THE ONE POINT SIX ONE EIGHT

There is this thing called the 1.618 ratio or called the divine proportion.  I only discovered this when I read the The Da Vinci Code.  I was just reading the book out of curiosity.  Because the book was so famous and all.  There was even this thing called the harmonic proportion. 1:2:3:4:5:6. . . and so on.  But recently I just found out that the 1.618 ratio was also called the Golden Ratio.The golden ratio is such described to be an irrational mathematical constant. It was believed that in the Renaissance period, many artists and architects have proportioned their works to approximate the golden ratio.  It is understood then that proportions as golden as this were derived from nature.  It means that this proportions are everywhere especially the flowers.  The truth is; I yet have to study the formulas, the codes more closely.  I can only recall the quadratic equation or the formula.  Who knows I might use this "Golden Ratio" someday.

MANUAL DRAFTING AND THE AUTOCAD MONKEYS

I still have some of my drafting materials since school.  I know almost everybody on the profession is now doing Autocad and all the new software that go along with it, it still seems to feel good to do drawings manually.  I feel sorry for some architecture students who were not trained to do manual drafting.  But I'm sure they were taught in school the way we were. 

NEW CLEAR POWER PLANT

A few months ago I was having ideas straight from somewhere inspiring me to form structures out of the things I see in and out of our house.  I managed to form something they call in architecture as modeling.  That time I would or should not call it scale modeling because I was not measuring every bit of the small structure I was modeling.  The first structure I saw and formed was made to look like a skyscraper.  You'd think It's crazy for I just happened to saw this stack of compact disks which were inside this plastic container.  It would seem to be structurally sound for it had this rod at the center where to put the disk's hole.  The rod really gives the structure the right  foundation for the compact disk skyscraper.

CAMERA

These are ever challenging times.  Architecture abroad seem to be so monstrous that one designer tend to mix or confuse its function to produce the form.  For as long as the building is erected with all the needed details abiding from the drafted plans, then its all good. There is no denying that some projects are subject to scrutiny and criticism especially from the professional world.  Some even are up to the task of making formal complaints to every building that that does not conform with the rules and standards setup by the authorities of the profession.  They would incessantly criticize every work that isn't done by some designer that they haven't heard of.  If some anonymous designer sprung out from nowhere and is found out, immediate actions should be taken so it wont happen again.  So what is your stand?

THE DRAFTING MAN

If we define the word through Google, we'd find out that the draftsman's nature of work is to translate a designer's ideas into a finished picture using drawing and drafting skills. So it doesn't necessarily mean that the draftsman would be the designer too. All the while an architect or a designer tend to give the draftsman the job of having his designs presentable. This means that a draftsman would have to do the drawings with the designer's approval or edits. So the designer would have to be the concept maker and the prime mover and thinker. In short, Draftsmen are individuals whose primary function is to provide technical support to the designers and engineers who work in construction.

A FLOOR SCHEME

This was done a few weeks ago.  It's for a friend who entrusted me to design a house for him.  He told me I should decide how it would look.  The house should represent him, he said.  I asked him how many floors and asked about the lot area.  He wanted the house to have two floors with an attic.  And I was just surprised.  An attic would be a great add-on. As then he told me no money would be involved at first.   And a commission to design for a friend just feels good.    The money always comes out later soon as the design progresses to be seriously feasible, and workable.  But could I do it?

INSIDE THIS DOT-COM GILDED CAGE

I am overwhelmed by the increasing magnetism that this dot-com gilded age brings.  And I hope that something really fruitful would come out of this.  It almost seems to look like a struggle having to keep abreast with what this Dot-Com Gilded age has in store for everyone.  From here around Davao, social networking sites seem to have made changes on people relations.  Some have made it a point to face the screen every moment of everyday. For who knows? Another marvelous thing might come up.