HarryTia Portfolio ARCHITECTURE I MAKING PLACES
Prepared by:
HARRY TIA HAU XIN 1001747767
project content project 01
Interpretation & Re-interpretation Site Section Urban Element
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Collaborative Site Study - Brickfields Research of Religious Place Zion Cathedral Sri Karpaga Vinayagar Temple
project 02b
Collaborative Site Study - Nilai Urban Strategy - Mapping Authority By-law Informations Site Model Site Measured Drawing Site Synergy
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Final Project - Religious Communal Hub Conceptual Master Planning Design Development The Proposal Models
Brickfields Background History
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Brickfields is named because during old times, there is an increased demand for bricks in fast growing Kuala Lumpur and established a kiln in the district. The soon became the centre for brick-making in the early days where the whole area was a clay pit and good quality bricks are made from clay. Therefore, Brickfields became synonymous with good quality bricks.
Brickfields used to be a simple Residential neighbourhood but transformed into wide street with many India store.The original of Little India used to locate in Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur then move to Brickfields which located at Jalan Tun Sambanthan. Thus, Brickfields become one of the oldest Indian settlements in the country.
Furthermore, Brickfields used to be the main depot for Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) during the administration of British. As the British brought in many people from Sri Lanka to work at the railway and many of them decided to lived there and remained there and they become citizen of Malaysia.
Ref: https://www.slideshare.net/ForestedTiger/ la-pjt-1-site-location-and-context
“ Urban Navigator, James LIM, 2006 ”
project 01
Interpretation & Re-interpretation
“ KL Lapis is an architecture platform for collaborative research on design methodologies and to develop critical understanding on urban challenges. By exploring the unconventional, we propose alternative ways to look into our cities. The first project will interpret and reinterpret an existing urban condition into a design concept by observing and abstracting the usual within the everyday. “
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Overall Presentation: Shows the journey of people who are heading to the religious pathway.
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“ Religious ” There are many religions exist long time ago in Brickfields. All religions here have their own religious building, located in many different spots in Brickfields, making brickfields vibrants in terms of diversity. Many races live harmoniously, having their own place of worship and their own little territory. While it also blends in with the current new generations of developments and peoples. Peoples has their freedom to devote to their own religion. The follow their own path to their believe while sharing the same road as others to the religious building. *Conclusion : Although having different religous, the people sharing the same road to achieve the same goal.
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“ Landscape ” Walking away from the main road, it can be observed that the suburban area is very much calm and slower. There are many peoples that are channel to smaller roads from the main road to certain locations, such as going back home, classes, eating, religious prayer, visit institutional buildings. The street scape is being shaped by the landscape; hard scape and soft scape. The hard scape such as paved pedestrians, steps, religious structures are the path that people steps on moving around. However, the soft scape such as trees, shrubs, planting pots are giving the shades to sun and protection from road. Usually, the peoples tends to walk on pedestrians covered . *Conclusion : The landscape shapes the pedestrian enhancing the experience walking on pedestrian.
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“ Movement ” The main road Jalan Tun Sambanthan is the backbone of Brickfields. One single road that acts as a line to divide the Old and New of the area. The Main road is most crowded in any time of the day, Rows of car queueing to pass the traffic, while soldier of peoples walking in quick pace catching the time. In contrast, the other side of Old area is calm and quiet, a complete opposite of what was the first impression at the main road. Vehicles and peoples’ movement are more relaxed and slow. Lots of people are brought to this here via the connected transits, making KL Sentral the central of transportation hub. *Conclusion : The movement is observed from fast to slow; main road to suburban roads.
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Urban Elements Model
“ Assimilated Model “ The model shows the combination of 3 elements. These three elements combination are forming a little miniature of an city. Firstly, it has the movements of red lines, lots of crowd coming from the main road to the inner zone. The grey blocks represents the buildings in different heights. Secondly, the yellow shows the pedestrian paths, with different ups and downs leading to a certain destination. While the grey block also represent the trees to shade the pedestrian pathway. Lastly, the white block is in the form of religion building form, with the religion related facade to add the essence from different religion. All together, it shows the journey of someone who are heading to the religious building, sharing same road, but different directions.
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“ RELIGION Model “ The model shows the religious building in white model card. It represents the spiritual space of the religion building has, and it is still standing till today with the old and new developments and changes to the place. And There is a path leads towards the religious building.
“ LANDSCAPE Model “ The model shows the hardscape pedestrian showed in yellow colour. It represents the path people walk with different direction, steps, and nodes. While there is also soft scape showed in grey board. It represents the trees which are giving the pedestrian the shade for walkers. The model showing yellows are ascending is similar to when we walk on steps on pedestrian walkway, we actually collecting every steps when we are heading to the destination.
“ MOVEMENT Model “ The model shows the movements in strips of translucent red, with the different of size and numbers to represent the crowd ness, speed and density of human flow. The model shows there are one side is busier, the main road, which has its breakdown to less busy, the smaller roads towards the inner of brickfield’s suburban area.
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project 02
Collaborative Site-study in Brickfields 7
Brickfields is also tagged as a “Divine Location� as many religious structures, some over 100 years old, are concentrated in the area, particularly Jalan Berhala. We are to understand the current situation of worship places as a community centre. How does community come together and what kind of activities are they involved in
We examine design strategy in responds to social, economic, cultural issue with programs and architecture intervention. Technical documentation of intermediate-level design proposals towards a comprehensive and considered architectural proposition.
History of brickfields Brickfields is named because during old times, there is an increased demand for bricks in fast growing Kuala Lumpur and established a kiln in the district. The soon became the centre for brick-making in the early days where the whole area was a clay pit and good quality bricks are made from clay. Therefore, Brickfields became synonymous with good quality bricks. Brickfields used to be a simple Residential neighbourhood but transformed into wide street with many India store.The original of Little India used to locate in Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur then move to Brickfields which located at Jalan Tun Sambanthan. Thus, Brickfields become one of the oldest Indian settlements in the country. Furthermore, Brickfields used to be the main depot for Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) during the administration of British. As the British brought in many people from Sri Lanka to work at the railway and many of them decided to lived there and remained there and they become citizen of Malaysia.
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Site-study Mapping
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Zion Cathedral Lutheran Church
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INTERIOR The interior layout of church is also symmetrical in plan and rather simple which contains the main areas and spaces of a Christian church, apse, transepts, nave, narthex, etc.
FLOOR PLAN & LAYOUT DESIGN The Zion Cathedral is in a shape of cruciform which is a common form amongst the conventional churches as a symbolism of christianity.
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FACADE The facades of the church are also taking inspiration from conventional churches especially Gothic churches where the elements of buttresses and arches are integrated in the design. However, different from Gothic churches, minimum ornaments and decorations are used on the exterior of the Zion Cathedral.
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Sri Karpaga Vinayagar Temple
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FACADE Indian architecture known for highly decorative style. The temple covered by multitudes of carved imagery. Sculpted images of edits, narrative reliefs from mythology and rich decorative carvings. The temple uses motif of Lord Ganesha as the decoration of Ganesha, the Lord of Obstacles, both a material and spiritual order. He is popularly worshipped as a removed of obstacles, though traditionally he also places obstacles in the path of those who need to be checked.
FLOOR PLAN & LAYOUT DESIGN The design, especially the floor plan of the part of Hindu Temple around the sanctum or shrine follows a geometrical design called Vastu Purusha Mandala. The name is a composite Sanskrit word with three of the most important components of the plan. Mandala means circle, Purusha is universal essence at the core of Hindu Tradition, while Vastu means the dwelling structure. The design layout of Hindu Temple is asymmetrical, self-repeating structure derived from central believes, myths, cardinality and mathematical principles.
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Pekan Nilai Background History
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Kampung Baru Nilai was established in1945 .This village is situated beside Jalan Terminal Nilai. The site was once surrounded by swamps, mud, weeds and with tall trees. This village is populated largely by the Chinese community. In 1945, the government took over the land from the communists and developed it to place the Chinese community. In the early period, there were only few houses in this village but with the passage of time, the village population has increased. Hakka is the predominant language of the village. Majority of the villagers were rubber tappers. In 2007, at the request of Majlis Perbandaran Seremban, the village was renamed „Kampung Seri Nilaiâ€&#x;. Currently there are 176 houses with 1600 villagers staying in them.
http://www.utar.edu.my/dssc/file/ Nilai%202.pdf
Proposed Site
Proposed Site
Pekan Nilai Urban Strategy
This studio, we explore series map-able topics to develop a shareable knowledge. To understand the site and it’s diverse spatial layers, draw a map of one site issue, in digital format. Nevertheless, it has to be a basis of digital site maps to get scale, forms and information, as accurate as possible.
Topics we studied:
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Road infrastructure Civic and Public Amenities Figure Ground/ building footprint Temperature and Wind Building Heights Building, ground floor uses and above floors Landownership and tenure
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Building and spaces, degree of dereliction Density calculation FAR (Floor Area Ratio) Vista and Views Open Spaces and its use Paved area and side walk Drainage System Demographic
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Site Model Timber Base
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Proposed Site
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KAMPUNG SERI NILAI 汝来新村 2007
SECTION A-A SCALE 1:500
SECTION B-B SCALE 1:500
XSIZE YSIZE
SECTION C-C SCALE 1:500
Measured Drawing
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SITE 4 - SITE PLAN/ SITE SECTION Jamison Chee Kam Chun The site is located infront of Kampung Seri Nilai. As the contour line shown that the site is lower than the main road. There is some existing single story house and some burn down houses in Site 4.
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Path x Secret There are many orchard and farms in the suburb. The entrance are usually shield with tall bushes and trees, created a feeling of secret place.
6 Photos These 6 photos are taken in the St Theresa Church Nilai, and the surrounding neighbourhood. These collections are taken based on my interest. Where I am looking into the less intangible/ simple objects.
Shelter x Visibility There is a boy living in the flats opposite of the site, where he had kept his pet safe in a cage where I can interact with them.
Roof x Openness The burnt down church is left exposed without roof cover, it turns out to have a feeling of freedom.
Tunnel x View In St Theresa Church, I found inspiration from the drainage. Imagine peoples are walking through the tunnel like space, seeking for an exit.
Site Synergy Pekan Nilai
Stairs x Movement The staircase served the community of St Theresa Church for a long time, they uses the stairs to move between the church and the community centre.
Plant pots x Green Both the church and the community has the interest in gardening.
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St Theresa Communal Hub Pekan Nilai
Introduction
KEY PLAN
LOCATION PLAN
The intention of this project is to create a new extension for St Theresa Church. The proposal will be focused in providing the church various programmes and functions to serve the church members and nurturing the interaction with the communities living in the same neighbourhood. At the same time, generating passive income for charity and so on.
This proposal aims to provide: * Suburbs park everyone can visit. * Interactive outdoor experience. * Vibrant flower gardens. * Walkable green roof viewing deck. * Morning/evening walks. * Riverside farming spaces. * Funtional spaces for activities. * Green terrace living environment.
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Precedent Study 35
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Inspiring precedents: 1. 2. 3. 4.
A Thousand Yard Pavilion, Beijing by Penda. Danish Government Agency by Arkitema Architects. Terrazario, Madrid by PKMN Architecture. Kop Zuidas, Amsterdam by Rebel.
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Viettel Academy Educational Centre, Vietnam. Rural House, Spain by RCR Arquitectes Particle of Light, UAE by Sou Fujimoto Cyprus Museum by Zaha Hadid. New School of Architecture by EFFEKT.
Developing Stage The forms are developing, more landscape and variations of form is developed.
Study Models
Early Stage Several forms are created in the site with specific programmes and landscapes.
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St Theresa Community Hub Connects & brings people to get close with nature. This communal hub is not only cater for the church’s needs, it also gives the neighbourhood a place for leisure activities.
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Design Response 39
The site has the richness of the nature. The whole site area is covered by greeneries; trees, bushes, vegetable farm, fruit trees etc. Hence, I want to embrace and highlight the connection and interaction with human. I want to create a viewing deck for the users to enjoy the scenery of Nilai town.
Design Process: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Identify existing wild nature. Linear form follows site. Breaking form by programme. Linking main street to nature orchard. Creating gardens in between. Hierarchy form for views.
Site Plan Neighbourhood
The site is located about 400 metre away from the existing St Theresa Church Nilai. Along the main road “Jalan Besar Nilai �, there are rows of shophouses built along, since decades. The shophouses serves the neighbourhood with variety businesses. The site is mostly surrounded by the residential units.
The site it self is a 3 metre in difference topography with the main road. There is a monsoon drain at the back, with a fruit orchard and a KTM railway. The site was all the wild trees and bushes, with 3 existing houses and some vegetable planting farm.
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Basement Plan 41
Carpark :
Outdoor :
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Car park (78’s) Motorbike park (37’s) OKU park (4’s) Lift Lobby Fire Escape Staircase Exit to Garden
Backyard Farming Bridge Fruit Orchard
Ground Floor Plan
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Community Hub :
M-P Hall :
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Drop-off Lobby & Registration Cafe & Kitchen Convenience Store Toilet Lift Lobby Services Rooms Multifunction open area
Drop-off Gallery Library Pantry Toilet Bubble lift
Hall Stage Toilet Control Room
Drop-off Flower bed Seating areas Backyard Farming Contemplation Garden Bridge Fruit Orchard
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First Floor Plan 43
Accommodation :
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Working Space Office Classrooms (3’s) Dormitory Male Toilets
Registration Multipurpose space Pantry Toilets Control Room
Mezzanine floor Seating area
Elevated Walkway Farming pot
Second Floor Plan
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Communal Living Space Dormitory Female Twin Room Pantry Laundry Toilets
Elevated Walkway Farming pot Rooftop Garden Roof Pavilion Garden Terrace
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Third & Fourth Floor Plan 45
Accommodation :
Outdoor :
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Garden Suites Family Suites Garden Terrace
Farming pot Rooftop Garden Garden Terrace Viewing Deck BBQ Pit
Sectional Perspective
Flower Garden
Pathway to Farm
Community Space
Multifunction Hall
There are pocket of flower bed that welcome the visitor from the entrance.
The main street is link to the backyard farm by a walkway that created by the axis.
There are water feature and viewing garden infant of the community hub allow people to sit.
The hall has the main focus viewing at the fruit orchard behind to create a calming view.
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Elevation Sections 47
Front Elevation
Left Elevation
Right Elevation
View from the main road, represents the entrance to the building. The Chinese village will be first to see this view.
View from neighbouring lot, it is also Chinese village houses, looking at the back side of accommodation block.
View from neighbouring lot, it is also Chinese village houses, looking at the staircase going up to the roof garden.
Rear Elevation
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View from the fruit orchard. There are more openings in the buildings on this side. The KTM passenger are able to look at the building’s Hierarchy roof top.
Section cut at the accommodation block. It shows how the users use the common area and private room.
Section cut at the longitudinal side. From (left) accommodation, (mid) community hub, (right) multipurpose hall.
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Technical Details 49
Materials :
Construction :
Facade :
Sustainability :
Raw Materials: • Concrete • Timber • Metal
Method: • Post & Beam • Green Roof • Pad Foundation
Type: • Glass Wall • Timber Cladding • Metal Louver (vertical) • Fair Faced Concrete
Type: • Natural Ventilation • Grey Water Harvesting • Shading Device
Special Features
Outdoor Terrace
Backyard Farming
Flower Garden
Multifunction Hall
Residents can enjoy outdoor space and views.
Community can farm vegetables at the backyard.
There are pocket of flower bed that welcome the visitor from the entrance.
The hall has the main focus viewing at the fruit orchard and water feature.
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Exterior Perspectives 51
Rooftop Garden
The Hall
Convenience Store
Rooftop space turns into viewing deck, outdoor activity place, and farmings.
The hall is right in front of the Chinese village, there is a side staircase up to the rooftop.
An elevated outdoor platform outside the store allow people to interact.
Interior Perspectives
Gallery Space
Accommodation
Classroom
Lobby
Any kind of contribution, products, or creation by the community hub can display here.
Cross ventilation in the accommodation block corridor.
Learning space for the volunteers to conduct classes.
Accommodation lobby has double volume space and a full glazing to allow view to outside.
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Outdoor Perspectives
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Garden
Open Space
Library
Backyard
Evening or morning, people can sit in this garden and enjoy the natural environment.
A feature taken from existing church’s community centre.
Community gather here, reading, watching tv, play games etc.
Community come together and plant vegetables.
Sectional Model
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Final Model
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Plan View
Accommodation
Community Hub
Multipurpose Hall
Overall Model
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Prepared by:
HARRY TIA HAU XIN 1001747767
SABE UCSI School Of Architecture & Built Environment