ARTEFACTS 3 TRANSACTIONS
2610 #T2
In the preliminary, students will be required to look into a reading list comprising the following books: 1. the research question will be suggested amongst students and collectively we shall try to cover as many ranging interests as possible. on the whole, the following areas are recommended: sustainability, resilience, building typologies, climate change and food crisis issues, advent of technology, haptic and sensory perception, biophilia and our connection to nature 2.
delineation techniques: visualisation methods will be explored extensively to draw out the best medium in which individual students can best draw out their ideas. the following are references: James Stirling | Daniel Libeskind | Lebbeus Woods | Massimo Scolari | Viktor Schauberger
1.
finally, students are encouraged the following artists (and their Jackson Pollock | Jean Tinguely Frida Kiehlo | Rodin | Carl Andre
2.
and also, philosophical writings of the following people: René Descarte | Henry David Thoreau | Peter Zumthor
to research and look up writings): Donald Judd | | Irma Boom | Christo | | Richard Deacon
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Key Plan & Location Plan 2. Site boundaries introduction
3. Site Context 4. Masterplan - Organism a.
How it works (Integration) - Riverfront
b.
Social Return Benefits (functioning organism for the neighbourhood - the parts make up the whole)
c.
Transactions between Artefacts
5. Theses Proposals a. Deconstructivism: Wholes and Parts Master Thesis Research Question by Mike Liew Cherng Qing
b. Biomimicry: Symbiosis with Nature Master Thesis Research Question by Foong Chee Shen
c. Water & Architecture: A Water Temple Master Thesis Research Question by
Loke Zhi Ming
d. Multisensory Perception: Rehabilitation for Youth Master Thesis Research Question by Johnnie Low Wing Chun
e. Ship of Theseus: An Urban Co-Living Scheme Reforged* Master Thesis Research Question by Vincent Foong Wing Hoe
SITE: SENTUL
SENTUL SELATAN
BANDAR BARU SENTUL
TITIWANGSA
LOCATION PLAN KEY PLAN Bandar Baru Sentul Proposed sites are located in Bandar Baru Sentul and bleeds into Sentul Selatan. Density in Bandar Baru Sentul is intimate but not overfilling; a community with lots of potential of harmonious and vigorous living.
Site Boundary The site boundary comprise of 5 parcels. Each student will work on their respective thesis topic with the designated parcel, ultimately forming a masterplan which performs as a functional organism to the neighbourhood.
PARCEL DATA Parcel A - Liew Cherng Qing ➔ 31,500 sqm | 7.8 Acres
Parcel C - Loke Zhi Ming ➔ 14,760 sqm | 3.6 Acres
Parcel B - Foong Chee Shen ➔ 16,780 sqm | 4.1 Acres
Parcel D - Low Wing Chun ➔ 18,900 sqm | 4.7 Acres
Parcel E - Foong Wing Hoe ➔ 12,500 sqm | 3.1 Acres
E
D
B A
C
SITE CONTEXT
POINT OF ARRIVAL
Arriving from Jln 3/48a, sense of enclosure is immediate tunneling coming from the vastness crossing the bridge due to high density of vehicles, trees, and tall building.
Arriving from Jln 1/48a, sense of continuity prevails until end of junction where sudden change of land use and density turns site an uninviting presence like back of house.
Arriving from Jln 2/48a, sense of arrival feels like leaving a tunnel into an open space, due to change in vegetation density and above head canopy & train station. Arriving from Jln Sentul, sense of arrival is strong at junction on the primary road, sense of purpose is strong for visitors with reduction in travelling tempo into unhurried secondary road.
A B
C
UTC Sentul (A) is located in walking distance to the LRT Station (C) making it easily accessible for the communities. Providing a centralized location for core government agencies, public amenities and services of private sectors. Meanwhile the Community Hall (B) provide different activities to be held by the locals.
Landmarks A
B
UTC Sentul, Community Centre
C
Community Hall, Sentul
LRT Sentul
D
E F
Multiple institutional and rehab buildings are found within Bandar Baru Sentul, from welfare service to community like MAKPEM (E) to Stroke Rehabilitation Centre (D) and a nearby Juvenile Rehabilitation Centre (F)
Institutional & Rehabilitation D
Stroke Community Rehabilitation
E
F
National Council of Welfare and Social Development Malaysia (MAKPEM)
Asrama Sentosa Kuala Lumpur (Juvenile Rehabilitation Centre)
H
G
I Located between Parcel D and E, Masjid Amru Ibni Al'As remains as one of the prominent religious landmark that was built in 1997 that serve as a place of worship for local muslim. As for the hindu practitioner, they can find themselves at Arulmigu Sri Maha Agni Muniswarar Temple.
Culture and Religious G
H
Masjid Amru Ibni Al'As
I
Arulmigu Sri Maha Agni Muniswarar Temple
Tomb of Sheikh Dato Harum Rashid & Siti Zubaidah
P5
P4
P2
P3
P1
legend lrt line residential welfare & community commercial river education urban void construction site healthcare
DISTRICT
P5
P4
P2
P3
P1
legend commercial residential institution public facility river urban void (site) urban void road mixed development
LAND USE
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
Medium - High End Residential
Bandar Baru Sentul houses the B40 (lower income group) community with most of them living in low-cost & affordable housings that are dominant of this region. Being a heavily residential & commercial zone, there is almost a sense of peace and identity among the neighbourhood. According to a property analysis website (propsocial.my, 2018), the ethnic groups of Sentul is 53% Malay, 20% Chinese, 16% Indian and 11% others or non-Malaysian. Since the early 2000’s, YTL Land developed a masterplan and introduced a new setting to Sentul - an effort to develop the forgotten part of the city. What was proposed and built however seems to be alien to what Sentul still is: from commercial office buildings to medium-high end condominiums. A new demographic was attracted to Sentul, creating a contrast and unfortunately the neighbourhood is undergoing gentrification.
GOMBAK RIVER
Location of Master plan along River Gombak
Hanum for D.I.D Malaysia 2018.
The portion of the river located along the proposed Masterplan is mainly Class III in terms of Water Quality Index. While relatively suitable for tolerant species and livestock drinking, more treatment is required to make the water suitable for recreational usage.
MASTERPLAN - ORGANISM
Compound Programme
Riverfront Pedestrian Circulation
Potential Integration Proposal As exercise, the parcels are associated with proposed integrations of joined riverfront programmes, connected pedestrian circulation, and compound programmes blurring boundaries.
A Functioning Organism The 5 parcels complement and supplement each other. With each individual thesis playing their respective parts, as a result, the parcels would come together and perform as a whole. A functional organism which serves to contribute and improve the community’s quality of life. In the end product, all 5 parcels will be connected into one Masterplan through urban designs that include pedestrian walkability and a riverfront passage.
Artefacts & Transactions
The Artefacts Cluster takes the opportunity to explore ideas and relationships between Artefacts and Transaction. Inquiring the relevance of Architecture as an Artefact, could it be merely an end in itself ? Or rather it is a means to an end ? The answers to such questions provide a lens to view transaction. Therefore, Architecture as an Artefact could be a medium for transaction, and yet it may also be seen as a product of transaction.
For this cluster, Sentul was selected as a site for the Thesis projects to investigate the notion of Transaction, and through this process speculate Architectural possibilities. Bearing such notions, themes such as the Re-evaluation of Transactions between Parts and Whole, Transactions of the sensorial and the rehabilitative, Nature/Architecture, are included and remain part of the relevant interests to be further explored.
Temple
Water & Architecture: A Water
PARCEL C / LOKE ZHI MING
“ I think Architecture is a physical manifestation of existential realities whether physical or spiritual, real or imagined, antiquity or futurity. Therefore, I’d like to keep an open mind to oscillate between these realities. “
Mind Mapping 1 An Inquiry of the Relationship between Artefacts & Transactions
Mind Mapping 2 Inquiries to Water : Schauberger’s Conception(1930s) & the Blue Mind(2014)
Metaphysical Drawings
Water, Pauses, and Motions
Water and Rhythms
Site of Interest, Jalan Sentul D7 An unoccupied Greenfield along the river
The Site is currently a Green Field parcel located along the Gombak River. Based on the current state, it is unoccupied and relatively unmaintained, with some temporal sheds visible
A reflection on Site Mappings Man’s Relationship to Water has changed much
Reflection How has Man’s Relationship to Water Changed ?
“It is rather acknowledged that with Water Treatment Plants and Facilities, there appears not a dire need or desperate situation for obtaining potable or usable water. However, such has brought evidence that the transaction of humans with water are relatively utilitarian, and our values of water has changed much, as suggested by Schauberger(Our ancestors see it as the source of life, where today it is more so a chemical substance for utilitarian purposes). Perhaps a culmination of these could be observed in the treatment of rivers, an important source of life. Therefore, can architecture be used as a medium to renegotiate man’s view of water beyond the utilitarian ? Via sensory perceptions, or via a phenomenological experience with water ?
Research Question
How can Architecture as an Artefact articulate Phenomenological transactions with water, and initiate appreciation of water beyond the utilitarian level ?
Sub RQ 1 : How can a theme/themes be derived to formulate narratives of relationship between water and man as partakers in a transaction ?
Sub RQ 2 : How can a framework of viewing water be translated to allow inquiry of relationship between water and Architectural elements ?
Sub RQ 3: How to synthesize spatial approaches that can promote phenomenological/poetic/sensorial transactions between water and humans ?
Ruskin & Fukuoka Deriving Parallels in Views of Nature & Man
Fukuoka
Ruskin ….quotation from Wordsworth is Ruskin's claim that his knowledge of nature forces him to call men away from their petty self-interests to the reforming experience of the beauty of God's creation.
Ruskin was taught that the beauty of the natural world led to awareness of God.
every feature of the landscape, every tree of the forest, every flower of the garden, every joint, and every muscle of my frame, all are gifted with energy in proclaiming there is a Supreme Being; infinite in wisdom and goodness, as well as in might' (II, 309). [25/26]
'The first sight of the Alps had been to me as a direct revelation of the benevolent will in creation
for the very depth of the Fall of Tyre has blinded them to its reality, and we forget, as we watch the bleaching of the rocks between the sunshine and the sea, that they were once “as in Eden, the garden of God.”
Wellbeing
Divine
Celebration
Benevolent
Coexistence
Alienated from nature, human existence becomes a void, the wellspring of life and spiritual growth gone utterly dry
to return to nature and the side of God
. But the city dweller is dying; he has forgotten the bright rays of the sun, the green fields, the plants and animals, and the sensation of a gentle breeze on the skin. Man can live a true life only with nature.
Only nature has the power to produce something from nothing. Farmers merely assist nature.
No matter how hard he tries, man can never rule over nature. What he can do is serve nature, which means living in accordance with its laws.
Translation to Transaction Literature & Themes in Relation to Cluster
Artefacts Initiates Transaction Architecture
Water & Man
Means of Transaction
Wellbeing
Biophilic
Divine
Type of Transactions Therapeutic
Poetic Phenomenological Productive
Water
Celebration
Mechanical Spiritual
Benevolence
Coexistence
Parallel themes derived from Ruskin and Fukuoka’s writings are translated back into Cluster interest of transactions. Here, Water and Architecture are viewed as Artefacts that initiates transactions
Transactions to Programme Programmes for Wellbeing & Therapy
Water Plaza
Aquatic Plant Pools
Hydrobotanic Pools
Therapeutic
Wetlands Space
Plunge Pools
Ritual Pools Water Paths Waterfall Pools Precipitation Pools Meditation Space
Spiritual
Systems Monitoring Room
Raised Gravel Beds
Dipping Pools
Showering Paths
Poetic
Water Gardens
Salt Baths
Productive
Therapeutic Walks
Compensative Space Dialogue Space
Programme in Relation to Site
Site Mapping Programme
commercial residential institution public facility river urban void (site) urban void road mixed development
SITE
SITE
lrt line residential welfare & community commercial river education urban void construction site healthcare
Nestled between commercial urban programs, The site is a place of residence and dwelling with religion and educational programs. It is potentially a zone of retreat and rest, appropriating therapeutic and wellbeing programmes
Water & Space Through the lens of Da-Sein Water & its Presence, in relation to Primordial Nearness concept of Heidegger
Precedents for Transactions of Water – The Poetic & the Spiritual
Recalling Bijoy Jain’s lecture on the Dhaka Assembly Hall, The grid relief seems to mark the water levels as they rise and subside. In the Salk Institute, water is a surface relief which emphasizes an axis to adjacent water bodies – Awareness & Presence
The Brion Cemetry by Carlo Scarpa utilizes still water with a Meditation Pavillion, while the Church on Water by Tadao Ando frames a reflective and calm water pool. A natural water fall creates a sense of awe as it gushes on the human body
Precedents for Transactions of Water – A Productive Approach
Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool utilizes a natural Water cleaning approaches to provide a Chlorine free swimming pool. This is achieved via Gravel Beds, Hydrobotanic Regeneration ponds.
The Hydrological Cycle as an approach
The Hydrological Cycle
Evaporation Evaporation occurs when the physical state of water is changed from a liquid state to a gaseous state
Condensation Condensation is the process by which water vapor changes it's physical state from a vapor, most commonly, to a liquid
Precipitation Precipitation is the process that occurs when any and all forms of water particles fall from the atmosphere and reach the ground
Interception Interception is the process of interrupting the movement of water in the chain of transportation events leading to streams.
Infiltration Infiltration is the physical process involving movement of water through the boundary area where the atmosphere interfaces with the soil.
Percolation Percolation is the movement of water though the soil, and it's layers, by gravity and capillary forces.
Transpiration Transpiration is the biological process that occurs mostly in the day. Water inside of plants is transferred from the plant to the atmosphere as water vapor through numerous individual leave openings.
Run Off Runoff is flow from a drainage basin or watershed that appears in surface streams.
Storage There are three basic locations of water storage that occur in the planetary water cycle. Water is stored in the atmosphere; water is stored on the surface of the earth, and water stored in the ground.
An Exploration Drawing
Section Idea - Vertical Cascades
Section Idea – Overflowing Pools
Section Idea – Filtration Columns & Enclosure
Section Idea – Precipitation
Section Idea – From Dipping to Immersion
Diagrams
1. Site Parcel
2. Softening River Edge
3. Defining Zones
4. Units Placement
5. Unit Size & Height Variation
6. Views Through Site
Diagrams
7. Water Bodies & Network
8. Landscape as Buffer & Transition
9. Green Urban Corridor
Role of Parcel Connector The role of the parcel is to provide a therapeutic and place of rest and relaxation for the local community. In terms of the Masterplan, it connects the Green spaces from the neighbouring lots through waterways and Green Corridor. It potentially contributes recreational water to adjacent sides, and additionally softens the edges between them, creating a pedestrian linkage.
Theses Cluster Mike Liew Cherng Foong Chee Loke Zhi Johnnie Low Wing
Qing Shen Ming Chun