Wood as building material
Furniture April 22nd, 2010
As the material home, has become a favorite wood used for various purposes, ranging from roof to foundation, and is always used in the process of building. No wonder, therefore we are in need of wood in our homes for a variety of things. Wood has a texture and color are attractive for use in residences. Quite often, we buy furniture because the wood used looks good.
I myself really appreciate the wood because he had lived and become useful to humans. Often my discussions with colleagues in astudio talking about wood and other building resources. Did you know that 28 hectares of forest disappear every day because of logging, both legal and illegal? Impact; thinned wood supply and increasingly expensive.
Wood has the advantage but also have weaknesses, among others could be scratched, burned, or decayed. Termites are often the main enemy of wood, so wood materials always require special treatment in order to become more resistant to these things.
Influenced by the texture of wood from the trees where the wood came from, as from the base, end or middle, but it was located in a tree trunk also determines the texture. Wooden structure was formed by the wood fibers and pores. Wood that has been processed will lose their water content so that we do not see any more liquid in the timber. But the new timber is usually still have shrunk expansion.
Because the wood is getting more expensive, more and more people use the wood processing factory, where he was the timber produced by combining other materials. The result: many new products made from PVC, wood fiber, and cement which has a good texture of wood, because it has a layer of wood.
Solid Wood
Solid wood is usually used for house beams, such as ‘pillars’ of Javanese architecture, or furniture made of wood ‘glondongan’ or wood intact. Like this is very rarely made anymore because it is hard to come by.
Wood sheet
Wood is widely used for wood floors, wood parquet, and so on. The form is made of sheets of wood cut to the size of 3cm, 5cm and so on.
Plywood
Plywood has a composition of several layers of thin wood fibers glued together with a cross to become more powerful. These woods are usually used for the panel, the top layer of the table, cupboards, and so on.
Laminated wood.
This type of plywood is made with layers made of wood fiber direction, usually used in the furniture that is bent so as not to break easily.
Character wood processing
* Usually plywood and laminated wood made with a certain size in the market, such as 4 ‘x 8′
* Wood processing is usually stronger than normal wood because it has a good drying process that does not easily expand or shrink
* Unfortunately, the wood processing is less suitable for areas often exposed to conflict.
* It can be made to form curves that are not too sharp
* Ease of wood, although we use the more expensive price.
Aligning Minimalist Home + Garden
Gardening April 22nd, 2010
The house and garden is a community cultural reinterpretation of nature and life where she lived. Home is where we rest homes, socializing, family, and worship. Park is a reflection of natural energy, and energy is the source of life. So, if the house and the garden is designed as a harmonious life will give energy to the occupants.
The concept of minimalist home and garden dedicated to increasing the value of an entire room (exterior and interior) by reducing the excess of everything in the room. Minimalist philosophy represents a practical way of life, dynamic, concise, effective, and efficient, which is applied in all aspects of life including house building architecture, interior space and exterior gardens. Collaboration minimalist house and garden became the medium of communication between the architecture and landscaping in the form of contrast, hard-soft, stiff, soft, dead-alive, geometric, dynamic, and between man-made (cultural) and nature.
Minimalist eliminate saturation with the use of many decorative ornaments, knick-knacks accessories. Character and quality of spaces created by the existence of space defined itself, not by the furniture and accessory knick-knacks in it. Space becomes felt relieved (empty, immortality, meditative atmosphere) according to the primary needs of residents, to optimize the circulation of healthy fresh air, and lighting is abundant sunshine (rich colors).
Natural light from windows, doors, walls transparent (stained glass, glassblock), or skylights, shade trees, plants and paving composition, will present an appropriate image objects from sunlight reflected off the walls as a natural aesthetic separate elements. While the game system very artistic lights, spotlights good, light plant, to the chandelier with geometric shapes, can liven the evening.
It must be understood, the concept of Western and Eastern minimalism is somewhat different. Western minimalist concept of rational functional tends to a greater emphasis on the function of space and material honesty of expression. While the concept was strongly influenced East minimalist Zen-Buddhist philosophy that emphasizes simplicity, harmony, efficient, and effective, and symbolizes the emptiness and silence (spiritual values) for each space created a clear, plain, and clear, so the space can be lived greatness of the Creator. Being a natural minimalist.
Geometric patterns, proportionate, effective, efficient, neutral colors, and natural (the impression of relief and field), pure colors (primary), the representation of nature (plants, contour shape, the element of water), raw materials without excessive finishing (impression of quiet, gentle , pure, pure, innocent), texture, and contrast. Quality home and garden design, space, and the resolution of the structure must be getting better.
Form of straightforward design, plain, simple, uncomplicated, compact, and efficiency-effective space. Blocking mass, materials, lighting, repetition, circulation compact, multifunctional space optimization and sequential. The value and beauty of the house does not rely on a minimalist garden ornaments and artificial objects, but more meaningful to an honest form, function, and the inspiration that spaces are created.
Structuring minimalist home and garden requires a harmonious overall look, a combination of hard materials (concrete, stone, coral, gravel, sand), the physical structure of buildings and exotic plants, exotic colors, as well as supporting elements (lights, ponds, benches, statues , furniture). Harmony requires minimal materials, shape, color, and texture with the impression conveyed to the warm, intimate, romantic, natural, or futuristic. Games monochromatic colors with themes such as the gradation of one or two primary colors to create unity between the house and the garden.
Use of building materials (house and garden) minimalism is not necessarily expensive. Use of simple materials (a strong element of simplicity) is not a luxury with expensive materials, and natural materials (elements of harmony with nature). Exposure domination materials (soft and hard) will produce certain effects different. Design and calculations of detail structure can save the use of materials with the results of building materials and garden house optimum artistic appearance.
The arrangement of furniture requires order, where everything is orderly in their respective position. The room filled with furniture that is very efficient and functional course. Selected furniture only really needed, not a decorative element, if possible multifunctional. Room was clean and seemed relieved. Furniture interior and exterior with geometric forms aims to maximize the use of space, there is no gap or space left to die.
Parks play an important role include the beauty and harmony of nature into the building and together with the surrounding natural environment. Park as a dynamic live objects instead provides minimalist spirit of the house that often seemed cold and stiff.
The fence is designed to strengthen the impression the house minimalism from textured concrete (horizontal / vertical), or betel leaf walls (pieces arranged storey stone) which was a trend, so that softens the hedge structure stiffness.
The presence of water element in the form of geometric and form pools of water calm, waterfalls, or water spray (fog effect) brings stillness and coolness of the space and audience space.
Minimalist house and garden, they must collaborate to form outside the room setup, building, and space in a balanced (yin yang), berjalinan harmoniously together, and not dominate the other. The division of space is very efficient, functional, and clear hierarchy, and reduce (reduce) the need for space that is not important.
Residents and guests can easily recognize the functions of space. Space seemed to flow from the front yard, front porch, exploration of each of the rooms, until the back porch. Dining room, living room and kitchen have interconnecting regularity, continuity, and harmony of design antarruang.
The totality of his own minimalist garden will be discussed at the next opportunity.
Aligning the house and garden presents a minimalist means home environment calm and soothing.
Contemporary Victorian home
Interior Design April 22nd, 2010
HOUSE This beautiful Victorian style is a combination of traditional design and modern contemporary. Style residential Connecticut, United States, this can be inspiration for you.
How to design? The house is unique and different from others you have made the residential prestige value of its own. Design and architecture also refers to the development of contemporary lifestyle that is free to express it by displaying a unique geometric shape or color game. Modern lifestyles can be poured in residential architecture contemporary style. As seen in the choice of colors and dynamic forms of home design is Leigh Overland. “In addition to dynamic and bold use of color, the contemporary house is also more asymmetrical,” call the architect Ir Sudarmoko Widi Bangunrumah who manages the site. com.
Overland, an architect graduated from American University in Rome, Italy, designed this house combines traditional design with Victorian and contemporary styles. The result, a touch of the two styles blend makes this building unique homes. Of this contemporary Victorian house can you make inspiration. Victorian was the contemporary term for Victorian architectural style of the most recent and has experienced a change.
“Style comes from the Victorian style of the ornate architecture of the house, or berhiasan, especially the nature-themed decorative plate, such as leaves, twigs, and flowers,” said architect Probo Hindarto. In Indonesia, the contemporary style of Victorian house just sahsah you adapt to the style of a classic residential without leaving the modern elements. As long as you have to consider the whole environment. “So, we adjust the local elements even adopted from overseas residential,” Widi advice.
“Handling able to make a more umbrella roof buildings, walls, and use the eaves-eaves to the window,” suggested Probo, ASTUDIO architect firm owner. In addition the roof form should also be widened and attention to form-retaining design or rain canopy over the windows because the level of rainfall in Indonesia high. The game peaked roof lines and a strong vertical lines make this contemporary Victorian house solid impression without leaving its simplicity.
“The houses are Victorian style has elements of many stripes will find that wood can be seen from the electric element vertical lines show the wooden construction,” which is also called the Probo author of several books themed interior design and architecture. According Widi, an alumnus of Architecture University of Gajah Mada, a contemporary house which is likely to adopt a modern style with the use of transparent glass materials together with the materials many alumunium.Tak surprised installed windows on each side of this house. (Wida/MG-14)
Questions and answers
1. Actually, ciri2 contemporary style interior is what?
Contemporary, from the etymology of the language can be interpreted as ‘the latest’, or have the same understanding with the ‘modern’. Victorian was the contemporary term for Victorian architectural style of the most recent, alias already changing. Victorian style is derived from the ornate architecture of the house, or berhiasan, especially the nature-themed decorative plate, such as leaves, twigs and flowers.
(Photo by; Alain Fradette, stock.xschng)
2. What to keep in mind if we (read: org Indonesia) want to adapt the design of the home from abroad? For example to adapt this Victorian style in their homes.
Of particular interest to adapt designs from abroad, especially the compliance with the local climate, the climate of Indonesia. This Victorian built and designed to land a course of four seasons climate Indonesia different because they do not have a lot of rainy season as our country. Adjustment tampias course on handling of rainwater, for example by making a more umbrella roof buildings, walls, and use the eaves-eaves to windows.
To note again to adapt the architectural style of matches abroad is to be used in Indonesia in terms of culture. Usually when such a force is present amongst the people, will be present as a popular architectural style in a certain period and then change other architectural styles.
3. What color interior is perfect for contemporary style house? What exactly are free to choose the color?
The colors for the Victorian style, especially the ‘American style’ many uses striking colors like blue, pink, yellow, pink, and so on. Victorian style from Europe often used the original material color, the color of brick, wood, and so on.
When talking about ‘contemporary’, the other by talking about ‘contemporary Victorian’. Contemporary style or modern style currently most used natural colors of materials such as wood to wood color, the color of the walls are not painted (color to be allowed to cement), white, gray, black, and color other materials.
4. Any furniture that often there in the foyer? (As most houses in foreign countries include the foyer of their home)
Furniture in the foyer of the house is usually filled with consul table, as the main furniture. In addition to the waiting chair can be used, but not widely used. Shoe storage cupboard, coats, and innate objects are also sometimes used. Interior trinkets used in the foyer as a sweetener; paintings, mirrors, vases of flowers placed either on the floor or on the table consul,
5. Are legitimate if we integrate the interior with traditional touches on the exterior houses a contemporary (modern)?
Legitimate integrating architectural styles, especially when we still have a penchant to bodies of ethnic and traditional (especially those from Indonesia). But of course it must be understood that both come from different cultures, so the traditional architectural style is different from the modern. Traditional style has a lot of carvings, special symbols, which applies to furniture, interior and exterior. Modern style is a style of simple, not ornate, functional and no carvings, ornaments and so on. Because it is usually ‘ethnic style’ wear ornaments, small displays and not dominate the room when the house is a modern style.
6. Mas Probo What do you know about design and architecture of this house?
Architecture of the house is very typical Victorian style that is used in America, who got his inspiration from the homes of Victorian-style house in Europe and America. With the basic materials of wood or wood laminate, making the house like this highlight the lines of wood and wooden structures. It is very typical and ‘pretty’, and invites attention because these bright colors.
Style like this when applied in Indonesia should consider carefully the design or retaining the rain canopy over the windows, but it forms the roof must also be widened. Because of this style is influenced by the American lifestyle, then there is the possibility of life-style and arrangement of spaces in it differs from that usually used in Indonesia.
Home Improvement Online Store
Home Improvement April 20th, 2010
I have 3 online shopping, selling home improvement stuff, clothing and asessories for woman. So I ran 3 websites with the help of 4 asisstant. Online shopping now become trend, lots of people choose to buy online than go to a mall. Many reason for online shopping, based on my own experience :
1. They dont want to caught in a traffic jam and wasting time on the way to a mall, so they prefer online shopping
2. They dont have time, Monday-Friday at work, and go back home after 7.00 pm, so no time shopping to a mall, but they need it to wear on Saturday, so they choose online shopping.
3. Online shopping give us free time to search and looking and comparing product to another, wont interupted by sales promotion that usually following us wenever we touch a product in their store.
SO i think, this is a great business, then this online shop should be supported by website that host by reliable web hosting. It has to be fast access and with high priority protection. I am now in the process of searching for new webhosting service, since my last web hosting company are too slow in maintenance, not secure webhosting and bad support service. While in shopping online, we have to serve costumer almost 24 hours at our ecommerce site. So wish me luck or maybe you have any suggestion?
Bedrooms Cool Without AC. How can!
Lighting and Electrical April 12th, 2010
Do not rush the AC plug in the bedroom! There are other solutions . More efficient, environmentally friendly too.
The room was hot always be uncomfortable to live. Many people want easy and fast solution, the choice fell to the air conditioning (AC). Whereas before determining a solution, is useful to know first root of the problem.
According to Ir. Sukendro Sukendar, architect of Nataneka Architects, hot room can be caused by many things. Lack of openings or ventilation is the most common cause occurs. Because of the minimal amount of ventilation, the air exchange does not occur from the inside out of the room. This is the culprit causing the temperature of the room was hot.
Then, if a window in each room is enough? Apparently not. Still according to Sukendro, to exchange the air in the room went well, need to be cross ventilation (cross ventilation). There are at least two windows or openings that face each other in one room.
Cross ventilation allows air to flow from inside to outside and vice versa, without having to settle prior duu, in the room. Air enters from one window, will instantly streamed out of the window in front of him, and replaced with new air, and so on. If it’s like, no air conditioning kept the room too cool.
Another thing to note is the size of the window or opening, which must be balanced with the size of the room. Large room definitely needs a big opening. Not only make better air flow, large openings also include a lot of sunlight. The room became healthy and bright, without the need to turn on the lights in the daytime.
Try clay your bedroom. Already have cross ventilation have not you? If it was not cool and space as well, just attach the AC.
