Minimalist Houses
Home Improvement April 26th, 2010
HOUSE minimalist style of architecture is a building that was a trend in the metropolis. Architectural buildings, including houses minimalist, is the choices of architectural form as a result of culture. Not just me-too talkative trends.
MINIMALIST is the pattern of thinking, working, and a way of life. A new way of looking at design as a reflection of how urban life is very practical, lightweight, efficient, and management simplicity.
The house also comes with a minimalist character more clearly (forms and geometric space, simple), better (stronger), and stronger with the spaces blank (a little ornaments and furniture). The simple principle, the quality of design, space, and the resolution of the structure must be getting better. John Pawson is regarded as a teacher “minimalism” to bring home a minimal design lines, the atmosphere is quiet and beautiful.
However, it should be noted too minimalist would be sterile, single-way, and tend to be boring. For that we need to understand together how the development of minimalist home base in the context of our urban culture.
Was always a minimal form of a simple box or there is another form? Minimalist form of house does not always have a simple box, but also the shape of Platonic geometry can be part of the landscape that “suddenly” came up. However, if the house is only necessary form of boxes, the box shape is the result of a process function needs, not because of coercion or talkative follow trends.
The minimum is the ultimate ornament. Minimum a goal in itself and ornaments are simple and pure (simple and pure). Straight lines, flat areas are smooth, sometimes rough, and meeting all of the elbow perpendicular. Blocking mass, materials, lighting, repetition, circulation compact, multifunctional space optimization and sequential.
What type of materials used should be as little as possible? Use of a variety of materials such as wood, brick, stone, glass, exposed concrete, or steel can also appear pure. Exposure to the dominance of certain materials would produce effects different. Design and calculations of detail structure can save the use of materials with the optimum structure.
Resolutions from the floor, walls, doors, windows, vents, skylights, ceiling, up to the roof, with a combination of consistent use of materials. Framework of (concrete, steel), walls (glass, wood, concrete plain / exposure, steel, stone, brick, hebel, brick), doors and windows (wood, metal), stairs (concrete, steel, wood, fiberglass) , skylights (fiberglass), floor (cement, terrazzo, ceramic, marble, parquet), ceiling (plywood, gypsum) or without a ceiling (exposed concrete, exposed steel roof truss, wood) and roof (tile, shingle, steel).
The use of bright colors (red, orange, yellow) in some areas of exposure will strengthen minimalist home accents and make it the focus of the environment.
IS architecture minimalist house was cheap because of the word minimum?
Does it build a minimalist house must be expensive? For young couples or young executives who seek a minimalist house as a symbol of the life of the metropolis, a shortage of funds is clearly a major obstacle.
Minimalist house design features emphasize straightforward, plain, simple, uncomplicated, compact, and space efficiency. Expensive cost of a building is determined by the use of used materials from the proposed design. The cost of building structures generally use a standard market price. Completion of work neatly and carefully requires skilled craftsman power, jelly, and experienced craftsmen making cost above market prices.
Minimalist impression also appears in the attitude of the architect, the client’s approval as a prospective owner of the house, to “voluntarily” reduce many of the requirements are not important. Only the essential functions of the house will be retained only so if the house is impressive minimalist, it is only the result of a process. Not a destination. The beauty of minimalist homes in an optimal place of the purity of the function itself.
Is your home comfortable to live in a minimalist?
Minimalist house would certainly be convenient to live in an urban society the very practical, functional, lightweight, economical, and efficient, because minimalism is the embodiment of their lifestyle, according to the needs of their functions. Symbol of the metropolis lifestyle. A simple way of life in total.
Home furnishings following the basic geometric shape of the building, efficient, and functional course. Structuring a thorough light and artistic (floodlighting, light plant, hanging lamps, garden lamps) makes the house look more artistic minimalist in the evening.
Minimalist houses will continue to grow along with the creativity of architects, design innovation, and support the technology, making appearances minimalist house will always be present with new breakthroughs are fresh, the more perfect the details, and a more affordable price. The presence of minimalist house became the medium of communication between the architecture and landscape in the form of the contrast between the natural and man-made things (culture).
Structuring a minimalist garden will provide the “spirit” softness against the rigidity of the building, violent materials, and harmony of living with shady environment around. The presence of shade trees, lawns, and other shade plants provide fresh and lively atmosphere to fill the “void” minimalist house.
In the end the value of minimalist beauty of the house is no longer rely on ornaments and artificial objects, but it is more meaningful to an honest form, function, and the inspiration that created space. So no wonder if then the house became the choice of minimalist urban communities who longed honesty, simplicity, and innocence.
About the concept of home and healthy interior
Interior Design April 26th, 2010
Maybe a month ago, in an occasion attended a presentation where the majority of the students and employees are housing developers, I’m talking about simple ways to be more responsive home environment. In urban areas, less land, so land prices up which resulted in more and more people trouble to buy a house. Impact; number of occupants in a house to rise as an increase in the number of family members, and other factors are contributing to the natural conditions that have been disrupted.
If at this time we can have a house, it is the grace and luxury that we’re grateful for, especially if the house we live in is a healthy home. What are the elements that should be considered in designing the layout plan and arrangement of space for a healthy home?
The first thing to note is the area of healthy homes, must meet at least basic human needs for healthy activity, in this case means to perform activities normally in the room, not too small or too big. Of course, we still often hear many of our brothers who live in less capable or less worthy condition in which the houses are narrow because of economic factors are less supportive.
According to the Indonesian National Standard (SNI), needs space to house an inmate is 9m2, with a 7.2 m2 threshold. So for example a planned house inhabited by 4 people, then the area should house no less than 36m2. However, we know that the residential area of 36 square meters are occupied by narrow enough for 4 people.
If the home is planned to be added to rooms in the level, do not forget to strengthen the foundation and structural support columns to be built on two levels. This is to avoid the additional costs of having to dismantle the existing construction.
The arrangement of the room can affect our impression of these spaces. Bedroom with bathroom adjacent to a different ‘feel’ when compared with matched dining room. Smart spatial layout in this case including how to activities such as the bathroom does not interfere with the dining room, at least with the distance away.
Spatial planning should also be noted that there are no spaces that poor fresh air, dark, and so on. Avoid corner rooms with a sharp angle because this space is not effective and not in accordance with the general standard of furniture rectangular or round. Connect the ventilation and the windows of each room with a garden front, side or garden in the house for change of air. Spaces that can be linked as living room, family room and dining room does not need to be insulated wall to allow air to flow more freely.
To maximize natural lighting, we should provide windows enough, at least 5% of the room. In addition, the space can be wall paint or finishing material to the atmosphere light bright enough space when opening the window a bit limited.
Spaces that require water such as kitchens, bathrooms, sinks and the like should be grouped in an area adjacent to sanitation is more efficient because the pipes can be incorporated. Similarly, with a bathroom above and below, should be in the same vertical area (the bathroom is a bathroom above the bottom) so that if there is any leakage, simply wet the affected area.
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Fascination of details
Decoration April 22nd, 2010
All the ancient ruin in old Majapahit that survive until this moment has a tendency to show details, like all ancient building in Java and Nusantara. Details have become a part of Javanese architecture and inseparable element of buildings.
Fine example, details in Bajangratu Gate Temple, with many symbols made inside relief. Aside of building presence that exist until now with some restoration, the temple is not only attractive from its monumental size and proportion, but also visually attractive with interesting corners even from the nearest distance.
Attractive not only visually appealing, but also attractive because observer can be triggered to understand many visual phenomena, like form, symbols, and details.
Buildings in Majapahit have mystical trace that is incomparable with ‘modern’ buildings, even the terminology would not be well known in western literature. And to ‘experience’ the feeling that happens because of the trace, there is no other way than visiting the site and feel the space, the solids and voids.
Valuable lesson from visiting the old sites is seeing and knowing how ancient societies build their building. Visiting the site also help us understand the space that may give inspiration when designing.
Detail as a part of Nusantara (Indonesian) traditional architecture is less used in the euphoria of ‘modern’ architecture, whereas modern architecture had been declared ‘dead’ by Jencks, and ‘less is more’ by Meis Van der Rohe had been ‘less is bore’ by Venturi. Detail presence in temple buildings become the main power beside the all form of building. This makes detail as an attractive visual pleasure aside of symbolism contained to give more value of historical information through figures.
It is very much a pleasure to know that detail presence is a bridge to continue tradition in modern context. Simply because detail is a part of traditional architecture (especially in Indonesia). And it is a pleasure to explore new architecture technology in detail.
That is why detail use needs to be thought as a step for historical preservation, simply because detail has been a part of traditional architecture. Detail in here is local vocabulary that become a part of modern construction.
This is possible as part of ‘infiltration’ of traditional architecture inside modern architecture, making aliened ideas as the side effect of modern architecture coming into a new level of postmodernism. Image from detail can be an added value of visual image of building, that will add more value to its observer. This because human is creature with emotion, feeling and subjective memory and a will to interpret space to form future memory.
We can not replace memory of being in a certain place, with seeing picture in books or magazine. Because all sensation related to space will only be perfected if the observer present in the space (like mentioned in the book “Merah Putih Arsitektur Nusantara” or Red White Nusantara Architecture, written by Galih Widjil Pangarsa). Even so, observer’s behavior will determine interpretation of architecture object. This will determine whether an observer will appreciate an architecture object or not.
From perception, there might be interest to temple buildings in Majapahit. The reality is, an old building can be more interesting than the new one. This is like comparing an old remain of the Majapahit with new mall building, for instance. Inside a mall, there are interesting objects that may bring amusement, especially because technology has been able to make new architecture ‘candies’.
By my experience, architecture and the existing space can trigger an interest to this kind of old architecture. Not like the perception that exist in the presence of space, meaning, symbol, details and other things. Of course, there is a difference of touching a wall that was made centuries ago, compared with modern glass wall. In this case, there is a difference of aesthetic value, and this will determine understanding of architectural object in different context, in other word, the ability to be interested in an architectural object.
In iconography context, there are many vocabularies can be ’seed’ to tradition, or without being too extreme, a strong vocabulary of local values.
To bring icon of the past into present time is not impossible, for instance the one done by Renzo Piano with Tjibau Cultural Center, in Noumea, New Caledonia. This iconography brought new context of vernacular Kanak house architecture, creating aesthetic and beautiful new architecture that has a connection with local values.
Modern architecture style in Indonesia
Eksterior April 22nd, 2010
Modern architecture does not have its development in Indonesia, because, as other architectural styles imported from western countries, this force into Indonesia as the impact of globalization. Modern architectural styles emerged as an international force has enough similarities in all places, all the countries. At least, the modern style rooms still carry the function as a starting point design. In Indonesia, a modern style which is seen as the force is also a function of the design starting point.
Modern style is a simple style, clean, functional, stylish, trendy, up-to-date related to the modern lifestyle that is rapidly growing. Modern lifestyle is supported by advances in technology, where many things that previously could not be made and obtained became available to many people.
In the modern lifestyle, the people in it tend to like things that are easy and fast, because various industrial tools generated for human convenience. The nature of the modern lifestyle is a demand to move and do things more quickly, which is supported by technology and industrialization. Technology developed to make work and everyday life more quickly and easily, such as the development of information technology that allows people to communicate using a telephone and a computer sort.
Quality and speed became essential to the modern lifestyle, so there is a tendency to see the value of objects based on the large number of functions or object function, and based on compliance with the demanding lifestyle of fast-paced, easy and functional.
In architecture, modern lifestyle impact to the desire to have a simple structure, clean and functional, as a symbol of the modern spirit. However, this kind of lifestyle is only partially owned by the community alone, especially those located in big cities, where living the lifestyle demands more quickly, functional and efficient.
In Indonesia, modern style which is applied sometimes still have aesthetic elements that brought the classic or ethnic style, while others have met a pure modern design rules. Is still often heard the term modern classic architecture, modern architecture ethnic, modern traditional architecture, modern bali architecture, and so on. In Indonesia, there is a tendency to include elements of traditional ornaments that make it a category of ambiguous architecture, whether modern or postmodern?
To call the modern style of ornate as a pure modern style is not the right thing, after all, the process of developing this style does not happen in Indonesia. To call it a postmodern style, moreover, in Indonesia, even this term tends to be avoided to avoid the lack of fahaman society. So the style of modern architecture in Indonesia will emerge as a distinctive style of “Modern Indonesia” with the following characteristics:
q Have great attention to the function space, the pattern of activity obtained from residents
q Have great attention to building materials that are used to obtain final results (aesthetic) desired
q Having a machine analogy in the structuring and developing spaces
Avoiding q ornaments (if pure modern style), or use ornaments (if postmodern, or given such frills: ethnic modern architecture, modern Balinese architecture, etc.)
q Simplifying forms and details of ornamentation and the removal of ‘unnecessary’ wishes as far as designers (or the owner of the building)
