Synopsis No: 01

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Ang Boon Cheong

Chua Sor Hong
Gan Sze Hui (Scarlett)
Ahmad Farhan Shah
Yasaanth K.
Preshant Rasu
Hans Hosea Gonza

Building Dwelling Thinking

Martin Heidegger
1971

Purpose of the theory (Please tick X; you may tick more than one box)
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Identifying an issue or problem within the contemporary context

Analyzing an architecture to identify a problem or solve a problem
Solving an issue in a broader context outside of architecture: presenting a theory/manifesto
Solving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting a design method
Solving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting a theory
Others:

Please complete the following:

What are the issues
addressed?

What are the design

methods/strategy/theories
proposed?

Injecting understanding of building as the bridge

between Earth & Sky and Mortals & Divinities.

Relate the text to

architectural/urban forms
by illustrating one key
image.

To preserve fourfold, to save the earth, to receive the sky,

to await the divinities, to escort mortals-this fourfold
preserving is the simple nature

Justify the selection.

Undesirable dwelling in contemporary living.

Lack of Heideggers theory: Fourfold-Sky, Earth, Divinities,
Mortals.