Friday, July 31, 2009

The Ancient

Every country has its own identity. Architectural building is one part of it. Once you see the pattern of the building, we know where it comes from. Hence, design in building plays an important role in the process of maintaining the original value of one country.

Long, long ago, a pyramid that comes from Egypt influenced many others building and has been an inspiration for the earliest architect to create a design.It was build for the burial of the royal family. Pyramid has its own point, line, plane, volume, space, order, texture and colour. It looks pure and the natural in terms of design and construction. The interesting part is that it uses the natural material which is the stone. The stones is cut firmly and straight without any damages on it. Each stones has the same volume and cut into large scale. How they do that without using machines? Or maybe they are certain professional craftsman that do such stuff? It was told that the stones were taken from far, far away from the Egypt and it was carried using the transportation of boat. But how the bot can bare the weight of those stones? Some also said that the people use the power of magic or jin in the process of the pyramid construction. How far the truth was? Pyramid keeps a lot of mysteries, beyond from the human thought. Hopefully, our next trip will be to Egypt so that we can explore the hidden meaning and the power of construction of pyramid...





*this is the cross section of pyramid













*this is the photo that was taken from the sky.
The biggest pyramid was for the king, the medium was for the queen, and the little one was for their child..










*thus transformers really involved in the existence of pyramid?










*although this stone has been use for thousands years backward, it still remains the same.








Temple. Where is the temple originated? If we realize, back to the school time, in history subject, many articles tells about the Asian kingdom. Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Malaysia. These countries were influenced by the Buddha religious in the earliest centuries and as we can see, a lot of temples were 'decorated' in many area till now. I have my own research on Myanmar and here i am going to share some of the facts with you all. Long time ago, Myanmar was known as Burma. There was an area that lived by the monk and the Buddha religious was strong held on that place. Seems the environment of the place is peace and harmony without any disturbing from others, it was taken by a royal family to be as their kingdom. The king then officially stated that his kingdom will be known as the ' Mandalay '. Temples were constructed and many people from the kingdom took the opportunity to pray and meditate. Each temples has their own identity and symbolized many things based on their faith. Till now, it remains the same and have some renovation by the government to maintain the original texture. Besides the temple, the housing of Burma also is interesting due to the different shape of house from different type of tribes. From the roof to the foundation, although it looks the same as the other house, but it has its own story. Here some of the photos that I've grab from books and internet.












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