Modern Architecture in Bali

 In this post I will discuss a bit about Bali in the modern architecture or also known as Neo Vernacular architecture. Maybe you ever heard of a Modern Balinese architecture TSB. Actually, what's up with modern Balinese architecture or New vernacular?

The term "Modern Bali", "Java" or "the modern regional architecture" in the modern science of architecture called the stream "New Vernacular architecture." So so the flow is the flow of Neo Vernacular style of architecture that incorporates characteristics particular area that is packed into a newer style. What's the difference with traditional Balinese architecture? difference is Neo Vernacular architectural style or ornament just take it, but do not take the whole concept.

Above is an example for the design of "Villa Batang" (Like the picture on the left) which use angkul angkul Bali (entrance at the front of the house) has been 'modified' form. This design style ornament on traditional architecture is angkul-angkul the following simplified form style or style that is the current trend. Moreover, if it says "modern" also is not appropriate, because the architecture is not known when the term "modern" or "past" (to say "Beauty is Timeless"), and in the language of architecture can be said, a little more ornament.

So in conclusion, 'is a modern Balinese architecture, the flow architecture that takes some Balinese style architectural ornament or a simplified form to follow style that is the trend at that time. Thus our post about the New Vernacular Architecture ..

6 tips for smooth landscaping ideas

Here are six tips to achieve a smooth landscaping ideas for your home.

1. Analyze the ground

Before the landscaping itself, it must observe its field: how are the slopes, the flow of water, prevailing winds, sunshine, north, driveways, areas electrical facilities, stairs and well.

2. Deciding what to hide and what to highlight

The landscaping must be built around existing elements. Is there a shed, a cord of wood, a neighbor or other elements of our surroundings we would hide? In contrast, what do we want to highlight? The house, a tree, a statue or another point of attraction.

3. Identify areas, like the environment of the house

By designing your landscaping, compare your site to your house and divide it into three zones, or more if necessary. These areas correspond to parts of the house. Each of these areas should be a main attraction and a certain extent free from any side lawn attractive object.

4. Public area: the vestibule is the part at the front of the house. It must be developed and ornamented so as to leave an impression of good taste, cleanliness and hospitality. This area is almost public, and should be as simple as possible. Plantations along the lawn and walkways must converge toward the door to attract attention. 

 

5. Service area: the workroom often located near the garage. It contains the shed, clothesline, compost, garden, shed, cellar entrance and storage area. It can be mailed to two or three places on the ground, but it is easier to focus on a single point. This is probably the most difficult to treat because this area is very heterogeneous. A screen can be used to hide a part.

6. Children's room: the dining room, and games room located at the rear, in a comfortable place in private. This area often takes the form of a roundabout which gives access to other areas. One can find a patio, pool or other decorative elements such as a pond, a statue, a rock or a tree with a shady bench. If you want to divide it into sub-sections, each will have its own appeal points.

Landscaping the front of your home

The landscaping the front of your home has the power to create an atmosphere, either positively or negatively. It is important that your landscaping reflects who you are and what you want to create the effect in your visitors. Choosing your landscape is so important. You'll want one that will create a welcoming atmosphere and who knows how to value your home, but steal the show. Too many colors or various species could create a disharmonious atmosphere.

 

New homes have coatings increasingly sought noble and ornaments. A bad earth could come to spoil the important investment is the choice of materials. Beware landscapers who want to sell you deja vu or construction of an item as a focal point that will steal the spotlight at your home. A good mix of plants, trees, shrubs, noble materials such as natural stone and landscape lighting will be well thought better difference. Besides the atmosphere and aesthetics, this type of landscaping is primarily the function of allowing traffic. Your landscape, different options available to you, whether your sidewalk from your driveway to your house porch, stairs to your porch and even the balcony.

The natural stone can give more wealth to your landscaping and concrete paves more style than a simple input asphalt. In some districts, municipalities require that your driveway is at least in concrete paves. It does not be for you a fairly large investment and it would be shocking to have to resume the construction of your entry before age 5. But consider the landscape that offer the "beautiful, good and cheap." Make sure that they will comply with the installation standards, such as the depth of the floor under your keys. With the freezing and thawing of our climate, the foundation of your entry must be deep enough to not end up with lumps or pieces of pavement torn. Good textile fabrics are also essential if you do not want to mow the lawn ... in your driveway.

The plants need a little warm

In summer, the foliage and grew, and now the hibiscus looks like a tree. At home, he will live well in front of a south-facing window. Just the first lighten the hair with scissors and prune only the branches more disordered or without leaves. It watering twice a week and fertilize (half dose compared to spring) once a month. So its corollas red, yellow or orange, will continue to flourish until February. In March, before returning outdoors, rinvasa and shorten all the branches in the middle.

Throughout the summer, the bougainvillea and flowering with big bunches of petals (purple, pink, white or apricot). Even at home will continue to grow and flourish. The important thing and put it in a corner hot and bright, away from windows. Be careful, though: the roots suffer from the cold and should be protected with the cache pot. Until March, the bougainvillea be watered and fertilized once a week once a month. Then, the outdoor shows.

Famous for its fruits that ripen in spring and autumn, the fig tree is grown easily in pots. The important take him home early, before the leaves fall and Carolingian. And place it in a bright corner, away from radiators, because the fruits ripen even indoors if the atmosphere and fresh. In winter, you should check that the soil does not dry never completely (usually just bathe once a week). Then, in February, to fertilize twice a month. And, at the end of March, the fig tree and ready to return to the balcony.

The lesson from the gardener

Antonio Perazzi prefers to be called a gardener rather than a landscape architect. Professor of landscape architecture and gardens at several Italian universities - including the Politecnico of Milan - and abroad, participated in the most important international exhibitions (the Venice Biennale, the Festival des Jardins de Chaumont sur Loire as the Festival International des Jardins of Métis in Quebec), and has received numerous awards and signed public and private works slightly in the whole world. It's a professional. But counter. Woe to ask the latest trends in garden and even worse to ask what is the style you prefer. Because his answer leaves no room for interpretation: "I do not call myself a fashion victim, not the cloning green walls and can survive without design pieces in my projects, because I chase another modernity that I think much more priority: the ecology and of biodiversity. " A race endangered her? Likely.

What you dreamed of making as a child?
The ethologist. But coming from a family of writers, all that math was impossible for me. My mother insisted on me to be a chef, a job that is very close to mine. Designing a garden is not so different than a chef: they are both very sensory experiences related professions.

Why did you write a book called Against the garden ( along with Pia Pera ed )?
Surely because she was born a friendship with idyllic Pia Pera (my kids call her "Aunt Pear"), then we wanted to protest and to distance themselves from a cunning way to the gardens. We started to exchange our ideas and exchanged many letters, but did not know then that the book was born. The title is provocative. I do not like to treat the plants as if they were ornaments.

What is your poetry?
try to create projects straddling the landscape and garden, respecting the biological dynamics of a natural system larger, which includes many different subjects. I am inspired by the plants and every time I try to make them out to my clients or users of my gardens, because organisms are always surprising.

What interesting those who do not know anything about green?

To understand all the benefits that are derived from a proper life cycle: a orticaio or a bush may be useful. On the contrary, persisting in bonsaizzare plants or waste time behind a fresh lawn cutting and weed-free, it means not to understand that plants and landscape are evolving organisms, which incessantly changing. Who would dream of preventing a child become an adult? Who said that a tree should be pruned to force or a garden always needs an irrigation system?

The most common errors?
Biggest is not to be clear: do not understand what you try to be a green space. A garden is a special place where you can live in contact with nature. For this we must consider the benefits and pleasures are directly proportional to the efforts and thoughts involved in maintaining it. The most beautiful gardens are those who feel gardener (... and people really do this). But do not get discouraged: it takes too much money to achieve amazing gardens.

What are the costs involved?
For a medium sized terrace of about € 10,000, while for a one-hectare garden outside the city 15,000. I do not like, however, give the figures as well, because each case has its own specificity. Maybe for a hectare of land can do a few packets of seeds and a good idea.

Your teachers?
First Konrad Lorenz. Retired when the Nobel Prize for medicine said that fortunately child had a nanny who had him play with earthworms. I really admire Ippolito Pizzetti also because it was the first intellectual of the Italian garden. And how not to mention Gilles Clément , the idol of our years.

Some anecdotes about the author of the Manifesto of the Third landscape?

I had to do a project with Gilles Clément. One summer day we arranged to meet in La Vallée, his home country - indeed, his garden -. Gilles was wearing a tank top with holes, first has fed my dog then looked at me, and told me: "... to make a good project before we have to go for a swim in the lake." I will always remember that swim in the freshwater crayfish and a 'water color tannin tea!

Advice. How and where you can learn the craft?
A premise: Landscape architecture is a matter which to me should be taught in the academies of art, because it is the contemporary art of gardens. For a young suggest going to study at the National School of Landscape of Versailles for the optimal design courses articulated between practical and theoretical experience. I was trained in London, at the at the Kew Gardens and I have a great memory, I would recommend this establishment also no doubt. But the wisest suggestion is also the most obvious: before making the landscape must be gardeners. Knowing the plants, the earth, animals, art history and architecture. They did just that the great masters of the past?

How we should water our plants

In summer, the classic instructions on how and when to water the plants (1 liter once a week, 1/2 liter twice a week, 1 glass every day) are worth little. Because not all species grow with the same speed and in addition, each of them reacts differently to the climate. Fortunately, we have available to our senses: thanks to them and easy to understand if and when to water. Or if you're exaggerating.

WITH YOUR HANDS

Thanks to the phenomenon of evaporation (similar to our sweating), the laminae of the leaves regulate their temperature and maintained at a constant, also under the sun. You can tell if you put one hand under and the other over the Leaf to the touch when you feel a pleasant sensation of freshness, it's okay. If, instead, the leaf and hot, it means that the plant is dehydrating and that the roots do not have enough water. You have to bathe immediately, otherwise you are likely to see the leaves fall.

WITH AN EYE

In the summer, and a pleasure to see the plants grow luxuriantly. But our eyes also help us to understand if the plants are thirsty. For example (often with the new variety) if you notice a limp sprig, and easy to understand that it takes just a drop of water in most. But, if it happens, be careful because this species has a defensive strategy: to reduce the leaf surface exposed to the sun, rests the leaves down. And then the lifts when the danger has passed. In this particular case, therefore, would be detrimental to flood of cold water. The risk and to cause a real thermal shock to the roots.

WITH THE NOSE

The plants take a long time to show, clearly and prominently, their possible state of suffering. But at the same time, they send signals that we must learn to grasp. For example, may make a bad smell. Happens with indoor plants that are grown in the cache pot, containers that are used to hide the pots: When watering too abundant one can also not account for how much water and accumulated on the bottom. Thus, because of the stagnation in the space of a week, the roots will start to rot and give off a strong smell. In short, just smell the plant, and if you experience unpleasant odor, remove the jar from the cache pot and keep it fresh until the land is not completely dried. Obviously without wetting.

Easy Ways to Make Flowers Last Longer

Just a colorful bouquet to react with joy the first rains of autumn. There is only one difficulty: to be able to keep in a safe long the freshness of cut flowers. You change the water, using the special powder, cut the stems but, unfortunately, the results are often disappointing. Here, then, are three tips stolen from science. All you want to copy.

Wash the jars with baking soda
The common bicarbonate, which for chemists and a sodium salt of carbonic acid, has the property of removing bacteria. Those who, by feeding on the sap of the stems in a vase, cloud the water and make it unhealthy. To make the bouquet more durable, with each water change and want to switch on the interior wallr of a sponge with baking powder. Not only. To retard the growth of bacteria, before putting the flowers in the vase just add a pinch of baking soda in the water.

Use a blade to absorb the water
Cut flowers last for longer if, before putting them in the jar, cut a piece of stem. Use scissors, however, could be a mistake: the two opposite blades tend to crush and destroy the stem. And if the fluid is well corolla, the petals fade much more quickly. Better to rely on a very sharp knife and the blade thin. More precise cutting and, in fact, you create less damage to the stem and to the microscopic internal channels through which the flowers absorb water. Eye on the inclination of the cutting and more oblique, the greater the surface through which water enters.

Keep away from fruit bouquet
Apples, pears & Co., when they are ripe, they give off ethylene, a colorless, sweet-smelling, which accelerates the maturation of the flowers. It makes them wither. Each corolla wasted, then, in turn, releases the gas. That's why the flowers should be kept away from the bowl with the fruit, and when you change the water, you must remove the flowers a bit faded.