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Architecture in the past might  just consider on Vitruvius term ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius ) that a structure must exhibit the three qualities of firmitas, utilitas, venustas — that is, it must be solid, useful, beautiful. According to Vitruvius, architecture is an imitation of nature. But in modern era when energy become one of the most important thing in the world, Architecture has to consider energy used to build, operate, and maintenance the building.

Efficiency energy must be consider in the early stage of the design. The orientation of the building is one of the key in building energy efficiency. Another way if the orientation can’t be arrange because of the given site, than we have to deal with the envelope of the building, wall and opening.

There is contradiction between thermal and lighting design in designing envelope of the building. Bigger opening will give more daylight but will also allow more solar gain introduce to the building. The best trade off is when we could minimize the thermal gain from the outdoor and maximize the daylight effect to the interior. It still a challenging for architect in designing a building. It difficult but possible. Nowadays there are many simulation software in market, and some of them are free. Energy Plus is one of the best simulation software that can simulate building energy used base on weather data and  modeling design. By this way, we could predict the thermal gain from exterior and interior and the effect of different building material on envelope. Then we could determine the best trade off for current design.

There are some new (and old) tools when we dealing with architecture design. It’s not easy to learn some of them but always possible. Every tools have their own capability and specific use for specific needs. The same goal of them are to achieve better design quality, not only in the form and shape based on architectural aesthetic but also in better building performance, especially in energy used. Another importance thing that should be consider is maintenance.
But tools are always be tools. It means that the key of successful architecture design is not what kind of tools that used to design but who is the architect who used the tools (man behind the gun). Human resource that use the tools must have capability in both using the tools and interpreting the result of the simulation or experiment. And to get better understanding about the result, we need to understand about the basic knowledge of building science. Although in some cases, the word “basic” means the logic of the building science, but more is better.
Unfortunately, not everyone like this side of architecture. Only few of them have enthusiasm (or maniac) to explore and develop their capability of skill and science. The good news is every one who want to do it will have good opportunity in the future to get better lives and financial (we hope). In the same time they will make earth to be a better place to live.

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On next February 2009, I`m going to do a master Tesis with title  ” Study on Optimation of Building Configuration of Housing after Earthquake in Bantul Yogyakarta based on Accelerometer GPL-6A3P”.

The objective of my research is to get the best building configuration of reinforce concrete house in Imaogiri district with different characteristic of soil supported.

I use accelerometer GPL-6A3P from Mitutoyo to measure the microtremor of the building and the soil of each house sample with different structural shape (L, T, U,[]).