Ruang

Ruang tidak dapat dipisahkan dengan kehidupan manusia dimanapun ia berada, baik secara psikologi dan emosional (persepsi), maupun dimensional. Manusia selalu berada dalam ruang, bergerak serta menghayati, berpikir juga mnciptakan ruang untuk menyatakan bentuk dunianya. Ciptaan yang artistik disebut “ruang arsitektur”. Ruang arsitektur ini menyangkut interaksi antara ruang dalam dan ruang luar, yang saling mendukung dan memerlukan penataan lebih lanjut.

Ruang mempunyai arti penting bagi kehidupan manusia. Semua kehidupan dan kegiatan manusia sangat berkaitan dengan aspek ruang. Adanya korelasi antara manusia dengan suatu objek, baik secara visual maupun secara indra pendengar, indra perasa, dan indra penciuman akan selalu menimbulkan kesan ruang.  Para pakar yang mencoba menafsirkan ruang, memberikan pendapat yang berbeda – beda.

“Ruang adalah suatu kerangka atau wadah dimana objek dan kejadian tertentu berada” (Plato)

“Ruang bukanlah sesuatu yang objektif sebagai hasil pemikiran dan perasaan manusia”(Immanuel Kant)

“Lima karakteristik ruang diantaranya; suatu tempat yang dikelilingi; tempat itu bukan bagian dari yang mengelilingi; tempat dari benda tak lebih kecil atau besar dari benda itu sendiri; apakah tempat itu bergerak pada akhirnya akan berhenti pada suatu tempat di mana ia berada.” (Aristoteles)

Ruang tidak bisa dipisahkan dengan kehidupan manusia. Hal ini disebabkan manusia selalu bergerak dan berada di dalamnya. Ruang tidak akan ada artinya jika tidak ada manusia. Oleh karena itu, titik tolak dari perancangan ruang harus selalu didasarkan pada manusia.

Hubungan manusia dengan ruang secara lingkungan dapat dibagi dua, yaitu hubungan dimensional (Antropometri) serta hubungan psikologi dan emosional (Proksemisitas). Hubungan dimensional menyangkut dimensi-dimensi yang berkaitan dengan tubuh dan pergerakan kegiatan manusia. Hubungan psikologis dan emosional menentukan ukuran-ukuran kebutuhan ruang untuk kegiatan manusia. Salah satu perasaan kita yang penting mengenai ruang ialah perasaan teritorial, perasaan ini memenuhi kebutuhan dasar akan identitas diri, kenyamanan, dan rasa aman pada pribadi manusia (Edward T.Hall)

Architectural drawing and Architectural plan

Architectural drawing is technical drawing of architecture and drawing for architectural projects. Architectural drawing are a means of communicating ideas, concepts and details, and require drafting skills in modern and traditional methods of architectural drawing.

The term Architectural plans is often used as synonym, but this term has other meaning as well. It can mean a Floor plan; more general any Scale drawing of a structure; the complete Documentation of a building project or the plan to implement an architectural project.

Architectural drawing can includes all architectural contracts and drawings such as plot plans, floor plans, elevations, sections, details, schedules, etc., and any architectural drawing that forms a part of the contract documents. Exceptions can include mechanical, electrical and structural drawings, as well as specialized data that are normally handled by specialists in those fields.

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An architectural plan is a plan for architecture, and the documentation of written and graphic descriptions of the architectural elements of a building project including sketches, drawings and details.

The term “Architectural plan” can have multiple related meaning:

• Plan for an architectural project
• Documentation of written and graphic descriptions of the architectural elements of a building project including sketches, drawings and details. This effort could also includes both the design of new buildings and other structures, as well as the planning for reconstruction of early historic structures.
• Architectural design
• Floor plan
• Scale drawing of a structure. “the plans for City Hall were on file”.

This article will focuss on the general meaning of architectural plan as a plan and documentation for a building project.

An architectural plan is a type of plan for architecture to describe a place or object, or to communicate building or fabrication instructions. It can containing technical architectural drawings and documentation, and are drawn or printed on paper, but they can take the form of a digital file. Their purpose in these disciplines is to accurately and unambiguously capture all the geometric features of a site, building, product or component. Plans can also be for presentation or orientation purposes, and as such are often less detailed versions of the former. The end goal of plans is either to portray an existing place or object, or to convey enough information to allow a builder or manufacturer to realize a design.

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Elegance

Elegance is the attribute of being unusually effective and simple. It is frequently used as a standard of tastefulness, particularly in the areas of visual design and decoration.

Some westerners associate elegance with simplicity and consistency of design, focusing on the main or basic features of an object, its dignified gracefulness, or restrained beauty of style.

Visual stimuli are frequently considered elegant if a small number of colors and stimuli are used.

Synonyms: classy

Closed to simplicity and consistency of design

Elegance is about the gratuitous (serampangan, asal-asalan) — or, rather, avoiding the gratuitous.  It’s true that sometimes people disagree about which of two or more things is the “most elegant”, but this arises from underlying assumptions rather than any true subjectivity of the principle. Each of us has a set of operating assumptions, some greater than others. Where something conforms to one’s expectations and assumptions, it is seen to not lack in elegance in that manner. Someone that does not have the same underlying assumptions might see the same thing as atrociously inelegant, but having a different set of assumptions would overlook similarly subjective.

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

“Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

“Dream big, simple act.” – Miphz