SACRED and PROFANE

Nowadays, architecture becomes part of every religious or worshipping place, which make many questioning of, Does the temple of church SCRED or PROFANE????...-

From the quote of Giorgio Agambers, “Sacred and Profane are not a perception of good or bad.” This quote makes me questioning of why they are all in equally in my mind, it is really no good or bad in architecture if we compared between those two. However, there is a reference to answer or critic for my mind.

It is true that god of each religious, such as Buddha image, Jesus Christ, etc, is very important and be reasonable to respect, but why many still build temple or church to cover those GODS. Believer respect god in the way god teach or the bible said, but architecture is just a memorable to make people remember the identity of that place. For example, Lao, Thailand, Burma, are respect in the same god which is Buddha, but the style and decoration is different, shown in the picture.

However, many of new building that redesign the‘ศาลพระภูมิ’ by following their concept, I’m agree that it is beautiful, but somehow it is very bad even they said ‘the way we respect ศาลพระภูมิ is the same as normal traditional one’ I think this is my profane example.

In conclusion, sacred and profane between architecture and religious still be a confusing contrast for me^^’

HOW MANUFACTURED CHANGE MY PERCEPTION??

To ask myself, ‘HOW MANUFACTURED CHANGE MY PERCEPTION?’ I would say, there are many how that people invest for changing people perception. However, to begin answering the question, what I have to do is to find the definition of ‘perception’. Perception is the way people perceive in 5 ways, which are, seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching but what am I going to focus is not a perceiving in those way. The thing that I will focus is a perception in the way of imagination from reading, emotional perceiving, and illusion painting.

The first perception that comes from my mind is the imagination from reading. This becomes my interesting perception because there is a lot of fiction that describe the story in a beautiful way and my imagination is starting to grow; however, when I watch the film of that fiction, it’s so disappointed. The example is NARNIA; the lion, the witch and the wardrobe. In this fiction there is the sentence describe the characteristic of the actor which make reader imagine in different way.

“He was only a little taller than Lucy herself and he carried over his head an umbrella, white with snow. From the waist upwards he was like a man, but his legs were shaped like a goat's (the hair on them was glossy black) and instead of feet he had goat's hoofs.”

The second one is an emotional perceiving from products that change people perception in term of feeling in different way. I’m interested in two products which are cup and mask protection. There is a designer who creates a graphic on those simple products which change perception of people, including feeling and emotional. The user may feel nothing about using or wearing the product because it doesn’t change any shape or form but it just changes the color or picture.

The third one is about an abstract illutional painting. This is another perception that emphasis on visual perception including experience. What am I interesting in these painting is that, there are a story behind it if you see the detail of its. Some people may not see what is in the picture out of what see but some can see. The example is the picture of two Mexican enjoying their life but behind it there are two old man facing against each other.

In conclusion, manufacture can change human perception, some are good but some are bad it is depend on what you perceive.

EMPTY SPACE

The word ‘EMPTY’ becomes the main part in this post. Empty itself may mean nothing inside or between or underneath something but in architecture ‘EMPTY’ is various. There is two quote that I’m interested from the class which are; ‘Emptiness is like KARMA that effect in the future’ and another is ‘Empty form is not useless form but utility has become a floating signifier.’ By Reinhold Martin.

Begins with the first quote that said ‘Emptiness is like KARMA that effect in the future’, this sentence make me realize of the space where it be now compare to the future. The function, program, or form may change by following the user, which is flexible and unpredictable. Refers t o the empty room that blank of furniture, however, when one comes in bed and sofa may replace the emptiness space to the full function.


‘Empty form is not useless form but utility has become a floating signifier.’ Is a part of the texts by Reinhold Martin. In this sentence is also tells the meaning of empty space in an architecture approach. Which the space is happen contingency by lifestyle or the way people live, compared to the architectural term :

ARCHITECTURE ----- FIX

INTERIOR ----- WHAT??