The Journey of Light

The first essay that I wrote at Lasalle was about a splendid encounter with a friend whom always exists in our life but i have rarely talk with him until that time.....

I saw somebody have met my friend also.

Studi-o Cahaya 

/ Mamostudio

This project is designed at the period after Adi Purnomo released his book “Relativitas” that showed the           attitude to put actual and rational reasons as the base of his design decision. It was a time when rationality is re-questioned, whether it is a helping tool to explore creativity or does it creates limitation to find another new possibilities.

ground floor plan

second floor plan

third floor plan

It is a mix building between residential, working and art gallery that sometime is opened for public. Because the client is a photographer and an art collector (he sometime paints and sculpts), lights is an important element for him to do his works.

© Courtesy of mamostudio

What possibilities are open when we are thinking about light in this context? What if we are letting the lights as the material that creates the space? What if we eliminate the “result” or “goal” or “any imagination about form and space” at the beginning?

section 02

© Courtesy of mamostudio

So, we study about characteristic of light for the whole year and found some angles that relates to time. We study how the light could penetrate to the volume needed, by making some models. In one sentences it could be said like this: Letting all the observed phenomena (in this case sunlights that highlighted), to become the tool of the design. 

Architects: Mamostudio
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Design Principal: Adi Purnomo
Design Team: Danny Wicaksono
Client: Dr. Lau and Evie Miranda
Construction: Adi Y
Site Area: 375 sqm
Project Area: 600 sqm
Project Year: 2007-2009
Photographs: Courtesy of Mamostudio


* Source from http://www.archdaily.com/62078/studi-o-cahaya-mamostudio/ *

SITE . SIGHT . VIEW

Space is three-dimension.
Space is empty.
Space is void.
Space is volume that contained by at least three planes.
Space has mass.

How can space be sensed, perceived and experienced?

We use our senses to sense the world, perceive it by our mind and experience it through our heart.
We listen to a song. We whisper its rhythm. We memorize its lyric. And we feel happy when listen or sing it again.
We stand on a hard shiny floor, touching the rough wall and see the light fill the room through the high windows.{Sensed}. The room is so bright, so clean and so high.{Perceived}. And this is when we understand there are something that we cannot describe yet it so big, so far and so beautiful. And that we start to float, to fly higher. And we feel peace and freedom.{Experienced}

Hearing
Smell
Sight
Touch
Taste
On distance scale. We sense the world

Natural Structure. PineCone Prj

Brief:

Research / Study / Analyze : structure of a natural object.
Apply to design an architectural form.
Adapt the form to a specific place
< Interior Architect >

Outcome:

Recreate a structure that represent the natural object.

PINE CONE STRUCTURE STUDY

The seeds were located around the center core of the pine cone follow many spiral paths. The distances and angle ratio between the pine cone scales always follow the Golden Number : Phi = 1.618 and Fibonnaci Sequence 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34....

THE PROCESS

FINAL MODEL

27.09.2013

This is my online storage box.
Where i keep, throw, dump...some Lost&Found objects.