Outdoorganism : Embracing the Outdoors

Ismail, Ida Suriana and Wan Mohamed, Wan Srihani and Fauzi, Ahmad Farellrozan (2012) Outdoorganism : Embracing the Outdoors. Sustainable Tropical Environmental Design Exhibition 2012, 4. pp. 178-179. ISSN 2180-0685

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Abstract

The integration of activities and environment for youths needs to be carefully looped into a training facilities development. The creation of ‘outdoorness’ in a building will attract youths because it is pleasurable or interesting. Ahmad Farellrozan challenges the notion of bringing the outdoor to the indoor as an architectural solution to embrace the outdoors. In his proposal, the emphasis is on feeling the ‘outdoorness’ and qualities of existing site beauty, which creates a sense of isolation and retreat. The open spaces encourage physical activities, whilst the circular notion of the building form directs the users and gives a sense of visual continuity. Equal exposure is adopted in the building surfaces to permit direct association with the outdoors. The vertical form is also streamed into the ground while bringing the greens up to roof levels. This allows a connection between participants and the combination of activities which takes place in the open spaces simultaneously, whether it is land, water or vertical climbing activity. The proposal demonstrates that the building design for youth activities will be successful if the outdoor elements are considered in the layout composition. The idea of ‘what is out there’ is stressed more than ‘what is in here’, making it possible to conceptualise and experience the ‘outdoorness’, hence, “outdoorganism”.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Divisions:	Faculty of Architecture and Design > Department of Architecture
Date Deposited:	07 Jan 2013 21:45
Last Modified:	07 Jan 2013 21:45
URI:	http://stedex.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/207