Indeed, the blog crash was almost ruining my love to architecture. Approximately of 88% of the content is lost, and it isn’t different as starting from begin, again. I still don’t know exactly what the reason of the crash is, but for some quick conclusion, it does answer with my previous installed theme and recent plugins. While there’s unethical to accuse particularly of those prime suspects (I’m not totally understand PHP or something language), one I have learned: The combination of false theme and plugins could lead to deadly poison.

Anyway, as my religion teached me, a hope always lies behind disaster. In the establishment time, I decided to alter some of the Architectook concept, including correcting the title of my first posts (get ready for SE drop!), but I’m sure it will go better for long term. Second, you will not facing zig-zag image in the article, as I use image gallery (thanks NextGEN) at the bottom of the article. We never strong if we have ever weak before. Please be free to enjoy my love to architecture building.

This is my little and humble project. Me and my team are commissioned to design an Islamic Center in Gresik, East Java, Indonesia. It is a simple try for my sophisticated architecture expression. The building houses elementary school, kindergarten, mosque, and multi-function hall. Pretty rough for just a building with approximately 3000 square meter, isn’t it? Anyway, this is still the first draft, the most first proposal of the design. More picture later.

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It’s about emphasize, something we need for people to look at it, strong meaning. Facade of the building should be, at least, the first people to look at, giving strong attraction for them to pull in there. It is important for an architect to know how to control the attention of someone viewing their project. There are many things that make design noticeable. However in order to make a special notice, there are several requirements to be met. One of these requirements is a focal point. The focal point is the center of an attention. It means the most important element, at least, of an architectural device.

For example, if one were making a sculpture in the middle of a park, the sculpture would probably be the focal point. The key is how to make the objects easy or hard to notice. Focal points are very vital in order to make design’s identity interesting. If an architect doesn’t emphasize something in his work, it will be turned into nothing, something banal. In contradiction, some architect designs project with excessive emphasize, it is also a problem because it tries to capture visually but competing each other of the architectural element. There is a threat in over focused on design, imposing visions on people and not understanding how to maximize focal point. Without a focal point, people will lose interest in no time because he does not know what he should look and what he must look. It may sound simple but it’s important.

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Human has tendency to think every matter to its tiniest thing, until reached the limit when he, as a human being, couldn’t go further more than an atom size. While designing, architect will manifesto his self-reflection that along his life span. He arises a giant building that maybe inspired from his architect idol’s book, not so different when he designed comfortable chair for some rest at peaceful night, while reading newspaper and a cup of tea besides him. Of course if he has enough time, or he could just choosing it in furniture catalog.

Stronger the identity inside the entity of an architect, then stronger his expression in his works, whatever the surrounding are pressing him. We will see Frank Gehry with his devotion to fish, Coop Himmelblau with his favorite in playing impossible form. It’s a domination which turned into emotion, lined in floor-roof-wall. But some architects feel that between his neuron nerve and his hand there’s a bad bridge which no better than those two. A lot of way can be approached to release emotion to maximal value, to be applied on a building which identical inside his brain. But honestly motivation books we found in store book are only a series of words, and not a field experience.

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