Segala pujian hanya untukMu

Dari 'Abdurrahman bin Abu Bakrah, dari bapaknya r.a.,
katanya seorang laki-laki memuji orang lain dekat Nabi saw.,
lalu Nabi saw berkata kepadanya,


"Celaka kamu. Bererti kamu memenggal leher saudaramu."


Kata-kata itu diucapkan beliau berulang kali.
Apabila seseorang kamu memuji saudaranya, seharusnya dia berkata,


"Cukuplah bagi si Fulan Allah saja yang menilainya. Tidak ada yang lebih pantas menilainya selain Allah Ta'ala, sekalipun temannya tahu dia begini dan begitu."



(Shahih Muslim hadis 2516)


fuh..ok..stop praising other people...indeed there's no better judge than Him.

Usrah Yang Lazat, Lemak Berkrim (^_^)

Saya telah di-tag oleh Syahrul Fitri, saudara saya yang sedang menuntut di Adelaide.

Tajuknya, usrah yang lazat lemak berkrim. Tapi belum digemari ramai.

Selalunya benda-benda sebegini tidak pernah saya hiraukan. Tetapi topik ini lain dari yang lain. Semoga ada khairnya dengan menjawab soalan-soalan yang telah di-tag.

[1*] Berapa lama anda dah sertai usrah?

• Setahun setengah
  

[2*] Bagaimana anda boleh sertai usrah?

• Ter-masuk. (LOL) Tidak sedar. Mula-mula menolak mentah-mentah, tidak mahu terlibat, lama-kelamaan menjadi kerelaan. Kenapa? Haa..sambung baca.
  

[3*] Kenapa anda menyertai usrah?

• [Mula-mula] Hidup di Melbourne penuh pancaroba. Banyak dugaan yang mampu menghanyutkan sesiapa yang berdiri di laluan arus hidup duniawi. Melayu menjadi Aussie, seorang Muslim menjadi Muslim part-time, malu menjadi tidak tahu malu. Usrah, pd pandangan saya telah melindungi diri saya dari terhanyut.
• [Sekarang] Tersentak dengan tanggungjawab yang sepatutnya dipikul apabila memegang gelaran "Muslim". Bukan sekadar solat 5 waktu, puasa, zakat, haji. Juga ada sebab-sebab tertentu. Fahami wasilah ini dengan HATI TERBUKA, baru tahu.
  

[4*] Tiga perasaan anda setelah menyertai usrah

• Rasa syukur
  
• Rasa tenang
• Rasa jeles (dgn mereka yang lebih hebat beramal)
  

dan banyak lagi!

[5*] Lima perkara yang anda dapat selama menyertai usrah

• kefahaman.
• ukhuwah.
• kesedaran.
• tanggungjawab.
• kebanggaan.

dan banyak lagi

Portfolio Design Studio 3

All praise to Allah who guides whomever He wills. If it was not for Him, studying architecture in RMIT would be an architorturing journey. Thank you Ya Rabb.

Design Studio 3, semester 1 2008

Studio : Image
Project : Library
Tutor : Sean McMahon

This semester has been quite the opposite to my previous semester's work. Now it was all about aesthetics of the facade, whereas then, it was 100% planning according to the program given. It was quite an experience, and unbelievably less stress.

The brief was to design a library. Program, site, urban planning, etc were all up to the students. However, the main focus in the studio was ornamentation. Usually the term ornamentation will be associated with medieval architecture, those old gothic buildings and what not. At least that was what I think before. Others might not agree, and they don't have to. Architecture is quite subjective in many ways.

Back to topic, this studio makes me realize that ornamentation does not necassarily mean medieval intricate design, because ornamentation simply means decoration. Therefore, whatever that makes a building beautiful, that's ornament.

It does not have to be structural, however in certain cases, there are architects who designed the structures to be ornamental, such as the Birdnest stadium in Beijing.

One of my favorite buildings is Airspace Tokyo by Thom Faulders Architecture. I've used it as a precedent for my design project.

Below are some of the renders I've produced for my final.

exterior views

detail view - facade close up

cafeteria / bookshop (ground floor)

discussion area (first floor)

void area (second floor)

reading/magazine area & children's area (first floor)

display area from computer terminals (first floor)

Oh yeah. We were also asked to do some research on libraries for this studio. So it was not just suka-suka / hentam sukati design. I visited 6 libraries all over Melbourne and surrounding suburbs (it was funnn) and sat there, asking the librarians how a library should be built, what do they suggest, observing the similarities in all the libraries that I've visited and what not. You can't really escape the research bit. It is vital to know everything that you need to know about what you are designing before going into the design process.

Well I guess there is nothing more that I can type here. Just trying to keep all my posts here short. People don't really read long articles, unless it is REALLY interesting. I wasn't able upload my drawings because the file size is massive. So maybe next time. Or come to RMIT Building 8 level 12 for the end of semester exhibition for architecture students (starting 25th of June 2008, 6pm). My work is somewhere up there. I hope no one will steal my 1:100 human models. They're super expensivvvveee.

Till then, wassalam wrm wbt.

(this post is supposed to be formally written, just like an online version of my portfolio. But, nevermind lah.)