Hiroshi Hara (原広司, Hara Hiroshi; 1936–)

Hiroshi Hara (原広司, Hara Hiroshi; 1936–)

deformed curve roof construction.

Deformed

curve

roof

construction.

Japanese site

Pictures.
http://www.shihei.com/free01/odaiba03.html

Piranesi

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"Many years ago, when I was looking over Piranesi's Antiquities of Rome, Mr. Coleridge, who was standing by, described to me a set of plates by that artist ... which record the scenery of his own visions during the delirium of a fever: some of them (I describe only from memory of Mr. Coleridge's account) representing vast Gothic halls, on the floor of which stood all sorts of engines and machinery, wheels, cables, pulleys, levers, catapults, etc., etc., expressive of enormous power put forth, and resistance overcome. Creeping along the sides of the walls, you perceived a staircase; and upon it, groping his way upwards, was Piranesi himself: follow the stairs a little further, and you perceive it come to a sudden abrupt termination, without any balustrade, and allowing no step onwards to him who had reached the extremity, except into the depths below. ... But raise your eyes, and behold a second flight of stairs still higher: on which again Piranesi is perceived, but this time standing on the very brink of the abyss. Again elevate your eye, and a still more aerial flight of stairs is beheld: and again is poor Piranesi busy on his aspiring labors: and so on, until the unfinished stairs and Piranesi both are lost in the upper gloom of the hall. ...
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Marguerite Yourcenar

Terra Estrangeira

Terra Estrangeira
In a foreign land, he finds love and danger…







Here it is...the single most popular road ride on the Peninsula...possibly in all of California.
It's not too tough...less than 20 miles, no steep hills, but plenty of rolling stuff to give you a good workout if you want। The roads are all fairly safe & wide, with exception of Arastradero Road, found between #3 and #4 on this map.

Starting at Stanford #1, head south on Junipero Serra to the stoplight at Page Mill। Head right (west) a very short distance and take the narrow pathway onto Old Page Mill Road. This is a very scenic little road that has no outlet for cars and is therefor wonderful for cyclists! You'll merge back onto the main Page Mill just prior to the freeway 280 crossing. After 280, take the first right onto Arastradero...this twisty little road begins nicely but does get a bit narrow as you hit the hilly section. After a mile or two you'll end up at Alpine Road, where you head left, up a slight grade that takes you into Portola Valley. At #5 on the map, turn right onto Portola Road. As you head past Portola Valley, pay attention to #6 on the map, which is the entrance to Old La Honda road...one of the nicest climbs up to Skyline Blvd. You might not be ready for it yet, but you will soon!

As you cruise over the "top" of the loop, get ready for a fun descent down Sand Hill Road (and no, I'm not really sure where Portola Road changes into Sand Hill)...but it ends all too quickly and you have a moderate climb that's going to take some work. At the top of Sand Hill you'll see the prize...a long descent back down to Junipero Serra!

Terra Estrangeira

Terra Estrangeira

In a foreign land, he finds love and danger…

Terra Estrangeira
In a foreign land, he finds love and danger…

The road to a friend’s house is never long.

The road to a friend’s house is never long.

- Danish Proverb

In Chinese eyes "these galloping horses are not wild horses. They have both a dragon and a human nature.

In Chinese eyes "these galloping horses are not wild horses। They have both a dragon and a human nature। They are running and stampeding, free of all restraints। They are an image of imagination। It is a synthetic characteristic symbol, a symbol of freedom, a symbol of rising, a symbol of the Chinese nation on the point of lifting its head."

The history of Chinese horse painting is the history of Chinese civilization, a history that tells us that the Chinese are friendly as well as hostile to nature, their fellow human beings and horses. The spirit of horse painting also reflects all the sorrows, happiness and hopes of the Chinese nation over the last millennia.

living_in_palo_alto

Palo Altoは地中海性気候。これから訪れる乾期を前に、植物が元気いっぱいです

Say, Cheese!

Say, Cheese!

Window

A window is an opening in an otherwise solid and opaque surface that allows the passage of light and, if not fixed, air. Windows are usually glazed or covered in some other transparent or translucent material.

Soup

Fort

Fortification is usually divided into two branches, namely permanent fortification and field fortification. Permanent fortifications are erected at leisure, with all the resources that a state can supply of constructive and mechanical skill, and are built of enduring materials.

Field fortifications are extemporized by troops in the field, perhaps assisted by such local labor and tools as may be procurable and with materials that do not require much preparation, such as earth, brushwood and light timber.

There is also an intermediate branch known as semipermanent fortification. This is employed when in the course of a campaign it becomes desirable to protect some locality with the best imitation of permanent defences that can be made in a short time, ample resources and skilled civilian labor being available.

Karesansui

Karesansui 枯山水 (dry landscape gardens, also known as rock gardens and waterless stream gardens) are typically associated with Zen Buddhism, and often found in the front or rear gardens at the residences (houjou 方丈) of Zen abbots.

The main elements of karesansui are rocks and sand, with the sea symbolized not by water but by sand raked in patterns that suggest rippling water.

Representative examples are the gardens of Ryoanji Temple and Daitokuji Temple, both in Kyoto.

Plants are much less important (and sometimes nonexistent) in many karesansui gardens. Karesansui gardens are often, but not always, meant to be viewed from a single, seated perspective, and the rocks are often associated with and named after various Chinese mountains.

The first-ever Zen landscape garden in Japan is credited to Kenchoji Temple in Kamakura. Founded in 1251, this temple was the chief monastery for the five great Zen monasteries that thrived during the Kamakura era (1185-1333). It became the center of Zen Buddhism thanks to strong state patronage.

Arts & Crafts, Craftsman Gates ~ At the heart of this style is smooth planed wood assembled using simple, sometimes pegged joints and wooden latches. Additionally, beams with rounded edges, "japanese" style joinery and the "cloud lift" motif are a mark of the Craftsman, Asian style. Complete the look by using simple board patterns, trim accents, and copper post caps.

Mishima

Masks are worn to protect or disguise the face. Most masks worn to disguise are in the form of an animal or another person.

Protective masks serve a specific purpose. For example, a welder wears a steel mask with a special lens to shield their eyes from the intense light produced by welding. Disguise masks include ceremonial masks, theatrical masks, burial and death masks, and festival masks.

Masks are made of varied materials including paper, cloth, grass, leather, metal, shell, and carved of wood or stone.

They can be painted with symbolic designs and vivid colors. Some masks have realistic human or animal features, while others provide a grotesque appearance.

House of Gold

I had rather be in a dark cold grave, and know that my poor soul was saved, Than to live in this world in a house of gold, and deny my God and doom my soul.

Jesus said come unto me, Ill break sins chains and set you free, Ill carry you to a home on high, where youll never never did.

Jesus died there on the cross, so this world would not be lost, Sinner hear now what I say, for someday youll have to pay.

-Hank Williams

Corrugated Metal

http://mayang.com/textures/Metal/html/Corrugated%20Metal/index.html

Styro Foam Culture

Tatami were originally a luxury item for the wealthy at a time when lower classes had mat-covered dirt floors.[1] Tatami were gradually popularized and finally reached the homes of commoners towards the end of the 17th century.[2]

Tatami (畳 tatami, Tatami) (originally meaning "folded and piled") mats are a traditional Japanese flooring.

Made of woven straw, and traditionally packed with straw (though nowadays sometimes with styrofoam), tatami are made in individual mats of uniform size and shape, bordered by brocade or plain green cloth.

white house

Garret, Hayloft, Sky Parlor

An attic is an area found directly below the roof of a building or house (also called garret, loft, hayloft and sky parlor).[1] As attics fill the space between the ceiling of the top floor of a building and most often a slanted roof, they are known for being awkwardly shaped spaces with exposed rafters and difficult-to-access corners.






While some attics are converted as bedrooms or home offices, complete with windows and staircases, most attics remain hard to get to and neglected, and are typically used for storage. Attics can also help control temperature in a house by providing a large mass of unmoving air. Hot air rising from lower floors of a building often gets trapped in the attic, further compounding their reputation for inhospitability. However in recent years many attics have been insulated to help decrease heating costs.

Lanterns

Decorative lanterns exist in a wide range of designs. Some hang from buildings, while others are placed on or just above the ground. Paper lanterns occur in societies around the world. Modern varieties often place an electric light in a decorative glass case.

The simplest technology used is the candle lantern. Candles give only a weak light, and must be protected from wind to prevent from flickering or complete extinguishment. A typical candle lantern is a metal box with glass side panels and opening on the top.

101

Taipei 101 has 101 stories above ground (hence the name) and five underground.


The building held the records for:

Ground to roof: 449 m (1,474 ft). Formerly held by the Sears Tower 442 m (1,451 ft)
Ground to highest occupied floor: 439 m (1,441 ft). Formerly held by the Sears Tower
Fastest Ascending Elevator speed: 16.83 m/s (37.5 miles/hour or 60.4 km/h)
Largest Count-Down Clock on New Year's Eve.

It does not hold the record for the greatest height from ground to pinnacle, which is still held by the Sears Tower 527 m (1,729 ft).

Taipei 101's roof was completed on July 1, 2003. In a ceremony presided over by Mayor Ma Ying-jeou who fastened a golden bolt to signify the official topping-out, the pinnacle was fitted on October 17, 2003, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Towers by 57 meters (188 ft).


Taipei 101 is the first and currently only habitable building in the world to break the half-kilometer mark in height.

Various sources, including the building's owners, list the height as 508.0 m (1,667 ft), roof height and top floor height as 448.0 m (1470 ft) and 438.0 m (1437 ft). These lower figure is measured from the top of a 1.2 m (4 ft) platform at the base. However, according to CTBUH standards, the height of this platform should be included in the building height because it is part of the man-made structure and is above the level of the surrounding pavement.

Taipei 101 displaced the 51 story, 244.15 m (801 ft) Shin Kong Life Tower as the tallest building in Taipei, and the 85 story, 347.5 m (1140 ft) Tuntex Sky Tower in Kaohsiung as the tallest building in Taiwan.

Circle of Art

Dashed Lines / Wire Form / Ship Shape

Dashline draws dashed lines and provides a range of shaping and smoothing capabilities.

Area fills polygons using solid fill, parallel solid lines, rows of dots, rows of form markers, or rows of characters. You can use it to do crosshatching and specify dot and line patterns, and you may use color.

Areas creates an area map from a set of edges that divide a two-dimensional plane into areas. The area map may then be used in a number of ways, such as in conjunction with dashline to create solid-colored architectural shape.

Contemporary shape, Modern design, form & architecture.

Boxcar

A container can be easily transshipped and is amenable to intermodal transportation, carryable by ships, trucks or trains, and can be delivered door-to-door. In many respects a container is a boxcar without the wheels and underframe.

Boxcars can carry most kinds of freight. Originally they were hand-loaded, but in more recent years mechanical assistance such as forklifts have been used to load and empty them faster. Their generalized design is still slower to load and unload than specialized designs of car, and this partially explains the decline in boxcar numbers since World War II. The other cause for this decline is the container.



Even loose loads such as coal, grain and ore can be carried in a boxcar, with boards over the side door openings, at later times grain transport used metal reinforced cardboard which was nailed over the door and could be punctured by a grain auger for unloading. This was more common in earlier days; it was susceptible to losing much loading during the journey, and damaged the boxcar. It was also impossible to mechanically load and unload. Grain can also be transported in boxcars designed specifically for that purpose; specialized equipment and procedures are required to load and unload the cars.

A curve may be a locus, or a path. That is, it may be a graphical representation of some property of points; or it may be traced out, for example by a stick in the sand on a beach. Of course if one says curved in ordinary language, it means bent (not straight), so refers to a locus. This leads to the general idea of curvature. As we now understand, after Newtonian dynamics, to follow a curved path a body must experience acceleration. Before that, the application of current ideas to (for example) the physics of Aristotle is probably anachronistic. This is important because major examples of curves are the orbits of the planets. One reason for the use of the Ptolemaic system of epicycle and deferent was the special status accorded to the circle as curve.

1986

Back in the US, Mike becomes romantically involved with Nick's girlfriend, Linda . Although Nick and Steven are still missing, Mike, Stanley, John, and Axel go on a hunting trip. Mike gets the opportunity to kill a beautiful buck, but aims away at the last second, unable to follow through with another killing. In their hunting cabin, Stan pulls out his revolver, and Axel makes a lewd comment about Stan's girlfriend. Stan becomes angry and threateningly points the gun at Axel. Mike enters the room and quickly disarms Stan, who insists the gun was empty. When Mike discovers it had been fully loaded, he empties all the rounds out of the gun except one. He spins the chamber, places the gun against Stan's head and pulls the trigger. The gun doesn't go off. He then leaves the cabin and throws the gun into the mountains.

Gravitation

Gravitation is a natural phenomenon by which all objects attract each other. In everyday life, gravitation is most familiar as the agency that endows objects with weight. Gravitation is responsible for keeping the Earth and the other planets in their orbits around the Sun; for keeping the Moon in its orbit around the Earth; for the formation of tides; for convection (by which hot fluids rise); for heating the interiors of forming stars and planets to very high temperatures; and for various other phenomena that we observe. Gravitation is also the reason for the very existence of the Earth, the Sun, and most macroscopic objects in the universe; without it, matter would not have coalesced into these large masses, and life, as we know it, would not exist.

Udon

Udon can be eaten hot or cold and can be cooked in many ways. You might have seen udon noodles in hot soup.

To cook udon noodles, following the instruction in the package is the best since cooking time differs in each kind. If there isn't any instruction available, follow the basic steps below. Cold udon is popular in hot times. Cold udon is eaten by dipping into dipping sauce.

Mentsuyu can be purchased or can be made by mixing soy sauce, mirin, and Japanese dashi soup stock.There are many kinds of noodles eaten in Japan.

Udon is white and the thickest noodles (about 4-6 mm wide.) Udon is made by kneading wheat flour, salt, and water. Dried udon, boiled udon, and fresh udon are available.

Dream

The events of dreams are often impossible, or unlikely to occur, in physical reality: they are also outside the control of the dreamer. The exception to this is known as lucid dreaming, in which dreamers realize that they are dreaming, and are sometimes capable of changing their dream environment and controlling various aspects of the dream. The dream environment is often much more realistic in a lucid dream, and the senses heightened. A dream is the experience of a sequence of images, sounds, ideas, emotions, or other sensations during sleep, especially REM sleep.

Yokohama Steel

Steel offers much better compression and tension than concrete and enables lighter construction. Steel structures use three-dimensional trusses, so they can be larger than reinforced concrete counterparts. Computerized, high-precision stress analysis and innovative jointing allow an array of structures and shapes. Steel frame construction now predominates.

Green Roof

Green roofs are also referred to as eco-roofs, vegetated roofs, living roofs, and greenroofs.

A green roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and soil, or a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane.

This does not refer to roofs which are merely colored green, as with green shingles. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigation systems.

Container gardens on roofs, where plants are maintained in pots, are not generally considered to be true green roofs, although this is an area of debate. The term "green roof" may also be used to indicate roofs that utilize some form of "green" technology, such as solar panels or a photovoltaic module.

Architect as River / River of Lights

Serving as a voice for the voiceless; Acting as a guide, mentor and coach for those seeking a more fulfilling life through service, ownership, stewardship and community;Lending a helping hand to those in need.

China Blue

Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,

Swirling clouds in violet haze,

Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.

Colors changing hue,

morning field of amber grain,

Weathered faces lined in pain,

Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,

How you suffered for your sanity,

How you tried to set them free.

They would not listen, they did not know how.

Perhaps they'll listen now. For they could not love you,

But still your love was true.

And when no hope was left in sight On that starry, starry night,

You took your life,

as lovers often do.

But I could have told you,

Vincent... Starry, starry night.

Past, future, present

Whatever is material shape, past, future, present, subjective or objective, gross or subtle, mean or excellent, whether it is far or near — all material shape should be seen by perfect intuitive wisdom as it really is: "This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self." Whatever is feeling, whatever is perception, whatever are habitual tendencies, whatever is consciousness, past, future, present, subjective or objective, gross or subtle, mean or excellent, whether it is far or near — all should be seen by perfect intuitive wisdom as it really is: "This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self."

Buddha Gautama (born 563 B.C.)

Build Underground

Red Brick Tunnel

Build Light

Build Light
- Gabriel Poole

The pyramid / four triangular sides / pyramidion (capstone) / apex

The pyramid form consists of four triangular sides, erected upon a square base, and meeting in a pyramidion (capstone) at the apex. The pyramid's core was constructed of granite blocks (Old Kingdom) or mud brick (Middle Kingdom), and faced with smooth white limestone.

The pyramidion was covered in thin gold or electrum (an alloy of gold and silver). The whole construction would shine blindingly in the brilliant Egyptian daylight, in imitation of the rays of the sun itself, shining down from heaven. In this way, the pyramid provided a magical staircase by which the spirit of Pharaoh could ascend to the sky and join his father Re (the sun) in his daily journey across the heavens.

This is the ultimate.

"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."

Chuang-Tzu

Termite Nest / Human Scale / Skyscraper

"If we were to transfer a large termite nest to human scale, their tower would rise to the height of a mile and would house the entire population of New York."

- Animal Architecture

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American Exceptionalism / Emergence of E–Urbanization

" According to Lipset (Seymore Martin Lipset), the United States is the most anti-statist, legalistic and rights-oriented nation in the world. These traits are the outgrowth of the principles of liberty, individualism, egalitarianism, populism and laissez-faire that were embedded in the nation’s founding principles. But this American Creed also had a dark side, promoting not only personal responsibility, independent initiative and voluntarism, but also self-serving behavior, atomism, and disregard for the common good."

"The expression of both faces of the American Creed in the dispersed urbanization of the automobile era is well known. Indeed, successive waves of technological change, mediated through the underlying cultural predispositions of the Creed, have brought successive types of cities to the American scene. In what ways will the new IT technologies, similarly mediated, call forth new settlement types and patterns?"

"The concept of e-Urbanization is introduced to capture the shifts that are unfolding. Just as Louis Wirth argued that the structuring dimensions of the industrial city were size, density and heterogeneity, so the dimensions of e-Scale, e-Density and e-Heterogeneity are introduced as the structuring dimensions of the e-City. e-Scale involves the span of IT networks, e-Density the intensity of networked interdependence and the existence of positive feedback, and e-Heterogeneity the tension between the globalization of tertiary interactions and the persistence of primary ethological needs for self-identity via status identification and territoriality. Together, they define the principal axes along which the e-City will evolve and e-Urbanization will pattern global space. "

- Brian J.L. Berry

The University of Texas at Dallas

Palo Alto - A R C H I T E C T

Contemporary architecture / Modern interior/ addition/ remodel/ from concept to completion/from planning to permit/new single family home design. Licensed architect.

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“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.” Chuang-Tzu

Green Building

綠建築如同環境保育一般，是一種生活態度，而態度的來源是哲學、宗教，如同信仰般的執著與力量在導向。

Green Building as environmental conservation in general, is a life attitude, and attitude is a source of philosophy, religion, As the persistent belief as the direction and strength.

- K. Huo

Design

Design

The drop seeps whole
from boulder-lichen
or ledge moss and drops,

joining, to trickle,
run, fall, dash,
sprawl in held deeps,

to rush shallows, spill
thin through heights,
but then, edging,

to eddy aside, nothing
of all but nothing's
curl of motion spent.

A.R. Ammons