CONVEX

DURING CONVEX

Lots of flowers

Flower bouquet as a gift

Bear and flower are everywhere

New stock

Wonderful enterance

Parents waiting for their son and daughter

Helping each other

Nice garden

Happy face everywhere

More havoc at night

Night market!!!

AFTER CONVEX

Site (Scale of the Built Environment)
Recapitulation of last week's close reading of intention, with the introduction of authority as the legitimator of ism as per diagram below.
That an element in any production may contain the whole production, e.g. Intention as shown below , "Proposal to Build & Complete... " may manifest in the Production of the signage board (Product) to make public the intention

Production therefore is a factor of scale, see content of Intention below:
Scale from the examination of quarks at 100 attometers to 100 million light years away, see
only seven are used by the various professions in built environment as follows:


These seven scales need to be properly looked at. While 1-6 may be detailed out by students the seventh scale is indicated by a question of how we look at the globe.
How do we begin to look at the globe?
Object
Interior
Building
Premise
Urban
Region
Global

The Eurocentric view .
As opposed to eurocentrism, there is also the alternative way of looking at the globe - the Pacific, Malaka perspective, as follows:

Yet there is another way of looking at the globe - the Buckminster Fuller's view.

Why the earth becomes a dying planet may be explained using the Production Model as follows:


Is sustainable earth about acting on iatrogenocide?

RAK 132
This course introduces students to the Built Environment through its production as a whole; specifically who's involved, what's the theory behind the production, how the environment is produced, what laws are related and what are the forms of the built environment on different scales including human settlements such as villages, towns and more specifically housing areas
With this overall exposure, it is hoped that students would be sensitive to issues in the built environment and therefore take their own positions to discuss these issues in their professional disciplines (interior design, architecture, planning, engineering, quantity surveying, project management).

Lecture 1
Production Model
The built environment is built, produced. We therefore need a way to look at its production, perhaps generally first, the model of production. Production must consist of six elements INTENTION, ACT, PRODUCT, ACTOR, RULE and SITE.
Assuming that WE are the ACTOR,
to have an INTENTION, we must first know or have knowledge. We therefore need to look at the production of knowledge. Knowledge is a product of the act to know, which must involve the listening, seeing and differentiating. The rule is simply, what is right is right, what is wrong is wrong. Determining what is right or wrong depends on us (ACTOR) and the "authority" (also actor, normally unseen although it may be obvious) which legitimises what we determine. The legitimating "authority" is the source of ism which underlies our intention.
It is only with an intention that an actor can take an action (even if the action is by not doing anything), act on an order, a charge (something which still needs to be explained). ACT (from to act) is a verb which involves doing. Acts in the built environment involve perceiving, designing, negotiating, modelling, constructing, finishing, inhabiting, using, spoiling, demilishing, recycling etc. Acts are normally recorded in journals and can be seen from any form of transaction or communication documents.
All acts are governed by RULE, the most natural but not quite visible rules are gravity, friction and such like. Also unseen are cultural rules derived from customs, practices, habits. Most rules that we see are written down as law, by-law, canon, act, enactment, regulation, etc. These rules determine what is right and what is wrong to do (act on).
The PRODUCT is our built-environment located on the SITE, wherever it is on our planet earth.

Lecture 2
Site (Scale of the Built Environment)
Recapitulation of last week's close reading of intention, with the introduction of authority as the legitimator of ism as per diagram below.
That an element in any production may contain the whole production, e.g. Intention as shown below , "Proposal to Build & Complete... " may manifest in the Production of the signage board (Product) to make public the intention

Production therefore is a factor of scale, see content of Intention below:
Scale from the examination of quarks at 100 attometers to 100 million light years away, see
only seven are used by the various professions in built environment as follows:


These seven scales need to be properly looked at. While 1-6 may be detailed out by students the seventh scale is indicated by a question of how we look at the globe.
How do we begin to look at the globe?
Object
Interior
Building
Premise
Urban
Region
Global

The Eurocentric view .
As opposed to eurocentrism, there is also the alternative way of looking at the globe - the Pacific, Malaka perspective, as follows:

Yet there is another way of looking at the globe - the Buckminster Fuller's view.

Why the earth becomes a dying planet may be explained using the Production Model as follows:


Is sustainable earth about acting on iatrogenocide?

Lecture 3
Product
On all seven scales, a product may be viewed as having the following elements - form-space, nodes-paths and illusion.
A form may have the following attributes:
A space would be structured as follows
A product may also be an illusion.
Students are to experience their own product making or the production of their product, the geodesic dome:
The geodesic dome as a product may contribute to the change in the built environment on different scales:
Object: producing components.
Interior: upon assembly of the components.
Building: as the above
Premise: that it shall be located on a site.
Urban: the dome spine
Region: not applicable
Global: that the production is documented and available online.
Another product in the production of the dome spine is derived from the class intention as follows:
This "essay" as a product shall determine the sites of the dome. The production of the proposed Dome Spine may therefore be seen as
IDENTITY. It is here that the identity of the team as a product (a series of products from sketches, report, logo, motto, construction method, materials etc) may be created.