Urban Chaotic Experience

Wan Mohamed, Wan Srihani and Ismail, Ida Suriana and Wong, Yow Han (2011) Urban Chaotic Experience. Sustainable Tropical Environmental Design Exhibition 2011, 3. pp. 48-49. ISSN ISSN : 2180-0685

Abstract

There is a need to strike a balance between two different socio-cultural backgrounds and lifestyles of the backpackers and the urban folks. The aim is to ensure that the backpackers could experience the building as a temporary escape of excitement and adventure of urban camping without feeling alienated. Wong Yau Huan approached this notion by using chaotic structural expression to connect the backpackers with the urban features. The exposed steel structure arranged in chaotic fashion with no enclosure walls and with high emphasis on the vertical circulations and environmental factors plays an important role in alleviating the feeling of being a transnational in an urban setting.

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