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2.4 The surf pool
from Masters Dissertation
by noornasiha
As per hypothesis, culture is part of the identity and it became the Genius Loci and the surf sport scene in Malaysia is basically from the local culture of a place. The surf pool act as Urban Catalyst for the local community which it inspires the local especially youngster to start businesses related to surf sport and at the same time increases the surf tourism and urban fabric of the place. Other than that, the surf pool act as a centre of surf education with upgraded facilities and proper training to Malaysian‟s Surfer to increase their level of skills and experiences for international competition and training as a surf athlete.
2.4 The Surf pool
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The surf pool is a man-made transitional space which is defined as the space within which one can explore changes in one‟s life. “Transitional space is the space of play and creativity-where our culture is created, where love can grow, where teaching and learning take place, and where art is made.”- Luepnitz (2009). It is about creating a holding environment within which those people wanting to initiate change or going through change can take the time and space to understand where they are and experiment with what they might want to be or do (Gerber et all, 2003).
In the architectural context, the modern civilization is filled with artificial recreations of nature. One of mankind‟s oddest re-creations of nature is the artificial ocean
shore, known as the wave pool. Wave pool can be differentiated into two; (1) water park wave pool (2) surf wave pool. The differentiations between these both types are the target user and the wave height and velocity. The water park user are keen with the different types of activity such as swimming, surfing, activity with family and friends which do not favour danger and extreme condition but surf wave pool is mean for the adrenaline junkie who favour big wave and danger for surfing conditions.
Nowadays, there is lots of technology in making artificial wave for surfing that could be implemented at any variable venue. American Wave Machine Company created
