Mieliteko Home Improvement

On entering the Building and Development Center for Language Training Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, to meet Father Budi Subanar, earlier in the week, I was like entering the past. In addition to the building wall facing a seemingly solid, there are a series of steps to the side facing in, where a giant resin tree standing.

I thought the old building and simple, which was built about the mid-1950s, this must be worn. In fact when I was right on the first rung and looked around, the most special thing in this cluster of buildings is an entire wall is formed by a row of glass windows. On top of a concrete canopy of the row of glass also installed an old well-preserved condition.

After crossing the beautiful garden measuring approximately 40 x 20 meters, a long corridor that led me to the second cluster of buildings. That is where Father Banar (daily calls to Father Budi Subanar) with St. Sunardi, who not long ago I know, is based. They both gave birth to the birth of Master Program in Religious and Culture, one of three master degree programs at the University of Sanata Dharma.

The room on the side of the corridor is almost entirely walled with thick walls reach a height of five meters. With our easy to mark the windows that lined using stained glass as we find in many buildings that use art deco style. “This glass is still original. Always in every frame of the glass there SV design,” said Father Banar when guided me to a room that became St. Sunardi Chief Master Program in Religious and Cultural.

SV stands for nothing other virtve et sapientia (roughly meaning wisdom and virtue). These words was none other than a kind of spirit named Dormitory Realino building established in 1955 to accommodate foreign students studying in the city of Yogyakarta city. “So this was boarding students from various regions in Indonesia, whatever the ethnic and religious,” said St. Sunardi. No wonder if in this area there are so many rooms and bathrooms. Even the kitchen was visible in the size of the mass, where there are towering chimney on the roof. No wonder the kitchen is now a seminar room and the rooms of students into the room and a room full of college professors.

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In accordance with its function at that time, accommodate dozens of students, no wonder if the park becomes very important. Park not only held in the spirit of beauty, but also informal communication space for all occupants. For that reason, the buildings in this complex is always growing around the park. And essential elements of the building, such as doors, windows, and stairs, always oriented to the park. Proverbial, if the occupants open the door and the window or down the stairs on the second floor, they are always confronted with a well-maintained gardens.

“The park is well cared for inmates is always a mirror in the house,” said St. Sunardimengutip an old adage. At the present time when the former student dormitory that was under Sanata Dharma Foundation, the utilization of each room was not much moved.

The difference, if used as a residence, now the rooms served as a scientific transformation process, discussion, and activities around the science and culture. Oh, yes, in one of the park where there is a large tree called banyan soekarno. The name is associated with the first President Sukarno, who planted a banyan tree when formalizing

Higher Education Sanata Dharma Teacher Education in 1960. Now under grove leaves and roots that spread far, the scientific and cultural activists held a discussion and stage arts. Thus, this complex suggests that the parks and buildings, particularly institutions related to the transformation of science and culture, has always been an integral part. Park not only be fresher when tired discussions in classrooms, but also become the “public” to eliminate structural bulkhead-screen class. “People can talk informally with anyone, about anything in the park,” said Father Banar.

It’s rare in contemporary thinking about the unification of human nature with the elements of human thought lately. Maybe they’ve started to lose creativity when the land narrows and the choice finally fell on the towering buildings. In Yogyakarta, the choice was still possible to avoid.