New Muara Gembong Spirituality
Abstract
Rising sea level and unsustainable farming practices have pushed Muara Gembong to the edge. Many have abandoned their homeland, leaving only a handful behind, hoping to bring back lost their tradtion and value to their land. Yet, till date it is to no avail.
My thesis proposed a new architecture to the Muara Gembong region, one that is dynamic and adapts to the changing condition on site and aims to reflect the intricate relationship between the nature and humans.
Inspired by local traditional wisdom Pranoto Mongso, my thesis aims to reflect how we can design our architecture that better suit with the climate. More importantly, it educates the locals on the importance of working, learning and living with nature. That our lifestyle should not see nature as something external, but as one that is intergal to their day to day life.
Supervisor Comments
As society grows and develops, ideas and attitudes of change often results in valuing the new while neglecting the old – new technologies, new values, new attitudes. This project seeks to buck the trend by exploring how we can learn from traditions, specifically traditions that seeks to be in harmony with the natural environment, taking from nature without destroying and depleting our environment. A series of progressively varying architecture that engages both land and sea and seeks to occupy this ever-changing threshold facilitates new ways of living and trading. The community is made to appreciate the intrinsic interdependency between human and nature, between land and sea, through the shaping of shapes and space both on land and in water.
- Adj. Assoc. Prof. Neo Sei Hwa
Poon Pei Jie
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