Aniq Anas_2016-2018

/ANIQ ANAS 2016 - 2018

i. Rukun iv. Cambodia

ii. Embara v. Indonesia

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iii. Vietnam vi. Hong Kong

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03 /Acknowledgement 05 /Rukun Design Thesis TN50 Cognitive Forum 21 /Embara Urban Studies Saigon’s Youth Arcadia 37 /Vietnam Pure White of Lilies 43 /Cambodia The Jungle Temples 49 /Indonesia Dirgahayu 59 /Hong Kong The Fragrant Harbour

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Thoughts and care of many people has been woven into this portfolio. Their contributions whether realising or not - have greatly influenced my life experiences and growth.

I wish to express my gratitude to my thesis advisor, Dr. Zaharah Yahya for her patience, continuous motivation, critical remarks and for assessing my works. To my studio leader, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ar. Norhati Ibrahim. Thank you for your guidance, your love, your healthy skepticism, and your creative brainstroming sessions. Assoc. Prof. Syed Sobri Zubir for his clear and illuminating thoughts, whose insight and knowledge on the traditions of architecture has inspired me to dwell into this rubric of architectural discourse.

I am also indebted to my close friends and companions in every part of my intellectual pursuit in architecture. Thank you for keeping me afloat with your steadfast encouragement and witty conversations throughout the period that I take to complete these projects.

Among these acknowledgements, I must acknowledge my own inadequacy. My association with the great souls I have encountered all over completing these projects is a stroke of luck and a favour that I in no way deserve. Lastly, a sincere thanks to my parents, Khadijah Yusoff and Anas Hasan, and my sister Atiqah Anas for their prayers, moral support and patience throughout.

Sincerely,

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Rukun: TN50 Cognitive Forum Design Thesis- Master of Architecture

Typology Forum Site setting Jalan Duta, Kuala Lmpur Thesis statement To establish a national development initiative framework that portrays the spirit of Malaysian identity based on Islamic Worldview.

Major themes in Islamic worldview: - The Nature of God - The Nature of Revelation - The Nature of Values and Virtues - The Concept of Creation - The Concept of Knowledge - The Concept of Man and Human soul - The Concept of Religion - The Concept of Happiness - The Concept of Education and Ta’dib - The Notion of Change, Development and Progress Aim To design a facility to accommodate Malaysians together in articulating their aspirations on themes such as climate change, urban narrative, healthcare, technological advancement and many others into the framework of TN50 agenda.

The work rukun here refers not only to the essence of Rukun Negara (virtues and values), but also The Concept of Creation based on Islamic Worldview as thoroughly exlpained by Professor Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas in his book, Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Islam.

In arabic, the meaning of the word rukun is very much associated with the word arkan referring to fundamentals, pillars, tenets, principals, and basics of every single sciences that sets the foundation from which any faculty of knowledge to flourish.

Art and architecture played a role in expressions of Malaya’s nascent independent state in 1957, but the determination of what Malaya meant, ideologically, was different to different groups. Two types of nationalism were at work, namely that led by ethnic Malay leaders and political parties, and that led by a more ethnically-inclusive set of leaders and groups.

This manifesto explore the idea of how to built a forum in the spirit of Transformasi Nasional 2050, or commonly known as TN50 agenda.

An institute which represent a form of nation that is multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious. A national architecture.

Now, based on The Concept of Creation, space is one of the most explicit symbols of Being. It is primordial, and, in the cosmology of Islam, the “locus” of the Universal Soul. Say, program is the physical principle then space is the metaphysical principle of built environment. Once the qualitative aspects of space is understood clearly, their quantitative uses follow directly. This concept - that space, not shape, should lead in the generation of architectonic forms is central to the exploration of spatial hybridisation.

The core programs of this building is tri-fold: intellectual discourse in the form of forum, gathering of people for knowledge sharing as well as research works. These core programs are derive based on the needs of target users namely scholars, bureaucrats, professionals and the youth.

The hybridisation of these core programs will dictate the quality of space inasmuch the building form. These core programs will be supported by a collection of sub-spaces like pockets of discussion area, marketplace, exhibition area, classes, workshops, public concourse, among others.

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R1- Sketch Proposal: Initial sketches to develop spatial understanding, form and dimensions. R2- TN50: Grpahics and images from Transofrmasi Nasional 2050 agenda in 2017.

What is TN50?

TN50, or Transformasi Nasional 2050, is a national development initiative spanning the years 2020 to 2050. This initiative will be driven by clear 30-year goals and targets, which are being developed via a consultative process in the preparatory phase from 2017 to 2019.

The goals and targets will be outlined in a TN50 policy document to be published in early 2020.

Why do we need TN50?

The process of discussing, planning and articulating TN50 is critical to ensure that the nation is prepared for the future beyond 2020. The world around us has changed tremendously since the first vision-setting exercise, Vision 2020. We need to ensure our country continues to advance beyond this milestone, particularly in the face of new long-term megatrends.

Is TN50 replacing Vision 2020?

Not at all. Vision 2020 still guides policy aims today and the year 2020 is still a symbolic milestone. TN50 is part of the same continuum in Malaysia’s development journey, taking the baton from Vision 2020.

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R3- Sectional Perspective: Cut section through the forum and ancillary block of Rukun.

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R4- Tree of Governance: Al-Ghazali’s principles of leadership and governance had 10 roots and 10 brances based on his book, “Counsel for Kings”. R5- 1Malaysia Tree: Adapted from Professor Dr Wan Mohd Nor, in his book “Knowledge Culture and the Concept of 1Malaysia”, three elements namely, the Constitution, acceptance and social justice - together with the Rukun Negara - make up the core of unity within the conept of 1Malaysia. R6- TN50 Tree of Architecture: Semantic model of author’s thesis statement based on Al-Ghazali’s Tree of Governance and Prof. Wan Mohd Nor’s 1Malaysia Tree.

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involvement structure

ecology harmony

beauty material function

tectonic

scale

solid/void

core programs

atmosphere

culture geneology of ideas

space

user conciousness

spatial temporal

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R7- Ground Floor Plan. R8- First Floor Plan.

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R9- Site Apprehension: Graphical representation of site data and site section. R10- Sectional Perspective: Cut section of building model through forum, ancillary block and public concourse. R11- Interior Perspective: 3D illustration of forum. R12- Approach: 3D illustration of building model from pedestrian walkway entrance.

parcel: 1.89 ha 4.67 ac 18,915 m2

set-back: 6,230 m2 12m- road reserve 6m- perimeter planting + setback

plot ratio: 1:6 plinth area (60%): 11,349 m2 45 m

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access: Jalan Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah private

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KL Metropolis

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R13- Cross Section A-A. R14- Cross Section C-C. R15- Exploded Axonometric: 3D illustration of building services and components.

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R16- South Elevation.

glass fibre-reinforced concrete GFRC is a cement-based composite material reinforced with alkali-resistant fibres.

GFRC is approximately 80% lighter than pre-cast steel reinforced concrete cladding, it offers greater versatility due to its superior compressive strength and most importantly its flexural properties.

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shanghai plaster A type of surface treatmentshanghai plaster- according to Bomanite Malaysia, is an exposed aggregate (sand, gravel, crushed stone, etc.) system that uses traditional natural pebbles and marble chippings.

In other words, this type of plaster is like chunky peanut butter, with lots of hard bits in it.

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Embara: Saigon’s Youth Arcadia Urban Studies- Master of Architecture

Typology Urban studies Site setting Saigon, Vietnam Design statement Embara is a classical Malay word for wayfaring. Embara is an approach to reconstruct the relationship of the city and the human subject.

As a concept, wayfaring is used as a strategy to enhance the user experience in both solids and voids, public and private spaces. The two main street that runs parallel in the site will act as ‘eureka’ on the ground level, sprawling out its energy horizontally and vertically throughout the urban blocks.

Wayfarer are practitioners of the city, for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the wayfarer invents other ways to go.

Gentrification and segregation are the two most polemic terms in urban discourse today. In a climate shaped by rapid globalisation and multinational corporations, widespread sameness is evident in any cosmopolitan hub. Conversely, each city has its own local, vernacular traditions.

Considered to be the heart of Saigon, District 1 is the centre for all financial, commercial and administrative activity. Although it is still Vietnamese in character, this district has felt the effects of secularisation and modernisation most heavily. In order to confront the challenge of wider cultural amalgamation, the need to reform urban typologies for living, knowledge sharing, and profit making is paramount.

Drawing ideas from hypothetical theories and cultural imperative of the scene, new strategies will be introduced to embrace the relationship of the human subject and urban environment. Embara is an attempt to articulate a sound and measure response through urban acupuncture. The mechanism which centres at building connection includes sequence of events that will become a catalyst to a chain of reaction in rejuvenating Saigon through new contextualisation of programs, targeted at the most critical group of citizens in the country, the youth.

This theoretical city seek to promote interaction amongst stranger.

Stranger interaction is the wilful engagement between people who have no previous relationship. This act of spontaneity can have significant effects by interrupting the expected narratives of daily life, shifting perspective, and forming unexpected connections.

This unexpected connections or “urban spontaneity” refers to the importance of occasionally engaging in unpredictable events in our cities, as opposed to moving through them with expected, predictable patterns of behaviour. The element of surprise is an important one in discovering new ways of seeing our streets.

Impromptu conversations with strangers and unplanned behaviours in our everyday lives play an important role in our sense of ownership of our own streets and help promote a healthy connection to our sense of freedom and expression in public space.

In an age of accelerating change, cities are the new nations. Yet our definition of urbanity is steeped in certain tropes that do not support the full range of informal urban activity. This study is nothing more than a humble attempt to draws on theory but focused on real-world problem in search of authentic future living.

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E1- Site Periphery: Massing study of surrounding objects.

E2- Site Setting: District 1- downtown Saigon.

Lies in the centre of Saigon, the proposed urban footprint perimeter belongs to District 1 which is regarded as an animated central urban district with highest living standards of the city in every aspect.

Covering up to 24 acre, the site house two streets with the highest prices of land using right in this biggest city of Vietnam namely Nguyen Hue Boulevard and Dong Khoi Street.

Being the primary commercial centre in Saigon, one can easily find multi-storey buildings, luxuriant trade centres, coffee stores and international retail outlets within the site periphery.

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E3- Urban Morphology: Genealogy of Saigon.

KHMER EMPIRE < 17 CENTURY TH

Early record shows that the settlement later to became Ho Chi Minh City was a small port town originally part of the kindgdom of Cambodia known as Prey Nokor.

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NGUYEN DYNASTY 1802

FRENCH COLONIAL 1859

Ruled over by the Nguyen Dynasty.

The emperors and their associates used Chinese-style government leadership, the influence of Confucianism in education, Chinese chatacters in their writing along with the traditional Chinese pagoda.

Saigon was the capital of the French Colony of Chocin-China until 1945.

Attempts to rid the city of evidence left behind from French Colonial can be seen in the changes of street names, but affirmation of this period is still seen in some of the more elaborated architecture around the city.

VIETNAM WAR 1955-1975

SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM 1976

DOI MOI 1986

Saigon came under contro of the Vietnamese People’s Army when the conclusion of the Vietnam War happened on 30th April 1975. This historical event is called ‘The Fall of Sigon’ while the communist Social Republic of Vietnam refer to it as ‘The Liberation of Saigon’.

Upon the establishmen of the unified communist Social Republic of Vietnam, the city of Saigon (including Cholon), the province of Gia Dinh and two suburban districts of two other nearby provinces were combined to create Ho Chi Minh City in honour of the late communist leader, Uncle Ho.

The government policy ‘doi moi’ was introduced which saw the open up of local businesses over ten years after the end of the war. This has been the catalyst for the current day Ho Chi Minh City’s rapidly growing economy. Local are able to run their own business, which propelled growth.

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E4- Connectography: Theory 1- Thanks to global transportation, communications, and energy infrastructure— highways, railways, airports, pipelines, electricity grids, Internet cables, and more—the future has a new maxim: Connectivity is destiny. E5- Sonder: Theory 2- A neologism.

The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness.

E6- The City of God: Theory 3- To be a resident of the city was to have a place in man’s true home, the great cosmos itself.

building connections ‘chance encounters’ corners = centripetal space Hackerspace ViewCube Micro-installations

Dong Khoi St.

Nguyen Hue Blvd.

egg coffee

Nguyen Hue Blvd.

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human subject stranger interaction nature by numbers

‘gossip stations’

‘divine proportion’

collective memory = reducing social distance

set patterns = needs + variations

Hackerspace ViewCube Micro-installations

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E7- Parcel 2: Potential existing blok for urban acupuncture.

E8- Parcel 1: Potential existing blok for urban acupuncture.

E9- Morphology of Concept: Application and integration of three theoriesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Connectography, Sonder, The City of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as urban acupunture mechanism on Parcel 1.

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E10- Experimentations: Floating typologies, activities and variablesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; arcadia, hackerspace, viewcube and microinstallations.

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basic housing unit

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embracing people-watching culture

disengagement of solid + void

modular housing scheme

makeshift gossip station

inclusive gossip station

building connections

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food carts: modular design

chair bombing: urban

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E11- Urban System: Arcadia, hackerspace, viewcube and micro-installations. E12- City Manifesto: A theoretical cityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; wayfaring.

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wayfarer

contemporary city: city of the eye

haptic city: city of interiority + nearness

peripatetic

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E13- God’s View: 3D illustration of theoretical city— embara.

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Pure White of Lilies Vietnam

Location Saigon, Hanoi, HaLong Bay Date April 2016 Travel period 8D 7N Text Hafez- The nightingales are drunk.

Of all the roses in the world

A rosy face... is quite enough for me; Beneath this swaying cypress tree

A shady place... is quite enough for me.

May hypocrites find somewhere else

To cant and prate Of all this weighty world, a full

Wine-glass’s weight... is quite enough for me.

They hand out heaven for good deeds!

The monastery Where Magians live is better for

A sot like me... that’s quite enough for me.

Sit by this stream and watch as life

Flows swiftly on This emblem of the world that’s all

Too quickly gone... is quite enough for me.

See how the world’s bazaar pays cash,

See the world’s pain And if you’re not content with this

World’s loss and gain... they’re quite enough for me.

My friend is here with me - what more

Should I desire?

The riches of our talk are all

That I require... they’re quite enough for me.

Don’t send me from your door, O God,

To paradise For me, to wait here at Your street’s

End will suffice... that’s quite enough for me.

Hafez, don’t rail against your fate!

Your nature flows, As does your verse, like water as

It comes and goes... that’s quite enough for me. /Hafez, of all the roses in the world

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V1- Hanoi: Long Bien Bridge iron beams. V2- Saigon: City Hall as seen from Nguyen Hue Boulevard. V3- Saigon: Nguyen Hue Boulevard- night scene.

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V4- Hanoi: Built in 1899-1902 by Dayde & Pille of Paris, at 1.68km in length across the Red River, the Long Bien Bridge was one of the longest bridge in Asia. V5- Hanoi: En route from Noi Bai International Airport to Hanoi city centre. V6- Hanoi: The Red Bridge at Hoan Kiem lake- old quarter.

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V7_V9- HaLong Bay: Designated a World Heritage Site in 1994, towering limestone pillars and tiny islets topped by forest rise from the emerald waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.

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The Jungle Temples Cambodia

Location Siem Reap Date August 2016 Travel period 5D 4N Text T.S. Eliot- The Waste Land and other poems.

Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gift and that manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?

Because I do not hope to know again The infirm glory of the positive hour Because I do not think Because I know I shall not know The one veritable transitory power Because I cannot drink There, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there is nothing again Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place And what is actual is actual only for one time And only for one place I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessed face And renounce the voice Because I cannot hope to turn again Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something Upon which to rejoice And pray to God to have mercy upon us And I pray that I may forget These matters that with myself I too much discuss Too much explain Because I do not hope to turn again Let these words answer For what is done, not to be done again May the judgement not be too heavy upon us Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. /T.S. Eliot, Ash-Wednesday

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K1- Bapuon: State temple of Yasodharapura in the 11th Century. K2_K4- Angkor Wat: The worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest religious monument. The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;city (which became a) pagoda, was not only the grandest and most sublime of all the Khmer temples, but also a city in its own right. Built during the reign of Suryavarman II, in the first half of the 12th Century, both as the capital and the State Temple dedicated to Vishnu.

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K5_K6- Bayon: The complex of face towers. It uses, uniquely, a mass of face-towers to create a stone mountain of ascending peaks. Most are carved with four faces on each cardinal point but sometimes there are only three or even just two.

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K7_K9- Ta Prohm: Strangler figs and silk-cotton trees entwined among ruins. Left in its ‘natural state’, as an example of how most of Angkor looked on its discovery in the 19th Century. Partly overgrown and gently declining. K10_K11- Ta Keo: A giant ‘temple-mountain’, Ta Keo stands out for being the first of these great undertakings to be built entirely of sandstone.

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Dirgahayu Java, Indonesia

Location Jakarta, Bandung, Solo, Yogyakarta, Bromo, Surabaya Date August 2016 Travel period 15D 15N Text Italo Calvino- Invisible Cities.

[...] Marco enters a city; he sees someone in a square living a life or an instant that could be his; he could now be in that man’s place, if he had stopped in time, long ago; or if, long ago, at a crossroads, instead of taking one road he had taken the opposite one, and after long wandering he had come to be in the place of that man in that square.

By now, from that real or hypothetical past of his, he is excluded; he cannot stop; he must go on to another city, where another of his pasts awaits him, or something perhaps that had been a possible future of his and is now someone else’s present. Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

“Journeys to relieve your past?” was the Khan’s question at this point. A question which could also have been formulated: “Journey to recover your future?”

And Marco’s answer was: “Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.” /Italo Calvino, 2— Cities & Memory

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D1_D3- Jakarta: Masjid Istiqlal (Independence Mosque) is the largest mosque in Southeast Asia and the third largest sunni mosque in term of capacity. Took 17 years to built, and can accommodate up to 120,000 congregation at one time.

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D4- Bandung: Located about 40km south of Bandung, Kawah Putih is a sizeable highly acid lake (pH 0.5-1.3) which changes colour from bluish to whitish green, or brown, depending on the concentration of sulfur and the temperature or the oxidation state. D5- Bandung: Typical view of alley around Bandung neighbourhood. The national flag of Indonesia is called ‘Sang Saka Merah-Putih’ (the sacred red and white) and was unveiled on Indonesia’s national day, August 17, 1945.

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D6_D7- Yogyakarta: View of Masjid Bawah Tanah and ruins near Taman Sari Water Castle, Kraton. D8- Solo: Pasar Gede.

The biggest traditional market in Solo. D9- Prambanan: World Heritageâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;listed Prambanan is Indonesiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest Hindu site.

The highlight is its central compound, where its eight main and eight minor temples rise up majestically like ornate 9th Century skyscrapers.

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D10- Sunrise, Punthuk Setumbu: The sun rise slowly from the east and showered Borobudur temple with ray of light.

D11- Water Castle, Kraton: The Segaran (artificial sea) lake area was the main complex of the Taman Sari during its era.

D12- Masjid Gedhe Kauman, Yogyakarta: Built in a typical religious Javanese architecture with its triple-tiered roof, lack of minaret, and a serambi.

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D13- Borobudur: The worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest Buddhist temple.

Built from two million stone blocks in the form of a massive symmetrical stupa, literally wrapped around a small hill.

Standing on a 118m by 118m base, its six square terraces are topped by three circular ones, with four stairways leading up through carved gateways to the top. D14- Prambanan: The high structures are typical of Hindu architecture, and the plan of the temple complex is a Mandala, as is Borobudur. As a symbol of the Hindu cosmos, the temple is vertically divided into three parts, both vertically and in plan. The three part is divided into Jaba/Bhurloka, Tengahan/Bhuvarloka, and Njeron/Svarloka.

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D15_D17- Mount Bromo: A lunarlike landscape of epic proportions and surreal beauty, the volcanic Bromo region is one of Indonesiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most breathtaking sights.

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The Fragrant Harbour Hong Kong

Location Hong Kong Island Date February 2017 Travel period 5D 4N Text Robert Frost- Fire and Ice.

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice Is also great

And would suffice. /Robert Frost, Fire and Ice

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H1- Hong Kong Cultural Centre: A multipurpose performance facility in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. Adjacent to the centre on the west is Tsim Sha Tsui Ferry Pier of the Star Ferry, while to the east are the Hong Kong Space Museum and Hong Kong Museum of Art. H2- Victoria Harbour: One of the most sought-after skyline in the world. H3- Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Detailsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; exterior. H4_H5- Jockey Club Innovation Tower: Home to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) School of Design, and the Jockey Club Design Institue for Social Innovation. Dissolves the typical typology of the tower/ podium into a more fluid composition.

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H6- Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank: In the congested centre of Hong Kong, the bank unfurls from the sky, like a mechanised Jacobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ladder, and touches the ground. H7- Victoria Peak: With an elevation of 552 m (1,811 ft), it is the highest point on Hong Kong island. H8- Bank of China Tower: Comprised of four vertical shafts, the tower emerges incrementally from a 52-meter cube and diminishes in mass, quadrant by quadrant, until a single triangular prism remains.

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