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[R]URBAN: Rural + Urban
Bachelor of Science in Architecture- Semester 07, December 2013
Typology Residential apartment Site setting Klebang, Malacca Concept note In his book Cities on the Move (1970), Arnold Toynbee name the first chapter ‘the Traditional City and the Present Urban Explosion’ which talks about the novel problems of urban life. The limited ability of a city to provide itself with food produced within its own bounds, congestion of the trafic now that the population has become mobile, physical fatigue, and the psychological time which are a ‘commuter’s’ occupational trials, among others. Fast forward four decades later, urban population are still dealing with the same dilemma if not greater. The idea of a mash-up between rural and urban is to revive the cultural and historical component of Malacca itself as design mechanism towards resolving these urban problems of city living. The need to instill meaning and substance of the old community living - the kampung lifestyle into the modern day living.