Built Environment: How to view the world?

In the context of built environment, the world is formed by many different spaces, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places. Also, it is a place inhabited by human beings and other terrestrial lifes.

There are some -ism which differ from each in the sense of view:

Eurocentrism

Orientalism

Eurocentrism-is the practice of viewing the world from a European perspective, with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of European (and, more generally, of Western) culture. The term Eurocentrism implies criticism of the concerns and values at the expense of non-Europeans and is not used by those who consider it factually justified.

In eurocentrism:

-Making Europe and North America appear disproportionately large compared to similar sized areas closer to the equator in the world map

-study of Greek classic literature

-As a direct consequence of the "European miracle" and the colonial empires, languages of Europe are over-represented among the current world languages

Orientalism-Orientalism refers to the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists, and can also refer to a sympathetic stance towards the region by a writer or other person.

A central idea of Edward Said is that Western knowledge about the East is not generated from facts, but through imagined constructs that see all "Eastern" societies as fundamentally similar, all sharing crucial characteristics unlike those of "Western" societies, thus, this ‘a priori’ knowledge established the East as antithetical to the West. Such Eastern knowledge is constructed with literary texts and historical records that often are of limited understanding of the facts of life in the Middle East.

Built Environment: The Great Dome Spine

The dome spine can be refered to the whole mass structure, formed by each dome established on the field. It connects and links from one to another.

The scales:

A strut - the basic form of the structure.

A triangle - formed by struts.

A dome - constructed by linking each triangle.

A dome spine - the view that can be obtain from bird eye's view.

From the view from the top, the Dome Spine is a long structure formed by small nodes (Dome structure). Each dome are created by each team, according to the requirements.

In thr process of Dome Spine, we require:

-workers =>actor

the planner (Wan Burhanuddin bin Wan Abidin's),aids of student.

-selected site =>site

the field and land provided,specifically plotting the dome according to number.

-do s and don't s =>rules

the yes and no which determine and illustrate how to establish the dome spine project

-workmanship =>act

all parties involve work together and play their roles well.

-idea =>intension

idea of creation the dome spine

Hence, with the aid of the requirement, everyone involved has accomplish their task by setting up the domes on the selected site according to the group number. The product is the dome itself, and the large scale production was the Dome Spine.

Struct-Object

Form into a space with triangle-Interior

The space enclosure is covered, forming the dome structure-building

The whole structure is merged and surrounded by trees-premise

the whole area including landscape and linking of Domes-urban

the bird eye's view, Dome spine-region

Global? What about using satelte and view from the top? From the top we can only see a dot. The dome spine is not as big as Great Wall of China, hence from global view, we are hardly to figure out the exact location of Dome Spine.

With the help of this project, we can vividly determine the significant of each element, and how to relate from one element to another. Apparently, the scale of the production is shown from a micro view to the largest view.