chapters develop specific points which provide the foundations upon which the hypothesis conclude. Chapter 4 is the conclusion which demonstrates summaries of the essay and provides the answer of the hypothesis above.
2) Urban landscape developed pursuing Olympic 2008
Rose as stated in the book called Solutions for a modern City, Arup in Beijing that Beijing is’ the greatest single work of man on the face of the earth”. The city is practically a diagram of imperial china’s coherent and comprehensive idea statement… it is a succession of concentric quadrangles. The basic unit of Beijing was the siheyuan, a four sided single storey residence for an extended family with an open courtyard at its centre… were packed neatly in a grid of streets aligned to the points of the compass… Forbidden city follows the same rules as the domestic architecture: courtyards within courtyards…’ Rose. S. (2008:8). It also has the orientation from north to south from the Gate of Eternal stability to the south, passing Tiananmen Square through centre of the Forbidden City, and beyond it to ceremonial bell and drum towers, in the north of the city. See figure 2
Figure 2 Arup’s project in Beijing (2008:9)
In 2008, Arup as a international engineering firm has been closely involved in many of the iconic and monumental projects commissioned to support the Olympics, the project consists of The national Aquatics centre, ‘Birds nest’ The Beijing National Stadium, The fencing hall/ National convention center, Beijing Capital International Airport’s new terminal 3, the new headquarters of China Central Television (CCTV) which is a triumphal arch and 70 storey skyscraper… the client called for an iconic building and this one characteristically mixes its understated metaphors,…’ Jencks, C (2007:60), others are China World Trade Center Phase 3 (tallest building in Beijing), Beijing South rail station (starting point for high speed rail services to the regions of Tianjing and Shang Hai), Beijing Parkview Green (largest sustainable architecture projects), Nokia china’s new headquarters (also known as the Nokia green building).Arup (2008:62-63).
The number of the projects is more than 9 that consisting multi billion projects. The number depict a reality at time of pursuing 2008 that it deals with a buildings, a public realm, and undoubtedly money. The 9 projects that are mentioned above is just a small portion of what’s really happening in Beijing.
Olympic as a catalyst of city’s growth in Beijing is not a new story, It happened in several cities and countries such as ‘… Rome, host of the 1960 Olympiad, where highway, airport, and urban landscape improvements were implemented in advance of the event…1964 Summer Olympic Games, Tokyo built two new underground rail lines, expanded its metropolitan highway network,… public housing, sewer infrastructure, and harbor facilities. Munich’s Olympic Village was designed to be a community for moderate-and low income residents after the games, and hosting the ill fated 1962 Games was the impetus for restoring the historic city center… Campanella (2008:125)
Beijing has been in a phase to exploit its material fabric of the city through architecture and urbanism. One of the official concepts of the Beijing organizing committee of the Olympic Games underscores the concept of showing china’s economic advancement through a high tech Olympics showcase. BOCOG stated the mission of Beijing Olympics that : ‘The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Sponsorship Program shall abide by the Olympic Charter and adhere to the Olympic Ideals and the three concepts of ‘Green Olympic Games, High-tech Olympic Games and People’s Olympic Games’; assist in the promotion of the Olympic Movement, the promotion of the Olympic image and brand awareness of the Beijing Games and COC in and outside China; ensure financial sufficiency and stability, and reliable technical and service support for the staging and operation of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games; provide a unique Olympic marketing platform for both Chinese and foreign enterprises and encourage the broad participation of Chinese business entities to enhance their corporate image and brand awareness through their Olympic association, and provide quality services to sponsors and maximize the return on their investments while helping them forge long-term partnerships with the Olympic Movement in China.’ BOCOG (2009)
The government highlighted several keywords: green, high tech, and people. For a month in 2008 a city of 15 million permanent residents and 4 million from elsewhere in the country will receive more than 2.5 million visitors, including 17,600 athletes and officials and at least as many members of the press, Marving (2008:233). By 2008, there will be a total of 800 hotels with 1300000 rooms compared to 458 hotels with 84812 rooms in 2005 (Owen 2005, 13-14). 31 sport venues are mandated for Beijing and six more for the host cities of Qing Dao, Hong Kong, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shenyan, and Qinhuang Dao. 16 of this are completely new; all but three will be upgraded. Marving (2008:233).
The strategy of urbanism consist developing transportation, open space, and quality of the environment. The public transportation was improved, older buses and taxis have been replaced with new ones that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) or comply with the municipal vehicle emissions standards, enforced in the recent years by the city of Beijing. ‘Out of total operating fleet of 60,000 taxis and 19000 buses, more that 47,000 old taxis and 7,000 old diesel buses had been replaced or refitted by the end of 2006. New buses powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) were introduced to replace old buses: 2,795 CND buses are now running in Beijing.’UNEP (2007: 18). It also consist a transportation projects such as Tibet-Qinghay railway (The world’s highest) and the three gorges dam (the world’s largest). Marvin (2008:230).
Green space is also developed, ‘green coverage in Beijing, and has expanded to more that 50 percent of the city’s area. Beijing has created three different ecological zones in the mountain, plains and urban area to create a green shelter for the city. At the end of 2006, the three ecological zones were nearly completed, including a total of 20 natural reserves to protect forests, wild plants and animals, wetlands, and geological formations. ‘ UNEP (2007:20)
Beijing was doing well based on the assessment from UNEP Report in setting the environmental goals. During the candidature phase in 2000, Beijing set ambitious environmental goals to show the world its commitment to sustainable development. Beijing’s municipal Government and government of China outlined 20 key projects to improve Beijing’s environment, and an overall investment of US$ 6.6 million in 2003-2007 under the Beijing sustainable development plan. The project areas range from addressing air and water quality and waste management to including environmental considerations in new infrastructure development. According to official data, 4.13 million tons water were produced in 2006 in the eight central districts, while the overall processing capacity was close to 3.98 million tons water, giving a processing rate to 96.5 percent , UNEP(2007:14,20)
Nevertheless the extinction of China’s dolphin also known as Baiji which usually lives in Yang Tze River underlined that at some points this development has a significant effect to the environment. The dolphin’s population had plummeted from about 400 in the late 1980s to less than 100 in the mid-1990s.The last search for the animal, in 1997, yielded 13 sightings. But none has seen them since 2004, Lovgren (2009). This extinction of the Baiji resulted from heavy pollution that happened in the yang Tze River.
Additionally, there are thousands of major commercial and government projects in China. It has the same completion day which is August 2008. With so many big projects ending at that month it may cause a down turn to global economy as the demand of construction will suddenly falls.
3) Urban Landscape after Olympic 2008
Beijing has already achieved many of its bid commitments, for example on waste water treatment, water source protection and waster management, and appears to be well on the way of fulfilling all of them. In UNEP’s view, this is an achievement in itself, especially considering that the organizing committee of the previous Olympic summer games failed to follow up their environmental promises. UNEP (2007:20)
Beijing has used the Olympic Games for a catalyst of the economy growth to show the power of China. It does come to the nationalism to the heart of the people if we come back to the previous mission of Beijing Olympic Games that has 3 mission: green, high tech, and people. The number of the statistic is worrying. To talk about the people, Yuann and inch underlined that China exports just about anything and everything, from products to outsourced services, therefore it can be said to drive the economy forward. It also becomes basic of the fundamental of the economic driver. The fundamental are the three primary growth drivers – trade, investment, and consumption. Yuann and Inch (2008:69). The first that has to be concerned by the government is the exports. China is heavily depends on the West market, but since the economic crisis hit in the middle of 2009. The numbers of the trade, investment, and consumption started to decline. Demand from Western economies is the slow but steady appreciation of the Yuan and China’s own efforts to raise interest rates and stem shipments of resource-intensive products like aluminum and steel have hit exporters. Looking at the figure 3.
Figure 3 Trade plunge in China’s economy Source from Chinability 2003
The foreign trade continued to drop sharply with a slight decrease of trade surplus. The total value of imports and exports for the first half was US$ 946.1 billion, down by 23.5 percent year-on-year. The value of exports was US$ 521.5 billion, down by 21.8 percent, and the value of imports was US$ 424.6 billion, down 25.4 percent. The trade surplus was US$ 96.9 billion, a decrease of US$ 2.1 billion over the same period last year.
Figure 4 Price of Oil International Energy Agency (2009:42)
The second is energy prices. China’s oil imports as a proportion of its overall import bill rose to almost 12 percent in the spring from around 8 percent at the start of 2008. China’s predicament is made worse by an unholy mess of price caps and subsidies in its domestic energy markets, which have led to shortages of fuel and electricity. EIA (2009)
Just after the Olympics, Iron demand, steel output and oil imports all continued to increase at double digit annual rates. 1 million people are moving from the countryside to the cities each month, see figure 5. The oil prices which rose to almost 10 percent since 2008 which have led to shortages of fuel and electricity, and China stock markets have crashed over the past year. Shanghai stock exchange fell 53 percent at the end of 2008. Unsold automobile inventories rose 50 percent to a four year high in June 2008. Nevertheless China’s government are dealing a dilemma of focusing on fighting inflation which was running over 7 percent in June 2008 or they look forward to stimulate a slowing economy. Foster (2008:55).
The consistency of the government was trialed by the down turn in global financial crisis to maintain a good economic growth. The economic growth is what Chinese government offer to make euphoria of good life. Broudehoux stated that current approaches to city marketing and urban image construction in Beijing are highly unsustainable and may actually be counter productive, she then made a basic proposition that there are a clash between two visions of the city: the abstract space imagined by state and its planners, and the lived space experience on a daily basis by the masses. Broudehoux (2008: 244-245).
The number of vacant space started to soar, 500 million square feet of commercial real estate has been developed in Beijing since 2006, an amount larger than all of the office space in Manhattan. In 2009,100 million square feet of office space is vacant — a 14-year supply if it filled up at the same rate as in the best years, 2004 through 2006, when about 7 million square feet a year was leased in Beijing. Demick (2009) Government is also spending money to the maintenance of the parks, According to a latest survey by the Horizon Group, one of China’s leading strategic researches and consultancy, China has invested about 150 billion Yuan (US$ 22 billion) in 2,500 theme parks across the country. 70 percent of them are not doing well now, and only 10 percent have paid back their initial investments.China daily(September 2009).
Conclusion
In reality, it’s true that urban image construction was instrumental in fostering urban growth. The urban image construction also carries positive long term effects as a vehicle for important transformations in Chinese society. It could act as a catalyst in promoting potential social change by provoking the creation of an urban public sphere.
I started my hypothesis from asking a simple question. Does Beijing need to slow down ? To answer this question is complex. China depends heavily on its exports. let me illustrate with a simple example. The immigration is about 1 million per month. People also need housing and job. The global crisis happened and the demand of the exports declining and there has been a down turn to China economic growth. Can Beijing slow down if the dream of the people is coming to Beijing to have a better life? If Beijing slows down would it show to the people that Beijing is declining? The government just doesn’t’ have any choice to slow down. One of the ways is to reduce the dependence to the exports. Another way is to reduce the migration to Beijing to slow down the urban growth of Beijing. The development always has positive and negative impacts. Nevertheless as Olympic is a catalyst of the urban development, it will increase the speed, scale, spectacle, sprawl, segregation, and on a final, hopeful note – sustainability Campanella (2008:281). I will end this essay with a picture of an old man sitting under a pine tree drawn by Ma Yuan consist of symbol of longetivity. Olympic is one of the miles stone that in the part of symbol longetivity for Beijing.
Paper in University Of New South Wales 2009, by author
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image 1 source from g’heyde’s photostream
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When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, When 24 hours in a day is not enough. Remember this story about the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee.
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students, if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full.. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous ‘yes.’
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.
‘Now,’ said the professor, as the laughter subsided, ‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things – God, family, children, health, friends, and favorite passions – Things that if everything else was lost and only they remained. Your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, house, and car. The sand is everything else — The small stuff.
‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you.
So… Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner.
The same goes for life.
There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.’Take care of the golf balls first — The things that really matter.Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.’
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. ‘I’m glad you asked’.
It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.’
“and this inspiring story made me start my Mayonaisse Jar”
“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever.” ~ Elizabeth Lawrence
The Daffodil Principle by Jaroldeen Edwards
Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, “Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they are over.” I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead “I will come next Tuesday”, I promised a little reluctantly on her third call. Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and reluctantly I drove there. When I finally walked into Carolyn’s house I was welcomed by the joyful sounds of happy children. I delightedly hugged and greeted my grandchildren. “Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in these clouds and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and the children that I want to see badly enough to drive another inch!” My daughter smiled calmly and said, “We drive in this all the time, Mother.” “Well, you won’t get me back on the road until it clears, and then I’m heading for home!” I assured her. “But first we’re going to see the daffodils. It’s just a few blocks,” Carolyn said. “I’ll drive. I’m used to this.” “Carolyn,” I said sternly, “Please turn around.” “It’s all right, Mother, I promise. You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience.”
After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small gravel road and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church, I saw a hand lettered sign with an arrow that read, “Daffodil Garden .” We got out of the car, each took a child’s hand, and I followed Carolyn down the path. Then, as we turned a corner, I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the most glorious sight.
It looked as though someone had taken a great vat of gold and poured it over the mountain and its surrounding slopes. The flowers were planted in majestic, swirling patterns, great ribbons and swaths of deep orange, creamy white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, and saffron and butter yellow. Each different colored variety was planted in large groups so that it swirled and flowed like its own river with its own unique hue. There were five acres of flowers. “Who did this?” I asked Carolyn. “Just one woman,”
Carolyn answered. “She lives on the property. That’s her home.” Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A-frame house, small and modestly sitting in the midst of all that glory. We walked up to the house. On the patio, we saw a poster. “Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking”, was the headline. The first answer was a simple one. “50,000 bulbs,” it read. The second answer was, “One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two feet, and one brain.” The third answer was, “Began in 1958.”
For me, that moment was a life-changing experience. I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had begun, one bulb at a time, to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop. Planting one bulb at a time, year after year, this unknown woman had forever changed the world in which she lived. One day at a time, she had created something of extraordinary magnificence, beauty, and inspiration. The principle her daffodil garden taught is one of the greatest principles of celebration. That is, learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time – often just one baby-step at time – and learning to love the doing, learning to use the accumulation of time.
When we multiply tiny pieces of time with small increments of daily effort, we too will find we can accomplish magnificent things. We can change the world . “It makes me sad in a way,” I admitted to Carolyn. “What might I have accomplished if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty-five or forty years ago and had worked away at it ‘one bulb at a time’ through all those years?
Just think what I might have been able to achieve!” My daughter summed up the message of the day in her usual direct way. “Start tomorrow,” she said. She was right. It’s so pointless to think of the lost hours of yesterdays. The way to make learning a lesson of celebration instead of a cause for regret is to only ask, “How can I put this to use today?”
Use the Daffodil Principle.
S t o p w a i t i n g …..
Dance like you have all of the time with you, * hold your breath and stay focussed
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand, Frank Herbert
This writing is the result of my experience in urban design studio of University of New South Wales. This section is made in the purpose of sharing urban design and to show clearly what we’ve learn t so far. It explains urban design in term of ‘what and ‘how, generally it is also about what urban design is, and how to implement urban design. We in UNSW, are taught that we have to know what we are talking about, to be thoughtful urban designer.
Design Learning
“We must think 50 years ahead and design backwards” Raghavendra Rathore
Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute, Nathaniel Emmons
Sketch of Las Ramblas by the author for Urban Design Studio of The university of New South Wales
Experiencing Urban Design
What is urban design? I remember the time when I was still an undergraduate student of Institute Technology of Bandung. I knew that if people talked about city, they must talk about urban design. My personal experience began at the time when Professor Mohammad Danisworo was talking about urban design of Jakarta and then first I know it must be something about city, he said that urban design is generally a link between architecture and urban planning. While in the book, Urban Design A typology of Procedures and Products, Professor Jon Lang argued that there was confusion about the definition of what urban design is. Some people called Urban Design a discipline and the he called urban design a process. I was taught by Professor Jon Lang that we should be clear about what we are talking so I’ll start with definitions that came up from time to time.
Urban Design by Lewis Wirth
Lewis Wirth first wrote urban design in his paper ‘Urbanism as a way of life’ in 1938
Urban Design by Alexander Cuthbert
Alexander Cuthbert wrote in his book The form of the cities that
Urban Design is a discipline where, almost without exception, its major’ theorists’ have failed to engage with any substantial origins in the cognate disciples of economics , social and political science, psychology , geography or the humanities’
He later explained that there are papers which called definitions of urban design by Alan Rowley 1994 and one which titled the same by David Gosling’s 1984, Which argue that is urban design a discipline.
Cuthbert stated:
In his paper, Gosling has adopted a wholly architectural perspective, as if only architects had any right to define the discipline. While it may seem unfair to critise this paper, now twenty years old, it remains significant precisely because it represents the most powerful and enduring ideologies still dominating the field of urban design.
Urban Design by Llewellyn-Davies
There was definition from Llewellyn-davies which was:
Urban design draws together many strands of place-making, environmental responsibility, social equity and economic viability; for example – into the creation of places of beauty and identity. Urban design is derived from but transcends related matters such as planning and transportation policy, architectural design, development economics, landscape and engineering. It draws these and other strands together. In summary, urban design is about creating vision and the deploying of the skills and resources to realize that vision (Llewellyn-davies; 2000:12)
Urban Design by Jon Lang
Jon Lang made a clear definition of urban design in his book, he stated almost all definitions of urban design state that it has something to do with the public realm (or the public domain or with public space) and the elements that define it. (Lang, 2005:6)
The broad goal of urban design is to provide opportunities, behavioural and aesthetic, for all the citizens and visitors to a city or one of its precincts. (Lang, 2005:20)
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes of you.” – Maya Angelou
Susan showed how we can reach our dream that if you wanna do it, you can. I still remember when last time I watched Les Miserables musical performance in London. It was such great performance with love, honesty, and honour. This song is extra ordinary and touched every body.
Her voice is amazing. Her genuinity is the most amazing..
“Les Miserables”
There was a time, when n were kind And their voices were soft And their words were inviting There was a time, when love was blind And the world was a song And the song was exciting There was a time it all went wrong
I dreamed a dream in time gone by When hope was high and life worth living I dreamed that love would never die I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid And dreams were made and used and wasted There was no ransom to be paid No song unsung, no wine untasted
But the tigers come at night With their voices soft as thunder As they turn your hope apart As they turn your dreams to shame
He slept a summer by my side He filled my dreams with endless wonder He took my childhood in his stride But he was gone when autumn came
And still I dream he’d come to me That we would live the years together But there are dreams that cannot be And there are storms we cannot weather
I had a dream my life would be So different from the hell I’m living So different now from what it seemed Now life has killed the dream I dreamed
27 September 2013 Hari ini dir ini bertemu dengan kawan lama, namanya Gunawan Tanuwidjaja. Dia mengundang untuk memberikan seminar di ITS. Saya dan Gunawan berteman baik, dulu ia yang mengajarkan bagaimana harus mencari ilmu sebaik mungkin melalui kelompok minat digital library, yang pekerjaannya menscan buku – buku untuk kemudian di bahas bersama, saling berbagi mengenai satu topik arsitektur. Diri ini bilang ke anak mahasiswanya, bahwa pak Gunawan adalah teman baik , dan teman baik sulit didapat. Pekerjaan boleh datang dan pergi, ilmu selalu bertambah namun kenangan tetap ada. Diri ini berbicara singkat saja mengenai design paradigm, kutub – kutub pemikiran yang berbeda dalam desain, dan arsitek bertanggung jawab atas coretan garis yang mewarnai kutub pemikiran tersebut. Pak Gunawan sekarang aktif mengajar di Petra, mengajarkan mengenai studio perancangan, dan pemahaman mengenai arsitektur yang merespons kaum diffable. Energinya yang tinggi, mewarnai arsitektur Petra sekarang. Diri ini percaya beliau akan mewarnai dunia arsitektur di Surabaya. Pak Gunawan, terima kasih atas undangannya ke Surabaya. 26 September 2013 Pagi ini Diri ini diundang ke ITS untuk acara yang diselenggarakan yaitu, lomba tugas akhir nasional, saya bertemu satu kehangatan disini, bertemu dengan Pak Agung, Pak Paulus, Pak Defry, Pak Josef, dan kawan kawan yang lain, celotehan, senda guraunya mewarnai pembukaan hari ini, selebihnya hari berlangsung sangat cepat dari diskusi didapatkan juara pertama dari ITS, Rizky, juara kedua dan ketiga dari universitas Tarumanagara, dan Bina Nusantara. Semoga acara seperti ini bisa terus berlangsung, dan tahun depan yang mendaftar lebih banyak lagi. Malam itu juga diri ini bertemu dengan beberapa mahasiswa dari ITS, mereka adalah orang – orang yang ingin belajar lebih. Beberapa dari mereka adalah mahasiswa perantau. Diri ini sendiri bertemu dengan salah seorang dari mereka pagi ini di bandara, diri ini ingat, perut ini lapar sekali, capai sekali juga, kemarin baru lembur sampai pagi bersama – sama dengan adik – adik di kantor untuk menyelesaikan beberapa perkerjaan yang harus diselesaikan. Baru tadi malam bertemu dengan beberapa anak ITS di zanggrandi, satu tempat yang romatis, tempat yang sudah banyak berubah, dengan kota yang sudah berubah sangat, ke arah yang sangat baik. Bravo bu Risma. Pak dulu waktu jadi mahasiswa bagaimana ?, ya seperti kalian, jarang tidur, belajar arsitektur dengan baik, baca buku, berteman dengan banyak orang. Pikiran ini menerawang, teringat 8 tahun yang lalu diri ini sendiri juga masih mahasiswa. Pada waktu itu diri ini sendiri sering berada di kegiatan kampus, dan tenggelam di kegiatan kampus. Dari situ bertemu satu teman yang adalah ketua himpunan pada waktu itu. Dari situ juga, Kegiatan belajar untuk ikut rapat – rapat yang menyita waktu dan tenaga pun dilakukan, demi belajar bagaimana berhubungan dengan orang. Malam itu, dalam keyakinan, orang – orang di depan ini, adalah mahasiswa mahasiswi yang terbaik , ada satu orang ketua himpunan, ada pengurus – pengurus, mereka orang – orang yang meluangkan waktunya untuk mengenal diri ini dan istri lebih dekat lagi. Oleh karena itu kita bisa bertemu. Kepercayaan ini menjadi begitu tingginya bahwa setiap orang itu unik oleh karena itu setiap mahasiswa berkembang menurut caranya sendiri.Belajar dalam arsitektur itu seperti belajar dalam berkehidupan.
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