PUSAT PERAGAAN IPTEK DI UG TECHNOPARK CIANJUR - OLEH JODY

FANDOY FISH MARKET KABUPATEN BIAK PAPUA

PANTI SOSIAL DI PURWAKARTA

PERPUSTAKAAN UMUM KOTA DEPOK

DONGDAEMUN DESIGN PLAZA, SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA

Dongdaemun Design Plaza, juga disebut DDP, adalah landmark utama pembangunan kota di Seoul, Korea Selatan. Dirancang oleh Zaha Hadid dan Samoo. Desain neofuturistik dicirikan dengan kuat oleh "struktur melengkung yang panjang". Landmark ini merupakan pusat mode dan tujuan wisata populer Korea Selatan, Desain atap Dongdaemun sengaja dirancang sebagai taman, ruang pameran global, toko ritel futuristik dan beberapa bagian merupakan benteng Seoul yang diretorasi.

DDP telah menjadi salah satu alasan utama untuk penunjukan Seoul sebagai World Design Capital pada tahun 2010. Pembangunan konstruksi dimulai tahun 2009 dan secara resmi dibuka pada 21 Maret 2014. Landmark ini terhubung secara langsung dengan Seoul Subway melalui Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station di Jalur 2, 4, dan 5.

Pulau Rote Ndao: Pulau Terluar Selatan Wilayah Indonesia

Pulau Rote Ndao

Sesaat lagi pesawat akan landing di Bandara Roti Pulau Rote Ndao. Hanya 30 menit dari Bandara El Tari Kupang. Dari ketinggian tampak sekumpulan pepohonan hijau pucat yang didominasi jenis lontar berselang-seling dengan tanah yang terang kecoklatan. Ke tiga kalinya aku mengunjungi pulau terluar di Selatan wilayah NKRI.

Setelah menjejak hamparan bumi Rote Ndao dan menghirup anginnya yang kering. Pelan panas menyelinap seperti umumnya lahan tandus berkapur mengingatkan kampungku Madura. Di mana-mana batu putih menyembul pertanda tak banyak air diperut buminya. Alang-alang dan pucuk-pucuk runcing daun lontar menyeruak di sekeliling mata memandang.

Benteng Keraton: Sisa Kemasyhuran Kesultanan Buton

Indonesia memiliki sejarah panjang dalam perkembangan arsitektur tradisi dan kekuasaan yang menyertainya. Salah satunya adalah Kesultanan Buton di Bau Bau Sulawesi Tenggara. 

Sekitar 45 menit perjalanan darat dari Bandara Bau Bau kita akan sampai ke Benteng Keraton Buton.

Benteng ini merupakan bekas ibukota Kesultanan Buton dengan  bentuk arsitektur yang cukup unik, terbuat dari batu kapur/gunung. Benteng berbentuk lingkaran ini dengan panjang keliling 2.740 meter. Benteng Keraton Buton mendapat penghargaan dari Museum Rekor Indonesia (MURI) dan Guiness Book Record yang dikeluarkan bulan september 2006 sebagai benteng terluas di dunia dengan luas sekitar 23,375 hektare.

Top 15 Most Amazing & Exotic Houses in the World

1. Bart Prince House – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Architect Bart Prince is renowned for his incredibly creative approach to designing structures. The homes he has created look nothing like the boxy houses you and I live in; they’re quirky, they’re organic, and they’re most definitely one-of-a-kind. Prince says his designs start from the inside out, and that every home he builds has an idea behind it. Pictured are Prince’s own home in Albuquerque (top) and the Seymour residence in Los Altos, California.

Top 10 Most Luxurious Houses Of The World

Below is the list of top ten most luxurious houses from around the world. See how mind-blowing are these most expensive homes which owned by world’s richest business tycoons and celebrities

10. Dracula’s Castle – Romania

Worth: $135 million.

situated near Bran in Romania, Dracula’s Castle is considered one of the most luxurious castles around the world. It is commonly known as the home of the character Dracula and it became a museum in the 1980s. It is a beautiful house that has 57 rooms and around 17 bedrooms with antique furniture.

The Incredible Bamboo Architecture

Bamboo is the stuff of green dreams these days. Not only is it a winning combination of strong, lightweight and flexible; it also scores highly in the sustainable stakes, being super fast growing and easy to harvest locally in many parts of the world. What’s more, it is increasingly being lauded for its aesthetic qualities. None of this is news to any architect worth their salt – but one in particular, Vietnamese virtuoso Vo Trong Nghia, stands out for his exceptional bamboo designs.

Vo Trong Nghia Architect: Restaurant of Jardines de Mexico

Two restaurants and a circular event center are being designed in “Jardines de Mexico”, a new botanical garden near Cuernavaca, Mexico, that is expected to open in 2013.

Three pure bamboo buildings, each boasting more than 1,000 square meters, have been designed with very different structural concepts.

Vo Trong Nghia Architects Builds Bamboo wNw Cafe Binhduong, Vietnam

Set amid vietnam’s tropical landscape vo trong nghia architects has developed ‘wNw café’ a project which is defined by its experimental use of bamboo. surrounded by an artificial lake, the café consists of thousands of bamboo shoots, which ensures the minimal use of steel and other materials. the roof has been constructed from a combination of bamboo and steel tensile members, creating a vast internal space spanning 12 meters, while the form of the structure is shaped to maximize wind-flow through the building on hot sticky days. traditional processing methods for the bamboo allow the shoots to display their characteristics as flexible, durable and cost effective housing materials.

10 Most Beautiful and Unique Bridges of the World

Bridges are described as a structure built to span and provide passage over physical obstacles such as a road, valley or body of water. Of course the final design of the bridge varies in accordance with its function and the nature of the surrounding terrain, with some of the earliest bridges comprising stones or simple logs in a river. However, today, not only do some bridges serve their purpose, but they also comprise authentic works of art or structures of physical beauty which transform their surroundings or successfully blend in with nature. Here are some examples of the world’s most beautiful and unique bridges.

1. RAKOTZ BRIDGE GERMANY

This impressive bridge, located in the 200-acre gothic style Kromlauer Park in Kromlau, was built around 1860. It is called the ” Rakotzbrücke” but is more popularly known as the  “Devil’s Bridge” and consists of an arch bridge made entirely of Basalt stone also used to build various other features in the park. It is no longer open to the public to ensure its preservation however, with the reflection on the water’s surface creating a flawless circle, it is certainly very beautiful.

The Helix Bridge Singapore

The Helix Bridge provides a pedestrian connection across the head of the Singapore River between the city’s existing CBD and its new Bayfront district.  Its commission was the result of a selected 36-entry international design competition held in 2006.

Cube House, Rotterdam Netherland

CUBE HOUSES

Cube houses (Dutch: Kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest

HELMOND

Three test versions were first constructed in 1974, and in 1977 18 houses were constructed in Helmond. The many houses required for a woonwoud (English: living woods) were never realized. The houses in Rotterdam were designed in 1977 in a plan of 55, of which 39 were built. The cube houses in Helmond surrounded a theater, Theater 't Speelhuis, which was destroyed by a large fire on 29 December 2011

ROTTERDAM

The houses in Rotterdam are located on Overblaak Street, right above the Blaak Subway Station. There are 38 small cubes and two so called 'super-cubes', all attached to each other.

As residents are disturbed so often by curious passers-by, one owner decided to open a "show cube", which is furnished as a normal house, and is making a living out of offering tours to visitors.

The living room of the "show cube" in Rotterdam.

The houses contain three floors:

1. ground floor entrance
2. first floor with living room and open kitchen
3. second floor with two bedrooms and bathroom
4. top floor which is sometimes used as a small garden

The walls and windows are angled at 54.7 degrees. The total area of the apartment is around 100 square meters, but around a quarter of the space is unusable because of the walls that are under the angled ceilings.

In 2006, a museum of chess pieces was opened under the houses.

In 2009, the larger cubes were converted by Personal Architecture into a hostel run by Dutch hostel chain Stayokay.

TORONTO

In 1996 a cluster of three cubes was built along Eastern Avenue Architect Ben Kutner and partner Jeff Brown were inspired by the original cubehouses and therefore had plans to develop similar plans under license for unusable patches of land. But these remain the only three built.

source: wikipedia

Zaha Hadid: Perempuan Arsitek

Zaha Hadid lahir di Bagdad Irak, 31 Oktober 1950. Arsitek yang secara konsisten menyatukan wilayah arsitektur dan desain perkotaan. Karyanya penuh dengan eksperimen ruang yang berkualitas, memperluas dan mengintensifkan lanskap yang ada untuk memenuhi visi estetika yang mencakup semua bidang desain, mulai dari skala kota sampai ke produk, interior dan furniture.

Semula, Zaha masuk jurusan Matematika di American University Beirut sebelum pindah di Architectural Association London 1972 dan memperoleh Diploma Prize pada 1977. Menjadi mitra kerja Dinas Metropolitan Arsitektur, dan belajar di AA dengan kolaborator OMA Rem Koolhaas dan Elia Zenghelis. Kemudian memimpin sendiri studio AA sampai 1987. Sejak itu dia menjabat sebagai Pemimpin Kenzo Tange di Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, dan University of Chicago School of Architecture. Professor tamu pada Hochschule für Bildende Künste di Hamburg, The Knolton Architecture School, Ohio dan Studio Master di Columbia University, New York. Ia menjadi Visiting Professor Eero Saarinen dalam Desain Arsitektur untuk Semester Musim Semi 2002 di Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Beliau juga menjadi anggota kehormatan American Academy of Arts and Letters dan Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture. Saat ini sebagai Profesor di Universitas Seni Terapan di Wina.

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Jembatan Tertinggi di Dunia: Le Viaduc de Millau

Jika kita mendengar bangunan pencakar langit, tentu itu hal biasa yang sering kita temukan dimana-mana. Tapi jika kita menyebut jembatan pencakar langit dengan kendaraan yang melintas seolah di atas awan ini baru luar biasa. Inilah jembatan Le Viaduc de Millau Bridge yang terletak di Selatan Perancis tepatnya di Millau, Midi Pyrénées.

Jembatan memiliki tinggi sekitar 343 meter dari permukaan tanah. Jika dibandingkan menara Eiffel  masih lebih tinggi sekitar 45 meter. Jumlah tiang 7 tower dengan sistem tension. Dirancang oleh Michel Virlogeux dan Norman Foster. Dibangun tahun  sejak 1975 dan baru diresmikan pada tanggal 14 December 2004. Jembatan ini pernah digunakan sebagai lokasi film “Mr.Bean ’s Holiday”.

Komunikasi Gambar dalam Desain Arsitektur

Komunikasi dalam arsitektur merupakan kebutuhan yang sangat mendasar bagi arsitek. Khususnya komunikasi gambar. Hanya dengan gambar, imaginasi antara perancang dan pengguna jasa dapat dipertemukan.

Renovasi Rumah Kecil agar Terkesan Lebih Besar

Rumah ini terletak di jalan buntu yang cukup lebar sekitar 7 meter. Luas lahan 90 meter2. Lebar lahan depan 10 m dan panjang ke belakang 9 m. Sempadan bangunan mundur 3 meter dari batas depan lahan.  Luas bangunan awal  45 m2. Ruang terdiri dari 2 kamar yaitu 1 ruang tidur utama yang sangat kcil sekitar 3.00×2.50 m2 dan 1 kamar tidur dengan luas 2.50×2.00 m2, 1 ruang tamu yang memanjang sekaligus utk ruang keluarga 3.00×5.00 m2, 1 KM : 1.50×1.50 m2 dan dapur seluas 2.00×1.50.  Di sisi kiri ada kelebihan tanah seluas 2.00×6 m yang kemudian difungsikan untuk ruang makan dan kolam ikan. Kondisi awal rumah sebetulnya cukup baik dengan bukaan penghawaan dan penyinaran yang cukup baik.

Jembatan Ampera sebagai Ikon Kota Palembang

Kota yang baik adalah kota yang memiliki ciri khas. Salah satunya yang paling mudah adalah dengan menciptakan ikon tertentu yang dapat menjadi tengara atau penanda yang mudah dingat dengan berbagai cara. 

Kalau  menyebut Jembatan Ampera, langsung terbayang Kota Palembang, Provinsi Sumatera Selatan, Indonesia. Maka Jembatan Ampera, telah sukses menjadi lambang kota Palembang, 

Jembatan Ampera berfungsi untuk menghubungkan daerah Seberang Ulu dan Seberang Ilir yang dipisahkan oleh Sungai Musi. Secara struktur, Panjang : 1.117 m (bagian tengah 71,90 m), Lebar : 22 m. Tinggi: 11.5 m dari permukaan air, Tinggi Menara: 63 m dari permukaan tanah Jarak antara menara : 75 m Berat : 944 ton.