Taking a Look at the Shard

“Chapter 9” of A Single Shard begins with the author, Linda Sue Park, placing Tree-ear in emotional distress. Working for Min for the better part of a year has been tough and adventrous for Tree-ear, consequently he feels that it is now time for Min to teach him how to make pots. In this culture, it is traditional for potters to only teach their sons the potter’s trade. Unfortunately, Tree-ear is not Min’s biological son, therefore Min will not teach him.

Without the human intention, perception, and interpretation of sound, then the existence of music would be imaginary. Music includes talking words in a way that the person creates a sound that is made with the intention of being music (Deutsch, Diana 10-13, Justus & Timothy., 33-40). Besides, people can perceive silence and sound and put them together so as to call the outcome music. In Bakan’s fourth proposition, he identifies the approach as the Human Intention and Perception (HIP) approach (Resnicow, Joel E., 10-22). In other words, the proposition tries to suggest that music is inseparable from the makers; or more specifically the people who perceive and experience it. Bakan gives numerous examples to show that music is a product of human intention and perception. This paper conducts research and gives appropriate examples to show that music is only identified as music if the person is making it has the intention for their words to be music.

Interior design and architecture are essential, and often overlooked, aspects of everyday life. In modern society people rely on function, durability, and visual appeal when selecting designs for their homes, businesses, and places of leisure. The way that a space is designed influences such things as mood, which, in the case of a business, can impact the productivity of employees and either draw or repel customers. In residential design, the design becomes very personal and, to be considered a successful design, must properly reflect the home owner while at the same time offering some practicality that makes the space livable. An effective design, for any space, must solve some problem, be it function, flexibility, or some other criteria. Simply solving a problem would not please the customer, however, unless it offered some visual appeal. Creating function with style is the real job of any interior designer, and is essential in a content society.

The history of Architecture started long time ago. The nomadic were groups of people whom move from one place to another in order find shelter and food to survive. As they progress, their techniques to survive evolve. The need for a permanent shelter became vital for a better stability of the group. This is the time when the first structures that provided protection appeared. Post and lintel were the first forms of Architecture, that satisficed the basic needs. Architecture evolved to be more sophisticated and fulfill the people’s needs. Consequently, Architecture evolved throughout different periods such as: Ancient architecture, Romanesque, The medieval, Renaissance, Early modern, and the industrial age, Modernism and Contemporary

Everyone faces challenges in different ways and they overcome them in different ways. A Single Shard was about an orphan boy named Tree-ear facing difficulties trying to learn how to be a master potter. Tree-ear learned that if he didn’t attempt to show Emissary Kim the single shard which broke from the trip to Songdo, he would have never gotten Min the commission and Tree-ear would have never learned to be a master potter. His best friend, Crane-man helped him with meaningful words that make Tree-ear regret the thought of committing to suicide. Crane-man had to go through challenges like living with only one leg and outliving his family member’s lives. Min had to face a challenge when his work did not turn out the way he wanted. Tree-ear faced various challenges throughout the story and learned lessons from them.

The theme of A Single Shard is Although it may be ‘time to quit,’ sometimes persevering against the odds pays amazing dividends. In the book, the story follows a young orphan named Tree Ear, tree ear is a hard working boy who dreams of becoming a potter. He lives under a bridge with Crane Man, his legal guardian figure. Tree Ear has always worked hard watches most of the potters in his village. Throughout this story it shows how Tree Ear has never given up and fulfilled his dream of becoming a potter, even when the odds were against him.

Have you ever known someone who is an orphan? In the book ''A Single Shard'', the main character, Tree-ear, was an orphan in Korea, in the 12th century. He was brought to Crane-man after his parents died when he was a baby. Crane-man nurtured and cared for Tree-ear. He found food for him to eat, a place for him to sleep, and was like a father to Tree-ear. Soon, Tree-ear was old enough to help Crane-man too. He found food in the rubbish heaps for them, he helped do the main chores, he did anything that needed to be done. At first, Tree-ear had to rely on Crane-man, but soon the roles were reversed. Crane-man and Tree-ear had to rely on each other, especially for each others

Architecture should be nurturing, responsive and alive, dynamically shifting spatial balances, organically expressive forms, subtly luminous colors and biologically healthy. To achieve such life-enhancing architecture, it has to address all the body senses simultaneously and fuse our image of self with experience of the world. By strengthening our sense of self and reality, architecture serves its all-important function of accommodation and

Building on this starting point Pallasmaa speaks of the importance of the shadow in creating light. He suggests that it is the nuances of shadows and the dimly lit which actually tickle the senses, and that Modern Architecture seems to lack this appreciation of the shadow.

In Wright and An alto's houses, a powerful sense of insides is generate by opacity. Which, in Falling water is express in roughly dressed stone masonry walls and, in Villa Mairea. By white-painted, solid walls. The transparency of glass windows in both houses thereby connect the two. In both houses, the architects created a strong sense of insideness yet, at the same time, devised ways to connect inside and outside and thereby create a robust continuity between the two. This inside-outside relationship can be translate into environmental and architectural experience in four different ways: (1) in-betweeness; (2) interpenetration generated by inside; (3) interpenetration generated by outside; and (4)

Architecture is often mistaken as purely an art form, when in actually it is where art and engineering or art and practicality meet. For example, painting is an art, when preformed well it yields a beautiful picture that evokes a deep human reaction and brings pleasure to its viewer, however this painting provides no function, it cannot shield us from the rain or protect us from the wind or snow, it is purely form. An insulated aluminum shed provides shelter and protection from Mother Nature; however, it is a purely functional building, it was drawn by an engineer, not conceived by an artist to have form. The culmination of form and function is Architecture, the Greeks and Romans fathered this idea and Palladio’s study of roman architecture taught him his valuable truth.

Transparency is defined and understood by most people as “having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly”. The growth in production and development of technology resulted in a new understanding for transparency in architecture and art. The architects Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky believe that transparency is classified into two different types, literal and phenomenal, where one is the result of optical effects, while the other type is based on spatial effects that are translated in the subconscious mind. Classifying transparency into two different types allows a shift from understanding transparency as science, to comprehending transparency as a theoretical matter of perception.

Admitting ample natural light wherever feasible and using color-corrected lighting in interior spaces which closely approximates natural daylight

“ Architecture organizes and structures space for us, and its interiors and the objects enclosing and inhabiting its rooms can facilitate or inhibit our activities by the way they use this language”(Lawson pg.6).

Architecture can be viewed with two different types of properties. Properties that can be seen like shapes, their composition, the spaces they create and, the colours and textures that make up their appearance. These properties are considered to be visual while other properties are considered to be abstract. These properties can only be described using words; the meanings behind the architecture and the stories that can be told about it. The context, its cultural background and its function also affects how we view architecture. The question is, what