Rasa's Memory Repository

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RASA MARKET

Rasa, a place where experienced difficulties, twists, and turns from the past but the memory is no longer last in the present. In the past, the villagers were living in misery when the Malayan Communist Party opposed the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II. After the end of the war, they were forced to move into a fenced-up new village by the British colonizers to restrict their movements. Time flies, Rasa has been reborn. People live peaceful and slow-paced life, but the fragmentation of memory occurs when people moved out for better job opportunities. Only some of them inherited the memory left staying in Rasa. The precious memory of the past that should be carried by the people is broken up into many pieces that are not close together. The spirit and memories of Rasa are still existing, but some were lost, and some were forgotten. Hence, my interpretation of “ the tunnel of memory”, aims to create a tunnel that connects fragmented memory.

STESEN RASA

THE MEMORY REPOSITORY

- The Tunnel of Memory -

JALAN

RASA

RASA ASSOCITATION

The building would become a realization of traversing pauses in the tunnel-like structure, transits from enclosed spaces to open spaces to reminisce the fragmented memories about the emotions, sensations, and perceptions that were experienced by the locals in the past. The fragmentation of massing is designed to express the disintegration of the memory, coming together as short stories with interlinked lives of spaces within. The zigzagging tunnel connects all the fragmented spaces and moments in the building, mediates the past and the present of Rasa.

DOUBLE STOREY SHOPHOUSES

CONSTRUCTION SITE

-FORM DEVELOPMENT-

ABANDONED CINEMA Pre Pas t

DOUBLE STOREY SHOPHOUSES

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RASA POST OFFICE

Rectangular Block Establish preliminary massing in response to site boundary sits between the Rasa association and the abandoned cinema.

The Past and The Present Split the massing into 2 segments, indicating the past (enclosed) and the present (open) of Rasa.

The Tunnel

Zigzagging

The idea of creating a continuous tunnel-like passage, connecting the past and the present of Rasa.

Zigzagging the passage to create the movement, from narrow to wide, from enclosed to open, indicating the "the twist and turn" past of Rasa.

Addition and Subtraction

With the inclusion of programs, the form is developed by addition and subtraction to enhance the fragmentation of massing.

SITE PLAN SCALE 1: 500 DOUBLE STOREY SHOPHOUSES


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