SENSORY, HUMAN AND CULTURE| Taman Tasik Cempaka, Bangi| Site Analysis

Sensory, Human and Culture TAMAN TASIK CEMPAKA Report

ARCH 2140 STUDIO DESIGN IIB

OUR TEAM

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SITI NURFARAHIM

203022287

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MOHAMMAD OZEER

191920959

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TAN YAN JIE

191020963

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SYAZA SYAZANA

203022284

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ANANYA JEBA FARIHA

193921718

SENSORY Demography, Neighbourhood, Activity, and Attitude

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Topic Outlines

SENSORY Taman Tasik Cempaka site

VIEWS Of the site

NOISE Sources and intensities

ODOOR, SMOKE AND AIRBORNE POLLUTANTS Sources and intensities

SWOT & SYNTHESIS social

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SITE INVENTORY | LOCATION

SENSORY VIEWS The trees in the north- eastern side blocks the views from both inside and outside the site boundary, acting as the natural fencing system. In the west side of the site there is an open view of Taman Tasik Cempaka and adjacent to the site in the south-eastern side there is a neighbourhood park, Taman Permainan Taman Tasik Cempaka.

1. View to West at Taman Tasik Cempaka

2. View from North, main road Persiaran Bangi

3. Panoramic view from North- West to the site

4. View from East, Persiaran Pusat Bandar road to the site

8. Blocked view of the East side of the site

7. View of Taman Permainan Taman Tasik Cempaka in the South of the site, adjacent to the site boundary.

6. Open view from West, Taman Tasik Cempaka to the site

5. View from bus stop near site boundary in the East

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VIEWS WITHIN SITE BOUNDARY

From the site boundary, the main road lies in North- East. It is the angle within which broad views can be found and the object of views can change over time. There are small buildings across the street, which barely blocks any view from the site.

Another positive angle within the site is the South side, Taman Tasik Chempaka is

located at that direction and a lake right next to the site, allowing light and air as well as an open view inside the site. In the north, Taman Permainan Taman Tasik Cempaka is located, which might be a good design opportunity if merged. The East view is blocked by the rows of large trees.

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VIEWS OUTSIDE SITE BOUNDARY

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North- East node view from the main road.

Positive Views- In the existing site condition, views from the main road and Taman Tasik Cempaka, situated in the west, offer to display the positive angles of the site.

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Negative Views- The temporary walkway created on the lake connecting Taman Tasik Cempaka and the given site has a drainage pipe and polluted water.

2. East side view from the Bus stop.

East view from the main road.

4. North side view from the main road.

Blocked views from outside the site boundary- Eastern view of the site is entirely covered with trees from outside as well as inside the site. In the South- East part, trees and a playground blocks the view of the site.

Dramatic angle of the propertyNorth-Eastern side of the site allows the most dramatic and clear view from the main road.

Point of interest in the site from outside and potential of continuing or blocking the views by surrounding developments - The view from the playground and Taman Tasik Cempaka. Views will not be blocked by any future development here.

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NOISE SOURCES & INTENSITIES

The higher the dB the more likely to damage our hearing over time.

Moreover, It is considered risky above (80dB) and could lead for hearing loss. list of the noise sources , intensities in dB unit : > > > >

Jet flyover-------------------------120 dB. Lawn mower --------------------100 dB. City traffic-heavy traffic---70-80 dB. Moderate rainfall --------------50 dB.

Narrow 4-Lane Road

Lawn mower

Highway - Intersection Page Number

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5. A clear view of the site from the bridge on the North side.

Shows the open site with the front view of lake.

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6. View of the site from Taman Tasik Chempaka. A connecting pathway and the main road can be seen from the park as well.

7. View of the site from the lake.

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8. The clogged water surface creates a negative view of the site from the northwestern side of the main road. The drain water of the neighbouring park helps growing unnecessary grass, planktons and bad odour.

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ODORS, SMOKE, AIRBORNE POLLUTION SOURCES & INTENSITIES

A site’s perceptual quality is affected not only by what people can see but also by what they can hear and smell.

Odors also may pose a problem with sites near ponds or large industrial operations.

The direction of the prevailing breezes is a particularly important attribute to consider when designing in the vicinity of these and other odor producing activities.

> smell of water. > CO2 emissions of vehicles.

Lake - musty & humid

Highway - CO2 emissions.

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Synthesis Sensory 33

SWOT & SYNTHESIS ANANYA JEBA FARIHA

193921718

Weakness

Strength

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Lake near the site: Tranquil view

Opportunity ●

The playground beside the site can be a part of design process.

Unplanned planktons and dump-water on the front portion of the waterbody creates an unpleasant view.

Threats ●

Polluted water in the north side of Lake.

SYNTHESIS

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OPENINGS AND WINDOWS

Large openings and windows should be included in the West, to enjoy the views of the lake and green area of Taman Tasik Cempaka.

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COMMUNAL NODE

Site boundary towards the nearby park should be taken into design consideration, in order to blend with the surrounding neighborhood and encouraging people from nearby locations to visit and make them feel welcomed.

1. Filtered View to street 3. Open view to Lake 2. Filtered view to Clogged water body 4. Open boundary to the . nearby park

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SWOT & SYNTHESIS ANANYA JEBA FARIHA

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Should design interesting facade in NorthEast, this side offers a wide angle view of the structure from the main road

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Trees around the site should keep as they acts as a natural curtain, allows privacy and shade from direct sunlight from east.

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Create Openings on the positive view on site

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Installing drain grid to filter out waste.

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Block the negative views with softscapes/ parking lots

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Maximise positive views to park

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Implement sidewalk to lead the users to the positive views on site

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Propose entrance or special space program on the positive views on site with the beautiful views creates a welcoming and approachable entrance statement.

Angles with the best views to the site and from the site

FACADE ORIENTATION

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NOISE SOURCES & INTENSITIES

The higher the dB the more likely to damage our hearing over time.

Moreover, It is considered risky above (80dB) and could lead for hearing loss. list of the noise sources , intensities in dB unit : > > > >

Jet flyover-------------------------120 dB. Lawn mower --------------------100 dB. City traffic-heavy traffic---70-80 dB. Moderate rainfall --------------50 dB.

Narrow 4-Lane Road

Lawn mower

Highway - Intersection 8

NOISE SOURCES & INTENSITIES

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There is not much traffic and noise generated at the Narrow 4-Lane Road comparing to the Highway.

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Having a terrace, curtain wall, window openings or a yard near the highway is not a big no-no unless there is a proposal or a solution to that particular problem.

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Grass cutting or trimming by the lawn mower.

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It really generates a high level of noise

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ODORS, SMOKE, AIRBORNE POLLUTION SOURCES & INTENSITIES A site’s perceptual quality is affected not only by what people can see but also by what they can hear and smell.

Odors also may pose a problem with sites near ponds or large industrial operations.

The direction of the prevailing breezes is a particularly important attribute to consider when designing in the vicinity of these and other odor producing activities.

> smell of water. > CO2 emissions of vehicles.

Lake - musty & humid

Highway - CO2 emissions.

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SWOT & SYNTHESIS OZEER MOHAMMAD 191920959

Strength ●

Trees: noise abatement and pollution reduction.Trees will absorb carbon dioxide and gaseous pollutants.

Opportunity ●

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Provide a quiet space along the lake.

Weakness Noise pollution from surrounding vehicular traffic

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Threats unpleasant smell from the lake if it is not well maintained.

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Placing Parking garage near the highway can buffer the noise before it reaches our building.

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Rooms placement: Placing rooms that are less sensitive to noise (e.g., washrooms, store rooms, staff rooms) on the side of the building nearest the highway, opening up space farther from the road for showrooms and library and hall areas.

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Minimizing the number of windows and doors facing the highway.

Installing double- or triple-paned glass windows and solid-core doors.

Trees not only absorb carbon dioxide, give shade, avoid soil erosion, but they also act as buffers and filter out the annoying urban noise.

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SWOT & SYNTHESIS OZEER MOHAMMAD 191920959

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Keep the trees : noise abatement and pollution reduction.

Trees will absorb carbon dioxide and gaseous pollutants.

Maintain the pond.

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Movement of the air : Facilitating air circulation helps to improve thermal and olfactory comfort in an environment.

● Maintain the Lake Reduce Lake Muck, Sludge, & Waste. ● Large amounts of sludge close to the water surface will create an unpleasant smell similar to sewage.

● Providing good sunlight and, above all, adequate and natural ventilation is a highly efficient way to purify air in an environment. ● Fountains : provide the body of water with the oxygen it needs to support a healthy balance of plant and animal life.

Fountain provides Oxygen.

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HUMAN & CULTURE Demography, Neighbourhood, Activity, and Attitude

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Topic Outlines

HISTORICAL Bandar baru bangi timeline

DEMOGRAPHY Users and social behavior

NEIGHBOURHOOD PATTERN Negatives activities

HUMAN ACTIVITIES Human use densities and temporal activities in a day

NEIGHBOURHOOD Trends and attitude

SWOT & SYNTHESIS social

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BANDAR BARU BANGI

What we need to know about

Bandar Baru Bangi is a business centre as there are various shopping complexes such as Kompleks PKNS, Kipmall Bangi, Bangi Gateway and Evo Mall. In addition, as a planned city built in the 1970s, the city is equipped with residential zones, business zones, recreation zones and industrial zones. For example, light industry sectors such as food industry, plastic, textiles, manufacture of chemical products and

Picture by Sunwaygandaria.com

manufacture of household electric appliances can be found here. Bandar Baru Bangi also caters to the demand for accommodation from both local and foreign students as well as staff of the higher educational institutions nearby.

These tertiary education institutes include Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Infrastructure University KL (IUKL) and Universiti Multimedia (MMU).

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HISTORICAL TIMELINE Bandar Baru Bangi was established in 1970-1980 is a township - situated in the district of Hulu Langat, in Selangor, Malaysia. It is named after the small town of Bangi situated further south. Bandar Baru Bangi is also known as "Bandar Berilmu" or knowledgeable city since 2008 as numerous universities are located here.

1974

Early 1978

This 5118 acre palm oil farm was started to developed.

Electrical was introduced and no transportation in early days

1972 Intake was made

By Selangor State Government Darul Ehsan (1972-1978)

1977 Workers of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia move in from Lembah Pantai

End 1978 Pasar basah was built, seksyen 1 development, clinics and also other facilities

Mid 1978 Construction recruitment for residential units in seksyen 1. 200 units residential housing built in that stage.

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1980

1983

Commercial building was built to encourage business, schools were built as well lots of teacher and lecturer came from Bangi lama and settled down here.

Residential started to build up and the town expanded

2007 The area developing residential unit, office complex, factories units and stores started to appear

1998 1979

1982

Construction of UKM mosque

The opening of UKM mosque

With KLIA lots of highway is built to shorten the distance made people start to flock here

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2016 ONWARDS With the help of towns like Nilai, Semenyih and Kajang. Bandar Baru Bangi is at its peak

2008

CURRENT

Being labelled as BANDAR ILMU, opening of islamic hospital and institutes

People that move here mostly have families in generation and grew up there

REFERENCES: iluminasi.com

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SITE INVENTORY | LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY USERS

Malays

No Temple, Chinese Shrine or Church nearby. There is one masjid as most of the residents that stay around the site is Malay. The school around the site mostly is Sekolah Kebangsaan(SK) and Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan(SMK).

For example, Sekolah Kebangsaan Bandar Baru Bangi, Sekolah Rendah Agama Integrasi Bandar Baru Bangi also located under the area of Bandar Baru Bangi, which also shows that the majority of the residents around the site is Malay people.

Ethnicity | Majority : Malays (63.23%） Malay residential area Mosque nearby Islamic and malay schools | Chinese(20.56%)/Indians(6.19%) /Others(10.02%) Far from chinese area (Sungai Chuah) Small city for migrant groups Age Group | Majority : 15-64 y/o (69.71%) Maximize use of the area (shopping, business) Working area | Minorities : 0-14 y/o (23.27%) / 65 and above (23.27%) Activities cater to working adults Area unfavourable to their daily routine Gender | Majority : Female | Minorities : Male Page Number 19

SITE INVENTORY | LOCATION

03DEMOGRAPHY SOCIAL BEHAVIOR Residential Development

B.

B. Residential Area Shop Lot Industry Area

C.

B.

A.

Education High Rise

B. Masjid/Surau

The maps to indicates different type of areas

A. High class residential area

B. Middle class residential area

C. Low class residential area

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B.

C.

A.

High Class residential area Occupied with wealthy people. The houses is semi-detached, gated & guarded. This area is clean, quiet, has less sound pollution around the area and integrated with recreational facilities. These areas tend to contain areas of better quality housing.

B.

Middle Class residential area The middle class is a socio-economic strata that falls in between the working class and the upper class. Middle class families tend to own their own home (although with a mortgage), own a car (although with a loan or lease), send their kids to college (although with student loans or scholarships), are saving for retirement, and have enough disposable savings to afford certain luxuries like dining out and vacations.

C.

Low Class residential area Occupied with lower average income of residents. This is an area of low cost housing with poor quality housing and contain high density housing.

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NEIGHBOURHOOD PATTERN NEGATIVE PATTERN

There are few negative things that can be seen surround the site area that should be taken notes before started the project design.

1. Landslides

2.Crushed road border

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3. Untended empty area

2 4. Blocked pedestrian walkway

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Negative pattern

Landslides

1. The

ground that dimmed down towards the lake, creates landslides due to the rain or any external forces in period of time.

Untended empty area

Crushed road border

2. Accidents

occur at the busy road and hit the road border.

However, there are no maintenance taken.

Blocked pedestrian walkway

3. The empty land located near the

4. The pedestrian walkway which is

commercial area have lack of maintenance results in piles of garbages and overgrown bushes on sight.

one of the access into the site is blocked by dry plants and trash.

Construction piles

Abandon maintenance

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The construction piles was abandon on the side of the road

6. The drain cover was put aside for cleaning / maintenance.

However, the drain cover was left aside creating a untidy sight along the road to the site.

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HUMAN ACTIVITIES HUMAN USE DENSITIES

Morning The activities in the commercial area are more subtle creates a low density of people in the area. In the morning, it is shown that people have more tendency into the malls and their own residential place.

Noon At noon, the commercial area become the most busiest with highest density of people. This location is where people are working, shopping entertaining and resting. The malls are a step behind with an average density since people of the area preferred to spend their time at the mall in the noon.

Evening People started to leaving the commercial area to their residential places or went to other available activities. These results in a low density of people in the evening in the area.

High densities

Average densities

Low densities

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HUMAN ACTIVITY TEMPORAL activities by a day

Temporal Activities are repeated activities that are only performed at certain times of the day. They can do these activities because of the provided amenities.

MORNING

NOON

Children play at the Tasik Cempaka park

Morning prayer

Morning jog or walk around the Tasik Cempaka park

EVENING

Student go to school People selling foods and goods around the site

People spent times at home at night

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NEIGHBOURHOOD TRENDS

Neighbourhood Trends are a set of activities that the residents of a neighbourhood would partake. On certain time, there will be locations of interest where said residents will congregate to perform said activities. The list of trends is lints according to places within 2 km radius

A

B

C

D

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SITE INVENTORY | LOCATION

A 1. PKNS Complex | Shopping

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2.

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2. Evo Mall | Shopping, Event Space

The people preferred in Zone A where most of the commercial buildings for shopping, woking, events and entertaining located.

3. Commercial Area | Business area, F&B spots

B 3.

1. Street vendors 2.

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2. Dewan Melor Garden Wedding | Events & wedding venue

Zone B is where most of the residential buildings located. A few community halls are built where the residents can gather for group activities, celebrations, weddings, or any public meetings.

3. Veillaris Bangi | Events & wedding venue 27

C 2.

3.

1.

1. KIP MALL | Shopping,charity,seasonal event

2. Pasar tani Bandar Baru Bangi|Hawker business

Some part of Zone C are mostly factory/industrial building that full of workers. but there are also entertainment space within this part.

3. Pasar malam Persiaran Usahawan|Hawker business

D 1.

1. Bangi Clubhouse |Restaurants,events,seminar

2.

Zone D area are mostly occupied for the Bangi Golf Resort and the clubhouse guests.

2.Bangi Golf Resort | Wedding,Buffet,Golf 29

TRENDS ON SITE These are the common activities done by the neighborhood community.

Seminar/Group activities

Hawker

Jogging

Kayaking

Fishing

Sightseeing

Cycling

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NEIGHBOURHOOD ATTITUDE ON PROJECT

BANGI COMMUNITY The review is obtained by interviewing the community via facebook in a bangi community group and conclude it into five categories.

PARENTS

MIDDLE AGE WORKING MEN

Wishing the new centre can be a place for new things for the children to explore or learn

Hoping that the future centre will benefit the community.

ELDER PEOPLE Wanting a place that are comfortable and relaxing while providing safety for older people

YOUTH PEOPLE

FEMALE COMMUNITY

Excited for the new place for hanging out and entertainment

Looking forward for the new activities provided in the new project

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NEIGHBOURHOOD ATTITUDE ON SITE

BANGI COMMUNITY The review is taken from the google review of the Tasik Cempaka park. From the google review, we manage to find the the community opinion towards the site.

Bangi community includes families, youth, elder, students and also working people

HYGIENE CONCERN

LACK OF SECURITY/ AREAS

FACILITIES

Around the area have their own trash disposal but its not proper. It made the site produce bad odour

At night the site is too dark and not safe for people to do activities there.

There's a lot of spaces here that is unused maybe can suggest a centre of some facilities to help of gain the attention of community around

The drainage and utilities need to be improve It's better to have a place where the community can get food and beverage on site so it is comfortable to spent time longer there on site

Mostly depend on the artificial light which is not enough to provide light on the site People spend time doing recreational activities here, so it need more areas for resting

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Synthesis Human & Cultural 33

SWOT & SYNTHESIS TAN YAN JIE 191020963

Weakness

Strength ●

Commercial area, stalls/food and beverages spots nearby.

Poor maintenance of the broken which could be dangerous to users

facilities

Threats

Opportunity ●

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Various events/activities can be held as the park is huge and spacious.

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Might be overcrowded during weekends or holiday.

Relation The design should include the identity of the surrounding and also the park. So that the area and the design could blend with the community.

Building

SEGREGATE USAGE Breakdown areas into different specialized pace to ease the users, meanwhile it also encourage the users to explore the site while doing and activities there

Building

pavement 34

SWOT & SYNTHESIS SYAZA SYAZANA 203022284

Strength ●

Weakness

Perfect for family activities such as strolling or jogging.

Opportunity ●

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There is less shades/shelter that caused inconvenience for people.

Threats

Proximity on site will help to create strong codependency of future space programs that going to design for the users

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Poor Securities condition

Securities Provide enough street light along the walkway to prevent negative activities like vandalism happen in the site during at night

Building

Streetlight

pavement

Walkway+playroom

Public+private space

DIVERSITY Introduce multifunctional spades to create a variety of human activity which suitable various users in bangi community.

Storage+seating

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SWOT & SYNTHESIS SITI NURFARAHIM 203022284

Strength ●

Weakness

Strong bond community .

Opportunity ●

More parking can be added to meet the demand of more people.

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Equivalent identity that perhaps could be diverse

Threats ●

Traditionalist community which might not be open to provocative design

ACCESS Create easy access from other places to the site. To grow a better network between different area and user.

Building

INTERACTION Open , permeable design that encourages community interactions 36

ARCH 2140 STUDIO DESIGN IIB