July 2009 GMM with Tony Meloto

UAP Alabang with Mr. Tony Meloto of Gawad Kalinga

We had a inspiring talk with Mr. Tony Meloto regarding his work with Gawad Kalinga.  During the event we were encouraged to: demand Greatness in ourselves,  inspire greatness in others, dont stoping hoping, love your country.  He shared with us the programs and activities of Gawad Kalinga not to mention his hope that by 2024 the Philippines will be a first world country, where no one lives in a shanty, and everyone dreams, hopes and creates.

The Bare Lens – A Nude Photography Session

Dear Chaptermates:

Happy Easter!

The UAP Alabang will be holding its April General Membership Meeting with a fellowship activity “The Bare Lens”, a nude photography session with glamor photographer Patrick Mateo and model Zsahoney Tosino on 20 April 2009, Monday, at the Brasserie, Vivere Suites Alabang at 7:00PM.

Join us and inspire your architecture as we explore the related art of photography with one of the most difficult subjects, the human body. This promises to be a refreshing and exciting learning experience. Bring your digital and film cameras. Don’t worry. If you don’t have your SLR cameras with you, Point-and-Shoot cameras are as fine as the big ones. Shutter opening and speed controls are the minimum required features.

As professional courtesy to our guest model, cell phone cameras are strictly prohibited and doors will be closed during the shoot. An “Either be photographer or be model.” policy will be implemented.

Further in the night, we shall be having our annual General Elections. Do make it a point to be there and exercise your power to choose our next set of Executive Board members. This will be the time for us to choose our president for the FY2011-2012.

Door assessment is at 1,000.00PHP for non-Alabang and non-UAP guests, with buffet. Come in your smart casual attire, with of course, your cameras!

For inquiries, please get in touch with our Chapter Secretary Janus Paredes (janus_paredes@yahoo.com) for details of the event, and our Chapter Treasurer Mel Almanzor (mel_almanzor@yahoo.com) for the status of your dues and IAPOAs.

See you there!

 

Joseph AdG Javier

President

Future Architecture Exhibit

Chaptermates!

With arrangements for the exhibit the following are the revised Design Exhibit Announcements for both the residential submittal and the addendum regarding the high rise submittal:

Please note the important Dates-

February 14, 2009 – Email of registration form

February 23, 2009-Email of boards for prequalification

February 28, 2009-Submission of printed boards.

March 1, 2009 First Day of Exhibit

FUTURE ARCHITECTURE

An Exhibit by the United Architects of the Philippines – Alabang Chapter

Exhibit Goals & Objectives:

The UAP Alabang  Board aspires through this exhibit  to push its members to limitless opportunities and thus expose them  to a vast range of experiences and interests that would enhance them ultimately as ingenuous designers, daring entrepreneurs and (hopefully) magnificent human beings in the process. It is in the desire to affirm the vocation of every Filipino architect to be an agent of change towards a glorious future in design and architecture, that this design exhibition entitled “Future Architecture” is being launched.

The exhibit will be held from March 1-15, 2009 at Home Zone (True Value corridor) , Alabang Town Center,  Muntinlupa City, and will also feature some weekend seminars for the mall shoppers.

Exhibit Problem:

The Challenge is to make a conceptual design of a House on a lot (download lot) 2,500.00 sqm in Ayala Alabang. The budget shall be P20 million.

The Design should focus on three major aspects:

1)       Cutting edge innovative design form

2)       Environmental responsiveness

3)       Unique Filipino character.

Exhibit Participants:

The Exhibit is open to all members of UAP Alabang Chapter in good standing.  Members of other chapters will be given special accommodation in consideration for a nominal fee.

Exhibit Mechanics:

1) Participants will fill up the registration-form and email to uapalabangchapter@gmail.com for coordinators on or before February 14, 2009 so that the exhibit area can be prepared for the expected number of participants.

2) Preliminary soft copies in jpg format shall be submitted for prequalification on February 23, 2009, emailed to: uapalabangchapter@gmail.com on or before 1:00PM

3)The chapter will conduct a review for exhibition worthiness of all entries on or before February 26, 2009, and will inform the participants of suggestions prior to final printing.

4)Submissions will be accepted at:  C1 and D1 FREB Building, Sta. Teresita Street, Villa Donata Alabang, Muntinlupa City 1770 Metro Manila, Philippines until 5:00PM of February 28, 2009.

5)Participants will help set up their individual submissions at the exhibit venue on the March 1, 2009, exhibit opening at the Alabang Town Center,additional details shall be announced.

6)Participants will help close exhibit with the packing and removal of their individual entries on the last day, additional details shall be announced.

Exhibit Submittals:

1)1 (one) 30″x40″ exhibition concept board  (portrait orientation).  Tarp print outs are acceptable.

2)The board may contain the following, but content and layout is left up to the discretion of the participant to best show his/her design in the most effective way:

a.  Site development, floor plans, elevations , use appropriate scale for your layout

b. Perspective, showing best vantage point of your design

c.Optional narrative if a explanation is required for your concept

3) Participant name and information shall be located on a 2 inch high by 8 inch long  space at the bottom right of the board for identification purposes

4)OPTIONAL: 1 (one) acrylic or white concept/massing model with the site as your base 1:100 scale

Exhibition Proper & Guests:

The Exhibit will be held at Alabang Town Center on March 1 to 15, 2009, with special guests, the rest of the chapter membership and public viewing.

FUTURE ARCHITECTURE – ADDENDUM

An Exhibit by the United Architects of the Philippines – Alabang Chapter

February 6, 2009

Query about the Submission of the Original High rise program:

It was requested that the original high rise design program be allowed to be displayed.

Exhibition Venue:

The exhibition venue was secured under mutually advantageous conditions, but it was requested by Alabang Town Center management that the exhibit be focused towards a smaller residential design program for the greater understanding of the mall patrons who will be the viewers.

Mechanics for submission of the high rise design program:

1)The High rise submission using the revised Alabang Town Center Lot across Theatre drive will be accepted, but this shall have to be submitted together with a residential design submission that has been announced, to satisfy venue requirements.

2)The High rise submission will follow the same design criteria, and be printed and mounted on 30 inch x 40 inch portrait format with a 2″x8″ name at the lower right.  And submitted in the same announced dates.

3) The High rise submission will still undergo the prequalification review prior to exhibition.

4)There must more than one participant to pass the high rise design program for the submission to be exhibited.  This is to avoid the spectacle of having a disparate, unlike entry among the boards.  (So far there has been 1 to write an email.)

5)Exhibition organizers reserve the option to position the high rise submittals after the residential submission have been properly displayed.

Final notes:

The committee extends its regrets if there was confusion regarding recent announcements, we your chapter have just been trying to provide the best possible conditions for the exhibit with the least cost and maximum exposure possible, and continue to work tirelessly for you.  We thank you for your continued support and energy in this exhibit and hope to see you and your entry in this great opportunity to showcase design at a well attended public venue.

Design in the 21st Century Filipino Psyche – GMM 13 January 2009

 

Dear Chaptermates:

Here are the final details of our General Membership Meeting next week.

Date:  Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Registration Time: 1800HRS

Venue:  2F The Brasserie, Vivere Suites, Asean Drive corner Bridgeway Drive, FCC,  Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila

Guest Speakers:

Dean (Arch.) Gerard L. V. Torres, DLSU-CSB-School of Design and Arts

Arch. Eduardo G. Calma, Design Principal – Lor Calma Design Inc.

Topic:  Design in the 21st Century Filipino Psyche

Attire:  Board Room Business

Door Assessment:

UAP Alabang Chapter Members: Full Sponsored

UAP Alabang Chapter Proposed Members: Full Sponsored

Non UAP Alabang Chapter Members: 1000.00PHP (with buffet)

Non UAP: 1000.00PHP (with buffet)

We shall be having our nominations for positions of the fiscal year 2009 – 2010 so do think about your proposed nominees. Details of the nomination shall be sent through another advisory. 

You prompt arrival will be highly appreciated by our guests. See you!

Joseph Javier

“Daring Structures: Buildings That Will Make You Say, WTF!!!”

I had to look up, because I could have almost sworn I was at the old AV room at the 5th floor of Melchor hall.  But I wasn’t in my old college though, and around me weren’t my old classmates, rather I found myself at Portico in Serendra with new faces from the Alabang Chapter.   But in front of us was Arch. Bronne Dytoc my old professor who had been good enough to humor our request for a seminar about structures and architecture, which was basically what we had now, “Daring Structures: Buildings That Will Make You Say, WTF!!!”
“Sabi nga ni Joseph” our current chapter president who knew I took up Arch. Dytoc’s class, if I signed up to take this seminar because I wanted to see if Bronne had new stuff?   In my head I said perhaps, but actually I just wanted to look in on the stuff I now just barely remember.

For me the greatest thing I take away from the seminars is the understanding and inspiration of the daring structures presented. That  and the explanation of  the ‘magic’ of how they work, why they work and why  architects made them that way.

Its also fun to see this all again after a few years of practice.

Alabang Chapter at 17th UAP Conference in Davao

 

(From letter of Arch. Choie Funk)

They say an experience is not over until it is shared –

for if not shared, it could be lost.

Last October 23-26, 2008, eleven of us from the UAP Alabang Chapter led by the president in office, Joseph Javier, were able to make it to the 17th National Conference of Architects held in Davao City.  

This national conference would be memorable at various levels but mostly because it shall be the last.  It was resolved that from next year henceforth, only area and district assemblies will be carried on annually as well as the national convention (though on a rotational basis with regard to the venue).   Therefore, having been to this conference, we have been part of UAP history!

At the assembly of the chapter presidents, the reintroduction of the CPE, or Continuing Professional Education, as prescribed by the PRC, was also discussed more for the architect’s personal improvement, rather than as a requirement for license renewal.  These were only some of the points discussed.

Various activities spearheaded by the UAP National Headquarters, as were as raffles by the sponsors, made it worth our while. I have also been to Davao years ago and it’s nice to see it again now.  We were all so impressed at how law-abiding the Davaoenos are.  No smoking in non-designated areas lest you find yourself handcuffed and hustled away into their welcoming prison cells.   

But I believe what I really took home with me was the camaraderie re-established, as it has been in past conferences, by the chapter.

Words are poor and I can hardly describe the great time, enrichment and esprit de corp built in these few days.  As always, we take the good with the bad – some inconveniences were not lacking, but all that has been overshadowed by every good thing we experienced.

But as a postscript, check out the attached video file of the Davao Wild Water Adventure participated in by Joseph, Willie, Tony, Manny, Mel, Myra (lovely wife of Elmer) and no less than Dan Carezo, our gracious Davies representative.  This one I missed for some wicked twist of fate… but the video would be enough to show you what an awesome experience it has been.  This is the smallest file at 7MB.  The bigger one, with better resolution is being uploaded in my Multiply and would be ready in the next two hours.:-)

So that’s it. We wish there were more of us and we look forward to more chances we could take part in many chapter activities.

Let me now enjoy the pomelos and the durian candies I brought home – I didn’t even know what difference there was among durian yema, pastilles, toffee…

Ciao!

Choie Funk

Bahay Pinoy Bamboo House Competition

Dear Colleagues,

The UAP Competitions Committee would like to invite you to join the “BAHAY PINOY” Bamboo Design Competition. This is a project of the Rotary-UAP Joint Committee on Housing of the United Architects of the Philippines and Rotary Makati Central D-3830

The project shall be to design low-cost single-detached dwelling with a 20-30 sqm. floor area with no particular lot utilizing bamboo as the major building material for both structural and architectural components

 

WHO MAY JOIN

The competition is open to the following:

Category I – Registered Filipino Architect (Team/Individual)

Category II – Graduate of BS Architecture / Students (3rd year, 4th year & 5th year of architecture course)

 

COMPETITION TIMETABLE

Launching (October 25, 2008)  Deadline for registration (January 20, 2009) Deadline for submission of  questions (January 27, 2009) Deadline to dispatch answers to questions (February 12, 2009) Deadline for submission of entries (March 12, 2009) Judging                       (March 17 – 21 , 2009) Deadline for submission of boards by winners (April 15, 2009) Awarding (April 25, 2009) Registration Fee Category I-ONE THOUSAND PESOS (PhP 1,000.00)  Category II-FIVE HUNDRED PESOS (PhP 500.00)  PRIZES Category I First Prize Php 100,000.00 Second Prize Php 50,000.00 Third Prize Php 10,000.00 Category II First Prize PhP 25,000.00 Second Prize PhP 10,000.00 Third Prize PhP 5,000.00 Winning housing prototype shall be constructed in Malacanang. COMPETITION SECRETARIAT United Architects of the Philippines 53 Scout Rallos Street , Diliman, Quezon City Telephone (63-2)4126364, (63-2)4126374 Fax (63-2)3721796 Email: bahaypinoy2008@gmail.com Website: http://bahaypinoy2008.blogspot.com More information can be found at the above site. Ar. Rey Gabitan UAP Competitions Committee Chairman

October 14, 2008 GMM at Barcino’s

                                                                            UAP Alabang had its 23rd Anniversary Party at the General Membership Meeting held last October 14, 2008 at Barcino’s Restaurant and Wine Bar, Bonifacio Global City, where there was a short talk on spanish wine.

Everyone enjoyed the cheese, tapa and many other items that went well with the various wines that were served.  This together with a background of each type of wine such as where they are made, in which type of glass they are best served, and what they best went together with among others.

And although no one got absolutely drunk, it was a great time as friends got together to talk and celebrate the night with great Spanish wine.

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