1.9 Summary

that can act as gateway or transition to celebration which can provide an escape or retreat from the ordinary.

The outcome hopefully be much helpful as a guideline for artificial facilities of surf adrenaline sport centre by using approach of existing water bodies or artificial wave pool in order to give adrenaline excitement to the user, framing the natural beauty to enhance identity of a place and increase the sport tourism at the same time relieving the urban stress issues in individual.

1.9 Summary

As per beginning of the chapter presents about adrenaline hormone effect in human body while doing adrenaline rush activity such as wave surfing shows that human bodies can be manipulated to secrete adrenaline hormone to turn individual to healthier, release stress and happier person. By seeking challenging and adrenaline rush activity, individual can adapt the dangerous, intense situation and enjoy the intense moment to bring happiness to daily lives and relieves psychological and urban stress.

The philosophy of surfing is an understanding the real reason why surfer surfing and satisfaction they get through the surf activities. Basically the philosophy of surfing in every surfer are varies but parallel to the same point which the connection between surfer and natural environment. In term of architecture scope, this is the basic requirements and understanding for surf sport centre to achieve the real natural environment and sensitivity to nature to respect surfer‟s ideology and perceiving the natural state of surfing.

Overall, the aim of this chapter is to present the structure of the research by investigating the problems, the purpose of the study, research questions, methodologies, limitations and the delimitations of the research. It is represent the conceptual framework of this dissertation. To support the literature review, research methodology need to be

prepared which includes the observation of the selected precedent studies, obstructive interview and questionnaire.

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

The last decade has seen a shift of the wave surfing sport in the eyes of the world. There is growing recognition of the vital contribution that discretionary time can make for a wave surfer in term of promoting surf sport, inclusion, access to opportunities, facilities and overall development today, term such as wave surfing imply casualness of purpose and practice that does not do justice to the way in which majority of urbanities spend time in to release urban stress and daily basis.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) addressed that wave surfing will make its debut in 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan (Surfline, 2017). After several attempts for inclusion at the Olympics, the International Surfing Association has become successful in getting surfing included in the 2020 games. On the same note, the World Leisure Organisation‟s Charter for Leisure (2000) also recognised the importance of leisure, health and education as primary elements contributing to individual quality of life which wave surfing could provide in individuals. Strong endorsement from the parties projects the importance of leisure to achieve healthy lifestyle and work on how to integrate wave surfing into personal lifestyle of everyday people.

This chapter reviewed literature pertaining to the study. It is divided into four sections. The first section reviewed about the surfing condition to give more understanding about the surfer division in term of beginner, intermediate and professional wave. The second section explained about the understanding of surfing satisfaction to give a clear view of the bonding of surfer and natural environment. The third section reviewed about the overview of Malaysia Surfing scenario to briefly compare the situation locally and internationally. Lastly, section four briefly explained about the surf pool and technology of artificial surf pool available in the world and importance on the selection of artificial surf pool to reflect genius loci of a place.