mentality vs possibility

Architecture today is moving towards into futuristic and modern design. creativity and innovative design always not to be forgotten, yet becomes the key factors in exploring technology to be applied in design. therefore, architecture and technology cannot be separated. as the time goes by, the technology also had been improved and as everyone hope, it will make things easier and possible.

i hope im not talking nonsense here. the story was guided btw. in line with it, i want to share some of the reality in building construction and architecture history.

one of the subject taken in this semester was complex construction. talks about complexity. what is it btw?

in simple words, complexity means difficulties.
taking example of some futuristic with impossible-shape building which you hv seen and if you think it was difficult to build, then it means it was a complex building. impossible and difficult to build. yes, i think the example is simple and easy to understand.

therefore, the subject outlines will enable us in thinking creatively and able to break the 'ordinary' in recent construction.

history is interesting. lets make it simple, so lets learn it in timeline.

before 1957 - back in the World War II, most of the building was concrete structure.

1981 - steel arose in building industry in Malaysia, and its called Perwaja.

2000 - CIDB (Construction Industry Development Board) was organized. one of their intention is promoting IBS related to module. however, French module 600 had been introduced early in 1981 (20 years back) in oversea. the module is division of 600 or multiple 600 - meaning to say its size can fixed into any building and design. yes, ppl outsides Malaysia had been exposed with it before us.

2010 - it is time to introduced to Malaysia about parametric construction

i think we're not so yesterday. they outsiders hv set some kind of the country context complexity - meaning which they provides context to growth - at the same time injects their people's mentality towards complexity matters. compared to us, we need time to set some standards in our design in order to achieve Malaysian context complexity too.

yes, maybe we're abit late, but newborn takes time to grow. isnt it?

i personally think that this subject is a kickstart to make experiment on predicting whats the future will look alike. we, students, will be somebody one day. so we're trained here to keep experimenting and inventing innovative ideas. in future, hopefully it will helps Malaysia to be not-so-yesterday since they hv alot of innovative people in inventing new ideas.

yeah, i think so.

that is why design is interesting.
lecturers give us freedom to design anything - explore current technologies but make sure the building is practical and able to operates. architects was well known to design beautiful building for the sake of beauty, but not the practicality.

so, you choose.
be a good or bad designer.

oh yeah, i almost miss something.
"there're no such thing play safe or play dangerous in design. its about your foundation base of knowledge. if you sure about it, then you go for it."

just make difference between this two country; Dubai and Malaysia.
Dubai is a city of highrises.
while,
Malaysia is a city of housing - terraces, housing estates, etc.

do u agree with this statement?