Connecting Urban Engagement – Jury Review

Ibrahim, Norhati (2011) Connecting Urban Engagement – Jury Review. Sustainable Tropical Environmental Design Exhibition 2011, 3. pp. 54-55. ISSN ISSN : 2180-0685

Abstract

The strength of this 4th year batch is in producing buildings with long-life quality which would be capable of long-term occupation and reuse. The buildings should regenerate local resources to sustain economically in the long run. In the first project, the students demonstrate adequate understanding on the urban issues especially in addressing the problem of density and the way the living and commercial spaces should be designed in an urban setting. In Saiful Azam’s scheme, the interlocking rectangular boxes create a series of open spaces that not only integrate the environmental and social space to work, live and play but also unite the whole building form. The final product embodies the student’s idea on creating vertical environmental and social space which is badly needed in Kuala Lumpur. Meanwhile, Safarin Savikon’s idea of connecting the variety of urban building typology on the street level in a high-rise deserves the accolades. In his proposal, the urban streets are reintroduced as social and environmental paths which criss-cross the building made of simple rectangular boxes thus deconstructing the activities on the street into a vertical arrangement.

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