Ben-Bow Enrichment Learning Centre in Klang
29/ 12 / 2018
The design develops into the final scheme of design where it interprets the tendency of creating interest through enclosure. The enclosure setting fits the contexts of creating a separate realm in conjunction of the prevailing street context. The realm where people can retreat and dwell into by having spaces to informally and formally elaborate learn through the form of classrooms &workshops, public rentable outlets giving a sense of place for anyone, a canteen to rehydrate oneself, public toilets accessible for everyone, dynamic facade initiative where greenery can be planted and replanted, and a compact "park". Spaces of place-making which develops with humankind in relation with the built form.
Studio V
BEN - BOW LEARNING CENTER IN KLANG
Klang heeds the call towards a new form of social living through an architectural intervention which embodies the vibrancy nature in people to further gentrify the vicinity of the area regularly. Thus, the proposal of a design to interpret the needs of the people ideal learning centre of what can be done for the people, whilst an initiative adjourning the sprout of negative perception of the withered site. The Ben-Bow learning centre as a catalyst to reform the social vibrancy amongst the immediate column of people, to inject a social bond with one another which then results to the meaning of the site and its context.
Studio III
The Penang Experience
25 / 10 / 2017
Society, culture, history, memory and the landscape of a particular place echoes the meaning of that ‘place’, or its ‘genius loci’. These qualities will inform the architectural concept and generators for the . In the visitor interpretive centre, the design brief calls for an architectural response toward the sense of place with a strong engagement and relationship to the site and programmatic requirements. The first assignment is to have an analysis of the site context of the Penang Clan Jetties as a starting point. It is a fundamental need for any design project as it will suggest a series of parameters to suggest architectural solution, one that will be appropriate to the place and its meaning, and contributes to its context. The site needs to be understood, in both intuitive and personal ways, as well as quantitative and measured means. Techniques to record and understand the site are varied, from physical surveys to qualitative aspects of experience and personal interpretation of the place.
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The Genius Loci and the drawings of the Visitor Interpretive Centre draft concept
31 / 10 / 2017
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The every mock-ups made representing the Genius Loci Of the Clan Jetty
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Penang's Visitor Interpretive Centre
5 / 11 / 2017
First, the exploration of formal and poetic articulation of architecture in a site-less condition. then establishing a Design Concept as a driver for architectural development. Finally the design brief calls for an architectural response to design an interpretive centre emphasizing a strong engagement and relationship to the site, spatial experiences and programmatic requirements.
The interpretive centre will serve two purposes:
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To provide a physical point of reference with visual significance that keeps alive the culture/history/memory/essence of the site
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To provide accommodation to house and display relevant material and interpretive material for public access and information.
Solutions relying heavily on landscape are encouraged. Visitors should be inspired and informed in ways that somehow express the spirit of the place (genius loci).
Total floor area: 450sqm (covered internal spaces), 2 storeys
The light bare frame model of the Visitor's interpretive center that reflects the foundation of the everlasting collective thread of various culture upholding the plane of their home.
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Dark themed presentation boards to resemble the fading effect of the Clan Jetty 's history and presence. Also, an effort to represent the soothing and slow movement of the tendency of the VIC to blend with the site.
 site analysis of the Jetty |  Idea configuration |  Orthographic representations |
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 Poetic representations |
Idea derivation for overall form of the VIC as well as to aid in the description of the poetic journey of my intended VIC along with the concept based off the human sketch.
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 Eye entrance |  Culture |  Boat gallery |
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 Foundation |  Language |  Ripple memoir |
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