vacant land behind the house
Gardening December 30th, 2009

PARK front is made beautiful, it is common. However, when you also have the vacant land behind the house, lest you let them abandoned.
Wide or narrow any land back, you can create a beautiful garden as beautiful garden in front of the house. Backyard is one place for your special and personal. That’s where you often do personal activities such as gathering with family members, gardening, or solitude. Give an important value in your backyard by thinking of the best ways to improve the overall appearance and structure.
In addition, you also have new material to learn, namely how to create a garden in the backyard look beautiful. Structuring the right back yard can enhance your homes overall appearance.
According Fifiana architects, structuring the yard behind the house has several forms. Each form includes several sets of procedures and equipment that you must learn if you want to view the park as expected.
Structuring backyard based on several sets of principles and methods needed to improve the natural appearance of the land themselves.
“There are two main forms that you can notice, that is soft landscaping and hard landscaping,” said the architect’s familiar was called Fifi.
“Soft landscaping includes the processes required to improve the look of the garden by planting trees or ornamental plants, shrubs, and grasses in these areas. While hard landscaping covers the installation such as installation of fencing, paving, and installation of tiles or patio,” he added.
After deciding which type of landscape desired arrangement, you can simply carry out the stages. The first thing you notice is, what do you want first on the back yard. Try it once in a while you observe your yard first.
Decide what kind of plants or structures that you want to apply and confirm whether they are suitable to be placed there. You also must consider the entire rear yard area, thinking about what’s right for your yard.
“If you want to put plants in the yard, make sure the plants are placed in areas exposed to direct sunlight,” Fifi suggestions.
You can also put the idea in the head with a standard layout of the settlement plan. “The pictures do not need a good, important you become a shadow of what kind of arrangement,” said Fifi.
If you plan to plant the grass is green, meaning you need a spreader or spreader, fork the soil, and soil grinding machines.
\ search engine is small, shaped like a lawn mower. Only difference is, this machine is used for smoothing and pressing the soil so that grass can be attached to the fitting on the ground. This tool can also create patterns on the grass,” said Fifi.
Meanwhile, the spreader is used so that you can provide an appropriate surface area so that grass or other crop seeds can be grown on the surface of the land. If the grounds are not too large, you can use a manual spreader.
For hard landscaping, tools required depend on the structure you want. Usually the hard landscaping tools include shovels, hammers, electric or manual saws, cutting tools with electrical, appliance junkie, and leather gloves.
On a beautiful backyard, you will not be too much attention to personal features. You notice only the integration of art and artistic nature.
Bamboo Tree Philosophy
Gardening November 29th, 2009
BAMBOO TREE not only interesting when set to decorate the park. Slender trunked tree that also contains a useful philosophy for human life. We can find cheap bamboo trees in the surrounding environment.
Very distinctive appearance, leafy with long stems and leaves that looks like a weed. When the wind blew, the sound of the friction characteristics of bamboo leaves emit its own. Trees can cool the house garden store philosophy that it’s either not known to many people. Bamboo, a change in “its form” slow, actually have the power at the root. One to three years, tree growth was considered too slow.
But, in fact during that period, the roots of the bamboo is growing rapidly so it has tremendous power. The growth of new bamboo looks significantly after four years, with roots that also thrives. In its fifth year, after growth of roots is completed, then the stems will appear.
Growing soared into the sky. The process of the bamboo tree of life contains the philosophical meaning for humans, ie, how strong foundation is necessary. According to the classification, bamboo plants belonging to the grass. However, bamboo is a grass spectacular. The height can be stretched from 30 cm to 30 meters. Bamboo is a grass plant is unique. Well, here’s the lesson. Although set in the grass plant, bamboo become different because of his character.
Usability and how to express themselves bamboo, making it a different grass plant. In the life of any background, we in fact is not decisive, but how we seek to express their own potential, no matter our background.
That is what eventually makes us incredibly personal. Bamboo trees also teaches us about flexibility. We seldom see a bamboo collapsed. In the midst of the fall of other trees whirlwind attack, remained rigid stand of bamboo.
In addition to its strong roots, the trunk is also able to sway with the wind. As a result, in bad weather and high winds, trees and bamboo can be swayed to the rhythm of the voice hissed out the wind. While other trees that have a larger trunk, just not the strength to face the wind. This is called flexibility.
Bamboo gramineae families belong, is also called the giant grass berumpun and consists of a number of stems that grows gradually. Start bamboo shoots, young stem, which reaches up to the age of 4 adults? 5 years. bamboo rod shape-book or segmented. He’s also the hard-walled, and in each overgrown buds or branches.
Bamboo-shaped roots and rhizomes segmented. Each book will be covered with fibers and shoots that can grow as rods.
According to Star Nugroho landscape architect, bamboo tree is a unique plant that is similar to the type of grass. The growth is gradual, but very fast. “The tree has a tall stem. Leaves the impression that such grass has its own unique,” explains Star.
Star added, if we plant these trees in the garden, tropical shades will be created. Occupancy would have felt even more cool and comfortable. According to researchers from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Elizabeth A Widjaja, in Indonesia there are 160 species of bamboo. A total of 88 bamboo species of which are endemic or unique species of bamboo found in an area. All types of bamboo that has a different value for the benefit of human life.
In addition to housing needs and household utensils or decorative plants, bamboo is one type of tree that is very good for the environment. “As a function of best environmental conservationists, we can prove that whenever there is a bamboo grove there, certainly there are sources of water,” he said.
So many unique bamboo trees that we encountered. By type, there is a type of bamboo bamboo rope, bamboo shoots, bamboo Gombong, Wulung bamboo, Japanese bamboo, and bamboo china.
Architect Ridwan Kamil disclose, Japanese bamboo trees usually have short stems, tend to be rare or not berumpun. “The high too easy for us to manage,” added Ridwan.
Moving Park Ready
Gardening October 28th, 2009

LONDON – Visible from outside indeed like car generally. But after all sides opened, car become a garden very beautiful, complete with grass green, flowers, animals and trees green. That parks moving.
moving it created Kevin Van Braak. Reasons she creates parks moves nothing other because love against environment so she wanted creates park can brought wherever she go. moving it even Designable with additional animal. Not only that, natural atmosphere could created thereby perfect. Voice cars whirr replaced with Voice birdsong warble.
With all facility, parks moves ready become complementary moment summer in various cities big. Just do not believe that gardens moves which created Van Braak represents parks real. No. Taman moving it only parks counterfeit who all made from materials artificial, both grass, trees, interest.Van Braak says, why arts capable hypnotizing many. “Though fake, many who more parks movement compared parks original,” He said like quoted from Daily Mail.
Men aged 33rd this year designing parks moves as experiments newest. He not expected because many obtain positive response from public. Unfortunately, parks moving it yet could obtained in market. He new plans sell creations it if has discovered prices suitable. Yet he yet can determine what price deserve to make can owned others. Initial idea parks moving it begun when man origin Amsterdam such buy cars caravan Constructam 1976.
Currently ideas about parks moving appeared, he directly cut part therein. Models garden can closed and unlocked. moves even then can pledged seat for 15 persons. “Cars my like car generally if visits from outside. But after opened, cars my very different, “she laughed. moving this lets camping and pledged garden at streets although everything only artificial.
Within previous project, Van Braak creates Camping Flat. He transform buildings four floor become a place for camper with grass artificial and animal.
Traditional Houses coherent
Gardening September 27th, 2009
Tired of the minimalist model of a house? Try to dig inspiration from traditional ethnic houses across the archipelago. Inherit both beautiful and Indonesian culture.
Minimalist concept of less is more recent bloom was more important function of architecture itself. However, the design is too “plain” engendering of opinion among architects and designers that less is bore.
Well, now, the trend has started to recede a minimalist style and switch to another style. Traditional style of the Archipelago began ogled.
“Traditional style are also part of a large posmo phenomenon, but only one part,” explained interior designer Tony Sofyan.
According to Tony, in adapting the traditional style, not necessarily in their entirety. It would be better if this architectural style combined with modern style for the development of local culture combined with outside cultures that do not produce the same formation with the first.
“Cultures that continued to grow and be more suitable if placed with the current context, can be seen from the design more simple and not too much carving,” said Tony who is also professor of interior design at the University of Pelita Harapan.
So, really minimalist style could always juxtaposed with traditional architecture and carved detail. How, by making the traditional elements as accents, for example, given a corner room that touch of Java or Bali style accents.
“Just enough nuance, not necessarily all the traditional things like gebyok get into the building. After all, this traditional modern alloys can lead to ‘color’ in itself,” says architect Nova M Napitupulu.
However, its application at home of course depends on your own. For example, homes in the area Bambang Rochyadi Kreo, Tangerang. For a house facade, Bambang deliberate use of Javanese door called gebyok. Then the void areas under the family room, he used a ceiling made of bamboo instead of plywood as in general.
“From the beginning, instead I want to show the impression of ethnicity. I just wanted something different and unique that can be enjoyed forever,” Bambang light that never work as a director in TVRI.
However, who would have thought the reason for the uniqueness that just made Bambang indirectly maintain the unique architecture of the Archipelago. In fact, according to Nova, with many peculiarities Nusantara building, should be able to give inspiration to include them in the style of the building. In addition to traditional Javanese forms joglo house, the style of other buildings can also be used as a guide, such as Balinese style, style Tower House, or style Honai. Nusantara typical handicrafts that have artistic value can also be one of aesthetic elements in the room.
“Lombok woven fabrics can be decorated in a tropical minimalist building so the interior has its own accent,” added Nova.
Many ways to enrich the aesthetic value of occupancy. Moreover, by utilizing keeksotikan Indonesia, which provides much inspiration. Traditional elements in the design did not have to follow the traditional dogmas of the rule-bound.
“With a culture that is constantly growing, the important thing is preserved and reinterpreted in accordance with the present context,” explained Tony.







