Jury Review: ABIM OUTREACH YOUTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING CENTRE: WALKING-THE-TALKZafarullah, Mohd (2012) Jury Review: ABIM OUTREACH YOUTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING CENTRE: WALKING-THE-TALK. Sustainable Tropical Environmental Design Exhibition 2012, 4. p. 173. ISSN 2180-0685 Official URL: http://www.vlmp.upm.edu.my AbstractIt is refreshing to note that the walking-the-talk mantra remains to be of great significance especially in the design of the Abim Outreach Youth Leadership Training Centre. To walk is to experience space; and as walking is a tactile and tectonic action, what better space is there to walk through than one’s own personal spatial history? What better path to walk to in the quest of finding one’s own architecture? Given the task to analyse new realities in human leadership in a world wrought by looming ecological dark clouds, the Year Three students allowed themselves great liberties to bulldoze their way through new spatial boundaries and experiment with vigour and formalistic boldness. As if discarding worn-out and obsolete ideas on leadership and by deploying newly experienced ones, the students wasted no time in affecting a design regime change. Recent images from pop culture are borrowed with equal doses of pomp and/or pretence. There are enough skewed forms screaming across the lonely whispers of the paddy landscape (Clement Cheam), as if driven by these hormones raging across their physiological plains of youth. Indeed they are great visions of the shape of things to come and credits should be given to these bold experiments. As evident in Ahmad Helmy’s work, pod-like capsules hover in suspended machinery, ready to hatch the next batch of Abim leaders. Similar instances can be seen in Norasnani’s work whence the pods have finally landed and future leaders are dispatched into the open landscape.
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