Monday, July 5, 2010

Remembering the home…

Do you think that environment really will affect a person characteristic? Base on serious studies at America, 80% of a person characteristic will be build between zeros to three. Is true that people seldom realize that they are actually being shape and affected since they was young, under the environment where they growth up. By the day this exercise handout, I only realize that a lots of my design characteristic were related to the house that I stay when I was young.

When I was young, I am staying in a small wooden house located at Petalling Jaya. Only until when I was age of 9, then my family and I have shifted to Subang Jaya. They are a big contrast between these two areas. The place where I stay in Petalling Jaya was an older development area, which the site planning and environment lack of afforest that causes the air qualities goes low. Compare to Subang area, the later site planning have included the green projects which make the environment feels more harmony and creates better visualization. The difference between this two areas have make me understand the effect of an environment bring to human comfort level. Which I will always emphasize on the site planning when I doing my designs.

Due to my farther career, which is a constructor, there are a lot of tools and materials needed to keep in a house after projects have ended. By that time, my house will be a real mess up cause by that stuff. Later on, my father has made a wooden rack to along the wide external stair way beside my house to store all the paint and stuff in a systematic way. Furthermore, there is also some furniture which attaches to the wall which safe up a lot of space. This has reminded me that the ways where my father used the empty space with a function and apply it in my design class.

Others than that, I have also realize that I often used linear principal in my design classes. This is maybe due to the environment when I was young and also my personality. When I was young, there are a lot of linear spaces around me. For example of my house, there will be a distances approximately between 12m of my front gate to my main entrance with a width of 6m. The narrow walk ways from the living hall toward to my room, it will need to pass through my parent’s room. In addition, there was a 400m walk ways which need to pass through a series of three beside me to my primary school. And one of the reasons may cause by my personality, I will like to think and place things which include all the elements in a point of view with the importance of itself. And linear principle will definitely suit my requirement, which is placing things that which come first will be at the front and others will be at the back.

Last but not least, I realize that my entire project will also have big opening and mostly placed at the rear part of the building. I guess this is because of a habit that I have created since young. Usually after caned by my mother, I will also hide myself in the room, sitting on the bed, and look out toward the sky with my large window to cold down my emotional. Due to the topography of my house, which was located at a higher ground level, this will make the night view clearer and peaceful. That might be the reason why I am creating a big opening on my design and if it is possible, I will design it at a higher ground level to avoid from unnecessary lighting that will spoil the night view.

As a conclusion, the design characteristic n style I having now, basically there is a big major that affected by the environment when we was young.

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