Compact Living and Small Spaces

May 13, 2008 · Filed Under Architecture Rumbling · 2 Comments
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Australia, a country where land is abundant as opposed to Singapore (reminds me of my Singaporean lecturer, I dislike him – a fresh graduate with zero working experience, he said it is all right to insert raster images of human, furniture, cars and plants in the working drawing set – little did he knows that he is what we describe as “the empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”), anyway not all Singaporean acts in such manner, right Arron Kong?. Where was I? Yeah, compact living… compact living is simply not a doable thesis topic in the land of kangaroos, not to mention the Australian way of living doesn’t accommodate the whole idea of living in a house without a backyard.

A friend of mine once told me after years of observation, she finally realized the reason Koala bear is one of the ‘mascot’ together with kangaroos. ;-)

Anyway, compact living sounds like a challenging thesis topic if the site is in one of the many cities in Malaysia, and definitely a big yes in sardine like Singapore. After all, lands is pretty expensive in Asian countries; we don’t have the luxury of colonizing other people’s country and wipe off (Genocide) their race from planet earth like what the Europeans did 400 years ago, and then go on wearing a T-shirt that screams ‘Free Tibet’ – Hypocrites, agree? Read more