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Projects: What We Do
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PERFORMING ART CENTRE

The S-Curve

Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur

A 2500 sq.m. Performing Art Centre located at Wangsa Maju Site A of Kuala Lumpur. Design brief : A place to relax, to make friends, experience, to get invlved, to share, and more. This building provide the space for arts and skills that to be presented in front of public audiences. This PAC will enhance the experience of users by its cutting edge spatial design besides cutting edge technology. an awareness of safety issues related to post-pandemic period design planning possibly an advantage to the design.

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URBAN INTERVENTION

Kuala Terengganu

Urban folly is a structure or space to reflect and response to the cultural needs of the site and stimulate user’s curiousity on the backstory of the design. The design proposal is to provide an interactive community space with the intention to raise awareness of  coexist among environment, landscape and man-made structures. This urban folly is called COEXIST; an urban folly which integrates and compliment with surrounding contexts to create better space.

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VISITOR CENTRE

Dexterity KT

Kuala Terengganu

A 2300 sq.m. Mengkuang handicraft visitor centre located at Shahbandar Jetty area of Kuala Terengganu. Having a great view facing the South China Sea. The visitor centre serves a number of different visitors including those interested in waterfront activities, educational visits supporting heritage and tourism, and the visiting public, both local people & tourists.

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YOUTH CENTRE

Taman Tun Dr Ismail, KL

The 2-storey street sport youth centre is located in a 20193 sq.m site with a total built up area of 990sq.m. The main objective is to enable the youth to express themselves freely in a secured environment and to have the sense of belonging among the peer ranged from 10 to 25 years old.

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SITE OFFICE

Taman Tun Dr Ismail, KL

This temporary architect site office is proposed to be located in a construction site of a youth centre project in Taman Tun Dr Ismail. It consists of multiple function space for 3 persons to improve the site organization, site hygiene and site safety. Inspired by the vigour and spirit of youth, this entire office design is derived from street sports.

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TOUCHSTONE

CONNECT
Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur

a touch stone project intentionally to search for design ideas drawn from the site forces, potentials shall be carried out individually. Touchstone approach is the need to see the importance of site and placement of the new building. Student is required to “express” some design insights in making an object/model at a 200mm x 200mm base with a write-up of it, as a way of studying the site forces, leading to the design possibilities - Touchstone approach.

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FORWARD :
THE NEW NORM HABITAT

Tanjung Bungah, Penang

sustainable home design with pets in mind. A family is planning forward to build a comfortable house to suit their sustainable living lifestyle. This project is about designing a human centred sustainable design home for this family.

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SITE ANALYSIS (WANGSA MAJU)

Site A, Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur

Wangsa Maju is a township & a constituency located in Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia. It is surrounded by Setapak, Setiawangsa & Gombak district in Selangor. It one of the earliest and largest developed township within the KL city suburban area. It has been developed into a major residential area to accommodate the students of the nearby university college, TARUC or MIA

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SITE ANALYSIS (KUALA TERENGGANU)

Shahbandar Jetty area,
Kuala Terengganu


Kuala Terengganu is the administrative and royal capital of Terengganu. It is strategically located at the mouth of the Terengganu River. It is located on the east Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, facing the South China Sea. The inhabitants are predominantly Muslim Malays engaged in traditional crafts, fishing and paddy farming. It receives cultural influences from its neighbours in the north: Kelantan and Thailand.

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SITE ANALYSIS (TAMAN TUN DR. ISMAIL)

Taman Tun Dr Ismail, KL

TTDI old rubber estate land located in the constituency of Segambut. The development plan began in 1973 with the merge of developers UDA-Seapark Sdn. Bhd. and S.E.A. Housing Corp. Sdn. Bhd. TTDI was considered rural. The construction began in 1974.

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SITE ANALYSIS

(TANJUNG BUNGAH)

Tanjung Bungah, Penang

virtual site visit. The chosen site is an empty lot in a residential neighbourhood along jalan tingkat laut in tanjung bungah. It is located near to a few famous landmarks around the area such as pantai tanjung bungah, copthorne orchid hotel, dalat international school and others.

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PRECEDENT STUDY (FRANCE)

Conservatory of Montpellier

Montpellier, Boutonnet district, France

Conceived as a musical village where people can dance and sing on the rooftops, the Music Conservatory of Montpellier opens up to the city as a new cultural center rooted in a haven of greenery. The Music Conservatory of Montpellier is located in the heart of the city, in the Boutonnet district. The building complex seeks to define an urban composition design that integrates generously dimensioned public spaces and two complementing housing projects. It is located on the former site of the Grasset Maternity Hospital, whose only entrance hall has been preserved within compliance with its architectural style.

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PRECEDENT STUDY (JAPAN)

Librio Yukuhashi Library

Omachi, Japan

a 4-storey multi-purpose complex located in Omachi, Japan and designed by Mikami Architects in 2020. This 2150sq.m. library is positioned along the bank of the Nagasa River on the boundary between 2 former villages (Gyōji & Ōhashi). The building intends to merge, repair, preserve the townscape of the two former village areas. Thus, the upper and lower levels were purposefully twisted to face the Former Gyōji and Ōhashi Villages, respectively

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PRECEDENT STUDY (PENANG)

The Galleria

Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, Penang

The Galleria is BSG Property’s sales gallery. It features a series of unique geometrical compositions that begins from the building structure and is echoed throughout its interior design and furnishing.

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PRECEDENT STUDY (MEXICO)

Los Chocolates

Community Development Center

La Carolina, Cuernavaca, Mexico

The building concept responds to the needs offered by the old neighborhood La Carolina in Cuernavaca’s downtown.

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PRECEDENT STUDY (THAILAND)

Baan Lek Villa
Thailand

to search a sustainable house within malaysia or southeast asia (each group need to find different building), and study in detail the space planning and design elements of the building.

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