HUBUNGAN

Bismillahi rahmanirrahim....

"Mereka ditimpa kehinaan (dari segala jurusan) di mana sahaja mereka berada, kecuali dengan adanya sebab dari Allah dan adanya sebab dari manusia. Dan sudah sepatutnya mereka beroleh kemurkaan dari Allah, dan mereka ditimpakan kemiskinan (dari segala jurusan). Yang demikian itu, disebabkan mereka sentiasa kufur ingkar akan ayat-ayat Allah (perintah-perintahNya), dan mereka membunuh Nabi-nabi dengan tiada alasan yang benar. Semuanya itu disebabkan mereka derhaka dan sentiasa mencerobohi (hukum-hukum Allah)." |surah al-imran : 112|

“Dia-lah Allah, yang menjadikan segala yang ada di bumi untuk kamu” | surah al baqarah: 29|

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cuba kite tgk ayat di atas yang cuba menerangkan perihal hubungan yang ada di dunia ni.
-hubungan manusia dengan Allah,
-hubungan manusia dengan manusia,
-manusia dengan alam.

disini sy ingin menerangkan dengan lebih lanjut mengenai hubungan manusia dengan alam, maaf jika silap, silalah betulkan ya.
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di suatu petang yg riuh rendah....

sy menceritakan kepada kawan tentang mak sahabat sy yang bercakap dengan pokok...(hehe)
pokok yang mak dia tanam tu tak nak berbuah,
jadi setiap pagi mak dia akan datang kepada pokok tu, dan bercakap dengannya..(maaf kalau sy edit sket)
dan akhirnya pokok tu berbuah dengan lebatnya...

kawan2 sy hairan, boleh ke kite bercakap dengan pokok?



pelik kan soalan dia tu, adakah disebabkan pokok tu statik dan langsung tidak bergerak dia mengkategorikan makhluk itu tidak bernyawa?
huhu...

dia hanya memandang pada zahirnya, bukan memikirkannya..
dia ingin lagi penjelasan bagaimana kite berinteraksi dengan alam ni?


lalu sy berkata kepadanya...anda adalah alam itu...
(hehe..gelak kecil)

dia pelik...dan raut wajah menunjukkan kepelikkan...

back to basic laaa........

cuba ingat balik kita ni diciptakan dari apa...
segenggam tanah je kan...
tanah tu dari mane?
dari alam kan...
kita dari tanah, dan kembali kepada tanah...
tapi dimana diri kita sebenarnya?
roh yang ditiupkan ke dalam jasad bagi menghidupkan jasad yang tidak bernyawa tu...
kita bernafas sekarang ni pun bagaimana oksigen melalui rongga2 tanah,
kita minum air, bagaimana air melalui rongga2 tanah...
kita ni roh yang menggerakkan jasad tanah ni,
jasad yang kita pinjam ni hanya sementara, ade expired date dia,
jangan buat2 lupa pulak...
kita ni sebahagian dari alam,
sebab roh+tanah=manusia
ingat balik asal usul kita...
jasad tanah ni adalah amanah dari Allah yang wajib untuk kita menjaganya sebaik mungkin...
tanah kembali kepada tanah,
dan kita kembali kepda Allah SWT...

wallahua'lam...

"JAGALAH JASAD TANAH INI"

"Architecture for the Poor"

Hasan Fathy, the most eminent Egyptian architect of the 20th century, was always controversial in his native country and little known beyond its borders. A portrait of the artist by Ingeborg Flagge

Hassan Fathy believed in the social responsibility of the architect and acted accordingly throughout his life. He invested all of the money he earned designing luxury villas for rich clients in buildings and villages for poor fellahs. Those were the clients he was truly committed to.

"The building client I am interested in is represented by the 800 million people of the third world who, according to statistics, are doomed to die before their time because of the poor conditions they live in. Architects should be serving this client, but architects are not interested in these poor people. It is like the barefoot doctors in China; the poor also need 'barefoot' architects."


Fathy, who was born in Alexandria in 1900 and died in 1989, was Egypt's most important architect of the 20th century. He is hardly known outside of Egypt and was unpopular in his native country throughout his life. But more than 15 years after his death, those who knew him still speak rapturously of his charisma and of the sensuality of his architecture.

Buildings of clay, flooded with light

Fathy's buildings are constructed almost exclusively of clay. Their architectural forms have a sculptural beauty, and feature walkable roofs, cosy inner courtyards and delicate sun screens.

His schools, mosques, theatres, markets and factories come alive through the controlled effect of the light which enters them through openings covered elaborately with glass or wood.

European observers of Fathy's architecture are, above all, fascinated by the abstract overall form of the buildings, which seems disturbingly exotic. The use of clay allows for soft contours and gently oscillating lines that have a sensual attraction. These are founded in Fathy's belief that, "The straight line is the line of duty, while the curve is the path of beauty."

Villages of clay

One of his most spectacular project villages, New Gourna, follows that path. Its strict geometric plan is broken by gently curving streets and sloping alleyways. They create a tension that leads one to continuously new viewpoints while strolling through the village.

Hassan Fathy's great contribution to modern Egyptian architecture is the rediscovery of traditional methods of clay construction. Their principles had been forgotten; not until he was aided by Nubian master builders did Fathy succeed in creating a renaissance in archway and cupola construction techniques, which he first tested in projects in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India and Greece.

One of his most impressive clay villages, from both an architectural and social standpoint, is Dar al-Islam Village, which was created in New Mexico, USA in 1980. This low-lying village with its breath-taking mountain backdrop is the loveliest evidence of the durability of Fathy's architecture if it is used, cherished and well-maintained.

Criticism in his native land

These same traits caused difficulties for Fathy's buildings in Egypt. Public authorities refused to work with him. Fellow architects, educated in Europe and international in their orientation, considered Fathy's architecture to be romantic and anachronistic. His users were too lethargic and not enlightened enough to understand Fathy's progressive ideas.

Fathy, considering his ancient family background, saw himself as one link in a long chain of master builders rooted in Islam whose duty it was to carry forward the Arabian building tradition. On the one hand, he was cosmopolitan, a man of the world who was respected as a guru everywhere he went. On the other hand, he was an Egyptian master builder who helped Arabian architecture flourish anew, all the while vilified and hated in his native country.

It's true that Fathy benefited from a western-oriented architectural education in Cairo. However, he never saw himself as capable of radically breaking with tradition as in modern European architecture, nor did he believe in an international architecture that would wipe out the characteristic architecture of a given country. He considered architecture to be linked to location and tradition, not something for uniform, mass production.

He saw his role as an architect as something quite like a mystic seismograph. He did not find the formula for his architecture – rooms, dimensions and proportions found him. "There is a holy geometry of the Pharoahs. Rooms can have a healing effect. We must recover these secrets."

Fathy's main contribution was not his buildings, however. Instead, it was his skill in formulating images and visions that took up the centuries-old principles of Egyptian construction and increased awareness of a tradition that was always visible but no longer highly regarded.

In his fantastic gouaches, which he used instead of plain building plans, quotations from the ancient world of the Egyptian gods turn up alongside his minimally beautiful, cubistically complete houses. For example, Hathor, in the form of a cow, and Osiris, in the form of a sycamore tree, watch over the sober ground-plan for New Gourna.

Buildings for the poor

Throughout his life, Hassan Fathy was a tenacious and patient advocate of the poor. That's not because he viewed architecture as socially responsible building construction, but above all, because he believed that good architecture helps to improve human living conditions. "In a beautiful house, the soul has a chance to grow and to fly …".

In his book "Architecture for the Poor," published in 1969, he formulated principles which should be a challenge to every architect:

"Architecture for the poor should not be looked upon as treating a particular kind of disease. I'm referring to a new architecture that is valid for both the rich and the poor. Unfortunately, the poor do not benefit from the merits of aesthetics. People associate poverty with ugliness, and this is incorrect. The less expensive the project, the more important are the concern and attention paid to aesthetic considerations."


Ingeborg Flagge

© Ingeborg Flagge/Qantara.de 2005

The article was originally published in the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau.

Translated from the German by Mark Rossman

Bulat

Bulat.

simple jek.

tp anda perlu memahami dengan betul.

pernahkah anda terfikir bulat ini sebenarnya berpusing arah mana?

adakah ianya statik? adakah ikut jam? adakah berlawanan jam?

sekiranya sy berkata ianya berpusing berlawanan jam bagaimana?

adakah anda menerima jawapan sy sebulat suara?

anda ingin buktinya?

mari kita sama-sama fikir.

kita tengok disekeliling kita, barulah kita buat keputusan yg sepatutnya.

kalau saudara melihat jemaah haji melakukan tawaf, arah manakah mereka pusing?

kalau saudara mengkaji arah putaran bumi, arah manakah bumi berputar?

kalau saudara mengkaji perihal planet-planet, arah manakah planet-planet itu berputar

mengelilingi matahari?

kalau saudara mengkaji sunnah Baginda SAW, Baginda mengacau sup/masakan pada arah mana?

kalau anda membaca al-Quran, dari arah mana ke arah mana kita membacanya?

kalau anda lihat kejadian terbit matahari, terbenam matahari, dari arah mana ia terbit, dan ke

arah mana ia terbenam?

kalau anda mengkaji sejenis tarian yg diilhamkan oleh Allah kepada Jalaluddin Rumi, iaitu Tarian Sufi yg terkenal di Turki, arah manakah tarian itu berpusing?

banyak persoalan bukan?

pernahkah anda terfikir sebelum ini?

"setiap kejadian yg Allah ciptakan mempunyai paksi" (philo-sufi kidalisme)

benarkah?

adakah bulat itu mempunyai paksi?

cuba anda fikirkan, dan ambil persoalan-persoalan diatas.

sekiranya bulat itu tidak mempunyai paksi, adakah bentuk bulat yg betul-betul bulat akan

terhasil?

sebagai contoh mudah, cuba anda lukis bulat dengan hanya free-hand sahaja, adakah ianya

betul-betul bulat?

cuba pula anda lukis bulat itu dengan menggunakan jangka lukis, ianya menjadi bentuk bulatan

yg sempurna.

mari kita fikir lagi tentang persoalan-persoalan di atas.

semua persoalan-persoalan yg sy kemukakan, semuanya berpusing/berputar pada arah lawan

jam.

jadi sebagai kesimpulannya.

"sesuatu yg berputar pada arah berlawanan jam dan mempunyai paksi putarannya akan membentuk BULATAN" (philo-sufi kidalisme)

Axis exist

Kenapa blog ini wujud?
kerana ada axis...
kenapa ada axis?
sebab setiap sesuatu kejadian mempunyai axis tersendiri...

jadi blog ini adalah axis kepada si pembaca...

pening?

hehe...

pening tu best,
selagi x pening, selagi tu la kite x jumpe mende lain...

pening2kanlah dulu, sebelum pening jap lagi...

sesungguhnye blog ini amatlah memeningkan..hehe

jadi latihlah hati anda untuk membuka mata, mata yg berfikir, memahami, mata yg xbuta...

1st post ni sekadar intro yg memeningkan sket sebelum post2 yg memeningkan seterusnye...
fikir, buka, faham...

wassalam...