The desire for people to express their identity through a building is very powerful but understanding and describing who we are is never easy.
- Australian government culture portal

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
- Henrey David Thoreau

Life is not about maximising everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.
- Glenn Murcutt

schola means free time

just something that i want to share, got it from my history tutes..

My own experience is limited to universities. One of the saddest aspects of the lives of many students is that they always feel pressured. The irony is that those who have the luxury of spending time reading the great books of our culture and exploring the intricate beauty of creation find themselves always fighting deadlines. Students complain about the number of pages they have to read or write, and anxiously wonder how they will finish their many assignments on time. The word “school” which comes from “schola”(meaning: free time), reminds us that schools were originally meant to interrupt a busy existence and create some space to contemplate mysteries of life. Today they have become the area for a hectic race to accomplish as much as possible, and to acquire in a short period the necessary tools to survive the great battle of human life. Books written to be savored slowly are read hastily to fulfil a requirement, paintings made to be seen with a contemplative eye are taken in as part of a necessary art appreciation course, and music composed to be enjoyed at leisure is listened to in order to identify a period or style. Thus, colleges and universities meant to be places for quiet learning have become places of fierce competition , in which the rewards go to those who produce the most and the best."
-by Henri J.M. Nouwen


“I had no conventional architectural education. I worked under a few good architects ; I read a few good books – and that’s about it”
– Mies van der Rohe , a great great architect.

happy ramadan & mid semester break people!

p/s: mid semester break means tones of work to be done for the coming mid semester crit!

while walking and wandering around our site in Knox City..

double brick studio

this time its all about BRICK and DENSITY. these are only some of my works for this semester.








at the end of the final crit, Martin said that colour is not important for my concept, so he suggested to make all my views black and white.and so i did - for the portfolio lah.

p/s: i still dont know how to make all the images unpixelated.anyone?
click on pictures for clearer images.

6

sudah masuk bulan jun.

cepatnya detik,saat,minit,jam,hari,minggu,bulan dan tahun berlalu.
semakin dekat juga kita kepadaNya ya?

marilah kita menggunakan masa dengan sebaik-baiknya kerana masa tidak akan kembali kepada kita.

all the best to my dear archi friends who are having their final crit next week (9 or 11june) and friends who are having their final exams.may the force be with you.


the laser cutter is cutting the mdf for my brick model! *excited tengok hahaaa*

first we kill the architects

i know i should be doing work now, but found this while browsing for precedents.
click for larger image.

source: NY Times sept 2007

still alive

alhamdulillah im still alive despite the busy-ness of being an architorture student.just submited my tech4 folio yesterday and you cant imagine how relieve i am.i cant beleive i dont have to do any more tech after this.so relieve that i become a lazy-ass yesterday.sort of just celebrating my ownself by doing nothing and just sleep sleep sleep.hahaaa

now i only have 2 subjects left ; design and my elective conceptual photography.nothing much left for my elective because we just have to print out our works for the exhibition.

now i can concentrate on my design.2 weeks left before final crit.lets hope for the best because this is my last lower pool studio. upper pool studio for next semester? thats scary and makes me realize how quick we become older every single day!

im sorry dear friends if i cant spend time with you guys lately.yeah i admit i dont have a life, but the moment i decided to take architecture, i have to put all my life into it.no turning back.i know all students are busy as i am, but taking architecture is quite different.i dont have any exams or tests, so my entire grades depend on my assignments which is my design progress(drawings/3d/models etc).can you imagine we have presentation to show our progress every single class for every subject and every week! so yeah we have to put full effort into it.some are formal some are informal.and yeah, im enjoying myself doing it so no harm to me for stick infront of my pc 24/7.

and yes, sometimes i get stuck and lost for ideas and thats the time when you become so stress! i bought a book early this year which called 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick but dont have the time to read the whole thing yet,just managed to flip through some of interesting quotes and found this one:

No design system is or should be perfect.


i guess he's right.i never get satisfied whenever i finish any of my design at the end of the semester.you will never ever fully satisfied with your design.okay, enough of archi crap, need to go back to work.
despite my obsession with architecture, i still cant wait for the holiday! i need a nice nice longg break.heheee

p/s: i have to go to canberra this winter to renew my passport! if not i cant go back to malaysia this summer.sesssh.

random

terasa seperti baru sahaja hari khamis berlalu. esok sudah hari khamis lagi.
betapa cepatnya masa berlalu tanpa kita sedari.

time worth more than gold, its priceless.every second counts!

next week is final for Tech4, next 3 weeks is for Design.then what? portfolio, exhibition.

seriously cant wait for the hols.stacks of novels to be read, thousands of pictures to be captured, tones of movies to be seen and so many things to catch up.

beribu bintang di langit kini menghilang , meraba aku dalam gelap..

huuuu im feeling so mellow tonite.i never been so stuck and lost in design.
stuck and lost.
:(

have to stay up all nite tonight.this is for you Martin and Rodney!

Architecture may not be able to mend a broken heart but,

Architecture may not be able to mend a broken heart but perhaps it can help ease suffering.
taken from lifewithoutbuildings.net

check out this video! it shows how a man designing a world using some kind of sketch up tools.how i wish i could do all my 3Ds for design just like that, my life would be easier si?

p/s: the story behind this video is so sweet, i think!

cuti cuti cuti ooooooooo.
easter break. tapi kerja bertimbun.
design mid crit, tech mid crit and conceptual photography mid crit after the break.haishhhhh.

but i'll make time for myself for sure!

p/s: few days ago i wanted to measure distance in autoCAD and accidently typed 'do' instead of 'di' for the command and the command table suddenly said do DONUT , specify inside diameter of donut.

i was like whatttt? wujud jugak command donut ni, dah laa lapar pagi2 buta ni kan.terbayang2 dah donutttt.
hahaaa that is what you get when you stay up until dawn and have a presentation early next morning.

pp/s: oh i've deleted my friendster account because most of my close friends are not using it anymore.so if u cant find me in your friends list, dont assume i've delete you okay? its just im deleting myself.

china 2020

look what i found from Blueprint Asia mag, China in 2020.

i wonder how kl looks like in 10 years time.

architorture

i know its hard, but im trying.
i know im stronger.

this year it become more serious.what do you expect, im level 5 now.
next semester im no more lower pool student but instead , upper pooler.
next year im no more bachelor student but instead , master.


p/s: this brick coursing chart, brick-laying designing is killing me!

sem 1 exhibition

i forgot to put the pictures from semester 1 exhibition.so, to feed my boredom, i put these.

p/s: click to enlarge images !

exhibition

our works during exhibition ; me and my partner Zi Yang








the last one is my elective subject , charted kosovo.
oopss sorry im really in a very lazy mood.

damn i really really need a new camera for next semster! a good one :/

bodies studio sem 2 , 2008

postponed post.

works from my studio, Bodies for last semester.i did the 3d views and my partner did the CAD drawings.

site: half moon bay , black rock melbourne.

p/s: images are a bit pixelated due to the reduced size so that it can be uploaded.

glad im still alive!

just finished my final crit last nite.

it was quite good actually but i went through so many hardships before the final crit from the computer at uni to printing for the presentation.

oh well im glad its over.now whats left is portfolio!

will update later because im so freaking tired now havent sleep for 7 hours for 1 week straight! wait, almost 2 weeks actually berkampung di rmit comp lab and la trobe house.

and i miss my bed so much.but thanks to warga rumah la trobe because let me sleep there for almost 2 weeks! really appreciate it.

life as it is.

on tuesday i didnt sleep at all to prepare for my final crit on my elective.on wednesday i just slept from 3pm - 8 pm then stay at uni the whole nite with zi yang until 6 am and go back and sleep until 10am.and last nite i slept from 2 am in the morning untill 2pm the next day.gila tak.mesti ganti the days before punya tido.haha.tido matiiiii.

oh well i cant beleive the semester is almost over. just had my UN charted kosovo elective final crit last wednesday.it went quite good actually.didn't expect for Brent Alpress to be the guest crit. when i came in to the class and saw him i was like "omg is he going to crit our presentation today? gulp gulp mati lah aku".but then after i presented, it was quite ok lah.his comments also not bad ape.then after each one of us finish presenting, he said it was quite a good class, especially it broaden your knowledge about urban architecture.he is very right indeed.before this i never knew about urban sprawl in each country.about how people populated each city. is it randomly sprawled , a garden city , a grid city like melbourne, a linear city? i wonder how the population in selangor sprawled actually.i can ask fatudin since he's taking town planning.what is left for this subject is to fix our presentation to be submitted for the folio next month.

and 2 weeks left for final crit for design! next week we have to present full mock up for final.like a real one.since i have only design to focus on, i'll give full attention to it.it seems like i have to stay in the comp lab at uni almost every nights with Zi Yang until the final.i hope he'll agree to do work at level 7 lab because it was so damn hot in level 8.i know he like it there because less people and u have 2 big monitor to do your 3d etc but still i cant concentrate with my 3d if im not comfortable myself.i hope we can finish all the drawings and 3d on time.oh well i think for this presentation also i need to spend a lot for the printing.since it is large scale studio, our building is quite huge.that's why its a pair work studio.last sem it costed me about aud200++ to print for the final because somebody canceled my printing at uni so i have to print outside at the shop.i guess the this sem will cost a lot too! oh my money is flying~~.

i've not been talking to him for like long time now.awww how i miss him and my friends back in malaysia.and of course my family too.ok just 12 more days before final crit then submit the folio then im free woohoo.cant wait to go to nz with sydney people.i really need a getaway from all of this.

p/s: i hope the bunga-bunga guy(as what zi yang said, haha/the hard core guy wont be our guest crit for the final presentation.he's very rough and scary man!

haa banyak plak update setelah sekian lama.haha selamat tinggal

eid mubarak.

i guess this year its different.maybe this year he forgets.

selamat hari raya aidilfitri , maaf zahir batin to everyone i know.please forgive and forget if i ever done anything wrong to you okay?

i skip my elective class on pagi raya.still, very fortunate of me because my cousin got exam on first,second and third day of raya.its ok nadiah, 1 more raya to go! huhu.

on the day before raya itself, we had final crit for tech 3 (we as in me and partner and almost everybody lah!) and because we didn't sleep the whole night, i slept afterwards after the crit from 3pm to 9pm while all other people busy preparing for raya tomorrow.syera was out helping in malaysian hall while kak nini already celebrating in clayton , and i was sleeping alone in the house while everybody else started to bertakbir.

thats when i felt so homesick, sitting on the bed alone di malam raya.

and honestly for raya i only went to one open house and watch a movie with my housemates last night.couldnt go to others' because i was so busy in the comp lab doing design with my partner.oh well, i should feel gratitude that i still can celebrate.

5 more weeks to go! and 3 more months to go! i really really really miss them.everybody.

BUSY.

30 sept - final crit for Tech 3
1 oct - tak raya lah nampaknya.
3 Oct - final submission for folio and cd for Tech 3
mid of oct - final crit for charted kosovo elective.
end of oct - final crit for design
early nov - submission for design folio
a week later - design exhibition
15 nov - new zealand trip wooohooooo cant wait.



design studio went quite well recently.they like our ideas, just need to work harder to think how it works sectionally,in plan and in 3d!

pic above: our initial idea for the lifesaving club.

p/s: we as in me and Zi Yang.