Under the stairsDevelopment of Building Style
The last few years to bloom once used the term minimalist home. Ordinary people usually use this word to indicate style house was the current trend of house style that has a simple and clean form of ornaments.

Minimalist style is derived from the minimum. This style was born as a result of thinking in the art world began was mentioned about in the 1950s. In principle, minimalist art is an attempt to present the essence of a beauty by reducing as much as possible components of the art of decorating is meant. For adherents of minimalist art, decorations will only hide the real beauty of a work of art.

The development of thought always precedes the art world and inspire the flow of forces within the world of architecture. This may be because adopting the notion of art in architecture takes time and involves many parties. The world of architecture requires a larger portion than objectivity subjectivity in the art world artists.

In addition to developments in art style, the style of architecture was also influenced by other factors such as better technology, materials or work or construction methods.

Change the culture and lifestyle while also providing a major influence on the emergence and growth in understanding the flow of minimalist architecture. We have people slowly moving from a traditional society to modern society even the hyper-modern. In the past, when the feudal culture is very strong in people’s lives, developing architectural style is a style which was associated with specific functions are limited to public buildings is closely related to power. While at this time, changes occurred in the structure of society which is also affected to the smallest community unit is the family. If the 70/80-an year, a house to accommodate more family groups under one roof. Sometimes in one house there are several heads of families who are still connected in the bonds of blood (extended family). In the house there are fathers, mothers and children and grandparents, even there are also children who have been married too. Division of labor in such households is very clear, the task of earning a living bahwasannya charged to the father (the father) and the domestic duties of home care and care charged to a mother (or female).

Now the extended family was already rare. Small families now prefer to have their own life as a nuclear family, with members of the only father and mother and one or several children alone with the addition of a domestic servant. Even in the hyper-modern life is now commonly encountered in family life is a father or a mother with one or several children, usually known by a single parent (single-parent).

Nuclear family division of labor the program has a relatively varied, with the workings of the mother’s part. Domestic functions assigned to the staff of helpers to take care of the house.

Father and mother busy at work to make them choose a more modest house in treatment. Even down to the fabric of space to change. Hierarchies that used to house a complex and multilevel (rather than the literal meaning of a ladder lho), now turned into a simple. Screen-screen space in the form of walls and partitions decreases. Merge spaces were found for ease of access and maintenance.

Shape and Space
In assessing the quality of a house, maybe a lot of people trapped in the assessment of what appears to the eye, the shape and Rupa. Yet another aspect that is not less important is the space. Form and space in architectural theories already much discussed, but have not become public discourse because it is ‘intangible’.

Understanding the form and space have long been introduced by the thinkers, one of which was Lao Tzu (550 BC). One of them is expressed in translation as follows:

“. we make a vase from the cloud of clay. Is the empty space in
vase is made useful. ”

Assessment of the quality of the work space in a minimalist style architecture also needs to be understood. Simply put, space formed from the physical boundaries of a more assertive as a wall and the other room bulkhead. However, the actual limit is not solely made of solid wall. The boundaries can be expressed with color, light-dark, circulation limits, transparent glass and activities.

Minimalist spaces are usually designed with multiple meanings, so that space can be used for purposes broader. The living room can be integrated with the family room and kitchen. Temporally these spaces meant to activities that took place in it. The limits are not used to divide the massive room, for example by using the furniture. Thus the change in furniture layout will change the function, meaning and quality of these minimalist space.

This solution is useful for many homes can function more optimally. In normal times, these spaces are used by residents with the limits of small appropriate activities. And when the last family gathering, so that space can be combined by eliminating the boundaries of the non-massive.

Similarly, the outer space that is formed within the home lot area. This space can be formed by the massive form of the building so as to create the front yard, side yard and rear yard, or even the inner-court.

Misguided in Architecture Minimalist
Departure from the historical development of minimalist architecture above, we can make an assessment of the use of architectural style of the house. Is the force is indeed consistent with rational reasons and aesthetic background or just a cosmetic building instead of showing the beauty even cause technical problems.

This assessment is important because it involves interpretation of the quality of the house by the owner of the house itself. This mistake can result in not betahnya enlargement residents and building maintenance costs, and ends at the line of a newspaper column titled ’sold’.

Minimal jargon most frequently used among developers today to sell the houses they were made. However, if examined, there is a small part that sells only style without being followed by a real minimalist ideals. Minimalist elements that apply only to appear a mere patch only visually. Sometimes aspects of beauty visualpun failed to present even cause problems due to lack of
anticipation of local climate conditions in Indonesia.

One again the most important, about the Minimalist Architecture misguided assumptions about the cost of. Minimalist architecture had nothing to do with the low cost of development, although with consideration and selection of appropriate materials to produce buildings with low cost. On the contrary, minimalist architecture or house tend to be more expensive because it requires handling-handling design that is not standard, both of material and technical implementation.

Learning from previous experience
There is a risk that will be borne by the owner of the house if you select the style of the building with only considering the aesthetic aspects. The style is usually the most rapid obsolescence of the other parts of the building. Once the walls are still standing strong, the style of the building is no longer compatible with the era. Houses like these will soon seem archaic and outdated.

Probably still attached in our observations of how the house style of the 80s had adopted a particular style at that time. At that time, concrete technology on the rise. Likewise, the solution of concrete spray finishing using a bestseller when it became the choice of architects and home owners for the finishing touches on the exterior of the house. But now, these buildings look old and outdated compared to other houses that tend style neutral.

Will the minimalist houses now experiencing the same thing at some point soon from now? These houses look old and shabby for failing to anticipate the effects of climate. Simple fields in a minimalist building with a beautiful color when the construction can be turned into scrap-Moret paintings of nature from rain and heat as the season changes. Patches of mold and mildew are often not addressed by the architect when drawing a 3D model of the house, then will appear the damage brought minimalism style.

tropical-home-eksteriorTropical modern architecture is the development of traditional architecture with the addition and adjustment of modern public life. Tropical modern architecture has distinctive aesthetic values of modern tropical building (a friendly tropical environment, according to the present), model building has eternity in terms of design and art, as well as correct in terms of function, requirements, climate, and environment.

The ability to accommodate building a tropical climate state residents more comfortable and energy efficient. Tropical modern house exists as a home inhabited, attractive design view, and responsive to the tropical climate. Life in the tropics environmentally friendly home requires a hot tropical and humid, and rainy season and summer turns throughout the year. The house was designed by considering and utilizing resources in an optimal natural light and air into the house.

Every room in the house lit by natural light throughout the day coming in through the wide door openings and window vents (ventilation) around the building, and skylights in some corner of the roof ceiling. Room was bright and fresh throughout the day (morning-afternoon).

Cross circulation of fresh air to flow smoothly into the ceiling and the roof high enough (2,5-3 meters) to create space feel fresh, not stuffy or damp, and minimize the use of a fan or air conditioner.

The house is not just a shelter from the sun or rain, but home is where the socialization process of a human being with family. Wide eaves to shade the porch, building, and problem-solving tempias rain. Under the eaves where the rain fall created a dry garden with a linear elongated coral surface that allows water absorption, while eliminating the guttering is often blocked or leaking. When the rain, walls and floors are not muddy and slippery, clean the walls of mud spray.

Openness and relations between the liquid space to the circulation space was flowing from front to back until the top. Joint space is provided as a mono mix of activities, such as living room and family room, living room, dining room and kitchen, living room and study together.

Excess modern house accommodating tropical tropical climate makes the house feel more alive and warm. The combination of wisdom architecture (traditional) tropical, fulfilling the needs of modern life, and modern materials (concrete, steel, glass, fiberglass) and natural materials (wood, stone, brick, terracotta).

Processing of local materials (stone, brick, terrazzo, coral, wood, coconut, bamboo, water hyacinth, banana stem) with the appropriate creative and long-lived buildings, efficient maintenance, and provide value-added tropical exotic whole building. Interwoven industrial technological progress (precision, cold) and the culture of craftsmen (natural, warm) make it look more warm house and give the building a strong character.

Making voids and voids the proper distribution and uniform in tropical klimatik maintain the smooth functioning of air circulation and natural light into the house. The top of the pergola void of useful features to filter the sunlight and the intensity of light katalitas changing, as well as rain water tempias on all four sides of the building walls.

The sensitivity of tropical modern architecture open to encourage the building exterior as a whole is balanced. Space in, terrace and garden as a whole expansion of space. That is, activities that take place in the space can be drawn on the terrace next to the park, such as the function of the dining room during a family party.

The presence of value-added garden buildings. Ecological value is very thick. Garden tropical modern emphasis on the use of some types of plants (grasses or other plants pengalas, 1-3 trees, bamboo barrier), giving a strong green effect, the spread of coral and water absorption wells 2-3 (enlarge resap groundwater resources), as well as easy maintenance.

Settlement plaster walls and cement floors, exposed concrete, doors and windows with plain wooden exposure or without frames, construction cost, but capable of displaying the beauty of the building. The wall is covered with trees to muffle the noise, absorb pollutant gases, solar radiation resist, and cool temperature in the room.

Limited land and the consequences of land up to encourage the development of grass roofs replace conventional roof. The presence of functional trees filter the sun coming over (reducing heat in the building, preserving the paint walls), creating shade, and shadow effect on the walls and floors.

small-kitchenSelecting the concept in a small kitchen interiors will not be easy, because the selection size kitchen set and other furniture must support functional and optimized, so that really all the small room that could be used as possible and no wasted space. A small kitchen interior design with a functional furniture can give the impression of the interior area of our small kitchen so that people who interact with these kitchen feel welcome and comfortable in it.

Minimalist design concept into the present trend, namely that combines design elements of simplicity and usefulness of an object, without limiting the element of beauty in it, the colors are not too many choices and simple shapes are characteristic of minimalist design.

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