HOW WILL A COLLABORATIVE SPACE CONTRIBUTE TO THE IDENTITY OF THE SITE
ANGELA WEE
0322970 BRYAN LIAW YAU VERN CHERILYN CHIA 0321986 CHIA KE CHAIN
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ESTHER OO
0326627
0326915 MUHAMMAD MIRZA 0324031 RACQUEL OOI 0326676
HISTORICAL MORPHOLOGY how the city of Chow Kit has changed
1980s 2000s
2018?
TIMELINE
past to present of Chow Kit
1980s
Even during the 90s, Chow Kit has already been known for being a dense city. A few free-standing buildings have begun to emerge to cater for the growing city.
2000s
Modern development rates have rapidly increased as commercial becomes a focus on site.
2018 (PRESENT)
The domination of new development and modernisation leaning towards corporate purposes, resulting in the lack of community life.
URBAN MORPHOLOGY 1980
PAST
(1980s)
Site Plan of Chow Kit (Not to Scale)
PRESENT
(2018) Site Plan of Chow Kit (Not to Scale)
NEW SKYLINE
SKYLINE
OLD SKYLINE
GROUND LINE
PAST (1980s)
PRESENT (2018)
PRECINCT SITE
N Chow Kit Precinct Kampung Bharu Precinct River of Life Precinct
DISTRICT SITE
N Commercial Educational Corporate
BUILDING TYPE SITE
N Complex Free standing Terrace
SITE REQUIREMENTS according to project brief & DBKL
EXPECTED INTENSITY 2020 Expected Plot Ratio of site:
1:8
SITE SITE
Plot Ratio 1:6 1:8
N
Act as major commercial city centre with public facilities and utilities Source: KLCP, 2020
N
Total area = 1575.8 sqm. Plot ratio = 1:8 Max built-up area = 12606.4 sqm Minimum 21 car parking spaces
SITE
N
VIEWS TO SITE
SITE
N
VIEWS FROM SITE
S I T E
SUNPATH 1000HRS
S I T E
SUNPATH 1400HRS
S I T E
SUNPATH 1700HRS
SPECIAL CHARACTER ZONE
SITE
N
Preservation of shophouses, scale and town continuity Source: DBKL, 2013
VEGETATION According to Urban Design Guidelines KL:-
PARKING
SECURITY & PRIVACY 2
3
1
Green screening and landscape are highly encouraged
Landscaping must be maintained for safety reasons
List of trees: (1) Acacia mangium (2) Samanea saman (3) Maniltoa browneoides
SOCIO-TEMPORAL DIMENSION Time-based relationships in the social setting of Chow Kit
MORNING 10AM S I T E
Work + Schooling Hours Chow Kit, Jalan Sultan Ismail; as of September 2018
NOON 12PM S I T E
Lunch hour
Chow Kit, Jalan Sultan Ismail; as of September 2018
NIGHT 8PM S I T E
After office hours
Chow Kit, Jalan Sultan Ismail; as of September 2018
Low vehicular traffic
SITE INTERACTION within site
HOW WILL A COLLABORATIVE WORKING SPACE AFFECT OUR SITE
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SITE ISSUE: REPETITIVE BUILDING TYPE Would the co-working space be utilized ?
COARSE GRAIN FABRIC within site adjacency
Large city blocks act as ‘fortresses’
Blocking themselves from public realm, isolating street pedestrians
Site
Chowkit, Jalan Sultan Ismail
Emphasis on buildings’ individuality; economy, politics...
Inhospitable for interaction N Urban fabric of Chow Kit, Jalan Sultan Ismail
REPETITIVE BUILDING TYPES within site adjacency
“Uninteresting”
“Just another workspace”
Another new development with a ‘workspace’ notion may appear uninteresting to the people due to the many corporate buildings with similar singular functions.
Low quality of public realm from high building enclosure; resulting to the absence of the socio-cultural element, lacking of pedestrian-friendly environment.
CHALLENGE TO ADAPT can these contrasting elements combine?
Work + Live + Play = ? With the repetitive pure-working environment, there may be a challenge for the people to adapt to a multifunctional space, where contrasting elements of work and play come together. 11
“Play first, work later� The issue of adaptation to a multifunctional workspace may unintentionally be misused to a mere play-space, thus losing its primary function of being a workspace.
Play, may come primary. Work, may come secondary.
CONGREGATION OF ALL USERS ARE DISTINCT AT DIFFERENT DISTRICTS …... Would all users be benefitted by the co-working space?
SITE Commercial Educational Corporate Underutilised Building White Collar
N
- Mostly utilised by white collars - Generalised perception of a workspace - Underutilised existing workplaces
SITE Commercial Educational Corporate Underutilised Building White Collar Student
N
- Students gather around educational, corporate & commercial districts at different timings
SITE Commercial Educational Corporate Underutilised Building White Collar Student Blue Collar
N
- Blue collars are concentrated in the commercial district & does not move to corporate area
SITE Commercial Educational Corporate Underutilised Building White Collar Student Blue Collar Visitor
N
- Visitors linger around hotels and around site to Bukit Bintang area.
SITE Commercial Educational Corporate Underutilised Building White Collar Student Blue Collar Visitor
N
- White collar is the dominant user - Collaborative workspace may amplify dominance of white collars
SITE POTENTIAL
Platform for new entrepreneurs and provides job opportunities
SOCIETY SEGREGATION
Life in the fast lane
Laid-back living
“Economizing on time becomes more urgent and life becomes more hurried and harried," (Walmsley et.al, n.d.)
Slower pace of living, lesser competition in economy and politics
N
COARSE GRAIN
FINE GRAIN
ABSENCE OF VARIETY
High intensity of White Collars
in land-use
“Politics & Economy” Coarse grain: large city blocks being isolated from public realm
District Commercial Educational Corporate Site
PRESENCE OF VARIETY
High intensity of Blue Collars
in land-use
“Home, restaurants, local businesses, entertainment…” Fine grain: smaller shoplots with variety of commercial activities resulting to higher social interaction
District Commercial Educational Corporate Site
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES around the site of Chow Kit
PROVISION OF JOB OPPORTUNITIES in a co-working space
Local talents
Young entrepreneurs
Freelancers
Malaysian freelancing economy has grown by
31%
making Malaysia the 3rd largest freelancing market in the region. (The Employees Provident Fund EPF, 2017).
Freelancing has become quite a
Various careers in coworking space
large contribution
Element of
(Favser.com 2018)
Attracts all society classes
in the Malaysian economy.
variety
A CO-WORKING SPACE
to bridge the gap of society segregation
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Variety
+ Sustainable mixed community
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+
Live + Work
OFFICES
PROVIDES NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
MULTI-USED SPACES
OFFERS ROBUSTNESS
N
Can be used for many different purposes offer their users more choice than places whose design limits them to a single fixed use.
Offices around Chow Kit have rigid working hours (9am-5pm), this offers easy networking opportunities at most times.
OFFICES
PROVIDES NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
SITE MULTI-USED SPACES
N
Offices around Chow Kit have rigid working hours (9am-5pm), this offers easy networking opportunities at most times.
With the nature of high change of market dynamics in Chow Kit, Flexible workspaces thus become crucial to account for all major restructuring of work force.
FLEXIBLE WORKFORCE
+
NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
= GREATER EFFICIENCY
INCREASED CREATIVITY
SITE POTENTIAL Permeability
MOVEMENT PATTERNS & ACCESSIBILITY
CIRCULATION AROUND SITE
Accessibility to City Network through urban roads and railways. Urban network are well connected to the city fabric.
N
Accessibility to city networks through available transport modes (MRT,LRT,bus) Corridors (pedestrian walkways) allow for connection to the surrounding programmes MAIN PATH
INNER PATH
PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY
SITE
S I T E
CLUSTERED OFFICES
+ VEHICULAR PATH AND WALKWAYS
= NETWORKING The work connections between a site and its surroundings are important as it offers networking for the site due to CONVENIENCE.
HOTELLING’S LAW CASE A
CLUSTERED OFFICE TYPOLOGY Hotelling's law is an observation in economics that in many markets it is rational for producers to make their products as similar as possible. This is also referred to as the principle of minimum differentiation as well as Hotelling's linear city model. Hotelling, Harold (1929), "Stability in Competition" (PDF), Economic Journal, 39 (153): 41–57, doi:10.2307/2224214
VS CASE B
SCATTERED OFFICE TYPOLOGY
SITE POTENTIAL
Protagonist for the surroundings
Current Situation:
SURROUNDING SITE CONTEXT ACTS AS TRANSITIONAL SPACE
ACTIVITY NODE
SITE SITE
Human activity can be seen to the north and south of Chow Kit thus very low optional activities on site causing less social interactions N
Vehicular Node Activity Node Pedestrian passerby People involved in activity
WHY
?
would there be no chance of optional activities
RAISED ENTRY
SITE SITE
N EXISTING GROUND FLOOR CONDITION
STAIRWAYS AS PASSAGE
STAIRWAYS AS SEATINGS POTENTIAL SOLUTION TO INCORPORATE ON SITE
Increased privacy
More possibilities for social interaction. Caters for necessary, optional and social activities.
BLOCKED VISION
SITE
N EXISTING GROUND FLOOR CONDITION
VISUAL PERMEABILITY STRATEGY Capitalize the side with the highest exposure (the side facing the overhead bridge)
LOW VISUAL EXPOSURE The view on all 4 sides of the site are blocked by the surrounding buildings.
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SITE
VISUAL OBSTRUCTION ISSUE
Possible Strategies: 1. Integrate and adapt building design to trees to advertise to the vegetation 2. Relocate the vegetations at site
VIEW OF THE SITE IS OBSTRUCTED FROM CARS PASSING THROUGH THE SITE
Possible Strategies: 1. Remove Public Toilet & replace it in the collaborative space.
TRANSPARENT BARRIER
SITE
N EXISTING GROUND FLOOR CONDITION
PRIVACY
PUBLICITY POTENTIAL SOLUTION TO INCORPORATE ON SITE
Privatization of compound.
Attract pedestrians into the interior spaces. Heighten personal experiences. According to DBKL Guidelines: Ground floor of building should be highly transparent (50-75% windows) to make the inside visible to passers-by.
OPEN GROUND
SITE
N EXISTING GROUND FLOOR CONDITION
STREETSCAPE PARKINGS
STREETSCAPE FACILITIES POTENTIAL
Barrier and safety issues
Incorporating streetscape facilities
FIVE-FOOT WALKWAY
SPILLOVER POTENTIAL SOLUTION TO INCORPORATE ON SITE
Necessary activities exist. More passive contacts.
Necessary, optional and social activities exist.
FERRY BUILDING SAN FRANCISCO
SITE CONTEXT
Located at The Embarcadero in San Francisco, California A ferry service terminal, around the Bay and the portal to San Francisco at the foot of Market Street. Surrounded by plazas and a park which provide variety of landscape activity for San Franciscan.
HOW DOES THE PUBLIC REALM IN THE FERRY BUILDING act as an anchor point?
Multiple entrance inviting the public realm into the building.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
People Circulation
The Great Nave
Public Realm
SECOND FLOOR
Private Zone
FIRST FLOOR
Social Zone
GROUND FLOOR
Public Zone
PUBLIC ZONE GROUND FLOOR Open ground floor allow the community to explore the market and restaurant spaces.
SOCIAL ZONE - FIRST FLOOR Public interaction between clients and professionals
PRIVATE ZONE- SECOND FLOOR Private zone for working area is located far from the bustling city
ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMME of events and happenings in the Ferry Building
FARMERS MARKET
FOODWISE KID PROGRAMME
SITE ISSUE: LACK OF INTERACTION Lack of emphasis on social interaction in the urban development, whereas emphasised on politics and economy.
SOLUTION Human-Scale Public Realm as Anchor Point Flexible Layout Variation of Activities
Can a SPACE become a PLACE
?
HUMAN SCALED BUILDING
and more transparent ground floor activities
Allow people to congregate and increase intimacy between groups of people.
70m High
“Put people first, then building”
5 Foot walkway
3m High Footpath
1.5m width
TRANSITIONAL POINT
+ =
PUBLIC REALM
ANCHOR POINT
PUBLIC REALM
to invite street pedestrians, to engage.
theCOMMONS BANGKOK, THAILAND
SITE CONTEXT theCOMMONS
Restaurant
Restaurant
Restaurant
theCOMMONS
J Avenue Mall
Residential Tower Bar
Bar
Penny’s Balcony
theCOMMONS is a small retail development located in the city centre. It is an attempt to create a new active outdoor space where people can comfortably utilise it at anytime of the year.
HUMAN SCALED SPACES Easily accessible and inviting, opened entrance to attract public. Staircase as resting and hang out place.
Top Yard Play Yard Village
Market
VERTICAL OPEN AIR PUBLIC SPACE Bridge the variety of shop lots and activities within the building.
TRANSPARENCY Allows physical and visual interaction, allows optional and social activities to take place.
TEMPORARY EVENTS in public realm
Cooking Workshop
Outdoor Gathering
Live Music Event
Pop Up Bazaar at Public Staircase
INCORPORATE FLEXIBLE LAYOUT WITHIN SPACES to create free-moving spaces
INTERNAL FLEXIBILITY
EXTERNAL FLEXIBILITY
Free - moving working spaces as platforms for different careers
Free outdoor spaces for variety of outdoor activities
Allows personalisation
Allows robustness
OPEN FLOOR PLAN
for internal flexibility; to provide a variety of spatial use
Schematic Floor Plan
APW
BANGSAR, MALAYSIA
THE BINDERY BOOKMARK
ART PRINTING WORKS
UPPERCASE
PULP
PAPER PLATES PROJECT POKET POKOK THE CANOPY
FLEXIBLE LAYOUT AND SPACES that encourages new forms of innovation for creative exchange & to spur economy
FLEXIBLE LAYOUT Collaborative spaces
OLD MEETS NEW
FLEXIBLE LAYOUT
Platform for creative changes
WORK + PLAY = ?
FLEXIBLE LAYOUT
Creates new nodes to the community
FLEXIBLE LAYOUT
Different programs and functions
FOOD & BEVERAGE TO ATTRACT PEOPLE
PRECEDENT STUDIES In relevance to local, regional, western context
CONTEXT APW | Bangsar, Malaysia LOCAL
Located in an industrial area surrounded by residential zones. It was first establish in as Art Printing Works, a commercial printing factory. In 2013, an idea was conceived to repurpose underutilised spaces within the printing factory which is currently a hotspot to the community.
theCOMMONS | Bangkok, Thailand
FERRY Building | San Francisco, USA
REGIONAL
WESTERN
Located in a modern-day cosmopolitan city, where urban dwellers are yearning for new possibilities of outdoor living space that can effectively answer to the tropical heat and its dense living condition.
Located at the ferry service terminal around the Bay and the portal to San Francisco at the foot of Market Street. Provide a central location which operate as community gathering-place for the celebration of local culture and cuisine
PROGRAMME
APW | Bangsar, Malaysia A Creative Campus to Inspire And Encourage New Forms Of Innovation To Spur Economy. Collaborative Workspace
theCOMMONS | Bangkok, Thailand A human scale landmark acts as “the backyard of Thonglor”. Community-Based Shopping Mall
Pocket Parks
Staircase as Public Seating & Hang Out Area
Flexible Layout
Open Air Public Space
Street Market Workshop Wine Fiesta & Music Night
Market Zone
Cooking Workshop Yoga Class Music Night
FERRY Building | San Francisco, USA Promote the Bay Area’s Vast ethnic diversity and serve an incubator for artisan producer. Adaptive Reuse Community Place
Historical Landmark Inviting Ground Floor Activity into building FoodWise Kids Programme Events Venue Education Classroom Marketplace for Farmers
LIVE + WORK + ? space becomes place
APW | Bangsar, Malaysia
The Commons | Bangkok, Thailand
LIVE, WORK,
LIVE, WORK,
EXCHANGE
CONGREGATE
FERRY Building | San Francisco, USA
LIVE, WORK,
DIVERSIFY
● ● ● ●
Cultural identity Community Transportation Growing economy
IN THE MIDST OF EVERYTHING
Will the collaborative space compete with the surroundings?
OR OR
Will it enrich the identity of Chow Kit?
COMING SOON…. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROJECT A COLLABORATIVE SPACE
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