"Empty" or "NOT empty"??

     To say that this place is an 'empty space' it mean that there is no specific function for this space but in another hand empty space can also mean multi function place.  Aj Taylor have show us an example of a church that can also function as a bar, which church and bar are two opposite thing but the architect itself can create a working space for these two type of function. Another example that are show in class is the Memorial of Murdered Jew, for me when I saw this I can't even guess what is this place for and this is the purpose of empty space. We don't really know what is it for so it's depend on us how we are going to use it. Some people use it for park where you can walk on top on the rectangle box, some use it for fashion shooting scene, or even a maze. We as an architecture, I don't think all of the design need to have a specific function, we can just provide an empty space for the user and let them think how will they going to use it, so in another word is "not the control the user but let them control the architect.", letting them use their own creativity in creating new function.  After this lecture end, I really surprise about the idea of empty space, which is "not empty" but "more function". 

Hyper reality! So what is real??

     Hyper reality is when you can't see the different between real and pretending. In the lecture Aj Taylor show us a different image of place, all of the picture look like it's located somewhere is Europe region, we see the red telephone box which we normally see it in London, or a picture of Paris, and even a picture of London bridge, we all thought that all of the picture were took somewhere in France or maybe England, but hell no, actually all of them was took in China. These images freak me out, it is so scary that now a days we can't tell the different between real and copy. And another example that Aj Taylor show us is a film called "Borat", this is a film that show the simulation of a character. The film convincing us that everything is real, the accent of the character, the clothes, and even the setting it is so real that we all believe that he really came from Kazakhstan. But actually  everything is all made up, so a simulation is to influence people to make them believe in things that is not exist in the real world. After the lecture end I start to us myself is everything around me is real? or is it a simulation. Now I can't even tell the different between reality or fake.

"Design" "De-sign"

In architecture design, sign and symbol are used to represent thing in term of shape or words. Everything can transform to a sign, for example McDonald can be simplified as "MC" and people can understand it right away that this is a McDonald fast food restaurant. However, each signs can give different effect on our thinking, color, front, and shape can translate to our mind differently, because this depend on our understanding. The sign in architecture doesn't only give us the meaning or each sign but also give the function of it. For example, the restroom sign is just a simple symbol of female and male but we know right away that it is a restroom, so here some sign are used to extend of becoming its own thing rather than the object that it try to representing it. There is one good example in the lecture Aj Taylor show us a pentagon shape, some people say it a simple pentagon shape but some says that this is sign of a house. Yea, pentagon shape is like a sign to representing a house, so here I think that sign can be anything and anywhere. This is a power of "design" and "de-sign", creativities making something new. In conclusion, I'm impress with the power of sign that can effect us people so much in differently point of view. Sign is everywhere around us, sometime we doesn't even know it. 

Phenomenology and STUDIO PROJECT

Phenomenology, can be define as "feeling" or the effect of what you feel toward the object. How do you feel about the architecture? Does it affect you? Warm/ Happy/ Depress? Actually this remind me of the erotic architecture, which is ike a relationship between the user and the architecture.

So in my studio design project I try to make a relationship between the user and the sculpture. The 8 sculpture have different meaning, which some of them are every complicated to understand. So I want to create a space (pavillion) where people can just walk into the area and understand the sculpture by absorb the 4 senses. Which is hearing, smelling, touching, seeing. What I want to do is let the user read the architecture (wall, proportion, opening) and get the idea of the sculpture. 

The 8 sculpture also have a good and bad meaning behind it, all of them reflect our society now a days. In this part I also want to inform us people about our mistake and tell them the right thing to do. So now my pavillion is not just only a space to keep the sculpture but also a space that will inform them about the issue that's going on in our society (Budda teaching). 

However as a designer we also need to concern about the context around our site. This pavillion will be placed at Parc Paragon which is very crowned place and most of the people there are in hurry that I don't think they going to have time to visit the pavillion, in this case I think the only way that can attract them is to create a attractive facade. The facade can be made from different material and texture or maybe having a different sizes of opening.