Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Housing

Housing has bring variety of problems such as land slide, deforestration and many more.

The word 'Housing' brings 2 meanings:

- It is a product (noun) . In Bahasa Malaysia is called perumahan.
The intention of the houisng is the effected by the cost which can devided into 3 categories: low, medium or high.
It also can form the aggregation and divison ( For example: bungalow, terrace, semi-detached).





-it is an act(verb). IN Bahasa Malaysia, it means 'merumahkan'.
For example: The government is so busy to 'house' the people.

Housing as an act involves 5 things: They are hand key, structure and infill, core house, site and service, provide land.

*Hand keys --> first step to get into the new house when we buy a new house.


*Structure and infill --> provide the basic structures.
*Core house --> is a house that put on a side with basic structure such as water and electricity. Usually the owner of the house can do the additional to the house.
*Site and service --> build on and existing structure.
*Provide land --> is done by the constructor of the building.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Intervention

Words is the smallest particles in a language.

What is the meaning of reproduce?
- It means produce again and again.

Why is it important to sustainbility?
- Because the earth is almost destroyed.

The product of built environment must have its own characteristics. For examples: The Characteristics of hydrogen are natural product, odourless.
The properties of built environment are scale, layer and special structure.

Cemetery is an area of ground, not a churhyard, for burying the dead. Dead people or ashes also cant considered as actors who produce the built environment.

The meaning of intervene is to occur or to be in between while the word intervention means come or in between.