Aceh Tsunami Museum

Of course many people who still remember the disaster that has been frowned thousands of lives in Aceh, Indonesia and other country. The earthquake on December 26, 2010 with a strength and a 9.3-richer scale earthquake that the most tremendous within a period of 40 years. An earthquake measuring 9.3 magnitude that caused the tsunami waves as high as 9 meters hit some areas and caused 230,000 people died in 8 countries (Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Inda, and Thailand, a country with the largest number of deaths).

The tsunami disaster in Banda Aceh is a reminder that we humans are nothing, there are other great powers, and when an affair, we are unable to resist and dodge that is God the creator. For that, need to have a reminder that the power of God is everything. Made a monument to the tsunami in Banda Aceh, which has a good architecture design, modern and still pay attention to eco design, so I am very interested to lift it into the theme of my post this time.

Tsunami museum to be built in the city of Banda Aceh, about 1 km from the Grand Mosque of Banda Aceh, Aceh Tsunami Museum The functions are:
1. As an object of history, where the tsunami museum will be the center of research and learning about the tsunami disaster.
2. As a symbol of strength of the Acehnese people in the face of the tsunami disaster.
3. As a legacy to future generations in Aceh in the form of messages that have occurred in their areas by the tsunami.
4. To remind the danger of earthquake and tsunami disaster that threatens the territory of Indonesia. This is because Indonesia is located in the "Ring of Fire" Pacific volcanic belt, and the lines surrounding the Pacific Basin. Fire ring region is an area that is often hit by earthquakes that could trigger a tsunami.

Tsunami Design museum is a winner in the race "Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Tsunami Museum" on August 5, 2007. I will display the design-design and copyright is owned by Muhammad Ridwan Kamil, Muhammad Yuliansyah Akbar, AA Putra Munchana, Asep Budiman

Exterior Design Museum
Building a traditional house of the people of Aceh, Aceh stage of building a house is taken as an analogy of building a mass base. With the concept of houses on stilts, this building could also serve as an escape hills of a park shaped hill that could be used as one of the anticipated location of rescue in case of floods and the tsunami disaster in the future.

Then too there is the hill of light, in addition to the park for a full evacuation of hundreds of poles, where visitors can lay flowers, a kind of personal space and also there is the memorial hill in the basement and equipped exhibition space.

This design is also loaded with local content. Saman dance as a reflection Hablumminannas (the concept of human relations in Islam), distilled into a pattern of building facade.

Views remarkable exterior that expresses the cultural diversity of Aceh through the use of ornament decorative element of transparency elements of the outer skin of the building.

And the roof of this tsunami museum is my favorite for exterior, because this building use eco design roof like modern sod roof. I have talk my post about sod roof because I really like modern building with green roof.
Discuss about tsunami museum's exterior, I think quite enough, I will continue to write about interior design on next post. The interior design of this tsunami museum also very cool, because the interior very interesting and I think that new concept. Hope God still give me chance to continue me make post to this blog. Ok see u soon. And here is some other picture exterior design of Tsunami Museum in Nanggroe Aceh Darrusalam, Indonesia.. proud to team work jobs.

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Tom's of Mine is a great natural product and meet opportunities in Fresh Wicked moments for a chance to win Wicked Fresh

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Buildings design with a cantilever

Want your home, house or your building look different with other building. Maybe you can give it touch with cantilever.
What is cantilever?
A cantilever is a beam supported on only one end. The beam carries the load to the support where it is resisted by moment and shear stress. Cantilever construction allows for overhanging structures without external bracing. Cantilevers can also be constructed with trusses or slabs.
This is in contrast to a simply supported beam such as those found in a post and lintel system. A simply supported beam is supported at both ends with loads applied between the supports.
Cantilevers are widely found in construction, notably in cantilever bridges and balconies (see corbel). In cantilever bridges the cantilevers are usually built as pairs, with each cantilever used to support one end of a central section. The Forth Bridge in Scotland is a famous example of a cantilever truss bridge.
Temporary cantilevers are often used in construction. The partially constructed structure creates a cantilever, but the completed structure does not act as a cantilever. This is very helpful when temporary supports, or false work, cannot be used to support the structure while it is being built (e.g., over a busy roadway or river, or in a deep valley). So some truss arch bridges (see Navajo Bridge) are built from each side as cantilevers until the spans reach each other and are then jacked apart to stress them in compression before final joining. Nearly all cable-stayed bridges are built using cantilevers as this is one of their chief advantages. Many box girder bridges are built segmentation, or in short pieces. This type of construction lends itself well to balanced cantilever construction where the bridge is built in both directions from a single support.
These structures are highly based on torque and rotational equilibrium.

And here is example of cantilever in nature


article source from wikipedia, pics from many source

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Playing with green color for your bedroom

Play color for bedrooms is a nice thing, because the bedroom is where you spend the time to rest so that the comfort of the bedroom is very important. Never one to choose colors that will make you feel bored and tired quickly, but choose a color that makes you comfortable and cool. To make your bedroom look comfortable and cool, you can play with soft colors like light green color and light blue. This time I want to discuss about the bedroom by wearing green color as the background. The color green is the color to give the feel of the cool and not make you get tired when in the room who wear the color green.

For lovers of minimalist like me, the green color is also very suitable combined with minimalist style. The green color can also be combined with classic and modern furniture. To highlight the minimalist design, you should use modern furniture, because the classical design usually impressed weight design. The green color is also very suitable combined with furniture from natural wood, plastic or metal.

Feel free to design your room, I love minimalist design because it is look neat, clean, elegant and the most important thing minimalist is easy to clean up and to tidy up.

Pic from kaskus.us and other website.

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Amanjiwo, stupa hotel design

I really liked the design of the resort Amanjiwo. Amanjiwo Resort is located at Borobudur, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. The resort is located only 10 minutes drive from Borobudur temple in Ways That are a bit STEEP. These villas will be seen from Borobudur temple on the top floor or floors Arupadatu, but it looks very small. I really want to visit this resort, although I have many times to visit Borobudur, but I have never visited this resort.
Amanjiwo viewed from the name "Amanjiwo", it is composed by two words of Javanese language That Is "safe" which means safe and "Jiwo" which means soul. So "Amanjiwo" can have a sense of peace inhabitants or soul in peace. Amanjiwo's resort design followed the design of the architecture of Borobudur Temple, the which Also have Some sort of stupas on the roof and forms a circular building. Amanjiwo also has a circular shape of the building such as the design of Borobudur masterpiece.











Amanjiwo resort also feels one with nature and uphold rural Javanese culture. From some pictures I get from blog walking and website Amanjiwo, Amanjiwo felt once that building is a luxury that was poured in a peaceful and beautiful frame. The use of natural stone, on walls and pillars at the Resort Amanjiwo make the atmosphere feels very luxurious, elegant and cool. The views about the form of Amanjiwo is Menoreh hills, mountains (Merapi and Merbabu), and rice fields make this truly building that live in peace. Alloy Javanese culture, stupas and modern architect makes us not feel live in hotel but lived in the palace of the kings and make you want to stay for long here.
Well ... I always liked the theme of a resort, and I really liked the theme of this Amanjiwo resorts, hopefully I am given the opportunity to visit this resort.

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Green and Beauty Home with Green Roof of Sod Roof

For those who Scandinavia, Sod roof or roof tuft were common, but for me that is the people of Indonesia, Sod Roof is new. When I blog walking about the building with Sod roof, I really liked this. Many cities in the world is too advanced, so they look very less of green plantation. Many tall buildings, many residents and a lot of pollution but also the cities that seemed to forget how important reforestation. To make the city look green in addition to the city park, should the roofs of buildings and houses using Sod roof.
What Sod roof is?
Sod or turf roof A roof is a traditional Scandinavian type of green roof Covered with Sod on top of layers of birch bark installments on Gently sloping wooden roof boards. Until the late 19th century it was the most common roof on rural log houses in large parts of Scandinavia. Its distribution roughly corresponds to the distribution of the log building technique in the vernacular architecture of Finland and the Scandinavian peninsula.
HISTORY
Scandinavian grass roof may have existed since prehistoric times. At the time of the Vikings victorious and in the Middle Ages, all roofs have been covered by grass. Even the churches - churches and other buildings with a steep roof was closed by a layer of bark and grass roof.
Until the early 19th Century grass roof model , but as the development era, grass roofs gradually being replaced by roof made of clay and ceramics. Currently, traditional Scandinavian home can be found at the Museum Open Norway.

STRUCTURE












Grass roof has several layers. The first layer is a board that serves as the roof of the house and as the foundation soil and grass in the second layer. Layer form of sheets - sheets of birch bark are installed in accordance with the direction of the slope of the roof. Installation of fiber skin itself without using glue or nails. Only the friction of bark and wood boards that resist occurrence of landslides.
Layer above it is the installation of soil. Land that is placed shaped box - a box with dimensions of about 30cm2 and about 7.5 cm thick. Lapisan2 soil was placed above the skin layer birch tree with brick tide position.
The last layer is the planting of grass on the top layer. Grass roots that penetrate the layer - a layer of soil will add strength to bind the soil with grass.
With a thickness of about 15 cm, it is enough to make the soil can survive in the summer.
While for the house structure and the structure of the holder, used pine wood logs. Installation of wooden logs without using glue and nails, but only tied it.




Pictures from my source, one of them of the first pic is
Photo by: Ken Knight

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Design house upside down style

HWhat do you think the house upside down with all the furniture upside down as well? like to defy gravity. It seems interesting but it seems more suitable house be decorated because we can not use the furniture in it but if you have the power to defy gravity like a lizard, then maybe you can make your house upside down. hahaha.

However, a carpenter named Gerhard origin Gettorf, Germany and his colleagues Gesellse Splettstößer and Manfred Kolax merelaisasikan design house upside down with all the furniture was also upside down, crazy idea indeed. They used to put the building together. "This is a challenge for us," Mordhorst said. "You should always be thinking about the mirror image."
Die Welt Steht Kopf (the world is upside down) is an example of building a truly inverted and with the furniture upside down as well. About Die Welt Steht Kopf, it has long been open to the public on 30 March 2010, but I took the theme of the building upside down for my post today, as the unique idea of designing the house upside down I still remember to this day. Because I like to design architecture so there is no harm if a topic long ago I adopted a theme of my post this time.

Well .. this house upside down or "Die Welt Steht Kopf" is definitely not a place to stay, this house is more suited to become one of the rides in the world of fantasy at Ancol (Dufan) for example. Because according to the information it upside down house in great demand by visitors. Houses upside down, we like to live in a world of animation.

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Unique soap design

So far we only know that solid bath soap has a monotone shape, sometimes like elliptical, sometimes beam, sometime rectangular,or sometimes rounded. But look at some unique solid bath soaps design below.






























we do not know the purpose of making soap solid with various and unique shapes, but with other forms such as Aladdin lamps, sushi, money and others would make us happy using solid soap. Provided perfume soap is not annoying or smell the same like the shape. Hahaha .. no fun if we smell like pizza or macaroni , the smell of gunpowder or strange odors all the day just because we are take a bath.

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