Mies van der Rohe. "Less is More". A pioneer of modern architecture. Well known, and mostly people recognized him for his works, all those years he was an architect. Little did people know about his starting and challenges he faced before he succeed, what had mold him with the minimalism style he possessed.

He developed his style from his mistakes, after the fiasco of this Kroller House.

It is through growing up, through learning, through the environment, that shape the personality of a person, then reflects it in the person's work, in terms of anything, art, or architecture or what so ever. Like for the malay vernacular architecture, Malay house, most of the characteristics were built to suit the weather, environment, site and culture.

As we grow and going higher and higher in our education here, we learn more and were being exposed to more knowledge and works of others. Through that too our mind would start developing and going to the direction of our preferences.

It was said that our childhood home gave a vast impact on the understanding of place and architecture. I guess I never think much when I was young. I just felt very safe staying at my home, and it's the centre of the world for me by that time. Just like traveling inside the car, my dad driving. I never know where I am if I don't know the streets name, I just sat inside the car to wherever the car brought me. HAHAHA.

ah, out of topic.

Houses for me last time was shaped to only 2 types basically. Normal dwellings, that are having red pitch roof, this is how I, or normal kids draw their home. With one door, 2 windows.
Another type was fairy tale type of castle. The result of reading and watching too much of fairy tales cartoon like cinderella, beauty and the beast, snow white, little mermaid etc. HAHAHA. Oh, Aladdin have islamic architecture of castle, with the onion head. Through all these stories, I was exposed to the types of architecture inside. But in some of the anime and cartoon, the normal dwelling, houses are having flat roof. @@ Super solid type of houses.

From the age of 1 until 11, I've been staying in a town house. The upstairs was my family's home, while the downstairs was my uncle's home. In term of spaces, it was kind of small but merely enough for us, when my sis and I was still young.
My sis and I spared a same small room together with a double deck beds. Parallel to the bed, just bout half meter or a little more from the bed, was 2 study tables lining side by side. Between the tables and the bed, was a walkway in the room. The room was just about 6m x 4m big in plan. Of course there was fun inside the room as well. My sis once fell down from the higher deck of the bed last time. haha. Then I have to exchange place with her, I slept at the higher bed. But I don't really mind, I like to climb the stairs up there.

Kind of small. hahaha. Just by viewing the size of the room, the house actually is small as well, maybe when now we've move to a bigger size house. I actually thought that all houses are the same size with the house I was staying that time. But of course we did pay visit to dad's colleagues and some relatives with bigger house. There my mind developed further.
The house plan for the town house home

That home, having a long staircase from group floor car porch, straight up to my home. one way, with one landing in the middle. I like it when my mom washed the floor, when she pour the water from upstairs, the water rushed and flowed down, forming a waterfall there. So much fun I had there. How good if every house have this staircase. But my mom used to throw our stuffs down the staircase when she was too frustrated. LOL. I played game with my sister at that staircase as well. I guess I just love staircase so much, until now I actually likes to see staircases' design. (any relation? @.@ )


The staircase where my mom pour water when washing the floor that create a small waterfall space for me to play around.

Another part was the balcony. I actually would like to have a balcony at my house. The original design of my house was having a balcony, just like how my neighbor's house had. My dad wanted to make the house have more interior space, he covered the balcony wall with glass windows. I always couldn't understand his reason of closing up the balcony until now I think back. The living room have became bigger with that balcony space. But I still would like to have the balcony space being opened up without the windows. haha.

The living room and the dining area basically was just one beside another. The living room was the place where I spent most of my precious quality time with my family. It's just in front of the staircase, and there was a piano at the dining area. The area there, the dining area and living room was the most open space. It's not very big. There was a room beside the living room, the master bedroom, if there's any chaos outside the living room my parents would know very soon. haha. Besides whenever my sister played the piano, the whole house will be filled with music and melody. For the piano was placed at the center of the house. And that's why we like to hang out in the living area. Whoever back from work or school, we could give them a warming welcome as well when they appeared from the staircase place. I think this is so heartwarming and would like to have something like these in my future home.

There was another room just beside my sis n my room, which was my dad's working room. It was small as well. There was a big table and a small book shelve inside. This room can say as a mystery room for us. Curious but fear over the room. It was my dad's room and seems like it was filling with a lot of mysterious stuffs. we once found a "don't-know-it's-real-or-fake" centipede. We were so scared like hell, quickly threw it back into the drawer and closed it up, never open it again.
I think it must have a fun mysterious place in a house, to make it interesting? hahahahhaa.

The kitchen was a place not to mess with where my mom did all the cooking. But the place to catch mouse that was hiding above the ceiling. We can always hear the noise that the mouse ran over here and there above the ceiling. At night my parents would put bait inside the mouse trap and we could find a mouse inside the cage the next day.
Must learn how to prevent mouse and other pest next time when designing houses.

The car porch place was the place the car was parked and where the clothes was hung. On mid autumn festival, we played candle there as well. My mom planted a lot of plantations and last time even vegetables there too. There was once a cat outside always came in and we gave him food at the car porch there.

There was a green field just opposite my house, easily access. But the residence there seldom loiter around there, and so did I. My parents didn't allow as well. One point was it was there was a big drain seperating our side with the field. And second point was the grass wasn't cut and they grew really tall. My mom always scare me that there will be snakes there. I think the main purpose of the field was actually to gather up the neighborhood for recreational purpose, however it failed. I think this kind of space was kind of nice but need maintenance. If I were to design a residential area, I would like to have a big open space for sports and all type of activities that the community can gather around, just like how I saw in "karate kids", in china. This could make the gap between human and neighbour more narrow, and could get close to each other, not like the society now, that we never know who's our neighbor. Anyway, we used to be very "friend" with our ex-neighbor there last time. ^^

Every spaces in home have their multi functions, with different memories. It more or less gave some impact to the idea of spaces for me. Like the staircases, and the open space of the living room with the piano, and the mysterious room in the house.

There are different things that I learn while growing up, observing things. Like once I went to another uncle's house, I like it where his son's room was painted in blue and I like the sleep on the floor concept. Wake up, just tidy up the bed and, there are more space to use. hahhaa.

Another thing was I was kind of influenced by my dad. He was a contractor in glass and aluminium. I don't know how, I like to use the glass. Feel that it looks quite elegant. Actually most of the windows in my home were all fixed by my dad, got from his company, some designed himself. haha. * love them * . In many of my design projects, I used a lot of glass.

And through all the course and crits and review, there developed our own style as well. Especially from history classes. To learn from all the history and styles. When we open up our view, our observations, our perspectives of viewing the surrounding especially architecture, we will be learning much and being influenced unconsciously sometimes.

Because that the normal thing we see is always squarish with pitch roof, we tend to get out of the box. And therefore, I don't know how, my design tend to go quite curvy, with a lot of curve lines.

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Mies van der Rohe. "Less is More". A pioneer of modern architecture. Well known, and mostly people recognized him for his works, all those years he was an architect. Little did people know about his starting and challenges he faced before he succeed, what had mold him with the minimalism style he possessed.

He developed his style from his mistakes, after the fiasco of this Kroller House.

It is through growing up, through learning, through the environment, that shape the personality of a person, then reflects it in the person's work, in terms of anything, art, or architecture or what so ever. Like for the malay vernacular architecture, Malay house, most of the characteristics were built to suit the weather, environment, site and culture.

As we grow and going higher and higher in our education here, we learn more and were being exposed to more knowledge and works of others. Through that too our mind would start developing and going to the direction of our preferences.

It was said that our childhood home gave a vast impact on the understanding of place and architecture. I guess I never think much when I was young. I just felt very safe staying at my home, and it's the centre of the world for me by that time. Just like traveling inside the car, my dad driving. I never know where I am if I don't know the streets name, I just sat inside the car to wherever the car brought me. HAHAHA.

ah, out of topic.

Houses for me last time was shaped to only 2 types basically. Normal dwellings, that are having red pitch roof, this is how I, or normal kids draw their home. With one door, 2 windows.
Another type was fairy tale type of castle. The result of reading and watching too much of fairy tales cartoon like cinderella, beauty and the beast, snow white, little mermaid etc. HAHAHA. Oh, Aladdin have islamic architecture of castle, with the onion head. Through all these stories, I was exposed to the types of architecture inside. But in some of the anime and cartoon, the normal dwelling, houses are having flat roof. @@ Super solid type of houses.

From the age of 1 until 11, I've been staying in a town house. The upstairs was my family's home, while the downstairs was my uncle's home. In term of spaces, it was kind of small but merely enough for us, when my sis and I was still young.
My sis and I spared a same small room together with a double deck beds. Parallel to the bed, just bout half meter or a little more from the bed, was 2 study tables lining side by side. Between the tables and the bed, was a walkway in the room. The room was just about 6m x 4m big in plan. Of course there was fun inside the room as well. My sis once fell down from the higher deck of the bed last time. haha. Then I have to exchange place with her, I slept at the higher bed. But I don't really mind, I like to climb the stairs up there.

Kind of small. hahaha. Just by viewing the size of the room, the house actually is small as well, maybe when now we've move to a bigger size house. I actually thought that all houses are the same size with the house I was staying that time. But of course we did pay visit to dad's colleagues and some relatives with bigger house. There my mind developed further.
The house plan for the town house home

That home, having a long staircase from group floor car porch, straight up to my home. one way, with one landing in the middle. I like it when my mom washed the floor, when she pour the water from upstairs, the water rushed and flowed down, forming a waterfall there. So much fun I had there. How good if every house have this staircase. But my mom used to throw our stuffs down the staircase when she was too frustrated. LOL. I played game with my sister at that staircase as well. I guess I just love staircase so much, until now I actually likes to see staircases' design. (any relation? @.@ )


The staircase where my mom pour water when washing the floor that create a small waterfall space for me to play around.

Another part was the balcony. I actually would like to have a balcony at my house. The original design of my house was having a balcony, just like how my neighbor's house had. My dad wanted to make the house have more interior space, he covered the balcony wall with glass windows. I always couldn't understand his reason of closing up the balcony until now I think back. The living room have became bigger with that balcony space. But I still would like to have the balcony space being opened up without the windows. haha.

The living room and the dining area basically was just one beside another. The living room was the place where I spent most of my precious quality time with my family. It's just in front of the staircase, and there was a piano at the dining area. The area there, the dining area and living room was the most open space. It's not very big. There was a room beside the living room, the master bedroom, if there's any chaos outside the living room my parents would know very soon. haha. Besides whenever my sister played the piano, the whole house will be filled with music and melody. For the piano was placed at the center of the house. And that's why we like to hang out in the living area. Whoever back from work or school, we could give them a warming welcome as well when they appeared from the staircase place. I think this is so heartwarming and would like to have something like these in my future home.

There was another room just beside my sis n my room, which was my dad's working room. It was small as well. There was a big table and a small book shelve inside. This room can say as a mystery room for us. Curious but fear over the room. It was my dad's room and seems like it was filling with a lot of mysterious stuffs. we once found a "don't-know-it's-real-or-fake" centipede. We were so scared like hell, quickly threw it back into the drawer and closed it up, never open it again.
I think it must have a fun mysterious place in a house, to make it interesting? hahahahhaa.

The kitchen was a place not to mess with where my mom did all the cooking. But the place to catch mouse that was hiding above the ceiling. We can always hear the noise that the mouse ran over here and there above the ceiling. At night my parents would put bait inside the mouse trap and we could find a mouse inside the cage the next day.
Must learn how to prevent mouse and other pest next time when designing houses.

The car porch place was the place the car was parked and where the clothes was hung. On mid autumn festival, we played candle there as well. My mom planted a lot of plantations and last time even vegetables there too. There was once a cat outside always came in and we gave him food at the car porch there.

There was a green field just opposite my house, easily access. But the residence there seldom loiter around there, and so did I. My parents didn't allow as well. One point was it was there was a big drain seperating our side with the field. And second point was the grass wasn't cut and they grew really tall. My mom always scare me that there will be snakes there. I think the main purpose of the field was actually to gather up the neighborhood for recreational purpose, however it failed. I think this kind of space was kind of nice but need maintenance. If I were to design a residential area, I would like to have a big open space for sports and all type of activities that the community can gather around, just like how I saw in "karate kids", in china. This could make the gap between human and neighbour more narrow, and could get close to each other, not like the society now, that we never know who's our neighbor. Anyway, we used to be very "friend" with our ex-neighbor there last time. ^^

Every spaces in home have their multi functions, with different memories. It more or less gave some impact to the idea of spaces for me. Like the staircases, and the open space of the living room with the piano, and the mysterious room in the house.

There are different things that I learn while growing up, observing things. Like once I went to another uncle's house, I like it where his son's room was painted in blue and I like the sleep on the floor concept. Wake up, just tidy up the bed and, there are more space to use. hahhaa.

Another thing was I was kind of influenced by my dad. He was a contractor in glass and aluminium. I don't know how, I like to use the glass. Feel that it looks quite elegant. Actually most of the windows in my home were all fixed by my dad, got from his company, some designed himself. haha. * love them * . In many of my design projects, I used a lot of glass.

And through all the course and crits and review, there developed our own style as well. Especially from history classes. To learn from all the history and styles. When we open up our view, our observations, our perspectives of viewing the surrounding especially architecture, we will be learning much and being influenced unconsciously sometimes.

Because that the normal thing we see is always squarish with pitch roof, we tend to get out of the box. And therefore, I don't know how, my design tend to go quite curvy, with a lot of curve lines.