3.2 Obstructive interview

the final product may be disappointing. The interview may simply replicate prior theory, and support the primary data. By providing an account of the case considering the surf centre architectural elements needed from precedent study conceptualisation, the generation of general, abstract categories from the data and establishing how they help to explain the phenomenon under precedent study conceptualisation.

3.2.1 Criteria for interview selection

There was little consideration in choosing the selected person for the interview. Those criteria are listed as follow:

I. A professional Malaysian Surfer who surf in Malaysia‟s beach II. A professional Malaysian Surfer who owns a Surf School. III. A professional Malaysian Surfer who surf at her local beach.

The selected criteria is to maintain the novelty of the interview analysis since all the interviewee are Malaysian, a professional surfer, and surf at Malaysia‟s local surf scene. All of the interviewee has won the international competition for previous years.

There are several aspects to consider when analysing surf centre. This includes on how people navigate and describe the function of surf centre in a complex urban environment as well as average duration of a person remains in those area. Besides that, the number of people using the spaces is also taken in account.

The following parameters are observed in correlation to three types of situations, namely:

I. Changing experience between (2) destination II. Changing experience between exterior and interior III. Changing experience between nature to building