The great unlearning.This dramatic (if not brash) institute is intended both to project an image of technical progress and to respond to the tropical climate with least use of artificially produced energy by exploiting the geometries of site and section. The Institute of Technical Education (ITE ITE - In the Ear ITE - Industrial Technology Equipment ITE - Information Technologies Engineering (UCONN) ITE - Information Technology Equipment ITE - Initial Teacher Education (UK) ITE - Institute of Technical Editors ITE - Institute of Technical Education ITE - Institute of Telecommunications Engineers ITE - Institute of Terrestrial Ecology ITE - Institute of Traffic Engineers ITE - Institute of Transportation Engineers) is a development of Akitek Tenggara' exploration of a modern architectural language for the tropics. Two 250m long parallel blocks of accommodation are separated by a strip of landscape 18m wide. They are gently bent to a curve with an inside radius of 170m. The four-storey-high blocks are punctured at intervals along the facade t permit prevailing breezes to pass through the structure. The curved roof has a wide overhang Overhang Calculated as stock options granted, plus the remaining options to still be granted, and then divided by the total shares outstanding.Notes: A high percentage for the overhang is usually a bad thing. It means there is a growing possibility that the options will be exercised and dilute the company's stock. See also: Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), Exercise, Incentive Stock Option (ISO), Nonqualified Stock Option (NSO), Option which gives protection from the rain and sun. The overhang is supported on a secondary steel frame which also carries aerolon Iouvres which shield the external walls. The building projects a striking image of raw technology with steel bridges across the gap between the two linear blocks. Everything is stripped to essentials: decoration is superfluous; every component has a structural reason or is an essential climatic controlling device. The building is entered on the west, into a soaring, naturally ventilated atriu and open-to-sky auditorium. The roof is a high curved steel frame with open sides. The place is perhaps not entirely suitable for its users in a tropical thunderstorm but at other times it is the hub of the complex. An industrial glass lift ascends within the atrium and is connected by flying bridges to the intermediate floors of the teaching blocks. The architectural language is consistent throughout. The building celebrates technology poetically, The central street is reminiscent of Tay Tay (tā), longest river of Scotland, 118 mi (190 km) long. It rises on Ben Lui in the Grampians as the Fillan and flows NE into Loch Dochart, where it is called the Dochart until it enters Loch Tay, 14 1-2 mi (23 km) long and 1 mi (1.6 km) wide. Kheng Soon's ideas for Kampong Bugis DGP DGP - Daily Grammar Practice (education) DGP - Data Gathering Panel DGP - Data Generating Process DGP - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Parodontologie DGP - Digitaler Grossprint DGP - Director General of Police (India) DGP - Dissimilar Gateway Protocol DGP - District Government Pleader DGP - Dog-Gone-Pain DGP - Senior Defense Group on Proliferation (NATO); it is high and narrow with overhanging roofs that effectively give shade throughout the day. Non-reflective landscape helps to cool the building. Two elements could be better. The alignment of the gutter could be improved -- difficult though it is, for it curves in two directions. And the soft landscape is handled with less confidence than the structural elements and appears perfunctory. This criticism aside, this is seminal building advancing Tay Kheng Soon's advocacy of a design language for the tropics which emphasises line, edge, mesh and shade, rather than an architecture of plane, volume, solid and void. Tay suggests that 'an unlearning process is involved, given the dominance of European architecture which has formed the basics of architectural training for the past 200 years'. |
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