14TH OF 2012

Just to reach the 14th post of 2012. 

GEAR UP

Gear up.  Machines oiled. Verbs and adjectives reused for toil. 

UNCERTAINTY THE DRIVER

The world, one uncertain world.  Uncompromising and misunderstood.  Keeping you there.  You're always there and these words are empty just like you. These words stands to reason you remain while them people leave you behind.  Happy you are, new one has arrived.  Born.

NATURE AND TRASH

I'm stuck to thinking about Architecture almost very minute of everyday the past few days.  I've been forming things inside my head on almost everything around. Function follows form, right? Let's try that.. wonder how it would look to form structures that look like a chipped, dirty cup, leaning stacked soup bowls, distorted forks, broken plates, bent metals, screws and nails, squeezed lemons, dusty books , crawling vines,  stored beer bottles and oddly, unmade bed. Unfolded blankets, soaps,  shaped whiskey bottles, brown, dried leaves,. Or thrown broken ceramic tiles, discarded boxes, empty plastic bottles and containers stones, cigarette butts and ashes.

Anything that's left standing nearby, on the garbage, near the doorway, the kitchen or the pavement.  It happens when I'm in bed , inside the toilet, and anywhere.  What else?/ Is it good to form buildings that look like rusting cans, leaves, flying cellophanes , spinning electric fan propellers, dead ants, stinking rats, ropes, sagging clotheslines, rolling bolts, dry and hard used paint brushes, pesky insects, hard dried spilled latex paint, egg trays, crumpled papers, fish head bones,  cut up tree branches.

Its like living on a not to scale environment..You'd never have to mold 'em. They're what they are.  You'll just have to pick them up.  Put it on your empty drafting table, take pictures of it and hope to see a different useful view or perspective. See the front, rear, right and left side elevations. top , bottom, x, y, and z coordinates...whatever dimensions...Then and think of the insides later on.

Next thing you know, you can just point it out to yourself or to the draftsman, "That's how I want my building should look like!"  ...and he could reply "Oh, a white spiral dung! Cool!.."  Put windows, doors, rooms and all...we'd call it The White Spiral"..what's the big deal?, it's just a non-functional form. at least for now.

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE PHILIPPINES

It's easy to get lost in the internet.  I was reading and searching on through this online world for videos, audio and books about Philippine Architecture.  More than three years of endless search for its substance, its evolution and progress.  I learned so much and willing to see much more.  I found out that there are only four people honored, ranked and proclaimed as "National Artist of the Philippines" by the President of the Philippines for its significant contribution in the field of Architecture.  They were Pablo Antonio, Juan Nakpil, Leandro Locsin and Landscape Architect, Ildefonso Santos.  In relation to this, I'd like to share a videographic that I was able to compile about a PUP Architecture Student's Project: "Filipino Architect", featuring the best Filipino Architects. I merged the videos I found and stemmed them into one.  I don't know if that blog would churn about this but I am acknowledging this project as theirs of course.  Just sharing what they shared so other people could see something they might have overlooked about Philippine Architecture.  And lastly, I am sharing this solely for posterity and educational purposes.  The video shows in pictures the History of Philippine Architecture and its pillars.  A project of two students from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Along with it comes the "Unwritten History of Philippine Architecture" project video submitted by Christine Antonio to Sir Antonio de Vera. These videos were clearly made as school projects. These students must be Architects themselves nowadays.  The video features Architects Juan Nakpil, Leandro Locsin. Pablo Antonio, Francisco Mañosa, Felino Palafox.

Featured Architects and their Outstanding Works

The Pearl of The Orient - Featured Architects and Influence from ryex76 on Vimeo.

PROVINCIAL CAPITOLS OF THE PHILIPPINES

I did wonder how many Provincial Capitols we have in our country the Philippines.  To know that, one has to know the number of provinces we have. Thus, matching that capitol to their corresponding province is a good place to start.  I discovered that there are eighty (80) provinces at present which is further subdivided into cities and municipalities.  Provinces are each led by an elected governor who is in charge on the local government.  I tried to put in images for each capitol.  This could somehow reflect every province's architecture for representation.  I've never been to a lot of these provinces but it's good to see and know.  I can say I've been to only five of these provinces.  These provinces, probinsiyas in Filipino are all over the Philippine islands. Let us see our country's provinces, their capitals, their architecture reflected by their capitols.  If we can't get there then we might as well use the net to at least see these structures.  

THE PDF LINK

THE BRAIN DRAIN

This is about the floor drain problem, the lavatory problem, and the toilet fixture set we bought from the hardware bargain store.   It cost my mother around two thousand eight hundred pesos for that toilet set.  Considering the amount which is of course cheaper than the usual cost, the quality of which remains to be seen after installation.  The toilet set (Aviva) included a push button flush water closet with cover, a small ordinary lavatory, a small soap holder, and the paper holder.  It also included the corresponding p-trap and accessories.  

LOGO ANIMATION DESIGN BY AURORA 3D

Another exercise to fill this void.  this time I am trying to make my own animated logo ID.  Just like before every other video media, TV show, Pixar, Movies and others, you'd notice an animation logo or description for identification.  Maybe for copyright purposes or what, this is useful and enlightening for every viewer.  This should bring into focus those responsible for the project.  Even for just one word or just a logo, the viewer should have the feeling of welcome and comfort for every animation provided.  Just for first impression, and first impression they say is everything. 

RACE PLAY BY GTA

For my pastime, I always LOVE this race. So many cars and transport I used in the past few months.  There's a number of whom I could grab any moment I wish. A few of them were quite flashy.  And a number are actually utility vehicles.  I usually roam around the city using the Blista Compact or the Deluxo.  I use them so I could survey or just see the buildings around the city.  I usually park my car anywhere I want with no traffic constraints.  I can even use the police car and the firetruck to complete certain missions. I also had this neat and decent one which I used when I was working as an FBI agent on my spare time. There were times when I drive so fast that I ran over people especially the gang members who tend to hang out the streets.  Yes, this game is losing its value, should be moving on for the IVth, but it still is fun. Check out my race time record. 

LOGO DESIGN BY AUTOCAD

If you're an architectural designer, an Autocadd operator, or a draftsman, chances are you are exposed to AutoCAD most of the time. And because most of what you draft is done through this software, it is reasonable to say that to design a logo with it would come as twisted or inappropriate for lack of a word.  Most logos are preferably done best by graphic artists through CorelDraw or Aurora 3D at least for what I have observed within the design circles of fine arts majors, advertisers and graphic designers.

LOGO DESIGN BY PHOTOSHOP

For this first post, this exercise will show you folks how this unofficial blogsite logo was made. This is the preliminary logo K-Warp logo design.  This output could be used further as a favicon, icon or just plainly as a profile picture. We will use Photoshop for this design.  This only took a few minutes, easy and simple. 

KLAREX!

KLAREX BABY!

ARKITEKTURA WARA-WARA

Bad Architecture is found anywhere. On my own vicinity, my street, my own city, on my own country.  They persist.  But  there are those that unreasonably go from bad, to worse and the worst.  Many of which were done in haste and is gone to waste and into oblivion. Buildings built that just could not last.  Some of which were not really planned to withstand uncontrolled factors.

AMAZING FEAT - 30 STOREY BUILDING IN 15 DAYS

You should see it for yourself. Just when you think that it's more efficient to take it slow, this Chinese Building Company proved that Prefabricated modular buildings have many advantages over conventional buildings.  Savings on labor cost over cost of materials: where the Chinese are widely known for their labor force, now they're showing the world how it should be done pragmatically. I could describe their process of construction as "quickly but surely".