Building Design Ideas

Picture 1 : Unique Design of Animal Museum Building in Malang

I went to Malang, the cool city in East java Indonesia, on 5 to 8 April 2012. I visited the tourism object which is popular in Malang, named Jawa Timur Park 2 (Jatim Park 2 for short). This is the tourism complex which consists of three buildings, the zoo, the hotel, and the museum.  All of the building designs are uniquely designed and very interesting. The first building is the zoo. This zoo is named “Batu Secrete Zoo”. This is the zoo with Modern building design which are very different from the usual zoo, more interesting, more complete and will satisfy your animal knowledge. The second building is the tree hotel called “pohon inn”, which is designed like a tree with roots. and the third is the building of animal museum. These pictures are about the building design of animal museum in Malang. The unique thing of the design of this animal museum building  is that this building seems to be  inspired by the ancient architectural design of Greek, with elegant big  pillars in front of the building. The other interesting and unique things of the building are two big statutes of elephant on the front sides of the building. These elephant statues interest many people who visit this building. The interior design of the building is also designed in such a way that the visitors feel comfortable to enjoy watching the collections of the animal museum. This is an amazing building design. If you go to Indonesia, don’t forget to drop in this place an you will find a lot of sensation.
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Unique Dome House

Since 2006, we can see the dome houses in the area called Ngelepen, which belongs to the village called Sumberharjo, the district of Prambanan, the province of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. These dome houses which are round in hape are the donation from the World Association of Non-governmental Organization (WANGO) and Domes for the World Foundation (DFTW) for earthquake victims in whose houses were destroyed by the earthquake on May 27, 2006.

In addition to the unique shape, the dome house also has many advantages. One of them is that the Dome house is resistant of earthquake. Because, in the structure of the dome house has no corners and junctions which are very prone to cause wreckage when hit by an earthquake. Since there is no connection at dome home, which is the weak point of the building when it is rocked by an earthquake, the dome house constitutes the house which is resistant for earthquake. According to the architect, the dome house is also able to withstand the wind of 450 km / h, and is durable for centuries.

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Joglo Home design from Central java, Indonesia

Joglo is the name of traditonal home design in Central Java, Indonesia. The characteristic of  Joglo home design is the main building design which consists of four main pillars called Soko Guru and the intercropping in the form of beams placed on the Soko Guru. It means that the four main pillars called Soko Guru support the intercropping of beams on them. The interior design of joglo home design consists of three parts of the rooms. the front part is the room called Pendapa, the meeting room; the midle part is the room called Pringgitan, the room to hold a puppet show; and the back part is called Dalem or Omah Jero, the family room which also consists of three rooms (berooms) namely the left room, central room, and the right room. the description of the three spaces namely Pendopo (The front space), Pringgitan (the midle space), and Dalem (the back space) is as follows:

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