BOROBUDUR

Borobudur is place for Buddha believers to worshiped to their god.Located at Magelang,Central Java at Indonesia.Its a monument built for Sailendra and the Architects is Gunadharma.Completely built on  AD 800.Known as candi borobudur in Indonesia.This monuments comprises 6 square platform,Topped by 3 circular platform Decorated with 2672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues.The main dome,located at the center is surrounded with 72 Buddha Statues seated inside perforated stupa.The monument is a shrine for lord buddha and a place for buddhist pilgrimage.


 

Borobudur is built as single large stupa.When we looks at the Plan view,It form a giant Mandala.It represent the Buddhist cosmology and nature of mind.The foundation is a square, approximately 118m on each side.It upper three are circular.The upper platform features 72 small stupas surrounding 1 large central stupa.Each stupa is bell-shaped and pierced by numerous decorative openings.Statues of the Buddha sit inside the pierced enclosures.The stone was cut to size, transported to the site and laid out without mortar.Relief were built in-situ after the building had been completed.The main vertical structure can be divided into 3 groups:Base(foot), body, and top, which resembles the 3 major division of a human body.

PLAN VIEW

CROSS SECTION

MINANGKABAU

Apabila bercakap tentang minagkabau, Negeri Sembilan adalah negeri yang terkenal dengan tradisi Minangkabau.Apo kona ejang, dat perpatih, adat temenggung dan bermacam-macam lagi.Ada cerita dahulu yang mengatakan bahawa Minagkabau itu berasal dari ayat 'Menang Kerbau'.Peristiwa ini berlaku ketika orang Minang yang berlawan dengan kerbau dan jika menang ia dipanggil menag kerbau dan diberi tanduk kerbau tersebut.Sebab itulah bumbung rumah masyarakat Minang berbentuk seperti tanduk kerbau.

Bumbung-bumbung ini terdapt di bahagian barat Indonesia dan Negeri sembilan.Rumah ini juga dikenali sebagai Rumah gadang.Terdapt juga fungsi rumah ini untuk menyimpan hasil-hasil padi.Bahan utama yang digunakan untuk menutup atap ini adalah nipah.Secara Prinsip senibina yang digunakan pada bumbung ini memang bersesuaian denga iklim kawasannya yang panas dan lembap.Atap yang cerun digunakan untuk laluan hujan turun.Konsepnya dari tanduk kerbau yang melengkung hujungnya,

World Expo 2010....Malaysia Pavilion???

TRI ANGGA

Tri Angga merupakan hierarki ruang yang diperkenalkan pada zaman senibina tradisional Bali.Dikenali dengan 3 bahagian.Tri angga merupakan sistem pembahagian zon atau kawasan dalam perancanaan senibina tradisional Bali.Bahagian-bahagian yang dimaksudkan adalah seperti:

• Utama : Bahagian yang paling tinggi posisinya seperti atap
• Madya : Bahagian yang letak pada badan seperti dinding
• Nista : Bahagian yang diletak pada bahagian bawah iaitu Lantai.

Rumah Tadisional Bali

WAT

Wat Suthat Thepwararam, Bangkok, Thailand

What is wat?Actually wat is the temple complex build for the believers of Hinduism and Buddhism.Temple is the place for the believers to pray and worshipped to thei god.

Angkor Wat,Cambodia

Built in Early 12th century for the king of Suryavaman II at the capital city.It's significance to the religious centre.First is the foundation,Hindu dedcicated to god Vishnu,then Buddhist.The temple is at the top of high classical style Khmer architecture.They followed the indian pattern of spatial development and architectural design representing the temple as a mountain.The form of the temples represented the sacred Mount Meru, which in Hindu cosmology was the home of the gods and the human and mythical world that surrounded it.Angkor wat illustrates the common pattern of interior and exterior spatial development at khmer sites.The temples was centered upon 5 elevated, peaked towers that represented the five peaks of Mount Meru.Galleries surrounding the main temple represent the foothills around the mount, while the channels of water between the galleries were to represent the ocean and rivers.The architecture of of Angkor wat points to a temple,the orientation-the main entrance is west-point that is it was built for a tomb.

Carved scenes drawn from Hindu legends tell their story on surrounding walls.Within the outermost wall of the compound a large open court was originally filled with densely packed thatch and wood dwellings.a temple-centered neighborhood.The bas-relief on the western gallery depicts the story of Battlesd of Mahabharata.South gallery depicts the army of Suryavarma.East gallery potrays the story of churning the ocean milk.West gallley potrays the story of battle of Lanka Ramayana.All the Bas-relief are rich sandstone carved walls.Among the Bas-relief, the churning of the ocean of milk-the Hindu mythical story of Devas and Asuras churning the ocean to obtain in the immortal nectar-is breathtaking.

PLAN OF ANGKOR WAT