onionworld :: a place of my own

Friday, May 13, 2005

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** Design Proposal - Inside & Outside **

"the inside of the inside is the inside of the outside"

a house, in particular would be the urban inside. the interiority of space that moves in a linear progression, following square, grids, lines. putting the urban inside into the outside surrounding context, the outside, in comparison becomes indefinite. lost without directions, overly confusing with disorientated positioning and directions.
the urban house is a programmatic conclusion, an area which is easily recognisable and straightforward. one would not get lost in it, however, at times, would be overwhelmed by the amount of directions and orderly mannerism. instruction overloading, one just has to get out!
in contract, the outside, the country, brings surprises and is without whatsoever directional program. the curves of roads, the up and downs of hills, the randomness in positioning, all in all becomes senseless. a distance view is unreachable without much thought and exploration. a haven of non program.
the outside, a place where urban city dwellers run to after having too much of a coordinated life. would they survive the total opposite of what they had been living in? a contrast of survival, having altogether to learn to survive again in an alien surroundings - the outside.
what is the middle ground of the inside and the outside? south morang possess both these qualities. being at the edge of the inside and yet touches the tranquillity of the outside. it becomes the neutral zone for both extremes. they share both directional programs and randomness of both sides. streets in south morang, curve from side to side, houses positioned in awkward orientations, though all being in a planned coordination, it is planned to be as such. it brings to mind the effect of planned garden suburbs where clusters of parks are being planted in the middle of a housing/commercial area. south morang forms the resolve of bringing two sides together. using the linearity to perform the randomness.
a house that is neither the inside nor the outside. a house that neither pushes out the neighbours nor invite the neighbours in. a house that embraces city lifestyle with the implementations of the country nature. a house that is randomness with program. yet just a simple house, that brings surprises as well.

---------------** note **-------------------

i don't usually write much so after writing this..i just feel that i might as well post it up. thanks for reading tho its hard to understand it =)

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