W1 Reading Assignment

As I was reading the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA, there is one sentence attract me, which is “Everything is possible with calculation and invention when you have tools of sufficient perfection, and these tools exist.”. This sentence reminds that, everything is possible in design if we calculate with the right way, and make the calculation really accurate. For example, the Chinese CCTV Headquarter had been built in 2012, the shape of this building is very interesting because one edge of the building is un supported, which means half of the building is suspending in the sky. This is a fantastic design with the right calculation of how the impact, the gravity and the pressure were taken off from the building and transfer them into the ground. And other examples such as the world tallest tower – Dubai Khalifa tower. Engineers using computers to calculate, and using calculations to solve every single problem to make sure the building stand straight and never fall down. No doubt, all these seems unphysical buildings were born from the combination of human brains and computer. And this sentence also tells me that never stand still, taking challenges in our life, never fault anything before trying. However, this does not means that we can take risk in designing, all the calculations have to be accurate, as this is as important as human life. For myself, design is a way to discover, finding new concepts, ways of solving problems that we might facing when we are trying to design something in the future and I have faith on it.