Studio V Project - Kajang Community Centre by Sau Jia Yi

Kajag Community Centre Kajang Community Centre “Through the Kajang Streets”

Site Location Plan

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Scale 1:200

Kajang - City of Conflict , City that businesses built Kajang is an urban setting equipped with diverse ethnics, religious, living styles, skills and culture. It is made up of various expressions. Unfortunately, street culture evolves. Conflict happens. From its appearance, it does not show strong character as it is. Tangible and intangible, positve and negative, pleasant and unpleasant. And in such urban setting, in a multi-expression community, good old and new culture are to be magnified and bold.

Negative / Unpleasant Positive / Pleasant

To meet their needs, people people make behavioural choices. Such choices may be achieved in a number of ways. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Individuals can adapt themselves either psychologically or physiologically to a situationâ&#x20AC;?

- Jon Lang

PAST SETTING / PATTERNS

Positive space

Loading & Unloading : Enabled junks to offload their cargo directly into The shop themselves

Negative Space

Meet & Greet Opportunities: Since upper level is residential, People meet at downstairs Storefronts to pass their time

Trading Activities: Tinsmiths, barbers, cobblers, Letter writers, hawker Peddled food, drinks

CURRENT SETTING / PATTERNS

Illegal Parking : Spatial usage resolved. Form follow function.

Lingering / Resting: Squating, sitting at the edge of five foot Walkway to wait for the bus to arrive

Visual Clutter: Squating, sitting at the edge of five foot Walkway to wait for the bus to arrive

Human Engagement Scale with Street Spaces

What if the community centre is a multi-dimensionalwelcome building? To enhance and lift up the movement from site and to site.

opposite

walkability

walking pattern

L I N E A R I T Y The nature of the shoplots entrance. Frontages are normally served as visitor entrance. People with purpose and destination tends to use frontages. While locals enter from the back as transition.

walking pattern Urban settings arranged linearly and human ergonomics are taken account in place-making but people still feeling unsafe walking across roads. How shopping experience can be brought back without disrupting the walking pattern?

human interaction

Design Narratives

Perpendicular and adjacent of shoplots are always potential for human interaction. Especially for shop owners and settlers. But in new era, we do not know who is running business opposite us. The distance between human are more wider than the street located in between.

relocation Multi-dimensional

showcase

What if the community centre is a multi-dimensionalwelcome building? To enhance and lift up the movement from site and to site.

Vintage storefront attracts youngsters to visit due to nostalgic attraction. But existing Kajang buildings do not showcase strong heritage values.

Murals

Ads Board

Window

walking pattern

Transitions Buffer Layers

Idea on Faรงade Permeability + Showcase Interior Can the

new building give soul to the traditional activities?

Silhoutte

Hybrid

Massing Development

showcase

Programmes allocation Existing Multi-ethnics and their culture

showcase

Programmes allocation Skills needed for people who left school at young age / ex prisoners / OKU for survival

showcase

Printing shops

Handcrafts - Pottery

Textile Making

Wood-carving

Cookery

Paper-art

Programmes allocation Old folks and youngsters

showcase

To pass free time

New ideas

Old experiences

showcase Collaboration between old and young Equipped with basic skills Promote intangible culture through street elements

TEACH & LEARN

CULTURE Mini Theatre Gallery Exhibition Space

REACHING TO THE PUBLIC Storage Dancing Studio Designers Meeting / Disucssion Room Textile Studio

showcase

Computer Lab Cooking Studio Office & Study Room Collaboration Space

COMMON SPACE Open Garden Archives Cafe

Bleed out Spatial Relationship

Texture

Continuity Of 5 foot walkway

Original

New Back Alley Approach