The eyes of an architect. Architecture is something that is believe to be transparent in the eyes of people, but art is something that is created out from a significant mind of an abstract person forming overall shape and sizes in architectural condition layout. The way to convey messages come in many different ways and direction, my own personal preference was to create a quick sketch to surface the idea onto the paper where every abstraction signifies it owns meaning and concept. Architecture has provided me the meaning of every single structure that is considered and how it is important to work around the restriction to form the greatest concept and design statement in overcoming any criticism and circumstances. The process of learning architecture in classes helps in building a very strong foundation in the fundamental concept of consideration of many structural possibility in designing and buildability. In outcome of the process of learning, sustainability was emphasized greatly in producing a more sustainable design. In my opinion I do believe in green architecture where building should envelop around and across green lushes. Green environment building has become more prominent in the world of architecture, GBI rating tools are tools evaluates the sustainable aspect of the building in regards to the typology of building such as residential and non-residential.
CONTENT PROJECT 1 - SEMESTER 4 STUDIO PROJECT 2 - SEMESTER 5 STUDIO PROJECT 3 - SEMESTER 5 ARHITECTURE CONSERVATION PROJECT 4 - SEMESTER 6 STUDIO
Value of urban design has becoming substantial important in creating a community usable space in up bringing the design of the context. The design hovers a greater impact to the environment in the context of surrounding such as the existing building, vegetation, and community. The design through exterior and interior spaces correspond to the site context providing a spatial quality to user which the journey through the spaces. Materiality plays a major role in architecture such as bringing out the aesthetic beauty of the façade lifting the vibrancy of the building through its natural tone while considering the climate affection, durability and the maintenance of the material. Material choices are carefully selected in the context of the local climate. Essence of the poetic spaces and design visual are present with the cultivation of the textures of materials portraying the beauty of the natural shaders.
Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves. – Julia Morgan
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND ENGAGEMENT CENTRE Located off shore of malacca, Carrey Island is a countryside areawhere tribal community are located, a proposal of Community Development and Engagement Centre is to be design and constructed on the Island in Mah Meri Cultural Centre Village. The richness of green area provides a suitable platform to design a sustainable building which is able to cohere with the spirit of the place thus the main material used for the construction of the centre is timber and laminated wood. The community development and engagement centre was design to provide knowledge and history of the existance of Mah Meri Culture through providing space for user to engage with the community thus equipting the user with the experience to understand the culture and heritage of the tribe.
KEY AND LOCATION PLAN
GREEN LANDSCAPE
NATURAL SHADING DEVICE
SITE PLAN
NATURAL VENTILATION
CONCEPT
DEVELOPMENT ENGAGEMENT TRILOGY
KNOWLEDGE
The design has an indefinite shape in the initial design stage where it follows the outline of the location of the tree in order to preserve the large tree in provision of shade to the building.
The idea was to sustain the culture and heritage of the Mah Meri Tribe through the teory of trilogy. Where the parties are benifitial to each other.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
FRONT ELEVATION
RIGHT ELEVATION
REAR ELEVATION
LEFT ELEVATION
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE A-A
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE B-B
The foyer, the entrance to the centre, greeted by friendly receptionist introducing the whereabout of the building.
The communal hall, a public gathering space where people gather around to witness a speech or a show.
The feature staircase which is encased by wooden louvre of the facade bringing in peotic shadow during the evening.
The view to the library where user are able to calmly enjoy reading books regarding the history and culture of the mah meri tribes.
FINAL MODEL SCALE 1:100
COMMUNITY LIBRARY The KL City Centre, lies the lively cultural vibrant of Brickfields. Community Library is designated in between two building as the project is an infill construction project. Comprises of 3-5 storey height, the building serves to the community thus fire requrement is needed to be proposed as it is a public building. The community library serves as a very sole purpose in providing and equiping the locals with the knowledge as survey conducted on site to see the functionality and usability of a library if it was constructed on site.
KEY PLAN
LOCATION PLAN SITE PLAN
CENTRAL COURTYARD
LINKWAY
BUFFER ZONE/VOID
PROGRESS DEVELOPMENT 1
PROGRESS DEVELOPMENT 3
PROGRESS DEVELOPMENT 2
PROGRESS DEVELOPMENT 4
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
FRONT ELEVATION
REAR ELEVATION
SECTION A-A
SECTION B-B
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
INTERIOR MODEL
TECHNICAL CONSTRUCTION DETAIL
The library space interplays shadow coming from the natural daylight providing sufficient lighting into the space for the user utilising the reading area.
The central courtyard creates a void in the centre of the space thus bringing outdoor daylight into the core and spreading evenly to each spaces within the community library.
The void spaces are also located within the building in creating poetic spaces with double volume in the library, giving a different experience of the space.
Green trees are grown in the central courtyard shading the cafe spaces. The concept was to creates a resemblance from the past where courtyard are constrcuted in the centre of the house to create airflow within the spaces.
INVESTIGATION Building Site – Yan Keng Benevolent Dramatic Association, Jalan Sultan, Kuala Lumpur Building Proposal – Gallery + Café Integration
The Study of the Streetscape in Jalan Sultan.
Jalan Sultan was known for its heritage street in Petaling Street long before the war began. Partly conservation was conducted due to the construction of the mass rapid transit nearby the street of Jalan Sultan, massive destruction was inflicted on the Yan Keng Benevolent Dramatic Association causing part of the building torn down to make way for the MRT project.
The Study of the Yan Keng Benevolent Dramatic Association.
The building has achieved a 100 years old historical value as the Chinese owner has did a good job in maintaining the building condition. The income for maintaining comes from the membership fees of the ping pong club and rent that are given out to the ground floor shops which are the Chinese tea shop and the tailor shop. Yan Keng Benevolent Association is a Chinese cultural association where Chinese opera are played in a theatre during olden days but currently the theatre room is being used as a community hall where ping pong club is being held to create an exercise training for the older generation.
The Reason of Building Proposal
A proposal was conducted to create an awareness of the existent of the building as how valuable the Chinese culture of the opera was during the past. The main reason was to bring back the theatre play again so that the future generation are able to learn more of the historical culture of the Chinese drama. The gallery space provides knowledge of the culture value of the historical Yan Keng Benevolent Dramatic Association while the café offers relaxation spot for the buildinwhich are able to attract more people into the building.
Target User
Teenagers and adults.
Space Proposal
Gallery – First floor level Theatre Hall – First floor level Café – Roof level
PRECEDENT STUDIES Art Gallery, Buenos Aires
Architects: Nicolás Fernández Sanz Location: Juan Ramírez de Velasco 1287, C1414AQY CABA, Argentina Design Team: Arq. María Laura Gonzalez Area: 710.0 sqm Project Year: 2014 BEFORE The project was designed for a warehouse space constructed in the mid-20th century on Ramírez de Velasco Street, between Darwin and a crossing of the San Martín train line. For many years, this large industrial vessel full of air and light was used to store industrial parts. AFTER The aim of the project was to turn this space into the fourth seat of the historic Galería de Arte Ruth Benzacar. The gallery finds the high grasses that grow along both sides of the tracks and a tangle of small paved and cobblestoned streets, low houses, and old factories. The move coincides with a number of important changes in the city’s artistic geography; it reaffirms Villa Crespo as a new focal point on the local art circuit. The project is, in essence, an intervention that uses existing elements and spaces rather than forcibly imposes an ideal. It makes use of everything that was in working order; the distribution of the space, as well as ways of exploring it, reflect the warehouse itself. In the design, the mission of the project was to allow for an array of subjectivities that would find multiple meanings in both the new bricks and the old exposed beams and tin roofs. The primary attributes and intentions of the project were silence and translucence. The white warehouse takes precedence over the white cube in material, urban, and symbolic economies
PRECEDENT STUDIES
Hotel Castell D’emporda, Girona, Spain Project Name: Castell D’emporda Location: La Bisbal, Girona, Spain Program: Terrace Covering to Accommodate 200 People Design Team: Concrete Architectural Associates Area: 250 sqm Project Year: 2011 BEFORE Castell d’emproda was built in 1301 on a hill nearby the small city of La Bisbal close to Girona (Spain). The castle has been owned for centuries by the Margarit family. Since 1999 Castell d’emporda has been transformed into a boutique hotel. Next to the hotel’s restaurant there is a large terrace with great views over the surrounding landscape. AFTER The terrace transformed into an outdoor café. Parasol was installed for sun and rain protection, but there is no obstruction between the visitor and the view. A glass roof or winter-garden would too much become a building, create a feeling being inside a structure and would also appear as an extension of the building, damaging the ancient character. 12 Circles in divers diameters are placed randomly on the terrace. Where the circles touch they melt together, where not, the open spaces between circles are filled in with glass. With the circular parasol shape, the feeling of being in an outdoor environment on a terrace, remains. The same shape makes sure the covering appears as a separate almost temporary element, leaving the ancient building untouched. The top and edge of the parasols are made in rusted steel, seeking harmony with the ancient building and the natural environment. The white painted steel columns and ceiling create an open and light outdoor atmosphere under the parasols. Transparent sliding curtains can be hung easily in colder periods but always stay open. When the mistral-winds suddenly appears the whole covering can be closed in a couple of minutes.
SPACE PROPOSAL Ground Floor - Reception Counter
Store Room
Le Ye Xuan Da Hong Pao Tea Shop Tailor
Reception Area – consisting receptionist counter and a foyer for public to register upon entering the theater hall. A transition space before moving to the upper level. Information centre is located at this specific spot to allow user obtain further knowledge or any uncertainty. User are to register or make appointment before entering the upper level for security purposes thus acting as an entrance point of the building providing infomation to the people using the space.
SPACE PROPOSAL First Floor - Gallery Space
Office
Gallery Hall Room Back Stage Store Room
Store Room
The interior space are refurbish before placing the partition panels to exhibit the artwork or writings of the Chinese Opera culture. The rooms are removed to create extra spaces for the gallery where users are able to roam around and equip themselves with the understanding of the historical culture of the Yan Keng Benevolent Dramatic Association. The office room such as the meeting room, manager room and secretary room are united and integrated to form a space at the existing meeting room. The store room is refurbish and kept to store the gallery equipment and other usage. The gallery spaces showcases the knowledge of the rich cultural value of the building and the Chinese opera. The gallery also exhibits the ancient Chinese opera mask that are used by the theatre which each mask has a story to be told. User are able to experience the richness and depth of the Chinese culture through the gallery. Exhibition are able to create awareness to people of the importance of the Chinese cultural tradition is to be continued in the future generation. Lighting of the space has to be well design to provide high colour rendering index to the space. This is due to the existing space which does not have sufficient lighting to the interior space.
SPACE PROPOSAL First Floor - Theatre Hall
Office
Gallery Hall Room Back Stage Store Room
Store Room
The very main focus of the idea of proposal was to recreate and revive the opera theatre that was long extinct, through watch the opera play the audience will further understand the cultural value of the Yan Keng building as this building was once build to create Chinese Opera shows for the locals around Jalan Sultan. The history of the building should be revived once again to continue the play of the opera. User are able to watch the play after going through the gallery space and witness the history the lives within the building. The hall not only exist to conduct drama but can be used as a community hall or in a multipurpose event. The interior spaces are replaced with any new parts but the walls will be refurbish to once again to liven up the halls. Speech or public speaking can be also conducted on the stage, chairs can be kept on the back store room and the normal ping pong club could still pursue on during the non-use of the drama club.
SPACE PROPOSAL First Floor - Table Tennis
Office
Gallery Hall Room Back Stage Store Room
Store Room
The sport activities that was held during the afternoon and evening was the table tennis, where the staff and club members join in to play the event. Thus whenever no special event is being used in the hall, the daily table tennis game is proceeded as usual. Thus these activities was not taken away, this was to allow the club member to stay fit and healthy indoor. Table tennis are set accordance to the space layout which does not disturb the circulation of the spaces, a maximum up to 4-5 table can be set up in the hall. Competition are held annually to bring livelihood to the locals and the community. The exercised conducted was to establish and understanding of the health importancy for old folks.
SPACE PROPOSAL Roof Floor - Terrace Cafe
Kitchen
Cafe
The roof terrace has an extensive large area to accommodate 30 people in servicing cafĂŠ stalls. The space above offers valuable benefit such as exiting toilet which can be reuse for the customer to use when in urgent. The water closet has to be refurbish to beautify the outlook of the toilet. The existing view creates a sense of openness to the space allowing user to observe the street along Jalan Sultan accompanied with trees and building. The view that can be observe as well would be the city centre of Kuala Lumpur. The roof terrace which offers great view to customer while enjoying a cup of tea after a visit to the gallery and the theatre play, the design of the roof has to blend harmoniously with the existing building such as extracted from the precedent which is to justify a unique sense of belonging to the spirit of the place. The overhang provides shade and shelter to the user in the space. The proposal of roof cafĂŠ was to attract young teenagers thus indirectly increases the awareness of the tradition history of the Yan Keng Benevolent Dramatic Association. Furthermore, the area lacks of coffee shop which provides satisfying meal to customer nearby.
PRESERVATION SITE MUSUEM CENTRE Malacca was once a trading port of goods and services, wars are often declared upon the devastating town. Fort was built surrounding the fortress in governing the area. Little much that it was conqured and destroyed, turning Malacca into a world renown heritage which currently endorsed by UNESCO World Heritage Centre. The leftovers ruins of the fort are slowly recovered from the soil and currently preserved for the tourist and locals to observe and instill knowledge of the importance of the historical leftovers in Malacca region.
Red Building
St. Francis Xavier’s Chruch
The Stadthuys
KEY PLAN
LOCATION LOCATION PLAN PLAN
SITE PLAN
VIEW OF THE SITE
SWOT ANALYSIS
STRENGTH
OPPORTUNITY
Centre Point - The site is strategically located at the core of the heritage zone. Furthermore it is located next to jonker walk which is the main tourist location
Focal Point - The site is considered as a focal point where it acts as an entrance before entering the heritage zone allowing user to pass by the site before going deeper into the zone.
WEAKNESS
OPPORTUNITY
Traffic - The site is constantly congested with vehicular pathway due to the one way road leading to the heritage zone.
Soil Erosion - The proposed site might affect the riverbank causing the settlement to be unstable which might be an endangerment to the user.
PROGRAMME SYNTHESIS Raising the awareness in ensuring the protection of the natural and cultural heritage around Malacca city centre. Protecting the necessity of the heritage city of Malacca
Conserving and preserving the cultural history of the Victoria Bastion that was destroyed during the Dutch Invasion in preserving the nation historical value.
Musuem is establish in the context of the surrounding such as the existing building, landscape, greeneries and the Malacca river. Musuem showcase the exhibition spaces which correlates with the concept of the building.
CONCEPTUAL DIAGRAM
6 EXHIBITION BLOCKS
RIVER, STREET & BASTION INTERACTION
CENTRAL CORE ZONE
GREEN LANDSCAPE
LINEAR 3 TIER CIRCULATION
NATURAL VENTILATION
BASEMENT PLAN
Malacca River
Jalan Laksamana
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
FRONT ELEVATION
REAR ELEVATION
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
SECTION B-B
FULL WALL SECTION
CENTRAL CORE
FINAL MODEL SCALE 1:200
ISOLATION - Victoria Bastion
INTERATION - Midd
CONCEPT ANALYSIS
CONCEPT ANALYSIS
1) Remnants of the memories while user remain solitude in the absence of the visual contact of the exterior space.
1) The theatre creates a programme where communication an meanwhile during the night screening of history is played on t
2) Light shine from above skylight providing sufficient natural lighting into the solitude dull space.
2) Light shines through the slitted window offer moderate a during the day artificial lighting is no longer needed to light th
3) The atmosphere read in the space recreates the distance feeling from one part another where isolation is felt in the space.
3) Acoustic panels and timber tiles are places on the wall to r
dleburgh Bastion
EXAGGERATION - Fredrick Hendrick Bastion
CONCEPT ANALYSIS
nd lecture session are conducted during the day, the screen.
1) The space potrays a huge space with extreme double to triple volume of height to indicate the exaggerated space.
amount of morning sunlight into the space thus he space.
2) Window height is created at high extension to the ceiling of the space to bring in natural sunlight while ventilating the space at the same time.
reduce the reberation time.
DECEPTION - Wilhemus Bastion
DIVERSIO
CONCEPT ANALYSIS
CONCEPT ANALYSIS
1) The space interplays the different series of void spaces as such as the height of the head room changes as one approaches to the further end of the room
1) Architectural wall are placed rando certain direction while gallery of histori
2) The light intercept at different angle in the different height causing a differnt variation of light entering the room.
2) The ceiling are drop and certain heig spaces which seemingly form small an
3) There is form of deception in terms of ceiling, floor and wall as they seem to be direct opposite to one another.
3) The colour differentiate from one an quality such as the black creates a tigh
ON - Emilia Bastion
omly and angled at position to divert the user into ical art and written history are placed along the wall.
ght at random to recreate the different typology of the nd large space.
nother such as the white and black to form the spatial hter space compared to white.
REFLECTION - Henriette Loisje Bastion
CONCEPT ANALYSIS 1) Mirror are placed in the end of the spaces reflects the relic that is placed in accordance to the entry of the space, allowing the user to be delusionised thinking the space is wide and long but the space was rather narrow. 2) Lights are reflected and bounce in a pattern manner while distributing the light leveling equally along the spaces. The light created loops across the space as the light is being reflected across the mirror. 3) The colour tone of the space forms a reflection on both walls and floors.