learning centre

jalan stesen 1, klang project brief: Weekend Lodging denotes ‘A place where one escapes for relaxation, recreation and vacation for a short period of time.’ This Weekend Lodging should function as habitable architectural spaces to enable the activity associated with living, dining, showering, cooking, storage and such within the built up space of maximum 150 m2 . about site: The personality of Jalan Stesen 1 is more introverted and shy, compared to the Little India area which is always full of life and busy. On a macro scale, both contrasting personalities of areas are just separated by a 3 meter alley way. One that is always busy and happening, dominated by existential users, and another dormant and shy, dominated by empathetic users. project desc. : As the existential area continues to expand, the Jalan Stesen 1 faces the threat of losing its foothold in maintaining its essence and traces of culture as old businesses run by the empathetic users starts to close down one by one as it loses its heir to the business and some, its arts and crafts.

The empathetic users are people who has an attachment to the site, mainly those who grew up in that place. The businesses along Jalan Stesen 1 are mostly run by empathetic users and has been there for generations. It is a site full of essence and nostalgia.

Thus, the Learning centre aims to fan into flame again the essence of site, and to induce empathy through converging two needs on site; the needs of conservation of culture or arts and crafts, and the needs of space by the youth as there are numbers of education centre in a 1-2km radius from site.

Education Pods around site

There are multiple educational buidlings around site from 1-2km radius. Which causes a need to cater for the needs of a student. Where will they go after class? What will they do? What kind of space can we provide for them?

Identifying the users on site

Empathetic Insiders

they are the ones that cretes the culture of the region and had lived there for generations, even their businesses. They have attachments to site.

Existential Insiders

They are people who are attracted to incidents. Their existance is defined by the potentials that the site could provide. For example, the business owners in Little India that only comes to site for business, and does not live on site.

Objective Outsiders

They are the people who view the site on first dimension. They identify the site based on setting and activities. For example, tourists or visitors that comes to site for the first time and views the site based on what they see and experience