Structural Integrity

The Nesting Doll

To started off, Structural intergrity play an important part whenever building was built. Generally, to ensure the building stand and prevent it from falling apart.

Later that, the studio program introduce to propose a craft museum in between the National Art Gallery of Malaysia and Malaysia ‘s Heritage Centre...that lead me a question that goes : “if the ‘two of them’ is there will ‘Generally’ enough ?” ; and the awnser is : “Generally was NEVER enough.” and then agian it leads another question that goes : “so structure intergrity is about prevent things falling down beside that ,can be more?” that’s where we began to reveal the layer of the Nesting doll.

Theoretically, for me understanding something is about breaking down things and find out what is inside of it. To design, i need to understand the core “Because emphathy, is the foundation of design” - Iise Crawford.

Research by Yong Woon Kang

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What structure / build our building?

Concrete: overall casted badly ; honeycomb and crack

brickwork: Not aglined; often cover by thick plaster & paint

Timberwork: overall good; worker originate from boat maker

Welding work: overall good; well trained worker

Overall context of Malaysia

Long story short, we live in a comfortable and violent zone. we did’nt have natural desaster like earthquick, typhoon ; we just have alot of rain, twice a year and a lot of sunshine.

Combination of rain and sunshine together, resulting a tremendous rate of growing and decay. Thing grow fast and decay fast.

Malaysia’s way of built

The Ecology, menifest itself on man-made thing together with grow and decay condition which give birth to Malaysia’s way we build

One of my theory on world, is everything/stuff/system that are divide to official and non-official, and I found out that the official system,Generally, we need certain degree of “official” in order to recognize it as a official system and overall are made up of these catogory :

1. The way we we “wrap” our building architecturelly, we contain our building from ceiling ,glass window, or space in building: it’s all about stopping air movement.

2. The way we maintain/keep it clean. To maintain,cleaning works from day to day, time to time

3. The way we design it - outlook/form After awhile, it does’nt matter whether you know, what that official system for:- you just follow/copy anyhow.

Where non-official system is normally thought as it’s a failure of official system; things like: the judiciary get corrupted,we think that’s non-official system, when barbed wire place around our building we thought is a non-official system, which is not.

Because non-official system are everything not officially example: is like, the first thing you do when you wake up,you’re looking at the side of your bed, side window instead of your feet.

They are actually 2 totally different thing and to kick start is: whenever a new things came out to trend,by intentionlly or evolution,is because,things happen to non-official system that result by context ask a question of non-official system then it become official.

Non-official system + context

In architecture, I manage to find out that combination result in few ways

1.The way we “frame’ our buiding .

Summerize, as and idea of traditional malay house; is all about air movement.open, unwrap, frame.

2.The way we maintain/trim our plant.

Is never just how we make our building,but what grows on them and add asthetics of the building instead of take away from it.

3.the way we respond to context.

It’s something to do with : the location of valve and shower, why traditional malay house sit on stilt, platform made by wooden plank..