Thomas Heatherwick: Building the Seed Cathedral

Gothic Architecture

PESOS AND SENSE Season 1 Episode3

ANC Square Off : The CVC Law Debates Season 3 Finals

Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better

1. Immersion
2. How do you learn language? You didn't learn it by just learning principles. You got in it, and do it so often that it became real.
3. Why you do what you do? What is your motive for action.
4. The invisible force of internal drive activated is the most important thing in the world
5. You don't work for your self interest all the time
6. When emotions comes into it the wiring changes the way it functions.
7. Explore where you are today: 1) so you can contribute more and 2) stop the challenges that we face by understanding and appreciating people more
8. Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because the understand the "invisible forces" that shape us.
9. What makes the difference in the quality of people's lives?
10. The science of achievement
11. The art of fulfillment
12. Appreciation and contribution
13. Decision is the ultimate power
14. The defining factor is not the resources its resourcefulness
15. 3 decisions of destiny, what am I going to focus on?, what does it mean?, what are you going to do?
16. In the moment: State
17. Long term: Your model of the world
18. 6 needs: certainty, uncertainty, significance, connection and love, grow, and contribute
19. Human beings get excited to contribute once they experience it and not talk about it.
20. The map
21. Emotions
22. We have 6,000 words in the English language that describes emotion
23. People start to live when they face death

A Jam Session with Stanford Engineering Faculty

TEDxWWF - Jane Fulton-Suri: What Nature Can Teach Us About Design

Solar Power in the Philippines

Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power (CSP). Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. Photovoltaics convert light into electric current using the photoelectric effect.

In this YouTube Video the speaker suggests of a south orientation of solar panels when installing it in the Philippines, in which, the Sun moves from East to West in the southern side. The degree of inclination of the panels should be 15 degrees plus our latitude location from the equator.

Davao is 7 degrees latitude plus 15 degrees = 22 degrees
Cebu is 10 degrees latitude plus 15 degrees= 25 degrees
Manila is 14 degrees latitude plus 15 degrees= 29 degrees
Pagudpud is 18 degrees latitude plus 15 degrees= 33 degrees

Last June 2011 episode of ANC Headstart: Making the Philippines a Solar Energy Hub.

Pricing of Solar Panels: http://www.sophilcor.com/index_files/SOLARSTARhomepowerset.htm

PlayPump Water Systems

The PlayPump Water System uses the energy of children at play to operate a water pump. It is manufactured by the South African company Roundabout Outdoor. It operates in a similar way to a windmill-driven water pump.

At a cost of approximately $14,000 USD, it is suitable for Primary Schools, particularly in areas where water is accessed from deep underground (up to 100 meters) using a bore.

There are more than 1800 PlayPump systems in sub-Saharan Africa, providing clean drinking water to more than one million impoverished people. On September 20, 2006, at the Clinton Global Initiative, First Lady Laura Bush announced a $16.4 million public-private partnership to install more PlayPump systems—the beginning of an effort to install 4,000 pumps to provide water to up to 10 million people in Africa by 2010. The announcement includes $10 million from the U.S. government, $5 million from the Case Foundation, and $1.4 million from The MCJ Foundation.

Roundabout Outdoor is a for profit organisation with a social mission, co-founded by Trevor Field and Playpumps International a non-profit organisation.[citation needed] In 2007 Playpump water system was nominated for the prestigious National Design Award. It is aimed at solving one of the most pressing problems of clean water in semi-urban and rural areas of Africa - Water.

Sexy House at Laguna Beach

How A Geek Changed The World

Diliman Preparatory School brings classrooms to life by creating innovative learning environments

GreenHouse System

http://colfibrex.com/greenhouse/en/disenos.html

The Sphere - Sao Paulo, Brazil

NAIA 1 Renovation and Rehabilitation Proposal

Word of the Lourd: Delubyo

What is Architecture?

As a student of Architecture the best way I could define such a wide subject is by quoting three of its greats:

“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” –Le Corbusier

“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” –Frank Lloyd Wright

“Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.” –Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

However, by law, according to RA 9266, Article I, Section 3 (1) "Architecture" is the art, science or profession of planning, designing and constructing buildings in their totality taking into account their environment, in accordance with the principles of utility, strength and beauty.

On a personal note, architecture is a manifestation of human intelligence through forms and spaces by which its usefulness enhance the quality of our lives. From the day we were born in a hospital up to our dead bodies in a mausoleum, architecture surrounds us and influences our actions that defines the very way we live.

Sources:
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9266
http://thinkexist.com
http://www.brainyquote.com

Theory of Architecture 1
Assignment #1

New 7 Wonders of Nature 2011 Puerto Princesa Underground River Palawan

YouTube World View interview of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III

Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar

1. Lying is a cooperative act
- A lie has no power by its mere utterance, its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
- You get lied to because you agreed to get lied to
- Strangers lie three times between the first 10 minutes of meeting

2. We are against lying ...and covertly for it
- The more intelligent the species, the larger the neo-cortex, the more likely it is to be deceptive
- Babies will fake a cry, 1 year old learns concealment, 2 yr olds bluff, 5 yr olds lie outright and manipulate through flattery, 9 yr olds master of the cover up, by the time you get to college you'll lie 1 out of 5 interaction to your mom, a deception epidemic
- Post truth society

Liespotting

1. Verbal Dodging
2. Body Language Slips

Our world is transparent, with blogs and social networks people made a choice to live lives that are public.

Over-sharing is not honesty, our manic texting and tweeting can blind us to a fact that the subtleties of humanity decency, character, integrity is still that matters, is always going to matter.

World's Largest Palace by a Filipino Architect

Considered by Guinness World Records as the "World's Largest Palace"  with 200,000 square meters of floor space. The Istana Nurul Iman houses the Sultan and the seat of the Brunei government. It is located a few miles south of the country's capital on the banks of the Brunei River.

Riverside of the Brunei River

Leandro V. Locsin, a re-knowned Filipino architect was commissioned to design the massive structure. "Istana Nurul Iman" means Palace of the Light of Faith and its architectural motifs are consistent thereto. The Islamic influences was clearly portrayed in the utilization of golden domes, also, the curved and vaulted roofs gives it a malay distinction. It was completed in 1984 with a staggering bill of around $1.4 Billion USD.

Luxurious living would be an understatement to describe such a habitation with the palace's 1,788 rooms and 257 baths, a banquet hall to accommodate up to 5,000 guests, a mosque accommodating 1,500 people, a 110-car garage housing custom-made Ferraris, Bentleys and Rolls Royces, an air conditioned stable for the Sultan's 200 polo ponies, and 5 swimming pools.

However, accessibility is limited, the palace is not open to the public except on the annual Islamic celebration of Hari Raya Aidilfitri and during the 10 days of the Ramadhan period for the Bertedarus prayer gathering.

The plan was very well-thought of complimenting its size and delivers in its whole totality what really compromises a palace.

Richard Seymour: How beauty feels

Prominent product designer Richard Seymour on May 2011 in London gave a talk on the feeling of beauty and how it affects emotional response to human behavior. He suggested that the pursuance of emotional functionality to make things beautiful repeatedly and that the form is the function modifying to the adage "forms follows function".

Grand Theft Auto V Trailer

Sugarfree - Burnout

O wag kang tumingin

Ng ganyan sa ‘kin

Wag mo akong kulitin

Wag mo akong tanungin

Dahil katulad mo

Ako rin ay nagbago

Di na tayo katulad ng dati

Kay bilis ng sandali

O kay tagal kitang minahal

Kung iisipin mo

Di naman dati ganito

Teka muna teka lang

Kailan tayo nailang

Kung iisipin mo

Di naman dati ganito

Kay bilis kasi ng buhay

Pati tayo natangay

O kay tagal kitang minahal

Tinatawag kita

Sinusuyo kita

Di mo man marinig

Di mo man madama

O kay tagal kitang mamahalin

Magdalo

Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (March 22, 1869 – February 6, 1964) was a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. He played an instrumental role during the Philippines' revolution against Spain, and the subsequent Philippine-American War or War of Philippine Independence that resisted American occupation. 

Aguinaldo became the Philippines' first President. He was also the youngest (at age 29) to have become the country's president, the longest-lived president (having survived to age 94) and the president to have outlived the most number of successors.

Millennium School

http://www.designagainsttheelements.org/whats-been-done/

The Bamboo School was the winning entry of the Millennium School competition. It was designed by Malaysian architect Eleena Jamil and was constructed in Camarines Sur for Nato High School. The goal of the competition is to create green, sustainable and weather-resilient architecture.

Front Elevation

Aesthetically, it has triggered my fancy for Filipino architecture (ironic that the architect was Malaysian). The earth colors compliments the landscape and has a very rural feel.

Rear Elevation

Left-side Elevation

Interior

Interior

It has a very open design which is good for natural ventilation but still it is a classroom where users are there to learn. The question is that if it could serve its primary purpose of being a classroom if the acoustic quality of the rooms are detrimental to learning because of the openness of the design.

Classroom Interior

As the photo above portrays natural lighting is at optimum, however, my concern is at the side elevation having openings that direct sunlight may disrupt students' comfort level at certain parts of the day. Putting curtains may be a solution.

Ceiling

Bamboo Post

Bamboo Frame

All in all, the design was amazing! I believe that the construction cost was at its minimum and that we could duplicate this prototype for other schools in the rural setting.